{"id":2713,"date":"2017-11-17T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T03:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2017-11-17T21:34:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T03:34:47","slug":"goodbye-hello-paksenarrion-editions-switching-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Hello&#8230;Paksenarrion Editions Switching Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found out only this afternoon that the omnibus edition of THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION is out of stock, and being retired (after 25 very successful years in print!!)\u00a0 so that the debut of the 30th anniversary of\u00a0 edition of <em>Sheepfarmer&#8217;s Daughter <\/em>(to be followed at intervals by <em>Divided Allegiance<\/em> and <em>Oath of Gold<\/em>) can step onto the stage without the venerable edition sniping any sales.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s unfortunate (in my eyes) that the stock ran out right before the holidays, when (as all authors hope) Christmas stockings are filled with our books (OK, <em>my<\/em> books are what I&#8217;m hoping people get as gifts&#8230;&lt;G&gt;)\u00a0\u00a0 There are still a few copies at Amazon, and may be a few at some stores.\u00a0\u00a0 If you hurry.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s not going to be reprinted.\u00a0\u00a0 At least, not until the 30th anniversary books have had their run.\u00a0\u00a0 I may have a box or two in the storage unit, and will look, but it&#8217;s not going to be hundreds of books.\u00a0 Right now, with Thanksgiving coming on, I don&#8217;t have time to look for them.<\/p>\n<p>So what will be coming in the 30th Anniversary editions?\u00a0 Well, for one thing I wrote an essay for each book, which you&#8217;ll have to read to find out what it says.\u00a0\u00a0 Trade paperback size, new covers, all that.\u00a0 And the omnibus is still available <em>as an e-book<\/em>, just not as an in-the-hand monster.\u00a0 Guess I should get busy and see if I can finish the BIG map and get it ready to print out as a poster.\u00a0 Someone might want to buy one, maybe?\u00a0\u00a0 (The irony would be if, after I finished that map, painted it, and printed it up all prettified&#8230;I found the long-lost original map and they didn&#8217;t look anything at all alike.\u00a0 But as in real life, what one map-maker maketh, another map-maker re-maketh, only&#8230;differently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out only this afternoon that the omnibus edition of THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION is out of stock, and being retired (after 25 very successful years in print!!)\u00a0 so that the debut of the 30th anniversary of\u00a0 edition of Sheepfarmer&#8217;s Daughter (to be followed at intervals by Divided Allegiance and Oath of Gold) can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,123,5],"tags":[124,107],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deed-of-paksenarrion","category-editions","category-the-writing-life","tag-editions","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}