Well, it’s Christmas Eve. Just a few more shopping hours, and that’s it. So, Yard-apes, I admonish you once more: Go to the World’s Biggest Bookstore. Bring $10. Buy my and Karl Schroeder’s novel The Claus Effect. What’s that, you say? Don’t want to? May I suggest you check out this sample, and then read …
… imagine what I could do for a new one. * * * A few posts back, faithful yard-apes may recall a certain gleeful noting of the fact that 10 years after it was published, the World’s Biggest Bookstore (shown above) in Toronto finally decided to stock a few copies of The Claus Effect, Karl …
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This. Is. Big. At least it is in the limited universe that is the retail potential of The Claus Effect, Karl Schroeder’s and my 11-year-old novel about Cottage Country, the Cold War, and Santa Claus. I’ll start from the beginning… Stopping in at The World’s Biggest Bookstore today at lunch, as sometimes I do, I …
For those of you who can’t make it to the Tesseracts Eleven anthology launch this coming Saturday November 24 at Bakka Pheonix Books (697 Queen Street West) in Toronto after 3 p.m., but still want to hear me talking too loudly before the Holiday season’s done with us, might I commend you to this event: …
I don’t ask this question idly, but in response to this very kind (and kindly appreciated) blog-review of The Claus Effect, which I came across – erm, idly typing my name into Ice Rocket for no particularly good reason again and again while I should have been revising Mister Juke.The blogger (who frustratingly, does not …
Yes – this is how I thank Devil’s Exercise Yard readers, for hauling The Claus Effect up from its 2.8 millionth sales ranking oblivion to an unheard-of middle ranking of #333,677 in Books: with a cheesy subject-line pun. So let’s start again: thank you, Devil’s Exercise Yard readers, for helping Karl Schroeder’s and my 10-year-old …
There’s been a couple of changes at the Devil’s Exercise Yard, me pretties. Specifically, two new pages, hand-crafted to convince you to click on over to Amazon.com and buy yourself a copy of The Claus Effect, the best Santa Claus novel ‘pon which Karl Schroeder and I have ever collaborated. There are reviews, a bigger …