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[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lois McMaster Bujold" <lbujold at myinfmail.com>


> Oh, cool!  I didn't know the counter-widget was transferable!
>
> By all means, everyone, help yourselves.
>
> Why should J.K.R. have all the anticipation?  (*)

I've been ignoring most of the hype.  I read one (the most recent I think) 
of the Harry Potter books staying up most of the night in the 24 hour Stop & 
Shop in Woburn, MA, at the intersection of route 128 and route 38, near 
ruins of the Middlesex Canal and by Baldwin Park, across from  the house 
still standing (occupied these days by a Chinese restaurant) built by Col 
Baldwin, Revolutionary War officer, person responsible for the Middlesex 
Canal, lifelong friend and correspondent of Count Rumford (who run out of 
the area for being a Tory and relocated to Europe, where he became an 
acclaimed fellow whose accomplishments including being a member of the Royal 
Society, being one of the inventors of urban planning, and endowing a chair 
at Harvard... which resulted ultimately in his silhoutte being on Rumford 
baking powder), whom the Baldwin apple was named after).
>
> Mike, can we please quick get a copy up on the front page of the
> Dendarii.com site for the next six weeks?
>
> I'm getting the tour listing corrected, by the way, and as soon as it
> is, I'll scatter it like rose petals.
>
> Ta, Lois.
>
> (*) I've actually wondered if it will be good or bad for my sales to
> have copies of _Legacy_lingering in stores when the mad Potter frenzy
> stampedes in and out.  On the whole, I suspect good, if I can get the
> stores to pay my stock any attention at all.

I expect that it will be a good thing--all those people coming in involve 
many of them looking for other books to buy too.  I went into the zoo in 
Burlington Barnes & Noble that night... normally it's got the most crowded 
parking lot in the town on weekend nights. That night, the cars were parked 
all the way uphill to filling the 20-plex cinema complex's huge parking 
lot....