September Fifth!

**ethreal** · 04-25-2006, 01:07 PM

who's pumped?
im pumped.
great.

i think amazon may be swarmed with pre-orders
i dont think ive ever seen a book sell out five months before it comes out.

**po-m** · 04-25-2006, 01:39 PM

A better question is: who isn't pumped? I think we're all looking forward to it. (Maybe too much)

**bradcah** · 04-26-2006, 09:19 PM

Indeed Indeed...but who knows...I believe that it would be hard for him to top HoL, but it seems as though the man can work miracles

**Orion** · 04-27-2006, 05:38 AM

I am completely stoked about this book.

O.R. sold out?

**heartbreak** · 05-02-2006, 12:19 PM

Didn't know quite where to stick this, so I'll just stick it here. Possible ideas for signed copies. He could do purple, gold and green o's. Which is not a far stretch by any means. I think a green "o" with a blue "z" through it would be great. Wouldn't that be over the rainbow?

**Deus Ex Machina** · 05-11-2006, 07:15 PM

What is it about?

**heartbreak** · 05-11-2006, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by Deus Ex Machina

What is it about?

No blurbs are listed on the order screens for various sites. Not that I've seen, so we don't really know for sure. I'm sure you can read much speculation in this forum though. I think we're all waiting eagerly to find out what its about though.

**julie** · 05-11-2006, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by Deus Ex Machina

What is it about?

"From Mark Z. Danielewski, author of the best-selling

of Leaves, comes his astonishing Only Revolutions,
a stunning shoot-from-the-hip American road novel about
Sam & Hailey—two wild and wayward kids who magically
career from the Civil War to the Iraq War and beyond.
Powered by an ever-evolving fleet of cars, from
Model T to Shelby Mustang, these two captivating
teenagers never let up, and they never grow old. They
crash parties in New Orleans, barrel up the Mis-
sissippi, and blast through the Badlands, cutting a
nation in half even as they try to outrace History itself.
And where this journey takes them is what sets
the pages, even the actual book, turning. Alternating
between Hailey & Sam, this kaleidoscopic novel
spins the strangest, most gripping, and most lyrical
love story published in more than a generation.
Exhilarating. Breathtaking. An absolute marvel."

oh, and: page 8

**po-m** · 05-13-2006, 07:12 PM

What?! They are releasing a full-color edition?!?! Where have I been?

**I.am.Tarsier** · 05-14-2006, 09:35 PM

I want that full color edition of

of Leaves almost as much as I want the new book. That is a difficult competition.

**katatonic** · 05-18-2006, 01:16 PM

Is the full color only a limited release? Because I won't have the money to buy it right away... ?
But then again, I would want to get it before MZD comes to Seattle...

**elmago** · 05-18-2006, 11:00 PM

I'm guessing full color is going to become the standard edition form now on, so your blue copy will become a legend in time as the Full-Color once was.

**underscore** · 05-19-2006, 12:03 PM

I ordered two "remastered full-colour editions" from Amazon only to receive the normal "house in blue" edition. I wanted the full colour & the

preview/foreward for myself and a friend.

Just a heads up for anyone ordering from amazon with expectations of getting what's advertised. Go to a book store to make sure you're getting the goods.

**fearful_syzygy** · 05-21-2006, 09:51 AM

Err.

**elmago** · 05-21-2006, 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by underscore

I ordered two "remastered full-colour editions" from Amazon only to receive the normal "house in blue" edition. I wanted the full colour & the Only Revolutions preview/foreward for myself and a friend.

Just a heads up for anyone ordering from amazon with expectations of getting what's advertised. Go to a book store to make sure you're getting the goods.

Damn! I just ordered a full color-ed form Amazon myself! You should return those items. I've never had any troubles with Amazon before, but I know form a friend who had some troubles in the past that the Return Department in Amazon is quite professional, so you should ask for your money or prper replacements...

Damn, those are bad news! And since I'm in Mexico and the book isn't coming as I expected, how am I going to get a Full-Color ed?

And I can't cancel the order! It just shipped a few hours ago! :banghead:

(edited for clarity)

**sutrix** · 05-22-2006, 12:33 AM

elmago and underscore, I think it's best if you ask for cash back instead of a replacement; they've already screwed it up once, they might screw it up again. And then perhaps you could ask a forumite who'd volunteer to send you verified copies bought from a bookstore.

**laughterkey** · 05-23-2006, 09:32 AM

From

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat...kend_37305.asp

"Sunday was a slightly muted affair. Carolyn Kellogg told me she had scored a copy of Mark Z. Danielewski's new novel,

, so of course I had to run back to Random

to snag one from the Pantheon table, too."

**MicheleVR5** · 05-23-2006, 09:56 AM

Oh yeah, BEA was this past weekend. It was mentioned in the Random

PDF. I wonder if that's all they did, or if there was something else to the feature.

Anyway, there is one on eBay right now, was wondering where it came from.

**MicheleVR5** · 05-24-2006, 08:18 AM

Signed one is up with pics!

**julie** · 05-24-2006, 09:19 AM

what the hell?!

**modiFIed** · 05-24-2006, 09:42 AM

Julie - you're in the material world now. We have a fascinating small group of members whose interests are firmly in the area of MZD artefacts, ephemera and marginalia--personal appearances, book editions, interviews, etc. - everything but the books' actual content. They are like an unpaid army of publicists and viral marketers, deeply committed to following the author's movements, his public statements, various editions of his books and how to find them, ARCs and publishing events, Web resources (Forums, PDFs, MPEGS) and so on, as well as dissemination of this information.

We cannot but thank them for their service and their tireless efforts. And I don't get it either.

**Johnny Truant** · 05-24-2006, 12:32 PM

I am going to try very hard to translate MicheleVR5's post:

eep: short for "Wild Eep!" - The shockingly beautiful sound made by an elegant creature which once graced the Macintosh system sounds.

body of the post: Signed one is up with pics! - alludes to the posting at an online auction site of a signed copy of a book that is not released until September.

And it also seems to have a different cover...

(Edited to add the following):

I've decided that I will not bid on the above mentioned item. I don't want someone's second hand signed version of a book I've already pre-ordered from five other places.

Also, someday I may present to you photographic evidence of the real world MZD museum. Compleat with MZD artefacts, ephemera and marginalia--personal appearances, book editions, interviews, etc. - as well as the books' actual content.

**fearful_syzygy** · 05-24-2006, 12:50 PM

Oh, on eBay... gotcha. I obviously don't spend as much time on there as some people.

Still, yes, very exciting. The person selling it must have been chuffed to bits to get an actual signed copy...

**Ruzinus** · 05-24-2006, 02:14 PM

Bleh @ people that don't care about the book getting it just to Ebay.

But, we do have a bit of the inside there.. http://i12.ebayimg.com/03/i/07/3f/07/c9_1.JPG
to post it again.

You were there. as a dedication, an H on the page past it, and three circles on the page before, kinda like the three differently colored o's, hrm? Having trouble making out the words on that prior page though...

**poco locomotive** · 05-24-2006, 04:25 PM

It's very recently signed. 5/19/06.

**MicheleVR5** · 05-24-2006, 06:52 PM

I have this thing where like, I think people can read my mind and stuff, and to my warped brain, a logical following of "[object] posted" one post down from a post about a similar object eBay, would be that the newer object can be found on eBay.

Instead, I confused you guys, I didn't even mention the pictures in my original post cuz I figured then people would be surprised, and I ended up missing my train for work by about five seconds. DOH

Um, don't mind me, you guys can go back to speculating now!

**ManiKatt** · 05-25-2006, 11:21 AM

seems to me that this guy is making money by selling his ARCs, and taking advantage of the people that don't have the privilige of recieveing them as he does, don't know if that's something I agree with

doesn't even look like he even read the book and I'm sure the buyer that's bidding $142 just wants to be able to read it before September...err

**fearful_syzygy** · 05-25-2006, 11:44 AM

The buyer will probably put it in a glass case and leave it at that.

**Ruzinus** · 05-25-2006, 12:00 PM

http://i19.ebayimg.com/01/i/07/38/ea/4e_1_b.JPG

When I first saw that yellow eye cover I thought that the yellow eye was for the ARC and the one released on Sept 5th would be the green eye we saw earlier. But it seems some ARCs are also green, which means there'll probably be both yellow and green covers for us later, and I'm guessing a purple one too. Quite possibly some sort of difference of editions between the different covers, ala blue/red HoL.

**modiFIed** · 05-25-2006, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by ManiKatt

seems to me that this guy is making money by selling his ARCs

That is sad, but there's so much loneliness in the world...I tend to let it pass. Live and let live, I say. Now, there's the question of STDs, so I hope he is using protection and all.