- Send a check made out to Our Lady of Mercy Church in Easton PA
- plus a separate check for postage
- and address for shipping your selected book,
All copies will be autographed unless you prefer otherwise.
Available books below the cut................
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| Our Lady of Mercy Church |
Donations are pegged at roughly half the retail price, rounded off to the nearest denomination.
Paperbacks: $5.00
Hardcovers: $10.00
Send your donation
c/o TOF
518 Folk St.
Easton PA 18042
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| Rose window, south side |
except, a separate check to cover postage only, made out to me, or as pre-paid postal coupons
We don't expect to raise much money this way; but would expect a great deal less from doing nothing.
The Fine Print
Regretfully,
TOF has no or few copies of some editions. Unless there is another box
in the storage locker somewhere, there are no more standard issues of Eifelheim available and only one hardcover copy of Firestar. There are no copies of the first edition of In the Country of the Blind, nor any of The Nanotech Chronicles. Copies are first-come, first-served. Consequently, the list contains the number of copies currently available. This may change as time goes on. Should the supply be exhausted (like that's going to happen) indicate whether
- you have a second choice,
- you wish the donation returned, or
- you would see it donated to the Church regardless.
The Great List
01 In the Country
of the Blindhardcover................02 Eifelheim2625 copies
paperback................3130 copies
Spanish (En el Pais de los Ciegos)...4 copies
Russian (В Стране Слепых).....2 copies
Italian (La Grande Congiura)......1 copy
Polish..........................4 copies03 Fallen Angels
Japanese.....................2 copies
French.........................2 copies
hardcover..................13 copies
paperback..................109 copies
hardcover....................1 copy05 Rogue Star*
paperback..................1918 copies
paperback..................06 Lodestar*1716 copies
hardcover...................22 copies07 Falling Stars*
paperback...................1918 copies
hardcover....................25 copies08 The Forest of Time (story collection)
paperback...................2524 copies
paperback.....................98 copies
(2nd ed) paperback......85 copies
hardcover......................10 The January Dancer**1gone copy
paperback...................1817 copies
German (Der Fluss der Sterne). ..3 copies
Spanish (El Naufragio de “El Rio de las Estrellas”)....1 copy
hardcover....................11 Up Jim River**2524 copies
paperback...................1512 copies
paperback...................1410 copies
hardcover...................13 Captive Dreams (story collection)119 copies
paperback..................2015 copies
* = Firestar Series
** = Spiral Arm Series
Meaning no offense to the great speckled bird, but I'd rather give YOU the cash for your books. I'd pay a great deal more than cover price if I knew that it was all going to the author.
ReplyDeleteYou're saving him the bookkeeping effort of registering it as income and then as a donation.
DeleteWhat Mary said. The organs of the State take an interest in things like incomes and sales. I cannot stop you however from sending money to whomever you please.
DeleteBut why would it offend Gene Roddenberry?
Any way of doing a paypal payment? I'm overseas, so checking is a pain in the posterior.
ReplyDeleteActually, I don't know how to do that. :-(
DeleteAh, I was hoping you might have some spare Summas lying around, Mr.Flynn.
ReplyDeleteSumma is over. Autumn has begun.
DeleteNot until September 22. Or are you on an SF calendar with different equinoctes?
DeletePerhaps he goes by the meterological calendar. Or perhaps by the Yankee rule that summer ends on Labor Day, as it began on Memorial Day.
DeleteThis is great. I am going to send you a donation this weekend. What does postage for 2 or 3 paperbacks cost to within the US roughly?
ReplyDeleteThe Post Office has single price "ship anywhere" boxes in various sizes. Not sure about the cost, but this might help:
Deletehttps://www.prioritymail.com/flatrates.asp
I sent a letter out today with a $20 check and a request for three paperbacks (the two short story collections and In the Country of the Blind). Based on the flat rate shipping rates, I think the $20 doesn't quite stretch far enough. If that is the case, please disregard the request for In the Country of the Blind. I am the guy who wrote you from Bayonne, NJ.
ReplyDeleteIn my haste and through a lapse of reading comprehension, I neglected to send pre-paid postage. In the interest of charity and not having letters cross like mail trucks on Route 78 in the night, please just apply the check for Church renovations. I will obtain the books through other means at this point. Your books and website are quite cool though. I eagerly anticipate the next publication.
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ReplyDeleteSame problem as above. As I'm overseas, it's hard to make a donation apart from PayPal. Any chance of solving it so I can lay my dirty translating hands on a hard autographed (by a living author, wow!) copy of Captive Dreams?
Do you still have a copy of Eifelheim in Polish available?
ReplyDeleteIn regards to The Forest of Time, what's the difference between the first and second editions?
ReplyDelete1st ed.: Tor hardcover, trade paper. includes afterwards to each story.
ReplyDelete2nd ed.: Phoenix trade paper only. Includes three poems in addition and slightly reworked afterwards.
Dear Mr. Flynn,
ReplyDeleteI received my books last week and I am very grateful. I wish the best for your fundraising efforts for your church, and I think this is the coolest and most generous thing I have seen an author do with his own "wares" online.
I can't wait to read the stories.
Josh Wilson
I can only hope you are as pleased after you have read them.
DeleteI'm sure I will be. Like I said in my letter to you, Eifelheim is one of the finest books I have read in the genre. A real work of literary merit and beauty.
DeleteHello Mr. Flynn!
ReplyDeleteI am interested in donating for some books, but I'd like them to arrive before Christmas. If I send a letter now, how long do you expect the turn around time would be?
Thanks very much!
Adam Burch
I have three other requests pending, so I can move the Stuff that has blocked my way to the shelves as soon as I know which books you would want. So I figure a week plus whatever the gods of postage decree. So figure two weeks?
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DeletePerfect! My checks will be in the mail Monday. As I mention in the letter, I'm requesting a hardback copy of The January Dancer and a paperback copy of Up Jim River. Thanks again!
DeleteJust figured out from the above comments why books weren't received for my $50 donation (no separate check for postage!) You'll be getting that check as soon as I determine the amount. Mary Ann G
ReplyDeleteI had put it aside while trying to figure the books vs postage balance, but I lost track of it during some recent medical hoo-hah here at the castle. I sent it off today, along with a couple other recent orders.
DeleteI realize I am some months late by now, but is this still ongoing?
ReplyDeleteIf you like; but they just announced that the church building would be abandoned except for special uses, so the collection of money to repair it has become moot. If you would like to simply donate the money to the church in exchange for some books, that would be fine.
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