Jaws with trees
Nov. 5th, 2025 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vampyrichamsterI spent the weekend signing the signature sheets for The Society of Vegetarian Cannibals. As I mentioned previously, there are going to be 100 special edition signed copies alongside the regular hardcovers. You know how when you're at the supermarket checkout and they ask for your signature, you sign the paper slip or little screen, and you realise in horror you haven't handwritten anything for weeks so your own signature looks to you like some unrecognisable alien script? After probably signing 100 pages and spares (I wasn't manually counting them), I still wonder if my signature looked all right.
The point of the matter is that my signature has now been mailed back out to my publisher and you are genuinely receiving my handwriting, as peculiar as it might be. My cat tried very hard to help, but I assure you there are no paw prints anywhere to besmirch any of the sheets. He is a very helpful cat, albeit a cannonball of goofiness. I tried distracting him by hiding treats. He came back after checking under every tree and inside every rabbit hole within forty minutes. Luckily, my spouse heard me pleading with the cat not to step on things and carried him off like a sack of rice.
Early ordering is available for The Society of Vegetarian Cannibals directly from Absinthe Books' website. Keeping in mind that the publisher is located in the UK, if you are ordering from the United States, it is advised that you provide a telephone number along with your address when you order as this will help with customs clearance. With the world being what it is right now, I am not sure when pre-orders/orders might go up on online stores like Amazon, even though that store does have a placeholder page for my book.
I leave you with the most delightful comment I've heard yet about my new book's cover. A friend did say, "It looks like Jaws with trees." I cannot un-see it and it tickles me darkly.
The point of the matter is that my signature has now been mailed back out to my publisher and you are genuinely receiving my handwriting, as peculiar as it might be. My cat tried very hard to help, but I assure you there are no paw prints anywhere to besmirch any of the sheets. He is a very helpful cat, albeit a cannonball of goofiness. I tried distracting him by hiding treats. He came back after checking under every tree and inside every rabbit hole within forty minutes. Luckily, my spouse heard me pleading with the cat not to step on things and carried him off like a sack of rice.
Early ordering is available for The Society of Vegetarian Cannibals directly from Absinthe Books' website. Keeping in mind that the publisher is located in the UK, if you are ordering from the United States, it is advised that you provide a telephone number along with your address when you order as this will help with customs clearance. With the world being what it is right now, I am not sure when pre-orders/orders might go up on online stores like Amazon, even though that store does have a placeholder page for my book.
I leave you with the most delightful comment I've heard yet about my new book's cover. A friend did say, "It looks like Jaws with trees." I cannot un-see it and it tickles me darkly.
