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Skriven 2007-05-07 15:43:46 av Jan (518.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: Claudia Christian's Bab 5 book "squashed" - Clarification
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In article <1178575861.484291.196180@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, Shabaz
says...
>
>>From a thread on the jmsnews.com forums, I gathered some facts that
>might clear up some things. Two points I gathered:
>
>1) Some of the conversation here seems to be predicated on Claudia
>either being the one who wrote the newsletter, or being the one who
>was told about the "squashing" mentioned in the newsletter. From what
>I understand this is not so, it was written by someone else entirely.
>
>2) The person who writes the newsletter wrote a new one today,
>apparently in a desire to clarify their misunderstanding. For sake of
>clarity and fairness, I thought it might be an idea to copy-paste the
>entire thing here:
>
>>>Hi All,
>
>In my last newsletter I posted that JMS squashed the B5 book Baptism
>by Fire. I have now learned that it wasn't just her book, but it was
>the entire line of Babylon 5 Books sent forth by Mongoose Publishing.
>So just to let people know she did not get singled out. I try not to
>misinform folks but sometimes it happens and this was the case this
>time. I do apologize for any confusion this may have caused. However,
>that being said her latest book My Life with Geeks and Freaks is a
>funny book that I'm sure all of you will enjoy reading.
>
>I would like to thank all the people who wrote in and ordered her
>first short story. The orders were overwhelming and I did sell all the
>copies within 24 hours and I sent an email to those folks confirming
>their order. Unfortunately I did not have enough books to fulfill all
>the orders so I have ordered some more and set up a special order form
>so you can order either book. All you have to do is go to the home
>page and click on the cover you are interested in.
>
>All of the instructions are on the page and if you don't have paypal
>then you can email me and we can do a money order. For those who
>preorder My Life with Geeks and Freaks, it will ship in June and we
>have 100 copies and with this new system ordering will be easy for
>everyone. (A big thanks to Caroline who set up the entire ordering
>system for both books!)
>
>Again I do apologize for the misinformation regarding the B5 book but
>I hope you all will give her new books a try.
>
>Thanks for staying tuned in!<<
>
>-Shabaz


Thanks, Shabaz, you beat me to it.  For some reason my newsreader is slower at
work on high-speed than it is here at home on dial-up. :-(

Jan


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