The galleys arrived.
This is not the galleys. This is Luka, because no project involving the floor can occur without his interference.
This is not the galleys either. This is the vicious doberman hellbeast.
This is Luka and the galleys. Bonus points.
This is the first page. Click to enlarge, if so desired.
These are galleys from the side.
This is some random page with Curran on it. Click to enlarge.
Yes, I am taunting you with galleys. Why do you ask?
We probably won’t get a lot of ARCs (advanced reader copies of the book). So I am toying with the idea of perhaps making a copy of this mess and giving it away. Two things stop me.
1) It’s loose leaf and hard to read.
2) I really don’t want to find it on the interwebs. Maybe we could sign across some pages or something, so then we’d know for sure that it was our copy of the galleys that was leaked.
I shall have to consult Lord Panda.
IF you did decide to do this…. maybe you could auction for charity.
OMG!!!!
*THUD*
MUST. HAVE. BOOK!!!!
Ilona you rock!!
and as much as this pains me to say this, I would keep that copy, no matter the good intentions of whoever receives it, it could end up circulating, and that would be terrible. I wouldn’t do it.
Of course, I do however, love ARC’S
Thank you for that one very awesome page, Ilona! I cannot wait until May!
that was such ca good break from studying.. im wishing i was luka.. hes soo lucky.. lol.. i think you should leave it to us on the question of how easy it is to read.. i read that one page from the picture just fine.. i think we can handle it
“your headlights dont scare me” lmao..this is why i love kate and your writing…shes cowering in her boots but will not show it.. may cannot come fast enough.. thanks for this anyways
Woohoo! Thanks for the enlargement tip!
You have cute dogs. Luka looks like he wants to help; I hope those pages are numbered.
Aww, pretty pretty galleys….. I’ve heard that a lot of publishers are doing away with printed ARC’s, is yours?
And the puppies are adorable!
That’s so exciting!
And I don’t think I’ve ever wanted something so badly in my entire life. Hrm. This could be dangerous.
If you decide to do this, I would be first in line!
Thanks for the peek – the dogs are adorable too!
As an aside – I’m so happy you guys are moving to Portland! I hope you love it here as much as we have. We moved here from the midwest and our mantra when it came to the rain was, “At least we don’t have to shovel it. At least we don’t have to shovel it.”
I want Curran, I mean the book-yes, the book. I can’t wait!!!!
“the emotional payoff is huge, opening up exciting plotline possibilities” This quote makes me happy beyond words!
I understand your concerns, but here are some ideas
1) I have a beautiful empty binder that would be just perfect, and a 3 hole punch, since I haven’t been visited by any vamps lately.
2) I’d gladly sign a contract that would bar me from ever being able to read another of your books if any of this ended up on the internet, hell, I’ll give my computer away until June if that would seal the deal.
What ever you decide, I can’t wait to get my hands on this book, and I just finished reading On the Edge today, so now I’m doubly hooked on your great stories.
Good luck with your move.
T
I don’t mind giving them away, but how would you chose a winner? Would you do a contest or what? Also Luka looks way to stoic in that shot, it is I believe a misrepresentation of the dog who thinks he is a hundred pound bunny. Also spit should be dripping from his huge open mouth. The pic of Del is spot on.
See! Lord Panda says it is okay. Please! Please! I’ll be happy to sign on the line of a contract saying I would have toothpicks shoved under my nails if I leaked said book to the intrawebs!
Yep I think a contest of some sort might be good, or an auction for charity, or random pick, well it’s up to you ^^
That is some serious tauntage going on.
*Glares at countdown clock* I certainly can’t speak for everyone, but I’d forgo the ARCs in favor of that night chat session/ Q&A that was tossed around earlier a couple of months back.
Thanks for tossing us that little bone. *grin* Sounds like a great scene.
Such a tease!!! You must love us, Merci Beaucoup!!
Hmmm, aside from signing some of the galley pages, maybe you should have the contest only on your forum to limit the entries?? Or make the contest require that we send a receipt of our pre-ordered Magic Bleeds to discourage the e-sharing??
P.S. I loves me some Luka!
Love the vicious doberman hellbest, who looks *ahem* a little slow on the uptake here. Oh, and yes, please do a contest. Would never let the pages out. Pinky swear and everything.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
…its amazing how just one page can send me into fangirl seizures…
…honestly, i don’t want you to give out copies, since I feel like I probable would not get it, and I am jealous enought that I don’t want others to have it before me….
OooOOo!! Pretty, pretty, pretty please! I promise, if I got one, I’d selfishly keep it to myself and most certainly not put it online. I’ll sign a contract…. in blood if that’s what it takes
Loved reading the Curran/Jim/Kate scene and wanted to know what was on either side of that page… just as you intended!
It was a wonderful tease and I loved reading the “blurb” page as well! I’ll go back to trying to distract myself with the forum and other books until this one gets into my grubby little hands and onto my iPod! (since I’m planning on buying book twice does that mean I can get double entry into contest?) 
That is some serious taunting, super awesome!! Love the reviews:) I hope you all decide to have a contest for ARCs! As usual the interaction between Kate and Curran shoot sparks off the page!! Thank you and good luck with your move to Oregon.
Oh, this is pure torture! I **need** that book so badly… Every peek you’ve given us has been soooooooooooooooo good – I can’t stand it!
Oh Oh! I want to play!!!! I can’t stop fidgeting with all the excitement!!! Really looking forward to reading it! Already I can’t help but dissect the reviews and try to read into the plot line…I know I have issues…
You may taunt me with random pages of Curran ANYTIME!!! LOL…snippet of awesome.
I don’t think anyone who frequents this blog is likely to care about the loose-leaf aspect. Here are my thoughts on the interwebs issue: 1) The signing across pages would probably be easy for people to either photoshop out, or to just type up a copy of that/those page/s and insert it/them to hide their evil thievery [if they cared to, I guess]. 2) Probably the people who follow your blog think of you as a real person, which discourages the evil thievery mindset…and the ones who most desperately want to read Kate 4 are probably people who really love reading and appreciate the importance of respecting authors and books.
I do love the charity idea. Perhaps whoever wins can contribute either volunteer time or $$ to their local food bank. And definitely put a “canary trap” into the manuscript. Your regular folks aren’t going to do anything tacky, but not everyone is on the level.
Every time I think Ive got my impatience under control, you give more tidbits.
Dont give me wrong, I love it! Please torture us some more! Ha.
I think people who are the regular folks wouldnt leak anything, but others above are right….there are some people out there not on the level! And seriously…nobody on here would even care about it being loose leaf. Seriously.
Thanks for the pics!
Very unfair to show a page with Curran on it but what a great page to whet our appetites with. I am glad you installed a time ticker, I am counting down the days too.
Thanks for the pictures! I cannot wait until May… or (all fingers crossed) you do a contest for the galleys. (That’d be amazing!)
=)
Make a deal …. I will lend you my lovely two children while I read the ARCs. Once I am done I will burn the copies and you may then return the children. For those that now that think I am horrible… I am only joking. I would never burn the ARCs.
aaaahhhhh eeevvvviiiillllll! your enjoying this are you.
That contest would be great. I like the idea about preordered receipts. Charity one is nice too.
Thank you for the peek, but I repeat… you haz the evil…. Thanks again!
Kidding aside. I wouldn’t want you to risk getting in trouble. 88 days isn’t that long.
Yay for galleys!
I SEE BOOOOOOK! *hyperventilates*
I can understand that you might not feel too good about giving it away right now. But anyways, here’s what I would do with the book: I would put it in the middle of my bed, arrange the blankets and pillows as a nest around it and stare at it for about two hours. Then I would jump right in the middle of it all and read IT while exitedly hopping up and down…..ok, that might be the crazy and hyperactive solution, but I (like everybody else) am SO looking forward to that book!!
I hope your move goes well. *hugs the doggies*
Ooh, btw, love the changes I can see
And the doggies are too cute, lol
Lovely puppies!
Taunt us anytime!
Good Luck with the move and the proof reading!
I am a big dork and commented on the feed on LJ. Thank goodness for the feed. I’d be very sad to miss your posty-goodness.
anyway, the galleys are awesome and you could hold a contest for them, but tell the winner that they don’t get mailed until 2 or 3 weeks before the book comes out.
thank you sooo much
I must confess that i love the idea of you giving an advance copy of magic bleeds. So because i am really biased let me give you some tips (if some people have not already done it) :
- give an electronic copy, because there’s no way to protect/trace a real sheet and paper one. Unless you want to bet on people laziness (which could work), people seldom re-type an entire manuscript but they could scan it though…
- you could watermark and lock your electronic copy, some software do it easily to your entire document => the pros it will prevent people from copying or direct accessing the document, and they’ll have a constant reminder that it’s yours and how it was given, =>the cons sadly there are software which allows you to break through those locks (even though I don’t know if they can break all kind of locks), and from there people can copy the content to make a “refreshed” one
-you could add a typo in your document, a mistake of some sort or a change of wording in one place in the book just for this copy, this way you’ll only have to check where you made the typo to see if the leak came from the reader you chose or not, => the pros it’s a foolproof method (or nearly), =>the cons it will not prevent the leak only tell you where it came from
Wow that’s my longest post ever ^^, but i hope it was useful and that it might help in your decision to give (or not) a copy
This is for Luka. I have steak.
Love it, thanks!
BTW, could you just flip the page so I can read pg 72 now?
Congrats on getting the galleys.
Don’t mind me… I’m just sort of hyperventilating over here…waiting…to read…
waiting…
What a great page to show us. I’m super excited for the entire book to come out.
Perhaps you could create a quiz and everyone with the correct answers gets entered to win? That means that the person who wins has (hopefully) read the books and didn’t just wander in from the wilds. It’s been a while, but I was thinking about re-reading the books before the new one came out anyway, so this could be my excuse.
As for the potential leakage onto the interwebs… there aren’t any truly foolproof ways to prevent it. To prove who did it, you could leave out a less important page or two. It’s easy to spot in a quick browse through and then you could send forth your army of lawyers. I hope you would send out the missing pages after the book release, because I know I’d keep it as a collectible.
I sneakily enlarged the last picture…oHMYGAWD! :p I loves it. I think i have seriously got a problem…with *waves arm around pointing* this obsession thingie. But…ahwell, *shrugs* everyone needs a hobby. Thank you!
Hi,
Since you are just being evil by teasing us with this wonderful page.
Why don’t you hold some evil contest?
sign five pages of the galleys, let everyone on the blog pick a page-number and send these five people just the one page.
“Taunt” is definitely the right word! Wowzer! That page with Curran on it….that’s, um, a REALLY good page.
Why does enlarging that page make me feel like some kind of book junkie? Like a little fix was available and I had to have it. I couldn’t, turn away.
I think if you decide to give away a galley or an ARC, just having a random drawing would be the fairest way. Not everyone has blogs or writes reviews, but everyone that comes here loves your work. So just picking a random person or persons seems, totally fair.
I love the puppy pictures. They are so cute!
Thank you so much for the page you shared. It has me so excited for May!
It’s not nice to tease! You bet your ass I enlarged that snippet!
We could enter to win the galleys by signing a non-disclosure statement.
*whimper* its so weird to not be leaving my little dribles of love on lj where i am already logged in.
This was wonderful yet cruel, which i hope was the whole point. as one fo the people that would tap dance and do a lot of thing to get my hands on an ARC of this. And jsut so you know i own no such thing as a scanner and WAY to lazy to do anything but read it. Well i MIGHT gloat all over my reader circle on librarything, but really nothing else promise
Forget the book send me the dogs they look adorable!
Love that cute Doberman tongue. And Luka trying to read.
I’d totally volunteer to proofread. Also, I don’t upload.