HARPERCOLLINS ROCKS!

[tealin]

Only You Can Save Mankind, the first in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, will be released in the US on July 1, 2005. Send in those library request forms now!

I solemnly swear HarperCollins did not pay me to say this.


5:10 pm
Perhaps this is not the last week of work after all. Perhaps all this "senioritis" has been in vain!
I go now to buy coconut milk. For lo, yesterday there was a sale, and I had not the strength of will to carry it home. O Great Master of Coconut Milk Price, will it yet be 69c a can?

Epilogue
And yea, the coconut milk was yet 69c, and Tealin in her quest did purchase nine cans thereof, for indeed that was all she could carry.

Comments

[inkblot-fiend.livejournal.com]

Hey, I came via your site! Interesting, huh?

Anyway, to the point, Johnny Maxwell isn't out in the US? Or is it a reprint? There was this bumper edition in my library for ages, which was then taken away *sob*. But I found them here (England) with no trouble.

I'm confused!

[mieronna.livejournal.com]

Wait - it has not been out in the US, yet? This can't be... I mean, come on.. this is impossible.
Oh and in case you are wondering who I am - I'm a silent lurker who enjoys your art :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

As far as I know (which isn't very far), the only US edition was the omnibus released by the Science Fiction Book Club ... With the magic of the internet, it's been available to order from England or Canada, but the amount one had to pay for a scrawny paperback was just silly. I do know that practically no library had one – the library I visited when I lived there had a fair number of Discworld books but no clue about Johnny Maxwell, and after I mentioned it on my site, I got quite a few emails from across the country saying, in effect, 'Does this book really exist? I can't find it anywhere!'

Anyway, as far as amusement regarding history repeating: Only You Can Save Mankind was set during the Gulf War in 1991 ... oddly enough, rather than dating it (as it would have done five or six years ago) it seems to make it all the more relevant now.

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

As I am the Official Young Adult Book Selector and Young Person Liason of my library, I am so making sure we get it. Ahahaha.

[inkblot-fiend.livejournal.com]

Too true... I never truly understood Stormin' Norman till all the Iraq coverage was on TV. Also, on my first reading I did not get why Johnny's nickname was Rubber. The great thing about Terry Pratchett is you always seem to discover something new upon rereading.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Um... I still don't get the 'Rubber' thing. The best I've been able to come up with is something to do with... the British term for an eraser? Care to illuminate?

[inkblot-fiend.livejournal.com]

A "Rubber Johnny" is slang for a condom, heh. I only got it when I heard one of my friends use it. I sat there for ages going, "Wha - ?" but then it became more of a snigger.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh!

Haha. And in a kids' book.

[inkblot-fiend.livejournal.com]

Isn't it weird?

Of course, you only get it when you put the words together and know the slang, so it's quite sneaky.

[crypticidentity.livejournal.com]

...

SCORE. [immediately preorders a bazillion copies of the book] ...Aheheh!

Really?

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm...really? I got the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy book from a library in my area with no problem, and I live in the US. There were several copies of Only You Can Save Mankind in other libraries in my area too.

Re: Really?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You belong to a gifted an enlightened library system, then.

Re: Really?

[meltedtuna.livejournal.com]

Guess so. :) I'm so lucky. Thanks for posting art of it on your website, or I'd of never picked it up.

(I'm the anonymous. Just got a journal now :P)

Oh yes!

[tonks244.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely going to order it for my library right now!

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

Mm, Pina Coladas...

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

WAHH. That is unbelievably exciting!

. . . I just looked up the Amazon review/summary of the book, and it sounds fantastic. SO READY. And a pretty original premise, too!

Is coconut milk any good? I like milk, but not coconut. :(

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Mostly just in recipes, smoothies, or mixed with pineapple juice and ice for a completely habit-forming frozen beverage.

Coconut milk-based curries totally rock the joint, for example. Especially the Thai ones. Mmmmmm. Cuuurryyy...

Another suggestion . . .

[(Anonymous)]

Put de lime in de coconut and drink it all up.

Re: Another suggestion . . .

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Lima Colada?

Well . . .

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that is how they drink them in Peru.

[gabbysun.livejournal.com]

. . . that sounds pretty hardXcore! :O I must try.

Curry? ERM . . . I HAD IT WITH POTATOES ONCE.

IT WAS PRETTY GOOD.

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

Score! Now I can finally own a copy. I borrowed a friend's copy (he's British and obsessed with Terry Pratchett) but now I can finally have my own. Yay :D