WOLP!

At least, in shop now - namely, Borders in Glasgow.

My still-fairly-new bloke bought us a copy each yesterday, so I've decided to keep him for a bit longer :o) We spend most of the afternoon racing each other through it and chortling.

Off to the WOLP Fforum now!



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Do something pretty while you can...

:P
No sign of it in Chippenham but then it is the back of beyond

So much for embargoes, then. Tch.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

H'mmm... a boyfriend who appreciates the finer things in life (such as WOLP) sounds good. Where do I get one?



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

WOLP in Borders in Leeds too. Mwahahaha. £8.99 well spent.

Encouraged to find name in acknowledgements, discouraged to be unable to recall suggestion resulting in such...

Right, if everybody buys it this week, we might get it up into the bestseller lists. Ready - steady - shop!



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

The list for this week won't be out until next Tuesday (8 July) as it runs from Saturday midnight to Saturday midnight. So this Tuesday will be sales up to yesterday (28 June).

The main problem is that I don't think many of the internet outlets that this site links to are contributing data because they are specialist ones. We do get most of the internet sales including Amazon sales - the panel covers about 95% of the UK.

But it's on my list to keep an eye out for it - any news and I'll post.

I've bought three thousand copies from an obscure internet site. Honest.

(any chance of bunging that into the figures???)



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Sarah and I went into Sheffield Waterstones on Sat and I asked about WOLP, hoping the nice salesman might open a box a couple of days early or something. He looked a little puzzled, then checked the book on his computer. "Not out until the 7th" he assured me. I muttered darkly and consoled myself with the thought of having the second season of 'Farscape' to watch next week, instead.

I thought it got moved up to the first, which would be Tuesday.

In any case, I'll have to wait until my copy from Amazon UK finishes it's travels across the Pond, since I *know* it won't be in my local Borders until next year.

No sign of it here. *sulks*

I'm reliably informed (by the great Panjandrum himself) that it should be out in Oz the same time as UK.

"the Ozzies get the book at the same time (pretty much) as
the UK. Hodder hold the quaintly titled 'Commonwealth rights' and Penguin
just do US. Even the Canadians get the book before the Americans..."

So it should be with you soon.

Sarah - I found him online - internet dating does work! *And* he's a geek. Yay!

He also used to work in a bookshop - well, the book dept of John Menzies (a Scottish firm which is now WH Smiths) - and says books often come out of the boxes before their "Official" publication date. Because they come from lots of little publishers, and don't all have to get put out on a Monday or whatever. And bookshops don't get in trouble for doing it, generally. Unless it's Harry Potter.

People here will probably know more...



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Do something pretty while you can...

Finding partner online good. Finding transvestite loony online bad. Done both. Finding geek online not unusual. Cue Tom Jones song.



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Transvestite loony? This sounds like an interesting story!



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Do something pretty while you can...

Not really. It goes like this. Find person (believed to be female) to chat to online. Get on quite well for a bit. Begin to think they might be a tad strange. Discover full terrifying truth. RLF. Change online ID. Breathe big sigh of relief. Less than three weeks for the whole episode.



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lol



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

And there was me thinking you hadn't realised yet... (joke - I can't do with any more of those rumours)

Just realised what the song was, a shame, as I'd just written this....

"I saw the light on the night that she first passed my browser,
I saw the flickering shadows of lust in her text.
But she was a fella
And as she deceived me I typed, and went out of my mind.

My, My on-line lover
Why, why on-line lover?
I could see, that something was not right for me,
But her webcam kept her bollocks from out of my view. (ha ha ha)"



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I have tried internet dating. All I found was several very stupid men and one extremely intelligent Welshman who is nice but not my type. I am now counselling him about the latest in a string of women he has fallen for. This is why he is not my type...



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

The thing about internet dating ... the thing about dating, really, is not to try. After that and other experiences I gave up dating, and then quite by accident found Claire. And the rest is ... um, debt, mostly, but you get the idea.

I'd hate to be a gay woman trying to find a life partner on the internet; the number of men pretending to be lesbians must be enormous. Eejits.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty