Sean> The Gingrich/Fortschen book was expected to sell -much- more;
my understanding is that Baen ate a ton of hardcovers. This had nothing
to do with the book and everything to do with the author's celebrity;
he signed when he was the most powerful and popular Republican on the
hill, and it came out when all a Democrat had to do to win an election
was tie his opponent to Newt Gingrich. Anyway, I know Baen took a bath
on the book.
I've only had a pair of Easton Press editions -- PURGATORY and SECOND
CONTACT. Not the two I'd have chosen, but it wasn't my choice. They
were all set to buy KIRINYAGA -- had even made an offer -- when they
decided they didn't want it because some of the stories had appeared
in Gardner Dozois' Best of the Year anthologies and therefore this
couldn't, by their incredibly convoluted reasoning, be a true first
edition. Go figure.
-- Mike Resnick
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