I am currently sitting in the Salt Lake airport, waiting for my flight to Germany (by way of Cincinnati and Paris). The wifi here is very weak, and it might not be until tomorrow that I have any more wifi at all, so updates will be a little thin on the ground for now. Once I get to Germany I’ll do my best to keep this blog filled with notes and pictures of Leipzig and, eventually, London and Brighton and the World Horror Convention.
In the meantime, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve changed my merchandise system a little bit. In the past, I was getting shirts printed by the fine folks at Fiction Addictions, and then packing and shipping them myself; this was a good way to promote the books, but it forced me to deal with inventory and overhead and other things that were not writing. I don’t like dealing with stuff that isn’t writing, so I’ve made a deal with Fiction Addictions that makes everything better for everybody. (Yes, everybody.) From now on, they will be making and packing and shipping all of my merchandise using a print-on-demand system, which not only frees up my time for writing but allows us to expand our offerings significantly: in addition to shirts, we now also have hats, mugs, earrings, a wider selection of pins, and so on. This also heralds the availability of long-sleeve shirts, which several people have asked about. So please head on over to the new webstore and check it out.
Incidentally, this new merchandise system means that we can add new designs for shirts, pins, posters, and so on very easily. If there’s something you’d like to see, let us know! Also, there’s something I’d like to see, and I need your help to put it together. We want to make a shirt/poster/notebook/etc. that lists all of John’s rules, but (embarrassing confession time) I never actually codified a single, complete list of them. If anyone who wants to go through the first two books and compile a list, that would be awesome.
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Tsk! Tsk! No actual list, Dan? What kind of writer are you?! Haha! Good luck with the compilation.
I’d love to go through the first two books and compile a list of rules. Where can I get the books? Have an amazing time in Germany!
Oh man, I’d be all over that list like a nerd at Star Trek Convention… but Mr. Monster hasn’t arrived via post yet. Darn overseas shipping.
A place to start the list:
http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=7496.new
scratch that earlier post; it just arrived in the mail. Good ole’ bookdepository… that was at least 5 days earlier than I expected.
Thanks again for the interview on thursday at the book fair in Leipzig. I really enjoyed it.
Here’s a list. I think I got all of them…
I will not hurt Animals.
I will not burn things.
When I think bad thoughts about someone, I will push the thoughts away and say somthing nice about that person.
I will not call people ‘it’.
If I start to follow someone, I ignore them as much as possible for a week.
I will not threaten people, even implicitly.
If someone threatens me I walk away.
Don’t hit or kick anything.
Don’t look at breasts.
Only say Brooke’s name once in the morning.
Keep my eyes on the road if talking to Brooke.
Avoid Brooke between classes.
Do not follow Brooke.
Only look at Brooke three times during class.
Talk to Brooke once at Lunch.
Do not think about Brooke during the day, if I do I must recite number sequences: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34.
Do not touch Brooke or anything belonging to her.
I think that’s all of them
i love your books they are amazing!!