{"id":380,"date":"2006-11-17T04:29:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T11:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2006-11-19T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T07:07:13","slug":"cross-plains-universe-a-hot-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/cross-plains-universe-a-hot-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Plains Universe a hot item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cross_plains_universe.jpg\" id=\"image379\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2006\/11\/cross_plains_universe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apropos to my last post is news that <em>Cross Plains Universe<\/em>, the book of Howardian-themed stories written by Texans and given away at the World Fantasy Convention, has become a hot item on eBay, with each copy offered being sold for $35-$40. For those of you who want a copy, especially one signed by many of the writers who attended the con, keep your eyes peeled. One copy was recently offered with a &#8220;Buy It Now&#8221; price of $25, and someone snapped it up right away.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who read <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> will be privy to a behind the scenes story in November about how the book almost was derailed at the last minute by Paradox Entertainment lawyers on the warpath. All week at the convention I heard various stories about the incident, and it soured a lot of people on Paradox&#8217;s stewardship of the Howard legacy. With luck it was a one-time <em>faux pas<\/em>, and in the future the newly formed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rehfoundation.org\/\">REH foundation<\/a> will help to prevent such things from happening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Paradox&#8217;s Licensing Manager Leigh Stone writes in to say that the sundry stories floating around the con about the production of the book were &#8220;entirely untrue,&#8221; while Rusty Burke assures me that Paradox &#8220;bent over backwards&#8221; to help with the book and hence have been unfairly mis-characterized as bad guys in this scenario. This flatly contradicts the numerous anecdotes we all heard at the con, so I&#8217;ll be sure to include the Paradox\/REH Foundation side of things in the <em>TC<\/em> trip report as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE #2:<\/strong> The WFC people have announced that they have extra copies of this book, which can be had for $19 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/wfc2006\/book\/order.htm\">here<\/a>. Of course, if you want the signed copies, you&#8217;ll still have to haunt eBay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos to my last post is news that Cross Plains Universe, the book of Howardian-themed stories written by Texans and given away at the World Fantasy Convention, has become a hot item on eBay, with each copy offered being sold for $35-$40. For those of you who want a copy, especially one signed by many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}