{"id":1056,"date":"2006-08-28T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2006\/08\/28\/cleaning-out-the-storage-manuscripts-etc-going-up-on-ebay\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T15:16:29","slug":"cleaning-out-the-storage-manuscripts-etc-going-up-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2006\/08\/28\/cleaning-out-the-storage-manuscripts-etc-going-up-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning out the storage: manuscripts, etc, going up on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before going to the Discworld convention in Leicestershire the week before last, Peter and I had to stop by the storage where we keep various books, authors&#8217; copies and other stuff that there&#8217;s no room for in our house (we were hunting for a specific Terry Pratchett book for the charity auction at the convention). While going through the boxes, I came across a whole lot of manuscripts, galleys, proofs, and other things associated with my novel work.<\/p>\n<p>We really don&#8217;t need all that paperwork lying around &#8212; we&#8217;re trying to get rid of some of the storage contents so that we can downgrade to a smaller unit &#8212; so I&#8217;m going to start cleaning a lot of these items out over the next month by offering them on eBay for whatever the market will bear. The first of item on offer, which I just listed on eBay, is <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=120025656131\">the only extant version of the original manuscript of <em>So You Want to Be a Wizard<\/em>,<\/a> complete with author edits and notes from my then-editor at Dell, Olga Litowinsky. (And it&#8217;ll be autographed to the buyer, of course. Click on the link above for more info.)<\/p>\n<p>If this kind of thing interests you, you should keep an eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/Diane-Duanes-Autographed-Book-Sale\">my eBay bookstore<\/a> over the next couple\/few weeks for the material that will be going up.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Diane Duane, manuscript, So You Want to Be a Wizard, Young Wizards[\/tags] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before going to the Discworld convention in Leicestershire the week before last, Peter and I had to stop by the storage where we keep various books, authors&#8217; copies and other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,37,70,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebay-stuff","category-home-life","category-writing","category-young-wizards"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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