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Hi! It is Darla. I just wanted to toss in my thanks on the events! Give a little reminder, correct a bit of misinformation and give a heads up on a unhappy albeit necessary change.
First, thanks so much to everybody who trekked out. Your patience is amazing and appreciated. Especially the signifigant others and children who were so well behaved their parents should get them a treat! We know it was a long night and wait for most everyone. It was nice to chat with so many folks and hear how you came to the series. Though the prize for distance this time goes to the lady who came from New York to attend. We won’t tell your sister you really weren’t here just to visit her.
Special waves to Carol, Kathy and Jodi over at the Barnes and Noble in Springfield Illinois, you guys were amazing. And Mike the driver who got us there and back safely.
Waves also to Holley and the crew over at Borders in Brentwood. Who now have copies of the promotional newspaper, (I dropped them off this morning), had I known theirs hadn’t arrived I would have brought them with me. Hope we didn’t keep you out to late!
Teanette, take care of yourself and we hope your feeling better. You know we expect to see you the 28th! Your thoughtfulness in not risking exposing to your cold Laurell was really appreciated.
This is your reminder: Don’t forget to send in your reciepts for the drawing before 09/15/04. The packing slip from the online retailers is certainly acceptable. And for those folks who tossed their reciept or forgot to get one, you can take your book, copy the cover (xerox it) and write your name and address in the margin. That will be acceptable also. For those who don’t remember the address: LKH PO Box 190306 St. Louis, MO 63119. We have already amassed quite a few! If you win, and it is returned or I don’t have an address to send it to, I will be choosing an alternate winner.
We will be destroying all the entries after the drawing. We will not be keeping that info. We have a nice hefty papershredder and all of it will be going through there. So no worries about your info floating around. We try to treat others how we would want to be treated and I know I don’t want mine floating around. And please do not include anything extra in your entry. I will be opening only the winners envelopes so notes will get missed!
The correction: Despite what some of the online retailers have marked, Incubus Dreams is 658 pages not 320. Unless they are only sending out half the book. I have notified them of the error but I don’t know how long it will take to correct those.
Now for the nasty bit. Due to the extremely large crowds we are going to have to down the number of books Laurell signs to 2. Sorry! With 13 events planned in 14 days and crowds expected to number 300-600 per signing even at two books it will run 600-1200 signatures a night for Laurell. She will continue to personalize one and sign one. But if she cannot type she cannot write. We hate to limit it like this and this is as low as Laurell is willing to go. So grab a friend and make them stand in line with you.
Darla