As I mentioned in the Corner, I’ll be speaking at Wabash tonight. I hope you NRniks can make it. Sorry for the light posting around here, I’ve just been crazy busy. I finally finished a response to Michael Tomasky’s review of LF on the plan from Minnesota this morning. It will be up tomorrow. Anyway, for those interested. The book is now in it’s 12th printing and is just shy of 200K in print. Word-of-mouth — thank goodness — remains the single most important driver of book sales, particularly at this point. And thanks to many of you, the word-of-mouth for LF is good and strong. My gratitude is bottomless (though you should stop asking for a cut of the royalties! I haven’t even gotten any yet!).
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