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danny, I'll mull over my library this weekend and see if I can come up with any titles that I don't have and need. It feels like in this late stage of almost forty years of collecting I have everything I need, and what I don't have I either A). didn't want or B). had and didn't keep for whatever rea...

I just finished one of the best books I've read in a long time- IN THE VALLEYS OF THE NOBLE BEYOND: IN SEARCH OF THE SASQUATCH, by John Zada. Zada is a journalist who fell in love with the British Columbia coast while researching a magazine article, and the book chronicles his return to the area to ...

I watched a few newish movies this week: RED SONJA, a recent take on the barbarian character, was pretty low-budget, but much better than I expected it to be. The effects were surprisingly good, especially considering my low expectations. Last night I watched the reboot of SCARY MOVIE (The ex...

I hear ya! The other day I was trying to figure out a way to sell an organ or two to get in on that Clive Barker Kickstarter, lol. Time is usually my friend in cases like this...I wait until the sale or crowdfund ends, and then I tell myself "Well, too late now! You'll live!" (But that feeling o...

Sock, Ben, Ron- I appreciate all of the tips! I'm going to have to sit and really figure this out this weekend. I'd been hoping to find a buyer (I've contacted what appears to be a huge operation this morning) to take EVERYTHING, so I could get a big payout and live off of it for awhile, but I was d...

@sock_monkey covered it perfectly...I agree with each and every point he made. The only thing I would add is that based on my sales in the last half-year compared to the many, many years before, completed sales of books right now are slow. S. l. o. w. Sssslllooowww. So while I don't want to discoura...

Best of luck, my friend. I sold my small quantity of good stuff in 2023 and I wasn't happy with the outcomes. This mainly centered around the fact I was in a money crunch and sold things, quickly for convenience, but left money on the table. That has never sat well with me, but at the end of t...

Also, unless you are offering free shipping, don’t guess on shipping with your listings. Get a scale and weigh the book and add a pound or two for materials. If you under estimate, you basically eat the difference in cost, which sucks. Oh, you might know this already, but while novels can be ship...

I am by no means a prolific seller on eBay, though it is where I primarily sell when I do and have been doing so for maybe 10-15 years now. My main strategy is to under-promise and over-deliver: 1. I take a decent amount of photos showing all angles of the book. 2. I highlight even the smalles...

US Only giveaway for a Kindle version of INCARNATE by Alma Katsu. Enter here:br />I read this as an eARC and thought it was great! Spoiler free review:/p>

Those are awesome books @ronclinton ! I saw that Taschen had a sale, but I'm having to be mindful of my pennies recently. That Frazetta book though is gorgeous!

Thanks, all. Yeah, I've been coveting for quite some time as well, so at 50% off my years of thus far successful restraint vaporized. They even made it a it'd-be-ridiculous-NOT-to-buy-them thing when they even threw in free shipping for these enormously heavy books.  

Oooh, I have been coveting that EC book forever! Great buy, hope you enjoy them both!

Nice!

Started my re-read of BLACK HOUSE (King & Straub) the other night. Finding myself a little put off by the "narration" in the first few chapters (for example: “Out Tyler’s window we go, away from Libertyville, flying southwest on a diagonal, not lingering now but really flapping those old wings,”...

Those both look fantastic! Congrats.

I took advantage of the 50% Off Sale at Taschen over the weekend and picked up a couple titles that I've wanted for a year or two, but could never pull the trigger at $200 a pop. I snagged a copy each of THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF FRANK FRAZETTA and THE HISTORY OF EC COMICS. Both nearly 16" tall and ...

I've avoided this movie. It just doesn't speak to me, and especially at that run time, I was hesitant to go watch it.