people are nuts-o

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Due to the fact that I am a broke college student (well, community college) paying my own bills for the first time, I have decided to sell off all of my darling Laurell K. Hamilton books on E-bay.
I own Guilty Pleasure through Incubus Dreams, and the first three Merry Gentry books, and my copy of Incubus Dreams is apparently a first edition. (Not that that matters to me.)

Pretending to be a savvy e-bayer (I've sold all of two things on e-bay in the past, both used text books, and I have one think for sale right now - which no one has bid on.) I decided to do some research and see what lots of her books are going for.

And I must say, it amazes me how much people are willing to pay for lots of her used, previously read books. I'm seeing lots of 12-16 of her books going for 50 - 80+ dollars. Nothing special about them or anything, no signatures, no first editions. This is so strange to me.

Anyone else agree?

Or anyone have any insight?

blogflog: In which "Niel" Gaiman is her bestest buddy.

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 http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2007/09/glad-its-friday.html

We also went out and saw a movie that early evening: STARDUST. We both liked it a great deal. Some of the adds are making it seem more epic movie, and there is a slice of LORD OF THE RINGS in there, but there is a bigger slice, if I had ot pick a movie it felt like of THE PRINCESS BRIDE. But, of course, it's based on a Niel [sic] Gaiman book so it is most certainly it's own unique creation. Niel's having a heck of a year with this movie and BEOWULF, which he co-wrote the screen play to, and either later this year or early next is CORALINE based on the book of the same name. He was a very busy boy at comcicon in San Diego with all the promotional stuff. We finally got to sit down and talk for a few minutes over food at comicon. Seems like we've spent years being at the same conventions, or events, and always saying, wouldn't it be nice if we could talk, or have dinner, but we always seem to be scheduled opposite each other. It was nice to finally carve some time out.

Oh yes.  Can't you imagine Neil crying softly into his leather jacket, because he had not spent time with LKH?  The fact that he writes about her in his blog exactly zero times clearly indicates that he is awed by her enormous ego talent.  /sarcasm.