Christmas presents: inscribed COLUMBINE & other suggestions

OK, this post is just flat-out commercial--but useful plugs, perhaps, so . . .

I'm working with my wonderful local indie bookstore to get out autographed and personally-inscribed copies of COLUMBINE for Christmas presents.

Just let us know who it's for and any information about them or your relationship to them that you'd like me to mention in the msg (eg, if you say it's your boss who has been kind of a mentor, or your sister-in-law  who always helps look after the kids.) I'll write something about that.

Tattered Cover Bookstore will handle sales, shipping, etc. I live a few blocks from them and will drop in to write in the books. They handle everything else.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Call or email the Colfax Avenue Store: 303-322-7727 books@tatteredcover.com and let them know:

1. Title/author: COLUMBINE, by Dave Cullen
2.That I offered on my website to do inscription and I live nearby. Specify the COLFAX store (they have three.)
3. What you want in the inscription (including the name).
4. Your name, phone number, address and credit card info.
That's it. Pretty easy.

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Since I'm plugging, GoodReads.com has nominated COLUMBINE for Favorite Nonfiction Book of 2009. Winner will be chosen by online voting, so please consider voting.

It's Item #3 here. You have to join if you're not a member, but it's a quickie membership, just name and password. And if you like books, it's a great site.

(They are a huge site with over 2 million unique visitors per month. Winning would help. And you'll find many great book discussions. Idid an author Q/A with them this summer.)

BTW, here's the run-down of year-end lists COLUMBINE has hit so far. It's been a nice way to end the year:

• New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2009
• Los AngelesTimes Favorite Nonfiction of 2009
• Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2009
• Amazon Editor’s Picks: Best Books of 2009; #5 in Current Events
• Amazon Customer’s Picks: Top 100 Books of 2009 
• New West Best Books in the West
  

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Other great book suggestions:

• Bob Eckstein's wonderfully funny The History of the Snowman. Very timely for Christmas, and a bargain for $12.92 at Amazon, in hardcover.
• Patricia Smith's staggering Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist last year. It's poetry about Katrina that blew me away. I'm way overdue on a post about it, her. She is also a remarkable woman I met this spring. And it's $12 at Amazon.
• David Eagleman's Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. You've seen nothing like this. It's a quick, fun, provocative 108 pages. I met him at the Texas Book Fest, where he was invited as a breakout author. You'll be hearing more from him. He's also a great guy. My final girlfriend and I spent half an hour with him and his girlfriend (they both have PhDs in nuerology, but with social skills. Haha. And creativity.) $13.60 in hardcover.

Damn. I didn't pick those because they are so cheap, but they are.

I hope those give you some ideas, and joy.

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And in the ongoing controversy of women being ingored in Best Lists this year, here's an excellent essay by Women’s Review of Books editor Amy Hoffman: Still Crazy After All These Years.