Daniel Handler gives away more books!

[Hermes]

nationalbook.tumblr.com/post/102967484798/join-us-tomorrow-11-19-at-8-30-am-for-the-great

It appears that DH will be giving away some of his own books as well as National Book Award finalists, though which books of his is not made clear. (Probably We Are Pirates, in a further effort to avoid actually selling it.)

[Tryina Denouement]

I saw this on Neil Gaiman's tumblr already, and I wondered why is it not here!

[Dante]

"Wow, these Lemony Snicket books are going like hot cakes!"

www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/19/neil_gaiman_and_daniel_handler_compete_to_give_away_the_most_national_book.html

[allegedly bryan]

I know this is kind of irrelevant but I'm still kind of sour with the fact that I was under the impression he would loosely drop copies of the bad beginning across the country from the sky

In retrospect that would have made no sense but I had such plans for it

[Skelly Craig]

I think he did, though. It's just that HarperCollins' definition of "across the country" is probably more along the lines of "in a couple different towns."

[Dante]

I think it's less the geography that has us sour and more the part where we literally thought they were going to be airdropped in tiny parachutes. I agree that the concept is absurd and yet they kept on using the same metaphor.