Can't stop the signal

So, you know how international distribution is this complex process of haggling and negotiation?

Apparently not when you're swinging a big juicy book like Heathen City around. I contacted United Publications in the UK to ask whether they'd be interested in distributing Heathen City on their isles, and what I expected to be a long-drawn-out period of negotiating, involving comp copies, numerous calls, and endless price negotiation boiled down to a 'yes please'.

I love working with professionals who know what they want.

Heathen City is now available for pre-order from the UK through United Publications, namely here:

http://www.up1.co.uk/Details/A0901

£16 for a fabulous full-color 46-page hardcore badass furry graphic novel. Pretty slick, huh?

Estimated shipping date is 'July'. Based on the quantity of early pre-orders we'll agree with United Publications on the exact quantity of their first shipment, which will be sent to them shortly after Anthrocon. FurPlanet are going to have to sweat into the wee small hours to fulfill all the pre-orders as well as that shipment, but they're a hardy bunch.

So if you're in the UK, and want to be sure you can get it as quickly as possible, be sure to pre-order quickly so your copy will be in the first batch!

Heathen City available for preorder

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Not Heathen City - Quantum Leap instead.

Right. I've used this LJ for promotional purposes more than anything these last years, so rather than waxing prosaic about the trials of producing the baddest-assed graphic novel the fandom has ever seen, its imminent debut at Anthrocon and, potentially, the significantly earlier onset of pre-orders, let me focus on something else instead:

The promotional tagline for the information page for Apple's next operating system: Snow Leopard.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/

"A Quantum Leap."

It's a common tagline. A quantum leap in innovation, a quantum leap in saucer smoothness. Whatever. All of them are wrong, wrong, wrong, because a 'quantum leap' is, in physics, the smallest possible distance an object can travel without standing still.

So why am I so lyrical about Apple's use?

They're the first ones ever to use it right. The new operating system, Snow Leopard, is touted as having 0 new features. All focus is on improving stability, laying the groundwork for the next decade of development. It's a bold move, and leave it to Apple to be able to make "Zero new features!" a positive marketing slogan.

The point of all this is that the end user should notice nothing, aside from performance boosts, which makes this a true quantum leap. Kudos!