285 thoughts on “just like heaven”

  2. Damn Lil Willie, you’ve got a HELL of a lot of fans. Congratulations on your success thus far. Impressive how your book is doing so well when it hasn’t even hit the market yet. I actually look forward to reading it.

  4. Slightly off-centre Wil, very fitting!
    Fantastic to see the cover, can’t wait til I can order my own copy!
    You should be pround.. we all are!
    Lis from Aus 🙂

  5. Hi Wil,
    Quick question…
    On Amazon.com it says
    Paperback: 200 pages
    And on Amazon.co.uk it says
    Paperback 304 pages (July 2004)
    Any idea why the UK version has 104!! more pages???
    Chris.

  6. I have just been sent back in time to my giddy teen years. I have an inescapable urge to giggle. (Inescapeable?)
    Anyway, I like the picture.
    Sincere, open, “this is ME”.
    No marks of identity in the photo but your face-no colours, no uniforms, no urban clothes to give us a clue–just you. Good stuff.
    And you’ve always had those wonderfully expressive eyes.

  7. Wowo. *F A N T A S T I C* cover.
    Such a thing makes me want to buy this book (and I didn’t plan on doing so before).

  9. Any idea why the UK version has 104!! more pages???
    Must be the conversion from US to Metric.
    Ha! I slay me.
    Actually, according to the unbound galley that I’ve been using for my proofing, it’s got 271 pages. I think that O’Reilly gives estimates to places like Amazon so they can do pre-orders, and then Amazon changes the information when the page count is finalized. Maybe Amazon UK was updated more recently than Amazon US, and they added the extra pages because . . . uhm . . . the Queen needs extra pages.

  11. Aaaaaaahhh! This is soooo exciting. It is true, no matter how miniscule a space they take up, front covers and taglines do help me to decide whether to read a book or not. Even though this fact doesn’t count for this book (I mean seriously, I would read this book if it had 100 previous owners, had no cover and was covered in coffee and chewing gum…although that would make it have to read).
    It even has one of those ‘readers who shopped for this item also looked at…’ sections. Fact: this is just a LITTLE bit exciting!

  12. Holy sheeps…it’s actually coming…it’s preordered, now all I have to do is camp out by my mailbox…

  13. I was going to say “best of luck” on the sale of your book but you obviously don’t NEED luck. I’m looking forward to reading it along with the thousands of other folks who are by your virtual side.
    Larry

  14. you’re a babe, but come on! that photo out of all the photos of you in the world??
    love the book dood, proud as punch x

  15. wooh, cool!
    I shall have to snag a copy to put next to Walter Konig’s “Warped Factor” on ye olde shelf. (I totally just misspelled his name, didn’t I? I’m not wearing my glasses and I don’t want to walk across the room and read the book spine).
    So you hittin’ up DC for a book signing? Hot as hell here, I’d advise waiting until it cools down and all the tacky tourists bounce out. They had stuff in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum about you last time I checked.
    …ok, it was about Star Trek, but you were definetely mentioned. So you should come to DC and sign my copy of your book.
    Yeah.

  16. Somewhere in the last few blog entries, you went *squee* over the person who was writing the introduction to the book, but didn’t name names.
    The person in question mentioned that he really ought to be finishing that up soon on his own blog.
    It just rocks so damn much when two of my favorite writers on the planet get together.
    Congrats on the book. I’ll be pre-ordering as soon as I find my credit card…

  17. I’ve been waiting for a few days for my computer to get its act together so I can see that cover. RAWK!!!! it’s on my wishlist of things to buy when I get out of China and maybe even have a credit card again!!

  19. Yum-my.
    I’m with Colleen S! Come East! You could do two cities, two days, one name! Niagara Falls is becoming the Vegas of the East! Not to mention the huge contingent of geeks out here. Come on, with all the snow, what else are people going to do?
    Wow. I need to go lie down…

  21. Wil – that rocks the Casbah, man. I can’t imagine how overwhelmed you must be right now. Congratulations!
    And Neil Gaiman wrote the intro…?! That just could not be cooler.
    Just curious – have you/O’Reilly talked to Mysterious Galaxy about doing a San Diego signing there? It’d be so much cooler to see you promote it there than at some random chain bookstore (it’s also Neil’s bookstore of choice in our city, after all…).

  22. OMG, that is so fucking awesome! Just when I get to the point where you’re just okay this comes out and I’ve got a crush on you all over again. I SO can’t wait to read JAG, congrats to you, Wil!

  27. Great cover, plain and simple, nice picture.
    The question I have is: Where’s this double chin you sometimes bitch about?
    I’m thinking this double chin is myth.
    Can’t wait to read the book!

  29. The image has been added to the second half of the interview (which is in the copy editing phase right now) and will be added to my review of it (which will be live on June 1).
    But of course I’m going to get a copy of my own, oh yes, precious. Now if I could only get you to come out to New York to sign it…

  31. i just ordered both books! this is so awesome!
    look at you! all authoring n’ shit!
    rock on rock star!

  32. 50,000 monkeys at 50,000 typewriters plus one man with writing talent….the formula for a cooly book…..YAY WIL-BUR!!!!!!!
    Can’t wait fer youse to visit Seattle fer book-signin’ and such…..

  35. I guess I’ve got to be the one to say it…didn’t anyone else notice who the lad looks like in this picture? All I’m gonna say is that when they cast “Star Trek: The Early Years” I know who’s getting tapped for a certain young Ensign, later captain of the Enterprise 1701 no bloody A, B, C, D, E or F!
    Let the flames begin!
    [he ducks and runs…]
    Mal

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