{"id":1046,"date":"2010-12-07T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2010-12-07T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:45:28","slug":"signed-copies-of-trapped-in-the-tower-of-the-brain-thieves-are-back-in-stock-also-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/07\/signed-copies-of-trapped-in-the-tower-of-the-brain-thieves-are-back-in-stock-also-other-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Signed copies of &#8216;Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves&#8217; are back in stock; also, other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/buy_books.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/thrilling_tales_book.jpg\" alt=\"Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves book\" width=\"224\" height=\"277\" border=\"0\" style=\"float:left;margin-left:-12px;margin-right:12px;\"><\/a>A little while back I actually ran out of signed copies of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/buy_books.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves<\/a><\/em> &#8211; but now I&#8217;ve got another batch of &#8217;em, so they&#8217;re available again at the <em>Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/em> web site. (The unsigned copies, I hasten to add, were always available and still are.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;m not sure that my signature means anything but you also get a pair of spiffy <em>Thrilling Tales<\/em> bookmarks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And since we&#8217;re talking merchandising here (well&#8230; <em>I<\/em> am, anyway, and you&#8217;re doing whatever you&#8217;re doing <em>while<\/em> I do it), there&#8217;s also a splendiferous series of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_pf\/retro-future\/Thrilling-Tales-T-Shirts-Page-1\/_s_350428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_pf\/retro-future\/Thrilling-Tales-T-Shirts-Page-1\/_s_350428\"> T-shirts<\/a>, not to mention the uncanny <em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_z\/retropolis_travel_coffee_mugs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thrilling Tales<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_z\/retropolis_travel_coffee_mugs.php\"> beverage containment devices<\/a>, which themselves are totally eclipsed by the outright wonder of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/cgi-bin\/retropolis_image_replace2.cgi\/retro_future_posters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thrilling Tales<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/cgi-bin\/retropolis_image_replace2.cgi\/retro_future_posters\"> posters<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/cgi-bin\/retropolis.cgi\/retropolis_calendars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2011 Wall Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Which is quite a lot of wonder, now that I think of it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So while you wonder about that, I&#8217;ll let you know that the first tale in <em>The Lair of the Clockwork Book<\/em> has now got all its illustrations. I&#8217;m working on the second set, for something that I think is called<em> Osgood Finnegan and the Orb from the Stars,<\/em> or <em>Osgood Finnegan and the Mysterious Stranger,<\/em> or <em>Osgood Finnegan and the Tale That Has Yet To Be Named<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Indecision&#8217;s an awful thing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I spent a ridiculous amount of time building and texturing Osgood&#8217;s 19th century wagon, so I guess I should cram it into as many of the illustrations as possible. Though that would be <em>cheating<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back I actually ran out of signed copies of Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves &#8211; but now I&#8217;ve got another batch of &#8217;em, so they&#8217;re available again at the Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}