{"id":344,"date":"2008-02-18T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/02\/18\/elrics-back\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:48:33","slug":"elrics-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/02\/18\/elrics-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Elric&#8217;s Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ELRIC21807.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ELRIC21807.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>Spotted on the shelves, shiny and new, at 3pm, Borders Books, Alamo Quarry, San Antonio, TX. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elric-Stealer-Chronicles-Emperor-Melnibone\/dp\/0345498623\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1203371391&amp;sr=8-1\">Amazon.com<\/a>, Michael Moorcock\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordersstores.com\/search\/title_detail.jsp?id=57082124&amp;srchTerms=elric&amp;mediaType=1&amp;srchType=Keyword\">ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS<\/a> wasn\u2019t supposed to release until tomorrow. However this weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiverse.org\/\">Moorcock\u2019s Miscellany<\/a> said the book was selling at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbiddenplanet.com\/fp\">Forbidden Planet<\/a>, London (thanks, Guy) and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&amp;EAN=9780345498625&amp;itm=1\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> in Virginia (thanks, Blackwood Buzz). Today, Pyr\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/louanders.blogspot.com\/\">Lou Anders<\/a> saw the book at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksamillion.com\/ncom\/books?id=4033710377545&amp;pid=0345498623\">Books-A-Million<\/a> in Birmingham and my pal Brian Farrens spotted it up in far northside SA (again, Borders). So the wait is now officially over. Elric\u2019s back and he\u2019s everywhere, at least across North America.\n<p>I\u2019m thrilled to be a small part of this, and this weekend Mike and I will be celebrating with a book signing\/launch party for the new Elric book. Details as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Where:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinbooks.com\/index.html\">Austin Books<\/a><br>5002 N. Lamar<br>Austin, TX<br>email: info@austinbooks.com<br>(512) 454-4197<\/p>\n<p>When:<br>Sat. Feb. 23<br>4-7pm<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve said it before, but Austin Books is one of the finest comic-book emporiums in the country. It\u2019s worth a trip just for its sheer comic-book goodness. For those who can\u2019t make it (I\u2019m looking at you, Moorcock fans in the UK), Austin Books has set up a convenient \u201cbuy it\u201d button where you can reserve a signed copy of ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS that Mike and I can sign and\/or personalise for you this weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinbooks.com\/index.html\">Scroll down to just below the Elric cover.<\/a> Hope to see everyone on Saturday! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted on the shelves, shiny and new, at 3pm, Borders Books, Alamo Quarry, San Antonio, TX. According to Amazon.com, Michael Moorcock\u2019s ELRIC: THE STEALER OF SOULS wasn\u2019t supposed to release until tomorrow. However this weekend, Moorcock\u2019s Miscellany said the book was selling at Forbidden Planet, London (thanks, Guy) and Barnes &amp; Noble in Virginia (thanks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ELRIC21807.jpg?fit=622%2C467","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-5y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}