WHAT EXACTLY IS AN ARC…FROM A WRITER WHO JUST RECEIVED HER FIRST ONE.

I’ve heard a lot about ARC’s lately, but I’d never really seen one.  (ARC stands for Advanced Reading Copy.  It’s basically a paperback version of the book printed in advance for marketing purposes; publishers send them to booksellers, libraries, reviewers, etc.)

Then yesterday, the postman rang my bell with a package too huge to fit in the mailbox:  an envelope stuffed with ARCs for OyMG.

Here it is:

No longer am I one-dimensional:  I have a cover and a back and a spine.  (Hmm, probably some good “spine” analogy there if I was quick enough to come up with it.) :-)