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Lulu.com<\/a> is running a holiday promotion. \u00c2\u00a0Use coupon code HUMBUG at checkout to get 10% off your order on anything, including the Timely Persuasion<\/a><\/em> paperback. \u00c2\u00a0Valid through December 30th.<\/p>\n

Not only do you get to go back in time, but you can also go back in price!<\/p>\n

(Yup. \u00c2\u00a0That was a terrible joke. \u00c2\u00a0But I liked it…)<\/p>\n

Bonus fun fact: \u00c2\u00a0I didn’t make up the coupon code, but it’s interesting that it quotes Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol<\/em>, considered by some to be the first published time travel story in 1843. \u00c2\u00a0This classic gets a minor nod in Chapter 9<\/a> of TP, one of many hat tips to other time travel tales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lulu.com is running a holiday promotion. \u00c2\u00a0Use coupon code HUMBUG at checkout to get 10% off your order on anything, including the Timely Persuasion paperback. \u00c2\u00a0Valid through December 30th. Not only do you get to go back in time, but you can also go back in price! 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