One, five, they're all numbers, right?

[seanan_mcguire]

Tomorrow, Feed is officially released. That's one. Saturday, Feed is guaranteed to be on sale everywhere. That's five. Numbers, numbers, numbers. I am defined by numbers. Numbers are my bread and my butter, and the things that keep me from going crazy in a bad way.

Both of these are prime. That's something.

I'm a lot mellower about this book release than I expected to be. This may be because I'm getting better at this whole "book release" thing, or it may just be that I'm still completely exhausted following all the crazy surrounding A Local Habitation and finishing Deadline, and simply lack the energy to be insane. I still teared up the first time I saw it on an actual shelf in an actual store (the Borders in Pleasant Hill). Which reminds me, these are the locations where you can buy a signed copy, right now:

* Borders, Pleasant Hill
* Barnes & Noble, San Bruno

Both stores also have signed copies of the Toby Daye books. If you're not local, or want something personalized, remember that I'll be appearing at Borderlands Books on Saturday, May 8th. The store does take requests for personalized books to be mailed basically anywhere on this planet. You can email or call them, and I'd be just tickled to sign a book for you during the event. (Plus, well, if you can't support your local by buying a signed book, be a sport and support my local.)

One day, five days, and my second book release of the year is fully and finally underway, the next grand adventure off and running. I am elated and terrified, and tired.

I need a nap.

When will you rise?

Comments

[tollermom]

They spot-varnished the blood.

As a design/print geek, this makes me exceptionally happy.

As a design/print geek who looked at the cover design when you first showed it off and thought "They should totally spot-varnish that blood," the arrival of my copy, with varnish, made me go "squee" right there in the driveway when I opened the package.

(Edited to add a missing comma...)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Yes, they did. :)

[tollermom]

Of course, working in a building full of book geeks (non-fiction publishing company, for folks who don't know me), I just kept carrying it around today and handing it to people. Everybody liked the cover, several commented on the wordplay between the title and the icon, and almost all of them were caught running their fingers over the shiny blood drops.

It's a great cover design (I really like the interior design too, btw!), but the decision to spot varnish, and then the accuracy with which they printed it, _really_ sells it. It's tasty. And it's subtle. You almost don't see it, until you get the book at the right angle or in the right light. But you feel it. Book lovers are tactile as well as visual, and covers sell books. GeekyPrinterChick me approves.