7 things you can do to help.
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seanan_mcguireWell, here we are. Late Eclipses [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy] comes out in one week, exactly. If past trends hold true*, people will begin reporting sightings in the wild any day now. This will either cause me to clap my hands, cry, hyperventilate, or all of the above. Safe money is, as always, on "all of the above." And so here are seven things you can do to help with this book release!
7. Talk about the book. Are you excited that it's coming? Awesome. Are you excited about the series as a whole? Awesome. Do you plan to use Late Eclipses to fuel your world-buster canon? Rock on. Word-of-mouth is the best advertising there is.
6. Review the book. Do it on your blog, on Amazon, on Goodreads, wherever you feel comfortable. Reviews help more than almost anything else. (But please, please, do not send me copies of your Amazon reviews. I try to avoid that particular pitcher plant of pain.)
5. Loan copies of Rosemary and Rue to people you think might be interested. The first hit's free!
4. Do not poke at me with sharp, sharp sticks. I am a very thinly-stretched blonde right now, on account of book release and all, and I am neither fast to respond nor particularly well-suited to being jabbed at. Please, be gentle, and understand that right now, you're looking at a longer than normal response time.
3. I love fan mail, and I respond to everything I get, although it can sometimes take a while. Please don't get upset if I don't answer right away.
2. Also? Please don't ask for kitten pictures. Seriously.
1. And the number-one thing you can do to help Late Eclipses have a successful launch is...buy the book. Please, please, buy the book. During the first on-sale week if you possibly can, because that's the week that counts against all the bestseller lists. Making those lists is a long shot, but a girl's gotta dream, right? So if you're planning to buy the book, please, go out and do it. Let's see if we can hit the NYT.
If we do, I promise to faint.
(*Past trends may not hold true. Traditionally, early copies have been spotted at Borders, and I don't know whether Borders will be receiving any shipments of Late Eclipses. I actually dare to hope that my on-sale date may be accurate this time.)
7. Talk about the book. Are you excited that it's coming? Awesome. Are you excited about the series as a whole? Awesome. Do you plan to use Late Eclipses to fuel your world-buster canon? Rock on. Word-of-mouth is the best advertising there is.
6. Review the book. Do it on your blog, on Amazon, on Goodreads, wherever you feel comfortable. Reviews help more than almost anything else. (But please, please, do not send me copies of your Amazon reviews. I try to avoid that particular pitcher plant of pain.)
5. Loan copies of Rosemary and Rue to people you think might be interested. The first hit's free!
4. Do not poke at me with sharp, sharp sticks. I am a very thinly-stretched blonde right now, on account of book release and all, and I am neither fast to respond nor particularly well-suited to being jabbed at. Please, be gentle, and understand that right now, you're looking at a longer than normal response time.
3. I love fan mail, and I respond to everything I get, although it can sometimes take a while. Please don't get upset if I don't answer right away.
2. Also? Please don't ask for kitten pictures. Seriously.
1. And the number-one thing you can do to help Late Eclipses have a successful launch is...buy the book. Please, please, buy the book. During the first on-sale week if you possibly can, because that's the week that counts against all the bestseller lists. Making those lists is a long shot, but a girl's gotta dream, right? So if you're planning to buy the book, please, go out and do it. Let's see if we can hit the NYT.
If we do, I promise to faint.
(*Past trends may not hold true. Traditionally, early copies have been spotted at Borders, and I don't know whether Borders will be receiving any shipments of Late Eclipses. I actually dare to hope that my on-sale date may be accurate this time.)
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Date: 2011-02-22 07:16 pm (UTC)loot the corpsepick up discount books, so if they happened to have shipped them early and have only now gotten them on the shelves...... but this means I'll have to order it off the web, since we've got two used bookstores, campus bookstores with a shelf of SF, and a Barnes and Nobles that's across town*. (I don't think we have any new independents.)
* And a pain in the neck to get to via bus from my apartment.
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Date: 2011-02-22 07:25 pm (UTC)I'm sure you've already got this covered, but please keep us posted on any readings that might be happening :) I divide my time pretty evenly between Oakland and San Francisco, and I'd love to attend any promo events you might be doing.
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Date: 2011-02-22 07:36 pm (UTC)In anticipation of the new book coming out, and 'cause I found someone I hadn't loaned it to that I thought might like the series.
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Date: 2011-02-22 08:02 pm (UTC)I gave my copies of Rosemary and Rue and A Local Habitation a good home, since I have them all in digital now.
Yes. I bought your books twice. :)
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Date: 2011-02-22 11:01 pm (UTC)"Dispatch Estimate: 7 April 2011
Delivery Estimate: 9 April 2011 - 12 April 2011"
I am not entirely thrilled by that....
PS
When is the audio book out as the person doing the reading does a great job and I have an audible subscription....
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Date: 2011-02-22 08:17 pm (UTC)I pre-ordered it. Is it better to buy it in-store on the release date or do pre-orders also count towards the best seller list? If not, I guess I'll be buying Deadline and the next Toby novel in-store as soon as they're released.
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Date: 2011-02-22 08:22 pm (UTC)Pre-orders count. Books acquired before the actual on-sale date do not.
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Date: 2011-02-22 08:47 pm (UTC)My copy of LE is ordered, and now I just have to wait for the bookstore to call. I'm experimenting if it's faster to get them to order a hard copy in for me, or for Amazon/Chapter's online shipping which seems to dislike sending me things on their release dates.
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Date: 2011-02-22 09:22 pm (UTC)I doubt Kinokuniya here will stock Late Eclipses exactly on March 1, being as there tends to be a delay of one to three months between a US release and its subsequent release in Singapore (unless it's really anticipated like HP or Twilight), but if I can't get it by April, meh, I'll get to SF eventually. (And if I can get a copy before I get there, perfect reading material on Greyhound!)
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Date: 2011-02-22 10:03 pm (UTC)I'd buy the audio version, but it doesn't look like Brilliance Audio is making one. I emailed them asking about it yesterday, but they haven't responded yet.
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Date: 2011-02-22 10:36 pm (UTC)But I will make up for the buying-it-early by also getting it for my kindle on the first?
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Date: 2011-02-23 09:15 pm (UTC)Also, yay! Glad you like it.
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