Friday before book release: what you can do to help.

[seanan_mcguire]

Thanks to everyone for your kind words and support leading up to the release of Deadline, the second book in the Newsflesh trilogy. I'm both excited and terrified about the idea of this book hitting shelves. I'm also about to go mostly offline—yes, even more than I have been since I left for New York—as I attend Wiscon, in Madison, Wisconsin. So here is the obligatory "ways you can help this be awesome, or at least non-traumatic."

Buy the book.
For bonus points, buy the book on or after Tuesday, when it is officially in stores. Any copies purchased before the release date don't count against my first week numbers, and those are the numbers that get a person onto the New York Times list. I would like to make the print list. I would have it framed, and then carry a picture of the framed list to show to anyone who says that girls don't like zombies. It would be brilliant. So please, buy the book, and if you can make yourself hold out, buy it once it's actually supposed to be on that shelf.

Write a review.
Amazon, Good Reads, your own personal blog, wherever. Word of mouth counts for a lot, especially during release week, and having reviews reminds people that a thing is worth reviewing, if that makes sense. I'm not saying "only post good reviews," because dude. But any review would be awesome.

Check your local library.
Most library systems allow you to request that they carry books. This is one of them.

Rise up while you can.
We only fail if we're afraid.

Comments

[skyblue-reverie.livejournal.com]

Does the amazon.com e-book version (kindle) count towards your numbers? I was planning to get that one, but if only the print version counts, I'll do that instead.

[lysystratae.livejournal.com]

Since I'm not sure she'll see this anytime soon and I know (from having asked her myself), it does count, but not as much. Being a goofy little bookworm, I tend to buy both (cuz arthritis makes it hard to read the print version, but I still want to have it) :)

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Also, while the process of tabulating sales for the NYT Bestseller list is, as I understand it, not very transparent, it's my understanding that online sales do not count toward that at all.

[shiyiya.livejournal.com]

...Seriously? That's strange. And ridiculous. And now I feel bad about my Amazon preorder.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

It's that horrifying hidebound old school "it's just on the internet, it doesn't count" mindset. I hate it.

Will have to buy print copy too.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Physical sales count; e-books only count toward the e-book list, which honestly, I can understand, even if I don't like it. It's the same as hardback and paperback sales going to different lists.

[aiglet.livejournal.com]

Actually, it looks like it does count for hardcovers, and for everything else there's actually a separate ebook fiction list.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Online sales DO count, when they're for physical books.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Ah, I must've confused online orders with e-books.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

e-books count toward the e-book list, not toward the main print list. It's considered a different "thing" when it doesn't have that physical side.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Okay. We have been virtuously waiting until Tuesday. Miles and I plan to go to the bookstore tomorrow morning. We've been debating - we have one copy of Feed, but one copy of Deadline might make for ... strife. Was thinking of buying one physical copy and one e-copy, but perhaps two physical copies would be better, then?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Two physical copies would be AWESOME.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

That's what we did. Miles and I trundled down to the bookstore Tuesday morning, bought two copies, slid the remaining one out more prominently, then got into a lovely chat with the cashier praising the series.

Then today I realized I really should get presents for the littlest one's preschool teachers for tomorrow's end-of-year party. One of the two is a bibliomaniac with us, loves good children's books and bases each class around one, and has said summer is her time to get to read adult books! So ... I went back to a bookstore (ooh, twist my arm) and got her the four Sharing Knife books by Bujold and Feed and Deadline. Books, the gift that keeps on giving.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

YAY!