Rose-Owls and Pumpkin Girls

It’s time for this year’s bookstore list! Now, as a reminder, these are only the bookstores who have signed up for this year’s pre-order promotional pin giveaway. You can still pre-order from your local even if they’re not participating. There are two pins: the fish, paired with SLEEP NO MORE, and the cat, paired with THE INNOCENT SLEEP. You’ll get one pin per book, and must pre-order both to receive both pins.

CONFIRMED STORES:

Adventure Bound Books – Morganton, NC

Argo Bookshop – Montreal, QC

Bakka Phoenix Books – Toronto, ON

Ballast Book Company – Bremerton, WA

Black Bond Books – Surrey, BC

Blue Cypress Books – New Orleans, LA

Bobzbay Books – Bloomington, IL

Bookends and Beginnings – Evanston, IL

BookPeople – Austin, TX

Booksweet – Ann Arbor, MI

Brick & Mortar Books – Redmond, WA*

Buffalo Street Books – Ithaca, NY

Butcher Cabin Books – Louisville, KY

Caprichos Books – Ocean Pines, MD

Copper Dog Books – Beverly, MA

Eagle Eye Bookshop – Decatur, GA

Folio Bookshop – San Francisco, CA

Galaxy Bookshop – Sydney, NSW

Gibson’s Bookstore – Concord, NH

Legendarium – Salt Lake City, UT

Main St. Books Monroe – Monroe, WA

Main Street Books/Second Flight Books – Lafayette, IN

Mostly Books – Tucson, AZ

Murder by the Book – Houston, TX

Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore – San Diego, CA

Northshire Bookstore – Manchester Center, VT

Northshire Bookstore – Saratoga Springs, NY

Novel Memphis – Memphis, TN

Page 158 Books – Wake Forest, NC

Paper Boat Booksellers – Seattle, WA

Portal Bookshop – York, England

Porter Square Books – Cambridge, MA

Rookery Books – Cambridge, ON

Sparta Books – Sparta, NJ

Sweet Home Books – Wetumpka, AL

The Dog Eared Page – Danville, VA

The Silver Unicorn – Acton, MA

Third Place Books – Lake Forest Park, WA

Tsunami Books – Eugene, OR

Unity Books – Wellington, NZ

University Bookstore – Seattle, WA

We Be Book’N LLC – Monroe, WA

Wellesley Books – Wellesley, MA

* Special bonus: Books ordered from Brick & Mortar can be signed.

While this list may change slightly–a few stores have yet to fully confirm participation–we anticipate any changes to be minimal.  Get those pre-orders in!

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If you comment more than once, all comments will show up, and that skews the RNG. Please don’t.

Thank you.

While I have not yet posted the Hogswatch winners, please be aware that all drawings closed at noon, Pacific, when I stated the winners would be chosen.  Time stamps on entries mean that no one who has entered hours after the drawings closed will be eligible to win.

(Wow, this is so much more activity than we usually see around here.)

I have packed all the packages that have both been paid for and claimed, meaning the people who bought the books emailed with their mailing information, as requested.  I have replied to all the emails I’ve received, either to verify that the books are packed to go or to ask for more information.  If you have not received an email from me, I do not have an email from you.

Please submit an email through my website contact form with the name of the book you bought, your mailing address, and whether or not you want your book signed.  I want to get these off my bed so I can mail them so I can prep another batch.

Hey, y’all.

So as many of you probably (hopefully) know, I have purchased all the remaining stock of the first three volumes of Velveteen from ISFic, and am currently in the process of getting it to bookstores (almost entirely Borderlands Books, in San Francisco, CA, since they were the ones who responded to me first) so that it can be sold.  It’s been a fascinating learning experience, involving a lot of books coming into and exiting my home.

(Because someone always asks: I am not doing any giveaways, mostly because I had to pay so much money in order to obtain all these books.  I need to sell them, because otherwise hoo, boy, I am in trouble.)

We’re prepping the next restock for Borderlands right now, and it includes all remaining copies of book one.  Which is to say, 54 copies.  There are, at this moment that I know of, 54 copies of Velveteen vs. the Junior Super Patriots earmarked for commercial sale in the world.  There are a few secondary sales, but they want $100+ per book, and there’s no reason to pay that.

If you have been wanting these books, now is the time to contact Borderlands, via either phone or email, and reserve whichever volumes you wanted to get.  We have literally ten times as many remaining copies of book three, but book one is about to vanish forever, at least in this form.

That was all; carry on.

2018 was pants.

Alice died, and that…well, really, that was the end for me. So much of the rest of the year is a blur. I feel terrible about the things I missed, or didn’t celebrate the way I should have, and I’m trying to get caught up. Which is where you come in. Here is the link to my bibliography:

http://seananmcguire.com/other.php

If you get the chance or have the inclination, please click through and let me know if you notice anything missing. The “Comics” section will be built out in the next few days (I’m very excited about that); we’re focusing mainly on the “Short Stories” section, since that’s where I have the most published (by sheer quantity), and have almost certainly missed the most things.

Help?

1. I’m locked out of my Dreamwidth account and can’t update the post there, so I’m making this post in order to push it out via the update bot: comments left on DW will not be considered valid contest entries for purposes of this ARC drawing.  I’m sorry that was not clear.  To enter the current drawing, please go to http://seananmcguire.com/blog/2018/04/17/when-the-crypt-doors-creak/

2. The first time you comment on my actual blog, your comment will go automatically into moderation.  This is normal.  You are not being singled out.  Please do not leave another eleven comments frantically trying to get approved.  Approval is performed manually by myself or Chris (who is currently traveling for business).  Additional comments will not be eligible to win, and will make me frown at you severely.

3. If you don’t want the book, just the comic and pin, that’s cool.  Just tell me if you win, as I won’t keep track of it now.

That’s all!  Happy hauntings!