Who has a ticket on the crazy train? Is it me? Why, yes, I do believe that it is. (Although my crazy is somewhat alleviated by the fact that a new Mersenne prime has been discovered. It's thirteen million digits long. I would post it here, but the text file is seventeen MB, which means it's roughly 3,500 pages of single-spaced twelve-point text. I'm not that crazy. Yet.)
We had a brief question-and-answer session at the end of my reading at DucKon, and people asked how they could make their book purchases count the most. I love these people. I love them like burning. That said...
* If you have a brick-and-mortar store, buy there. Buying a physical book from a physical store forces the store to restock, which gets more copies into circulation. Book sales are calculated using a bizarre algorithm of "copies shipped" and "copies returned." We want the first number to be enormous, and the second number to be nonexistent.
* Online orders definitely count as sales, and if you don't have a brick-and-mortar store, that's an awesome route. (Also, if you've already pre-ordered, canceling your order is probably not very nice.) Even if you don't place your order online, remember that a lot of people do, and that reviews and rankings help to inform decisions.
...which brings me to a note on reviews: please review the book honestly, and don't worry that I'll be coming for you in the night with a bucket full of bloodworms. I won't be reading Amazon reviews, remember? But please do review the book. Reviews will help get people who have no idea who I am to take a chance on me, which increases my numbers, which increases the odds of the trilogy doing well enough that we can sell the next three. Which increases the odds of my being entertainingly crazy forever.
Seventy-five days.
Great Pumpkin preserve us.
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I'd settle for turning the book so the front faces out, but are there any other recommendations? I'd prefer ones that nobody's going to fix.
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June 17 2009, 16:21:40 UTC 8 years ago
yeah, but I'd bet a pumpkin spice donut that
Preordered from the local brick-and-mortar. Also have most of a jar of earplugs on my desk, so if I start hearing "OMG" floating in from a vaguely southish direction anytime in the next 76, 77 days or so I'll be ready. :) :)
Great Pumpkin preserve us..
Pumpkin preserves. Om nom nom. Good on a cinnamon-raisin English muffin. :q
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But the cookies you leave outside, for Coyote.
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Sometimes, having a vivid imagination is waaaaay more fun ;-)
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