Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: stumped
  • Music: Moulin Rouge, "Elephant Love Medley."

Okay. Advise me.

I have a few more ARCs to give away, and I'm stumped. So how should I give them away? (Hint: saying "give them to me" will actually not endear you, unless you finish that sentence with "I do all the buying for a major bookstore" or something similar, and can present credentials.) Have you got a favorite review site? Have I missed a contest? Should I abandon them on BART cars? What?

Propose anything. I am open to the crazy.

EDIT: So it's said, the "abandon on BART cars" option was a joke. I won't do anything that involves releasing ARCs into the wild, outside the bounds of the standard social contract, with no idea where they went. Not okay.
Tags: giving stuff away, requesting things, rosemary and rue, toby daye
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kiarasayre

August 17 2009, 20:40:46 UTC 7 years ago

Not sure how helpful this'll be at this stage, but as a bookseller for B&N, I've been watching the ARCs hungrily for the past few months to see if Rosemary & Rue is among them - and so far it hasn't been. So I say you send them out to bookstores! I know a lot of the booksellers at my store stay mostly to hardcovers (which can be checked out) and ARCs (which are free), so even though the ARC may not get to the store before the book's actually published, it'll still get read.

seanan_mcguire

August 18 2009, 19:34:37 UTC 7 years ago

Which B&N do you work for? Did you want to do the reading?

kiarasayre

August 19 2009, 23:30:55 UTC 7 years ago

I work at the Potomac Yard store in Alexandria, VA - just outside of DC - but I'm going abroad for the semester on Saturday, so I was thinking more in general. (Although knowing my fellow booksellers, I'm sure a bunch of them would really like it!)