Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: freaked RIGHT THE HELL out
  • Music: Hysteria. Flailing. Lack of air.

First sighting in the wild.

I realize that we're eleven days early. That's probably why I feel like I'm having a coronary right now. That having been said, the first sighting-by-author of Rosemary and Rue in the wild has officially occurred, at the San Francisco Borders located at 4th and King.

I am on the very front of the "selected paperbacks" rack.

I am face-outward on the science fiction and fantasy shelf (where, thanks to an accident of alphabetization, I'm located about a foot from Stephanie Meyer).

They have, from quick count while hyperventilating, about twenty-one copies out and on display. If you're not going to make the book release parties, or want to buy multiple copies, or just can't wait, this would be a dandy time to go and make the books go away, so that I can keep on breathing.

Nnnnghg.
Tags: freaking out, release dates, rosemary and rue, toby daye
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angel_vixen

August 20 2009, 17:40:44 UTC 7 years ago

Wait, but isn't your Strict On Sale Date September 1? <winces as the bookseller part of her brain flails>

Oh, well! More screen time! <emails all her friends in San Francisco to alert them that it's on sale now>

AngelVixen :-)

!

exapno

August 21 2009, 02:23:15 UTC 7 years ago

Luckily for us, most new authors don't have Strict Sale dates, just release dates (not subject to the same rules).

Or so it was...admittedly, been out of the bookseller arena for several years now.

Re: !

angel_vixen

August 21 2009, 04:06:09 UTC 7 years ago

I called my local store, and they said they'd not yet received their shipment, and woe is me! I wanted me some early Seanan!

It depends on the author, 'tis true. I asked the bookseller such, and she said R&R had no Strict Sale Date, but that it wouldn't be available until then anyway because of how their shipments stack schedule-wise.

I left the bookselling arena a few weeks ago, myself; bookworms make the best employees, because recommendations are never scarce, but they also make bad employees, because when someone comes in and says "I don't read, but I need a book to impress this girl..." (or some other such thing that always begin with "I don't read..."), we die a little inside every time. Not to mention contemplating throwing something at them (preferably a really thick hardback).

AngelVixen :-)

seanan_mcguire

August 24 2009, 21:15:49 UTC 7 years ago

Just a release date, for now.