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

As soon as Tuesday rolls around, I will be buying the HELL out of Deadline. Then skipping life until I'm done reading. So very, very excited.

I am leaving the country and cannot even get a copy until far beyond Tuesday.

I'm glad that this is at least helpful to you! Because I am SO EXCITED and more than a little sad I can't have it on the (14-hour) plane ride...

Check airport bookstores. FEED was in bookstores in airports last year.

I am confused. I had always thought that pre-ordering books in advance of publication was best because it made publishers more confident in a book and more likely to increase promotion, etc.

I bought Feed for my kindle. I have not even finished it yet (my kindle tells me I am 73% of the way through) but I like it so much that I had to find out if Mira Grant had written any other books because I knew I wanted to read more of her stuff. I was surprised to find that Feed appeared to be a first novel -- a quick google told me you were really Seanan McGuire and you write urban fantasy under that name. This is wonderful news for me; I've found a new writer with several books available and more in the pipeline.

But as I said, I had thought that pre-ordering was helpful. I have pre-ordered at least four novels that will be coming out this summer. I suppose it makes not a bit of difference to George R.R. Martin, but the other authors I have pre-ordered are not yet at his level of sales volume. So is it better to order on the first day or better to pre-order. (Note that there are other benefits to pre-ordering -- one important one is that if I have already ordered the book, I need not worry that it will slip my mind.)

I certainly can see the value of best-seller list rankings, so instead of pre-ordering Deadline I'll wait until Tuesday and I'll order hard copy instead of kindle. (I would have ordered hard copy anyway -- I have been telling my wife how much I have been enjoying Feed and she wants to read it, which means she will need to borrow my kindle, so it will be more convenient to have Deadline in hard copy, especially if she enjoys Feed as much as I think she will and thus will also want to read Deadline.)

I couldn't resist and got mine from Larry Smith at Marcon. He ordered as many copies as he did last year for FEED, when you were there. He sold out by Saturday afternoon.

I am sorry I made Seanan sad.
I was trying to support independent booksellers by buying from them rather than big chain.

In penance I will buy my friend a copy later this week if I can find it.

Preordered Deadline (physical book) from Amazon, can't wait to read it. Thanks for continuing the series!

Now realize I should have bought Feed to go with it, because well, if you're going to loan a series to friends, it makes sense to start with Book 1 (I found Feed in our local library the first time around). Easy enough to remedy :-)