busy7. Talk about the book. Are you excited that it's coming? Awesome. Are you excited about the series as a whole? Awesome. Do you plan to use One Salt Sea to fuel your world-buster cannon? Rock on. Word-of-mouth is the best advertising there is.
6. Review the book. Do it on your blog, on Amazon, on Goodreads, wherever you feel comfortable. Reviews help more than almost anything else. (But please, please, do not send me copies of your Amazon reviews. I try to avoid that particular pitcher plant of pain.)
5. Loan copies of Rosemary and Rue to people you think might be interested. The first hit's free!
4. Do not poke at me with sharp, sharp sticks. I am a very thinly-stretched blonde right now, on account of book release and all, and I am neither fast to respond nor particularly well-suited to being jabbed at. Please, be gentle, and understand that right now, you're looking at a longer than normal response time.
3. I love fan mail, and I respond to everything I get, although it can sometimes take a while. Please don't get upset if I don't answer right away.
2. Also? Please don't ask for kitten pictures. Seriously.
1. And the number-one thing you can do to help One Salt Sea have a successful launch is...buy the book. Please, please, buy the book. During the first on-sale week if you possibly can (September 6th through 12th), because that's the week that counts against all the bestseller lists. Making those lists is a long shot, but a girl's gotta dream, right? So if you're planning to buy the book, please, go out and do it. Let's see if we can hit the NYT.
If we do, I promise to faint.
(*Past trends may not hold true. Traditionally, early copies have been spotted at Borders, and Borders is gone. I actually dare to hope that my on-sale date may be accurate this time. That said, I've heard unconfirmed reports of early copies found at Books-A-Million.)
August 30 2011, 20:58:34 UTC 5 years ago
I can only read on kindle, and they don't release for gifts until the afternoon of the release date. Which is when Misha will prolly send it to me. I hope those sales count towards yer count.
Response time never bothers me. Nor would not getting a response to everything I say every time. I am bedridden and tend to blather. You are busy making more things for me to read, and until we get you to constant hardcover status, or a series or movie deal, most writers do not make what people assume and I assume you have a day job as well as entertaining all of us. I just hope when we get you to that point, your secret gay boyfriend is remembered. heh
I am friends with my local librarian and I told her I was friends with a Hugo Nommed Urban Fantasy Author. She is going to stock book one of newsflesh and Toby to see if we can get the locals reading you.
Try to stay sane, and remember, we love you, but sometimes you are gonna have to ignore us and sleeeep.
August 31 2011, 14:57:48 UTC 5 years ago
Yay, librarians!