Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: excited
  • Music: Stabbing Westward, "Falls Apart."

The tide's coming in tomorrow. A few bits and pieces.

Tomorrow is the release of One Salt Sea. Tomorrow. It's being spotted in the wild; I couldn't take this book back if I wanted to. And to be quite honest, I don't want to. I'm excited as all hell to know that you're about to have the chance to read it. I hope you will. And because I am a blonde who is disturbingly fond of feeding her cats, I hope you'll buy it, too, and enjoy it as much as I enjoy knowing that it's out there.

I am currently working on Ashes of Honor, and am literally making this post to free up some tabs. So here, have some links:

Book Banter is doing a giveaway, in which you can win a copy of One Salt Sea. I love the gang at Book Banter. They are awesomesauce. So enter, and win!

Sara Anne, who I found through Twitter, has an excellent post on why official publication dates matter, and hence why authors get a little sniffly when people talk about finding their books early. I would really, truly love to make the NYT again with this book. I would love to make the print list even more, since that would mean I'd have something to frame. If I make the print list, I will do a giveaway the likes of which has never before been seen. Just saying.

And look! One Salt Sea is a Night Owl Reviews Top Pick! Hooray! I'm totally thrilled, because this is totally awesome. Hooray for good reviews!

See you tomorrow!
Tags: being productive, giving stuff away, good things, one salt sea, reviews, toby daye
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ravenclawed

September 5 2011, 23:10:16 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  September 5 2011, 23:11:00 UTC

Um, Amazon just delivered my ebook of One Salt Sea about an hour ago. I suspect they're doing that with all the pre-orders. Is this bad or is today close enough to the actual release date that it'll count?

Edited to correct spelling.

jennygriffee

September 6 2011, 03:52:28 UTC 5 years ago

It happens on occasion but I doubt it's counted against anything, because Amazon times their release-day shipments pretty carefully and they're usually right. According to THEIR paperwork, the book dropped on the correct date. If the carrier goes and gets super speedy with it, I'd bet that's just kind of on the carrier. Early delivery is definitely not happening with all the One Salt Sea pre-orders, either; I didn't get mine early, for instance. Amazon has a lot of distribution centers and a lot of different carriers -- sometimes I get my stuff USPS, sometimes FedEx, sometimes UPS (they're handling my One Salt Sea order, which shipped on Saturday for a Tuesday arrival), sometimes ONTRAC, you name it. It would be impossible for most people in the States to get this early since it's Labor Day, and most services aren't making deliveries today, so you may have just had a random fluke.

(disclaimer: I'm just making my best guess here about how Amazon sales get recorded, but I do suspect that if a retailer as big as Amazon was screwing up embargo dates en masse, we'd have heard about it by now.)