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How did you get involved in this, Brandon? Did you enter something to the contest?

I typed 11,332 words of my .hack book today. My fingers are so dead.

Went to the grocery store today (major chain) on my way home from work (I walk to work) to get some flowers, and I walked in and started looking at the flowers (which are right next to the entrance), and I hear someone say something behind me, and it's a security guard. He says, "Your backpack." I say, "Huh?" He says, "Your backpack." I say, "What?" He says "Please check your backpack at the desk."

I get annoyed. I think, he's just some security guard, it's not like he's police or the TSA or anything, and it's not like it's a convention art show. I say, "No. I'm not going to do that." I turn around, ignore him, and look at the flowers again. The security guard apparently walks away. I pick what I want and start walking toward the checkout, and pass another guy visibly annoyed saying "I wear it in here every single day" who then hands his bag to the guy at the desk saying "he said I'm supposed to give this to you."

Anyway, it's pretty insulting to me to be asked to check my bag in a grocery store. What am I, some suspicious-looking teenager? Do people have to check purses too? Briefcases? Huh? There is no way I'm going to check my backpack in a grocery store. Not gonna happen.

I like "The Hero of Ages" better...

This page has an error for me in the upper left corner (it says include("sidebar/rightsideba
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/book.php?id=2&section=10

There are also things on that page Brandon might want to add content for (release date, etc.)

This is for Stacer and other people who know--I want to suggest some good marketing outlets to one of our marketing managers, for spreading the word on our new Pop Fiction line of YA sff books, as well as our SF novel series Crest of the Stars. What are some good websites and magazine publications that are good to reach?

There are obvious answers, like Locus, Sci-Fi Wire, the big magazines like F&SF, Analog, Asimov's, others like Realms of Fantasy...umm...New York Review of SF...but really I don't know what else.

We get our stuff covered by Publishers Weekly and ICv2 with no trouble, but the only mention TOKYOPOP ever had in a genre publication that I can recall was back in 2004 in Locus in the article about Del Rey starting to do manga. Our marketing people don't really know how to market beyond the manga/anime scene. They're contracting with an outside marketer for the Pop Fiction books, and it seems like they might have a handle on how to market YA fiction, but not genre fiction. (Though good places to suggest marketing to the YA crowd would be good as well.)

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