Alcatraz out?

[EUOL]

Silly?  Me?  No, I'm just misunderstood.

[Sigyn]

Out of curiosity, when a book comes out early like this, how does that affect the stats for first week sales?  Is everything sold before the first week (if it had been released on time) just clumped together?  I'm really curious about this.

[EUOL]

Unfortunately, they aren't clumped together.  It's not a big deal for me, since I won't be hitting any bestseller lists on this one.  However, it could really undermine my chances if I had a shot at the lists.  For instance, MB2 sold around 1200 copes and to get on the lists in a slow week you need 2000 copies.  We're hoping MB3 will hit the NTY list, though we'd need--as I said--2000+ copies to even have a shot at at. 

Anyway, if MB2 had come out a month early and we'd sold those 1200 copies at 300 a week across four weeks, then we would never have gotten the attention at Tor that we did. 

[Sigyn]

That hardly seems fair.  The world should be fair!

[Tink]

I had the book with me at work and a co-worker noticed. I told her about it and how she could possibly get a signed copy in Provo (assuming there are some left), and so she's planning to buy a copy for her granddaughter. Yay!

[EUOL]

Cool!  Thanks! 

Though, I do think the signed copies are gone.  They zipped out the door within about two days of my posting that there were numbered copies up for grabs.

[Sigyn]

My mom just bought seven copies for her library.  Hurray for libraries!

[MPlease]

The husband-creature and I just finished reading Alcatraz together (twas his first time reading it) and loved it. He was cracking up and just about died laughing at the ending- a wonderful shot at Harry Potter. ^^

[The Lost One]

O gee, what to do this weekend. Let's check the Denver tourism guide.  I'm sure there is some interesting events going on this weekend. Let's see what celebs are in town: Art Garfunkel, Al Gore, and Brandon Sanderson. Hum, maybe I'll go see one of them. 

http://www.denver365.com/Events/index.php?app=eventDetail&id=78359

Hey, Brandon, have you thought of doing a presentation and book signing for Alcatraz in a library or would that be too controversal?

[pengwenn]

How about in a preison?

First, I rearranged some shelves in a Barnes and Noble so your Alcatraz book would be cover forward instead of spine forward.  Okay it wasn't so much a "rearranging" but a "closing of a gap" on the other end of the shelf.  One thing to note is there were not very many books between you and Rowling's Harry Potter.  Maybe that will draw in some readers.

Second, I finished reading the book last night and I have a question.  Did you ever consider doing anything to off-set the authorial interruptions?  I have an older copy of The Princess Bride and all the scenes between the boy and the grandfather are in red ink.  Did you consider that or maybe a different font?  Possibly a font that looks like handwriting so it might look like scribbles in the margins.  Just curious.