Awake

[Spriggan]

cool I'll go pick it up when there's not 20' of snow outside.

[Tage]

I went looking for it Monday and was sadly disappointed. I'll stop by Seagull again today though.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

20' of snow. Heh. If you hate cold, you'll be jealous to learn that today's the first day I've needed to wear a jacket in hte last week or so. And that only because it's raining.

[Fellfrosch]

It's best to buy it now, MsFish, rather than wait for a signing--because of the way bookstores order their stock, first week sales are way more important than almost anything else in determining how much stock a store will eventually buy.

[House of Mustard]

Odd news:  due to something bizarre, wherein someone smoked something, the book is on Seagull's bestseller list already -- #10.  I would think this is really neat, but I'm wondering if it's actually a marketing ploy...  The book only came out yesterday, and as far as I know, there's no way to pre-order with Seagull (the book's not even on the website yet).  So I have no idea how it's on the bestseller list already.  But it is.  Hooray!

[Fellfrosch]

Further proof that bestseller lists are schlock.

[House of Mustard]

As someone just pointed out to me, though, I'm an Overnight Bestseller!  Schlock or no, that's pretty sweet.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Eric must have sent his monkeys to go buy a thousand copies last night or something.

[EUOL]

Most traditional bestseller lists, HoM, are built from projected numbers, not actual numbers.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Hmm, that seems like schlock to me.

But, congratulations HOM!!

[Skar]

Or perhaps the market is so small that the number ten spot was actually empty until his book came along.  

Incidentally, I just looked up the locations of Seagull Book and Tape so I could go and buy it today.  I can't remember if I need to read the first one first or not.  ?

[Fellfrosch]

This one is completely unrelated to his previous book, and is actually the first in a new series. "On Second Thought" is a stand-alone.

[Skar]

Thanks.

[Entsuropi]

On Second Thought is usually recycled and used as beurocratic forms and tick-box sheets, before being fed to pigeons.

Or so I hear.

[stacer]

I'm halfway through it--spent three hours sitting in the plane this morning before takeoff, so I had a lot of time on my hands. I'm really enjoying it so far.