Today is The Day!

[rolanni]

Today is the Official! Release! Day! for Fledgling

What can you do to celebrate Theo's flight from web serial to hardcover?

I'm glad you asked.

Cake and ice cream are, of course, always in order. Ticker tape parades are also appropriate, but hard to coordinate.

You might also do the following:

1. Visit your favorite brick-n-mortar store to congratulate Fledgling in person, where it sits on the shelf.

1a. If Fledgling is not on the shelf, politely ask a friendly bookstore staffer when it will be available.

1b. If they say, "It hasn't been ordered in," "Never," or other variations on the theme, politely ask them to order it.

1c. In all cases, thank them for their time. Yes, they work in a bookstore, which is a very cool job, but still, some days one 'thank you' goes a long, long way.

More ways to celebrate!

2. Introduce Theo to a friend or co-worker.

3. If you have Fledgling in-hand, read it!

4. If you've already read it, blog it, or post a review on Amazon.com, bn.com, LibraryThing or the social networking site of your choice.

5. Ice cream and cake!

I hung the SFRevu review review of Fledgling on my office door, next to an image of the book cover.

What are you doing to celebrate Release Day?

Comments

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

Offering burnt sacrifices to the Postal Gods so that they don't do their usual reroute of eagerly awaited pieces of mail to Antarctica and then the Gobi Desert!
And trying to resist the urge to visit the PO box more than once a day.

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

When I was stationed in England, and subject to the whims of the APO network, one of my inbound letters took the scenic route - by way of the American Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

That is a collectible!

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

The military post misinterpreted a "1" as a "6" in the zip code. Very strange. When I finally received it, I saw that the "1" in question was a straight line with no ornamentation - totally sans serif. Silly postman tricks.