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

Re: Congratulating FLEDGLING

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Actually, it can hurt, because it can really annoy the staff who have to go round and put it all back the way their manager or store policy wants it. I've heard a lot of complaints from bookstore staff about customers who rearrange things so that their favourites get better displays, if everyone did it then nothing would ever be in its place. See this post (http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/145040.html) (from an author who also has a new book out):

DON'T rearrange bookstore displays. If the staff of my local bookstore is constantly being forced to deal with fixing the shelves after someone "helpfully" rearranged things to give their chosen favorites a better position, they're unlikely to feel well inclined toward that book—or author. It's not a good thing to piss off the bookstores. Let's just not.

(Amazon UK still has it as "not yet released". We'll see when they actually get it...)