A cool feature of amazon is that if you have a book coming out, & you don& #39;t direct people to them, then if they don& #39;t get a certain number of pre-orders, they won& #39;t honour any orders that have already been placed thru them & your book goes straight to backorder. Very cool.

This is why you see so many authors sending folks to pre-order for amazon. It& #39;s not because we support them, it& #39;s because we basically have to if we want them to stock our books at all, & not cancel pre-orders from people who tried to support us.

There& #39;s more that I don& #39;t fully understand about amazon reviews having some weight in the industry that makes publishers feel the need to co-operate with them also because their success depends on it.. It honestly sucks.

Anyway, Gary the Seagull is coming out on June 30th, & I& #39;m quite excited about it & you can pre-order from anywhere except amazon apparently, which is honestly just fine with me. I& #39;d love to get this guy into as many people& #39;s hands as possible without them.