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BOOKSTORES OF THE PLANET EARTH! Or, well, bookstores of mostly North America.
We know that you are suffering during COVID, and I would like to do what little I can to help! So I am once again doing a PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN for independent bookstores.
We know that you are suffering during COVID, and I would like to do what little I can to help! So I am once again doing a PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN for independent bookstores.
If you would like to participate, and you are an independent bookstore, meaning you not part of a chain with more than a dozen locations, with a physical storefront of some sort that is being endangered by COVID-19...
..please email through my website indicating that you intend to take pre-orders for WHEN SORROWS COME, and we will put you on a list. (It would be great if you could also tell us how many pre-orders you expect, based on sales of earlier books.)
We will then email the list a week before book release to check how many pre-orders you have, and then send you some of these pins to send out as freebies for anyone who has pre-ordered a book.
The pins will not be watermarked, obviously. They are also super-limited, as I am paying for them now for a book coming out in September, and can't estimate numbers, but this is a good way for you to do something nice for your readers, and for me to do something nice for you!
This is opt-in for bookstores; no one is going to force you. @PortalBookshop has already said they'll be participating, and I hope many others will as well, but I don't have a way to contact every indie bookstore with an SF/F focus.
Because people have asked: no, these pins will not be for sale. If you want one, you must pre-order a copy of the book from a participating bookstore.
Based on last year, this is when people start asking, "How do we get pins?" Here is how:
1. Be an independent bookstore.
2. Email through my website contact form.
3. When asked, tell us how many pre-orders you sold.
4. Receive pins via mail about a week later.
That's it!
1. Be an independent bookstore.
2. Email through my website contact form.
3. When asked, tell us how many pre-orders you sold.
4. Receive pins via mail about a week later.
That's it!
But--and this is VERY IMPORTANT--that's also THE ONLY WAY. Telling me on Twitter that you want pins? Nope. Emailing my publisher directly? Nope. Breaking into my house? Nope, they aren't here yet.
YOU MUST EMAIL THROUGH MY WEBSITE.
YOU MUST EMAIL THROUGH MY WEBSITE.
I will have a list of participating bookstores in roughly mid April, when we close sign-ups. We did this last year, and it went very well. We're hoping even more stores will join us this time!
YES, this is open to international stores, as well as stores in North America! Wherever you are, if you're taking pre-orders, we're happy to send you pins. YES, the pins are free. YES, postage is why this may be the last year the offer is global (sorry).
All right: re-upping this thread to say that we will be closing our list of bookstores on FRIDAY, APRIL 22ND. So if your store wants FREE, AWESOME PRE-ORDER PINS to give to your customers, please contact us through my website contact form by then!
I am in no way joking about either "free" or "awesome." All you have to do is use my website contact form to get on the list. That's it. You don't even have to pay postage. Help us help you!
(And I do mean "help you." Last year's pre-order campaign drove a lot of customers to participating indie bookstores. We won't pay your rent on one midlist hardcover, but we can help pay some salaries.)
...sorry, FRIDAY, APRIL 23RD. What is time, really?
