Release Week Updates

As you may have guessed, this was the release date for A CIRCLE OF FIRELIGHT. Some initial thoughts:

One thing that I did not fully think maybe all the way through is waiting quite so long for the release date; if I had to do it all over again I would have put the book out in December, right after the Kirkus and PW reviews came out. The problem is that you can’t post Amazon reviews now until after the release date, so everyone that wrote a review on Goodreads couldn’t cross-promote it to Amazon. So there’s no advantage to waiting, unless you have a lot of Kindle pre-orders…Which I did not get.Having said that, I am (quite unaccountably) selling a lot, and I mean a LOT of print books. Like, probably more print books than I’ve sold for anything else (except the picture book IF MY NAME WAS AMANDA, which of course works better in book form). This is good! But Ingram won’t tell me who is buying them. I don’t think it’s all Amazon, but then who?

Only other thing to point out is that I did a review of a book called THE CACTUS LEAGUE, which you can read on Bookreporter.com.