Pre-Ordering Books Makes You More of a Citizen of Literature

Recently on Bluesky, I was shouting as usual about Lessons in Magic and Disaster, my novel that comes out in about a month. (It's about a young trans woman who teaches her depressed mother how to do magic, and it is full of queer joy, weirdness, complicated family stuff, unconditional love, and tenderness.) In response to my promotional warbling, somebody said they wished they could find a way to let their local indie bookstore know right now that they wanted a copy of this book reserved for the...