Release Day! One—wait, no—Two Days Late!
Perhaps the most anticipated book in the speculative fiction genre came out yesterday two days ago. A book for which people have waited years. Lines wrapped around the block at bookstores, curled down the street, weaved through the parks, and reached all the way to the sea.
Oh, and
Triumph Over Tragedy: an anthology for the victims of Hurricane Sandy
was also supposed to come out.
Yesterday Two days ago, A Memory of Light, the last installment of the long-running Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson), was released. I’m sure the novel will be flying off the shelves—virtual and real—for a few weeks. By late afternoon, the book had garnered as many reviews as it took Progeny to get in two years. Ah…the life of an unknown indie…
(Side note: A large number of those reviews for AMOL were undeserved 1-stars. People apparently were protesting the fact that there was no Kindle version on day one and felt it necessary to drop a 1-star without even reading the book as some sort of protest. Really, people? I mean…really?)
Someday, I’ll pick my copy of AMOL up. Someday far down the road. I’m a little ashamed to admit I’ve only made it through the first three of the series. And that was like ten years ago, so… It’ll be a while until I get to it.
But the Triumph Over Tragedy anthology, a collection of forty-one short stories by fantastic authors, was to come outyesterday two days ago as well. It includes Nebula Award winners, a handful of NYT Bestselling authors, and some of the biggest names in the speculative fiction genre, such as: Elizabeth Bear, Mark Lawrence, Robert Silverberg, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Philip Athans , Michael Stackpole, Michael J. Sullivan, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jean Rabe,, Maxwell Alexander Drake, Alex Bledsoe, Stephen D. Sullivan, Tobias S. Buckell, Tim Marquitz, and Timothy Zahn.
Oh, and I have a new story in there, too. It’s a Terrene Chronicle story, too. One that gives a sneak peak in to a character you all get to see in book 3.
But Amazon’s publishing service was apparently on vacation, had the flu, or was otherwise occupied. I hit “PUBLISH” on the anthology at 12:13 AMyesterday two days mornings ago, fully expecting it to be available when I awoke. Based on past experiences (Prophecy took only four hours to show up), it seemed like a reasonable expectation. Silly me.
Two days later...it is finally out and available for purchase here for Kindle and here for the Nook.
The nook version (essentially epub) will come out as soon as it winds its way through Barnes and Nobles’ publishing service. They always take a couple of days, so, I’m not too worried about that delay.
I’d like to thank all of the authors who contributed a story, as well as the three volunteer editors, and dozens of bloggers who helped spread the word. This was no small effort, getting this thing together in two months, but here it is.
We managed to raise over $1600 so far in the Indiegogo campaign, and will continue to raise money over the next six months on the sales of the anthology. I’ll give periodic updates as to how sales are going.
It’s currently available on Amazon, and will be shortly at Barnes&Noble.com once it works its way through their system.
I hope you all enjoy it.
Thanks, and good days ahead.
--R.T.
Oh, and
Triumph Over Tragedy: an anthology for the victims of Hurricane Sandy
was also supposed to come out. (Side note: A large number of those reviews for AMOL were undeserved 1-stars. People apparently were protesting the fact that there was no Kindle version on day one and felt it necessary to drop a 1-star without even reading the book as some sort of protest. Really, people? I mean…really?)
Someday, I’ll pick my copy of AMOL up. Someday far down the road. I’m a little ashamed to admit I’ve only made it through the first three of the series. And that was like ten years ago, so… It’ll be a while until I get to it.
But the Triumph Over Tragedy anthology, a collection of forty-one short stories by fantastic authors, was to come out
Oh, and I have a new story in there, too. It’s a Terrene Chronicle story, too. One that gives a sneak peak in to a character you all get to see in book 3.
But Amazon’s publishing service was apparently on vacation, had the flu, or was otherwise occupied. I hit “PUBLISH” on the anthology at 12:13 AM
Two days later...it is finally out and available for purchase here for Kindle and here for the Nook.
The nook version (essentially epub) will come out as soon as it winds its way through Barnes and Nobles’ publishing service. They always take a couple of days, so, I’m not too worried about that delay.
I’d like to thank all of the authors who contributed a story, as well as the three volunteer editors, and dozens of bloggers who helped spread the word. This was no small effort, getting this thing together in two months, but here it is.
We managed to raise over $1600 so far in the Indiegogo campaign, and will continue to raise money over the next six months on the sales of the anthology. I’ll give periodic updates as to how sales are going.
It’s currently available on Amazon, and will be shortly at Barnes&Noble.com once it works its way through their system.
I hope you all enjoy it.
Thanks, and good days ahead.
--R.T.
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