I’m putting this link because it has fallen off the first page:

http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/monster-hunter-international-patch-contest/

We’ve got a bunch more entries, and they are great.

Yesterday I had volunteered to work a security shift in the morning, and then a traffic/parking control shift in the evening for the Oquirrh Mountain Temple openhouse.  (estimated 24,000 visitors yesterday) So I woke up this morning, sun-burned, dehydrated, tired, head-achey, and just all around grumpy, until I went onto Amazon and saw this:

In Stock.

And then I saw this:

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,692 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Popular in these categories: (What’s this?)

And then I went and checked my e-mails and blog posts. MHI is now on every shelf, everywhere. People are reading my book!  Reviews (99% good) are going up.  I’m stoked.

Even though the offical release date is still a few days away, I’ve received confirmation that many stores have already put MHI on the shelves and Amazon is actively shipping. 

So now I’m going to ask you a favor, please spread the word, post reviews, tell your friends, stick a plug on your blog, harrass your family, burn a giant happy face into your lawn with Roundup, overthrow a small 3rd world country and name it Correialandia, whatever.  Actually, don’t do the lawn thing, because that’s just kind of weird and creepy. Overthrowing small countries on the other hand… hey, I’m Portuguese. Get three or four of us together and we just start kinda having an inclination to go invade somebody…

I’m just really hoping for good stats in the opening month. I’m about to actively embark on selling two more series (Dead Six & Grimnoir) so if I can even show up somewhere relatively decent in the sales stats, it will really help. Plus I’m a capitalist, and money is my friend.  I know I’ve presold a bunch, but I have no idea how many yet.   

If you ordered off of Amazon, please post a review when you’re done. Same with B&N or anywhere else. 

This is it.  Thanks everyone. I couldn’t have done it without you.

I know a bunch of you preordered MHI from Amazon. They just bumped up the In Stock date two days, so it is now July 26th. Only two days left.  It will be shipping very soon.

For those of you that got it from there, I’d like to ask a favor. When you get done, write an honest review on Amazon.  Thanks.