Monster Hunter Nemesis SPOILER THREAD talk about your SPOILERs here!

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So my poor volunteer mods on the Facebook fan page have been trying to keep people from dropping spoilers. So that is what the comments of this post are for. Spoil away. Questions? Want to gloat because you guessed right? Just happy somebody kicked a gnome? Post here freely.

I am on tour but I’ll check in whenever I can.

I am at Convergence today and signing at Uncle Hugo’s tonight. The MHN release is looking to be my biggest yet. It hit #1 on Audible to be the best selling audiobook in the world (briefly! Back at 3 right now). It was the #1 fantasy ebook on Amazon. On the Amazon authors list I’ve been in the top 10 of my genre before, but this is the first time I showed up on ALL authors and ALL books there. I got as high as #48 overall, and considering how many authors there are on there I’ll take it. I won’t know how the hard copies did until next week though, and sadly I don’t think ebooks count toward the NYT list. (And it is really too bad audio doesn’t or I’d be high up on that thing every time)

Not too shabby for some “little known author”. If I keep “irreparably damaging” my career like this, who knows what will happen? 🙂

So spoiler away! Those of you who haven’t read it yet have been warned!

Monster Hunter Nemesis IN STORES NOW! (and Audible and everywhere else!)

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Monster Hunter Nemesis hard covers are in stores now. Pre orders are shipping. The audiobook is available for download (narrated again by the excellent Oliver Wyman).

Back at #2 urban fantasy in the Kindle store right now.

One thing that people don’t realize about the bestseller lists is that they are based on velocity and not just total sales. What that means is that if you have a book that sells a thousand copies a week every week all year, it will never make a bestseller list, but if you sell ten thousand copies in the first week and then never sell another copy again then you will make the list. The first book sold better but wasn’t a best seller. That’s velocity. So the more fans who buy the book when it first comes out, the more likely the book is to make the lists.

Now personally I like making the lists because then the book gets better shelving and more attention for a bit, which puts me in front of more new potential readers. Making the NYT list is a confusing process based on the sales of a couple hundred secret bookstores. I’ve had books make the NYT, and then had the next book come out with bigger numbers and not make it.  Unless you are one of the huge names, getting on that thing is always a crap shoot.

TL/DR – if you want to buy copies of MHN to give as Christmas presents, please do it this week. 🙂

I’m leaving on tour. So if I’m in your area drop by and say hi.

Thursday, July 3, 2014—5:00PM

Uncle Hugo

2864 Chicago Ave S,

Minneapolis, MN 55407

 

Friday, July 04, 2014                

CONvergence-Minneapolis – DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel

 

Saturday, July 5, 2014-

Westercon/Salt Lake City

 

Monday, July 7, 2014-7PM

University Bookstore

4326 University Way NE

Seattle WA 981105

 

Tuesday, July 08, 2014—7PM

Powells

Cedar Hills Crossing-3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.5

Beaverton, OR 9700

 

Wednesday, July 09, 2014—5:00-7:00PM

Dark Carnival – Berkeley, CA

3086 & 3090 Claremont Avene

Berkeley, CA  94705

 

Thursday, July 10, 2014—1:00    

Copperfields-Santa Rosa, CA

775 Village Ct

Santa Rosa, CA  95405-6781

 

Thursday, July 10, 2014—7:00PM

Copperfields-San Rafael, CA

850 Fourth Street

San Rafael, CA  94901-3224

 

Friday, July 11-13

ConGregate

High Point, NC

 

August 1-3

OsFest

Omaha, Nebraska

 

August 14-17

GenCon

Indianapolis, Indiana

Book Bomb! Kurt Schlichter's Conservative Insurgency

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Today we are book Bombing Bombing Conservative Insurgency!

 

For those of you new to Book Bombing, how it works is that we get as many people as possible to buy a book on the same day in order to bump up the Amazon sales rating. The higher the book gets, the more people see it, the more people buy the book, the more it boosts the author. And the most important thing is that the author GETS PAID.
Some of you may remember Kurt from this FOX News bit:http://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/139340-thats-fantastic-watch-army-colonels-epic-takedown-white-privilege-leave-fox-anchor-speechless/I’ve known Kurt on Twitter for a couple years. He is a no holds barred master of annoying the hell out of statist bullies. Normally my Book Bombs are for sci-fi, fantasy, that sort of thing, but this time I’m going political.  Think of this as World War Z (the book, not the movie) only for libprogs instead of zombies.
Right now it is at:

EDIT:  We are creeping up.

And so is the Kindle version

So please tell your friends!

 

EDIT: Still moving up slowly, but not like I’d like. Having never done a political book before, I’ve got zero idea what to expect.

EDIT: Better, but apparently you guys aren’t as into politics as I thought. 🙂

EDIT: So finally, the hard cover did okay,

And the ebook did pretty darn good.