Various Cormorant newsy-bits!
• Book launch! Next week! WORD Bookstore! Greenpoint, Brooklyn! 7pm. Details here, and please note that you can also buy the book from them either at the store or online.
• I extended the deadline on the Cormorant photo contest (found here) by a week, to Jan 17th, as some folks said their copies were delayed getting to them. Win cool stuff. Books. Coffee gear.
• At present, Amazon is offering the paperback of the book for ~$5.00.
• Also, six reviews there so far. Plus, more at Goodreads. If you like the book, I’d be apple-cheeked and giggle-addled if you chose to tell some friends and leave a review somewhere.
• A very kind review at Tor.com — “Miriam the foul-mouthed, hard-drinking, chain-smoking, heroin chic road warrior, the self-styled ‘psychic assassin battling fate’ who is making her way down to Florida….Chuck Wendig dedicates The Cormorant to ‘all the foul-mouthed miscreants and deviants who are fans of Miriam.’ Well, yes. Guilty as charged, I guess, and proud to be. Wendig has once again hit the sweet spot right between disturbing and entertaining. Maybe there shouldn’t be a sweet spot there, but whatever—he makes it work. If you’re a fan of the series, don’t miss The Cormorant.” Thanks, Stefan!
• Related: Blackbirds being free actually seems to have increased sales, not decreased them. It’s just one little data point, but make of it what you will. I appreciate Angry Robot being a cool-ass and brave enough publisher to even consider what to many is an anathema idea.
• I think I’ll have a local PA event here next month, by the way, at the Doylestown Book Shop.
That’s all she wrote.
Hope you’re enjoying the book, and hope you’ll take a moment to share this.
Thanks!
terribleminds says:
I should also note that the cover gets a shout-out for its bad-ass Joey Hi-Fi cover via io9:
http://io9.com/wow-this-was-a-great-year-for-book-covers-1494065613
January 5, 2014 — 11:16 AM
caszbrewster says:
Just wanted to let you know that I have the hard copy of Blackbirds, but I did pick up the e-copy during the free thing. Felt kinda like how musicians sometimes give you a credit to get the mp3 when you buy the cd/album. I’m slowly building a whole shelf of Wendig-authored brilliance, both 3D and virtual.
January 5, 2014 — 12:26 PM
terribleminds says:
#highfive
January 5, 2014 — 12:34 PM
Jessica Nelson says:
Going to buy (or order, if it’s not on the shelf) my copy today! I was waiting for Laura Lam’s Pantomime sequel, Shadowplay, to release – two birds, one stone. Er, no pun intended.
January 5, 2014 — 1:22 PM
mithrilmojo says:
Picked up the book on Friday. It’s my first Chuck Wendig EVER! I love Miriam. I think we did a graveyard shift together at the local university radio station, judging by the book’s cover and Miriam’s colourful use of the English language.
January 5, 2014 — 1:30 PM
Nick Nafpliotis (@NickNafster79) says:
Oh man, you’ve got to read the first two in the series now (Blackbirds and Mockingbird). It will end up adding even more to the awesomeness you experienced reading The Cormorant.
January 5, 2014 — 2:24 PM
Nick Nafpliotis (@NickNafster79) says:
My review for Adventures in Poor Taste should be up on Monday (according to my editor). Spoiler Alert: This was my favorite book in the series. I’ll make sure to throw some Amazon.com review love to it, as well.
January 5, 2014 — 2:23 PM
terribleminds says:
Oooh. Thanks, Nick! Looking forward to it, and I appreciate you spreading the word.
January 5, 2014 — 2:24 PM
Luna (@lunamoth42) says:
Although I’ll be in NYC on the 8th, dunno if I’ll be up to going to the Brooklyn event. But I’d totally go to the Doylestown one if you do it. Bringing Blackbirds and Mockingbird with me to read while I’m in the city though, so I can be ready to get Cormorant at that event.
January 6, 2014 — 9:07 AM
Darren says:
Little OT for the post at hand, but finding a contact link on your website is just a mite harder than finding a grown up hooker in the Vatican.
An Amazon search for your new book in tandem with your name throws up not one, but 2 entries, only one of which is you:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the%20cormorant%20wendig
I’m absolutely buying that Wesley Chu book with the same cover, because it looks wicked interesting.
But seriously… no contact page? A lesser man would have fucked off way back and sought out Mr. Chu.
January 6, 2014 — 6:00 PM
terribleminds says:
Contact pages for WordPress often seem to break.
I have my email address at various locations, chiefmost being the WHO IS CHUCK WENDIG tab above.
Regardless — thanks for the head’s up. Not sure why the wires are crossing there!
— c.
January 6, 2014 — 7:09 PM