Listen, it’s the time of the year when B&N offers a pretty nice deal on preordered books, and so of course every author in the world is like AHHHH PLEASE PREORDER MY BOOK, and honestly, if you can, it’s great? It’s good for the author, it’s good for bookstores, it’s good for the overall bookish ecosystem. It is not required, but you will surely find a lot of cool books to pre-order out yonder, and of course I am obliged to hang out my own shingle and gesticulate wildly toward it.
I, in fact, have two books for preorder–
The first, arriving June 25th, is the paperback of Black River Orchard from Del Rey (B&N link here):
And the second is my next middle grade, Monster Movie! (the exclamation point is very important and if you forget it, the monster will eat you), coming out on September 10th of this year. (B&N link here.)
The gist is, you get 25% off with code PREORDER25, and you get an additional 10% off if you’re a B&N member.
And I’ll note there are a lot of potential books you can pre-order.
Not just by me!
Here, for example, is a cool sampling of said books:
Hailey Piper’s ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT.
Eric LaRocca’s AT DARK, I BECOME LOATHSOME.
Delilah Dawson’s GUILLOTINE and IT WILL ONLY HURT FOR A MOMENT.
HORROR MOVIE by Paul Tremblay.
HORROR FOR WEENIES by Emily Hughes.
THE DEVIL BY NAME (the FEVER HOUSE sequel!) by Keith Rosson.
Ronald Malfi’s SMALL TOWN HORROR.
A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown.
THE LONELIEST PLACE by Lora Senf.
These are books I’m either reading and digging, or just plain looking forward to my own damn self. Anyway! Books are good! Get books! From wherever you are able to get them. And if you pre-order these from B&N, you get a deal, and we all get to keep writing and, y’know, keep eating. Yay books.
terribleminds says:
(Lemme also add: Gabino Iglesias, HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/house-of-bone-and-rain-gabino-iglesias/1144446273?ean=9780316427012&aug=1)
April 17, 2024 — 1:30 PM
terribleminds says:
ooh and Annalee Newitz’s newest, STORIES ARE WEAPONS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stories-are-weapons-annalee-newitz/1144065538?ean=9780393881516
April 17, 2024 — 1:59 PM
Brandee Crisp says:
Excellent list! I love how supportive you are of other authors! Thank you for that.
April 17, 2024 — 3:23 PM
Allison M Hubbard says:
Fabulous list! (I wanted to portmanteau that but then I get Fabulist and isn’t that a different genre? These appear to be mostly horror or a NF about horror, and I am HERE for that.)
April 18, 2024 — 9:34 AM
Philip Weigel says:
How does it feel to be the most hated person online for what you’re trying to do the Internet Archive, you piece of crap?
April 20, 2024 — 4:57 PM
terribleminds says:
Philip, I’m not trying to do anything to the Internet Archive. I support them in their fight against publishers. I’m not part of the lawsuit, didn’t initiate the lawsuit, didn’t inspire the lawsuit, do not support the lawsuit. You are mistaken.
April 22, 2024 — 7:56 AM