State of Me
Added 2020-05-10 13:41:29 +0000 UTCLast week Network Effect was released and it was a trip. If the pandemic hadn't happened I would have been about to leave on my first ever book tour. Instead I got a virtual tour, which has been a lot of fun so far. (If you missed it, you can still see me and N.K. Jemisin here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/murderbot/register and me and John Scalzi here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biheai6iuuo
Some places are already sold out of hardcovers. I think Murder By the Book has some signed stock https://www.murderbooks.com/book/9781250229861 Bakka Phoenix in Canada has some in their store https://www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qs=network+effect Bookshop has some options https://bookshop.org/books/network-effect-a-murderbot-novel/9781250229861 and Barnes and Noble has copies in some of their stores and online https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/network-effect-martha-wells/1136975868
When my first book came out in 1993 (The Element of Fire from Tor Books) the internet was still young-ish, there were no ebooks, and audiobooks had to be recorded on CDs so were only made for bestsellers. Your book was published, and if you were lucky, you had a party with your friends and maybe a signing at a local bookstore. Then the book was in the void and you had no idea how it was doing for months, if then. If you got to go to conventions, you could get some idea of how well it was doing by how many book dealers were carrying it, if people came to your autographing, if people mentioned it to you on programming, if your editor took you out for drinks or dinner. I think this was a lot less stressful than now, where you know pretty instantly how well things are going and you can watch your book succeed or fail in realtime on your phone or laptop.
* Here's a review on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/10/852739193/murderbot-makes-a-triumphant-and-cranky-return-in-network-effect
and a couple of upcoming events:
* May 12th, 7 PM Central: In conversation with Ann Leckie, author of the Imperial Radch trilogy, at Left Bank Books https://www.left-bank.com/book/9781250229861 https://www.left-bank.com/event/martha-wells-network-effect
* May 13th, 7 PM Pacific: Reading with Mysterious Galaxy https://www.mystgalaxy.com/Wells-05-2020 https://www.facebook.com/mystgalaxybooks/ https://www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781250229861
