Time for a BOOK RIOT!!!
The esteemed and inestimable Larry Corriea, Monster Hunter, who is clearly my Siamese Twin severed from me at birth, is organizing a what we members of the Order of Mystic Mathematicians and Other Seekers of the Ineffable Flame call a ‘number storm.’ He volunteered to do this on my behalf with no prompting from me. The words below are his:
Today we are Book Bombing John C. Wright’s Awake in the Night Land
Many of you already know John for being an awesome sci-fi writer. Personally, I found him because of his blog. http://www.scifiwright.com/ Like me, John is an out of the closet conservative. Only where I am blunt and sometimes crude, John is eloquent and intellectual. I’m a tetsubo. John is a rapier. I’ve got a lot of respect for his writing, and I don’t say this lightly but I really do believe he is our modern C.S. Lewis.
For example, this is the first thing of his that I read: http://www.scifiwright.com/2014/01/restless-heart-of-darkness-part-two/
Seriously… I was shocked to discover that A. This guy was on my side. B. He gets away with that while writing for Tor!
This new book is a collection of 4 interconnected novellas. However, it isn’t from Tor, it is from a new publisher, same place that did Kratman’s Boys Don’t Cry, and this house is run by somebody who is even more hated in left wing sci-fi than I am, so that is just icing on the cake. :)
The purpose behind a Book Bomb is to get as many people as possible to purchase a book on the same day. This causes it to move up the rankings until it gets on the different daily bestseller lists. The higher it gets, the more people who notice it, the more attention it gets, the more new readers the author picks up. All that means the author GETS PAID! And you guys get a really good book to read, so everybody wins.
Right now it is sitting at:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,504 Paid in Kindle Store
I want to bump that up higher because I think John is a great writer and a voice of reason in the wilderness. So please tell your friends, repost this on your FB or Twitter or whatever you are in to.
Amazon used to update differently and book bombs would see movement in the first hour, but now it takes a few hours before there is anything significant. So I’ll update the number during the day.
Extra points for anyone who can tell me who the Order of Mystic Mathematicians and Other Seekers of the Ineffable Flame are, or what a number storm is.
- And here is the link for Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JohnCWright
- and for Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Awake-Night-Land-John-Wright-ebook/dp/B00JM98V60
UPDATE: at the moment, this book is #8 in Dark Fantasy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/9803/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_5_last
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
