As you probably know, print book stores are seeing reduced business during this pandemic. A couple of them were very kind to host our tour, promote our release, and generally help us, so in an effort to support them, we are resorting to bribes.
Here are the links to order signed* print books from the stores of our virtual tour.
*By signed we mean that we have signed a bookplate, a decorative sticker, which will be then placed in the book in the place of actual signature since we can’t physically travel to the store.
- Blue Willow Bookshop (Houston)
- Malaprops (Asheville)
- Bank Square Books (Lexington, MA)
If you order a dead tree book from one of these stores, you will get a link to a very short story from Arabella’s point of view, which will show you the birth of Rogan and Nevada’s baby and what happens after. If you have read an ARC, you know how the book ends. You will want to read this short story.
This short story will be posted on the day of EMERALD BLAZE release.
Not a minute earlier, because some of you have no self control. You will go and read it first and ruin the book for yourselves. We worked too hard to let you do that! Too hard, I tell you.
The rest of you will also get access to the short story, but not until a few weeks after the book’s release.
If you already bought the print book, the link will be sent to your email.
Also, if anybody is an OB-GYN, we could really use help with the birth scene, because the last time I gave birth was twenty two years ago, and I don’t remember most of it. Please email us. Pick any technical issue in the form.
Since I’m all the way from Singapore and the shipping costs more than the book itself, decided to gift it to my friend in NY, who has never read an IA book. Heh.
I have no discipline, I know I will die waiting for that short story to be made available to others.
Very cool! I saw that you had at least 2 ob-gyn’s volunteer, which is great ????. You may consider protracted labor if you want to draw out the experience in the book. I’ve given birth 3 times in the last 6 years and I find that it’s not uncommon. I was in abnormally long labor with my first child for 8 days (yes, with no breaks) between 4 and 10 minutes apart because it just took that long. It was frustrating and hilarious, we’d come dragging in because I’d been having notably painful contractions (wake you up and have to breath through them every 4.5 minutes all day and all night and they’d keep us for a few hours say “it’s labor but you’re not progressing (dilation and effacement barely changing much) go home and come back when things are exactly the same but… um… a little more intense. After a week my husband told the doctor that at this rate my body would be too run down to complete labor. The Dr was a very kind and tiny woman who said “I agree… non-progressing labor aside, if you’re in again during this shift I’ll admit her and do an epidural. We were in again at 4 the next morning and she was like “this is just too much for a body” (I LOVE her, everybody else didn’t take note). She admitted me and gave me an eidural, I get asleep really fast because I’d only slept for a few minutes for a week (of course the sleeping aids they prescribed when they sent me home didn’t help me sleep through labor pains) and then I progressed and our son was born at exsctly 5pm that night. The Dr said she sees that sometimes, that women are in so much pain and it makes them too tense to dilate until they get an epidural, or their body is too exhausted to labor effectively until they can get some sleep. I love that lady.
It was funny though that week, I’d be at the store or at church, or at the movies or whatever and everybody would be giving us the side-eye and telling my husband to get me to a hospital ????. All week ^_^. I’d have to breath through a contraction at the grocery store and tell connected people who talked to me about it “don’t worry, we were there this morning and they sent us home, it’s labor but it’s non-progressing.” They’d look at me with big eyes and tell me that was then and this is now and they’ve seen labor and that’s it. I just started smiling and nodding and say “probably later today” because they meant well, but I’d been in to the hospital several times in the past few days and it was the same as then ^_^. It was a surprisingly positive experience, despite painful and exhausting, and I kind of enjoyed when we’d go in and tell them our story and the nurse would talk about false labor or braxton-hicks contractions in a superior but kind way, then they’d see a contraction and they’d be like 0_0 oh, you’re in real labor… it’s been like this all WEEK 0_0… how do you sleep (I don’t, I’m in labor) Wow, um let me get a doctor. It gets tiring being ignored, so I enjoyed when they finally got it :). I still love that doctor although she’s retired, and we were very happy to welcome our first child into the world ????.
Sometime in post pandemic times would be wonderful if you could do an event with Politics and Prose bookstore in DC…
Since I live in NC I ordered from Malaprops, can’t wait!!
I was planning to order a book until I saw that the shipping to me in NC from a store in NC was equal to the price of the book. 🙁 so I’ll pre-order the kindle version (I have all of your books – many in print as well as e-book) and wait for the short story. This isn’t meant as a snarky comment – just to keep you informed.
Can’t wait for the book, and the delicious bribe thereafter!
Just read this . Decided to buy book at one of the book stores you mentioned. Tried Bank square but phone number didn’t work. So called Blue willow, spoke with Kimberly and ordered both paperback and hardcover. She was very nice .Will read paperback and pet hardcover. Last year I did the same with Sapphire flames. I like to hold a book and turn the pages.
I try to buy books at independent bookstores.
So excited for you.
And I am happily waiting.
Do any of the stores ship internationally? ???? I would love to get a signed copy and access to the short story, but I’m in Brazil 🙁
I truly love you guys to the moon and back but there is *NO way that I can afford/budget $45.00+ CAD for a paperback book. ($26.90 USD shipping??!!)
Are there any plans to provide your international fans a way to participate so we too can read the short story?
I am so broken over this. *weeps softly*
No worries, the short story will be posted a few weeks after the release. everyone will get to read it. It’s very short anyway.
I’ve already pre-ordered the ebook of Emerald Blaze, but I was going to order a paper copy from our local genre book store here in San Diego, Mysterious Galaxy. Although I am sad that I will have to wait for the short story, I am still going to do that, because I don’t want my favorite bookstore to have to close down due to this stupid virus. I think we should all try to support our local businesses that are being impacted by this pandemic.
So I pre-ordered a digital copy from Kobo a Canadian site. I’m a little sad that I’ll have to wait a few weeks. I miss Rogan and Nevada. I re-read the series in anticipation of Emerald Blaze and they still are some of my favourite all time characters. Besides the Kate universe of course.
I did not get my dead tree version from these stores, but it arrived today thanks to Indigo Chapters. I wonder if they got the release date wrong? No spoilers coming from me in any case.
I could not decide, it seemed unfair to order from just one, so I order Emerald from one and a book that I wanted from the other two.
OMG. Can you imagine the stress of a truth prime during labor or Rogan’s?
I don’t know if his private hospital has enough structural reinforcements
And Nevada’s talents would scare everyone bound by HIPPA rules and regulations.
It should be one h*** of an event, probably Montgomery will be there taking notes. LMAO
Happy Anniversary.
They do have gravity blankets for dogs with thunderstorm stress
I ordered the book from Bank Square books, and this is the email I recieved from them today: “Your order number https://www.banksquarebooks.com/user/7131/orders/9164 at Bank Square Books/Savoy Bookshop & Café has been updated. Because of the high volume of orders we’ve been receiving, there may be a delay in processing this order. We will let you know as soon as your order is ready for pickup or has been shipped out.”
Figured that means that you have sold a lot of books!!
Okay first book store purchase in years, chose Blue Willow in Texas since it’s close to Colorado. I’d already pre-ordered the ebook for Kindle, but couldn’t resist Arabella’s story, and well, I have no patience.
Please consider releasing this short story to all when Emerald Blaze releases. I am a loyal fan and pre-ordered your book months ago.
I pre-ordered today from my local bookstore Malaprops:) I am EXCITED that y’all will be in Asheville to support the book, but bummed because all seats and wait list FULL so I will not get to be there.
Just finished all posted chapters of Blood Heir and enjoying it more than Kate series if that is possible. The transformation of a character we have known for years into this new magical badder ass still carrying a torch for her man. OMG! There is another pre-order in my future.
Thank y’all for writing some of my most favorite books ever.
Ordered! Picked Houston since it was the closest to AZ.
We’d happily support the lovely bookstores who are helping promote the book, so we tried to order a ‘signed’ hard copy from Blue Willow. (We had already pre-ordered the kobo version, but it would be lovely to have a signed bookplate one). While filling out the form, though, I realised that shipping our new book to Cambridge UK would cost 4x the book itself! And in addition to dead trees, adds to CO2 emissions. Drat. Hmm – back to drawing board.
Could we maybe help convince a local British bookstore (Heffers?) to promote your signed works too, or send the link to buys books to all our friends in the UK, or anything else that could still help from afar? (Yes, desperate to read the special story of Nevada and Rogan’s baby, though not quite past the point of moving to Texas yet…)
Any way my Aussie purchases could get this as well?
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