Palace of Illusions Updates
Free Stuff from Me to You and Upcoming Events
I got something very pretty in the mail about a week ago:
It’s an Advance Reading Copy of The Palace of Illusions! Which is very exciting because LOOK! It’s a real book! With pages! And that beautiful cover in real life! And it’s also a little terrifying because LOOK! It’s out in the world with readers! Who will actually read it! What was I thinking?
(I hit this point with every book. What terrible decision making process brought me to the moment that I would *let lots of people, many of whom I have never met, actually read my work? What kind of an idiot am I?* This will pass only when this book has been out long enough that it’s no longer a new and horrible thought and I am fervently writing the NEXT book that I become convinced I should let lots of people, many of whom I have never met, actually read.)
This momentous arrival reminded me—I have free stuff to give away!
Pre-Order Giveaway
If you pre-order a copy of The Palace of Illusions (out June 10th), I will be pleased to send you a swag pack with a fun Palace of Illusions postcard (featuring the original Paris 1900 Palace!), bookmarks, and a signed bookplate (so you can have a signed copy when your preorder arrives, naturally).
Just fill out this nifty Google Form to let me know you’ve pre-ordered and want to claim your freebies.
Pre-orders are love—those early numbers indicate that there’s excitement about the book, which can help bookstores decide to stock it and promote it and that has a chain effect of getting more people to buy and read it, which at this point only increases my anxiety (see above) but in the long run is a really good thing. You can easily do an Amazon or Barnes and Noble pre-order, but most local indies will let you preorder from them, too, so if you have a favorite store, shop there! And with the prices of everything getting a little…volatile….lately, a pre-order locks in the price you pay, which is a nice bonus in these, ahem, interesting times.
Also, mark your calendars:
I’ll be at the downtown South Bend branch of the St. Joseph County library for their BookCon on March 29:
And details are forthcoming, but I’ll be in Indianapolis on Tuesday June 17 at 6pm, with the local bookstore The Whispering Shelf. Plans are to hold a reading and in-conversation author event with my agency-sister and fab writer Amy Carol Reeves, at James Whitcomb Riley Museum near the bookstore. I’ll share more as I know more!
Finally, I leave you with a chicken—one of a few balls of fluff that just arrived at our house yesterday:
(Sorry, I cannot include chicks in pre-order giveaways for many reasons, but I really wish I could share this little floof with all of you in real life because FLOOF.)