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IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE BARGAIN! A video update and a request <3
It's the night before To Bargain With Mortals releases out into the world and I'm feeling a lot of feelings about it
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The Night Before Bargain - Chatty Update [BINDERY EXCLUSIVE] EmmaSkies
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'Twas the night before Bargain and all through the house...
As I sit and type this it's currently about 11pm on October 27th, an hour until it's officially release day for To Bargain With Mortals, which feels incredibly surreal. Here's a rambling, stream-of-consciousness, "cozy" video update (cozy, in this case, meaning that I'm just on my couch in sweatpants and giving that a positive spin) on how I'm feeling about it all.
And while I have you here, I have a favor to ask of you. Many of you have read Bargain already as an ARC or (for subscribers) via your early copies, or will be reading it soon. If you have finished or whenever you do finish, it would mean the world to me if you could leave a review for it! Prior to now, the #1 thing we could do to help this book find success has been to pre-order, but now that it's out in the world it's all about helping it find its audience.
Even if you don't think you're a reviewer, if you don't think you have anything important enough to say, I promise you you do and every review helps. Goodreads is the obvious one, but reviewing on retail sites is huge too! I'll drop the links for a few places to review and if you'd like to leave one, I would be eternally grateful <3 We have nearly 300 ratings and 260 reviews on goodreads right now and I'm not gonna lie, I don't really have a reference for whether that's good or not, but what are the odds we could hit...500 reviews in the first two weeks the book is out? I have no idea if that's unreasonable...
Amazon (the evil bane of my existence and yet so stupidly important)
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CAN YOU BELIEVE TO BARGAIN WITH MORTALS HAS BEEN OUT IN THE WORLD FOR A MONTH???
It feels surreal, but she's really out there, all over the world. So I set aside today as a sort of celebratory day and there are some things I've got for you guys and some Calls To Action I have to request of you.
From me to you
First up, I just posted the public release of a previously subscriber-only podcast episode! An interview/intro with R.A. Basu! Listen to this episode of Reader Tangents here or wherever you get your podcasts
For subscribers, I just posted one of the coolest things I've ever shared on Bindery: A complete retrospective of To Bargain With Mortals. Every single step of how it went from an idea to a published novel over the course of four and a half years.
R.A. went back through years of documents to give us dates in the timeline, but also the photo the original text prompt was based on (hey there Jimin), the original Pitch Wars query letter back when it was a completely different book, and some of the older working title options (and why she hated them), all in the years before it made its way to me and we here became a part of the process.
See that post here.
And finally on my end, I have one of our last VIP Influencer mailer boxes from promoting TBWM to give away to one of you! You can see a breakdown of what's in the boxes we designed here! This post was previously posted for Subscribers in July but is now unlocked for everyone.
To win this box, just tell me in the comments here if you've had a chance to read TBWM yet or if it's in good company on your TBR! (whether you've read it or not has no bearing on your chances of winning.)
U.S. only.
And now, for a few things I'd like to ask of you.
If you haven't purchased a copy of To Bargain With Mortals yet for yourself, OR if you're planning on gifting it for the holidays, today is a great day to buy it!
Bookshop.org currently has Free Shipping (through tonight) and is a space for online book shopping that I will always recommend over Amazon because they share profits with independent bookstores!
If you HAVE read Bargain, please please please post your review! Even if you feel like you don't really have much to say in reviews or know how to write a review (there's no one right way!), even just a rating and/or a couple short and sweet thoughts is great.
Obviously the main place for sharing reviews is Goodreads (main place both for readers and for publishing as an industry), but if you've already done that, have you considered cross-sharing the review on retail sites like
Amazon(oh the duality of hating this company and yet being beholden to the position it holds with sales, it's great for ebook visibility if there are reviews here but I do not understand why Amazon doesn't just import goodreads reviews automatically since they own goodreads. Ugh, let me not get on my soapbox about this right now...)
Barnes and Noble
Kobo
And as always, I love to see whenever you guys share TBWM on socials so keep tagging me in stories and photos and videos ^_^ They make me so happy! Looking at my notifications like
OH AND ONE LAST THING!
The map lives! If you live in one of the following states, you can help us fill out a U.S. full of TBWM:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Colorado
Delaware
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
West Virginia
Wyoming
I'm collecting pictures of Bargain in bookstores all across the country! If you see it out in the wild, I'd love it if you could pop a photo in discordor email it to me at business@emmaskies.net
Happy one month and may TBWM have many more happy months to come <3
Happy TBWM celebration day! A giveaway, a new podcast episode, and I have some favors to ask...
I may have made this day up, but I'm gonna have fun with it
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