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Barnes & Noble PRE-ORDER SALE!

Grab BARGAIN for 25% off!!! Or maybe get it from your local indie this weekend...

I am coming to you once again with a pre-order sale, this time at Barnes & Noble (and technically for B&N Members only, but their membership is free) from today until this Friday, April 25!

IF you haven't yet pre-ordered TBWM and you would like to do so at a little discount, consider picking it up in this sale! Use code PREORDER25 at checkout for the discount, and this is on ALL pre-orders!

I'm gonna paste something here directly from the Discord announcement as well so if you saw that, don't mind the repetition:

Yes Barnes is very blatantly doing this right before Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, the same as Amazon running their big book sale this week to undercut Indies this weekend. SO if you also have complicated feelings about it and aren't sure you want to pre-order from Barnes at this moment, IBD would be a great day to pre-order BARGAIN from your local indie if you have one!

Whether you pre-order from a local bookstore, a chain like B&N, or wherever it is you shop for books, every pre-order is a HUGE help in the lead up to release.

And for anyone who DOES want to pre-order it at their local indie, I'm brainstorming a little something for you guys. More info to come soon. <3

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, 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!

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:

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 discord or email it to me at business@emmaskies.net
Happy one month and may TBWM have many more happy months to come <3