November 8th:Coast to Coast AM, which has a weekly audience of 2.75 million. I’ll be appearing from midnight to 2 a.m. Pacific Time. Fun times!
Otherwise, here’s a cumulative summary of all the promotional activity I’ve compiled as of November 5, 2020. The only additions this week are my interview on Chatting with Sherri and a Weird World War III review by Papa Pat Rambles.
So far, Weird World War III has garnered media appearances in the following formats:
Mike Davis, Benjamin Handelman, Matthew Carpenter, Richard Bunting, Laird Barron, and John Langan, “Interviews: Laird Barron, John Langan“, Lovecraft eZine, 23 August 2020 (John Langan, talks about his story, “Second Front”, in Weird World War III at the 1:56:44-minute mark)
Various Baen Authors and Editors, “Baen Virtual Roadshow: Dragon Con 2020“, Baen Books, 10 September 2020 (I introduce the anthology at the 16:34-minute mark)
David Afsharirad, Sean Patrick Hazlett, John Langan, T.C. McCarthy, and Erica Satifka, “Editor and Authors on Weird World War III“, Baen Free Radio Hour, 30 October 2020
A Book Launch in the Time of COVID-19 and Cyberwar (Continued)
In the first four weeks, BookScan reported a total of 204 Weird World War III US retail print sales.
Below are the BookScan US trade paperback sales as reported by Amazon for the period of October 26th through November 1st by geography. As a reminder, BookScan compiles point-of-sales data from ~10,000 retailers throughout the US, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Target, and Buy.Com. Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club do not participate. As such, BookScan estimates that this point-of-sales data represent about 75% of all brick-and-mortar and online retail print book sales in the US. It does not include ebook sales, sales outside the US, sales to libraries, or used book sales.
According to Bookscan, Weird World War III sold 18 copies last week, which is less than the 27 sold in the third week. At this point, the data is what it is. What will be interesting to see next week is whether there’s a sales spike from my upcoming appearance on Coast to Coast AMthis Sunday morning, which has a weekly audience of 2.75 million people. The last time Weird World War III was presented to an audience remotely close to that size was when Sarah A. Hoyt promoted the book on Instapundit, which has ~1.8 million unique monthly–not weekly–visitors. And I definitely saw a huge spike that day. Hopefully, I’ll see something similar or better from my appearance on Coast to Coast AM.
Amazon reviews for Weird World War III continue to trickle in, and all have still been four or five stars.
Again, if you’re reading this and still haven’t purchased a copy yet, please do. All you need do is click one of the links below. If you have purchased a copy, thank you so much. If you don’t mind doing a quick Amazon review, I would be even more grateful.
Weird World War III contributor, Erica Satifka, has an illustrated novella called Busted Synapses coming out today. If it’s anything like her story, “Where You Lead, I Will Follow: An Oral History of the Denver Incident”, I highly encourage folks to grab a copy.
Plus, it’s about Pittsburgh. Why wouldn’t you read a story about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
In her own words:
In the world of Busted Synapses, cities have been turned into high-tech enclaves, while everyone outside their electronic gates is left to rot. Jess Nowicki painfully learns this fact when she’s priced out of the new “island city” of Pittsburgh, while her childhood friend Dale Carter makes the best of things by hosting drug-enhanced video game competitions for rent money. Into this despair-ridden world steps Alicia, one of the androids who’s succeeded in making humans like Jess redundant, but who wants nothing more than to blend in with the denizens of Wheeling, West Virginia. But the corporation who created Alicia won’t make it easy, and the secrets lodged in Alicia’s memory cache could be the key to understanding how the world got so screwed up — and how to fix it.
— Erica Satifka on Busted Synapses
And it goes without saying: if you haven’t picked up a copy of Weird World War III yet, what are you waiting for? Order a copy by clicking on your preferred bookstore below.
As I was perusing Goodreads, I found a really nice review of Weird World War III on Papa Pat Rambles. He has a lot of great things to say about each and every story, and definitely put in the effort. I’m also very thankful that readers are enjoying this anthology.
Show him some love and visit his site when you have a chance.
Through A Glass Darkly 