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.
As I’ve noted in a prior post, I spent the last week on a writing-related trip to Lone Pine, California and various other locations in Central and Southern California. Along the way, I stopped at four Barnes & Noble bookstores in Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, and Concord to sign copies of Weird World War III.
I was able to find a total of three copies of the book in Bakersfield and Modesto, and sign them. In Fresno and Concord, the booksellers I spoke to told me that according to their system there was one copy in each store. However, when we tried to find them, the book was nowhere to be seen.
The bottom line is that if you’re anywhere near Bakersfield or Modesto, there is one signed copy of Weird World War III in Bakersfield and two in Modesto.
November 8th:Coast to Coast AM, which apparently has a weekly audience of 2.75 million. I’ll be appearing from midnight to 2 a.m. Pacific Time. Fun times!
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
Through A Glass Darkly 