The Date

On Friday I confirmed the release date for First: October 10th. That’s about two months away and for good reason. It allows me time to do pre-release marketing and gin up interest before the actual publication. It also gives the publisher time to get the book across all the networks and sellers. In that way, they can gauge interest, seeing how many people visit the book’s page on their site. For example, I’m sure Amazon has an algorithm to calculate how many print copies to keep in stock based on how the view count for a page.

It’s pretty exciting. If I read the email correctly last Friday, I should have my own print copies in hand soon. It’s been a long road to get here, but we’re almost to the big day.