If you’ve pre-ordered Quantum Coin, first, thank you! You’re awesome. Second, right now you might be wondering where your copy is. Many online sites list October 2nd as the release date… which is today. However, astute observers may have noticed that my publisher, Pyr, and I have only been saying it would be out in October, as illustrated in my new banner for the Facebook page. (Do you like it? Then please pop over and Like it!)
We weren’t being coy about the date. Well, only a little coy, by necessity; obviously we want you to be able to buy the book in whatever format you want, as soon as it’s available. And there’s the rub. It seems Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle sometimes applies to publishing as well; in short, because we know where the book will be, we can’t quite determine exactly when it will be there. Or at least, we couldn’t until last week. So, like Ephraim discovers, sometimes you just have to close your eyes, guesstimate, and hope for the best.
The official official publication date is now October 23, 2012, which means that by then you should be able to get it in stores around the country. (By “stores,” I mean Barnes & Noble, unless a wonderful independent bookstore has kindly ordered copies–which you could always request, if you want. And by “country,” I mean the United States.) No doubt people will start receiving it much sooner than that as the warehouses begin fulfilling orders as quickly as their work elves can manage. I don’t even have my copies yet, but soon! So I’m still considering today the Quantum Coin release date observed, with the real day being 10/23, and the whole month a kind of extravaganza celebrating what I (and many reviewers so far) think is my best published book.
What to do until you can get a copy of your own? Well, if you’re in New York City, please come by the Jefferson Market Library tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m., where I will read from the book for the very first time, and you can hear YA authors Jocelyn Davies, Jeff Hirsch, Aaron Karo, Alyssa Sheinmel, & Suzanne Wein read from their new books.
If you’re going to New York Comic Con, you will probably be able to buy some of the first copies of Quantum Coin in the wild; Barnes & Noble will be there selling both Fair Coin and Quantum Coin, which you can then get signed and personalized by me, for free, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. at Autograph Table 3 at the back of Hall 1B on the first floor of the convention center. If you don’t have either of the books, I’ll also give out and sign bookmarks, and there will be some other goodies on hand for the first 100 people to drop by. [See all of my upcoming appearances in PA and NY at my Events page.]
If you were determined to pick up a book today (and of course, you should be), might I suggest Chasing the Skip by Janci Patterson; Send Me a Sign by Tiffany Schmidt; Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities by Mike Jung, Ironskin by Tina Connolly, Poltergeeks by Sean Cummings, or Through to You by Emily Hainsworth–which are all published today, definitely. I know I’m looking forward to reading these just as soon as I can. Through to You in particular might be of interest to fans of Fair Coin.
I’m really excited to have you read Quantum Coin, imminently. I love this book, in the way you might love a second child who’s maybe a little more awesome than his older sibling, but only because you had a better idea of what you were doing when you raised him so didn’t screw him up quite as much as your firstborn… I mean, I love both of my books.
But especially Quantum Coin. And I hope you will too.
Stay frosty,
Eugene
