No One's Gonna Bend or Break Me
Someone on the TrekBBS forum recently resurrected the thread devoted to Strange New Worlds 10, which I hadn't seen in quite a while, in order to offer up a story-by-story review of the anthology.
I appreciated that--so many people who review collections never bother to cover every story therein--even though that person gave "You Are Not in Space" a middle-of-the-road assessment:Good, readable Hoshi story. I was kind of hoping for a more rousing conclusion.
On a related note, I had written letters to each of the book retailers in Winnipeg before the new movie came out to let them know about the existence of SNW 10, basically working the "local author does good" angle in connection to the Star Trek franchise and hoping they might stock up on it again.
Over a month has passed since I mailed those off, so I decided to start looking into how effective my (small) efforts at marketing had been...and while I haven't been able to check everywhere yet (both McNally Robinson locations will need a visit, for starters), Chapters and its affiliated bookstores allow you to search for titles at all locations in a given area, so I know that as of this week, there were seven new copies of Strange New Worlds 10 available in the system. :)
I'm not saying this would work for every market or every Star Trek tie-in writer, and some authors have been luckier than others (daytonward, for example, had a lot of support from Paramount's Kansas City publicity machine), but with a lot of debate right now about what Pocket Books could or couldn't have done to promote the line in the wake of the film, I felt I should take matters into my own hands.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #220 646 in Books "Only 4 left in stock--order soon (more on the way)."
Amazon Kindle Sales Rank: #42 662 in Kindle Store
Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #193 725 in Books "Only 3 left in stock--order soon (more on the way)."
I appreciated that--so many people who review collections never bother to cover every story therein--even though that person gave "You Are Not in Space" a middle-of-the-road assessment:Good, readable Hoshi story. I was kind of hoping for a more rousing conclusion.
On a related note, I had written letters to each of the book retailers in Winnipeg before the new movie came out to let them know about the existence of SNW 10, basically working the "local author does good" angle in connection to the Star Trek franchise and hoping they might stock up on it again.
Over a month has passed since I mailed those off, so I decided to start looking into how effective my (small) efforts at marketing had been...and while I haven't been able to check everywhere yet (both McNally Robinson locations will need a visit, for starters), Chapters and its affiliated bookstores allow you to search for titles at all locations in a given area, so I know that as of this week, there were seven new copies of Strange New Worlds 10 available in the system. :)
I'm not saying this would work for every market or every Star Trek tie-in writer, and some authors have been luckier than others (daytonward, for example, had a lot of support from Paramount's Kansas City publicity machine), but with a lot of debate right now about what Pocket Books could or couldn't have done to promote the line in the wake of the film, I felt I should take matters into my own hands.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #220 646 in Books "Only 4 left in stock--order soon (more on the way)."
Amazon Kindle Sales Rank: #42 662 in Kindle Store
Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #193 725 in Books "Only 3 left in stock--order soon (more on the way)."