Certainly not out of print--my neighbor across the street got her copy a couple of weeks ago, and then went back to get a copy for another friend, and there is was, all pretty and shiny at the Borders near us.

Great news on the sales, Ilona!

Have a good week everyone.




azteclady

^_-

Whyever would someone think that the book is out of print simply because they can't find it in stores? MAGIC BURNS released less than a months ago (BTW, I just finished reading it -- AWESOME job, guys!); at least in my local bookstores, it was out on an urban fantasy display with books by Caitlin Kiernan and Karen Chance. Most bookstores don't keep a lot of "backlist" books in stock, as anybody who's tried to find an earlier book in a long series knows, and I'm sure there were a lot of people that saw MAGIC BURNS and went to get the first, too.

It would've taken the fan all of... mmm, five minutes? at the bookstore to ask the help desk clerk when the book would be available, vs. running to Teh Intarwebs and starting rumors.

Oh, right. I forget. The Potential for Drama > Common Sense. /sarcasm

"Unfortunately I truly abhor drama, unless it's in a book."

As do I. Unfortunately, the universe seems fit to plop buttloads of it in my lap. :P

Right... but even before I knew the ins-and-outs of publishing, if I couldn't find a book I was looking for, I'd ask the clerk at the help desk about it. I wouldn't just assume it was out of print. I'm really not sure where they come by that logic.

I know they aren't.

I haven't much patience for the stupid. :P

Grrr! It makes me cranky when people who don't know what the heck they're talking about make posts like that! I work in a bookstore, and I encounter SO MANY people like that who think they know how the industry works and get angry when I have to correct them. Replenishment is just unfortunately slow, especially with corporate-owned book chains like the one I work for and our main competitors. Even the independents have to wait for orders to be processed, and if they have sneaky booksellers like me who champion a book and manage to sell every copy within a day of it hitting the shelf after shipment, of COURSE there's gonna be times that the books are hard to find. I wish profoundly that I could get corporate to send us 10 instead of 2 copies at a time of certain books so I can hand-sell my favorites without worrying about being sold out, because people seem to get tweaky about ordering something on a recommendation that they would buy on the spot if they had it in hand to look at.
Which reminds me, the truly smart shopper will find the person in the store who is a fan of their favorite genre and ask for recommendations. I had one of my regulars ask me for "something new" t'other day, and remembering he likes urban fantasy, I put the last copies we had in stock of both "Burns" and "Bites" in his hands. He ended up buying both and a couple other titles I'd recommended to him last time he'd been in. So worry not (or at least worry less), your fervent bookseller fans are out here doing our best for you!

I am glad they are flying off the shelf. I hope one hits your overly enthusiastic "fan" upside the head. Though I do hope that when that happens the book is far enough away from your hand that you cannot possibly be blamed.

Well I didn't think it was out of print - saw one at Borders (which I correctly re-shelved) and many of the new Bites out.

However, (and I don't know this specific situation) the reality is that I have started many series only to find the first book in the sequence out of print. Sadly, this is a fact for others.

Congrats on the numbers and I hope they keep climbing!

Please forgive me while I laugh!!

Wow, sometimes people just overreact too much. I hope your publisher doesn't get any angry letters.

However, I AM glad that your book sales are going so well, Ilona. ^_^ the better the sales the more your publishers will want more books- which is what the fans REALLY want.

Book two was fabu- possibly better than the first one! Congrats.

~Elaana

Oy. I'm still turning the copies face out on the shelves at Barnes and Nobles so I know it's still in print. :-)