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Joined: 5/12/2011
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My debut novel, Jack, will be released in two days!!! Because it's an e-book, I won't have any hard copies to sign. So I have ordered some postcards with the cover art and am offering to send one to each reader who buys the book in the first week of release with a handwritten thank you note to the snail mail address of choice. (You can find out more about it here: http://shannonlccate.com/2013/09/17/because-i-still-have-a-fondness-for-paper/ )
I am hoping that might help make the first week successful. We will see. I am nervous but hopeful.
Meanwhile, the same press has contracted to publish a couple of short stories of mine under a different pen name, so that's cool, too. I feel like I can keep aiming for my brass ring of a big traditional publisher while having a more than satisfactory fallback small press option to keep up my writerly momentum.
You know, if I ever write anything again. (Getting Jack ready for release has consumed all the time I would usually have for writing.)
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Joined: 6/18/2012
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Oh my goodness! Congratulations! We're so excited for you!
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Joined: 1/22/2013
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Lily, congratulations. There is a program that allows ebooks to be purchased with the author's signature and any comment the author wishes to make. Just like at a book signing. An individual orders the book, but before it's sent out the author is notified and writes whatever, "To Lily, ....." sends that back to the seller and the comment is added into the book (first page in book just like the inside cover of a paperback or hardcover). It's pretty cool and I aim to set it up as soon as my series kicks off. I'm sure you can Google it and find out how to get the program. It might cost a wee bit, but must not have been much or I'd have balked at the idea (I'm excessively frugal.) Good luck.
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Joined: 9/8/2013
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Congratulations on all that preparation! You must be delighted. (I would be.) I will look for your book on Amazon in two days.
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Joined: 5/12/2011
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Good to know, Dennis! I have seen "authorgraph" and intend to set up an account there, but those signatures don't go in the book, they are in a separate file. I still like a little paper in my life, though. hee
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Joined: 8/13/2011
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Congratulations, that's great news!
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Joined: 5/12/2011
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Thanks, everyone!
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Joined: 6/18/2012
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I just bought my copy! Congrats!
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Joined: 6/7/2013
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Hi Shannon! So many congrats on the release! Super excited to read my copy, too! 
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Joined: 6/7/2013
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Hi everyone--Shannon wrote a really lovely blog post about the role of community in her writing of JACK (available NOW!). Check it out, and check out the book!
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