Growing up with siblings, I remember it well—my mother instilling the message of sharing. If something good came my way, I could count on hearing “Share that with your brothers!” These days sharing is easy and it only costs you a click. And it’s very important. Especially to those of us with soft voices. You see, there is another new Wicker Man book coming out this year. This is the 50th anniversary of the movie and there’s a lot of interest. The other book is getting quite a bit of free press because the publisher knows the importance of sharing the information. Click that share button! Meanwhile I’m watching what we in the biz call the NBA (New Book Announcement) creep very slowly out of its box.
A couple days ago I wrote about how Amazon isn’t aware of the book, and Google can’t seem to find it. In the intervening days it has now shown up on Lehmann’s bookselling shop in Germany. You here, reading this, are the only people in the United States (if you are) who know about this book. My voice isn’t very loud. I don’t get retweeted and I don’t even have a cover image to share yet. I’m still waiting for it to appear on the publisher’s website. (This is one of the reasons I’m (hopefully) moving on from publishing with academic presses—they tend to be a touch slow.) What can you do to help? Share this post. It’ll only take you a second. Look down below this post and you’ll see this:
Of course, I can accept that you don’t like what I’m saying. But if you’re on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, you can share the misery. All it costs is a click. The thing about the internet is that little things can add up to a lot. That’s the whole idea behind websites that take a small cut to get the item you want out to you. Life by a thousand cuts. If enough people share, even those with a “Yop” to utter can save all Whos, right Ted? I used to think all those YouTubers were a bit gauche with reminders in each and every video to click the “like” and “subscribe” buttons. Now I’m coming to understand that that’s the way life on the internet is lived. And May Day is just around the corner. Notice for my book will continue to creep out slowly. Meanwhile I’ll look at Lehmann’s website and hope for the best.
