The softcovers of The Happiest Days of Our Lives have just shipped, according to my printer, so I should be able to start taking orders next week. The limited edition hardcovers are taking much longer, and won't be here until the week of October 8, but I think it's close enough that I can start taking pre-orders for both versions next week.
I'm talking with David Lawrence about doing an audio version. We're hoping to record the first week of October, so it's ready to go at the same time as the printed versions.
Since I'm doing this book entirely on my own, I'm going to be drawing heavily on community support to help promote it, starting right now: if you got The Happiest Days of Our Lives this summer from one of my convention appearances, would you let me know what you thought, so I can make sure my marketing efforts reflect what readers are getting from the book?
From the people I've talked to already, I'm starting to get the sense that it inspires nostalgic memories of their own, which leads to discussing a lot of the shared experiences we who grew up in the 70s and came of age in the 80s share: Star Wars figures, video games, RPGS, things like that. I also hear that even if you've read these stories online, it's an entirely different experience to read them in print.
Andrew and I are working on a media kit like the one we did for Dancing Barefoot, and Roughy and I are busy building all the appropriate ordering and product pages at Monolith Press.
Questions? Comments? You know what to do.
