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I would be remiss if I didn't mention here to everyone and anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area that my friend Emerian Rich, the vampire herself, is having a book release party this Friday at 7pm at Bay Books in Concord. There will be prizes and people with long teeth. And food. In fact, some of us may become food for the people with the long teeth... But they'll be gentle, I'm sure.

Come! Come and participate in the madness!

The party is for the print debut of Emerian's righteously popular podionovel Night's Knights. If you say you don't like the cover art, well, dude, you lie like a Persian rug.

In other exciting news, Plague Zone is also in print. No, it's not available yet, not unless you're me and they sent you author's copies. Bwah ha ha ha ha! But I'm contractually prohibited from passing out the book until the official release date, which isn't until 11/24.

The exciting news is that the first print run of Zone puts me well over 100,000 books in print worldwide. With the German and Spanish editions of Year and War, I was already very close to the 100K mark. In fact, all of a sudden I'm much closer to 150K books in print, and there are other editions coming right on down the pipeline. Some of the European print-runs will be very small, of course. Romania just isn't a big country. But I hope to hit 200K next year. Maybe more.

It's true that I know any number of writers whose initial print runs for a single title is 100 or even 200K, so this would be small change to them, but I'm still getting my feet under me and I'm excited to hit six digits with just my third book. It's a milestone. So the ice cream is on me.

Labels: Emerian Rich, Nights Knights book release party