THE UPLOADED Is Out Today, Competing For Your Merciless Book Bucks! CONSUME AND OBEY
I’ve never been sure how to promote my book The Uploaded.
Is it a tale of immortal brain-Gods, all your craziest Facebook relatives uploaded to the Internet as alt-living people where they will vote forever and never die?
Is it a family drama about what happens when half your family is dead but won’t stop making excuses for why they’re still making your life miserable?
Is it a book about Amichai, a living kid struggling to find a place in a world where uploading consciousnesses has become so habitual that “being alive” has fallen out of fashion?
Is it a book with a kick-ass super-pony named Therapy who loves carrots and sick sisters?
No matter. All my months of dithering have led us to this moment where The Uploaded is now available for release in North America. (You Brits, for unknown reasons, have to wait two days.) And so I ask you to do the things for me that you would do for any author you love, in the order in which they help:
- Purchase. Buying the author’s books is the greatest thing you can always do for them, since it encourages publishers to buy more books and keep their careers going. The Uploaded is available at pretty much any bookstore – Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powells, and various Indie booksellers. (I don’t care where you buy it, as long as you did, and thank you.)
- Promote. There’s a lot of books out there, and a single Tweet or Facebook update saying, “Hey, {$Author} has a book out today!” helps a lot. People mostly buy books recommended by their friends. You even mentioning it is a stealth recommendation, so your social push helps more than you can know.
- Review. Retailers push books that have more reviews. They say that 50+ reviews on Amazon is the magic number. So even if you don’t like the book and leave a negative review, that helps the book. (And of course to my mind, you’re not obligated to like it, although most of the people who liked Flex/et al seem to also like this book.) So when you’re done, figure out how many stars it’s worth and type up a sentence or two. It really helps.
- See The Author On His Book Tour. This year I’ll be attending Cleveland (this Thursday!), Boston, and San Francisco. Showing up to say hello convinces book stores that hey, it’s worth having this person out here. Also it makes a socially anxious author like, you know, me feel less anxious knowing you’re coming.
Anyway. Here’s all the links for The Uploaded. Thank you if you choose to mention it anywhere. If you purchase it, I hope it prods your brain and then breaks your heart in all the ways I intended, because it’s a dystopia, but it’s a dystopia with a weird hopefulness.
Or so I hope.
Excerpt of the first two chapters for your perusal
Buy The Uploaded at Indie bookshops