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There has been some confusion about when my new book, Ghost Stories of the Long Beach Peninsula, officially goes on sale. According to information I received from a friend via a bookseller on the Peninsula, the books could not go on sale until September 30th. Not true!
When I learned that fans were ordering and getting them Amazon.com, my old bookseller’s hat sailed right onto my head. I double-checked the information I was given. Yes, the bookseller in question (with whom I spoke on the telephone) had to sign “a contract” promising not to sell until the official publication date, September 30th. So I emailed my contact in the sales department at History Press and made a minor noisy fuss – like why are independent bookstores being discriminated against?
Here is the answer I received: We absolutely do not require booksellers to wait until the official pub date before they sell the book, nor do we ask the booksellers themselves to sign any contract. Only our authors sign contracts.
So all you fans and ghost lovers and Peninsula history buffs, the book should be available ‘as we speak.’ We got that information straight from the horse’s mouth!
Why the confusion? Who knows? Some days are just like that!
Yep! Some days are just like that. Some weeks also. May the arrival of the Autumnal Equinox set the planet straight and right on course, of course.