We’re #1! (Resilience unfolds)
Resilience was released at midnight last night, and I experienced something new and wonderful: I watched readers posting about it, time zone by time zone, as their pre-orders kicked in and the book downloaded to their e-readers.
People posted images of their devices with the book on it. They talked about waiting up to see it happen. They calculated need for sleep against work schedules and said things like “I’m already 20% in and had to make myself stop.”
Writing a book is a long and hard journey. Ending it this way — knowing that people in different time zones and different countries are eagerly diving in — is so incredibly rewarding that I can hardly express it.
Here’s another rewarding thing: those pre-orders meant Resilience debuted at #1 in the LGBT Science Fiction category on Amazon.
Of course, it’s not really an LGBT book — it’s straight-up mainstream sci-fi that happens to have an asexual lead and a lesbian couple, along with a whole shipload of heterosexual characters — oh, and some decidedly non-human aliens whose sexuality is really not the issue our characters are most concerned with.
Someday, perhaps I’ll see that awesome orange “best seller” banner in a mainstream sci-fi category, but I’m very happy to see it in this one today. Readers who buy in this category are the folks I started with, many years ago. They’ve been with me on the whole journey, and are wonderfully supportive. They’re making this day a great one.
Many readers have collected themselves in a book club on Facebook, so if you’re a Facebook user and would like to hang out with curious, interesting people who have nerdy senses of humor, check out the Fletcher DeLancey Book Club. They’ll be doing a buddy read soon, with plenty of discussion that I’ll join in on. That is, once they’ve all ripped through their first read at light speed.
Yaay!! Got it.. Love it already.. Always worth the wait. I practice Zen meditation to get through the ewait from one Chronicle of Alsea to the next!!!! Great job Fletcher!! Xxxc
Thank you, Mel! Read slowly, so you won’t need meditation for at least a couple of days…
Congratulations Fletcher. You deserve it! I truly want the paperback to keep my physical Alsean bookshelf complete 🙂 Can I order a (signed) copy? Hahaha. Would love to hear from you. So glad you’re writing and sharing.
Thank you, Linda! And as for the signed copy…I’m just getting ready to order my author copies, so I can indeed send you a signed one if you want to arrange it. Send me a message through this blog and we’ll get to work.
That’s great Fletcher! I don’t know if you still have my adress. Otherwise just let me know and I’ll send you an email.
I don’t, sad to say, but if you tap the Contact link up at the top of the page, you can reach me via email and we’ll link up.
I’ve just started Chapter 4. I’ll try to take my time but don’t think that’s possible. The second reading is almost as good as the first anyway. 🙂❤️
If not better, because you see more of the hints and clues and the way things unfold.
Neither sleet nor snow nor dark of night will keep this nerd from her reading instead of sleeping. lol
A little bird told me you’re all the way through…rest well, so you can do it again. 🙂
Well done, amiga!
Thank you!
I couldn’t stop reading it. What an awesome read!! Thank you!
Music to an author’s ears. 🙂