{"id":2333,"date":"2021-05-14T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2021-05-13T19:12:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T02:12:53","slug":"a-two-fer-book-announcement-from-miss-cranky-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2021\/05\/14\/a-two-fer-book-announcement-from-miss-cranky-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"A Two-fer Book Announcement from Miss Cranky-Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have not just one but two books coming out in the next couple of weeks and the details on those will follow, but please be patient while I deliver a pet peeve. New book announcements turn up in my mailbox on a daily basis. What do they mostly say? \u201cMy book, _______, is due out on ________. Please buy it. The end!\u201d I usually end up deleting those announcements without reading them because it\u2019s my personal opinion that newsletters should actually be \u2026. well \u2026 newsy.<\/p>\n

With the exception of the pandemic, I generally publish two books a year, but please don\u2019t call me \u201cprolific.\u201d Being called that is another pet peeve of mine. Productive? Yes. Prolific? NO! (Note to self: Judy, you seem to be exceptionally grumpy today.). Maybe that\u2019s because I\u2019m exceptionally busy. For one thing, I\u2019m a day late in writing the blog\/newsletter which is usually put to bed by Wednesday evening. Now, late on Thursday, I\u2019m stuck playing catch up.<\/p>\n

People often ask me if I work on more than one book at a time. I don\u2019t WRITE more than one book at a time, but I certainly work on more than one book at a time, and I\u2019m about to give you a living breathing example.<\/p>\n

\"\"Attention DTRs, those wonderful Dead Tree Readers of both hardback and paperback editions. Back in the old days, the early nineties, when it came time for publication dates, the previous year\u2019s hardback would appear in paperback at almost the same time as the pub date for the new hardback. Well, folks, it\u2019s officially back to the future time around here. Credible Threat, Ali # 16, will appear in paperback on May 25 while Ali #17, Unfinished Business arrives in bookstores on June 1. Believe me, this comes as a big shock to my system because, in terms of writing, I just hit the 70% mark in creating the next Beaumont book, Nothing to Lose. Being on the banana peel of one book while promoting two others at the same time is a bit of a stretch, but we\u2019ll make it happen.<\/p>\n

As a consequence of the upcoming hardcover pub date, yesterday afternoon ten cartons containing copies of Unfinished Business showed up on my doorstep needing to be autographed and\/or personalized and then reshipped to bookstores. Details on those will follow as well, but this is the news part of the newsletter. The last time I was autographing and shipping books was for Missing and Endangered, and I was doing so in the face of an impending snowstorm. I broke my neck to have the books back in transit before the snow hit. The ones shipped by UPS arrived in a timely manner. The ones sent via USPS remained in our local post office for two weeks\u2014until well after the snow melted\u2014and didn\u2019t arrive at their destination until AFTER the on-sale date. Let\u2019s see. Does that make USPS pet peeve # 3 of the day? Yup, Miss Grumpy Drawers speaks again. So this morning, before writing the blog, you\u2019d better believe those cartons of books got autographed and sent on their way!<\/p>\n

Because Covid is still laying waste to book tours, the one for Unfinished Business is going to be all virtual all the time. The kickoff event for Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale will be on Facebook Live on June 1, 7 PM Arizona time. Here\u2019s the link:<\/p>\n

Poisoned Pen Live Event, July 1, 7:00 pm MST<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"(Note to anyone NOT living in Arizona. That state doesn\u2019t do Daylight Savings Time!! In the spring and summer, Arizona Time and Pacific Daylight Time are one and the same.) Poisoned Pen will have a supply of autographed books on hand. For those of you who prefer personalized copies, please contact Mostly Books in Tucson. Here\u2019s a link from them where you can arrange for pre-orders of personalized or non personalized copies:<\/p>\n

Mostly Books Autographed copies<\/a><\/p>\n

My publicist at Simon and Schuster is doing a bang up job of setting up events all over the country, from California to Florida, from Arizona to Pennsylvania. I\u2019m excited to see that some of those events are in places where I\u2019ve never done live ones. But we\u2019re working with a new scheduling dynamic here. My IT gal will be posting new events and links to the calendar as confirmations come in, and she\u2019ll also post reminder announcements on my Facebook author page on the day of said events.<\/p>\n

This is the time when I do the callout for people who want autographed bookmarks and\/or autographed bookplates. Please send your business sized SASEs (#10 self-addressed stamped envelopes)<\/strong> to:<\/p>\n

J.A. Jance, P.O. Box 766, Bellevue, WA 98009<\/p>\n

Smaller envelopes and those from left-over Christmas or birthday cards do not work! By the way, the bookmarks have been ordered but have not yet arrived. Please don\u2019t send your request off and then expect an instant response. Believe me, I\u2019ll do them eventually, but the next Beau book needs to be in New York soon. With a deadline actively ticking, I can\u2019t afford to take my eye off that ball!<\/p>\n

When Missing and Endangered came out, my loyal fans hit their pre-order buttons and put that one on the NYTimes list. Thank you one and all. I\u2019m hoping the same thing will happen this time around. Some of my dyed-in-the-wool Beaumont fans may be thinking that since this is an Ali book, they don\u2019t need to pay attention, but that would be an erroneous conclusion. Much to Beau’s surprise and mine as well, J.P. does a guest appearance in this book and makes an important contribution to the story line.<\/p>\n

After signing all those books this morning, I was going to close with a word about shipping cartons, but newsy or not, this is already running too long. So next week, on Tuesday, if any of you happen to think of it, please send me an email containing the words \u201cshipping cartons.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s all I\u2019ll need.\u00a0 What I write next week will be a blog-only, rather than a newsletter going out to my new book notification list, but with a timely reminder or two, I may have it written on time, the banana peel on that Beaumont book notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

Regards,
\nJAJance, AKA Miss Cranky Pants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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