Ok. Finally. The launch date for Nowhere Home has been set. And it’s really close. Like today. Yes, that’s correct. TODAY! Or, if you’re not reading this moments after I’m posting it, that date is November 24th, 2017.
Where can you get it? Right now, your best bet for the paperback is either on Amazon US or Amazon Canada. Independent bookstores can also order it (ISBN 978-1547059324). I’m trying to make it easier for bookstores to get it in stock, but I probably won’t get that working properly until January.
The Kindle edition should be available world-wide within the next 72 hours for $6.99 (US). If you purchase the print edition, you can also get the Kindle version for $1.99 (US).
To celebrate the big day, I’ve set up two giveaways on Goodreads—one for Nowhere Wild (for those of you who haven’t read it yet), and one for Nowhere Home (in case you need an extra copy after buying it on the 28th. The giveaway closes December 9th, so unless UPS is completely slammed, you should get your copy before Christmas.
It’s been a long journey getting to this point and I’m both relieved that it’s out there and nervous that the day has finally arrived. Thank you again, to everyone who has supported me through the last two years of getting this book out. I’ve learned a lot, and I really hope you enjoy this book. Please leave reviews of it on Amazon and Goodreads. It helps a lot.
Happy Reading!
I hate to keep doing this to you, but I swear, the publication date for Nowhere Home is getting really close. I’m just waiting for the Kindle Conversion to be complete, and then I will set a date. Hopefully within the next two weeks!
To prove it, here are some pictures: The first two are the front and back cover (which very few people have seen at this point!)
And here is my first author copy! The cover is a little bent because Lisa had already started reading it before I had a chance to take picture.
The list price on the paperback is $14.95 US, or £11.36 or €12.81 in Amazon Europe. Not sure what the Canadian price will be yet, nor do I know what the Kindle price is yet. Soon. Very soon.
If you really want to help make this book a best-seller, there are a few things you can do:
- Wait to buy it until the official launch date. A big bump on the release date will make it appear higher on the Amazon best seller list, and encourage more people to check out both Nowhere Home and Nowhere Wild. You may be able to find it available for sale sooner than I make my announcement (I had to open up pre-order for bookstores and I can’t control when they make it available), but please hold off just a little while longer.
- Amazon’s sales engine will show books other people bought at the same time they bought Nowhere Home, and conversely, when people are looking to buy those other books, potential buyers will see Nowhere Home, especially if they are bought frequently together. Here are some books I have enjoyed over the past few years that you may be interested in purchasing at the same time you purchase Nowhere Home:
- Nowhere Wild (of course)
- Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
- Life As We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfieffer
- Lost in the Barrens – Farley Mowat
- Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- Three Day Road – Joseph Boyden
- Maze Runner – James Dasher
- Dies the Fire – SM Stirling
- Support your local bookstores. Let people there know about about the books, and see if they can’t order a few, then direct people to get them there.
- Request it for your local library. Let me know if they have problems getting it.
- Please, please, please, when you are done reading it, put a review (or at least a rating) on Goodreads and Amazon and Barnes and Noble (if you can find it there). Ratings and reviews sell books. The more reviews, the more books sold.
- Help me get the word out on social media as we get closer to launch. Facebook it, Tweet it, Instagram it, or do whatever the cool kids are doing these days.
- If you know book reviewers who would be interested in doing a review, let me know. I’d love to get them an advance copy.
And if I haven’t said it enough over the years, THANK YOU to everyone who bought Nowhere Wild and those who have kept after me to publish the sequel. I hope you enjoy this book even more than the first one.
More updates to come as soon as I get them!
So I know it’s been a very long time since I’ve posted here, but a lot of stuff has been going on, and life sort of got in the way of blogging on a regular basis. More about that later.
The really big news—the news many of you have been asking about for many, many months, is that yes, there will be a sequel to Nowhere Wild. It’s called Nowhere Home, and it picks up moments after the ending of Nowhere Wild, where Jake and Izzy return to Thompson only to find out they may have been safer in the woods.
The writing is done. The editing is done. The author’s notes and acknowledgements are written. All that is left is getting the proofs back and setting a final publication date—which I should find out very soon, but it will be sometime in the next 2 months–just in time to put lots of copies under Christmas trees.
And oh yes, we have a cover.
Here’s it is folks: Nowhere Home.
The 2016 PNWA Conference is over (for me at least, events continue Sunday, but alas, I will not be there).
The highlight of the weekend for me was being on a YA / Middle Grade / SF / Fantasy – “Ask a Pro” panel with Royce Buckingham, Ethan Reid, Brian Mercer, Kisa Whipley, Cait Spivey, Patricia Nelson and Jeff Ayers. I hope we dispensed some wisdom that helped those who attended, and I know we had a ton of fun. I could talk writing and publishing with these people all day long!
I spent a good chunk of the conference in the Pitch-Block room, trying to keep smiles on the faces of nervous authors pitching to an incredible collection of agents and editors, while also trying to keep the room quiet. Not everyone appreciates the bad cop we volunteers sometimes need to be, but most at least understand how important it is to keep the noise level down while other pitches are going on. I did three of these 90 minute sessions, and by the end of the third one, my feet were killing me. But it’s fun too, and a great way to meet all the agents and editors. If you’re planning on going to the PNWA Conference next year and want to volunteer, working the Pitch-Blocks is absolutely the way to go.
But the best part of the weekend is spending time with old friends and meeting new ones. Pam Binder, as always, puts a smile on my face every time I see her. Jason Black and I spent a lot of time talking writing. Hanging out with C.C. Humphreys is always a blast. Kevin O’Brien was awesome (as usual). Chris Patchell, Sean Fletcher, and the whole crew from the Andrea Hurst Agency and I had a great time at the bar before dinner on Friday. I had great talks with so many other folks, my voice was shot by the end of Friday night, but I soldiered on to participate in my first PNWA signing party! I wish I had remembered to take more pictures!
I did get this shot (thanks Pam!) of Bob Dugoni signing a couple of books for me after his heartwarming keynote speech on Thursday night. Bob is a fantastic guy, and so generous with his time and advice. We’re incredibly lucky to have him in the PNWA.
Of course, I restocked my bookshelf with a few (okay a bunch) of new, signed books. I really wanted to get my hands on CC’s new books Plague and Fire, but am still waiting for those to be available in the US. I may have to drive up to Canada to get them if all else fails.
Overall, a fantastic, and exhausting time. My writing batteries are fully recharged, and I will be digging in hard to get my next book out soon.
But now, I must go to bed. I need sleep.
My author’s copies of the paperback edition of NOWHERE WILD arrived in the mail today! Many thanks to Suzanne Sutherland and Maria Golikova at HarperCollins for getting this one out for summer readers. I’d also like to thank (again) Sally Harding and Rachel Letofsky at the Cooke Agency for everything they do to keep my publishing career on track. I couldn’t have done this without you.
And to all of you readers who have already bought the hardcover edition, thank you so much. I hope to have more for you to read in the near future. If you liked the book, please put a review and rating up on Amazon or Goodreads, or wherever you bought the book. It really does help!
The paperback goes on sale August 9th, 2016 in USA and Canada.
Just a quick heads up that I’ve got another giveaway going on over on my Goodreads page. Enter today for a chance to win a signed hardcover copy of NOWHERE WILD!
Contest ends April 10th, so by my count, you’ve got just 11 days left to enter. Hurry!
Welcome to the 2016 – Spring Scavenger Hunt!
A what?
Yes, a scavenger hunt.
What are you hunting for, you may ask?
Fun! Excitement! Bonus Content for Nowhere Wild! PRIZES!
How? Why? Where? Did I say Bonus Content for Nowhere Wild? Why yes, yes I did. Somewhere out there in the hunt, you will find a previously unpublished short story about Jake and Amos. Yes, really. And what are these prizes of which I write? Ah, for that, you must first read, and follow the rules:
SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE RULES
Directions: Somewhere below, you’ll notice that I’ve listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on TEAM PURPLE, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!)
HINT: THE SECRET NUMBER IS HIGHLIGHTED IN PURPLE!
Entry Form: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.
Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by SUNDAY, APRIL 3rd, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.
On this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each participating YA author, you also get a secret number. Add up the numbers, and enter it for a chance to win a major prize–one lucky winner will receive at least one signed book from each author on my team in the hunt! But play fast. This contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online until noon PST on Sunday, April 3rd!
There are NINE contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the PURPLE TEAM, but there is also a RED TEAM, BLUE TEAM, GOLD TEAM, ORANGE TEAM, PINK TEAM, SILVER TEAM, TEAL TEAM, & GREEN TEAM! Check out each team for a chance to win eight different sets of signed books!
If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.
So as you’ve read above, I am on the PURPLE team, which is clearly the best team. Here are the rest of my teammates:
Quite the collection of books there.
My job now is to introduce you to Meredith Moore, and her book, Fiona.
Meredith writes YA contemporary gothic thrillers about girls who are trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be. She loves lattes, road trips, 19th century British novels, rainy days with cozy blankets and hot mugs of tea, early modern history, unwieldy stacks of books, the Scottish Highlands, and London.
She grew up in Houston, Texas, where she lives now, but spent several years in the Northeast, earning a degree in history at Harvard and working in publishing in New York.
From Meredith:
Music plays a large part in my new book, FIONA. Fee is a pianist, like her Scottish mother before her. Her mother commits suicide when Fee is twelve, and playing the piano becomes Fee’s emotional release. It’s how she expresses herself, how she finds comfort.
After her mother’s death, Fee moves to a dusty West Texas town with an aunt who doesn’t want her. She’s about to graduate high school, desperate to find a way out, when her mother’s best friend from childhood invites her to work as an au pair for her eleven-year-old daughter, Poppy, at their castle in the Scottish Highlands. Fee jumps at the chance, but before she arrives, Poppy’s parents both die in a car crash.
When Fee arrives at the castle, she begins to fall for Charlie, the older brother of her orphaned charge. He discovers her talent at the piano and suggests an exchange: for every song that she plays for him, he’ll tell her a secret. The two of them grow closer as Fiona plays him songs that remind her of her mother, and he reveals his doubts and fears now that he’s taken over his father’s business and Poppy’s care.
I took piano lessons when I was in elementary school, but I was never drawn to music the way Fiona is, and I happily quit after a few years. Writing has always been my preferred emotional conduit. So it was fascinating to explore the world through the view of someone so attached to music, to figure out what songs would be meaningful to her, both classical and contemporary. I listened to a lot of music while writing this book, and I’ve created a playlist of my favorites. Some of these are songs that Fiona actually plays for Charlie in the book, and some are songs that I listened to while writing to help me get inside her head. Hope you enjoy!
https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:writermeredith:playlist:2l6jqPl0RsnlWUcilwjGai
Please add Meredith’s Book Fiona to your Goodreads List, or heck, just go out and buy it today! Amazon | B&N | IndieBound | The Book Depository.
I can think of 98121 reasons PURPLE is the best, but I’m sure that’s coming up short, and likely to make the other teams jealous. It’s now up to you, dear reader, to prove me right!
To continue your Scavenger Hunt, please take a trip over to author Erin E. Moulton’s site! Have a Wild time!
Go TEAM PURPLE!
Joe Beernink 