Pimping the Book: Week 2

It's been a good Week 2 for Monstrous Affections, my story collection that isn't available for anything but pre-order, but has been that since May 26. There have been shout-outs and an interview and other shout-outs, and a shiny new banner, and all of it has served to propel the book to number six on The Horror Mall's May Pre-Order Best Seller List. Despite having only been available for six days that month.

Here's a run-down of what we did:

Co-ordinated with Pseudopod.org to launch about the same time as the podcast for "The Inevitability of Earth," a story in the collection, went live.
Attracted the attention of Cory Doctorow, who made a note of the story and the collection on boingboing.
Conducted and posted a weird author-to-author interview with me and fellow CZP scribe Claude Lalumiere at BSC Review, which Brett Savory thought was funny.
Received kind benediction from pal and erstwile collaborator Karl Schroeder, on his blog.
Created this banner (also visible at the bottom of the blog) which anyone who wants to can put on the bottom of their blog (PLEASE!) along with a link to Horror Mall.

Which is, if I may say, very good for the first week. So thanks to Brett Savory and Matt Moore, publisher and publicist respectively at ChiZine - Cory and Karl and Claude and Pseudopod - and also to Erik Mohr, the cover artist (who might be getting tired of all this fawning by now, but screw 'im) who has produced the hands-down most tangible draw for the book: its fantastic, nightmare-inducing cover.