I’m going to try to do these regularly – weekly if warranted – so anyone who is interested can follow what’s happened with the book and where I’ll be popping up. Here are the press hits planned for next week as of right now:
Tuesday 5/4: The Absolutely Mindy Show on Sirius/XM’s Kids Place Live 1:00pm PT/4:00pm ET.
Wednesday 5/6: Lesser Nerds Podcast– not sure when released on the day.
Thursday 5/6: WTIC Talk Radio Hartford, CT morning show with Ray Dunaway, 5:20am PT/8:20am ET.
I feel like we’re having another kid.
That’s what this sense of anticipation (equal parts excitement and dread) feels like. I suppose that’s a good thing, but it’s tough to sit through a day at work when we’re THIS close!
There are various PR things happening soon. I’ll be on the Lesser Nerds podcast on Monday, and may record something for the Mr. Dad podcast on Tuesday. The Times of London (OMG!) should be running something about the book in the next couple weeks, and book signings at my local Barnes & Noble and Borders are set up. I’m sure there will be more, especially after the book hits the shelves.
Perhaps coolest/geekiest over the last couple days is trading messages with Wil Wheaton, and having him tell me to send him a copy.
The book has been sitting in the 700-900 range on the Amazon.com sales rankings, and notice that Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca also have it reader to launch. I’ll have to check back in with Powells and see where it’s at there, too.
Also, my editor told me late last week that they’d upped the printing pre-release, which is really good.
I think my head is going to asplode…
This just rocks. And the illustration is wonderful, too!
I definitely think the Wired write-up is having an effect!
Well, this is a great way to start! Paul David Wilson on the blog/site Small Town Living has posted the first ever review of Geek Dad, and he was tremendously positive:
I knew as soon as I saw the cover of “Geek Dad; Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share”(Ken Denmead/Gotham Books) that I was going to love it.
Right below the title were pictures of a rocket ship, a telescope, a dragon, and a twenty-sided dice (used for role playing playing games like Dungeon and Dragons!)
I am a self-professed geek, and having kids of my own, I welcome the opportunity to indoctrinate them into “Geek-dom.”
Please go and read the review and give them some traffic and feedback. I’m so happy!
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Saw this in my Google Alerts today from Publishers Weekly. Looks like the PR bandwidth is ramping up:
Also along “awesome” lines is Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share (May) by Ken Denmead, writer of Wired’s popular blog of the same name. According to Gotham/Avery editorial director Megan Newman, “This is for the new dad whose nostalgia is not for his old Flexible Flyer or Little League mitt, but who instead wants to share with his kids the geeky things that informed his childhood: video games, Star Wars, and anything electronic.”
It’s important to do it yourself sometimes, so this weekend with family in tow, I walked into our local Borders Books. “Hello, I have a book coming out,” I said to a woman who was aptly named Joy. She was totally enthusiastic to get me signed up, and so I will be holding my first ever book signing at the Fremont Borders on Saturday, May 8th, from 2-4pm. As the Doctor might say, “Fantastic!”
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Watching the Amazon sales rank float up and down every day, it was driving my crazy wondering what the numbers meant in terms of actual pre-orders for the book. Yesterday I had one of those “duh” moments when I realized that, since 99% of the action must be coming through the link on GeekDad, and since that link goes through my Amazon Affiliate account, I could run an Orders report to see what the numbers actually are. So, here we are! From the start of the year, there have been 170 pre-orders for the book. And over 16k click-thrus! Woo-hoo!
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And yes, it turns out there’s something wrong with my desktop computer making problems for posting to this blog, but my laptop is okay. Very strange!