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On the Front of Amazon Books!
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Category Archives: PR
This week by the numbers.
Amazon:
#90 overall!
#1 in Home & Garden (because that’s where Crafts & Hobbies are)
#3 in Parenting & Families (“Shit my Dad Says” has the #1 & #2 spots there)
#5 in Science (don’t think I can knock the Atkins diet off)
American Booksellers Association
#31 in Paperback Nonfiction (unchanged from the prior week)
GeekDad Book Mentioned in Red Tricycle
Popular west-coast localized parenting site Red Tricycle has included Geek Dad in a quick hit on books for dads for Father’s day: http://www.redtri.com/a-pair-of-fathers-day-books-built-for-fun/
“Geek Dad” at Powell’s, as Snapped by Cory Doctorow
On Twitter yesterday, I saw Cory Doctorow (he of Boing Boing and many great bestselling novels) mention he’d be speaking at Powell’s that night, and asked him if he’d snap a picture of my book there if he saw it. Well, low and behold, he did! Thanks Cory!
I’ll be at Borders in the Fremont Hub from 2-4pm Saturday, 5/8
If you’re in the Bay Area, stop by and say hello!
Press Alert #1: Upcoming PR Stuff for 5/1 – 5/7
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.
A Plug in Publishers Weekly
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.”
First GeekDad Book Signing Scheduled
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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