Location, location, location
Posted on | November 11, 2009 | No Comments
My Barnes & Noble sales rank continued to improve over the course of the day yesterday until it bottomed out at 132. That means it was in 132nd place on the overall bestsellers at their store, a combined list that includes fiction, non-fiction, music, videos, and e-books. The boost in sale was helped, no doubt, by a flier sent out to their membership that cross-promoted the Companion with Under the Dome. I don’t know if store sales contribute to the sales rank, but you can’t complain about placement like this, can you? I haven’t checked the local store yet to see if I got as nice a display, but I’ve heard from readers in Michigan (the one who took this photograph) and from California. Too cool.
To put the 132 sales rank in perspective, the final slots in the top 100 list are occupied by the new Michael Crichton (pre-order), Michael Connelly’s newest novel, the second book in the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson and Patrick Swayze’s memoir. I was just 32 places behind them!
So, two serial killers go for a ride in a van out into the wilderness. How many come back home? That’s just one question posed in this week’s episode of Dexter. It seems that we have not yet plumbed the depths of the Trinity killer, who seemed to have gone through his homicidal phase and is now on to something else. Something that he’s done in the past, or is this new? Definitely something that he’s manic about, anyway. I had a strong suspicion about Dexter’s most recent kill that was proved correct. Or at least so we’re lead to believe at the moment. Next week looks even more full of awesome. Excellent season thus far.
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
