{"id":1315,"date":"2015-05-15T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T05:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2015-05-15T00:28:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T05:28:37","slug":"exciting-book-updates-and-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Book Updates and Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am so excited<\/strong> about the book<\/a> lately!<\/p>\n

Sandi and I got invited back to the Toronto Public Library for our Money 201<\/a> course. While that on its own was great, it also helped push the book over 500 sales! That’s not bad for a Canadian release, and the book is still building great reviews, which will hopefully keep the momentum up.<\/p>\n

But that’s not the big news. The big, huge, over-the-moon exciting news is that Chapters\/Indigo has put the Value of Simple on store shelves<\/strong>! I was just writing about how hard it is to get into bookstores, and just read another self-publishing guide that said to basically forget it as a goal, and then they go and pick it up! I went down to the Eaton Centre right away to visit it as soon as I heard, and there it is. It’s physically there, I can go and touch it or have my picture taken with it — my book, in an actual bookstore! It makes me feel like a successful author and not at all an imposter. <\/p>\n

It is a limited release there — in about 25 stores across the country, and only one or two copies each, so it’s best to just go to the page at Indigo to check store stock<\/a> rather than having me list them here. But the GTA, Ottawa, Montreal, London, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver regions were the spots with copies as of this post.<\/p>\n

While for sales this likely will not mean all that much — most book sales are online these days — it is a huge personal achievement, as I had fully given up on the bricks-and-mortar route so their purchasing people decided to stock it without me badgering them. The positive user reviews and decent category rankings must have worked!<\/p>\n

I have a few copies here I’ve been holding back for giveaways on other sites, but at this point I think it’s clear that those guys are never going to finish their reviews1<\/sup>. So let’s build off this excitement and give a copy away here!<\/p>\n

What you’ll get if you win: <\/p>\n