Above is the cover to my latest novel. Those of you who have read it should feel free to use this space for coments.
Also, you guys can help me out with something: I’d like to know whose local bookstores are carrying it and, more particularly, not carrying it. I’m trying to get a feel for what sort of market penetration it’s gotten. So even if you’re not buying it, let me know if it is now, or ever has been, on your local shelves.
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None on the shelf in Lufkin, TX, but the store manager said that they may be in their Friday shipment, he’s got one on order for me, and will let me know if they show tomorrow.
None @ Borders in Garden City, RI
Gonna check the local Barnes & Noble tomorrow!
B. Dalton in Johnstown, PA, had two copies on the shelf. They now have one 🙂
Also available at a Chapters in western Canada (just outside of Edmonton). Don’t know about other stores, as it was the first one I checked.
Bought it but haven’t started reading it; I’ve got half a dozen books in my to-read pile as it is.
Didn’t pick it up yet, due to lack of money, but I saw it at my Barnes & Noble in Poughkeepsie, NY. We have a Borders, but I didn’t see it there (yet).
Well, the news from Richmond, VA gets worse. I had to kill some time in the West Broad Street Books-A-Million and checked up on it. This is the second or third largest BAM in our area. Not only did it have zero copies of the new book, but the only two PAD novels I could find was the Spider-Man Movie novel and the Battlestar novel. I asked one of the store’s employees when the book would be in again and they couldn’t tell me. They did offer to special order the thing, but they couldn’t even tell me whether or not copies would be coming in on the next couple of deliveries of books to the store.
The lizard on the cover looks a lot like the Gorn from Star Trek. Is the hottie on the cover the protagonist of the story or just another character in the book?
I was hoping that there would be a non Star Trek sci fi book by PAD in the future instead. I still have Sir Apropos and it’s sequel and still haven’t read them. I know that they’re good books but I gravitate toward SF nine times out of ten.
I got my copy at a charity auction at Duckon on June 9th.
Saw it this past weekend at my local Barnes and Noble in Peoria (Phoenix suburb) Arizona. I was there to pick up the complete Knight series, which they also had. All my other local B&N and Borders had one or two of the series, but not all three.
-TODD
Peter, who illustrated the cover?
Peter
I live in Nashville, TN and I searched far and wide for your book.
It was not available at the Borders chains in my area last week. I did pick up a copy at Barnes and Nobel last Friday.
OF course, as these things go, I picked it up and then got a tidal wave of books in on reserve at the library….I just need to give up my job and read all the time…:)
Haven’t seen it in any of the Knoxville bookstores, so Amazon came through for me – arrived this morning – woot! Now I’ve got something to read this weekend…
The Barnes and Noble in Duluth, GA (zip 30096 if you want to look it up)had two copies before the last time I went in there. I cut that down to one…
I did not see a copy at the Borders in Snellville, GA today. Granted I wasn’t really searching for it specifically, but I did check all the new arrival tables.
Bobby
I did not see a copy at the Borders in Snellville, GA today. Granted I wasn’t really searching for it specifically, but I did check all the new arrival tables.
Bobby
I bought mine today at the Borders in Everett, WA. There were a few more on the shelves.
Peter:
I live near the Eastbrook Mall Borders Express in Mansfield, CT and they didn’t have it. Of course they don’t ever have much of anything, but that goes without saying.
My current job had me working near the state border between Connecticut and Rhode Island.
On a lark I drove all the way to the Borders in Providence, Rhode Island and bought their lone copy today. How many they had before my purchase I can’t say.
Also managed to acguire your Fantastic Four novel and the trade paperback to No Limits, both of which until now I had no luck finding either, so over all it was a pretty worthwhile trip.
As for the book itself, will let you know my opinions after I read it.
But no matter where I go, I still can’t find any of the Anthony Tollin produced Shadow pulp reprints. *sigh* 🙁
Edmonton, AB – I went to 3 different Chapters and there was one hardcover available. Which I scooped up.
Mishawaka, IN, 2 copies on the shelf at B&N.
I’ve taken three orders for it.
My shelves are virtual, [and thus virtually limitless] since I’m an online retailer rather than a brick-and-mortar.
I don’t know whether the fact that I *am* virtual skews your research.
I’ve taken three orders for it.
My shelves are virtual, [and thus virtually limitless] since I’m an online retailer rather than a brick-and-mortar.
I don’t know whether the fact that I *am* virtual skews your research.
I got it just fine from Amazon (and just in time for my trip to Disney World this past week too), though I haven’t finished it and so am staying quite far from this thread until then.
I am going to have to wait for the paperback but I am going to get it. PAD’s books are the only ones I’ll get without reading the reviews on it because I usually get more out of them than the usual author.
25 bucks with a discount is still a lot for me for one book. I figure if I wait I can purchase the third Apropos novel along with this…..
My local bookstore (B Dalton)did not have it in and I have not seen it in there. I live in Danville, VA.
I had preordered and recieved my copy from my local comic book store (B & D’s Sports Cards and Comics) so I wasn’t worried about it.
1I have the book but have not yet had a chance to start it. I have a few vacation days coming so I pla on starting it then with some anticipation. However, I really can’t halp with the market penetration survey since I had ordered it through the comic shop I work at. I get a discount there but not at my local book shop so I get whatever I can there. I’ll keep an eye out as I stop elsewhere now that you’ve asked.
1I have the book but have not yet had a chance to start it. I have a few vacation days coming so I pla on starting it then with some anticipation. However, I really can’t halp with the market penetration survey since I had ordered it through the comic shop I work at. I get a discount there but not at my local book shop so I get whatever I can there. I’ll keep an eye out as I stop elsewhere now that you’ve asked.
1I have the book but have not yet had a chance to start it. I have a few vacation days coming so I pla on starting it then with some anticipation. However, I really can’t halp with the market penetration survey since I had ordered it through the comic shop I work at. I get a discount there but not at my local book shop so I get whatever I can there. I’ll keep an eye out as I stop elsewhere now that you’ve asked.
Hmmm. The Borders in Canoga Park, California did not have a copy on their shelves when I was in the store today.
“25 bucks with a discount is still a lot for me for one book.”
I point everybody to…
http://www.deepdiscount.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=8487272
$16.56 & free shipping is a pretty good deal.
Spotted it on the shelves at the Barnes and Noble in Columbia, Missouri.
2 copies on the shelf at a Barnes & Noble in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
The Borders in Brandon, FL had it, but just one copy.
The Chapters I went to in Oakville, ON, had none in stock, although it was available to order.
I just got in the mail today, Peter! It looks even nicer in my hands than online! I’m gonna crack it open and dig into it at the gym today!
Success!!! Found ONE copy on the shelves at the Border’s Books in Centereach, which I promptly snagged.
On the shelf at two more Texas Barnes & Nobles — South Hulen in Fort Worth and I-30 in Arlington.
I was in San Diego over the weekend and dropped by a book store (sorry don’t rememebr the name) looking for the book. While the clerk mentioned you were a popular writer, and he seemed to think they had copies, it turned out they had sold out, so I have not yet been able to aquire the book myself.
Our local Hastings (Russellville, Arkansas) has a few copies, as does our Pope County Public Library.
I just finished reading the book, and it made me think of what a PAD novelization of a Ray Harryhausen film would be like. (I mean that in a good way.)
Steve Leavell
I admit I was a bit nervous at the start of the first chapter, thinking it might just be a standard fantasy novel, but my concerns were thankfully alleviated very quickly. I really dug the book, and, given how low tech the Twelve Races all seem to be compared to the humans they replaced, I’m very curious to see just how they managed to largely wipe out humanity (or even if they did, given that from what we’ve seen so far they seem to all be localized in Europe).
How many books is this slated to be? Is it going to be a trilogy, or is it going to be a bit more expansive in scope?
Peter:
As of July third, my local Borders Express at the Eastbrook Mall still had not gained any copies of DARKNESS OF THE LIGHT.
However they did now have two copies to the paperback edition of FALL OF NIGHT and two copies of your new Fantastic Four novel.
Meanwhile, have read about the first ten pages of DARKNESS in what I laughingly call my “spare” time.
‘She followed me home mother. Can I keep her?’
ROTFLMAO!
The Barnes & Noble where I work (Geneva, IL) has 2 copies on the shelf.
Just to let you know, there are copies in the Calgary Chapter stores, at least two, three or four in each that I’ve been in.
I got my copy at a different chain McNally Robinson that had a couple of copies.
I want to finish up a couple of books I’m reading before starting it,
Tom Dakers,
Calgary, AB
Picked it up on the 4th at a Books a Million in Charlotte, NC.
– John Martinek
Saw it prominently displayed (either front window, or front counter, can’t remember which) just yesterday at Borderlands Books, an excellent fantasy horror SF shop in San Francisco.
1 Peter, I was very curious to see how the big chain does with this in Toronto, and with over 5 million people – you’d starve to death on brick and mortar sales here.
Here’s the results of the ‘in store’ copies from their website.
Canada – Chapters/Indigo /Coles bookstores – Online Search:
You’ve searched in Mississauga, Ontario + 50 km; found 44 matching locations.
Results: largest per store was 4 copies, most were 0. Total 32 books.
The Greater Toronto Area, population roughly 5 million, 5 hundred thousand people – from wikipedia.
Maybe you have to go on tour.
jim
Evanston Il. No sign of “Darkness of the Light.” Will check further south ( chicago).
B&N Toledo, Ohio, had a copy on Thursday, 7-5-7.
I went to my local Waldenbooks in DuBois, PA (in central Pennsylvania) a week or two after the release date, and they did not have any copies in and were not showing any being shipped to them. The manager, who was waiting on me, asked me if I wanted to have the book special ordered, and I told him that I would just check back periodically until it came in. (One Knight Only and Fall Of Knight both came in over a month after their release dates, so I’m used to your some of your books taking a little longer to arrive here.) He looked at the description of the book and told me that he was ordering ten copies for the store and they would be in within a couple of weeks.
He was good as his word, because when I stopped in on Friday night, there were eight copies of the book on the shelves, and I happily bought one of them.
Hmmm. Well the Barnes & Noble in Woodland Hills, CA had two copies in the SF new hardback section.
Books-A-Million, Reston Virginia:
No copies (and very few Peter David – I think the Battlestar Galactica and a few of the Star Trek were the only selections)
Barnes & Noble, Springfield Virginia:
2 copies in Sci-Fi/Fantasy
They also had the Wuin series and several Star Treks.