Update – 4/28/11: the Stealth Edition has now been discontinued. Please check out the book site and buy the regular edition, available from Amazon.com. Thanks to the over 200 people who bought the Stealth Edition and get the buzz going.
Two and a half years after I began scribbling my first notes, my first book Tempo is finally sneaking out into the marketplace. Today, I am releasing an early stealth edition. It is exactly the same as the regular edition to come in about 6 weeks, except that this edition has a) a nice early release discount and b) an extra page at the end with details of a little experiment designed to get some word-of-mouth going. If you choose to participate in the experiment, you can get the ebook free later (the experiment involves giving your copy away).
You can get the Stealth edition via Lulu at 30% off. A reader informs me that the coupon APRILREAD gets you an additional discount, through the end of April.
The regular edition (without the word-of-mouth experiment) should be out on Amazon.com by May 15 or so. This Stealth Edition will be discontinued at that time.
I already released this last Friday on the Be Slightly Evil mailing list, and sold just over a hundred copies on the opening weekend. Let me address the two most common questions immediately:
- eBook edition: The eBook edition won’t be out for several months. I’ll try to get the Kindle edition at least out by July/August or so. Other formats will follow.
- International availability: If you are NOT in the US or Canada, Lulu DOES deliver internationally, but the shipping costs seem to be highly variable, ranging from reasonable in the UK and Australia, to somewhat expensive in Norway to ridiculously expensive in some parts of Eastern Europe. Check before you hit “submit.” If it is too expensive, you may want to wait for the regular or ebook editions. I am trying to get the cheapest possible distribution lined up.
A quick request: if you plan on reviewing the book, please hold off till May 15. The regular edition should be available by then, and I’ll probably do some sort of official launch event around then. I don’t plan on overtly promoting the book beyond this blog until you guys have had a chance to read the book, and I can get a good email conversation going with at least some of you about it. I am taking this one slow and easy.
Note: if you were one of the early buyers, and your version has a misprinted page 12, download the corrected page here. My sincere apologies if you received the flawed copy.
So much for the basics. Let me share a few tidbits about the story so far: