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There comes a time, before the official release of a novel, when the ARCs come in.  These Advance Reader Copies aren’t exactly what the finished novel will be, but given the schedule, I try to make them pretty close.  I invite a number of Book Bloggers to take a copy and cross my fingers that a review will show up.  The big publishers have a schedule with a longer time frame, putting out there ARCs several months in advance, but I’m an independent and most of the reviews that I get also come from blogs and on-line magazines with a much shorter time frame than the big names like Publishers Weekly.  I tried to match that long range schedule originally, but since it proved highly unlikely that the big review houses would touch a self-published novel, I changed to a schedule more in line with my realities.<\/p>\n

<\/a>So I started sending out invitations to bloggers, and hoped that the books would arrive by the time the requests started arriving.  I checked the FedEx tracking data and discovered that it was due yesterday, Friday the 13th.  I started checking the driveway, about once an hour, because I know that sometimes, when the driver is in a hurry, he won’t wait for me, sometimes I suspect that he doesn’t even walk to the door.  Like this delivery.  The box of books was balanced on the rear view mirror.  I was in the house.  No one knocked.  I had to go get Mary Ann and show her before I touched it.  We laughed.  At least he didn’t hide the delivery in the pool chemical box like a DHS guy did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There comes a time, before the official release of a novel, when the ARCs come in.  These Advance Reader Copies aren’t exactly what the finished novel will be, but given the schedule, I try to make them pretty close.  I invite a number of Book Bloggers to take a copy and cross my fingers that… Continue reading Follow That Mouse ARCs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_1006.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-x0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}