Wow–Fantastic Realities got its blog-launch yesterday–thanks to Lubo Motl, whose energetic efforts pushed its Amazon rank up from #136,000 yesterday morning to an overall rank of #24,099 yesterday and #7,389 so far today….
If this continues, Fantastic Realities should hit number one at Amazon sometime during the night and go into negative numbers by the time it’s officially published–which is tomorrow.
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Tomorrow, Frank and I head to NYC for the book’s official launch in real space and time. Then on Friday, Frank is giving a talk and signing some books at CUNY’s Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street–3:30 p.m., it’s free if you don’t buy a book there.
The hometown launch is a talk and book-signing at the Harvard Square Coop Bookstore on May 2, 7 p.m. It seems like only yesterday that I was just force-fitting this blog’s saga of Nobel adventures into manuscript form (goodbye to reverse chronological order!) |
Most of the book, however, is assorted short pieces by Frank, who goes around winning awards for his science writing when he’s not getting Nobel Prizes or packing his suitcase.
I’ll be blogging more practical details as we go along with this adventure, because it’s my firm belief that many a blog out there ought to end up as a published book–or (like mine) as a part of published book.
Yes, it’s a lot of work, but it’s also great fun.