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May update: what’s happening this month with The House at the Edge of Night

6/5/2016

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PictureReal copies arriving in Italy last week. Soon these will also be out in the wild in UK bookstores...
The House at the Edge of Night is printed, ready and coming out in just thirteen days in the UK. So I thought this would be a good time to post an update about what’s going on with the book this month!

On Saturday, I’ll be packing my suitcases and travelling to London for publication day. The book is launched on the 16th, and the official publication date is the 19th, so the book will be available in bookshops very soon. And meanwhile I’ll be in the UK for two weeks signing books, visiting my publishers, and doing various other things, some of which I don’t yet know very much about myself. As an author, it’s hard to know what publication will involve until it happens, especially as many things, such as media interviews, are only finalised at the last minute. So I’ll post a definitive update next week with all the information about what I’ll be doing.

For US and Canadian readers, the publication date is 12th July, but I’m pleased to share the news that there are various ways to get hold of a copy ahead of time. My publishers, Penguin Random House, have already run two competitions via GoodReads, and this month The House at the Edge of Night is also going to be part of this eight-book summer reading giveaway which Penguin Random House will be running from the 6th to 20th May on their website: http://bit.ly/1Tt2orI . The other writers are Anna Quindlen, Martha Hall Kelly, Curtis Sittenfeld, Anton DiScalfani, Emma Straub, Emma Cline and Emily Giffin – I’m told that being one of the authors, and living in Italy, are both factors which disqualify me from entering, otherwise I would sign up myself just in the hopes of winning these seven brilliant authors’ books.

And since I’ve been trying to use social media lately to make an honest record of what it’s like to be a writer, I hope I can also share as much as possible of my own experience of the publication process via my Instagram project, #yearinthelifeofawriter, as well as here on the blog. Next time I write a blog post, The House at the Edge of Night will be in bookshops ready to be sold. It’s a scary and exciting thought...

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Stewart Ruth
13/5/2016 09:12:10 am

I'm looking forward to the U.S. release of House at the edge of night. Still not sure as to the methodology for getting my hands on an early copy-Perhaps pay the author to fly across the atlantic with a few books.

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Catherine Banner link
30/5/2016 12:50:10 pm

Hi Stewart, nice to hear from you! I can post you a copy from here, but my advance copies haven't arrived yet so it might take as long as just getting a US copy when it comes out! I will let you know as soon as they arrive in Italy...

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