I don’t know what’s cuter, my wife cursing out Tuxedo Mask when they lose a Sailor Moon Drops or their sheer distress at failing Luna in a look for Luna level because “she’s just a poor little kitty lost forever now’
I did not mean to disappear off here for three days, whoops. But LIVEBLOG OF THE REST OF 106 TONIGHT, time tbd.
Aaaand I suck and am pushing this back to tomorrow, the wife isn’t feeling well and I’m not in the best place to dig in
Now I’m feeling uncharitable so below the cut is a work rant
It’s all but 100% confirmed I’m getting shunted over to a new position, it sounds like they’re making my current job part time and I’m staying in the office as a sales assistant which like, on the one hand that’s an easier position to put on a resume or other jobs but on the other hand it’s so frustrating to feel like it didn’t matter how good a job I did and I didn’t really get a choice about it. Work right now feels like the actual work people do doesn’t matter at all and I want desperately to leave
Haha I hate my workplace so much, as of Friday night I had a four day weekend (and I know it’s not an error on my part because a manager asked me Friday as I was leaving if I wanted another shift because I only had 32 hours) BUT SOMETIME AFTER THAT I GOT SCHEDULED FOR TODAY WITHOUT NOTICE so I unknowingly did a no-call no-show and it’s only concerned texts from my friends that alerted me to it
I did not mean to disappear off here for three days, whoops. But LIVEBLOG OF THE REST OF 106 TONIGHT, time tbd.
Work is such a shit show but! My four day weekend starts at 5!
Thanks @docholligay @rhiorhino and @paksenarrion-reader for your kindness yesterday, I’m doing much better today (work was crazy yesterday and it had the benefit of kind of making me compartmentalize, I couldn’t be actively sad while there were consistently at least five people in my line and customers kept yelling at me because they didn’t see anyone there to help them find books). Your comments helped a lot and I love y’all
I’ll become a different magical girl than all of you. If I were to die, it would be when I am no longer able to kill witches. In other words, there’d be no need for me anymore.
That’s fine, then.
(full view please)
Haha until this year no one close to me had ever died I have no idea how to deal with grief
rnoachi
replied to your link “Handbook for Mortals’ Pulled From ‘New York Times’ YA Best-seller…”What’s going on omfg
LMAOOO. All right Ima try and explain this succinctly as possible. Basically this random-ass ‘young adult’ book, ‘Handbook for Mortals,’ hit the NYT Bestseller List on the #1 Spot for the Hardcover Young Adult Category this morning. Only problem is that literally NO ONE had ever heard of this book before, like nada marketing, publicity, etc. Zilch. It was supposedly published by a company, GeekNation who only announced their publishing arm back in July.
To hit the Bestseller list, the book would have had to sold at least 5,000~ copies within the first week, but a few people were quick to point out a major discrepancy where the book was literally out of stock everywhere in all major retailers, like legit you couldn’t find it on B&N, Amazon, and so on.
YA Twitter basically crowd-sourced an investigation where a few anonymous booksellers revealed that they had gotten calls first asking if they were NYT-reporting bookstores, and then received bulk orders of the book but not caring when the books arrived. Soooo essentially what happened was that this book scammed it’s way on to the top of the NYT Bestseller List by figuring out which bookstores reported sales to the NYT (to determine what hits the bestsellers list, the NYT’s methodology takes a sample from various bookstores, and this supposedly changes every week). They then ordered thousands of copies of the book from those stores and only those stores – and by doing so, this was all a scheme in the hopes of driving the book to the top of the bestseller list.
The main impetus for hitting the bestseller list was for getting a better chance to have a movie adaptation of the book made with a label like ‘#1 NYT Bestselling Book!’ which would have made it more appealing to potential investors. Butttt all of this was discovered and the NYT sent out a revision where they removed the book on the list a few hours ago.
Someone also compared an excerpt of the book to an excerpt from ‘My Immortal,’ so now there’s a conspiracy theory that the author, Lani Sarem, is actually the author behind that fanfic. She’s also a former music manager who worked with bands like Blues Traveler, and the official Blues Traveler account weighed in and claimed that she was fired for ‘pulling these kind of stunts.’
And IN ADDITION to all this craziness, you had the bizarre emergence of random early-2000s celebrities linked to all of this – Lani is apparently JC Chasez’s (from N Sync) cousin who promoted the book on his twitter, and the co-founder of GeekNation (the publishing company behind this book) is Clare Kramer, who portrayed Glory on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and actor Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie, Rookie of the Year) was allegedly involved and planning to star in an eventual movie adaptation.
So, yeah that’s what happened in the last 12 hours of YA Twitter lol.
This is the wildest thing and I love every minute of it.
#also let me be super fuckin real with you here #if we discover that ‘my immortal’ was written by jc chasez’s cousin #i will immediately expire and ASCEND TO A HIGHER PLANE OF EXISTENCE
(via @actualvampireang)
This doesn’t even cover half the craziness. Some of my other favorite parts:
– The cover wasn’t even revealed until the beginning of August
– The ONLY chatter on Twitter before this was a little blog tour they’d put together, but nothing else
– The distribution company behind this is the same people who distributed Milo Yadablahblah
– Whoever was behind this knew August was the best time to push a book onto the list (as opposed to September, which is bananas)
– Whoever was behind this knew the EXACTLY how many books to order form each store (the number that alerts NYT to start giving you a hard time is like 80 books at indies, so they went around and ordered 79 each.)
– But they were dumb enough to wildly over-order (they ordered over 18,000, over double what it would’ve taken)
– Also dumb enough to straight-up tell the booksellers “This is for an event but it’s okay if it doesn’t arrive”
– The book only has ONE blurb. One.
– No trade reviews. No blurbs from other authors within the community
– The ONE blurb is from an “international bestselling author”
– No. She’s a self-pub romance author who’s besties with LS
– You find all that out in the foreword (who puts a foreword on a YA novel???)
– Also the main character is 25 and there isn’t a single teen in this supposed YA novel
– Also also the cover may have been plagiarized
– Also also also the book knocked The Hate U Give to #2 and Everything, Everything off the list entirely, so people were maaaaaaaad
– And finally, when confronted with all this, the author tried to pull a “#KeepYAKind uwu” in her response to PW.
SittingOverHereDreaming 