{"id":576,"date":"2017-01-08T23:08:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T05:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2017-01-08T23:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T05:08:41","slug":"book-release-day-december-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/08\/book-release-day-december-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Release Day: December 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excellent book for the space fan on your list: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rJZnXYMWcN\">https:\/\/t.co\/rJZnXYMWcN<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nancy_A\">@Nancy_A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fiU9CQi5JT\">pic.twitter.com\/fiU9CQi5JT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cmdr_Hadfield\/status\/811313173374582785\">December 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>December 20 is the date I had been looking forward to for quite some time. After the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/book-update-houston-weve-had-a-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">delay in publishing the book <\/a>from the originally planned date of Nov. 15, it seemed a long time in coming! <\/p>\n<p>Because of the delay in the pub date, we had decided not to hold a &#8220;book launch&#8221; event on the release date because of the proximity to the holidays. Everyone just has so much going on the week before Christmas, and so I didn&#8217;t want to add another event on the already busy calendars of friends and family. So, I knew the day would be relatively quiet &#8212; at least personally &#8212; without an event to attend. My husband did take me out to dinner, however, at the Minneapolis landmark, Murrays. It was wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>The day started off with two very positive reviews on space-related websites <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceref.com\/books\/book-review-incredible-stories-from-space.html\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceRef<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceflightinsider.com\/editorial\/review-incredible-stories-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space Flight Insider<\/a>, and quite a bit of buzz on social media (at least in my circles!)  The highlight was when former astronaut Chris Hadfield (1.8 million followers)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cmdr_Hadfield\/status\/811313173374582785\" target=\"_blank\"> Tweeted a recommendation for the book, saying <\/a>&#8220;Excellent book for the space fan on your list&#8221; with a link to the book on my website. What a thrill! It was fun responding to all the comments, too!<\/p>\n<p>Then, fellow space journalist and friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elakdawalla\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Lakdawalla<\/a> pointed out to me that &#8220;Incredible Stories&#8221; was listed as the &#8220;#1 New Release in Astronomy and Astrophysics!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/number-1-seller-560x395.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/number-1-seller-560x395.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/number-1-seller-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/number-1-seller-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/number-1-seller.jpg 859w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The excitement of the day was tempered somewhat when I realized the online book sellers had the book listed as &#8220;temporarily out of stock.&#8221; It seems a glitch at Macmillan&#8217;s warehouse caused a delay in getting the books to their destinations. So the book wasn&#8217;t in stores or available to be shipped to those who had pre-ordered. While I tried to remain positive, I was disappointed to be sure, not to mention feeling a little snake-bit after this second delay in the distribution of the books.  <\/p>\n<p>Again, friends and family came to the rescue, posting positive feedback and comments on social media and sending text messages of support. <\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, &#8220;Incredible Stories From Space&#8221; continues to hold a spot near the top of the &#8220;Hot New Releases,&#8221; so again, I&#8217;m incredibly grateful and thankful for all the support and interest in the book.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hot-New-Releases-560x307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"307\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hot-New-Releases-560x307.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hot-New-Releases-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hot-New-Releases-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hot-New-Releases.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">Excellent book for the space fan on your list: https:\/\/t.co\/rJZnXYMWcN @Nancy_A pic.twitter.com\/fiU9CQi5JT &mdash; Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) December 20, 2016 December 20 is the date I had been looking forward to for quite some time. After the delay in publishing the book from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39,3],"tags":[35,51,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}