Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly, THE authority when it comes to reviewing novels, received a copy of my book several months ago. They contacted my publisher to tell her that they would be doing a review (based on what, I don’t know – did you know they get something like 500 books/week???). But that’s the last we heard. I know that everyone has been checking everything they can daily, waiting for said review, and had no return. Nothing. Nada.

I can’t speak for my publisher, or distributor, or the publicist, or even my editor, who I speak to about a million times a day. But to be honest I was starting to give up on it. I’d come to the conclusion that it was another one of those “publishing things” that Glass House tells me happen so often… you think something’s going to happen, but then you look up and see that the possibility has disappeared somewhere into the atmosphere, without a trace. And you start to ask yourself why you believed it existed in the first place.

Then on Thursday some very big things happened. My publisher got the published books in. That means we know what they look like in their “real” version. In hardback. It’s like holding millions of dollars of cold hard cash, rather than looking at a check. Or at least that’s what it felt like to me. Oh yeah, and we found out that the PW review came out. Not only did it come out, but what they said was extra ordinary, and I’m still in a state where my feet can’t feel the floor. Here it is… (in its publisher-approved form, of course)

“Cutting-edge research, complex plotting and in-depth characterization… Hamilton Turbee… is surely one of the most interesting and endearing heroes ever to star in an action adventure novel. …[]… Aaron keeps the action moving swiftly forward. …[]… All will eagerly await the two projected sequels.”

And there are only 5 weeks to the release and book tour. Is it childish to stand on my desk and shout with joy???