Perfect Tunes
Somehow, I’m in the middle of doing publicity for Perfect Tunes. If you’re a regular reader of this newsletter, you have heard a lot about this book over the past five years. Well, now it’s published, and you can order it online and have it shipped to your bunker. The independent bookstores where you’d ordinarily be able to buy it are closed, but you can still visit them online and they’ll ship it to you. Here are the stores that have particularly supported the book by planning events for the launch. Please buy it from the one that’s closest to where you live, or just whichever one you want! They ship all over the country, usually as fast as Amazon or faster!
Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn)
Politics and Prose (DC)
Skylight Books (LA)
Book Passage (SF)
Powell’s (Portland)
Elliot Bay (Seattle)
Harvard Bookstore (Boston)
it’s also available digitally on Scribd and Apple Books, both of which have done nice promotions for it. The audiobook (I didn’t read it, the actress who did is really good!!) is available via Scribd and via Apple Books, Audible, Google Play and Libro.fm.
And don’t forget that you can likely also download the ebook from your local library via Overdrive!
Also, I’m still doing a handful of book events, all of which of course are happening in the same place: on your computer or phone screen. Here is a handy roundup of links!
This Saturday evening at 6pm EST “at” Politics and Prose I’ll be in conversation with the intimidating and lovely Olivia Nuzzi, New York magazine’s DC correspondent.
This coming Monday 4/20 I’ll be in conversation with the fascinating Emma McGowan, who is a certified sex educator! Perhaps we’ll all learn a thing or two!
On Thursday 4/23 at 7pm EST the brilliant debut novelist Miranda Popkey and I will be in conversation “at” Harvard Bookstore. Miranda edited Friendship in her previous life as a book editor and we will have a lot to discuss!
There will be a few more of these, so don’t worry if none of these times work for you. I’ll continue to tweet about them and lots of other petty bs relentlessly.
I would love it if you left a review of Perfect Tunes on Amazon or Goodreads after reading it, and feel free to be completely honest! I’ll never read the reviews, and the quantity of reviews is what helps the book get algorithmically sorted into the feeds of more potential readers.
The people who work at Avid Reader, the imprint of Simon and Schuster that published this book, have worked so hard on its behalf and I would really like to reward their faith in me and in this book. I’m pushing myself to do everything I can to support my book because I know that it will matter to them and to future-me, even if right now it seems very, very insignificant compared to everything else that’s happening.
But I do hope that, if you get a chance to read it, you will be transported into its world the way I was when I was writing it, and that it will provide a moment of respite. A couple of people have told me that they read it without stopping and didn’t think about the pandemic for like half a day. Maybe that will be your experience too! I really wish a book could do that for me right now.
Love,
Emily