December 3rd, 2005
Update
- Jay Navok
Warriors of Legend
Christmas Campaign
With the coming of the 12th month brings a chill to the
Tokyo air, but also some fun lights and decorations throughout the city.
With the coming of the 12th month of 2005 also comes an important turning
point for our project. The goal is to send a marketing proposal to Barnes
and Noble by the end of the month outlining why they should carry Warriors
of Legend in their stores.
To do that we need, among other things, a couple of
professional reviews. (It's a requirement for application.) We have one from
Neo UK, and AnimeNewsNetwork may give us another, but more magazine reviews
are necessary. If you have suggestions for magazines that do book reviews
and you think would take on a book like this, please let us know ASAP.
Another thing we need to do is show them that the book
caters to a wide audience; basically, we need to prove to them that a Sailor
Moon-related product is still a viable commodity. Steady sales since release
are important; if it was just a whole lot of books sold in May and then
nothing after that, it'd indicate to them that there's only a small core
fanbase left. However, surprising even us, sales have been very steady and
even increased somewhat since the summer. We need this momentum to continue
through to the end of the month because we need to send them our sales
figures.
Anyway, in keeping with the spirit of the times we're
unveiling our Warriors of Legend: Christmas Campaign. Complete with fun
logo:
Feel free to spread the joy with this image.
If you haven't written a review at Amazon, we ask you to
please do so. Help make this a December to remember (and a festivus for the
rest-of-us) by getting the book if you haven't already.
Since we don't want anyone upset if they order and the book
doesn't come until after the New Year, we want to point out that if you want
the book to arrive in time for Christmas (or Hannukah, which starts December
25th this year) it's important to order early. Keep in mind that WoL is
print-on-demand which means there's no "stock" of it; the book takes time to
print, and that means it doesn't always ship in that 24 hour timespan that
Amazon gives. It could take considerably longer depending on which of the
Booksurge printing centers is nearest you. Also, Booksurge's printers may
have queues due to other Christmas orders. So the sooner the better.
In other news, I'm fairly pleased at the response to the
tour inquiries so far. If you have serious interest I urge you to let us
know ASAP. I still don't know if we'll end up meeting our minimum (it's very
easy to send an e-mail promising commitment and a whole other story to put
together such a large amount of money) but I hope we do. It looks like once
the tour gets nearer we'll send out a press release on the ANN news wires;
this is what I meant back in January about the tour getting mentioned at
more places than just Genvid.
Some other notes:
-Due to spambots we've made the forums private again. Not
sure how long this will last. Also we've had issues recently with people
paying for accounts and us not being notified by Paypal of payment received.
So if you get an account, please e-mail us using the contact form to let us
know.
-If you ordered WoL from Amazon and got a "cancellation"
notice, please let us know ASAP.
-I have been unable to send
e-mail the last few days so if you are expecting a response to me about
something please be patient
-We've updated
WarriorsofLegend.com with
info on this, the tour, etc.
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