It’s coming.

My new book, The Sanctum of the Sphere: The Benevolence Archives, Volume 2 releases one month from today, April 28th.  As of right now I am a tiny bit behind schedule in finalizing the manuscript and the print and ebook versions, but nothing I can’t overcome, especially since my Spring Break is the week after this one.  I’ve been (mostly passively) advertising the book around here for a bit now, and have had a couple of formal posts (like this one, the full print cover reveal) about it, but it’s time to start thinking about more “official” marketing efforts.

Specifically, I’m asking for help.

Two different kinds of help, in fact:

• Day One Reviewers.  Or, at least, first-week reviewers, although the more reviews I can have up on Amazon on day one the better.  If you’re interested, drop a comment in the post and let me know.  I’ll send you a free ebook once the copy is finalized; it has to be done (the book, I mean, not your review) by the 17th but my current plan is to have it finalized a week earlier than that.  You read it and leave me an honest review: at least on Amazon, but a Goodreads review is also appreciated.  Folks who reviewed BA 1 or my alpha readers are automatically approved; if you don’t fit into either of those categories I’ll probably send you a book anyway if you interact with me here or on Twitter enough that I recognize your name.
• Rebloggers, well-wishers and interviewers.  I’ve already got a couple of most excellent people who are planning on doing interview posts as promo around release date; anybody else who is interested, regardless of how much traffic your blog gets, is gratefully appreciated.  Consider it an Ask Me Anything, only without Reddit.  So long as you post sometime around release date and link to this blog and the Amazon page for Sanctum, you can literally ask me whatever you want.  Let me know you’re interested via comments here, send me an email with your questions, and I’ll answer ’em and get back to you as quickly as I can.   I’ll also link to the interview from this site once the post goes up.  Rebloggers and well-wishers can have at it as they see fit.  I have been known to return favors, too, by the way.  🙂

One note on the request for reviews: I do not, at least not officially, participate in review swaps, although there are examples out there of authors where we have mutually reviewed each other.  If you’re an indie author and your book comes to my attention, I may well review it anyway, but I won’t lock myself into reviewing something just because you review my book.  I will probably help you out with promo later if you do an interview, though.

(Does that make me a dick? I hope not.)

It should go without saying, but: I genuinely appreciate anyone who is willing to help out here, despite that last paragraph.  Thank you in advance.

The Sanctum of the Sphere is available for digital pre-order from Amazon here.  You can also add it to your Goodreads shelves here.  If you haven’t read Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 yet, you can get it for free from Smashwords or Openbooks.com, or you can pay $1.99 to get it from Amazon.

Thank you!