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Hey, before I start this episode, I have some thanks to dish out.
First, I want to thank every single one of you out there who has bought the Memory palace book.
It is out now on shelves.
At least it is on shelves where you can find it.
Thanks to preorders by Memory palace listeners, you folks have given this book a fighting chance in a ridiculously difficult, struggling market, particularly for nonfiction books.
Because of people who pre ordered and have bought the book in its first days.
This book is actually in stores, which was never a foregone conclusion.
Even the fact that this is a Random House book, it has meant that there are usually just a few copies.
But that, my friends, is something.
It is something real.
Because those few copies are enough for someone who works at that bookstore to look at this book that has come into their store essentially unheralded, look down in the box that they just cut open and say, now that's a book cover.
And then they flip through it and they like it.
And maybe they make a little display, maybe a small pyramid that might catch the eye of the browsing reader in their store.
And it looks like those few books in those stores, like in my own neighborhood bookstore, Skylight Books here in Los Angeles, are selling and selling out, which means that they will order more and that little display might get a little more space on the table, might more likely catch the eye of the next bookstore browsers and maybe build some momentum.
So thank you so sincerely for buying a book.
Those who have bought a book and those who haven't, thank you in advance.
You're going to like it.
And if you want to spread the word, whether that is friend to friend or on your social media feed or through a Goodreads review or Amazon review, or you just want to talk to the cute nerd who works at the bookstore and say, I love this book.
You should make a little display.
That would be amazing and so helpful.