Kirkus Reviews liked Cosplay: A History!
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The first trade review for Cosplay: A History is in! It comes from Kirkus Reviews, and it's a good one!
Here are the big quotes: "An entertaining look at a vibrant, “interactive, interpretive, and immersive” pop-culture community...A wonderfully fun book showing that the art of having a good time has not been lost."
You can read the rest of the full review here.
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For those not in the book industry, Kirkus Reviews is one of four major trade publications whose job it is to review books for booksellers and librarians. I frequently consult them when I do my own book lists, because they're good at concisely summarizing a book in question.
It's been interesting working on this project for years now — I sold it back in 2019, and had worked on it for several years prior to that — where it's basically only been in my head, and now, that work will get exposed to the wider fandom / reading public. Moreover, only a handful of people have read the book — my parents, another author, my editor, copyeditor, publicist, etc.
It's nerve wracking! I've got ideas that I'm putting out in the world, and I hope that people will find them interesting, informative, etc.
So, seeing that another party not only read it, but actually really liked it and got what I was going for feels like a good sign that others will like it too. It's a huge relief.
I've had a couple of people ask about how and where to buy the book: the answer that I've been giving is anywhere you typically buy books! The product page has a bunch of links to retailers (the only one that doesn't work is Bookshop), in trade paperback, ebook, and audiobook form. (I don't know who's narrating the audio).
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If you are interested in picking it up, I'd urge you to preorder it: those are invaluable for a book's sales. If you preorder it, send along your confirmation, and I'll comp you for the full subscriber list for this newsletter.
That's all for now – I'll try and have something for thr end of the week.
Andrew