How did I celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?
~✨ By finding out THE WATER OUTLAWS is getting a second printing! ✨~
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250180421/thewateroutlaws
Hey anyone want some PUBLISHING TRIVIA about print runs?
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Have you ever looked at a copyright page and seen this line?
This is the “number line” or “printer’s key” and it tells you which printing a book’s on! The lowest existing number is the current print run.
(I think 0 means 10 here, making 1 the lowest number = 1st print run)
For the second printing... drum roll... the “1” will be DELETED!!!
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You’ll see discussions of this among book collectors, where earlier printings can be more valuable...
Or, yanno, among people like me who are just TOTAL DORKS
In fact this is the first time one of my books has had a second printing (YAY!), so I might actually go out and buy it so I can have a copy without the “1” there 🤣🤣🤣
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But! What’s selling right now is the first printing still — it’s not sold through YET, it's just going fast — so if YOU want to be a book collecting dork and get a hardcover with the “1” in it, you still can!
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250180421/thewateroutlaws
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Celebrate with mooncakes and stabby lesbians!! 🥮⚔📕
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@slhuang
Congratulations!!
