Thursday 15 December 2011

A Shameless Post

Apologies, this post is full of braggage. If braggage offends look away now...

First thing this morning, I discovered that I'd made Jim McLeod's Top Ten Discoveries of 2011 along with John Hornor Jacobs, Graeme Reynolds, Ian Rogers, Paul D Brazil, and Jasper Bark. Flabbergasted. And then, on a day that decided it would be good to me, Jim also posted 8 of his Top Fifteen Reads of the Year and Theatre of Curious Acts and Nowhere Hall (along with the other Spectral chapbooks) made the list. And I hadn't even had time yet to link to Jim's excellent review of Theatre... "This book is amazing, Cate's writing is intelligent, lyrical, emotional. evocative and totally engaging..." and you can read the rest of the review here.

And then (because it's one of those days - I should check my lottery numbers), over at The Eloquent Page, Pablo Cheescake has a year in review post and he picked Theatre as his book of the month for December. Hey, who shouted 'you only had to fight half a month's worth of books'? I'm watching you. I may faint now. Oh, and again, Spectral Press gets a mention. Dude!

And... (sorry!!!)

Theatre is now available to actually buy (not pre-order) at Barnes & Noble (hardcover) and at Amazon US (hardcover). And, it's available to preorder at Amazon UK (hardcover). You can't buy it at The Book Depository yet, but the paperback is listed there. I  The Book Depository.

I also  almost everyone in the known universe today. Heck, I'll even save a hug for those extraterrestrial dudes.

Pardon me while I faint.

21 comments:

Simon said...

Congrats, Cate! Finally everyone else is starting to notice what some of us have been saying for ages (you know, the whole awesomeness thing.)

Hugs, and shake your booty! :)

Cate Gardner said...

Tomorrow I turn back into a frog ;)

Josh Reynolds said...

Congratulations! You deserve ever accolade that comes your way. And I'm pre-ordering that bad boy as we speak.

Cate Gardner said...

Thanks, Sarah

Thanks, Joshua :D

Terri-Lynne said...

Congratulations, Cate! I cannot wait to read it!

Cate Gardner said...

Thanks, Terri. I loved Finder.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, Cate. I'm going to pick up Theater this week sometime. Looking forward to reading it after Jim's review

Michael Stone said...

Whoop! Congratulations.

Cate Gardner said...

Thanks, Graeme

:D Mike

Aaron Polson said...

Fantastic. Congrats, Cate!

Cate Gardner said...

Thanks, Aaron. But don't you need to be doing more important things right now ;)

Anonymous said...

Congratulations!

Anonymous said...

Awesome news and well deserved.

K. Allen Wood said...

Congrats, Cate! =)

Just ordered the hardcover. Amazon Prime should have it to me in two days. =)

Kim Vandervort said...

Congratulations, Cate! I have my ARC here (I fought Terri-Lynne DeFino for it at WFC and won!) and I am so ready to read it! Such fantastic news! :)

Cate Gardner said...

Thank you oh mysterious one!

Thanks, Richard

I think I love Amazon Prime, Ken. And remember - don't hate Ken ;)

Thanks, Kim :D

Simon Kewin said...

Wonderful stuff, Cate - many congratulations.

Anthony Rapino said...

If anyone deserves to brag, it is you. :-)

Lee Thompson/Thomas Morgan/James Logan/Julian Vaughn said...

Yay! Well-deserved, Cate!!!

Deborah Walker said...

I saw the top ten stuff, and I thought wow. You know world of mouth is the best promotion.

Cate, you're going stellar. Stay calm and carry on.

DeAnna said...

Woo hoo!