International To Bargain With Mortals Day! is a thing I have just made up, but we’re going with it. 

Bargain has been out for almost a MONTH, which feels crazy. It’s out in the world. I’m seeing the pictures you guys send me of it from all over the place and people are reading it! It’s such a fun process to see this book that went from a tiny circle of people to a small publishing team to a little pool of early readers now be out in the world to everyone, but the work is not done! My work, anyway, but I’m gonna ask for your help on this one.

I’d love to ask for your help and support in making next Monday, December 1st, a big day for Bargain by doing any (or all!) of the following…

• Buy the book! For yourself if you haven’t picked it up yet, or if you’re planning on gifting it to a reader friend, it’s the perfect time

  • And there may or may not be an e-book sale coming up this week ;) 

• If you’ve finished the book, post your review!

  • On review sites like Goodreads (where we’re inching closer to 500 ratings!) or Storygraph, but even if you already have, it’s a great day to cross-share that review to retail sites like Amazon (this is extremely helpful), Barnes & Noble, Indigo, etc. wherever it is that you buy!
    

• Post about it on social media!

  • Whether you have 10 followers or 10,000, visibility is so incredibly important for a book. Post about Bargain to your feeds and/or in your stories, share it on your personal pages to let friends and family know what you’re reading, I’d love to see my mentions flooded with people sharing Bargain! 

The holidays are both an extremely important and extremely difficult promotional time for books, and I want to close out 2025 with as strong a finish as possible by giving Bargain as much of a leg up as we possibly can in its first months.

And on my end of our little celebration, I’ll be doing a giveaway of (possibly the last?) one of our VIP ARC boxes that we sent out to influencers to promote the book ^_^ So keep an eye out for that on Monday as well as whatever else I'm cooking up over here.

More to come, but I wanted to get this out of my brain and into your hands <3 Thank you all for being here. More than ever, I'm feeling so dedicated and motivated to create a space in publishing that is equitable and supportive of our authors and the work that we love so much, that refuses to overlook stories and writers based on the choices of executive boards and social media trends, and the way that we can continue to do that is by giving as much love and support to our books as possible.

- Emma