Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy discussion

Has anyone seen Twice Bitten on the shelves yet? The time is getting close!!! I know its soft date is July 7th or 9th.. but I am hopin that it will hit some shelves early.

Its available on Barnes & Noble's webiste, both hard and e-copies.

oops, excuse the type. I meant website. :)

lol! Thanks

yea. mine got shipped 2 days ago. im waiting for the UPS guy.

Really? You can get books before they come out?

High Priestess of all Vampyres wrote: "Really? You can get books before they come out?"

i dunno. i was talking wit someone and they said that twice bitten is shippingt o me b/c it said umm...ships within 24 hrs. i didnt believe that b/c i ordered a m onth ago and it said the same thing to me but kept delaying the order, but she said yup. it actually shipped so i ordered it again from them and they already shipped it on june 23. i hope i get it by tomorrow though. suppose to be here within 3 days but that is never true. always 4 days.

Dang I think I'll do that next time

I haven't tried it but if you have the Nook, the download is available too. I just ordered hard copy of the first one so I dont' want to get ahead of myself :))))

but someone said that if they ship out before relase date neill doesn not get credit. i was like WTF? she should get credit as long as we paid for it and whtever b/c i mean its her book! but i still have that other book that is shipping out on the release date on order so i mite just read this one that comming and then return it and ill have that other one shipped out. where i read a week early and neill still gets credit.. still thinking about it though. i hope she gets on the NYT list though b/c she deserves it i mean there r some other series in the NYT list who their series r worst the CLV.

i really want morebook in theCLV series 4 books just isnt enough.

lol! I wouldn't do that either....What the heck is a Nook?

its an ereader. but the one from B&N

Ok thanks....It sounds cool

I think the author still gets their $$ cut but, yeah, the NYT bestseller list is the concern. I read that the books have to be sold within the week before the official release date or later to count towards the NYT list.

I ordered mine from B&N and it should be coming anytime now. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that since I have their membership card, shipping was free even though I wasn't spending $25 on the total order. PLUS it's UPS express shipping not the slower postal service like what Amazon has been using for my recent orders.

I don't blame you for not wanting to pay 25 bucks on the full order.I have to go now so talk to you ppl later

High Priestess of all Vampyres wrote: "lol! I wouldn't do that either....What the heck is a Nook?"

A Nook is Barnes & Noble's eReader, which competes with Amazon's Kindle as well as other nonproprietary eReaders like from Sony.

Okay thanks

oh, i still think she it should count though. but i guess i understand more now. yah. did u order it yesterday? yup. it was if ur a member you have to spend $10 or more but now the changed it. yah! so the shipping is free!

Thats stupid.

If you have the Ipod touch or Iphone you can download a free app for the B&N e-reader. I have the Nook but I also have app on my Ipod touch. If your're interested, there is also a free app for IPod Touch/Phone for the Amazon Kindle as well.

High Priestess of all Vampyres wrote: "Thats stupid."

wht's stupid? the NYT crap?

Oops, also an app for the Kobe reader which is Borders/Waldenbooks e-reader that just came out.

No how you have to pay more if you're a member

High Priestess of all Vampyres wrote: "No how you have to pay more if you're a member"

oh, i remember that i was soooo pissed about that to. i just got a member card b/c in the stores there's a 10-40% off on items adn whtnot. i never use to get at B%N b/c of the shipping crap though. but the up side is you get lots of dicount coupons in ur email.

Mariya wrote: "oh, i still think she it should count though. but i guess i understand more now. yah. did u order it yesterday? yup. it was if ur a member you have to spend $10 or more but now the changed it. yah!..."

I'm guessing the reason it doesn't count is the way the NYT lists are run. Each week they count the number of sales of each book in that week, and then that's how they rank them. Some books stay on the lists for multiple weeks, which is based just on sales for that week.

I hope Chicagoland Vampires makes the list, but I wonder how likely it is. Aren't they distributed as trade books, not mass market. So they aren't distributed into places like grocery stories?

Yea that would be good....but still I would be so pissed if I was going to buy a book and had to pay extra becuase of member reasons.

twice bitten? Is that part of Chicagoland Vampires? It sounded like a Jennifer Rardin book.

High Priestess of all Vampyres wrote: "Yea that would be good....but still I would be so pissed if I was going to buy a book and had to pay extra becuase of member reasons."

that's true, when i didnt have B&N member i just went overstock.com the shipping is like 2 something and i preordered my spirit bound vampire academy book from there and i got it the day after its release date. better option. amazon probally not b/c the same 25 dollars worth for free shipping.

Shannon wrote: "Mariya wrote: "oh, i still think she it should count though. but i guess i understand more now. yah. did u order it yesterday? yup. it was if ur a member you have to spend $10 or more but now the c..."

me too. i kinda really wanna contribute to it though, u knoe. b/c ill be recieving my book early. i notice that. the in regular stores i dont see it there but i dont see lots of books there in the first place.

High Priestess of all Vampyres wrote: "Yea that would be good....but still I would be so pissed if I was going to buy a book and had to pay extra becuase of member reasons."

B&N is running the same free shipping for everyone (even if you aren't a member) if you buy $25 like Amazon.

It's just that I was excited about their deals for members. I had been doing my preorders with Amazon but they have started to frustrate me. First they started shipping postal serivce instead of UPS which is slower. Then they've changed how the super saver free shipping works on preorders. If I order 5 preorders and ask for the super saver free shipping, they don't ship the books until the last book is available. For instance, if two books are out in July, one in Aug and two in Sept, none of the books will ship until Sept!!! They used to ship them as they were available.

Now what I just learned about B&N and am excited about, is that w/their member program they don't require the $25 purchase to get the free shipping PLUS they use the faster UPS. So I can do preorders there and get them faster as they come out.

Sally wrote: "twice bitten? Is that part of Chicagoland Vampires? It sounded like a Jennifer Rardin book."

Yes, Twice Bitten is third in the Chicagoland Vampires series by Chloe Neill.