I just went into Barnes and Noble and faced my book out. I wasn’t going to, but the lady standing next to me egged me on. Honestly, it was all I could do not to grab all the people and scream “Look! It’s my book! Buy my book! Buy my book!” The only thing stopped me was my funny outfit. I was wearing pajamas a slippers (the day kind of got away from me, and suddenly, it was time for my FedEx run) and a parka and no makeup, and it seemed an unsuitable getup for such a glamorous book.
They have exactly 1 copy in the store. You know I’m going to go back tomorrow and see if anyone bought it.
I harrassed the staff at my local B&N for this book until they went in the back and got the only copy. I got it before it even the the shelf and I adore it! I enjoyed it so much, I forgot to call my husband back (whom I had hung up on while trying to find the book). I adore it, and he likes it to :D
I spotted your book at Books-a-Million last night and flipped through it with my sister. Needless to say, we were quite impressed. I hope it does well, as somehow you’ve managed to write something unique and interesting in an increasingly flooded knitting-book market.
Just read a review of your book in the NYTimes and raced to add it to my Wish List which, I should mention, doesn’t have all that many knitting books on it because most of them are lame (I hope this doesn’t make me a meanie!). The book looks awesome and, by the way, so do you: I followed the link to your site, read the old post about the comments on your pic, then looked them up on Google and I just have to say, those people are ridiculous — and I’m not just saying that b/c we share the same haircut. I wish MY collarbones still looked like that. You are absolutely stunning and supremely talented, and those self-appointed gender police can bite my tit. There, I said it.
Hurrah! I went out yesterday and bought it from Stacey’s Booksellers in San Francisco as I said I would and snatched up one of the five copies there and have already convinced a dozen people to buy it too by showing off all of the pictures. So many goodies–not enough yarn! Congrats on an amazing book! Come up to SF for a signing, please!
I STALKED my local B&N, and finally found the one remaining unpurchased copy in town over at a local independent, and bought it on the spot.
It is even more fabulous than I thought it would be.
Wanna be interviewed on Lime & Violet? You are SO our cup o’ tea!
Way to face your book out, fancy author lady! If they’d had it at the bookstore I visited today I would have done the same…instead I just had to suggest they get on it and stock it.
I’ve had your book since Monday – love it! Hubby likes it too. First time I’ve EVER seen him pick up a knitting book or magazine. He’s even thinking of taking it in to my LYS to pick up yarn for me to make a project out of it.
Wow. Let’s ask HISGIRLFRIDAY to join our girl gang.
Sugar, I was talking to the lady at the B&N here in Florida (I’m here for the holiday. My mother sends her love, btw, and says to tell you she’s “so proud”!) about why they were only stocking one copy. She said she wasn’t sure, but she did see they would be building an endcap around your book for Valentine’s Day. So, yeah. That’s huge.
I got your book in a bookstore called Atomic Books in Hampden, hon (in Baltimore, or Bal’mer as we say around here) and I took it to a club called Midnight in D.C. where I sit at the door, take people’s money, and knit and watch people in black walk in and out and listen to goth/industrial music, and I showed the book to everybody and one girl wants me to make pasties for her entire burlesque troupe! I love it love it love it!!! After I found it in Hampden, I found two copies at our Borders in Timonium. You go girl!