To show my appreciation to Kerri for running Midwest Story Night
Since Kerri loves the novel Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, I’m sending her an advanced reader copy (ARC) of the “lost” Dunn. It launched last November. A publishing secret: ARCs are created for reviewers and bookstore buyers, to give them an early look. A hardcover book costs very little to print—once I’d heard a hardback cost twenty-five cents to print—but so few ARCs are printed that the cost breaks down to seven-to-ten dollars per ARC.
That cost, and their scarcity, makes the ARC worth keeping. An investment, as it were.
I still hope Kerri reads it. And Thank You.
Fabulous!
Kerri deserves it! She worked her butt off for us Midwesterners! And we love her!