It’s interesting to sell a book in 2026. A friend texted the other night that she found my book available for pre-order on Target. Prior to that, I thought it wasn’t out until May 5th so my response was, “yay?”
I’ve been boycotting Amazon (for Dickensian labor practices, environmental and business destruction), Walmart (for labor practices, destruction of small town businesses) for years. Since the new regime, I’ve doubled-down on avoiding Amazon on account of its multi-million dollar investment in the Trump enterprise known as his presidency,1 plus I’ve added Target and Walmart to my boycott list for scrubbing diversity and inclusion policies from their employee protections.
So now it’s real, and what’s an author to do? What is anyone to do if they are trying to get people interested in their products when they believe that many of the people selling them are harming humans and our habitat?
But you can pre-order the book at Barnes & Noble
Fortunately, my book is also available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble (read here about how it has made a comeback and opened 60 new stores in 2025 against all odds: How Barnes & Noble made a comeback). Amazon is not taking pre-orders now, just listing it for sale. So what I would love is for everyone to pre-order the book at Barnes & Noble and make a splash that way.
Oh, in case you’re wondering, and once the publication date passes, I’ll be emphasizing independent bookstores exclusively. It’s just not available at those now, even for pre-order
(And if you know anything bad about Barnes & Noble, please keep it to yourself or tell a priest if you must, lol)
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