Now Shipping: Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet

Brain Jar Press is now shipping print editions of my short story collection, Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet. The book contains twelve science fiction stories, including my sci-fi dragon western Dying Young and the Aurealis Award winning cyberpunk fairytale Clockwork, Patchwork, and Raven. It also features two stories, 52 Pick-Up and and Inside An Egg, Inside A Duck, that are original to the collection.

Customers who pre-ordered already have their books. Copies have been showing up on Twitter.

This wonder arrived this afternoon. Thank you @BrainJarPress snd @Petermball pic.twitter.com/Q08xzSgEJj

— Trent Jamieson (@trentonomicon) August 25, 2021

Some books are events — launched and celebrated, pushed hard to find their readership — but increasingly I fall back on the default of making books available. The launch is a product of an older sales environment, where you needed all the attention on a book right now, before the sales window closed and a mass of new releases swept yours off the shelf.

Launches are fun, and they celebrate the author, but increasingly a writer’s career will be built out a deep backlist of releases that can sell over time. Very few of my books sell a huge number on the week they’re released, but most of them sell steadily over a number of years. Not Quite The End Of the World Just Yet has been ticking along in ebook since 2018, quietly becoming one of Brain Jar’s best-selling titles in the handful of formats it was available.

The print edition has less “new book” energy because of that, because it’s mostly a new option and format.

Not Quite The End Of The World is available now in Print and Ebook via Brain Jar Press or Your Favourite Bookstore