* Widely reviewed across all major newspapers in Australia and New Zealand including the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Dominion Post * Author will be interviewed in major newspapers * Reviewed widely across online forums including booklovers blogs, bookstore blogs and technology blogs * Author will contribute guests posts and be interviewed across a range of online forums, including booklovers blogs and bookstore blogs * Author will be interviewed on national radio programs like Books and Arts Daily as well as local metropolitan stations * Large budget for bookseller catalogues * Reading copies available * Featured in the Text Publishing newsletter to subscribers and in banner advertising online * Posters available * Social media campaign with giveaways * Author is a social media guru
Robin Sloan has previously published short fiction in Kindle-only editions.
'Wonderful ... flew through it in one sitting ... The reader gets that deeply satisfying feeling of entering a wholly created world, and looking on in wonder as that world gets created by the author's fearlessness and disregard for convention ... It's a lot of fun, a real tour de force.' -- George Saunders Blip Magazine 'I love this book ... It's a good-hearted, optimistic book about friendship and being alive and the lure of the mysterious. It's a book that shows you Google the way Google sees itself, and bookshops the way bookshops ought to be. It's a tonal roadmap to a positive relationship between the old world and the new. It's a book that gets it. Plus, you know: book cults, vertical bookshops, hot geeks, theft, and the pursuit of immortality. This book is in my emotional heartland.' -- Nick Harkaway 'Like all questing heroes, Clay takes on more than he bargained for and learns more than he expected, not least about himself. His story is an old-fashioned tale likably reconceived for the digital age, with the happy message that ingenuity and friendship translate across centuries and data platforms.' Publishers Weekly 'Humorous from the outset, Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore is a rollicking, quirky and occasionally suspenseful novel, which provides the ongoing digital publishing discussion with a fresh voice and outlook.' artshub.com.au '...this is a really original category defying story: part fantasy, part geek quest. Old world knowledge meets new world technology. Bookstores and Google co-exist in peace and harmony. Friendship is celebrated, conflict resolved. What's not to love? A pitch perfect blend of leather-bound mystery and online revelation that deserves more than cult status.' -- Caroline Baum Booktopia Buzz 'Robin Sloan's delightful first novel articulates, in fun style, the collision of paper books and e-books. The protagonist is a tech nerd, but he's also a book nerd, so both those who crave shiny new technologies and those who relish the scent of paper will find room in these pages.' Washington Post 'The ties that bind the story are friendship and vitality for life. This is a clever and whimsical tale with a big heart.' Economist 'Fuses the romance of musty tomes with the brave, new digital world and does so brilliantly.' Herald on Sunday, Auckland 'Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is one of those instant geek classics that gets right into the romance and magic of high-tech...There is nothing in this book that I didn't love.' -- Cory Doctorow
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