how many smiling icons will I use: many

[thesettingsun]

My first novel, A Relative Weight, is now in stores!

Consider picking up a copy from your local bookstore~ (You would be able to order it off Amazon except there are unreality shenanigans. Someday.)

If you were promised a signed copy, you should already have gotten one on your doorstep. Let me know if I missed anyone.

Thanks again to Chiyo Matsuoka for the cover art and to everyone who provided support during this process! I couldn't have reached here without you ♥

[A Relative Weight is indeed for sale! And getting pretty good reviews, at that.]

Comments

[sharplydressed]

i totally get it
glad to see you getting some local coverage too though!
and lmk when it hits amazon so i can link it around okay?

[thesettingsun]

I think people outside Recolle can order it just fine? This is the page.

[sharplydressed]

oh!
nice nice
ty!
i'll send that around asap
waaay better than having to rely on packages getting through ┐(´～｀)┌

[thesettingsun]

I'm going to push for a Kindle ver. as soon as I can. Online deliveries haven't been affected... I hope...

[sharplydressed]

you can track sales and stuff right?
just keep an eye on who's buying it!
it should probably be fine
i think

[thesettingsun]

Amazon seller feedback: "Did not get book because of unreality BS. Would not recommend."

[sharplydressed]

someone could probably make a killing trying to translate retrospec humor to the rest of the world tbh

[thesettingsun]

That or give themselves a migraine trying.

[sharplydressed]

i wonder if they would just think we're all some kind of weird cult

[thesettingsun]

Considering what I've seen people post when they just get the app and don't know what's going on? We absolutely seem like a weird cult.

[sharplydressed]

yeah? i stopped paying attention to those posts a while ago, but i think i remember something like that the last time i looked through one
can't really blame them
it totally sounds insane and our reactions are probably even weirder by now

[Considering they deliver news like "and then dinosaurs were real again" with straight faces.]

[thesettingsun]

The app you didn't download and can't get rid of is one thing, but then we jump into past lives and missing animals and that's a whole lot less believable. We're either a cult or really bad pranksters.

[sharplydressed]

or maybe they think we're a cult of really bad pranksters
the worst of both worlds

[thesettingsun]

Our only holy day is April Fool's. Our patron saint is the Cat in the Hat.

[sharplydressed]

ok but realtalk
would you actually be surprised if a world like that existed out there somewhere
with a cult like that
because at this rate i don't think i would be

[thesettingsun]

I would not be surprised at all. It wouldn't even be in competition for weirdest thing I've heard of happening.

[sharplydressed]

honestly same
we should host a competition someday or something
"weirdest thing you've remembered"
i'm sure we would get some real grade A material

[thesettingsun]

Winner gets a free beer, to help deal with the memories.

[sharplydressed]

something like that would probably get a lot of takers tbh
free alcohol AND the chance to weird out other people with your freaky memories
sounds win/win to me

[thesettingsun]

What's our alternate prize for underage winners? I was thinking ice cream, maybe.

[sharplydressed]

sounds like a winning prize to me tbh
they can pick out a couple of scoops
or maybe even a whole sundae if we feel like being super generous

[thesettingsun]

A sundae sounds about right. The cliche is eating a bucket of ice cream to drown your sorrows, but I'm not going to encourage that.

[sharplydressed]

yeah nah same
that sounds like a 1 way ticket to being super sick
can anyone even eat that much ice cream at once??

[thesettingsun]

Probably only the people who train for eating contests, and even they wouldn't feel good about it afterward.

[sharplydressed]

you really have to wonder what kind of prize is worth it to people who do that to themselves tbh
like
i would have trouble looking at ice cream for a while and that seems like a terrible punishment??