A request from Holly

Posted on by hollyfrostgoldportpress

Ok Huns, Hoydens, and Assorted Creatures.

I need you to do something.
Go to your local library if you’ve got one and it’s physically safe to do so. Please do not do this on the website UNLESS you have successfully done so before, or your library is physically unsafe: badgering, er, gushing at, a librarian about this book you really, REALLY want is an important part of actually getting books bought. Also you need to have a library card for the library, or if you’re part of one of those weirder library district exchange things, a validation sticker (if you are, like me, do please do the several libraries you have borrowing privileges at).

Ask to request that the library buys a book. Fill out the book request form. You need your library card number. You need to fill in Author: Sarah A. Hoyt. You need Title: No Man’s Land Volume 1. You need ONE of these and pay attention to which they want: ISBN-10 1630110698 OR ISBN-13 978-1630110697 (These are for the paperback.) Do this with as much hype and enthusiasm of your particular flavor as you can muster. You want this book SO badly and you REALLY hope the library will purchase it for you. If the librarian says they’re out of funds ask when the new funding cycle starts and put in your calendar right there in front of him or her when to come back in to request the book, and then follow through.

You MUST check the “I want you to reserve this for me” box AND then go check it out if they buy it, even though you have read it already. Take it home and return it the next day, if at all possible inside, and if there is a librarian about who isn’t directly interacting with a patron tell the librarian “This book is so good I stayed up all night” when you slide it in the drop. You can also then go on your facebook if you have happen to have it, post about getting this book and @ your library. They have someone who monitors their mentions.

You guys are the best community on the internet and I will get you the two ISBNs for volumes 2 and 3 when those come out, so you can get your libraries to have the whole set for people to read.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

23 thoughts on “A request from Holly”

  3. Mission accepted! [salute] It’ll be the first time I’ve set foot in the local library since they decided that they were Too Important to do their own damn job during the covidiocy.

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  4. This will not work at my local library, I’d have to donate a new book and odds are that it will never make the shelves, instead ending up in the “Friends of the Library Annual Sale” for $.25.

    Corriea is the only “bad think” author that will end up in the SciFi stacks due to huge demand.

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    1. Most libraries have a request form – mine has it on their website! Of course they have some discretion over their funds and get to decide what to put into circulation, but if you provide a compelling reason why THIS PARTICULAR book should be on the shelves, they’ll usually buy it. I, myself, have requested dozens of books which the library has subsequently bought or gotten me through interlibrary loan. After all, a library that doesn’t have what patrons want is a pretty useless library.

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      1. He died, for the crime of speaking his mind. The fool didn’t know that Liberal Democrats aren’t worth the time, barely worth a bullet. We take the high road, and leave patriots behind in cemeteries. I am very angry. Our side will call for restraint, as the good men and women of America are slaughtered for nothing more that speaking their mind or sitting on a train. I wouldn’t walk across a street and piss on a Liberal if that fetid thing was on fire. Liberal America you are dead to me.

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          1. I cannot tell if this is a grief instilled insanity or you’re just a troll just wanting to see everything burn for fun. Either way. NFW am I going to work for the goals of evil, even as a mirror image.

            you’re just as bad as the Bluesky crowd with this….nonsense.

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  8. Thanks for the info! I can definitely give this a try locally.

    On vol. 1: reading Skip defending the bridge is probably the only reason I was able to de-stress enough to get some sleep last night. (It’s been a heck of a month, and yesterday evoked a special flavor of corporate sneering at workers.)

    Devoured rest of story today.

    Looking forward to re-reads, and just about to put in the preorder for vol. 2!

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      1. Trying to keep insanity here, not on other post. anger doesn’t begin to cover it. He was an idea man, not a politician, he openly debated others, didn’t really be little them just exposed them for their delusions. And once again Hate takes another good man. The waste and the children now without a father. All because he didn’t agree with Marxism.

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          1. For what ever reason WPDE.

            Agreeing with you. A man cut down too soon. His discourse was always polite and replied with logic to illogical. Never replied with anger. Never raised his voice. Our son’s generation has lost a good man.

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  11. Is there a way to request ebooks? I read Theft of Fire that way at Los Angeles Public Library Overdrive, and also a bunch of Neal Asher.

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  12. I write a weekly review on Ricochet-dot-com. I reviewed No Man’s Land there last Sunday. I also e-mail the review to a collection of individuals who have requested I do so. Among them are the head librarian at my local library (which is safe) and several members of the library’s staff.

    A large percentage of the books I review show up on Library shelves. It might be a coincidence, but even unusual reviews tend to appear.

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