Last year, my friend Angelica R. Jackson wrote great post on what pre-orders mean for authors. (You can read the full post here.) Today I wanted to share some of that information, along an awesome middle grades book available for pre-order now!
Ordering ahead rocks for readers. You get the book delivered to your door on or sometimes even before release day, and you don’t have to worry about a brick-and-mortar not having the title you’ve anxiously awaited. Pre-orders can also be a great boost for the author. These numbers can increase the size of the initial print run and/or the promotional budget.
For all of those reasons, I was thrilled to pre-order My Seventh Grade Life in Tights by Brooks Benjamin last week! Check out the gorgeous cover and all the info:
Football hero. Ninja freestyler. It’s seventh grade. Anything is possible.
All Dillon wants is to be a real dancer. And if he wins a summer scholarship at Dance-Splosion, he’s on his way. The problem? His dad wants him to play football. And Dillon’s freestyle crew, the Dizzee Freekz, says that dance studios are for sellouts. His friends want Dillon to kill it at the audition—so he can turn around and tell the studio just how wrong their rules and creativity-strangling ways are.
At first, Dillon’s willing to go along with his crew’s plan, even convincing one of the snobbiest girls at school to work with him on his technique. But as Dillon’s dancing improves, he wonders: what if studios aren’t the enemy? And what if he actually has a shot at winning the scholarship? Dillon’s life is about to get crazy . . . on and off the dance floor in this kid-friendly humorous debut by Brooks Benjamin.
I can’t wait to read it! Congratulations, Brooks!
Music for today: Mercy by Muse
Love the theme of this novel! I actually met at my kids' school a boy who wanted to dance. His parents were supportive but all classmates weren't. He ultimately went on with his dream and went to become a professional dancer. Much more difficult for a boy to do classical dancing than for a girl, even though things change. Great middle grade topic. Wish the author the best.