I’ve been keeping one eye on this cool site call BookManager since another author suggested I monitor it. It apparently tracks independent book stores’ orders of every book available in Canada. Anything ranking in the top 5,000 is considered to be in “High Demand.” As we approach the all-important holiday season, TBLP checks in at #673. (It could change tomorrow but that’s where TBLP is today.) This is the highest it’s been since I’ve been watching and I’m told that this is good news, particularly as it’s been more than three months since it was published. By way of comparison, Joseph Boyden’s Giller-winning novel, Through Black Spruce is at #7 and The Killing Circle, by Andrew Pyper (great writer, great guy) published in early August, comes in at #8766. Mind you in the big box Indigo stores, there are hundreds of copies of bestseller Pyper’s novel, many more than there are of TBLP so who knows what it all means…
