Hey, before I start this episode, I have some thanks to dish out.

First, I want to thank every single one of you out there who has bought the Memory Palace

book.

It is out now on shelves.

At least it is on shelves where you can find it. Thanks to pre-orders

by Memory Palace listeners, you folks have given this book a fighting chance in a ridiculously

difficult struggling market, particularly for nonfiction books. Because of people who pre-ordered

and have bought the book in its first days, this book is actually

in stores, which was never a foregone conclusion, even the fact that this is a random house

book.

It has meant that there are usually just a few copies, but that, my friends, is something.

It is something real, because those few copies are enough for someone who works at that bookstore

to look at this book that has come into their store, essentially unheralded,

look down in the box that they just cut open,

and say, now that's a book cover, and then they flip through it,

and they like it, and maybe they make a little display, maybe a small pyramid

that might catch the eye of the browsing reader in their store.

And it looks like those few books in those stores, like in my own neighborhood bookstore,

Skylight Books here in Los Angeles, are selling and selling out, which means that they

will order more and that little display might get a little more space in the table, might more

likely catch the eye of the next bookstore browsers, and maybe build some momentum. So thank you,

so sincerely, for buying a book, those who have bought a book. And those who haven't, thank you in advance.

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