So appar­ently, you can now get Spider’s Bite through Ama­zon and Barnes and Noble, even though the offi­cial release date is not until Tues­day, Jan. 26. Huz­zah! I’m glad folks are going to be able to get the book a few days early.

I also find this kind of funny, espe­cially over at Amazon. Everyone always talks about the imme­di­acy of e-books, how you can pay for it and start read­ing it lit­er­ally a minute later. But it looks like you can’t get the Kin­dle ver­sion of Spider’s Bite until Jan. 26 (although that ver­sion is cheaper than the paper­back). Oh, the irony …

And there are already used copies up on Ama­zon! What’s up with that? I get folks read­ing the paper­back and then selling/trading it on Ama­zon or wherever. I don’t keep every book that I get/read, and I admit that I love trad­ing them in at my local used book­store for other books. But used copies already? I guess it’s just the weird­ness that is Ama­zon sometimes …

Any­way, if you do snag a copy of Spider’s Bite this week­end, happy read­ing!

So I noticed some­thing weird on the Spider’s Bite page at Ama­zon. It now says that the book will be “in stock Jan. 23.” Maybe that means the book will start ship­ping on Jan. 23 instead of on Jan. 26? I don’t know. Appar­ently, you can now post reviews on the page too.

Being the curi­ous sort, I also went over to the Spider’s Bite page at Barnes & Noble. Over there, it now says that the book ships in 2–3 days.

And hey, if you like e-books, the ver­sions at Ama­zon and B&N are actu­ally cheaper than the paper­backs — less than $7.

I might have to slip off to my local book­store this week­end and see if I can snag an early copy myself (since I haven’t got­ten my author copies yet).

Is over at Lit­er­ary Escapism. Check it out!

Jane Litte and the rest of the folks over at Dear Author have been nice enough to fea­ture Spider’s Bar­gain, a free pre­quel short story to Spider’s Bite, on their site.

They are also host­ing a 10-book give­away (5 print books and 5 e-books) of Spider’s Bite. So go on over there, fol­low the directions, and enter for a chance to win a copy of the book.

Thanks again to all the folks over at Dear Author. Happy read­ing, every­one!

And, of course, this is not your only chance to win a free copy of the book. I’m doing a guest blog over at Debuts & Reviews today and giv­ing away a copy of Spider’s Bite there as well. I also want to say thanks to Tia for hav­ing me back on her site as well.

And I’m doing give­aways with sev­eral more of the guest blogs/interviews that I have set up, so check the blog here for where the post-of-the-day will be dur­ing the next few weeks.

Is over at Debuts & Reviews. Check it out!