Skewed Throne is #1!!

[jpskewedthrone]

So my book, The Skewed Throne is the number one bestseller over at Clarkesworld Books! This is mainly due to preorder sales, and the signed copies of the preorder books finally getting to clarkesworld but I'll take whatever bestseller news I can get. *grin*

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[coolmajaka.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE NUMBER ONE!
YOU'RE NUMBER ONE!
YOU'RE NUMBER ONE!
YEEAAAAAAAAAA!

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

Wow, congrats!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Congrats!

-Tobias Buckell

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

Woot! Congratulations!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Kewl!

[dancingwriter.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[krteilman.livejournal.com]

HUZZAH!!! That is good stuff!

[jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com]

Congratulations Joshua! It looks like you have a winner with your very first novel--Good job!

By the way, another distant relative who shared our surname found my LJ via a search engine, and he gave me the results of his own geneology. I think you might find his interesting:

Somebody replied to your LiveJournal post in which you said:

What does the name Palmatier mean anyway? I found the following online:
Last Name: Palmatier
1. Most probably a variant of English Parmenter.
English (mainly Essex): occupational name for a maker of facings and trimmings, Middle English, Old French par(e)mentier (from parement ‘fitting’, ‘finishing’, Late Latin paramentum, a derivative of parare ‘to prepare or adorn’).
I also learned online that Palmatier is a family name originally from Belgium.
So does this mean, then, that my ancestors back in time were makers of fittings and trimmings for houses hundreds of years ago in Essex England, and then they moved to Belgium? Interesting.
Their reply was:

Subject: Palmatier comes from...
Belgium, as you know. The online information about the name is askew – it’s assuming the name is a variation of the English Parmenter, when it is actually based on the French variation Parmentier (which is ultimately the same word, but the name is French-derived, not English at all). Every living Palmatier, Palmateer, Palmiter, and other various versions owe their ancestry to Pierre Parmentier, a Frenchman (his home town is now in Belgium, hence the Belgian decent) and Huguenot who escaped religious persecution in Europe by eventually making his way to New Amsterdam (now New York), part of the New Netherlands colony (now New York, the state). Living illiterate with Dutch, his last name was apparently altered to Palmatier within his lifetime. Over the years the sound of the name was Americanized into it's current "palm-?-teer" variation.
Everyone with one of the Palmatier last names is ultimately, through genetics, related. The name is technically not English or French – it’s origins are from New Amsterdam or New York, and is a Dutch interpretation of the French Parmentier name.
I’m going to Belgium in two years and will be trying to find our ancestors before Pierre Parmentier. Huguenots who left non-Calvinist family members behind destroyed or hid records linking them with people who stayed in Europe. I’ve exhausted most of my resources here in the U.S.
Eric Palmatier
epik.blogspot.com

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[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Well, we always thought it was derived from something French originally. I'll have to pass this on to the family and see what they think.

[tim-pratt.livejournal.com]

Congrats on edging me out of first place! :)

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Well, it sounds like the "edge" may have only been a single book. *grin* Since this is likely the only bestseller list I'll make, I'll take it.

How are your sales going? Or, like me, are you completely in the dark?

[tim-pratt.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm totally in the dark. I mean, I've talked to people at local bookstores, and they tell me it's selling briskly, but that doesn't mean much in any larger sense -- I've done some publicity locally, after all. Maybe in a few months there'll be some indication of whether the book is a crashing failure or a tolerable success...

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I've done a bunch of signings in the area. But mostly I'm just obsessively watching amazon. Two sales last week at least! Looking over my contracts, I see that I won't know anything concrete until . . . September. *sigh* But I hope to hear before that what my editor thinks "in general". I'm getting ready to start a con blitz: one a month for most of the rest of the year. You going to Boskone?

[tim-pratt.livejournal.com]

No Boskone for me. I'll be at Wiscon, and Worldcon, but that's probably it for this year.

-Tim

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Well, it appears that you've edge ME out this week at Clarkesworld. Congrats on #3! Whereas I slid completely down to #5. *sigh*

I knew it was the preorders that pushed me up high in the first place. *grin*

[coolmajaka.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool, I see you and some other OWWers are going to be in the ATX in November for a convention. Maybe I'll have to host a cruise ou on Town Lake, show everyone a little of the old Texas hospitality. It's great, the lake runs right next to dowtown, and after nightfall we pretty much have it to ourselves. The Capital Cruises late nighters are legendary fun.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Sounds cool! Definitely plan on being there in November. You going to the con?

[coolmajaka.livejournal.com]

Gee whiz, at this point I don't see how I could miss it. :) I've never gotten to hang out and drink margaritas with a bunch of fellow spec-fic writers, but I can't imagine a better way to pass an idle November evening. Felllow OWWers would make it even cooler. I know Rae Carson and Sam Butler are both coming to ATX, and I'm sure there are others.

Maybe by then I'll even have a few more reputable sales in my pocket so I can strut around like a big man, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

by the way, TST is mentioned in Locus's roundup of new books
http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Monitor/Books01b.html