Place Your Bets: Peace Talks release date?

[CrusherJen]

Well, the last forum crash ate our guesses at a Peace Talks release dates, so let's try again. (Fingers crossed...)

My bet is December 17th. It allows time for any needed edits (though Jim uses beta readers, so I don't think the manuscript will need much tweaking.) A five-month turnaround might take some effort, but Jim's a major author in the field and there's a ton of demand for this, so IMHO it would be worth the publisher's effort to make it happen. And the pre-Christmas date encourages Dresden fans and friends to fill their stockings with wizardry...

_{What do we win if we get it right?}

[GWPfark]

Christmas or Near Halloween both make sense.

[Slowpool]

Christmas or Near Halloween both make sense.

  Split the difference at late November?  That seems like the most reasonable date.

  Which means the actual date is probably going to be next summer.  I'd bet late July, early August.

[wardenferry419]

Dec 10th. Closest Tuesday prior to my Birthday. Hopefully.

[Regenbogen]

OK here it comes:
Oct 31st 2019

[peregrine]

A tuesday.

[Kindler]

I have money down on November 19th, after a helpful forum poster pointed out that I got my initial bet wrong and thought 11/21 was a Tuesday, thanks to my inability to read calendars properly.

[Regenbogen]

Why does it have to be a tuesday again? Can't it be any weekday? I don't understand.

[JinElusion]

December 10th. I think anything before December is ambitious

[peregrine]

Why does it have to be a tuesday again? Can't it be any weekday? I don't understand.

Books are almost always released on tuesdays.

[RobReece]

I know it's not a Tuesday, but I'm still shooting for 11/21, based on the Clue tweet

[noblehunter]

I'm down for November 19tn, too. If it slips past that, then Feb 11th.

[Kindler]

Why does it have to be a tuesday again? Can't it be any weekday? I don't understand.

It's a publishing industry standard. There are a wide variety of reasons for it that don't really apply much anymore, so most of those reasons now boil down to "tradition." There is one good reason for it: weekly Best Seller lists start their weeks on Tuesdays, and end at midnight on Mondays. So a Tuesday release gives new books as much time as possible to sell, and get onto the list.

Old reasons were things like "retail stores need time to stock and set up displays." Tuesdays gave smaller, more isolated locations the same chance to get their inventory and set them up in time for the release date while accounting for shipping delays.

[Regenbogen]

@Kindler

Ah, OK. That makes sense. Thank you.
But as I understand it could be another day than tuesday.
So my bet stays as it is. 
And I know it is too early but I am a bit stubborn... 

[Kindler]

Generally, there has to be a good reason for a book (or video game, or non-independent film home release) to come out on any other day—like releasing a book on the Fourth of July, Halloween, or Friday the Thirteenth. Stuff like that.

Audiobooks, on the other hand, are often released whenever they're finished if it's not a simultaneous publication. Even with Dresden, you'll see Audiobooks come out a day or two after the Tuesday release, or ten days later, or whatever. (For what it's worth, I'm pretty confident that Peace Talks will have a simultaneous release across both mediums, because the audiobook versions are simply too popular).