I loved this exchange in her LJ:

wah_keetcha: I was so excited to wall around a corner in my local barns and nobel and saw RoadKill sitting there on a nice cardboard display! Grabbed it an all but ran for the check out, way to excited to get home and read it. Know it's going to be awesome, thanks so much for these kick ass characters and stories.

robgoodfella: Sweetie, you totally didn't even read the post, did you? Or any of my posts or tweets. You can't buy until TUESDAY--tomorrow! Or it doesn't count on NYT or any of the other rankings that keep my publisher interested in keeping the series alive. And now you can't have a look at Cal 6 chapter one a year in advance.

Why. Why do I try? Head thunk on desk.

Yes, because the appropriate response to a happy fan who just bought your newest book, and is excited to read it, and who thanks you for writing in the first place is to...berate them for buying it? STAY CLASSY, THURMAN.

And it looks like many booksellers have gone ahead and put Roadkill out on the floor, selling it ahead of the official release date--which spawned this bit of busted logic from herverylowness (emphasis mine):

You can always mention to the booksellers that the book is not supposed to be out just yet and that it's detrimental to the author's sales. Most places are more than willing to take the book off the floor for a few days.

So...putting a book out for sale, where customers can come in and buy it, hurts the author's sales? Bzuh?

And a sampling of tweets that really, really make me not want to buy this author's work, ever:

# I love it.Spend forever writing a post on DO NOT BUY ROADKILL until tomorrow, win fab prize, & a happy commenter says Whee!Bought it already
9:05 AM Mar 1st via web

# Head thunking on table isn't enough.Head banging on wall is better. BANG. BANG. BANG. Is reading comprehension extinct? Did I miss the memo?
9:07 AM Mar 1st via web

# ONLINE SALES DO NOT HELP MY RANKINGS.Buy at a REAL WORLD STORE.Yes, RT'd this a 1000 times yet no one sees to get it.NO ONLINE. RT plz again
9:40 PM Mar 1st via web

# unfortunately you did it on Amazon-which doesn't count. NYT, no rankings count it. Which I've tweetedx1000.Thanks for trying tho @ceetastic
about 20 hours ago via web

# One more time people:now..cough..FRAKKING LISTEN. I've said it 1000 times in the past 2 wks, ONLINE sales DON'T COUNT. Don't help me at all
about 20 hours ago via web

Yeah.

I can understand her desire to be on the NYT bestseller list. But bitching and moaning and treating fans as if they are a bunch of clueless illiterates in order to get there? And telling fans outside the US they have to buy two copies of the book to see the preview because their sales don't count toward official NYT bestseller-dom? Fuck that noise, dude. There are too many authors I haven't yet got around to reading, and chances are good most of them behave better than this.