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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know that it is the failure you think it is.

In the US about 100,000 nonfiction books are published annually. Only about 200-300 of those books make it onto the NYT’s nonfiction bestseller list annually. That puts Awake in the top 1% of non fiction books published in 2025. I don’t really understand how that is a failure.

I guarantee you if she wants to write another book, there will be a publisher wanting it.

It’s entirely possible that a book you don’t like is successful. I am an avid reader, this weeks number one book is Senator John Kennedy’s book. I would gouge my eyes out before I read it. That doesn’t mean it’s not successful. It just means it’s a book I’m not interested in. Both things can be true at the same time.

A few other awake accolades.

The New York Times Recognition: The book was included on the prestigious The New York Times' "100 Notable Books of 2025" list and was also featured in several of their fall book roundups and "5 New Books We Love This Week" features. A review in the Times described it as "lucent and nervy".

Amazon Accolades: Awake was named one of Amazon's Top 20 Books of 2025 (landing at #7 overall) and the #1 book in the Biography & Memoir category. It was also an Amazon Editors' Pick for September.
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Jen, by your own sales history and by the expectations of your publisher, who put a lot into its marketing, Awake is a failure.  It’s been out a little over two months and has disappeared.  It’s totally gross sales are about one third what FTL was.  It’s a slight recovery over what Fierce, Free, and Full of Shit did but that’s not anything to brag about.

Just accept you’re disappointed  your publishing backers.  
You had one book of interstate left your “divorce book” and it failed.[/quote]

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