A Fine Ending disappeared from amazon.ca’s rankings for a few weeks after the first printing sold out in March, but after being back in print for about a month, it has raced back up the rankings. As of May 8, it sits at number 11 on the Canadian short stories chart, and number 86 on the overall short stories chart. (Of course, it’s a novel, not a short story collection: an early book catalog published many months before its release listed A Fine Ending as a short story collection, and obviously amazon.ca is a little slow to correct such errors!) It remains to be seen whether amazon.com will repeat this error when the novel becomes available in the US and UK in June…
In the meantime, check the blog on this website next week for the author’s reflections on the novel and the feedback from readers six months after it hit bookstore shelves.
You can also check out Broken Pencil Magazine’s website where, starting next week, Louis Rastelli will be the resident blogger for the summer.