Does Amazon Know More than We Do?

. My friend and the co-author of the book Raise Rules for Women: How to Make More Money at Work Laura C. Browne, texted me today asking when Creating the Freelance Career is coming out. She said she's excited to read it and wants to write an Amazon review. For that, I'm grateful. I told her that Routledge, the book's publisher, told me Creating the Freelance Career would be published in October. But then I wondered if it had an ISBN yet and as listed on Amazon or any other online marketplaces. So I looked.

Low and behold, the book is on Amazon (you can click here) and has a hardback and a paperback pre-order price...and it says it is COMING OUT IN AUGUST If that is indeed so, it's exciting. If August 26 is truly the publication date, then it will be out this summer as opposed to this autumn. What I do know for sure is that the book is with the copy editor and as soon as the copy editor is done, it will go into the book design phase (which I was told would be complete by some time in early July). The page count on Amazon is an estimate. The word count I turned in was just shy of 86,000. 

When I see the front cover design, I'll post it here, but if you want to take a leap of faith and pre-order, please click this link: https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Freelance-Career-Jill-Ferguson/dp/1138605786/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525118370&sr=8-1&keywords=creating+the+freelance+career  And thank you, Amazon, for making it feel like this book's publication is imminent. 

And for anyone interested in Raise Rules for Women, Laura and I agreed today that we would write an updated version so stay tuned for that.