Against the Day title confirmed on Amazon

[The Great Quail]

> write the blurb, give it a title, release it in time for christmas but
> there is no need for all this cloak and dagger chopping and changing of
> the blurb, the title etc

Heh heh. I strongly doubt there is any cloak and dagger intentions -- it's
just typical Publishing in action.

Only because we have placed it under such intense scrutiny does this look
strange or even frustrating.  To the rest of the world, a book to be
released in five months has a few days of instability in terms of blurb and
title on Amazon.com? No big deal, and certainly hardly the work of the
author, who doesn't even work on a computer!

I recently discussed this with a friend who works in publishing. Believe me,
Penguin is more worried about "Will the 'New York Times' give the book a
timely and favorable review" than "What does an Internet Group think about a
week delay in announcing the title." Which also means, no advance review
copies for Web sites other than (maybe) Slate and Salon! Sadly....

--Quail