The Tyrannosaur Chronicles – now in paperback

So nearly a year has passed since the book launched and that now means that the paperback is due. I’ve been fielding a few questions about it (and of course I want to promote the new release – due on April 20th) so this seemed like a good opportunity to do a quick blogpost on it.

As you can see the paperback has a switched-up colour scheme from the original purple hardback but that’s one of the biggest changes. The book has really not been updated and while there are some corrected typos (and the annoyingly switched around phylogenies in Chapter 4) these are the only real alterations. There are some more notes in the introduction, but that’s it – I didn’t have the opportunity to revise and update the book as a whole and I’m not sure I’d have taken it if I had, so please don’t invest thinking this is a new version, it is not. The paper quality is good on the paperback and the Hartman figures and drawings do not suffer at all, and the glossy photos are all still there in the middle.

One year on is a decent time to reflect on things and I’ve been amazed at the positive response to the book. I always expected it would go down well with dinosaur aficionados but it has sold in numbers that show it has gone well beyond any fanbase I might have, and even that tyrannosaurs might have, and there’s been loads of responses and reviews from more ‘normal’ people who simply enjoyed it as a book on popular science. Amazon.com is especially good averaging 4.6 from 28 reviews, but Amazon.co.uk is hardly bad (4.0 from 7 reviews) and it’s done well on Goodreads as well (3.93 from 114 ratings with 34 reviews). I’ve yet to see a review below 3/5 (though I’ve hardly been hunting down bad ones!) and that is really nice since it’s impossible to appeal to everyone, but clearly it’s coming across well generally.

That’s it really. I’m obviously delighted with how things have gone and hope it continues to do well. It naturally is already dated (damned new species being named!) but the fundamentals I hope will be relevant for many years to come and continue to be enjoyed by readers.