“Congratulations! Bells and Whistles is now published.”

I just received an automated email from Zero Books beginning with those two sentences. I’m not exactly sure what it means, since I received my author’s copies on October 20, and several people I know received copies from Amazon weeks ago. Maybe it simply means that this was Zero’s desired publication date (Amazon is famous in the publishing industry for unilaterally jumping the gun and shipping books from their warehouses before the publishers desire to do so).

In any case, it is now an officially published book.