Thank You & A Giveaway

It's been a great spring for First Edition

My goal was to shoot a little life into First Edition in 2025 and so far I am really happy with the results. What am I doing differently? First off, I am publishing more episodes. Really as many as I want. Some weeks there have even been two new episodes. For the first run of the show, I was keeping to two shows a month, fearing that more would be unsustainable. What I didn’t realize is that two would feel constraining, so now I commit to two (hello BR sales folks), but that is the floor, rather than the ceiling. This has given me freedom to drop in a bonus show now and again and let what I want to do drive programming rather than what I have to do (or am limited by).

So this has meant more shows in a three month period than ever before. I have experimented with form quite a bit: 10 Notecards with scaachi was a blast. A solo pod where I just ran through books I am interested in was taken surprisingly well. And next week I am trying something new again, where I talk to an author (one of my absolute favorites) about every book they have written (don’t worry, it’s five. Which is a good career and a manageable number for a pod).

To say thanks to you all for listening, I am running a giveaway of bunch of the books that have been featured on the show in 2025. Check these beauts out:

If you are already subscribed to this newsletter, you are already entered and need do nothing more! If for some reason you aren’t and are reading this, subscribe right here to enter:

The giveaway will be open through May 15th, 2025. Winner will be randomly selected and notified via email. Winner must be 18 or older and live in the U.S. or Canada.

So thanks for listening and hanging in there. From here on I plan to actually follow-through on another of my 2025 goals for First Edition: use this newsletter.

Thanks for listening. And as always, I love feedback, so email me at firstedition (at) bookriot (dot) com.