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# Kirkus Reviews liked Cosplay: A History!
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/kirkus-reviews-liked-cosplay-a-history/
- Published: 2022-01-25T20:21:44.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-25T20:39:48.000Z
- Author: Andrew Liptak
- Tags: Cosplay: A History, Cosplay

The first trade review for *Cosplay: A History* is in! It comes from *Kirkus Reviews*, and it's a good one! 

Here are the big quotes: "An entertaining look at a vibrant, “interactive, interpretive, and immersive” pop-culture community...A wonderfully fun book showing that the art of having a good time has not been lost." 

You can read the rest of the full review [here](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrew-liptak/cosplay/?ref=andrewliptak.com). 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2c/d7/2cd7d323-e6ed-4666-8092-07e380dbdf2a/content/images/2022/01/image-11.png)

Image: Saga Press

For those not in the book industry, *Kirkus Reviews* is one of four major trade publications whose job it is to review books for booksellers and librarians. I frequently consult them when I do my own book lists, because they're good at concisely summarizing a book in question. 

It's been interesting working on this project for years now — I sold it back in 2019, and had worked on it for several years prior to that — where it's basically only been in my head, and now, that work will get exposed to the wider fandom / reading public. Moreover, only a handful of people have read the book — my parents, another author, my editor, copyeditor, publicist, etc. 

It's nerve wracking! I've got ideas that I'm putting out in the world, and I hope that people will find them interesting, informative, etc. 

So, seeing that another party not only read it, but actually really liked it and got what I was going for feels like a good sign that others will like it too. It's a huge relief.

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I've had a couple of people ask about how and where to buy the book: the answer that I've been giving is anywhere you typically buy books! The [product page](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cosplay-A-History/Andrew-Liptak/9781797143477?ref=andrewliptak.com) has a bunch of links to retailers (the only one that doesn't work is Bookshop), in trade paperback, ebook, and audiobook form. (I don't know who's narrating the audio).

[Cosplay: A HistoryA history of the colorful and complex kingdom of cosplay and fandom fashion by Andrew Liptak, journalist, historian, and member of the legendary fa...![](https://d1dyndsnc54cq8.cloudfront.net/assets/favicon-global.png)Simon & Schuster![](https://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781797143477/cosplay-a-history-9781797143477_lg.jpg)](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cosplay-A-History/Andrew-Liptak/9781797143477/?ref=andrewliptak.com)

If you are interested in picking it up, I'd urge you to preorder it: those are invaluable for a book's sales. If you preorder it, send along your confirmation, and I'll comp you for the full subscriber list for this newsletter. 

That's all for now – I'll try and have something for thr end of the week. 

Andrew