Can it Get Any Hotter?
Posted on October 23, 2009 | 13 Comments
Since it was hot off the press less than a month ago Richard Castle’s “Heat Wave”, the novel based on Detective Kate Beckett from the TV series Castle, has continued to rise above all expectations. In many online stores “Heat Wave” has been so hot that it’s now on back order and deliveries are expected to take a couple of weeks.
Two weeks ago “Heat Wave” was listed on the New York Times Bestseller list for Hard Cover Fiction at #26 and last week it dropped back to #28. The NYT Bestseller list is calculated on sales figures from two weeks prior. Two weeks ago, “Heat Wave” featured prominently in the Castle episode “Fool Me Once” showing Beckett being caught by Castle as she secretly searches the pages for the hot and sweaty “sex scene”. Castle points out that it’s on page 105 (yes, it really is). After the episode aired, ABC played an advertisement for the novel, bringing it to the attention of many viewers who were previously unaware that the real book actually existed.
Sales for the book immediately started to rise and “Heat Wave” soared from more than 200 on the Amazon Bestseller List 
PS. No more puns, I promise.
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October 23rd, 2009 at 1:39 pm
This is so totally awesome! I LOVE this book. So, do you think they will write another since we got a second season?
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
My guess is they’ll keep releasing books as long as Castle is writing them in the show
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Great news! I keep my copy of Heat Wave next to me for each show as my reference. I knew immediately what Beckett was doing when she started flipping through the book because I did the same thing! Gotta find the sex scene.
Hopefully, the “three more books deal” for Castle will mean three more books for us! On that note, does anyone know if this is a first that a fictional character from the movie or TV show writes a real book?
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
That’s an incredible accomplishment. I’m really hoping the success will lead to more books for us.
October 23rd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
what an awesome show, we’ve got the entire household addicted to it.
let us know if anything ever comes up, here in Phoenix, az.
October 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
please keep us posted. what a show!!
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
In response to kmom, it’s not. I know that ABC has done it before with at least one of the day time soaps. I think it was One Life to Live but I could be wrong. As for primetime doing it, I don’t know. It’s definitely possible!
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Who is this Man?…Nathan, Rick, Rook, Mal??…. Is there anything he can’t do?….He’s amazing…I love my Capt’n……
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Oh, wow. I’m so excited!! I love the show and the book.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
I ordered my copy on Amazon a few days ago. It was backordered until October 27th. I’m so excited for it to arrive. It’s great that the show is doing so well.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I think the closest we’ve ever come before is Laura Palmer’s diary from Twin Peaks. That was published as a book and it was written by the character, so technically yes, but I don’t recall a situation like this which is quite a bit different.
There have been tie-in novels of course, Stephen King’s “Rose Red” also released a diary written by one of the characters, “The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer”, and if I’m not mistaken his “Kingdom Hospital” had a tie-in novel as well, but correct me on that because my memory’s hazy on that one.
I really hope it keeps climbing because apart from being a wicked cool thing, it’s just SO much fun!
October 29th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I had no idea this was actually a real book until I saw the ad for it at the end of one of the shows. I love the show and I will definitly go out and buy the book! Consider 2 more copies sold! lol
October 29th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
There was a question of whether another fictional character had written any books. On “Murder She Wrote” Jessica Fletcher was a fictional author but there are several “Jessica Fletcher” novels “co-written” with Donald McBain.