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Susan Oleksiw's avatar

I remember those days, and not happily. During a bookstore signing, the only person who stopped to talk was a young soldier just back from Desert Storm. There's nothing like feeling irrelevant.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Poor Goldenroad! I don’t know how things are now, but publishers used to encourage bookstores to invite local authors to stop in and sign copies of their new books before they were put on sale—signed copies couldn’t be returned to the publisher if they didn’t sell. That explained all the signed copies in remainder bins.

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