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.
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.
As an extrovert, a teacher and someone with acting experience, I need the energy of an audience, a live audience, which is also why I won't do Zoom events.
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.
Mystery writer Parnell Hall had a funny song about doing a signing when Mary Higgins Clark was signing somewhere else in the mall.
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.
Some bookstores do return signed copies. I've seen it happen.
Yes, and some charge the authors for them (mostly independently published books, beware!)
Ha! I've seen this too. It's demeaning. I'll give a talk, if you make me. But I'm not hand-selling a book to no one
It's like selling pickles on the Lowe East Side in 1905 a friend once said.
That hurts... and makes me feel better about not doing these things before. I'm way too much of an introvert, lol.
As an extrovert, a teacher and someone with acting experience, I need the energy of an audience, a live audience, which is also why I won't do Zoom events.
lol wow
Thanks.
Ouch!
Ouch!!
LOL.