Ah! Got it about the launch date. I hear so often that not a lot of folks show up to those events. One must get friends, relatives, and acquaintances to rally round. (Send people out to the by-ways to lure in passing strangers with promises of refreshments?)
Yup. Rawhide whips are also useful. Nothing worse than giving a launch party (where 'party' is the material word) and having nobody come.
I am totally frustrated with the bookstores; only chain stores in our town, and the managements are not accommodating. I wonder if it is the Internet bookstores that make it easier for the brick-and-mortar stores to concentrate on regional and best seller items and skimp on everything else.
In this country bricks-and-mortar stores are getting doubly squeezed, with the internet on the one hand offering range they can't rival, and supermarkets on the other creaming off the bestseller sales with discounts they can't match. I do understand their difficulties - but I don't accept their solution, which is all marketing and no depth, pile-'em-high and sell 'em three-for-two. Bleah. This hurts me both as a reader and a writer - and I don't mean 'hurts' in some hi-falutin soulful way, it does me actual damage.
Looking through the list of your books at Barnes & Noble, I see one that I would like to read first: BRIDGE OF DREAMS. Currently I have outrun my book allowance and my chemical exposures (chemical sensitivities include problems with paper and ink), but my next installment on the book allowance (aren't budgets wonderful?) is next Monday. :-)
Eww, a reader allergic to books? That's not kind... But I do have warm and friendly feelings towards your book allowance.
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Date: 2006-05-04 04:46 pm (UTC)Yup. Rawhide whips are also useful. Nothing worse than giving a launch party (where 'party' is the material word) and having nobody come.
In this country bricks-and-mortar stores are getting doubly squeezed, with the internet on the one hand offering range they can't rival, and supermarkets on the other creaming off the bestseller sales with discounts they can't match. I do understand their difficulties - but I don't accept their solution, which is all marketing and no depth, pile-'em-high and sell 'em three-for-two. Bleah. This hurts me both as a reader and a writer - and I don't mean 'hurts' in some hi-falutin soulful way, it does me actual damage.
Eww, a reader allergic to books? That's not kind... But I do have warm and friendly feelings towards your book allowance.