I've been dreaming of the day where a hardcover book filled with glossy images, the name on the spine reading «Tessa Huff» would
sit on bookstore shelves next to some of my baking idols like Greenspan, Tosi, Beranbaum, and Stewart for years.
Once the claw of luck grabs us, we have very little control, and we have less and less as the book gets closer to
sitting on the bookstore shelves.
It's definitely an eye - catcher and I believe it will draw a reader's eye to my book when it's
sitting on a bookstore shelf.
Outfits like iUniverse, Xlibris, and AuthorHouse (which have merged and been consolidated under AuthorSolutions) offered a range of packages to help authors get their books in print, though most books never
sat on a bookstore shelf and sold a few dozen copies at best.
Not exact matches
With nearly 200,000 new titles published each year,
bookstores have books featured everywhere — stacked
on the floor, standing
on end caps and
sitting on tables, not to mention the rows of
shelves.
This allows the average
bookstore to promote it in their shop and not just rely
on the device
sitting on a
shelf to gain interest.
That doesn't mean the author's or publisher's books will
sit on the
shelf of most (or even a few) bricks - and - mortar
bookstores in the country — just that the book can look and appear like any other when viewed in an industry database.
If you have a desire to get to
bookstores (a fools errand for the most part, but still many want to see that one book
sitting on a wooden
shelf), go through Ingrams Spark with that.
My novels won't
sit stacked
on some
shelf in the back of a dusty old
bookstore (if
bookstores exist in the future), they will always be fresh and ready for download, ready to draw new readers into noir, eccentric, and illusionary worlds.
Likewise if one's book isn't in the front of the
bookstore; no one sees it and within six weeks of
sitting hidden
on the back
shelves (what is called wallpaper for the big authors), most authors books are no longer in the store and won't be reordered.
Those that do
sit spine - out
on dwindling
bookstore shelves for a few months and are then returned to the publisher and go out of print.
They
sit on the
shelves in a fair number of
bookstores (I have a signing tomorrow, actually).
Where we question the general lack of imaginative or world - changing storytelling, or the hundreds of thousands of boring formula fiction with bad covers (got ta have bad to recognise the truly good), we must also question why similar stuff is
sitting on my local
bookstore's
shelves.