It was 22 hours without electricity up on the Mogollon Rim this week. With the fireplace going it was below 50 degrees F indoors. Two and a half days with no internet. Phones still out. I'm glad I'd written a week's worth of blog posts as the snow began. Smart! I'm replacing the one scheduled for today with this - below. Please read.
This is really important for everyone to read. I'm hoping to hear lots of comments.
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/adam-penenberg/penenberg-post/viral-loop-chronicles-part-6?utm_source=twitterfeed
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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When Paul Fenton stops for breakfast in a small town, he gets more than he bargained for in the process.
When two-hundred-year-old human remains are discovered on one of Neptune's moons, Earth's history falls into question.
Emily's husband persuades her to try thalidomide to ease her symptoms as she is unaware of the devastating effects.
Who is the women's shelter bomber? Melissa Ryan suspects that her husband knows.
Further developments with the Wilder family.
A hidden past shakes the O'Donovan family to its core
A swirl of emotion and choice, set in Cape Town, South Africa
Love is a constant, but it comes at a price.
When the road ahead is unclear, sometimes you have to rely on trust.
The struggle between good and evil is ages old. It gets all the more complicated when the good guys aren't all good and the bad guys have redeeming qualities.
Story of a land mothering two races of people – the light-skinned and the dark-skinned.
A gifted Ukrainian ballerina comes into possession of a mysteriously coded address book.
Six passengers' lives change for better or worse after they arrive in Honiton.
Resilience and love in a harsh and unforgiving age
Kathryn's Beach
High Tide
Storm Surge
What the article on the link had to say would have once surprised me. But I worked in a bookshop,WH Smith in the UK, and I saw how we were told to put the books out at the front of the store, which were promoted. A lot of them such as the celebrity cookbooks and celebrity memoirs never sold at full price because their original price had been inflated - it looked like you were getting a bargain. Not so with JK Rowling, WH Smith had to sell at the original price when a new book was published if it was going to make any money. The big supermarkets such as Tescos sold below the cost price because Mum would go into the food store and buy the child the book and then fill up the shopping trolley.
ReplyDeleteBooks on tables? I watched a couple once choose three books (three for the price of two) without even looking at what they were about. Bought on cover alone.
WH Smith's biggest seller was a hardback European Road atlas at about £9.99. It was quite impressive, but it had cost something like 25p to print and produce in a East European State, they printed so many for sale worldwide.
I note now that WH Smith in Paris have started to sell baked beans and mince pies and they are flying off the shelves.
I thought when I worked in the bookshop it would be about selling books and all the arty stuff. But it's not. It's about making money and the staff were quite ignorant on literature.
I believed that when I wrote my novel, my masterpiece, publishers would be falling over themselves to publish it because I am an artist.
But I'm not, in their eyes, I should have been a celebrity with a 'made' up story to tell or a tin of beans.
Incredible article about publishing and brick & mortar book stores. Definitely food for thought as I go about writing my book (btw, to printed out your post on characters a few weeks back!) and search for an agent / publisher.
ReplyDeleteStay Warm Nadine!
Love,
Peggy
Oh my! And I thought 66 degrees in my house was nippy! I bet you had a ton of layers of clothing on. I would. Stay warm. ~Joyce~
ReplyDeleteI have passed this information on to our authors and to a writing listserv I belong to. I also plan on putting a link in my blog. This is important information and all writers - new and not so new- need to be aware of this. Thanks for posting it.
ReplyDeleteIt makes you feel discouraged at first but if you understand the game, you can play it better. So, indies don't have the clout. So, we go where no one has gone before - or where few are, at least. Bookstores are not what they used to be anyway. Online is where it's at these days and there we have a better chance to catch our audience anyway.