This sort of SC is specific to bookstores, but I am curious to see how many other people have dealt with them.
We have a lot of local authors who apply to us to carry their titles. No problem. Most are lovely people who admit they know little about marketing their own books and I am happy to help them.
But there's always a few who strut in, toss their book on the Help Desk, and declare, "I WROTE A BOOK!"
Hey, me too! But I am actually revising mine for the third time and am submitting to agents and not paying to self-publish.
Seriously, I skim through every book that is dropped off for consideration and 99% are done by vanity publishers, and 99% of those suck. Seriously. Not going through a real publisher means no rejection slips and less work but it also means NO EDITOR.
I know it is silly and petty but this really annoys me. When people ask what I do I tell them I am a writer (who works at a bookstore to pay the bills) but I don't act all high and mighty about it. Anyone can write, the secret to actually being a writer is to stick with it through all the rejections and criticism.
We have a lot of local authors who apply to us to carry their titles. No problem. Most are lovely people who admit they know little about marketing their own books and I am happy to help them.
But there's always a few who strut in, toss their book on the Help Desk, and declare, "I WROTE A BOOK!"
Hey, me too! But I am actually revising mine for the third time and am submitting to agents and not paying to self-publish.
Seriously, I skim through every book that is dropped off for consideration and 99% are done by vanity publishers, and 99% of those suck. Seriously. Not going through a real publisher means no rejection slips and less work but it also means NO EDITOR.
I know it is silly and petty but this really annoys me. When people ask what I do I tell them I am a writer (who works at a bookstore to pay the bills) but I don't act all high and mighty about it. Anyone can write, the secret to actually being a writer is to stick with it through all the rejections and criticism.
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