Selling books

[tlm]

I am laughing, hysterically as I watch the commentator (the old guy) from the show Sunday Morning, plugging his book, Way off the Road. I can't remember his name, but he repeated the title of his book about 30 times.

Anyway, he walks down the streets and through a mall with a wheelbarrow of his books. He tries to sell them in a restaurant and at a baseball game. I think I know how he feels.:eek:

[jacks girl]

Hey I know a guy locally that published his own book and sold them out of his trunk don't know how many he sold but it sounds like a plan.

[Phy]

lol! That's laughably pathetic! Poor fool!

(How many did he sell? Were people open to his approach? Do you suppose he's willing to tell us how he did it? Is he taking interviews?)

Ok, I'm completely kidding with all of this, but the point remains. I'm divided on the whole idea of marketing ourselves. I sit in unrepentant judgment and also wish I were doing this my ownself. I am unique, a riddle wrapped in an enigma, just like the rest of all of you.

;)

[tlm]

If you happen to work for a national news and entertainment service (like he does) I doubt you really have a hard time getting your book into the bookstores.

[cynthiahickey]

Don't knock the wheel barrow thing. I read somewhere that John Grisham's first book was peddled out of the back of his truck! Look at him now. Stephen King wrote short stories and delivered them to every doorstep of his hometown.

[tlm]

I hear that is why David-Kidd (Memphis) has quarterly local author book signings, so they can discover another Grisham.

BTW I have a station wagon--plenty of room for boxes of books!