Visiting the Madera Library and Tips About Selling Books
This past weekend, I appeared at the Madera Library along with other local authors. Of course I'm not all that local to Madera--but it's worth it to drive that far to meet new people and talk about my books and sell a few. I was foruntate in that I did quite well at the event--both with meeting new people and selling books. My daughter drove me there and went around and talked to the other authors. She made a couple of observations about what the other authors did and didn't do. She said some of them didn't stay at their posts. They wandered around, mostly talking to other authors and missed opportunities to speak with potential readers. The other observation she made that is an important one is that there were some people that she wouldn't buy their books because she already knew everything that was in them--so why bother. In other words these particular authors told her in detail the complete plot of their books, including the ending. I've seen an...