Book well received in bookstores
October 20, 2009
Had another good day having my book accepted at bookstores with plenty of favourable comments about the cover. What I need now is publicity to get the word out. Reviews are very hard to organise. There are queues of books waiting at the few book reviewers and nobody can promise anything. Hopefully if ten of my friends tell ten of their friends about the book and so on and so forth, that will do the trick. The more people who talk about it the more people will want to read it. Drove down to Hamilton and Cambridge and left books in that neck of the woods. Next week I head south down to Wellington. Most bookstore owners have been incredibly helpful and are willing to give new authors a chance to display their work. It’s all extremely heartening. I wish the media were as helpful.
At last my book is in the bookshops. See post on my homepage for further information.
16th October My printed books arrived from China.
October 16, 2009
They look perfect. The cover is great and the book looks very professional. Buen Camino – beyond the journey is now available at most Paper Plus stores in Auckland and on the North Shore and at most independent bookstores. I am hoping to get the go-ahead to sell to Whitcoulls and Borders from their head office early next week – watch this blog – which will mean virtually every bookstore in the greater Auckland region will have stock of my book or will be able to source it and order it from me for a customer. it’s listed on Nielson’s Book Data too which means it can be ordered by any bookstore. It’s very exciting seeing it out there at last. Paper Plus in Brown’s Bay have made a pyramid of books in their store to promote it as I am a local author. Watch this blog for more news as I travel South on my tour around New Zealand as far as Wellington in the next few weeks. It is extremely heartening to get the supportive response from almost all the bookshops I have visited. I approached them with uncertainty at first not knowing whether they would tell me they would only buy from publishers, but they have been willing to give me an opportunity to sell my book in their stores. I’m sure a lot has to do with the professional look of the finished product.
