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Writing Excuses 9.47: Conversation With a Bookseller

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How to Make a Bestseller at Your Store

My least favorite books are the ones where I read the first chapter and have no idea what might be coming. A store can sometimes sell 300 copies of a book that no one else in the country is selling that number of. John Hemmeray had trouble with this when he republished Jack Campbell, his early books. It turns out the booksellers could only sell it to people who were like to turn fiction and science fiction.

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