Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing EP 087 - You, Your Book, And Bookstores
In this solo episode, Mark offers a perspective on bookstores, booksellers, and bookselling, and shares ideas on how authors can best get their books into bookstores.
Prior to the topic, Mark shares a personal update about the move back upstairs to his renovated office, discusses a comment on a previous episode, reminds listeners about the contest to win a print copy of Patrick O'Donnell's book COPS AND WRITERS, and also thanks Patrons and talks about the patron perks.
Mark then shares a word from this episodes sponsor...
You can learn more about how you can get your work distributed to retailers and library systems around the world at starkreflections.ca/Findaway.
When discussing bookstores, Mark covers these topics:
- The importance of relationships and community
- Understanding the business side of print bookselling, including the margins
- How returns work and how that effects a bookseller's willingness to stock books
- How Mark got chain bookstores to order his self-published book (and how that partially backfired)
- How bookstores order books VS how consignment works
- The rules, and why bookstores might sometimes make exceptions to those rules in particular situations
- Why Mark tied an onion to his belt
- And more....
Links of Interest:
- Mark's First Self-Published Book: One Hand Screaming
- Episode 29 - Interview with Terry Fallis
- Episode 39 - Professionalism
- Episode 84 - From The Academy to the Street with Patrick O'Donnell
- Findaway Voices
- Patreon for Stark Reflections
The music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0