Comments on: Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 11/10/06

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:58:04 +0000

I’m enjoying the range of links you consistently provide, even though I’m having trouble keeping up with them consistently! Thanks.

By: bloglily

bloglily — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:42:54 +0000

I enjoyed the link to rejector — it was fun to read the rant about writing genre fiction when everyone else in the mfa program was writing “literary” fiction. Thanks Eoin!

By: Addy

Addy — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:32:45 +0000

I had the same sort of experiences at the same time – I managed a few bookshops in the early 90s. Window displays were the really big things for us.
Addy

By: litlove

litlove — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:08:39 +0000

That thing about getting prominent placement on bookshop tables is interesting. I bought fiction for Waterstones in Cambridge many years ago, and at that point I put on the tables the books I personally liked a lot, the ones that sold really well, and the ones people talked about. Publishers were selling to us all the time, but they didn’t put any pressure on to place stuff – probably times have changed since the early 90s! If they wanted us to do a dumpbin then all they had to do was provide it. There was often quite a fight amongst the staff as to who got to take home the lilfesize cardboard figures from such promotional displays!