Comments on: Please watch the gap between the train and the platform http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/12/please-watch-the-gap-between-the-train-and-the-platform/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Dawn K http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/12/please-watch-the-gap-between-the-train-and-the-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-19931 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:12:24 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/12/please-watch-the-gap-between-the-train-and-the-platform/#comment-19931 I'm happy to know I'm not alone. I also spy on others and not just on public transportation — at the coffee shop, doctor's office, and while on vacation.

As a YA lover, I spend a lot of time at the library and bookstores. I not only spy, but have to give browsers my two cents if they pick up a book I know. But then, I also move books around if my favorite read isn't getting the shelf space I think it deserves.

I may have a bit of a problem…

]]> By: Laura Maylene http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/12/please-watch-the-gap-between-the-train-and-the-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-19930 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:10:50 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/12/please-watch-the-gap-between-the-train-and-the-platform/#comment-19930 I definitely spy on the bus, but I try to be subtle about it. Sometimes it drives me crazy to glimpse at the book the person next to me is reading but not be able to make out a title/author on the pages. I usually end up leaning more and more forward to try to see the cover. So maybe I'm not so subtle…but no matter what, I try not to actually read over someone's shoulder. I can often tell when someone is doing that to me and it's very annoying/distracting.

This morning, for example, I was re-reading a friend's manuscript. The woman next to me shamelessly turned and started reading it, too. I had to put it away. (I mean, it wasn't a published book…it was something entrusted to me to critique. Not for prying eyes!)

Thanks for introducing me to that blog!

]]> By: Jan Markley http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/12/please-watch-the-gap-between-the-train-and-the-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-19928 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:56:36 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/12/please-watch-the-gap-between-the-train-and-the-platform/#comment-19928 I've read entire newspaper articles over people's shoulders!

]]> By: Douglas L. Perry http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/12/please-watch-the-gap-between-the-train-and-the-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-19927 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:38:52 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/12/please-watch-the-gap-between-the-train-and-the-platform/#comment-19927 I don't just spy on them, I walk up to them and ask them what they are reading, especially if it is an iPad or Kindle. I quickly explain that I am an author and am curious to see what other people like.

The vast majority of people don't mind telling me, especially if it is a book or author that I have read. We immediately launch into a discussion about the book, or in the case where I haven't read it, other books the author has written that I have read.

However there have been a couple of cases where it didn't quite work out as I had hoped. In one case the person was reading some kind of erotic novel and was clearly embarrassed by it, and in a couple of other cases I was told it was none of my business. That was true, but the way that they said it did seem a little rude. Hmmm, maybe they were reading something naughty as well.

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