Comments on: Staying in the Race http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/05/staying-in-the-race/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Wanda B. Ontheshelves http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/05/staying-in-the-race/comment-page-1/#comment-22891 Tue, 31 May 2011 02:15:18 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5973#comment-22891 Thanks for link to Lisa Tucker article. Apparently, we’re so busy hurrying to embrace the Spirit of June, before it/she/he’s even gotten here, we lack the wherewithal to delve into our writerly survival strategies. (The latter is loose paraphrase of a Edna St. Vincent Millay poem about daffodils in April.)

I’ll offer one little strategy here: Make friends with a microphone. Don’t fear the amplification of your own voice. I mean, if you sell a million or so books/ebooks, that’s another kind of voice amplification, isn’t it? So just get used to it.

Volume up!

]]> By: Lisa Marie http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/05/staying-in-the-race/comment-page-1/#comment-22835 Thu, 26 May 2011 22:13:22 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5973#comment-22835 I’m a member of the RWA and am aware of some of the issues that published authors face locally. One is that our very big locally-owned bookstore does not and will not carry their genre: romance. This bookstore has a minuscule “romance” section, and many of the books are dubiously categorized (e.g., Nicholas Sparks). If women want a big selection, they have to make the trot to a Big Box store or locate one of the few chain booksellers still open for business. I know that this has been a big source of frustration for these writers, and an even bigger pain in the neck for me. We have an ordinance prohibiting Big Box stores in the city central. Ask me how I feel about making a 45-minute drive to buy books! ☹

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