After spending ten hours a day, seven days a week for six years, my book is published. Soon my children and my friends will all have copies. Not bad for approximately 21,600 hours of labor. . . .
I'm not complaining, it works for my Publisher and it works for me.
But, I have another 'unique' commodity that is not being utilized . . . my name. My name is Greayer. . . . Bookstores stock my books on their bookshelves between Grafton . . . and . . . Grisham. . . . A local Borders placed ten copies of my first book, The Tornado Struck at Midnight on their bookshelves and they sold out pronto. Every time I dropped by and told the manager that my book had sold out, they re-stocked and they too sold out pronto. The books sold rapidly because they were visible to a large number of 'browsers'. (Location, location, location) Had Borders placed my book in stores nationwide they would have had a New York Times best seller in nothing flat, but both Borders and Barnes and Noble 'corporations' had a policy . . . they would not stock POD books. Borders and Barnes and Noble were incapable of change, . . . end of story.
So here we are again. My new book 'What Women Know' will be published by June. If my publisher placed a few copies of my new book in stores nationwide, my publisher would have the distinction of creating a New York Times best seller in nothing flat. I suggested to my publisher, he might have to do something imaginative like placing ten copies of my book 'What Women Know', in ten stores on consignment to check out my story. If they find what I say is true, they could place books on consignment, in stores nationwide. Obviously, I'm the one with the unique commodity, (the name Greayer) but I can't do it; it's up to my Publisher.
