My trip to see the manager at Walden Books today was about as frustrating as my trip to Christian Family Bookstores yesterday, and no more successful. Perhaps I just naturally rub people the wrong way so that they don’t want to help me? More likely, bookstores are simply not interested in authors that are just starting out, local or not, even if they are published by Reader’s Digest (the manager told me that her bookstore doesn’t usually carry books published by Reader’s Digest, kept asking me who the distributor was and was fixated on Ingram’s and Baker and Taylor; that the Penguin Group USA was the distributor made no impact on her, as if she’d never heard of them or Putnam; if it wasn’t Ingram’s or B&T then it didn’t count–and she was equally unfazed by the information that Barnes & Noble would be carrying my book). Perhaps book signings simply don’t generate any added business or income for bookstores. I simply don’t know; I’m new at all of this, after all. But at this point, I doubt that I will continue trying to arrange for any booksignings.<\/p>\n
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