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Article: How to shatter an author's shelf-confidence; James clarke First they display the front cover, then they turn the books sideways.(News)
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- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2006
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Authors and bookshops have a symbiotic relationship - without each other they could not exist. Although, I suppose, we authors could always stand at traffic lights and flog our books. (THINKS: why on earth haven't I thought of that before?)
I find bookshops depressing.
I am talking of really serious bookshops - the ones that have armchairs and where you can have coffee and listen to music and brazenly sneak-read a book.
Why depressing? Because of the overwhelming number and variety of titles and because the book that I, as an author, might have sweated blood over is squeezed between many others and is suddenly presented spine first so that its ...