Hi all,
This week I've got an announcement to make: a bookshop is now stocking paperback copies of all of the Elemental Dragons books!
This is a huge milestone for a self published author, as most bookshops won't even look at our books. I pitched quite a few bookshops last year, but got disheartened by the amount of negative responses. Due to publishing through Amazon, which is the biggest rival to bookshops, they weren't interested. After about a hundred pitches, some of which got extremely rude responses, I gave up. It was only when someone in my writing group mentioned that a new bookshop had opened that I decided to try again. I wasn't expecting anything to come of it, but they agreed to stock my books!
My books listed on the shop’s website
I'm glad that I've managed to hit another milestone in my author career. It's also quite surreal to see my book in a physical shop!
For the time being I'm not going to pitch to any more bookshops. The negative responses I got the first time round effected my anxiety, to the point where I didn't want to check my emails. I know that bookshops don't have to stock books they don't want to, but I think the rude responses were unnecessary.
I considered going through IngramSpark, as they have a high distribution rate with bookshops. The only issue I found is that it can be quite pricey just to set up one book on Ingram, let alone the four that I have. I've put that idea on hold until I decide whether the benefits will outweigh the costs.
If you want to check out the bookshop, you can do so here: Bookshop
That's it for this week! I hope you enjoyed reading, see you next week!
