Pre-release happiness
On Tess Gerritsen’s blog, the author details several depressing visits to bookstores in Honolulu. In a blog entry entitled “Lessons in humility from the road,” she determines that the happiest time in an author’s life is the weeks before her book’s release, not the aftermath when dreams collide with reality. Detailing a particularly demoralizing afternoon, Gerritsen writes, “at Store #3, the manager doesn’t want me to sign ANY copies. She wants to be able to ‘return them all’ if necessary. Then she looks in the computer and stares. ‘Wow,’ she says. ‘We have a lot of your books in stock. I guess you must sell really well here.’ Only then does she allow me to sign three copies of VANISH. I ask her if she has many authors come through her store. ‘You’re the only one,’ she says. (Do other authors know something that I don’t?).”
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