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1oldstick
helmikuu 18, 2010, 6:29 am

Hi Everyone

I'm new and it has taken me two weeks to find this group.

I don't mind chatting to people in America but I was beginning to think no-one from GB was a member.

I'm not much use on the computer but I do read and write books.

Trouble is, the shop that used to sell my novels closed down and the new shop only wants non fiction.

Anyone out there?

oldstick

2sarahemmm
helmikuu 18, 2010, 6:48 am

Hello, oldstick!

There are quite a number of us, but we rarely have much to say in this forum!

LT isn't so much a social networking site as a cataloguing site, though, as you have no doubt seen, Talk has a lot going on. If you have questions, the Welcome to LibraryThing! group is a good place to start.

When you say the shop sold your novels, do you mean that you are your own publisher? If so, there are a number of ways you could publish on the internet. I'm not that well up on this sort of thing, but you could enquire in an authors group (try Writer-readers or Writer's Brag and Rag Bag).

3miss_read
helmikuu 18, 2010, 8:30 am

I'm sorry about your bookshop, and I wish I had some publishing advice for you. Perhaps try sarahemmm's advice about trying an authors' group? But I did want to let you know that there are plenty of us from the UK here!

4CliffordDorset
tammikuu 26, 2011, 4:08 pm

I wish I could offer words of comfort regarding your recently deceased bookshop, oldstick, but I see no hopeful signs. In my (UK) town the last (non-secondhand) shop closed fifteen years ago and its now nearly an hour by bus to the closest, a Waterstones.

I buy a lot of books, but mostly secondhand and almost exclusively on-line. I had an interesting experience just before Christmas when I observed a large truck making deliveries. When I got close enough to look inside I saw an enormous pile of book-sized parcels, many hundreds, each bearing the name of the same South American river (not the Orinoco!)

There's a market for books, but the High Street just cannot handle the quantity and variety. Sadly.

5oldstick
tammikuu 28, 2011, 9:51 am

Since I started this thread two more bookshops have opened and closed. We still have Smiths and Waterstones but they get their copies of my books from the wholesaler.
As a self publisher I am also in charge of my own marketing and promotion.
I spend more time on all that now and have given up writing for this year.
I won't reach my target audience on line but things are progressing at a face to face level.
I think the next battle will be to save libraries.
oldstick.

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