Discussion Board

Topic: Selling Your Books

From: Pierce Watters
Location: Seattle
Date: 07/05/2007

Hi Greg,

My earlier email started me wandering around your site. I was a sales rep in Texas for Warner Publisher Services when Eon came out. I remember it well. It was the first Tor book I ever placed on the D/FW Airport Best Seller List. I had to talk and talk and sell my tail off and finally got the buyer to agree to 1/2 a spinner strip in each of D/FW's 13 stands. Well, Eon sold like crazy! I had to order in more copies, immediately, and the D/FW buyer gave me an entire spinner row. Eon stayed on their list for over a year and opened the way for me to place more Tor books on the list, as well. Ah, memories...

Pierce

Re: Selling Your Books

From: Greg Bear
Date: 07/07/2007

Thanks for the persistence, Pierce! EON is still selling steadily and in pretty decent numbers twenty-two years later. Airports are a very different market now...

Respond to this discussion

May we post your correspondence on this site?
Yes
No
IMPORTANT: For form verification, type the following number in the box below: 75




See Also...

Archives: [Oct-Dec 2004] [Jan-June 2005] [July-Dec 2005] [Jan-June 2006] [July 2006] [Aug-Dec 2006] [2007] [2008] [2009] [Current] [Search Blog Archives]