Comments for Hunting High and Low http://susan-bischoff.com ...even superheroes deserve to find happily ever after Tue, 01 May 2012 17:37:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Talent Chronicles at your neighborhood bookstore by Susan Bischoff http://susan-bischoff.com/2012/05/01/talent-chronicles-at-your-neighborhood-bookstore/#comment-6969 Tue, 01 May 2012 17:37:16 +0000 http://susan-bischoff.com/?p=1785#comment-6969 A friend of mine took my book to our local independent–right before they closed. I haven’t been to our library yet (:is shy:). Same for my high school. I always think about mailing them books with a note of hey, I used to go here. But I haven’t. I did slip a copy of Hush Money into the box when I took paperbacks to the used book store. And it seems they didn’t have trouble selling it as it was gone the next time I went.

]]> Comment on Talent Chronicles at your neighborhood bookstore by Deborah the Closet Monster http://susan-bischoff.com/2012/05/01/talent-chronicles-at-your-neighborhood-bookstore/#comment-6968 Tue, 01 May 2012 17:27:15 +0000 http://susan-bischoff.com/?p=1785#comment-6968 Awesome! I dropped off a copy of my novel at a local bookstore about a month ago, but they haven’t gotten back to me. I know there’s a copy of my novel in a high school library back east, a thought that fills me with glee. :)

]]> Comment on Talent Chronicles at your neighborhood bookstore by Susan Bischoff http://susan-bischoff.com/2012/05/01/talent-chronicles-at-your-neighborhood-bookstore/#comment-6963 Tue, 01 May 2012 13:56:13 +0000 http://susan-bischoff.com/?p=1785#comment-6963 I should add that I get why bookstores don’t generally stock POD paperbacks. The unsold remainder of books sent by the publishing houses can be returned for credit. Once a POD book is printed and paid for, that sucker is yours. There’s no mechanism to return it, and so it represents a purchasing risk to the book store owner that traditionally published books don’t have. I get that. Which is why I decided to offer copies of my books for free in hopes that they might be purchased and then reordered (not in a crate, but one or two copies at a time), and the shop owners might consider me a good risk in the future. I think what it would really take to get any bookstore to consider putting an indie author on the shelf (on a case by case basis) would be a serious local fanbase–people coming into the store and asking that the book be ordered for them and showing that there is a demand for the author’s work that they’ll be getting met online if the bookstore can’t meet their needs. For the vast majority of us, such a concentration of fans who are that motivated to help us out in that way is very unlikely, so I don’t really see a solution for distribution in the physical world.

]]> Comment on Talent Chronicles at your neighborhood bookstore by Susan Bischoff http://susan-bischoff.com/2012/05/01/talent-chronicles-at-your-neighborhood-bookstore/#comment-6962 Tue, 01 May 2012 13:45:06 +0000 http://susan-bischoff.com/?p=1785#comment-6962 I offered them for free.

]]> Comment on Talent Chronicles at your neighborhood bookstore by Lauralynn Elliott http://susan-bischoff.com/2012/05/01/talent-chronicles-at-your-neighborhood-bookstore/#comment-6961 Tue, 01 May 2012 13:29:54 +0000 http://susan-bischoff.com/?p=1785#comment-6961 In today’s world, it’s amazing that people still won’t give indies a chance. But at least your books will be in MA! I asked my local library if they would like copies of my books and they seemed delighted. Now I just have to get them over there.

Are your books at that bookstore on consignment or did you give them away completely free? It seems any bookstore would like to have books they don’t have to pay for ahead of time if they have the shelf space.

]]> Comment on Talent Chronicles: The Books by Susan Bischoff http://susan-bischoff.com/talent-chronicles/#comment-6958 Tue, 01 May 2012 11:58:13 +0000 http://susan-bischoff.com/#comment-6958 I’m sorry that right now I have no idea when book 3 will be ready.

]]> Comment on Talent Chronicles: The Books by Susan Bischoff http://susan-bischoff.com/talent-chronicles/#comment-6957 Tue, 01 May 2012 11:57:34 +0000 http://susan-bischoff.com/#comment-6957 Thank you, Miranda. As I’m sure you’re reading a bunch of great stuff (I’m jealous of the speed reading!), that’s a huge compliment.

]]> Comment on Talent Chronicles: The Books by Susan Bischoff http://susan-bischoff.com/talent-chronicles/#comment-6956 Tue, 01 May 2012 11:54:49 +0000 http://susan-bischoff.com/#comment-6956 Aw, thanks, Nick. Finally I can love the idea of being talked about.

]]> Comment on Talent Chronicles: The Books by Anonymous http://susan-bischoff.com/talent-chronicles/#comment-6952 Tue, 01 May 2012 02:23:44 +0000 http://susan-bischoff.com/#comment-6952 Do you have any thoughts on to when book 3 will be released?

]]> Comment on Bischoff Blueprint Part 1 by Check-in April 29 Swimming with the Current « Leavekeeping http://susan-bischoff.com/2010/07/07/bischoff-blueprint-part-1/#comment-6946 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:52:52 +0000 http://susanbischoff.wordpress.com/?p=230#comment-6946 [...] figure out if I was going to kill or tame it. On Thursday, I downloaded Susan Bischoff’s story blueprint, and a character chart by Reb at Eclectics.com to which Nadja Notariani recently referred.  I [...]

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