A fellow writer and friend, Russell Kirkpatrick, once recommended a book of mine (The Aware) to a bookseller over where he lives in Hamilton, New Zealand (pop.130,000 - or so the town website tells me). The bookseller read it and loved it, then started to recommend it - and subsequent books of mine - to readers coming into her (independent) store. The nice thing is that they kept coming back for more...
Result: she has sold 20 copies of each title. Wow. Geez, that's one book per every 2,160 people. I don't know your name, Ms Bookseller from Hamilton, but I think you rock! Bless you.
Now if only Whitcoulls, the New Zealand bookchain with 80 stores, would stock my books with that sort of enthusiasm...
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
Havenstar
You can buy my first published book (now out of print) as an eBook for your kindle, most ereaders, iPad etc.
CLICK ON THE COVER for the link to buy.
3 comments:
Oh that was us Pennys Bookstore if I can advertise that!! That Russell he is a lovely bloke, and it was Aimee our weekend manager who has been selling your books, she is a great follower of the genre, now if you wrote crime.....
It was Aimee, and she does a great job. If only your books got the exposure they deserve, Glenda ...
Please say hi to Aimee and a very BIG thank you! And I love your bookstore already...
And yep, that Russell is a lovely bloke!
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