This week, three independent bookstores in the Indianapolis area announced that they will be closing. It's especially sad news for me, since one of them is The Mystery Company, owned by a good friend, Jim Huang. He is co-founder of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association and was co-chair of Bouchercon (the biggest annual mystery convention) last fall. He started his career at Spenser’s Mystery Books in Boston in 1987, and owned Deadly Passions Mystery Bookshop in Kalamazoo, Mich. from 1992-2000. I met Jim years ago at Bouchercon and regularly caught up with him at mystery conventions and events over many years. What a great supporter of the mystery genre he's been! At least he isn't getting out of bookselling altogether. I understand he's taking a job with a college bookstore in Ohio. Good luck, Jim!
Last summer, my hometown indy, The Corner Bookstore also closed. It's really hard to watch it happen. Appears that online selling is the wave of the future, as even the large chain stores are struggling these days. At least, I'm happy to see that people are still reading--my own book sales have actually increased quite a bit with the new e-reading devices like Kindle and Nook. I'm very grateful to all my fans for that!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Writing and promoting!
Happy New Year!
I'm so excited to hear back from my many friends and writing students about their new endeavors for 2010. There are some great novels in the works! I'm currently working on an editing project, along with a couple of others, so that has been fun.
Of course, once you've written and carefully edited that book the next step is to get it published and then to promote it. You may decide to take the traditional route of finding an agent and/or publisher and then going on the road to promote the book once it's published. Or you might publish your own or, at the very least, get your book out there in e-book format.
Anyway, I've recently received a terrific book on the most effective ways to promote a book and I want to share it with you. (This is, of course, done with the permission of the author!). And the best news is that it's free! You can download the ebook here.
Enjoy the free book and best of luck with all your writing endeavors!
Warm regards,
Connie Shelton
Amazon.com bestselling author of the Charlie Parker Mystery Series
and Publish Your Own Novel: The Proven Quick Start Way to Write Your Book
I'm so excited to hear back from my many friends and writing students about their new endeavors for 2010. There are some great novels in the works! I'm currently working on an editing project, along with a couple of others, so that has been fun.
Of course, once you've written and carefully edited that book the next step is to get it published and then to promote it. You may decide to take the traditional route of finding an agent and/or publisher and then going on the road to promote the book once it's published. Or you might publish your own or, at the very least, get your book out there in e-book format.
Anyway, I've recently received a terrific book on the most effective ways to promote a book and I want to share it with you. (This is, of course, done with the permission of the author!). And the best news is that it's free! You can download the ebook here.
Enjoy the free book and best of luck with all your writing endeavors!
Warm regards,
Connie Shelton
Amazon.com bestselling author of the Charlie Parker Mystery Series
and Publish Your Own Novel: The Proven Quick Start Way to Write Your Book
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