While On The Novel Book Tour I Tried To Get Feedback On Our Children's Books

One of our many crazy hopes about the new novel was it would be popular enough to get bookstore people to look at the children's books we had with us on tour stashed away in the computer case.

Turned out it was pretty easy to get bookstore people to critique them. In some places it was impossible because they were too busy just running the store or the people really weren't the right folks to bother with. And that Harry Potter thing was going on (By the way the Harry Potter press run for just the U.S. was 12 million printed. And that Grants Pass store I talked about earlier had a Harry Potter party that crammed 500 people into their little space.).

One of our books, "Birthday Snow,'' got consistently good reviews and three book buyers said they would give it a try. It's easier now because stores can buy "Birthday Snow'' from Ingram which I didn't realize was such a big thing. You say that to a book buyer and it's instant credibility.

Of course you make about a penny on the book going through Ingram but that's show business.

Michael LaLumiere
www.staggerleebooks.com