Seriously - what are they thinking?

This photo is courtesy of Jason Fischer - click on the photo to read his blog and catch an update on progress on his novel.

More seriously this has been a big problem for both ATW and DD sales in newagencies, with the agents placing them in the worst available spots.

ATW should be near the other pulp fiction, the wonderful Cleveland Publishing titles and those army books from England whose publishers name escapes me. DD should be next to The Phantom - a comparative title in terms of readership I would have thought.

So many agents have been putting them in boxes beneath Barbie mags or in amongst the Simpsons comics though. Don't get me wrong - both those books outsell us by literally truck-fulls and are great books in their market but the people looking for pulp or Victorian era adventures aren't necessarily looking for Barbie mags.

It's been interesting to see that in newsagents where any of our books sell, we sell an average of 50% of our stock. That's a fantastic result - if it was replicated across the board we'd be rolling in orders. A lot of newsagents place them incorrectly though and as a result sell zippo, which has a negative effect across the board.

If only I was the boss of everything.....

Til later

Baden