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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 11/3 - Plug

I met Bill Brown, a writer who has self-published four books with Lulu, several weeks ago. Today he bought a copy of Killing, so it is only fitting that I return the favor by giving him a plug. He writes what he describes as niche books: American Colossus, The Grain Elevator 1843-1943; You Should've Heard Just What I Seen, a collection of articles from 1981-'84, many on music; Not Bored, another collection, 1983-2010; Fenced Off, Obscured or Painted Over, Photographs of Murals.... The least expensive is 24.99. Not many sell. At that price it's hard to get any reader to bite on a relative unknown. Good luck, Bill. And thanks.



There have been times I've stood at Bay Parkway and 85th Street, trying to sell books, and wondered if I were nuts. The last two days have been unbelievable, at least compared to those many sessions when the floating book shop generates just a few dollars. I sold all but three of the children's books I had on hand, and several novels, but the sale that tickled me most, other than that of my own book, was El Testigo en La Sombra, Mary Higgins Clarke's Witness in the Shadow translated into Spanish. Muchisimas gracias, Senora, and everyone else. My luck was so good that I even made a sale as I was carrying the crates back to the car, when a young man spotted and bought Steven Sagan's WWII thriller, The Formula.
Visit Vic's sites:
Vic's Third Novel (Print or Kindle): http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic's Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic's Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3

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