There are a few of us booksellers hanging about, eh? My specialty at the store seems to be fantasy, female authors, and all of the gaming and media tie-in books. It's quite fun to be able to volunteer different books to people than the rest of the staff.
Elsewhere you mention YA and sales. Something I do see is that SF/F readers are far more willing as a group to pick up a YA stand alone novel (or series) than the more 'traditional' fiction reader. I can just as easily hand a Gaiman or a Nix or a Yolen over and be taken seriously as I can a Stephenson or Mieville. Then you have writers like Charles de Lint who had two collections, several novel reprints and a children's picture book all out in the same year.
And now I have wandered deplorably off topic. Whoops. Time for my own <wry g>
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Re: Series and stand-alone
Date: 2004-08-26 12:20 am (UTC)There are a few of us booksellers hanging about, eh? My specialty at the store seems to be fantasy, female authors, and all of the gaming and media tie-in books. It's quite fun to be able to volunteer different books to people than the rest of the staff.
Elsewhere you mention YA and sales. Something I do see is that SF/F readers are far more willing as a group to pick up a YA stand alone novel (or series) than the more 'traditional' fiction reader. I can just as easily hand a Gaiman or a Nix or a Yolen over and be taken seriously as I can a Stephenson or Mieville. Then you have writers like Charles de Lint who had two collections, several novel reprints and a children's picture book all out in the same year.
And now I have wandered deplorably off topic. Whoops. Time for my own <wry g>