There's a huge difference between your work and Mr. Adams' work however: HE IS SUPER WELL KNOWN.
if anyone wants to buy a book on his stuff, they can find it easily. However if your book is next to it, it may get neglected by the fanatics of Mr. Adams.
I don't see why you shouldn't have done what you did, I would do the same. I am a browser of books when I enter a bookstore typically (that's how I found Secrets of Jin-Shei...or...yeah I have a brainfreeze). Your book was cover-facing-out and it drew my attention that way.
Sadly we are a society if 'first looks', and as a struggling writer you need to do what you can.
Turning them face out doesn't mean they'll be bought, just like if you were to plaster signs on someone else's lawn it doesn't mean the person who the signs are for will get votes. It just gets them attention.
The day you hold a knife to somone's back and force them to buy it is when you go too far!
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Date: 2006-06-29 07:44 pm (UTC)if anyone wants to buy a book on his stuff, they can find it easily. However if your book is next to it, it may get neglected by the fanatics of Mr. Adams.
I don't see why you shouldn't have done what you did, I would do the same. I am a browser of books when I enter a bookstore typically (that's how I found Secrets of Jin-Shei...or...yeah I have a brainfreeze). Your book was cover-facing-out and it drew my attention that way.
Sadly we are a society if 'first looks', and as a struggling writer you need to do what you can.
Turning them face out doesn't mean they'll be bought, just like if you were to plaster signs on someone else's lawn it doesn't mean the person who the signs are for will get votes. It just gets them attention.
The day you hold a knife to somone's back and force them to buy it is when you go too far!