It's always good to let the novel out!
Two days after my novel was published, I read an article, entitled 'It's not always good to let the novel out' which said that 53,325 new books published last year sold an average of just 18 copies. Blimey! I like statistics, I like the perimeter feel of them - and even that one gave me a thrill - because at least 53,325 people got their novel out. They thought about it, wrote it and put a final full stop in somewhere down the line. They saw it bound, with a cover, a package full of their own endeavour. If they were lucky they got to see it on a shelf in a bookshop, and if they were really, really lucky they got to see their mother shoving Dan Brown out of the way in order to make room for it. After all that the selling of it is almost secondary (almost!)... My favourite quote is this '(despite) the fact that writing is lonely, fattening, difficult and depressing, because there's always someone doing it better...' - a good incentive, I think, to start writing book number two! Meanwhile book number one is now out and about, wandering free...
posted by Sarah Broughton @ 17:41
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