The Book Rack

Yesterday, I dropped off three copies of Tales from Half Moon Room at The Book Rack in Vernon. The proprietor placed them on display on a book-rack that showcases local authors and because it is a used bookstore she only allows new books by local authors to sell for between $10-14. She suggested that we set $12 as a selling price due to our name, Jordon's Twelve. She thought it would be catchy. She has to charge sales tax but we would get the entire $12 selling price.

She didn't want to display one of our rack cards with the book because the card tells where you can buy the book online but I suggested that she cut off that part of the card. She did and posted the upper portion of the rack card next to our books. I also gave her my business card if she needs to get in touch with me. On a weekly basis I will stop in and see how our book is selling.

CAPA-U Bookstore

I am planning to attend this year's CAPA-U event and will bring along copies of our book for sale.

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR CAPA MEMBERS ATTENDING CAPA-U 2012

Anyone who is a member of CAPA and who registers to attend CAPA-U 2012 is invited to sell his or her books as part of the CAPA-U Bookstore. Each such participant is allowed up to 3 titles with a limit of 10 books per title. The participant must place a label the on the back of each book submitted with the selling price which must include Connecticut state sales tax and must be set in a whole dollar amount (e.g., $10.00, not $9.95). Participating members wishing to take advantage of this opportunity must email their titles, along with the selling prices, to Debbie Kilday at washigon@aol.com no later than May 5th. Authors will be responsible for drop off and pickup of their books on the day of the conference. This is a wonderful opportunity for member authors to market their books, and a chance for the participating agents to see the professional work of CAPA members. Nonmembers are invited to join CAPA to participate in this selling opportunity.

Meeting on the 28th

Don't forget that we have a meeting on Saturday, January 28th from 10-noon outside the Culinary Arts Center in the Lowe Building at MCC.

Stories should have been emailed this past Saturday so if you haven't yet submitted your story for review & critique, please do so as soon as possible.

Please let me know if you plan to attend the meeting on the 28th.

Book Reviews & Potential Sales

I forwarded copies of our book to the following independent book review websites for review:

Free Book Reviews (we appear about 3/4 of the way down on their to do book review list)

Books and Novels to Read.com (we are listed on their website but have not yet been reviewed)

SFReader.com (we do not yet show up on their website)

Also, this week I will bring three copies of our book to The Book Rack bookstore in Vernon, CT.

We still have ten copies of our book on display at the Ashford Community Market (no website) and I was told that there has been some mild interest in our book but so far no copies have sold. I plan to wait until the end of the summer to see if anyone buys a copy for a beach read and then I will pull them. If we do sell copies at The Book Rack that could then prove to be our targeted customer base.

We still need to have a discussion with the library at MCC to see if they will carry our book. I never received a response from the director of the board at the Ashford Library so I plan to seek out the librarian myself.