Very useful post about how to get your books in UK stores from Stevie Turner.
Recently some good news: My local branch of Waterstones on the Isle of Wight is going to add 3 of my books to their Local Interest shelf in January. I had taken copies of Revenge, Lily: A Short Story, and The Donor in to the manager earlier in October to enquire as to whether he would be interested in displaying them, as all 3 feature the Island in some way.
Getting an agreement from a store manager to display your books is also the hardest part, and you’re on your own there I’m afraid. If you take a look at Waterstones’ own application form, it’ll say for authors not to bring their books into the stores as they only work through buyers, but I hadn’t read this when I took mine in as I didn’t go via this route!
I found that books with local interest fare rather…
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