Don’t tell me you haven’t done this with your own books.
I’ll admit that after leaving a bookstore, my clients tend to have their books face-out. (I do not recommend moving books around! Publishers pay good money for product placement, and the poor booksellers have enough to worry about.)
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One day that will be me! 🙂
Well, um, I didn’t move them around the store, but I have turned some of mine from spine view to face-out view.
Funny video!
Not me. But it could be my mother . . .
I’m a Secret Face-Out Agent–not only for my own books, but for people I love too!
Yep, I do it for all of my author friends. 🙂
I think I’ll wear a disguise…at least sunglasses and a hat… a ski mask might lead to false assumptions. Fun, thanks for sharing.
I’ve never, ever faced my books or my author friend’s books. Well, okay, maybe 20 or 30 times.
I repost way too many of your Fun Fridays. This one = awesome. And I must say it presents some new (albeit not bookseller-friendly) ideas.
That was great! My book is due out in three weeks and I can’t wait to try some of those smooth moves out! 🙂
I just love Fridays at Steve Laube’s blog.
Hysterical.
I love her sneaking it into the fiction section and saying she made most of the memoir up.
Me? I have never turned a book face-out for my friends and I hope if I ever get published no one will do it for me. If I turn one face-out I’m turning someone else’s spine-out. I can’t do that.
The video, however, was a great way to advertise her book.
True story.
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We were in a bookstore
a few short years ago,
having coffee with a S’more
when Barb heard a mother go
“I’ve never met a writer
of a real-live book.”
Barb’s eyes got bright, then brighter,
she said, “Ma’am, just take a look
at my husband at this table;
he’s a writing guy,
and he wrote a fable
that on Kindle you can buy!”
The lady gasped, and then she laughed,
and her Kindle done got autographed.
I think people were looking at me askance as I burst into laughter while this video. I am at my Toyota dealer, which is apparently a quiet zone. Not with me watching this video! Thanks for the ideas, Jane! (I will confess to reviewing my own novels on Amazon, though! Guess who loved my writing? Three guesses and the first two don’t count!)
I’m just tired of visiting bookstores and seeing my books wedged between Joel Osteen and Davit Platt.
Yeah I did it once. I went back to the same store and found the book back where it had been. I then learned that book placement is a serious thing, and you cannot mess with it. So I never did it again. I love this video though. Especially changing the 3 to 3oo. How great would that be?!