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One in a million
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Actually, my book would be one in about a million two hundred and fifty thousand: that's around how many books were published last year, anyway; this year, probably more. Nowhere is this made clearer than at the BEA -- or Book Expo America. It was held this weekend in New York City. Doubleday flew me up for an event, and afterwards I wandered the book-laden halls of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. It was hellish. It was like wandering the midway at the most crowded state fair you've ever been to, except everybody wore glasses and carried Ingram bags instead of hotdogs and cotton candy. It's hard to realize how many books are out there, and how many publishers there are publishing them, until you see them all in one place. It's not heartening. Had I gone there before ever publishing a book it might have made me wonder, Why bother? Even if I ever did get a book published, how would anybody ever find mine amid all the others?
I still feel that way. But that's not my business. I like to write so I write and then it's up to them. And they have a tough job.
posted by Daniel Wallace at 6:10 PM
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What you are saying here makes me think about the unfold in the movie 'forest gump'. Ain't it wonderful how amid all the pillage shit just happens and then again at other times nothing, absolutely nothing. Whats the word everyone is using nowadays; Karma. yow.
Sidney