And this is even bigger because it's The Grinch, because it's Christmas and because everyone loves Jim Carrey. On the other end of the spectrum, from small publisher Mountain Watch Press, Sheridan said she thinks a younger children's title Spriggles , part of a motivational series for children, authored by Jeffery A., Martha and Alexander Gottlieb, looked interesting. It's about self-esteem, but the rhymes are really cute. Just the sheer quantity of giveaway galleys at BEA is enough to overwhelm any bookseller, and The Regulator's Campbell told PW that he lugs as few galleys as he can back to North Carolina. Matching the right book to the right bookseller is the first step to matching the right title to the right buyer.
Galleys are a form of insider information.
And like dabbling in the stock market, or handicapping horse races for that matter, picking the winners early on involves an alchemy of taste, savvy and luck. That Could Golf publishers just love Father's Day for, along with Christmas, it is a holiday that was made to sell their books. Who Never Lived , the new novel by J. Michael Veron. This novel, a survivor of the infamous slush pile, has suddenly found its game. Coupled with the previous sale of audio rights to Brilliance and 175 replies for reading copies in just three days from Booksense, Greatest Player seems to be heading directly for the bestseller lists.