Disappointing

posted by Emma on March 26, 2009 05:15 PM

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Wow, if I was on the Orange Longlist I'd be leaping for joy. My passport to fame and riches! Sadly, no. The Bookseller reports:

"Less well-known titles received the biggest uplift, although with limited sales, with Samantha Hunt's The Invention of Everything Else (Harvill Secker) jumping 700% from one copy sold to eight."

Eight copies sold in the week it gets onto the longlist for one of the top three literary prizes. Whoop dee doo.

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Comments: 2


That's heart-breaking. But now I don't feel so bad about my small sales.

Posted by: K. A. Laity on March 26, 2009 06:24 PM


Oh dear. Maybe I'm not so mad after all to be giving it away.

Posted by: Lee on March 27, 2009 10:06 AM

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