Someone came into the office today to chat about publishing. They had an idea and wanted to see how best to progress it and what their options were. They know one of the people who works here (hence them coming in) but had not seen him for ages and were not aware of the focus of our books.
As I have mentioned in previous posts, I am amazed that our Goldmine Giveaway has not attracted more media attention and more public support. I have started thinking that perhaps the author and I had just misjudged what people were interested in and that they did not get it. Either that or they have not heard about or seen it.
If you ever come to our office, you will see that the meeting area is at the back and the main area has a table in the centre which displays our books and our desks skirt this central island.
Whilst waiting to go to the meeting area, they starting browsing at our books (which is what we thought everyone would do but a surprising amount do not!). On seeing the one giving a free sq ft of a gold mine, she became very excited. My desk is right by this area and seeing her reaction gave great pleasure and realisation that Dorian and I were not off the mark with the idea. Here was someone who got it and loved it. She bought 6 copies and left almost evangelical about what a great idea and present this was and that she would make all her friends buy one. Since then I have had a smile on my face and the desire to find out a way of getting to see people's reactions when looking at our books.
It is very easy when sitting in an office and not having contact with the people who buy our books to loose sight of what type of reaction they can conjure. I would love to get more feedback from all of you as to what you like and don't like about what we are trying to do. So do not be afraid - throw your likes and dislikes about Eye to me and they will be welcomed and appreciated with open arms.
People can sometimes try and hide from things and not face reality. The world is full of unknowns and once they become knowns we can deal with them and move on. When we hide away from things in case they are not what we want to hear, see or face, it does nothing but add to our woes.
I am always excited about finding out stuff - good or bad, coz then I can grow. Change is scary but only the thought of it.
On reading that back I see it is all quite quick - going from a person coming in and buying a few copies of our books to the philosophy of life! Ohhps - perhaps I had better stop here.
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