I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed.
I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.
Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you've sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.