When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.
When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.
The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.
Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!
My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.