tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post114720373101067411..comments2016-11-18T15:27:04.379-08:00Comments on Bookseller Chick: The Rise to Greatness: the Power of a Single ReaderBookseller Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16740546395821645741noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1147519632420353622006-05-13T04:27:00.000-07:002006-05-13T04:27:00.000-07:00I'm a publisher's sales rep, so let me give you an...I'm a publisher's sales rep, so let me give you another, more literal, definition of mid-list. When we sit down with the bookstore's buyer, we are presenting our list for the season. At the top of the list are our huge authors, yes, but also any other book the publisher has decided to put its muscle behind. Maybe you never heard of the author, but the book gets a two page spread in the first few pages of the catalog, gets a ton of marketing money, gets an author tour. We are saying: "these are our big books this season." At the bottom of the list are the reissues, the featured backlist, the westerns and mysteries produced by syndicates and packagers. Everything else is mid-list, the books between the top and bottom. The term has evolved from meaning "where the book is in the catalog and on the order form" to this faintly pejorative sense, but there are huge numbers of wonderful authors who can't quite command top billing but nonetheless do very well.Book Repnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1147474244740101572006-05-12T15:50:00.000-07:002006-05-12T15:50:00.000-07:00Great post. I enjoyed a lot of authors who subsequ...Great post. I enjoyed a lot of authors who subsequently made it big. Linda Fairstein is one. I don't think she hit a list until her third book (I could be wrong) but I bought her first FINAL JEOPARDY and have bought all hers since. I read Tami Hoag long before she hit a list. I read Mariah Stewart and Kay Hooper and Carla Neggers before they hit lists.<BR/><BR/>I think the two authors that will breakout soon are Julie Kenner on the lighter side and Colleen Thompson on the suspense side. Julie might have hit USAT with her last book, I'm not sure (I'm not THAT obsessed with the list :) and she's in trade, so I think that has some differences). Keith Ablow is one of my favorites . . . his NF hit the NYT list, but his fiction haven't yet.Allison Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02872860080644987843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1147272814941550822006-05-10T07:53:00.000-07:002006-05-10T07:53:00.000-07:00Lisa Reardon.Lisa Reardon.Lisa Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990497847254092588noreply@blogger.com
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