My first ever trade title, Doggy Duo, had a difficult life. After the excitement of acceptance, editing and finally seeing it released, and launched, came the reality that the small publisher who had produced it had some distribution problems. Six months later, the publisher went into receivership. Eventually, after another owner took over and eventually also went into receivership, I was offered the chance to buy the remaindered stock, which was the majority of the print run.
I could only afford to buy a small portion of that stock, which I did. It’s good to be able to have copies of an older title to sell at school visits and so on. However, now that I have several newer trade titles I’ve decided it’s time to sell those copies of Doggy Duo.
So, last night I bit the bullet and listed some signed copies for sale on ebay at the discount price of $5 each (you can see the listing here). I don’t know if it’s an effective way of clearing old stock, but it didn’t take long to get a listing happening, and I do know that lots of kids love having books that are signed by the author. And it would be nice to think that my book baby is being read rather than gathering dust in my wardrobe.
I’ll let you know how it goes.