Mild Success

Yesterday I visited four more branches of Waterstone's to see if they would be interested in stocking THE HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS. I met with limited success on this occasion.

My first visit was to the Waterstone's near Liverpool Street Station, along the London Wall. There was no one in there to speak to about stocking the novel, so I left them the details and a card, along with the ISBN. I'm putting that one down to a maybe. My second visit was to the Ladenhall branch, which has a large and popular science fiction section. They were quite receptive and more than happy to stock it.

My next visits were to two branches around Embankment. When speaking to the branch manager on Saturday, she had expressed an interest in stocking the book, so long as I was able to discover if it was available through the hub (I found out that it was). However, when returning they declined to bring in any copies, since HOTK is a Print On Demand book and was therefore not returnable (Hmmmm, the other branches didn't have an issue with this). The last store I visited said that their science fiction section was not a good seller, so they would only stock franchise or best sellers. Understandable, I guess.

There are still a number of branches that I can visit, but I suspect that, unless they are large stores, I will shortly be approaching the upper limit of who will be willing to stock the book.