There isn't an indie bookstore within 500 miles that will allow self pubbed books on their shelves. When interviewed, I had two turn their noses up at me. Indie bookstores are not welcoming to indie authors. They're indie bookstores because they're not owned by BN or Am. That's their only badge.
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are folks unaware of how difficult it is for indie authors to get indie bookshops to even touch their books? indie bookshops sell mostly trad books. so telling an indie author to ‘sell in an indie bookshop’ is kinda frustrating when they often decline to stock anything not trad or successful.
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I gave a Lovelace book to a local lesfem bookstore called Blue Stockings for review to stock. They wouldnt stock it *or* return my copy, which Im sure they burned