[Console]

I'm sure you'll get over it.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know why we capitalise the letter 'i' when using it as a personal pronoun? It's something I was thinking about a few days ago, and didn't come up with an answer - we certainly don't capitalise any of the other personal pronouns.

[MK Chris]

Has no one noticed this thread was started by an illiterate moron?

i am neither of those things.

Then you do a bloody good impression of both.

[S4B]

There is too much crap published as it is.

[Yudster]

I've often wondered - I agree that there is a lot of rubbish being published, but does it ever happen that you get a new book in stock and don't actually sell any of them? There are so many, and some of them are so awful, there must be loads of books out there that only sell a few copies altogether - have you ever not managed to shift a book at all?

[MK Chris]

I'd imagine there are people employed who are pretty adept at predicting what will sell well and what won't, and to a certain extent, which stores and areas they will sell well in. I'm not saying they'll get it right all the time or they'll totally avoid something that they feel won't sell, but I'd imagine that most of the time, books that won't sell are ordered in pretty small quantities?

[markool89]

Has no one noticed this thread was started by an illiterate moron?

i am neither of those things.

Then you do a bloody good impression of both.

yes! im a very good impressionist!!

[MK Chris]

Are you lying about that?

[markool89]

Are you lying about that?

omfg! shut up about that! you are SO annoying!

[foot-loose]

Are you lying about that?

omfg! shut up about that! you are SO annoying!

The boy speaketh the truth.

[MK Chris]

Well, it would be a fir.... OK, I'll leave it.

[foot-loose]

Ach. I set it all nicely up as well.

[MK Chris]

I know but I'd only get into trouble.

I was going to say 'well it would be a first' - but you'd already guessed that, right?.

[S4B]

I've often wondered - I agree that there is a lot of rubbish being published, but does it ever happen that you get a new book in stock and don't actually sell any of them? There are so many, and some of them are so awful, there must be loads of books out there that only sell a few copies altogether - have you ever not managed to shift a book at all?

Yes on numerous occasions, it would be wrong of me to tell you what they were.

I'd imagine there are people employed who are pretty adept at predicting what will sell well and what won't, and to a certain extent, which stores and areas they will sell well in. I'm not saying they'll get it right all the time or they'll totally avoid something that they feel won't sell, but I'd imagine that most of the time, books that won't sell are ordered in pretty small quantities?

That depends Topher there is always one every year which is generally agreed that it will sell one and then it ends up being a complete flop, this is generally referred to as "doing and Ulrika". (The reason should be obvious but in case you are in any doubts.... Ulrika Johnson's autobiography, when it was published a number of years ago, was widely expected to sell in vast quantities. It didn't! Needless to say the orders were well in excess of the sales)

[MK Chris]

That wasn't obvious to me.

I'd call it "doing a Partridge."

[S4B]

Why?

[MK Chris]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn9WYZdHAyg][/youtube]

[S4B]

Ahhh. he really annoys me, maybe I know too many local dj's

[kendra k]

he's ace! his story with his book is all too common. well, not all too common, but still sad. the publishing companies operate like recording companies.

i didn't think anybody could not like alan partridge. srsly!

[Yudster]

So what would happen in for instance Ulrika's situation, because I would have thought the sales wouldn't have covered her advance? Would she have to pay it back?!

[S4B]

Nah, once they've paid her it's up to them to make it sell.

[Yudster]

Ok - I need to write a book! Or more specifically, I need to persuade a publisher that I CAN write a book!

[ALFIE]

The best tip I ever heard was in June on a Paul McKenna NLP course.

He says the way he writes is to kind of relax/ meditate/ self hypnotise and take himself to the end of the book. He imagines reading it, going throught the major points and themes.
He then brings himself back to the now and writes it.
His comment was "So far it seems to have worked pretty well.!"

I would say a dramatic understatement for the Uk's highest selling non-fiction writer!

[S4B]

the Uk's highest selling non-fiction writer!

Where did you get this "fact"?

[ALFIE]

I've heard it a couple of times.
Possibly on Richard and Judy and or another chat show.

It's all the self help books; I can make you thin etc. They all go to the top of the best seller list.

[S4B]

Yeah some of them do,not all though. I doubt he's the UK's highest selling non fiction author. Does this mean in the UK or is it referring to the nationality of the author?