Rebecca O'Connor's Lift, her literary falconry memoir and one of the best falconer's memoirs ever written, had such good press I thought it would automatically be come a success (this despite my having written to her about "... terrific reviews, indifferent agents, incompetent publishers, [and] few sales…"). But NOOO. She has sold only 411 copies.
This is a disgrace, and at the very least an instance about how we no longer know how to market or identify good books "with trees in them"*-- a subject I will have more to say about later.
Meanwhile Lift is the kind of book any Querencia regular will love-- if you read the first paragraph, you will be hooked. If you don't have it already, do yourself and Rebecca a favor: go here and order it.
*Norman MacLean's A River Runs Through it was rejected by virtually every NY publisher, one of whom complained "This book has trees in it!"
4 comments:
Sadly, publishing is more often about making money than making available quality writing that enlightens or fires the imagination.
Ordered my copy last night. Matt
Make it 412.
ordered mine today
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