Confessions of a Book Mover

bookmover.jpg“So I go into my local supermarket a while back to hunt and gather and lo! there on the paperback rack is my book. As Martha says, it’s a good thing. But alas, I am down on the bottom, wedged between the horoscope books and a romance with a really creepy cover. I curbed my cart, looked around to see that no one was watching, and promptly moved my modest stack of five books up to the No. 5 slot, bumping James Patterson down to No. 9.
Uh-oh… I hear sirens. I hear gasps. You MOVED your own books? You took over another author’s legitimately won bestseller space? How crude, desperate and socially unacceptable!”
I also know somebody whose name sounds like Blair Bulkey who once purchased a copy of her own book at a store just to show the manager what a cool, popular book it was. You’d do it too. (Cabbages and Kings)

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