![]() ![]() That’s hard for me to imagine, but it’s true. The Pew Research Center says roughly a quarter of Americans have not read a book in the past year. ![]() Once your manuscript is published, you cannot control how it is received.You aim as carefully as possible, but an unseen wind may blow them to someone who doesn’t want them, someone who takes them to Goodwill or the thrift store or, God forbid, throws them in the trash. We spend years writing them, and then someone reads them in a day. On the other hand, maybe someone who couldn’t afford them before will buy them now. ![]() Maybe I should buy them and sell them again. Once $18.95 and $15.95, they could now be had for $1.50 each. Did the people who had them before not even bother to look inside? Were the books brought in by family members after a loved one died? Did they somehow gravitate from the local bookstore that closed without paying me for the books it had on consignment? They didn’t look as if anyone had read them. Stories Grandma Never Told and Childless by Marriage, the two books I’m most proud of, now sat among the other titles discarded for one reason or another. Hey, those are my books! The familiar covers stood out among the new arrivals at the humane society’s Pick of the Litter thrift store in Newport. ![]()
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