My Urban Books: A Conversation with Rahiem Brooks: Every author has a story and every writer has their own writing style that will make the world stop dead in their tracks. But the o...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Sunday, February 3, 2013
I don't want to get all HOLLYWOOD as I visit here, but I sell far more books to MYSTERY BOOK STORES in remote places like Boise Fuckin Idaho, and I don't even try to get into so called black owned stores. It's so sad, but they want you to kiss they ass to carry a book and then kiss they ass some more to pay you. You have some that don't want to try to carry ya book and give you a shot, and alas they going out of business months later. Good for them! They book you on a signing and do absolutely no promotion to help both parties. And what's strikingly sad is when they book an author for a signing that already have deals, that they already carry, authors that have already fucking made it, they blasting that shit. That's why they're going out of business all over the country. I have 3 stores that owe me for 5 books from August 2005. At $7 wholesale that's $35. smmfh I am just irked and so tired. And you can bet, I run around city to city meeting who I need to. I'm not kissing an ass. I am not getting no fucking job either to just sell books as a hobby. Oh, and I am going to the best school in this land to meet the smartest and brightest people on this land. I work and do the things that I do for all of the little people like me. For there to be change someone has to take charge, and right now I am not in the position to do what I want to do, but I wake up everyday vowing to make that happen. Change! I am sorry but I have book stores complaining that I don't hang in their store, and I only call to buy/sell books. What the fuck else am I calling for. I am an author. I write books, not manage a store. Then another store tells me, they have a new 120 day suspension for authors that miss signings without canceling. I don't give a fuck. A flying fuck! Again, THE MYSTERY lovers pay for my college and my expenses. Wait, I was also told that the store doesn't push my book because I don't stop in there. Huh, we're talking because I called you, and you confirmed my book sold out! Um, you ain't call me to buy more! Why, because you'll have to pay for what you just sold! smh Such a sad sad career that I have chose.
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