With no access to slots at major festivals, no wholesaler, no chance to get copies on shelves at physical bookshops, no distribution in the U.S. or Canada, no realistic retail prices on Amazon, no reviews in broadsheets or major print-based journals, Nell (at HappenStance) and I have now shifted going on for 250 copies of Whatever You Do, Just Don't. And I'm determined to ensure there will be plenty more sales of it to come over the next few years.
In this context, I'm inevitably left wondering just how many I'd have sold with any of the external commercial support network I've mentioned above. And, given that many significantly funded poetry publishers (who do have this sort of backing) have stated their average sales of full collections barely reach three figures, why aren't they flogging far more copies than me instead of far fewer...?
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