Comments on: Book Review Competition http://bookblog.com.au/blog/2010/01/21/book-review-competition/ To share their thoughts on favourite books Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:49:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John Howard Reid http://bookblog.com.au/blog/2010/01/21/book-review-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-250 John Howard Reid Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:13:14 +0000 http://bookblog.com.au/blog/2010/01/21/book-review-competition/#comment-250 You certainly have a fascinating idea here and I wish you every success. Alas, all my 100+ books are out of print in Australia, although half of them have been reprinted in the USA through Lulu, but not the one that would probably most interest you, THE LAST GENERATION, selected by The Sunday Telegraph as the best book of the year (1986) and by The Courier-Mail as one of the top ten. Set on the Gold Coast, this book sold over 10,000 copies in hardcover (counting both regular and Large Print editions). Unfortunately the paperback had an extremely poor cover and was badly handled by the distributor. It sold just over 3,000 copies. Over 1,700 copies were junked, alas. Sad! They should have been remaindered. but that was not A&R's policy at the time. All my very best wishes! John You certainly have a fascinating idea here and I wish you every success. Alas, all my 100+ books are out of print in Australia, although half of them have been reprinted in the USA through Lulu, but not the one that would probably most interest you, THE LAST GENERATION, selected by The Sunday Telegraph as the best book of the year (1986) and by The Courier-Mail as one of the top ten. Set on the Gold Coast, this book sold over 10,000 copies in hardcover (counting both regular and Large Print editions). Unfortunately the paperback had an extremely poor cover and was badly handled by the distributor. It sold just over 3,000 copies. Over 1,700 copies were junked, alas. Sad! They should have been remaindered. but that was not A&R’s policy at the time.

All my very best wishes!

John

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