Paulo Coelho talking about writing using Aleph as an example.
We have a book, in our soul, in our head, how do we get it into a book that we can share with others to read?
Writing a book is hard work, it requires dsicipline, but once we start, we find it easy.
The book is then published. It is a free agent.
Will readers like it, will bookshops stock it, will reviewers use the platform of a review to launch a vicious personal attack on the author?
Last year, Aleph shot to No1 in all countries of publication within days of release. The one noticeable exception was the UK where Waterstone’s bookshop chain for whatever perverse reason refused to put Aleph on display and so the passing reader was not aware of its existence.
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Keithpp's Blog 
January 24, 2012 at 7:31 am |
If the publisher in Japan won’t act, the same thing might happen as in UK. I will try to promote using TWITTER.
January 24, 2012 at 6:54 pm |
The problem was not the publisher HarperCollinsUK, though they did not come out of this smelling of roses. They ‘forgot’ the publication of Aleph!
– HarperCollinsUK you should be embarrassed!
The real problem though was Waterstone’s. A book chain that dominates town centres and has destroyed all our independent bookshops. If you are lucky you find someone who has an interest in books.
– Paulo Coelho in Waterstone’s and the author the publisher forgot
Waterstone’s, for whatever perverse reason best known to them, refused to put Aleph on display.