Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.
'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.
So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.
We became such darlings of a certain type of media. We became a package; we became easy to sell: these three golden nuggets that could pour out all the goods. It was all exposure in an almost violent way.
Personally, I would never use sexuality or looks as a selling point.
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records.
At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'
Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.
