Following the Daily Squee to the Vault Where Sally Lives

Today I saw an article in The Digital Reader about an article about Author Solutions which led me to a particular comment about actually crunching the numbers for AS book sales. This is all dismal stuff, but there was a brighter upturn.

In another comment, someone mentioned author Sally Watson who was born in 1924 in my old haunts (Seattle), went to Reed College, and published several YA books for girls in the 1950-1970 time-frame. I had never heard of her, but her books sound intriguing and they may have some nice cover art, too. And, do not miss her brief autobiography, or this article in the Santa Rosa paper. Golly, I'd love to meet her!

Ms Watson's books have all gone out of print, of course, in part because they were published right in the middle of the 20th century black hole of copyright hell. Fortunately it appears that at least some of her work is being republished, even in e-book form, and you can find Sally Watson on Amazon. Unfortunately her new publisher, Image Cascade Books is playing the price your books so high nobody will look twice game, even though what they're re-publishing is e-vintage fiction from the 1930s-1960s. Seriously? $7.99 for Kindle editions of books published 50+ years ago by an author who is now 92 years old? I wonder if she's actually making any sales...? Interestingly, one can also get her older books apparently as paper reprints for reasonable prices. Too bad they also seem to be widely available as used books for rock-bottom pennies per throw.