One reader at a time …

Having one’s book rise above the crowded marketplace is difficult. What have you tried to get yours noticed — what has worked and what has not?

by Dietrich

My publisher Jack David once gave me this bit of advice: “Don’t guess what the book-reading public wants, because you never will. Just write the best book you can.” He also told me Elmore Leonard wasn’t recognized right out of the gate, but he just kept on writing. A New York Times piece back in October ’83 said this about Elmore: “Novelist ...