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The world’s most successful bookstore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you know, I\u2019ve got a lot of kids. (How many? Not sure. I haven\u2019t counted recently.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And \u2013 kids grow up. They read books, then move on. And in that wake lie scattered books about football, books about horses, books about fantasy realms, books about dragon taming, books about wizardry, books about witches, books about cats who fight, books about mischief-causing cats, books about entertaining cows, books about rabbits, books about fighting, and a whole mountain more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wanted to get rid of this scatter, to make more space on the shelves. We could have taken them to the dump, or to a charity store, but I hit on the idea of giving them away in the school playground. My bookstore was called:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GRABBIT & GO BOOKS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Its slogan was going to be \u2018The world\u2019s finest bookstore\u2019 but, on reflection, we thought there was some room for argument, so we struck out the word \u2018finest\u2019 and replaced it with \u2018cheapest\u2019. The price of every book was \u00a30.00, unless you were paying in dollars in which case we charged $0.00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our one real condition was that we didn\u2019t want kids wandering off with just one book. We wanted to get rid of the things, so if a boy picked up a book about football, I shoved a stack of other football books at him, and he wandered away with ten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And by the way, if you are ever struggling with writer\u2019s block, may I suggest you write the biography of a famous footballer? I\u2019ll start you off:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omar was sure that Mo would never be able to compete with these highly trained 18-year-olds. \u201cMo, you will never be able to compete with these highly trained 18-year-olds,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are much bigger and stronger than you are.\u201d But Mo simply grinned and juggled the ball. \u201cYou just watch, boss,\u201d he laughed. He felt nervous at first, but then the game started. The skinny ten-year-old dribbled the ball round all 11 players on the opposition team and then dribbled around his own players too, a goat, and a Toyota pickup. He let fly a volley from the edge of the box. His kick was so strong, the ball tore through the net and was last seen overflying the Zambezi. Mo\u2019s team ended up winning 109-0. At the end of the game, Omar chuckled and said, \u201cWith a little more training, you might be quite good one day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write that same story, again and again, throw in something about a Champions League final, and make sure when somebody exclaims \u201cGoal!\u201d, they use at least 20 characters, including a great many exclamation marks.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picking books for kids is quite easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boy with short hair? Football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Older boy with shorter hair? Book about fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boy not interested in books on either topic? Diary of a Wimpy Kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very young girl? Book about unicorns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young girl? Book about cats, horses or rabbits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Older girl? Same thing, except make sure the cats are fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-teen girl? Book about teen girls committing \/ solving murder in a boarding school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And zoom. The books went. I started with a fold-out picnic table so heavy with stacks of books that I didn\u2019t have room for them all. I ended up with one carrier bag of discards which will probably, in time, find their way to a charity shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflections?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, first there was real excitement in the playground. Obviously, if I\u2019d been giving away cakes, the cakes would have gone just as fast, but there\u2019d have been less glee. A cake is only ever a cake. A book is a portal to \u2013 well, adventure. The unknown. It’s a ship setting sail from a sparkling harbour. Giving books to kids was honestly one of my most joyous moments of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second: free works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It just works. There\u2019s joy in the giveaway. It\u2019s not a tool that traditional publishers use very much, but it\u2019s an indie author staple. Genre readers are \u2013 often, often, often \u2013 like kids. They want to find a new author that they can make theirs. Free is a way to shove your Book #1 novel to the top of their reading pile. And once it\u2019s there, and once they\u2019ve read it, there\u2019s every chance they go on to buy everything else, full price, and happily. (And, uh, if you\u2019re interested in self-publishing, I think we\u2019ve got only two or three places left on the upcoming course. So, if you\u2019re keen, pull your boots on<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And third, lordy lord, all this loveliness does seem a little under threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headline sales of print books remain basically static \u2013 up a bit in one year, down a bit in another \u2013 but since those headlines always exclude self-pub books, and since self-pub collectively is at least the size of Penguin Random House, it\u2019s probable that overall sales today are close to all-time records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, yes, books sell and there\u2019s not much sign of them not doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the cracks in the palace are big and getting bigger. Here\u2019s a recent gloomy view from The Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students of literature at two American universities were given the first paragraphs of \u201cBleak House\u201d by Charles Dickens and asked to read and then explain them. In other words: some students reading English literature were asked to read some English literature from the mid-19th century. How hard could it be?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very, it turns out. The students were flummoxed by legal language and baffled by metaphor. A Dickensian description of fog left them totally fogged. They could not grasp basic vocabulary: one student thought that when a man was said to have \u201cwhiskers\u201d it meant he was \u201cin a room with an animal I think\u2026A cat?\u201d The problem was less that these students of literature were not literary and more that they were barely even literate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading is in trouble. Multiple studies in multiple places seem to be showing the same thing. Adults are reading less. Children are reading less. Teenagers are reading a lot less. Very small children are being read to less; many are not being read to at all. Reading rates are lower among poorer children \u2026 but reading is down for everyone, everywhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The books that I gave away in the playground reflected that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those football books are, I\u2019m sure, better for kids than video games, but they are a damn sight less enriching than (say) Susan Cooper, or Watership Down, or Lemony Snicket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books about conflict can be terrific, but they can also just be ugly. At one stage, my kids adored the Beast Quest series. (Adored them so much that I found them playing in the garden using six-foot wooden fenceposts as swords. I removed the posts and bought some plastic swords on Amazon, relieved to have escaped a trip to the emergency room.) But the series was ugly, ugly, ugly. It had no moral tuition in it. It was just slaughter. I didn\u2019t give those books away; I destroyed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And behind those ugly books: an ugly publishing model. The books name \u2018Adam Blade\u2019 as an author, but multiple authors have written the series on (I would guess) a flat-fee basis. If I were one of those authors, I\u2019d churn out the book as fast as I could. I\u2019d deliver the book, get paid, move on. The purpose of that publishing model is almost literally to extinguish the author. I can\u2019t really think why you\u2019d hire authors these days, when you could simply AI the whole thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are more wholesome approaches too. I don\u2019t love the Wimpy Kid books, but they\u2019re healthy enough and they get non-reading kids to read. So that\u2019s a win. But the books are still responding to a basic sense of threat. They offer less<\/em>, because they are aware that more<\/em> will not be palatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same things are true all the way across the scale. Some of the books my 12-year-old daughter reads have a level of worldliness and violence that I did not encounter in books until much later. But \u2013 today\u2019s authors are fighting Netflix and phones and social media and video games. And, in a war, you have to fight. You can\u2019t be picky about how<\/em> you fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for me? Well, my readers are predominantly women in the second half of life. That\u2019s a literate, thoughtful demographic that it\u2019s a pleasure to write for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the future me? The author writing this email in the Year of Our Lord 2075? I\u2019m not too sure, but I\u2019d bet that my present readers are better than his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FEEDBACK FRIDAY \/ Fight scene<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

OK, let\u2019s have a fight scene. If you don\u2019t have any physical conflict, then whatever comes closest. 250-300 words<\/strong>, plus title<\/strong>, genre<\/strong>, and any context<\/strong> you think we need. When you’re ready, post your offering in Townhouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you write like Philip Pullman, you get 100 points. If you write like Beast Quest, you are probably a robot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Til soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh yes, and I'm the capo di tutti capi at Jericho Writers.","url":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/author\/harryjericho\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828495,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828321\/revisions\/828495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}