Amazon

[Harper]

Sigh: Numbers rising (in the bad sense of the word.) They bounce around.

[R. Thomas Hogg]

How does that "Discover Great New Writers" thing work? I've seen it at all the B&N's and wondered how they chose them... I guess buttering up the store manager doesn't help any?

Congrats! I'll have to go check it out...

[Daniel James Brown]

Every three months a selection committee from Barnes & Noble in New York picks 15-20 books written by previously unpublished writers. The books have to be submitted to B&N by the book's publisher. Typically there are a couple of hundred entries each quarter. For summer 2006, 17 books were selected.

Best,
DJB

[R. Thomas Hogg]

Better odds than a short story has at most decent journals, at least...