AI-generated image of witchy late-night internet trolling for signs of life.
Sometimes when I’m bored, I google myself. Don’t be judgey now – you should try it sometime. It can be enlightening. I found out for instance, that there is a terrific yoga teacher with my name right here in St. Catharines, and my old Indeed profile from my days of working at John Ross & Sons is still kicking around. Really ought to update that. I’ll put it on the list of other things to do when I’m bored.
Anyhow, I’ve found that once your book or books have been on the market for a while, listings for them show up in some unexpected places. It is common knowledge that Amazon sells your books internationally so it was fun but not unexpected to find me available for sale in places like Ireland, England, India, Japan and Australia. For sale, mind you. Not necessarily selling! Then there were actual, physical booksellers offering my stuff in Great Britain and Australia. Wasn’t expecting that!
But the discovery that made me say WTF was the listing for ‘The Cottages at the Cape – Margie’s Summer Getaway” on the Sacramento, California Walmart Business website under:
Shop by Industry – Education – k-12 Education – k-12 Library
Have you read it? If you have you know it’s not for kindergarteners. I hope someone in charge reads it before shelving it, that’s all I can say.
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