I'm going heathen

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Eyan Carrington

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Well, not quite.

For the last nine years I have sold Christian books for a living. I have finally quit, and I'm going to be running a Blackwell's instead.

If you have ever been stocked by a Wesley Owen shop, I may well have sold your books for you... but alas no longer!

I'm looking forward to being outside the 'Christian bubble', though. Do any of you find that restricting too?
 

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This morning I actually woke up hoping my editor had read my latest proposal - it's a book i could never have written for the secular market simply because it's not a popular time frame for the genre, but finally... freedom!

Your Header caught my attention because one of my non Christian books was called Heathen Girls (after the southern way of calling misbehaving kids no better than a pack of heathens). Another kind of freedom.

Book sales wise - have worked in a Family Bookstore (Back when it was called Baptist Bookstore) and a Books-A-Million more recently. I loved both. I loved the variety of books, seeing what sold and to whom and frankly, I had almost as many Godly encounters at the secular store as at the Christian one. God isn't limited by a sign on a door, a target client base or a distribution system.

Congrats on the new job!
annie
 

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Well, not quite.

I'm looking forward to being outside the 'Christian bubble', though. Do any of you find that restricting too?

Managed a Waldenbooks for years as a teenager/young adult... spirituality is what you make it... not restricted by what books you sell...

Having said that, you do find the most interesting stuff in secular stores, LOL.....

Audrey
 
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