A Little Slap-and-Tickle: 
The Double Life of Author/Bookseller Deborah Willis
by Deborah Willis - Publishing Perspectives


By day Deborah Willis works as a bookseller at Munro's Books in Victoria, B.C.; by night she can be found hunched over a laptop banging out award winning fiction. Here, she writes about her double-life and the way each role informs the other.

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Is Bookselling a Good or Bad Job for a Writer?

Deborah Willis extols the virtues of being a writer who works in a bookstore. For her, it works. But perhaps that's not the case for all writers, some of whom may be demoralized by seeing just how many books are published, rejected by the public, and then quickly remaindered or pulped.

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