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Shelf Respect: How indie authors get their books into bookshops

Indie Author Chronicles

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Mo Fanning
May 13, 2025
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We all dream of seeing our book on a shelf.

Not just in your cousin’s guest loo, or buried under that pile of previously loved cookbooks in your local charity shop — I mean on the shelf in a real bookshop. Spine out. Price sticker on. Looking like it belongs.

For indie authors, this is the holy grail. It’s also, let’s be honest, a total pain.

In the UK, ge…

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