Comparable titles

I spent two and a half hours non-stop in Waterstone's bookshop again this afternoon looking for 'comps', which was both mentally and physically taxing-- if I look any further I shall have to find another shop, because I can't face going back in there after hanging around for so long, reading so much, and buying absolutely nothing! The question you are supposed to be asking yourself, apparently, is 'which table in the bookshop would my book be on and what other books would be next to it'? ( Read more... )

I found precisely three potential 'comps', only one of which is actually a good fit: ( Night Fire )

Where it doesn't match at all is in the travel/adventure aspect, and as I said, I failed to find anything at all that did :-( The other 'wild card' match that felt closer than most of the others was a very different kettle of fish: ( The Phoenix Ballroom )

The third title I noted was the one and only example of published fan-fiction I found on the shelves (as opposed to the Jane Austen-marketed one, which looked promising from that respect but turned out to be based on the real-life history of her nephews and nieces, which isn't the same thing!) ( West of Wicked )