He stocked shelves at Barnes & Noble and kept the A-slot open for a book he hadn't sold yet.
Crime thriller author Marc Avery on DISCIPLINE, ten years from first draft to physical book, and building an audience on Threads.
A hundred rejections in, a bookseller told Marc to try one more time. He emailed an agent who had already turned him down years earlier, and she sold the book. He talks through what Discipline actually is under the buddy-cop surface — brotherhood, and how far you'd go for the people you love — and how the serial killer started as a side character and took over the novel. Plus why Threads is the only platform that ever worked for him, what he learned selling books out of a box at BookCon, and the RoboCop scene he rewinds every single time.
MARC AVERY
Discipline: https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Marc-Avery/dp/1957950722
Follow Marc on Threads: @author_marc_avery
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