St. Mark's Bookshop

2001 | Best Place to Peddle Your Self-Published Wares

The art of writing has been compared (by my sympathetic fiancé) to stapling your soul to the page--and that's the easy part: Often the photocopy machine at work is more accessible than a publisher. While the city abounds in booksellers happy to hawk your stapled (or otherwise bound) soul in exchange for 40 percent of gross profits--not bad, as royalties go--horror stories at some of these places run the gamut from a three-month wait for a $6 check to books thrown in the... More »