Paul Wells, columnist, political observer, and jazz fan, has out a new book, Right Side Up, about Paul Martin's fall and Stephen Harper's rise. I haven't seen it, but he's pretty scathing on his Inkless Wells blog about the inability of Chapters stores to actually provide copies of the damn thing in its stores.
From your mouth to Heather's ear, Paul. You aren't the first writer to voice that complaint.
Not to excuse Chapters/Indigo, but it reminds me of Gibson's Laws for New Authors (from publisher Doug Gibson): An author and his/her book cannot be found in a bookstore at the same time. And the corollary: An author's relatives and his/her book can rarely be found in a bookstore at the same time.
Gibson's all-purpose solution was "Blame your publisher." Still useful advice, of course, but that was before Chapters came along.
