Author Suzanne Young posted a picture of her book signing which was sparsely attended. She posted a picture of it, calling it a low point in her career, when other authors started sharing their stories and commiserating with her. NBC News’ Stephanie Gosk has more on the lasting lesson.
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Horrific times we live in. Back in the 1980s, it would have been much better for her. Today, mindless video games and social media have replaced books. 💯
Way to keep your chin up Suzanne! 💙
I'm the only person to use faceBook to write books/scripts. I've been ridiculed and had content pirates assimilate my work so I can't make profits from my own written work while the FBI just looked on and smiled.
The U.S. Constitution and Freedom of Speech, Freedom from Slavery is being subverted by corrupt U.K.-E.U.-loyal FBI & CIA double agents who are fighting against and facilitating the "internet highway robbery" of American creators.
I would prefer to be the Lisa Frank of books. You don’t need to see me, just appreciate my work and make it really popular.
Some times it's not the author, it's the venue. I have been to many book signings and sometimes it's the place and some places just are not conducive to that sort of thing. About 40 years ago I went to a book signing in a little book store in the deep south and I was the only one who showed up and probably because I was already a fan but also because I am from a place where this sort of thing attracts attention. I ended up talking to the author for over an hour since neither of us had anything else to do that day. This particular location was a county where there also was no public library, this tiny 300 square foot store was the only book store in the county and the only newspaper was a weekly published at the county seat and was rarely more than 8 pages. That county had no colleges or community colleges or any post secondary schools at all. It didn't even have it's own high school. What it did have though was 187 churches, a jail and three prison camps.
With trump and the republican influence on America over the last 30 years, half this country doesn't even know what a book is. And they're continuing to make it worse in Florida.
OMG are you kidding me? Oh no I didn’t get attention for my unpopular book. Get over it.
Atleast she was aloud to do that in a library… tey being a Republican writer and wonder why libraries ban them
It sounds like the event hosts did nothing to promote the event.
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Lol oh come onnnnnnnnn! What author expects immediate fame? Also you have to ask yourself from a class perspective it’s what her circumstances are that she can write this book and that’s her whole life? I’m in the food industry and I know tons of people writing drafts, just hoping against hope they’ll be published. NBC needs to stop using their platform to lend a voice to the comfortable.
Seems this would be a part of being an author. Why is she more special to receive an emotional bailout instead of the hard knocks all the others went through, especially when she's published before?
This is dumb. You can’t force people’s participation. And she may not be good at it. The internet needs to be thrown into the trash. I’m a amateur writer and I would never do this. Your work must speak for itself. You can’t rally around something you don’t know about. You have thousands of writers who flip. Will the internet rally around all of them. Silly sh#%
no one reads anymore so she shoulldn't feel bad
Sounds like my kind of book! Will definitely look it up!
Who?
I would be SO excited & grateful to see youth/teens and even young adults picking up physical books and start reading! That's one thing we MUST start doing as a species. Read lots of real books.
Awww it makes me happy people reached out
Kids don't read anything longer than a tic Tok video
You want to know something, Suzanne? We live in a time where this says nothing about you nor the other authors who shared their photos. All this says is that our community and society in the US is forever in an academic downward spiral, because fewer and fewer people like to, let alone encouraged to, read anymore. I mean look at our youth, they’d rather follow some stupid trend on TikTok and binge on Netflix shows than pick up a book. Then they play the “underprivileged” card to reinforce their laziness. It’s astoundingly common. Just because intellects are becoming far and few and reading isn’t the “popular pastime” it once was…doesn’t mean we need to give in to society’s idiocy. Keep doing what you’re doing, girl!
Margaret Atwood told Seth Meyers recently about her two early appearances. They didn't go well either!
There are people truly suffering in very real and horrific ways and this entitled crybaby is given national attention and sympathy. It’s insanity and sinful.
Too bad she can’t accomplish a successful diet
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She has written several books before this; how did those books perform? If this book ends up being her best-selling due to pity, exactly how will she be remembered? Victimhood has become a very successful profession.
shes brave to be able to put that worst day of her life and who wouldve thought that she will find some love and sympathy that encourage her to continue
Awww! You mean how most people feel every day?
That sucks considering she's written so many books already
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