Pot calling the kettle black, perhaps?
Perhaps
Bry must not have any copies to sell.
I mean, it’s a bold strategy, Cotton—to quote a beloved movie. Claim something is going to get hot every week and if it fails to get hot remove it from your list. That way, the things that do get hot make it look like you only discussed the best books. Then, if something happens to get hot that you did not randomly name when you were spot lighting 90% of the books, then you claim fraud.
For the record, I have never removed any book off my picks of the week. They are all there for integrity purposes.
You never know what could flop but then heat up years later. That way you can claim you were just playing the long game as well! Plus, you know honesty is the best policy.
I also like the failure leads to success model as well. We’re not gonna hit every spec or hot book, and the failed spec’s just help us learn for future ones when picking them out.
I was talking about this book yesterday at the comic shop.