: Re: How can a book get a Kirkus Star, yet have no sales? How can a 3-year-old book receive a positive rating from Kirkus, and even earn a Kirkus Star, yet still have almost no sales? I have

To top what Mark Baker said, just because it won a award for something, doesn't mean it will translate to commercial success. It is highly rated in Amazon as having all reviews being a 5 star. Surely the people who are interested in it and who have read it think very highly of it.

Also just because it won an award doesn't mean it is a prestigious enough of an award to merit global sales. To be honest, I personally have not heard of kirkus award and spent a good bit of time googling it and reading their site. It sounds nice, but it doesn't really seem to do much more than provide monetary compensation for a writing competition.

If people are interested in promoting their book through winning awards, it might be best to do research on where you are submitting for an award. Regardless though if a book has an award or not, it's got to appeal to the masses. Books about a rough childhood aren't that appealing. In the end everyone has had some form of rough childhood from their own perspective and a lot of people want to tell their own version. This isn't bad in itself but most people read books to escape their current world. That is why fiction and in particular fantasy are such huge genres. They want to be taken off into another world and have it not be so close to home. Reading stories that mimic their lives may not be ideal to most people.

Books are just like any other invention or product out there, just because it is really well made and wins awards for it being so well made doesn't mean people will actually find a need for it and buy it.

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