# Can anyone help me?

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**Created:** [February 23, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-me/345815 "2006-02-23T17:30:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![TwistyLamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@TwistyLamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistyLamp)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-me/345815/1 "2006-02-23T17:30:50Z")

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Sorry if this isn’t the appropreate spot, but I’m looking for a thread I posted in GD last nite, and now can’t find it. (how to publicize my book and how do libraries select books to buy?) Thanks…

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**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-me/345815/2 "2006-02-23T17:32:10Z")

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> [@TwistyLamp](#):
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> Sorry if this isn’t the appropreate spot, but I’m looking for a thread I posted in GD last nite, and now can’t find it. (how to publicize my book and how do libraries select books to buy?) Thanks…

Here ya go

> **[How to publicize my story/book and how do libraries decide what books to buy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=360152)**
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> Thought I’d post this before my guest membership runs out. In March a book that happens to have a story I wrote in it, will be published. I of course am VERY excited, as it’s my first real publication. (for those who are curious…it’s a nonfiction...