Typical

A funny human trait...

We rep books. Sometimes our books get buzz. All it takes is one person who loves it and suddenly, everyone wants to read it. We generally keep a few copies and if we plan on making a submission, we collect a solid number. But when a book gets buzz, we don't have enough copies laying around for everyone who wants it. Further, when someone REALLY loves it - they want more copies to send to their bosses to try to get the project going immediately.

Inevitably, what happens throughout this is that some folks get angry at us for not sending them a copy. They get mad and take it personally and assign to it a reflection of their status and our relationship that they don't a copy of the book. The irony, from my/our point of view is that normally, these people have access to the book WAY prior to the buzz...but they only want it when the buzz happens and then get mad about NOT getting it. It's crazy. It's hollywood. But there is some lesson there about human nature and our desire to make things dramatic.