It’s always our first choice that a bookstore order through Simon & Schuster, and we encourage you to share with all bookstores our ordering information, which can be found here. However, there may be some instances where a bookstore insists on consigning, which means that they will take your books, and pay you for what they sell. We advise against this except in circumstances where you must. In these cases, you will sign a consignment agreement (usually 60 to you/40 to them; sometimes 50/50) and the venue will pay you directly. What they don’t sell, they’ll ask for you to come and retrieve at some point. In these cases, this is a direct sale. Ingram does not take a commission on consigned books. You, the author, will typically pay the shipping fee to get the books to the events. Always put a bookstore buyer who says they can’t get your book in touch with Brooke first, but if consignment is the only way to sell books, we always say yes!