To watch him work is to be put in mind of those itinerant preachers of the early part of last century. He speaks more than 270 days a year, and after many of his talks he sells copies of his books to the crowd assembled there. Pelzer is relentless in peddling his books. Late last year, all of Pelzer's books fell off the list then in late January his first three books miraculously reappeared in almost the identical spots they had held for years. They can significantly inflate an author's sales and are denoted by daggers on the Times list. These are large single purchases of hundreds or thousands of copies of a book from bookstores or online booksellers. The books are protected there, like squalling eaglets that refuse to leave the nest, primarily by bulk sales. His first three books have been on The Times's nonfiction paperback list for a combined total of 448 weeks, which is unprecedented in the paper's record-keeping. ''My books got a little bounce, but Oprah's not enough to make the New York Times best-seller list.'' Pelzer is a man who is fairly obsessed with the New York Times best-seller list.
flight to Butte, Mont., and then fly to North Platte, Neb. After a speech in the morning in Daytona Beach, then a book signing later that day, he will leave at 1 a.m., drive two hours to Orlando Airport, catch a 6 a.m.
Daytona is one of the bigger cities on his route most of his stops are in smaller towns. Pelzer, 41, the author of three autobiographical books and one self-help book, is on his spring speaking and book-signing tour.
I said, 'I guess it's all right to kiss you.''' I poured her a glass of wine, turned around, and she was taking her shirt off. He's a vaguely good-looking man, vaguely nerdy, with a squinting, almost spinsterish smile. ''My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.'' Dave Pelzer is sitting in the lobby of the Hilton in Daytona Beach, Fla., watching college girls in bikinis run by.
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