Very surprised to find that my professor wrote the textbook we are using. Not only that, but he wrote other books as well - novels and nonfiction for children, which I find completely disarming. The textbook is unexpectedly entertaining, peppered with literary allusions from Hemmingway to Shakespeare. A search to find reviews of his previous books turned up nothing - no image of the cover, no opinions, and nearly all titles are out-of-print.
I feel that this is what will happen to my books, if I publish any, which I sincerely doubt. I suppose that one of my most terrible, aching fears is that I will be brushed away and forgotten, perhaps laughed at and dismissed with barely a glance.