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2008
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Lit Happens!
I know I’ve been quiet on the blog lately but know that I have you on my mind. A couple of things have come up that I want to share or be shared with…Lit Happens! … this is the coolest slogan that I did not think of and wish I had in a long time [...]
Bookstores Can Be Saved…
Bookstores Can Be Saved is the title of a book that Bookazine’s Ron Rice purchased at Bienville Books and gifted to me at the SIBA Trade Show. Published in 1952 and subtitled: 14 Proposals Answering the Question: “What Is Wrong With The Bookstores” and written by Adolph Kroch, Honorary Life Member of American Booksellers Association [...]
Hear from Sweetsmoke’s David Fuller…
It was early. 4:15 am and some two hours before daylight on September 26, and I was up and moving, cab on the way, packed and ready. One of my sons had been very sad the night before about the fact that I was going, and he woke up so he could hug me and see me [...]
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Southern Booksellers are a Riot!
I’m back now from a quick, exhausting, but really fun trip to Mobile, Alabama for the Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA) conference. The exhausting part came from missing an early flight out of Newark Saturday morning and then being delayed by two hours getting back to Newark on Sunday. So goes air travel. The photo [...]
Yay, booksellers!! by Padma Viswanathan
My fellow writers and I walked into a ballroom where we were about to spend 10 minutes at each of 6 tables, selling booksellers on selling our books. We were met with applause, which was very touching, though I felt we were the ones who should be clapping: Yay, booksellers!! Thank you for affirming our [...]
SIBA, The Richest Season
A highlight of the show for me was during the Hyperion Cocktail party when Beth from The Country Book in Southern Pines, NC, came up to me and told me she’d started THE RICHEST SEASON the night before and couldn’t go to sleep because she couldn’t put it down! A fan of the book, who [...]
Galley Call – Light Bread
Light Bread , the debut novel from Cordell Adams, is based on tales of his own grandmother. Veola Cook feels summoned to improve the life of her community. Her motto is “you see it, you live it, you teach it.†Especially, if she thinks the Lord has commanded it. Veola also happens to be the [...]
Galley Call – The Sweet By and By
Todd Johnson’s debut novel, The Sweet By and By, will be published by William Morrow in March 2009. It is the story of four women who might not ever have met had it not been for aging and illness. The two older women, Margaret Clayton and Bernice Stokes, meet in an elder care home in [...]
Galley Call – it’s not necessarily not the truth
In her memoir, it’s not necessarily not the truth (William Morrow, 2009), Jaime Pressly says she started telling her unborn son Dezi James stories about her family. She had written parts of the stories years before and had put them in a box in her attic. She had left them unfinished, but knew they would [...]
