Doc Wilde to debut at Little Shop of Stories!
UPDATE: This event has been rescheduled from Friday, May 15th to Saturday, May 16th. It’s official: Doc Wilde and The Frogs of Doom will debut May 14, and two days later I’ll have my first ever...
View ArticleEbook Apocalypse!!!
The night is coming. The night that will never end. Board the windows. Lock the doors and push our beautiful, heavy bookshelves against them. Hopefully we prepared enough, we stocked up on canned peas...
View ArticleSmall Bookstores and the Ebook Apocalypse
When both the big bookstores in her community folded, author Ann Patchett stepped forward and opened her own small bookstore. In a very charming appearance on The Colbert Report, Patchett offers proof...
View ArticleMisadventures In Holiday Book Shopping (UPDATED)
Being a fan of the local indie bookstore as an institution, I went out to do a bit of holiday shopping on Saturday. I had two books I wanted to buy. My chosen bookstore, a very good shop which has a...
View ArticleI Love Bookstores. But Do They Love Me?
We hear a lot about how authors, and everyone else, should favor local, indie bookstores over Amazon and big chains. I love bookstores, especially cool little ones, and I even link to IndieBound on my...
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