Dear all 5 or so loyal readers:I'm going to repost here a post I wrote for the Odyssey store blog. It's about the state of crisis the bookselling industry is finding itself in - more-so than usual, I should say, since the industry as a whole is perpetually in a state of growth and change. … Continue reading Bookselling in Crisis

Considering I have about 100 pages worth of writing due on October 20th, I have a feeling I'll be coming up with many "procrastination posts" over the next 7 days.Basically, whenever I'm struggling to finish a picturebook manuscript, I just feel lucky I'm not this guy. (It's a youtube link. Almost worth the 2.5 minutes … Continue reading Procrastination Post

Look at this, no word for weeks, and suddenly, new posts almost every day! What can I say, I'm just psyched for all the amazing bookstore/writing news coming my way this week.Breaking news! This just in!My mentor/editor - hereafter referred to as my Meditor - has officially been announced! Kaylan Adair, come on down!For those … Continue reading Introducing…my Meditor!

So, you may have noticed I have a small interest in bookshelves. The pictures on the right side of this blog may have been an indication.Hopefully, you share that fascination as well. I'm well-aware I am not the only person out there with this passion. A blog all about bookshelves is here. I've written a … Continue reading Shelving

In the secret life and times of me, it will be discovered that I love poetry.I don't always understand it, I don't always know how to read it, but for some reason I feel it in a way that is pretty unexpected to me. Is poetry like that for most people? I feel that it's … Continue reading Poetry Post

"The Necessity of a Book-Aunt" by R.E. Finklestein. (NOT my real last name.)Doesn't that sound like a great book title?But what on earth is a book-aunt, you might be asking.Book-Aunt, n.- person, either biologically or not biologically related to a person younger than themselves, to whom the first person supplies reading materials that may or … Continue reading The Necessity of a Book-Aunt

I love rainy afternoons. It's my favorite type of weather, favorite time of day - particularly when I happen to have that day off. It would be so easy to be unemployed, or better yet, fabulously rich so that I could only work on the days and in the ways that I wanted to. There … Continue reading Rainy Afternoon

I spend a half hour helping a family pick out books, chase their toddlers, read them a story, and then they purchase the books using an Amazon.com credit card. Yes, they're purchasing the books from me, the independent store, but with the Amazon card. I know the woman didn't mean anything by it. I know … Continue reading Rude or just mildy irritating?

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