Posts Tagged ‘Bookstores’
Bookstore Confessions
It was late December. I was in Harvard Square, for some reason (possibly a haircut? I don’t remember) and mulling over an offer from John Joseph Adams to acquire The Spaceship Next Door for his Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint. At the time, I was on the fence about the offer. My ebook sales were doing…
Read MoreI need my own flash mob
I need command of my own flash mob Speaking today to a local bookseller, the question was posed: if an event were planned in the store to promote Immortal, could I get thirty or forty people to show up? And the answer is: I don’t know. Because so far all of my promoting has been…
Read MoreGoodReads and Real Bookstores
Shop local! I am a terrible local Cambridge resident. This becomes more apparent every day, as I am continuously discovering things I knew were there, yet I didn’t really know were there. Like the independently owned bookstore under a mile from my house. The store in question is called Porter Square Books, they have been…
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