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 More

I 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 More

GoodReads 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…

Read More