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Last year’s Authors for Indies guest bookseller gig at Book City on the Danforth was a blast—as well as a blast from the past. In the late nineties I worked at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg.
Organizers are excited to announce that bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay is the volunteer spokesperson for the second annual Authors for Indies Day, scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 30, 2016.
The first thing I try to do when I go to a new city is to find a bookstore. It doesn’t matter where I am, what language I hear, what art galleries or museums or cultural must-sees I might be putting off: I look for a bookstore.
Earlier this week I had the honour of making an appearance at Munro’s Books in Victoria, which is one of the most welcoming and beautiful independent bookstores I’ve ever visited.
After cutting our teeth on last year’s event, we’ve been tossing around ideas to make this year even more fun for the authors and customers alike.
I love independent bookstores and only wish there were more of them. The staff are knowledgeable, the selection of books is diverse, they champion good books that might otherwise get overlooked...
We were not going to participate in Authors for Indies last year. Now don’t get me wrong. We loved the idea. It’s just that we’re a small bookstore in a tiny town over an hour away from a major city.
One usually meets people who don't love what they are doing; that was never true at any independent bookstore I visited. As an author, when one is lucky enough to have their book released to the world...
Are you a book lover? The fact you're here is a good start. I'm a bookseller with a challenge for you. Let's call it a game! That makes it more fun. Are you up for it? Okay, let's start...
The bookstore on the main street of the town I grew up in haunts my mind, still. The bell that jangled when the door opened, the labyrinth of wooden shelves lined with multi-coloured spines, the possibility of undiscovered worlds between endpapers.