Thank You Bookstores
I can’t imagine I’ll ever forget 9/11/26. It’s the day I was legitimized.
As an independent author with no connections in the literary industry, I’ve had to go it alone in getting my book out to the public, as I’ve previously written on the blog.
Lots and lots and lots of dead ends and disappointments.
Then it happened.
Sitting in my email that Friday in September was a correspondence from Prairie Lights Books and Cafe in Iowa City, Iowa. They had decided to stock my new book. The picture above is my book on one of their bookshelves.
Roll out the barrel!
So to Prairie Lights, thank you very much for the love. Hopefully, we can do that book event at the beginning of 2027 that we discussed. Two other bookstores have since stocked my book. Thank you, Pilsen Community Books, and The Lit. Bar (Bronx, NYC). To Pilsen, I’m really looking forward to our book event in early 2027. Hopefully, The Lit. Bar asks, too. Nothing like a quick junket to New York City. This time, unlike when I lived there, I have a little bit of bread.
Here is the link to all three bookstores’ websites. They’re all independent bookstores, everyone. So please buy something from them. Anything. Prairie Lights, Pilsen Community Books, The Lit. Bar, I’m eternally grateful. Here’s the bookstores’ links:
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