Amy Kane, who owns the bookstore in Haines, the tiny Alaska town where I live, tells everyone that my books, especially the most recent one, Of Bears and Ballots, published June 30, 2020, saved her business during the pandemic, but really, The Bookstore saved me. “Bottom line is without that book we wouldn’t be here,” …
From Shelf Awareness April 11, 2019 by Alex Mutter Seattle’s Madison Books Plans IBD Opening When Madison Books opens in Seattle, Wash., on April 27, Independent Bookstore Day, it will be the first new, general-interest, independent bookstore in the city’s Madison Park neighborhood since 2005. The roughly 400-square-foot bookstore is a sister store to Phinney Books, …
Roberta Dyer, an owner of Broadway Books in Portland, is retiring from the partnership. Kim Bissell, who has been working at the store since early September, will be Sally McPherson’s new business partner at the store. The following is excerpted from Roberta’s email to customers. My friends, as I prepare to hang up my …
