The very funny Fannie Flagg has had a long and interesting career. She worked as a staff writer for Candid Camera and was an actress on TV and film. You probably need to be at least my age to remember her witty participation on Match Game or anything else she was in, but you may …
Those beautiful broadsides and printed cards you find in your favorite bookshops? They’re probably done on a letterpress. Here’s a video from Dan Peters at the Blue Begonia Press showing a letterpress at work in all its old-fashioned glory. (And if you want more about letterpress, revisit this oldie but goodie essay from Mark Holtzen.) Special thanks …
When Oprah Winfrey speaks, people listen.She has a pretty good track record of picking good books for her book club. Since relaunching Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 in 2012, she has chosen The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis, which got a good boost from Oprah but didn’t really hit the big time, and “Wild” …
Have you heard the kerfluffle about Amazon’s delivery drone project? Many indie bookstores have gotten questions and comments from customers. At Queen Anne Book Company, I told a customer, “We’re not looking into drones, but if you live on my walk home and call at the end of my shift, I can get your purchase to …
I am a bookseller. I scour Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, endless catalogs, Facebook, and Twitter for booksy news. I spend endless hours before and after work striving to be a better bookseller. In addition, belonging to bookseller’s trade organizations has put me in the company of people who love what they do, have learned things …
Our booksellers at Inklings often review books for our local newspaper, The Yakima Herald Republic. We love the ability to “talk” to our community in this way, to invite people into the book world we inhabit daily. It is so rewarding to have a customer come in to request the book reviewed that week, brought …
For a long time, I’ve collected the bits and pieces of bookstore memories. In a white box with folded flaps, I’ve stuffed the stuff of approximately 4,800 days of Inklings life so far. Yesterday, I pulled it out and sat down in a sunbeam at my dining table for an afternoon of wonder, embarrassment, laughter and …
There’s been lots of early buzz for bookseller Eowyn Ivey’s debut, The Snow Child, which officially comes out Feb 1 (We’ve got word from some of our bookstores that they’ve already got it on the shelves). Ivey, who works at Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska and who we interviewed here about the double life of a …
In her regular column for the Yakima Herald-Republic, Inklings Bookshop owner Susan Richmond muses on the store’s 2011 bestseller list, noting how unique it is compared to some of the national bestseller lists and how it’s “sprinkled with sparkling gems reflecting different facets of our unique reading character (and characters).” Half of the titles on …
Inklings Bookshop owner Susan Richmond shares some great Dad’s day recommendations in Book Scene, a weekly column that she and the store’s staff members write for the Yakima Herald. For the shirt-sleeve gourmet, she recommends the Sasquatch title Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Pacific Coast by Becky Selengut. “Whether or not he knows one …
