cj Sez: In case you hadn’t heard, Saturday, April 27, was Independent Bookstore Day.
The Mobile Writers Guild did an all-day takeover of Mobile’s
newest indie store, The Haunted Bookshop. MWG members who are local published authors
in different genres (children’s, YA, romantic suspense, fantasy, non-fiction)
volunteered to share their writing experiences and expertise with bookshop
customers and other local authors who dropped by.
Fellow MWG member Steven Moore (he writes fantasy) and I
took the first shift and had a wonderful interaction with an aspiring writer
who walked through the door at 10:10 a.m.—the Shop opened at 10.
Robert Bailey, the bestselling author of the McMurtrie and
Drake Legal Thrillers series, which includes
The Last Trial, Between Black and White, and The Professor, was there in the afternoon to sign his latest
release in the Legal Thrillers series, The Final
Reckoning. For the past nineteen
years, Bailey has been a civil defense trial lawyer in his hometown of
Huntsville, Alabama. You can read more about Mr. Bailey at www.robertbaileybooks.com
Were you able to support your local indie book store? Not to
worry, if you couldn’t. Any day will work fine.
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Congratulations to the 2019 Edgar Awards winners!
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That’s it for this week’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping
on, and I’ll try to do the same.
cj
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Little note: Print copies of Choosing
Carter and Deadly Star are becoming scarce as Simon&Schuster winds
down their support of the Crimson Romance imprint. However, you can support an
indie book store and order an autographed copy of my books here: The Haunted Bookshop
Angela Trigg, the awesome owner and a RITA Award-winning author in her own
right (writing as Angela Quarles) will be happy to ship you any book(s) of your
choice.
Drop me a note to sign up for my quarterly newsletter: cjpetterson@gmail.com
Thanks for volunteering your time!
ReplyDeleteSadly, our last Indie bookstore closed last year. I'm going to have to take a road trip to find another.
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