Shameless self-promotion 3 (with thanks)

My thanks to those of you who participated in yesterday’s Kindle ebook giveaway of Why We Raise Belgian Horses. Freebies don’t count in the sales rankings of paid books, so the book is back down in the lower midlists after a fun flight amongst the bestsellers – but now it’s in a better position to [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday

1. Yesterday, my back seemed well enough to risk a long drive, the weather didn’t look horrible, I knew my mother-in-law wanted my late husband’s grave decorated for Memorial Day, and I wanted to see the bookstore that’s taking over where I left off (I had to close up shop after David died). So I [...]

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“Not Exactly Dead” update

Today, I finished work on a slightly revised version of Not Exactly Dead. Most changes were small, primarily cleaning up little things that popped out at me as I read the original Kindle edition. Chapter 48 probably got the most changes, and the biggest ones, but even it remains much the same. The new edition [...]

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Kindle returns

I didn’t know that you could ‘return’ Kindle content that you didn’t like, until I was setting up as an author, and was informed that returns would be deducted from payments. Returns? Of e-books? Whoever heard of such a thing? I wish I’d known about this a few weeks ago, when I bought a book [...]

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Thick or thin reading

Our little bookstore sells mostly used books, and we also like to stock regional offerings. So, we draw book scouts. In the old days, most book scouts were mostly looking to buy used books for other bookstores that sell used books. Sometimes they’d be scouting for a collector. Sometimes they were collectors themselves. These days, [...]

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Eclectic selection

My husband and I own a bookstore, in which we sell both new and used books, mostly used. Sometimes, going through backstock and trade-ins, I find myself suffering something akin to mental whiplash. For instance, as chance would have it, what I’m sending to The Bookstation in the next box of used books so far includes: [...]

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“Harry Potter for Presbyterians”

I am a bookseller by trade, and a Christian by profession, so how can I resist a post full of Christian bookselling humor? hat tip: Half Pint House (where they are fans of the book)

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