Sentences with phrase «many bookstore owners»

Three times a year the 25 bookstore owners travel to a different store, spending three days together.

The affidavit says the bookstore owner also reached out to people who buy and sell rare books to alert them that the book had been stolen.

A cartoon published after the world did not end in September 1988 shows a bookstore owner replacing a sign that says, «The book that proves Christ will return in September 1988» with a new one that says, «The book that proves Christ will return retroactive to September 1988.»

I pulled out my phone to take a photo and saw a text from a bookstore owner back home, inviting me to read an essay at an event.

The buzz was slightly misleading: He's a hapless, amateur pimp — a bookstore owner who impulsively decides his florist friend (John Turturro) is suave enough to help him make a little money on the side.

When struggling bookstore owner Mary and Adam, a bad boy of professional hockey, are teamed together to help facilitate an image makeover for the other, they soon realize that opposites attract, and they find themselves unexpectedly frozen in love.

● SIGNATURE MOVE, by Jennifer Reeder, finds common ground between a closeted Muslim lawyer (Fawzia Mirza) and a free - spirited Chicana bookstore owner in this heartfelt and funny film about how modern romance can arise from a path steeped in tradition.

Even the wonderful Alfre Woodard, playing a bookstore owner and neighbor to the Gordons, can't save the cheesy integration of research from occult books and a resolution that seems like a halfhearted homage to Father Karras» sacrifice in «The Exorcist.»

Characters like Mike (Joseph Gilgun), Gethin (Andrew Scott), a bookstore owner, and Jonathan (Dominic West), an actor get together with Steph (Faye Marsay), who is the only lesbian in the club.

The project is called «Labor of Love» and Bruce Willis will play a quiet bookstore owner who agonizes over the fact that he never properly told his wife how much he loved her before she died.

Trail Blazers (22:37)(Originally aired April 10, 2014) Feminist bookstore owners Candace and Toni make over the Portland Trail Blazers» cheerleaders and then have to cheer up the team itself.

Linda (voice by Leslie Mann), his owner, is a timid, bespectacled bookstore owner who has never journeyed far from the snowy community where she lives.

One of the reasons bookstore owners may choose not to buy and sell POD self - published books has to do with the pressure they are feeling from online sellers.

The Benjamin Franklin Book Awards are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) with help from over 150 publishing professionals, including librarians, bookstore owners, reviewers, designers and editors.

I read something the other day from Jane Friedman's blog that an indie bookstore owner was asking self - publishers to boycott using Amazon, and work harder to keep places like his in business.

The codes help librarians, bookstore owners, and online retailers like Amazon categorize books and decide where to «shelve» them based on topic.

Competition from online stores like Amazon, economic trends and distribution challenges from indie authors has bookstore owners focused on their own survival.

I am convinced that bookstore owners get together every two years to devise slightly altered yet completely incomprehensible trafficking instructions.)

How do you attract the interest of reporters, radio or TV show producers, groups you'd like to present to, or even bookstore owners?

A Canadian bookstore owner is set to retire soon, which would ordinarily not make news headlines.

It's something else altogether when a bookstore owner rips out the pages that contain «smut» and then sells the book on her shelves with the claim that it is «clean.»

But some things must be done correctly and the bookstore owners or buyers must know your book is there.

Since building our publishing business Stress Free Kids in 2003, we have partnered with dozens of vendors, bookstore owners, resellers, organizations, and thousands of customers.

Try to solve the bookstore owner's problems!

The key, of course, is that the bookstore owner must learn about your book through the normal trade channels.

Sometimes a vanity press book had a local interest and the bookstore owner would take a few.

If possible, avoid using your own name as part of the business title, because this will tip off reviewers and bookstore owners that the book is self - published.

Much of the complaining by trad publishers and bookstore owners seems to be fear of change.

New York City bookstore owner Otis Parker is dead, killed by a falling bookcase.

Founder and CEO Stephanie Chandler is an author of several books, a professional speaker, and former bookstore owner with a unique perspective on the publishing industry.

As a former bookstore owner, I have seen it all.

I was witness recently to a lively conversation between an independent bookstore owner and a NYT best - selling author as they railed against Amazon and the «pro-Amazon» DoJ (yes!)

Those are filled with books that didn't sell that the bookstore owner just wants out of the way.

In theory, bookstore owners and buyers of all shapes and sizes should be coming to this show to order books from publishers for the upcoming season.

And the Washington Post announced that 2010 will see the publication of Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford (Random House), the first in an intended three - book series that casts Jane as a vampire bookstore owner (can you hear those cash registers ringing?).

Even though he's so cantankerous, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry is impossible not to love.

Tara tells the story of a bookstore she went into, to try to market her book, and the bookstore owner hiding in her office, refusing to come out.

There's no risk for the bookstore owner, because they only pay me if they sell the book.

That's something that bookstore owners consistently discuss with me, is the methods of approach that independent authors and independent publishers use when they come into the stores to sell their books.

Indie bookstore owners have more latitude in choosing which books they want to sell and tend to rely on their personal gut instinct when it comes to buying books for their shelves, so approach them on an individualistic level.

You actually see a lot of the new generation of bookstore owners taking over, and with this new generation of bookstore owners, they're more open to trying new ideas and adapting.

Your book should come up in conversation more with the bookstore owner, who already knows you, as opposed to you pitching the book to them.

Some examples might include creating an advanced reader copy, personally reaching out to a bookstore owner, or simply choosing the right BISAC codes.

Ask a bookstore owner or library manager about local events for authors in your area.

The Write Life (TWL): You have background as a bookstore owner, you've worked in publishing and you're an author yourself.

Bookstores are businesses; it is the prerogative of bookstore owners and managers as to what books to order and display on their shelves.

For a long time, I was a freelance writer and bookseller or bookstore owner.

Lastly: Even if you select a Print on Demand service with connections to wholesalers, you will still need to convince bookstore owners that they should stock your book — if that's what you want.

When I got home that night, I received a message on Facebook from a local bookstore owner who wanted to carry Don't Eat Your Boogers in her store.

The 77 - year - old author and bookstore owner, who's best known for epics like Lonesome Dove, hasn't published a novel since 2009's Rhino Ranch; he's been focusing on his memoirs and an epic biography of Custer.