On the blog, we have recently published reports on four bookstore interviews I conducted recently: Doylestown Bookshop, the Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop, Moonstone Mystery Book Store, and Buffalo Street Books. This project began because Sisters in Crime asked Stefanie Pintoff and me to interview Otto Penzler and Ian Kern of Mysterious Bookshop about the state of the retail book business. SinC […]
Meet Glenda Childs, owner of the Doylestown Bookshop. BACKGROUND: Doylestown Bookshop is a general bookstore that has been in business 18 years and has excellent community support. The customer base skews somewhat to women of all ages, and they have regular children’s programs. They have eight bookclubs. The store is 6,000 square feet, and it 75% books with 25% gift
Meet Debbie Beamer of the Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop. BACKGROUND: The store, established in 1990, sells only crime stories — mysteries, espionage, thrillers, and so on, both new and used, and related other items, such as gifts. They will also do special orders for any book. Their customer base is all ages, in a diverse community, but with the majority being
Meet Marilyn Thiele of Moonstone Mystery Book Store. BACKGROUND: In 1999, Marilyn bought, and still owns, a used book business called Twice Told Tales. When the adjoining store closed, she took over the space and opened Moonstone, fulfilling a longtime dream of owning a mystery bookstore. The nearby presence of a Borders was a concern, but she took what she
Last week I provided some background to this project of learning more about the independent bookstores in our very diverse MWA-NY region. Here is the first of a series of interviews. Meet Asha Sanaker of Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, New York. Ithaca is a small, lively town in the Finger Lakes region and is home to both Cornell University
Triss Stein, author of Brooklyn Graves, gives us the inside scoop on independent bookstores.
Author Nancy Bilyeau talks about how MWA-NY authors got to read at the first annual Queens Lit Fest.
MWA-NY members Daniel L Friedman and Eugene B. Friedman write about their experience attending our recent outing to Sing Sing Correctional Facility on July 23.
MWA-NY member Catherine Clark writes about our recent outing to Sing Sing Correctional Facility.
Author Linda Maria Frank writes about the debut of Long Island-area events for MWA-NY members.
