Author
Mark your calendars for Indies First, November 25 at Auntie’s Bookstore.
Check out the array of amazing authors who will serve as volunteer booksellers! I’ll be on duty from 1 Pm- 3 PM and would love to help you find literary treasures to fill your Christmas wish lists.
Support a fabulous Indie bookstore, buy great books and chat with the people who write them.
What could be more fun?
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Running my hands along the spines, I can scarcely believe it– 14 books featuring my stories.
From the first time a writer picks up a pen or pounds out a story on a keyboard we wonder if it will ever be read by more than just a family member, close friend or teacher. Rarely in love with our own words, we weigh, sift, edit and groan over balky transitions and awkward phrases. We look back at our first stories and they sometimes seem like primitive scratches in the sand.
And if we’re really lucky, we find our tribe– a group of supportive readers and writers, who push us to do better and who ask for more
And we celebrate their publications, adding their books to our shelves, always leaving room for the next volume.
How wonderful to take a moment and realize no matter how arduous the journey from idea to print, it is possible to achieve out what every writer longs for– a shelf of our own.
Local authors rock!
They sit on my bedside table waiting to be read. The stack topples over and spills to the stacks on the floor below.
I LOVE books and I especially love books by local authors! Here in Spokane our literary community is thriving. It’s so cool to go to a bookstore and find books by people I know– people who live and work in our community!
Stephen King is great. I’m sure John Grisham is a nice guy. But I’d rather spend my dollars supporting local authors.
The only problem? I’m getting ready to pack for a trip and I can’t fit all of these on my carry-on!
I suppose I could get an e-reader. My stacks would diminish and I could take all the beach reads I want. But then I wouldn’t have this colorful stack of books to pick up and pore over.
Plus, these are signed copies!
Support your local authors. Buy books and buy local!
PS: All of these lovely volumes are available at Auntie’s Bookstore– an independent bookstore that keeps Spokane’s literary scene, thriving!
Cindy Hval 