My new bookstore is officially open.
I think I just need a Boston fern for that empty corner by the window and I am still on the lookout for a fat orange tabbie cat that could lounge on some of the overstuffed chairs.
I got such a good deal on those big burgundy velvet sofa chairs. Isn’t it great how I’ve placed them in all the warm corners so you can enjoy a quiet read? Did you notice the perfectly positioned lamps?
I’ve actually had it open for a few days now, but was still tweaking some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. So. We’ll call that prior period the soft launch and now it’s time for the balloons and the flat white cake with that nasty blue icing-writing. This is the official hard launch.
You can see the STORE button on the ‘pinned’ tabs at the top of this page. Get out your noisemakers and help me celebrate 🙂
I’ve added a carousel that shows some of my favourite books on writing as well as some reviews for some of my favourite books. I’ll be adding more displays with other great reads soon. My page on Films will soon be linked for purchase too.
Yes, this is the same stuff you can buy on the Amazon site, but if you buy it through my store, you’ll help fund my coffee habit and you’ll get to pet that cat while you nap in the chair in the sunny window (yeh, I know that’s not real…my mother always said I had a too-vivid imagination).
At the very least you’ll have my unwavering gratitude. There’s that.
You are SO clever 🙂 I’ll take a tall decaf mocha latte please, light whipped cream.
Would you like a biscotti with that or perhaps a little pecan brownie?
Oh Colleen, we have to have a three hour conversation about this sometime! 🙂 Freeing – exactly – I *love* the aha! moment of realizing the symbolic, metaphorical layer.
Too funny. I guess you might have guessed this is one of my favourite topics…
This is a great idea! And you don’t even have to dust and restock the shelves 🙂
I just read the Pagan Christ last year and enjoyed it very much – I do like books that try to bridge surface differences and find the deeper commonalities. What did you like about it?
Thanks Janet. “Bridging surface differences”, that’s it exactly. I loved that he explored the deeper truths, the core principles at work and how we all dress these concepts up in our current social context. I think what I got out of that book was the same thing I love about Joseph Campbell’s books…that this idea of God/Love/Consciousness is universal and we need to get past the semantics and the characters we dress these truths in. I also loved that he frees his beliefs from literalness that is so often limiting and sees that these truths have greater power as metaphor. At the very least, metaphor is more available to us all. Oh dear…I could go on…and on….and on 🙂
you did it! from conception to completion in such a short period of time. this calls for my currently favourite quote: “those who say it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt the ones doing it!”
Isn’t this sort of like the pot calling the kettle black? You are the Queen of Gettin’ It Done 🙂 Speaking of which, I would love to feature some Urban Snapshots some time…interested?
Well, aren’t you clever!
Why thank you Lori:) I’ve always wanted a store.