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Your basic hobby-gets-out-of-hand-tale.
Tuesday, 13 Jul, 2010 – 7:05 | 2 Comments
Your basic hobby-gets-out-of-hand-tale.

This is Part 5 of Caro and Susan’s foray into the land of bookselling. Here are the earlier segments:

Part 1, We Got Handed a Dream In the Discount Card Aisle
Part 2, The Auction
Part 3, A Name, …

Sidelines – What Does Your Bookshop Carry?
Tuesday, 26 May, 2009 – 21:03 | 10 Comments
Sidelines – What Does Your Bookshop Carry?

Sidelines
Shane Gottwals
Gottwals Books
www.gottwalsbooks.com
What are those “extra” items you keep in stock?  My wife and I have recently begun to carry educational puzzles and toys, with mixed success.  (I, of course, want them to fly off …

Become a Sellable Hunter Not Just a Book Hunter.
Wednesday, 12 Dec, 2007 – 4:06 | 11 Comments
Become a Sellable Hunter Not Just a Book Hunter.

I’ve had crap days turn into splendid days just by noticing the smiles of strangers. – BH
There was a forum topic on MySpace just asking to write one sentence. That was what I came up …