This chapter centers on Travis Baldree’s Legends and Lattes and Bookshops and Bone Dust as an entry point into cozy fantasy. The conversation moves from small business storytelling to the realities of self publishing and traditional shelves, drawing in part from SFF Addicts Podcast episodes 39 and 40. From orc run coffee shops to struggling bookshops, the genre keeps its focus on work, community, and quiet stakes. It also returns to independent bookstores and the publishing choices that shape both fiction and the shelves we stand behind.

For the month of February, Middle Ground Books is offering 10 percent off all Black American authors in store.

If any of these books caught your ear, you can get your copy through Middle Ground Books, wherever you are. Print books and ebooks are available worldwide through the shop’s Bookshop page, and audiobooks are available through the store as well.

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📖 Physical books and ebooks through the shop’s Bookshop page

https://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks

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📖 The Covered Pages

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher

A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang by Lee Onhwa

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite

The Everything Store by Brad Stone

Operation: Bounce House by Matt Dinniman

Pity the Reader by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

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