January 13, 2023

S5 BONUS || James Joyce || Bookseller Shelley Macbeth

45 minutes

In today's bonus episode, Kat talks about James Joyce in the #lithist segment; stream of consciousness, how his life events impacted his writing, and book banning. Then I chat with bookseller Shelley Macbeth of Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge, Ontario! We cover:

How she became involved with Blue Heron Books

Winning Best Bookstore awards—twice

What she gets the most joy out of at Blue Heron

Connections and the social side of bookselling

Events they do in support of authors

The Book Drunkard Festival

How Lucy Maud Montgomery fits into it all

Selecting books for the store

The impact of geographical location on a bookstore’s sales

Partnering with other businesses in the community

How TikTok and other social media sites are affecting trends in bookselling

The environmental impacts of paper books vs e-books

And of course, book recommendations!

Blue Heron Books is @BlueHeronBooks on Twitter and @BlueHeronBooks on Instagram.

Kat is on Twitter @kfoxx_writes @_badasswriters @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. On IG, she's @kathleenfoxxwrites @badasswriters_podcast @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. Her websites are www.kathleenfoxx.com www.foxxeditorial.com and www.moodpitch.org

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Music: Bathtime Funk by All Good Folks (uppbeats.io), Head Up by Sixteen Wheelers, Celtic Dream by Trabant 33, Country Soil by View Points, Up in the Hills by Bonnie Grace, and Old Vienna by Leni Leimoti (epidemicsound.com).

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