Another One Bites the Dust…

My favorite Indy bookstore, Epilogue Books, is closing its doors despite the copious amount of money I spend there on a regular basis. SOB!!! This marks the second bookstore to leave Ballard in the past two months, leaving only the Secret Garden Bookstore. SGB is lovely, but doesn’t carry romance. Epilogue was unable to come to an agreement with their landlord. Are all my favorite stores in Ballard destined to close? I could walk to Epilogue. They carried a large selection of used romance and fantasy books. Where will I buy books now??

Epilogue is having a store closing blowout sale with 20%-70% off all new and used titles. The sale began Sunday and the neighbors showed up in droves. The line ran all the way to the back of the store. I picked up a new version of Peter Pan, a book of native american poetry that fits my world building for my current manuscript, Anne Bishop’s “Pillars of the World” (which was very good), Julia Quinn’s “Mr. Cavendish I presume”, Liz Carlyle’s “Never Seduce a Rake”, and Elizabeth Haydon’s “Rhapsody”.

Can small, independently owned bookstores outlast this crummy economy? Where do you shop for books?

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