A. L. Kennedy

... is done right.

I had an interview not long ago with the Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy.

She was telling me about the Alfred Wolfson technique.

I hadn't known about the, that voice technique, about how those soldiers who are dying on the battlefield, they would cry out, their life is going, and they're, at that moment they're becoming their most essential self.

And so once you start seeing those trends, you can order in quickly.

One of the trends that we saw before everybody else was The Deal by Al Kennedy.

um and at some point we noticed that gardeners was out and we had and i was like okay well i guess we just need to order like 50 copies direct from the publisher and there was a two-week span where the deal was trending online and nobody had the books except us because we just like we're like okay this is gonna be a trend and the publisher hasn't done a reprint um so i think publishers are starting to get more adept at what's coming out but there there are trends that happen and the books just can't be found

Something else I read was that among this community that you're very familiar with, there is an appetite for Kindles and e-book readers, right? And so how are people kind of, you know, using your shop? Is this just about they want a special edition or they want the physical copy? You've sort of hedged your bets on this amongst a community that doesn't necessarily buy lots of physical books.