Bookselling

I would say, like, Tom, if you were my partner and you gave me an assignment, I would go do it.

And I would come back to you cheerfully and say, here, Tom, here's my two-page memo of the thing that you wanted me to do.

And you'd say – you'd pat me on the head and say, good work, man.

And then you'd say, here's another matter.

Just finally, I've learned over time generally not to ask authors about their next book because some are superstitious.

Some are worried they may change their mind about what their next book should be about.

However, in the About the Author page at the end of American Hargwan, it says, Min Jin Lee is at work on the novel Marshall Plan, the fourth of the Diaspora Quartet, and writing Name Recognition, a memoir.

So I feel it's probably safe to ask, how are they coming along?

Okay, so I'm holding up the book again, The Heights.

For our listeners, we'll link to it on our bookshop.org affiliate page.

If you get the book there, you support an independent bookstore and the podcast at the same time.

Ian, thank you so much for your time.

Well, before we keep going and there is more to chat with Audrey about, I want to remind all of you watching and listening out there to rush out and buy your copies of Life Out of Order.

The perfect place to do that is in the Friends in Fiction shop on bookshop.org. You will not only be getting the book at a discount, but all your purchases there support our show, our guests, and independent bookstores nationwide.

Bookshop has raised an astounding $50 million for indie booksellers.

So shop there online today.

I think that they're wonderful.

You can also get it on bookshop.org. You can get it on Amazon and it's, you know, it's available wherever.

And of course, car museums.

Really love that car museums have been reaching out and I've been reaching out to car museums and it's been wonderful.

Hey readers, it's Anne, and I'm here with this special Just For You bonus episode.

Recently, I had the pleasure of circling back with some of my favorite booksellers for the State of the Bookstore episode we made for you and aired in early March.

Initially, like I said here in the discussion thread post, we'd envisioned that we would have a single episode with six bookseller interviews.

And then we got so much good tape, we couldn't bear not to share it.

Anything else you want to make sure people know before we say goodbye, Juliet?

If you're purchasing online, bookshop.org. Let's support our independent bookstores or your local independent bookstore, wherever you are.

They're the third place of our culture that's still thriving.

We want to keep them chugging along.

And you can find that by logging into your Ally dashboard.

And if you're not an Ally member and you want to learn a little bit more about this bookstore, it's bookstore.allianceindependentauthors.org.

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