EP 412 - Books, Bookstores, and Community

Apr 25, 2025

In this solo episode, Mark talks about the importance of indie bookstores to the local community and what he is doing as an author to help support/promote indie bookstores on April 26, 2025, Independent Bookstore Day.

This episode is sponsored by Draft2Digital.

Check out the full day of PRINT BOOKS FOR INDIE AUTHORS videos here.

Links of Interest:

• Canadian Indie Bookstores
  • Canadian Independent Bookstore Day
• Indiebound: Independent Bookstore Day (US)
• Bookshop.org
• Mark's Form for Readers Supporting Indie Bookstores
• T. Thorn Coyle links:
  • Essay: Rehumanizing each other
  • Podcast: Magic, Creativity, and Life
  • Essay on Community Prosperity, Community Health
• The BookFest 2025
  • Video with Mark's Keynote (Video is for full day)
• Draft2Digital PRINT BOOKS FOR INDIE AUTHORS
• Buy Mark a Coffee
• Patreon for Stark Reflections
• Mark's YouTube channel
• Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)
• An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
• The Relaxed Author
  • Buy eBook Direct
  • Buy Audiobook Direct
• Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
• An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
• Wide for the Win
• Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books
  • This Time Around (Short Story)
  • A Canadian Werewolf in New York
  • Stowe Away (Novella)
  • Fear and Longing in Los Angeles
  • Fright Nights, Big City
  • Lover's Moon
  • Hex and the City
  • Only Monsters in the Building
• The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard
• Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

 

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The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0