Buy Indie, Buy Local

Yesterday, I posted a pic taken from the parking lot of my new, favorite local coffee bar. Not only do they offer a "bottomless" press pot of coffee, they have a "100 mile restaurant" that serves local cheese, butter, jam, bread... it's epic awesome, and the perfect refuge for a writer addicted to coffee and carbs.

I never go in there without buying something else. Yesterday, it was Dry Soda in four different flavors. Last week, it was cranberry syrup:



I'm planning to float on orange juice and champagne at Christmas, like this:

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You cannot buy this syrup on Amazon. And even if I could, I wouldn't. FOR REASONS.

Granted, this may not be a big deal to big box stores, but I implore everyone not to do this to your local Mom and Pop. Better yet, I'd like to encourage everyone to show your pride in local stores and products. Buy something, take a picture, post it to your blog or FB or here in the comments. Explain what you are doing and why you are doing it. Tag me in the post or email me at lisa at lisamantchev dot com with a link. Participants will be entered into a drawing to win all three (signed!) theater books, shipping to US and Canada addresses only, please. I'll close to entries next Friday, December 16th at midnight PST.

So post your pride, and consider joining the Occupy Amazon group over at Facebook.

Just added: Michelle Zink, author of the Prophecy of the Sisters trilogy and the forthcoming A Temptation of Angels is going to donate the complete/signed Prophecy trilogy to this contest! So keep the entries coming!