Always Fun

I absolutely love bookshops. There’s something special about whole shops given over to the wonder that is the written word, even if it doesn’t take place as often as it once used to.
Having been stuck with a little bit of free time at a shopping centre recently, I dove into the nearest bookstore and spent an enjoyable 20 minutes poking around the books. If only my to-be-read pile wasn’t so large, and I had the money on me, I would have walked out loaded down with new reading material.
Something that I didn’t realise was so much fun was looking for, and finding, books by people I know. As I get to know more authors, I’m finding more of their books in the shops. Those books have always been there, but now that I know the authors, it makes for a more personal connection to actually get to hold their books in my hands.
In some little way, it tells me that if I make the move to physical publishing at any point, that I, too, could have my books in the shops as well.