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Summer!

By tom on June 12, 2012 | Add a Comment

After the great weather for Market Square Day, it seems everyone got in the summer mood.  Flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, and everyone has switched over to ice coffee.  Opening the new store in February was tough-- it's traditionally the slowest time of the year-- but it gave us a chance to get our feet under us.

Now we've got so many things going on it's making my head swim:

The Piscataqua Press is up and running!

Great new books are arriving from the publishers every day, and great used books are being traded in by our faithful readers.

The Demon Bookseller of Fleet Street is haunting the store in the evenings, and her Paperback to the Future program is finding us new fans all across the country.

Seacoast Local Farm Dinner was yum yum yummy!

By tom on June 05, 2012 | Add a Comment

The Field and Spoon dinners match a local organic farm with a professional seacoast chef.  We ate in a beautiful field on the grounds of Tuckaway Farm, and everything we ate came from within 20 miles-- most of it from within 500 yards.  I was lucky enough to have John Carroll at our table, the author of The Real Dirt and several other books about sustainable agriculture.  This made the dinner not only incredibly tasty but also informative.  There was live music and lots of wine included with the meal (but not made locally-- something to aspire to!)

Field

I ate something called Hairy Vetch!  Not sure I can even say that in polite company.  I ate turnips. and chive flowers, and chicken cooked on an open fire. I also drank pea soup from a shot glass.

Birds, Bees, and Spring

By tom on May 11, 2012 | Add a Comment

Well, I'm declaring Winter officially over, even though there's a chance of frost tonight.  And what a strange winter it was. The death and rebirth of the store, the strange lack of snow, the final demise of Borders and the continued rise of eBooks.  The list goes on and on.

But here we are finally in May.  I always count Mother's Day as the start of our busy season, which lasts from now until Christmas.  for those of you who have been coming in and checking out the new space during these quiet, quiet months, I say a hearty "Thank You!"

If you haven't been in, please do.  We have an event every night of next week, starting Monday with Amy Antonucci talking about Honey Bees, and ending next weekend with two great kids events to help promote the Little Harbor Book Fair. Please click on our events tab to see what your missing.

That's not my independent publisher-- It's spine is too strong!

By tom on April 17, 2012 | Add a Comment

Just wanted to share a link that gives a bit of insight into what's going on with e-books, Amazon, and the Justice Department.  The comments section is particularly interesting.  

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/business/media/amazons-e-book-pricing-a-constant-thorn-for-publishers.html?_r=2&ref=business&src=me&pagewanted=all