The Bookshop Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and welcome to the Monday edition of The Bookshop Podcast. Today I'm switching things up a bit and chatting with filmmaker and author, Mason Engel. But why is Mason on the Monday episode, you may ask? Well, read on! Mason Engel is a science fiction writer and documentary filmmaker from Columbus, Indiana. His books have been downloaded over 50,000 times across all platform...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and welcome to episode number 75! Today I'm chatting with criminal defense attorney turned writer T.L.Bequette. Located in Oakland, California, most of T.L.'s practice involves defending accused murderers. His outlook on the criminal justice system's need for reform, the unbalanced jury selection process, and his fight for those receiving harsher sentences than...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, today I'm chatting with Jessiemarie Duplessis, manager and assistant event coordinator of New Renaissance Bookshop, in Portland, Oregon! New Renaissance Bookshop nurtures the spiritual awakening of truthseekers of all paths by attuning to the highest needs of their customers and themselves, creating an uplifting environment of unconditional love and acceptance, offering s...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and welcome to episode #73!  Sara Winokur is a geneticist, researcher, and author. She has a master's degree in cytogenetics and a Ph. D. in molecular genetics. Her research helped identify mutations underlying muscular dystrophy, Huntington's disease, dwarfism, and a rare craniofacial syndrome.   Sara is a world traveler and has visited many countries, and Iceland i...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and welcome to episode #71! Today I’m chatting with poet Glenn Shea, who is also a bookseller at Book Barn. Glenn has worked in the library of a cancer clinic and in the French department of a foreign-language bookshop, washed dishes in the Scottish Highlands, gone to pilgrim’s mass in Santiago, and eaten good tex-mex in Chengdu. He has read his poems in local libraries and sh...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and welcome to episode #72! Pearl Street Books is located in historic downtown Ellensburg, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountain Range, in Washington State, USA. The bookshop specializes in children’s books, fiction, and non-fiction. Also, it carries distinctive greeting cards, including the work of local photographers and artists, along with a collection of Polish pott...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and welcome to episode #70! Jon McGregor is the winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Costa Book Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, and has been long-listed three times for the Man Booker Prize, most recently for his novel, Reservoir 13. He is a professor of creative...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and welcome to episode #69! Ross Bradshaw is the manager and owner of Five Leaves Bookshop and Five Leaves Publications in Nottingham in the UK. In this episode, Ross and I chat about the history of radical bookshops, paying your workers a living wage, where his love of books began, local authors, and of course, books! In 2018, Five Leaves Bookshop was the first radical booksh...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and welcome to episode #68! Tamsin Keily studied Psychology before completing a post-graduate degree in primary education. She now juggles writing with her job as a primary school teacher in the UK, where she lives with her husband and her daughter. DAISY COOPER'S RULES FOR LIVING was her first novel and her second novel, THE SURPRISING DAYS OF ISLA PEMBROKE is out on Sep...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode #67! Mr B's Emporium is a beautiful, energetic, and innovative bookshop on John Street in the heart of Bath, England. The bookshop is a bright labyrinthine space where book-related chatter and advice seem ever-present and you never know what you might encounter next, from claw-foot bath book displays to toilets illustrated by Chris Riddell.  Nic and Juliett...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode #66! We all need uplifting, and today’s guest has taken the word seriously by creating Uplifting Content. Check out my interview with Ione Butler and follow her on social media for well… uplifting content!   Ione Butler is a British film, television, and voiceover actress based in LA with numerous credits including Marvel’s Black Widow, a leading role in a motio...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode #65! Kwame Spearman and I chat about introspection during the pandemic and immersing ourselves in what's important in our lives, how sometimes there really aren't two sides to an argument, universal truths, community, Denver, and what's new for Tattered Cover Book Store, recently bought by Bended Page LLC, with Kwame as CEO. Tattered Cover is the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode #64! BJ Robbins opened her Los Angeles-based agency in 1992 after a multifaceted career in book publishing in NY. She started in publicity at Simon & Schuster and was later Marketing Director and then Senior Editor at Harcourt. Her agency represents quality fiction, both literary and commercial, and general nonfiction, with a particular interest in memoir, b...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode #63  Rabelais Inc. in Biddeford, Maine, serves up fine books about food and drink. The store has one of the largest selections of rare and out-of-print cookbooks in the U.S., along with a significant collection of manuscripts, menus, product cookbooks, prints, photographs, and other ephemera, all expressions of the important role food holds in culture. Rabelais...

Send us Fan Mail David Liss is the author of fourteen novels and numerous novellas, short stories, and comics. His previous books include A Conspiracy of Paper , which was named a New York Times Notable Book and won the 2001 Barry, Macavity and Edgar Awards. The Coffee Trader (2003) was also named a New York Times Notable Book and was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the year’s 25...

Send us Fan Mail Jan Weissmiller has long been on the staff of Prairie Lights Books, where she is the poetry buyer and arranges poetry readings for the “Live from Prairie Lights” series. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, teaches at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, occasionally reviews poetry for the Boston Review , and was awarded the Loess Hills Poetry Award for...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 60 of the Bookshop Podcast! In this episode, I'm chatting with Grace Bueti Malloy about keeping our shopping local and why it's crucial to buy from your local farmer's market! Grace is one of the founding members of the Ojai Community Farmers' Market in Southern California, which is open every Thursday from 3-7 pm at 414 E Ojai Ave. She and h...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, I start this episode by chatting with Kris Kleindienst , co-owner of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Missouri, and then head over to California to speak with Joy Lanzendorfer , author of Right Back Where We Started From .  Left Bank Books is the oldest and largest independently-owned full-line bookstore in St. Louis, Missouri. They offer a full line of new and used books, gifts,...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, today I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona, chatting with Barbara Peters, store owner and event coordinator at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore, and mystery author C.C. Harrison. Barbara Peters founded The Poisoned Pen, one of the world's largest mystery bookstores, in 1989, and later co-founded Poisoned Pen Press, a separate corporation dedicated to publishing mystery, making avail...

Send us Fan Mail Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire.  She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories , Final...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, this week I'm in North Carolina and Georgia chatting with Alissa Redmond, owner of South Main Book company in Salisbury, and poet and found of P.R.A. Publishing Lucinda J. Clark. Alissa Redmond is the owner of South Main Book Company in Salisbury, NC. She previously served in India, Afghanistan, Washington DC, Hong Kong, and Bolivia as a diplomat with the U.S. Department...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and welcome to Astoria, New York, where I'm speaking with Lexi Beach from Astoria Bookshop, and Luke Epplin author of Our Team! Lexi Beach and Connie Rourke opened Astoria Bookshop in 2013 in Western Queens, NY. While known for their well-curated shelves, they also sell signed books from local authors, puzzles, candles, soaps, and bookish gifts, and bookseller’s choice bu...

Send us Fan Mail Sue Arroyo CEO & Publisher Sue Arroyo is the founder and publisher of CamCat Books, the first imprint of CamCat Publishing. A visionary propelled by determination, she built CamCat at the intersection of emerging technology and authorial passion.  As a self-proclaimed entrepreneur, Sue opened CamCat Publishing, LLC, for business in 2019. CamCat Publishing is her seventh compan...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, Fellow Bibliophiles! Today I’m in stunning Anacortes, Washington State chatting with Brandy Bowen from Watermark Book Company and local author Kathleen Kaska. Watermark Book Company is a locally owned independent bookshop in the heart of beautiful downtown Anacortes, where they’ve been since 1989. They sell new books—bestsellers, old favorites, classics, and other book-related...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, and thanks for visiting The Bookshop Podcast! Today I’m in Winnipeg, Canada speaking with Michael Bumsted from Whodunit Mystery Bookstore. Later I’m in London—via Zoom—chatting with Chris Carter, author of the Robert Hunter detective series. WHODUNIT Mystery Bookstore opened for business in 1994 and in 2007 loyal customers Jack and Wendy Bumsted became the new owners. WHODUNIT...