My local bookstore @prismaticpages will start publishing books under the name Prismatic Press 📚

If you want to join the launch party / signing for their first book, That Quiet Fog by Jay Samuel, follow the link:

🎈 https://shop.prismaticpages.com/products/book-launch-and-party-that-quiet-fog-by-jay-samuel

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"If you go to a Barnes & Noble in New England, you might find a section on shipwrecks right at the front of the store. A store in the Florida Panhandle will have shelf after shelf of Bibles. A store in Washington, D.C., has, well, a lot of books about Washington, D.C."

🎁🔗: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/barnes-noble-popularity/686369/?gift=4QaRc8exrrCy8GO1zwB_RuYUA0TXh8oras81uicNOYg

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What I’m Reading: For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S.. “[National Association of Black Bookstores] also launched its National Black-Owned Bookstore Directory, an index of the Black-operated brick-and-mortar stores, mobile shops and online sellers across the country. The report states that there are 306 Black-owned bookstores nationwide, approaching […]

Not the London Book Fair: Richard Charkin’s Utterly Personal Publishing Visitor’s Guide to London 

Venture out from Olympia to enjoy the architecture, eat, drink, and check out some of the literary history around London.
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https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/03/not-the-london-book-fair-richard-charkins-utterly-personal-publishing-visitors-guide-to-london/

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