What’s in store for your weekend? I’m looking forward to a combination of work and play these next few days. I hope YOU have something to look forward to.
My favorite finds from around the web:
- Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day! To celebrate, Libro.fm has a $5 or less sale for fabulous audiobooks. Will you be stopping by your local indie? (Don’t miss my list of 8 independent bookstores I want to visit—the comments are a treasure trove!)
- Wondering what to wear? This visual guide will help you cultivate your personal style. (My friend Mel sent me this—she finds the best stuff!)
- This reading is a lifestyle sweatshirt is pure joy. (Here I am wearing it on Instagram; don’t miss our delightful new What Should I Read Next episode with Abbigail Glen, owner of Charlotte’s bookstore Shelves and creator of this readerly apparel!)
- Why your home’s worst feature might be key to creating more joy. “Awkward spaces force us to come up with unexpected solutions that make a space feel unique.”
- Don’t Overthink It is here—in Turkish!
- Fore-edge painting and indexing. I hadn’t thought about fore-edge indexing before. Do you do this? Such possibilities!
- Got Home Pizza Mastered? Graduate to the Calzone. Challenge accepted, complete with Parks and Rec-inspired giggles.
- How Serena Williams Saved Her Own Life. That’s not hyperbole, as you’ll see.
- Flash sale happening now: get your Craftsy Premium Membership for only $0.99 for your first full year (normally $89.99). Of course there’s great home and craft content here, but they also have a surprising number of writing courses.
- ‘Where the bats hung out’: How a basement hideaway at UC Berkeley nurtured a generation of blind innovators. “Genius is forged by community.”
- Home is a Cup of Tea. This is lovely.
- The 25 best podcasts for writers. Loved seeing What Should I Read Next included here!
Don’t miss these posts:
- 12 Feel-good fiction books you can read in an afternoon. If you’re leaning toward the lighter side of your reading tastes these days, this list is for you.
- 6 favorite independent bookstores. Independent Bookstore Day is this weekend!
Upcoming Events:
- May 19: Summer Reading Guide Unboxing: This is the best book party on the interwebs! In a ninety-minute live session, I reveal every title in the Summer Reading Guide, and tell readers why I chose it. This members-only event is for our Modern Mrs Darcy Book Clubbers and What Should I Read Next patrons. Members get the guide just after the Unboxing—which means they get it four days early, with bonus content.
- May 23: 2022 MMD Summer Reading Guide releases! Details here.
- May 24: Live discussion with Bethany C. Morrow: Time for our Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club discussion of So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix with author Bethany C. Morrow!
You can find more upcoming events here.
Have a great weekend!
16 comments
Loved the article about nonfiction trade publishers, totally spot on! Also note that many have very small marketing departments with many books to promote, so if
your book gets published in a newspaper, magazine, on tv, or you are doing an interview or speaking at an event, LET THEM KNOW. They will promote on their social media sites as well.
If you have a decent social media following you have a better chance for a bookstore wanting you there.
Those are great tips!
I’m making the lemon meringue pie you referenced a Friday or two ago. Wish me luck!
Best of luck! I hope you love the results. The recipe felt a little complicated to me but the pie turned out really well.
Love the link to the post by Ingrid Fetell Lee. I find her work fascinating and inspiring!
Love tea, love the story, love the artwork. Thank you for introducing me a wonderful writer, over a cup of tea.
I absolutely loved the tea story. Great story and great artwork. I’ve never heard of Longreads so I’ll be checking out more stories there!
That essay about home and tea was truly lovely! Thank you for sharing it.
I love the article on finding your personal style. I’m going to go through my spring/summer clothes with those suggestions in mind. I’ve collected many pieces of clothing over the past few years that need to be given away. Thanks for the help and motivation!
I loved this week’s episode of WSIRN with Abbigail Glen. Her interview prompted me to purchase a book from Shelves, as well as the blue sweatshirt. So fun!
The fore edge painting is so amazing, have never heard of it before.
I loved the “Home is a Cup of Tea” post… So sweet, and the watercolor illustrations are charming.
For me, this will be sad weekend. A lovely lady in my Sunday School class unexpectedly passed away on Thursday after a brief illness, and we are all reeling from this loss. It’s a bittersweet reminder to hug your loved ones, and cherish the moments you share with them now…
I’m a doodler. I need to doodle while listening. In high school I used the thick edges of my Latin textbook (which I had to purchase) as my canvas. It’s one of my favorite pieces. I never know this has a name though. Mostly I just wrote my name on the edges of books like those that lived in communal spaces like my office, to make ownership easy to identify
I’m not a big tea drinker but loved the story and artwork!
Brennan’s article on non-fiction publishing totally described my husband’s experience publishing a book with a small publisher. And on a serendipitous note – I have Brennan’s book, The Oyster War, sitting beside me. I picked it up a few weeks ago when we went on an oyster tour in Point Reyes. Can’t wait to read it.
Thank you for these links Anne! You find the most enchanting things (referring especially to the tea story)! Thank you so much for taking the time to collect these little bits of joy for us to enjoy! 🙂