{"id":67,"date":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2007\/04\/25\/dedications-to-dedicated-booksellers\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","slug":"dedications-to-dedicated-booksellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Dedications to Dedicated Booksellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

On the train back from NYC late Sunday I read (among other things) Where I Live<\/a><\/em> by Eileen Spinelli<\/a>. Told in verse, this is a short, sweet story about an astronomy-loving girl who's feeling anything but starry-eyed about her family's decision to move to a new town, several hours away from her best friend.<\/p>\n

This is the second book I've read this season that's dedicated to fellow booksellers at ABC<\/a> member stores. Spinelli dedicated Where I Live<\/em> to booksellers at three Pennsylvania independents: Hannah Schwartz of Children's Book World<\/a> in Haverford, Ellen Mager of Booktenders' Secret Garden<\/a> in Doylestown and "the folks at  Chester County Book Company<\/a>" in West Chester. Rick Riordan<\/a> dedicated Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3: The Titan's Curse<\/a><\/em> to Topher Bradfield of BookPeople<\/a> in Austin, Texas, and his Camp Half-Blood<\/a> compatriot Toni Davis.<\/p>\n

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I can think of no more meaningful way for an author to recognize a bookseller than to dedicate a book to them. And I can think of no more meaningful role a bookseller can play than to be the type of bookseller an author might dedicate a book to. (Unless it's to be the type of bookseller an author might write a book about<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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