Sherman Alexi asks authors to sell books on Small Business Saturday

When Author Sherman Alexi asked authors to sell books on
Small Business Saturday in a recent Los Angeles Times article…..the Fairfield
University Bookstore listened. The downtown community bookstore will be the
host of eight local authors of different genres, on Small Business Saturday, November 30, 2013 between the hours of 11:00am and 5:00pm. In addition to
selling their own books they will also be recommending their favorite books to
customers. 

 The downtown
Fairfield University Bookstore guest authors will be selling everything from
children’s books to cookbooks, young adult novels, crafts & hobbies, as
well as books on music and entertainment. Saturday, On November 30, 2013 shoppers
can meet with authors Paul Kupperberg/
Archie the Married Life and Kevin, and Jennifer Paganelli/Happy Home and Girl’s World from 11:00am-2:00pm. Robert Pizzo/The Amazing Animal Alphabet of Twenty Six
Tongue Twisters and Bruce Pollock/If
You Like The Beatles will be on
hand from 12:00noon-3:00pm.  Paul Ferrante/Spirits of the Pirate House and Hannah Kaminsky/Easy As Vegan Pie will greet customers
from 1:00pm-4:00pm. Susan Hood/The Tooth Mouse and Spike the Mixed-Up
Monster, and Marina Marchese/The
Honey Connoisseur will dazzle you from 2:00pm-5:00pm.

According to the recent Los Angeles Times article, “For many
booksellers, Small Business Saturday (squeezed between the Wal-Mart-friendly
Black Friday and the Amazon-friendly Cyber Monday) was their second-biggest
sales day of the year. “

“Now, author Sherman Alexie and the American Booksellers
Association are teaming up to start a new campaign that further ties Small
Business Saturday to the independent book trade: having authors work as
volunteers that day at independent bookstore. “

Fairfield University Bookstore is proud to help the campaign
cause. “Here’s the plan” We book nerds will become booksellers, “Alexi said in
a letter circulated by the ABA. “We will make recommendations. We will practice
nepotism and urge readers to buy multiple copies of our friends’ books. Maybe
you’ll sign and sell books of your own in the process.”

For more Fairfield University Bookstore events please visit www.fairfield.edu/bookstore or on
Facebook @ www.facebook.com/FairfieldUBookstore
. The Fairfield University Bookstore is proud to service the Fairfield
community as well as Fairfield University—operated by Follett in the heart of
downtown Fairfield. For more information on the Saturday, November 30th
Group Author event contact: Nancy L Quinn/Special Events Coordinator @ FairfieldUBookstoreEvents@gmail.com