I've always looked at independent booksellers in a romantic light.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
Every book should have a romance.
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist.
Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.