Guest Post: Joy Preble on Life as an Author-Bookseller…or Bookseller-Author?

Guest Post: Joy Preble on Life as an Author-Bookseller…or Bookseller-Author?

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Joy’s first full day at Brazos Bookstore

By Joy Preble

Last month, I became the new Children’s Specialist at Brazos Bookstore in Houston. I hadn’t planned on it, but when you stumble into your dream job, well, you take it!

It’s a balancing act: Selling books and buying books and merchandising and creating store events,

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Guest Post: Joy Preble on Being a Mid-Career, Mid-List Author

Guest Post: Joy Preble on Being a Mid-Career, Mid-List Author

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By Joy Preble

I took pause for a moment when my lovely friend and mentor, Cyn Leitich Smith, asked me to write about what it’s like to be at this stage in my career.

“You know,” she said. “You’ve got a foothold but you’re not a new voice or (yet) a grand dame.”

The truth is that she nailed it exactly.

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