Book MarketingJuly 24, 2026
Clearwater East Community Library keeps the widest hours in the Clearwater system, nine in the morning until eight at night four days a week plus all day Saturday. It shares a site with the St. Petersburg College campus, runs a…
Book MarketingJuly 24, 2026
Bitter End Books opened on Orange Street in Ozona in spring 2026, run by a former Simon and Schuster employee and an editor with a master's in Spanish literature. Used fiction, classics, art books, and antiquarian material, open four days…
GhostwritingJuly 24, 2026
Not because they were badly made. Because the reason for making them was wrong, and no amount of craft fixes that.
Book MarketingJuly 23, 2026
St. Petersburg has the best spread of working rooms in the county. West St. Pete opens at eight, Book and Bottle runs to nine with real wifi, The Book Lounge goes to ten at weekends, and Gulfport has reading carrels,…
Book MarketingJuly 23, 2026
Clearwater Countryside Library lends torque wrenches, levels and vegetable seeds alongside books, and holds the highest rating of any Clearwater branch. Study rooms can be reserved, museum passes checked out, and unlike the Main Library it opens on Saturdays.
Book MarketingJuly 23, 2026
The Gilded Page opened in Tarpon Springs in 2023, run by an indie young adult author and former educator who hand-orders every item. Open daily at eleven, with a rentable reading lounge and a monthly calendar of book clubs and…
Book MarketingJuly 22, 2026
Back in the Day Books splits its stock between new bestsellers and rare, collectible, and out of print material kept behind glass. The owner is a Clearwater native and former lawyer who ran the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association for two…
Behind the BookJuly 22, 2026
She was happy. He was terrified. The hotel was romantic. Every one of those is the author reaching a conclusion the reader was supposed to reach.
Book MarketingJuly 22, 2026
Clearwater has five library branches, a large chain bookstore and a handful of cafes, and they solve different problems. Clearwater East for long sessions and evening hours, Countryside if you need a room with a door, North Greenwood for natural…
Book MarketingJuly 21, 2026
Oldsmar Public Library has a small museum inside it, a vintage interior people comment on, and it still stocks new-release DVDs. It opens at nine six days a week, runs story time and sign language sessions for children, and has…
Artificial IntelligenceJuly 21, 2026
Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion over pirated books. The court found the acquisition was the problem, not the training, and that distinction is the one that matters to anyone who writes as someone else. What it changes for the ghostwriting…
Book MarketingJuly 20, 2026
A silent book club is a group of people who meet in one room, read whatever they brought, and do not discuss it. No assigned title, no homework, no one pretending they finished. At least two Tampa Bay bookshops now…
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