Book MarketingHeritage Village in Largo holds 3,500 volumes, 8,500 photographs and 20,000 artifacts and has been collecting since 1961. Dunedin holds a searchable run of its newspaper from 1924 to 1965. Across the bay sit the Tampa Bay History Center, the…
Book MarketingNorth Community Library is the St. Petersburg branch with a drive-through book drop, which sounds trivial until you have returned books in the rain with a toddler in the car. Small, bright, kid-centric, with orderly stacks, study tables and a…
Book MarketingBlack English opened in Tampa Heights in December 2023, founded by educator and city council member Gwendolyn Henderson with her daughter Ariel Amirah. Named after a James Baldwin essay, seven hundred square feet, three thousand books, and sections with names…
Book MarketingYbor City Museum State Park sits in a 1923 bakery that once turned out five thousand loaves of Cuban bread a day. Admission is four dollars and includes a tour of La Casita, a six-hundred-square-foot worker's house. Between the 1890s…
Book MarketingYou do not need a professional to record a parent or grandparent talking about their life. You need a phone, two hours, and the discipline to ask about rooms and objects instead of dates. Record it, do it more than…
Book MarketingCultured Books is a multicultural children's bookstore on Historic 22nd Street South, founded by Lorielle J. Hollaway in 2017 and paired with a literacy foundation from 2018. It runs as a pop-up, and its Book Report Project lets children buy…
Book MarketingFour hundred photographs is not a book and it is not a slideshow. A photograph book needs a spine, twenty to forty images doing real work, and text that says what the picture cannot. The common failure is publishing all…
Book MarketingMirror Lake Community Library is a Carnegie library that opened on December 1, 1915 with 2,600 books, one of only ten in Florida, built in Beaux-Arts style. On the National Register since 1986. Story times, therapy dog reading sessions, ESL…
Book MarketingTwo literary magazines are published in this region and both take submissions. Saw Palm, run by graduate students at USF, publishes work connected to Florida and reads from July to October. Tampa Review, published by the University of Tampa since…
Book MarketingMost first-time authors budget for the writing and nothing else. The writing is rarely the largest line.
Book MarketingThe Story Garden sells children's books and nothing else, from the ground floor of a two-storey house on 14th Street North. The owner is a former primary teacher, and the free Wednesday story time is built around letting children move…
Book MarketingThe President Barack Obama Main Library is St. Petersburg's main branch, recently reopened after renovation, and one of only two libraries in the county open seven days a week. A real coffee shop inside, bookable study rooms and meeting rooms,…
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