What If I Want to Meet My Ghostwriter in Person and They Refuse?
August 25, 2026
Most ghostwriting now runs over video, and many ghostwriters don't travel. Here's why, whether it hurts your book, and how to get in-person time if it matters to you.
Tag: Tampa Bay
Places around Tampa Bay that matter to readers and writers: bookstores, public libraries, museums and good rooms to work in. Written from Clearwater with the details a local writer actually needs before driving across the county.
BookstoresWhere to Donate or Sell Books in Tampa Bay
August 14, 2026
Library Friends groups take donations and sell them to fund programming, and several have permanent drop points including a drive-up slot at Palm Harbor. Used bookshops buy selectively. Nobody wants encyclopedias, textbooks past their edition, or anything damp.
LibrariesTown ‘N Country Library: The Closest Tampa Branch to Pinellas
August 12, 2026
Town 'N Country Regional Public Library is the closest Hillsborough library to Pinellas, about fourteen miles from Clearwater. Two floors with an elevator, a used bookstore on the ground floor where some books are free, private study rooms, and a…
Children's BooksJimmie B. Keel Library: The Best-Rated Building in This Series
August 11, 2026
The Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library in Tampa holds the highest rating of any library or bookstore in this series. Open until nine at night Monday through Thursday, the latest closing of anything on either list, with a large enclosed…
HistoryThe Henry B. Plant Museum and the Summer of 1898
August 10, 2026
The Henry B. Plant Museum occupies the south wing of the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel, a 511-room Moorish Revival resort whose thirteen silver minarets still define the Tampa skyline. The furniture is the actual furniture. In 1898 the hotel became…
BookstoresFeed Your Imagination Comics, St. Petersburg: The Shop That Sends You Elsewhere
August 10, 2026
Feed Your Imagination is a small vintage-leaning comic shop on Central Avenue in west St. Petersburg. Classic and modern comics, graphic novels, and figures at low prices, run by an owner who sends customers to other shops when he cannot…
LibrariesSt. Pete Beach Library: They Lend Metal Detectors
August 9, 2026
St. Pete Beach Public Library lends metal detectors and CD players, which is the most surprising checkout list in this series. It also runs a free native-plant seed library, stocks Blu-rays including new releases, and has a children's programme with…
BookstoresTampaAntiquesandBooks: Rare Bindings in Among the Furniture
August 9, 2026
TampaAntiquesandBooks runs used, rare, and antiquarian books through multiple rooms mixed with antiques. The owner is a retired professor, leather bindings turn up well under market, and the shop closes at four.
BookstoresHaslam’s Book Store, Closed Since March 2020
August 9, 2026
Haslam's on Central Avenue was the largest independent bookstore in Florida, more than thirty thousand square feet, opened in 1933 and run by three generations of one family. It closed in March 2020 and never reopened. The murals have been…
LibrariesGulfport Public Library: A Reading Garden With Actual Shade
August 8, 2026
Gulfport Public Library has an outdoor reading garden with proper shade, which in Florida is the difference between a nice idea and a usable one. Ten until seven five days straight, reading carrels, comfy sofas, seats with power outlets, free…
LibrariesWest St. Petersburg Library: Eight in the Morning, Playground in the Lot
August 6, 2026
West St. Petersburg Community Library opens at eight in the morning and runs until eight at night Monday through Thursday, twelve-hour days four times a week. It has a fenced playground with a turf surface in the library lot, which…
HistoryMirror Lake Library: St. Petersburg’s 1915 Carnegie Building
August 3, 2026
Mirror 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…