Book MarketingRoughly a dozen venues in this region run regular literary programming, and they want completely different things. Tombolo runs a national author calendar. Largo Public Library hosted fifteen hundred people for a romance festival. The Gilded Page rents its back…
FamilyAlmost every family has a box and almost nobody opens it, because the job looks enormous and the photographs are unlabelled. The order that works is stabilise, sort roughly, label with the people who still remember, scan what matters, and…
NonfictionMojo Books and Records near USF is Tampa's largest used and new book and record store, about forty-five hundred square feet, running since 2007. Books, vinyl, an artisan coffee bar, and a buying counter open noon to six every day…
Book MarketingYou recorded the interviews. That was the part with a deadline on it. What you have now is eleven hours of somebody talking, and it will not become a book by sitting on a drive. Transcribe, index, find the spine,…
LibrariesWest 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…
HistoryHeritage 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…
Children's BooksNorth 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…
FamilyBlack 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…
HistoryYbor 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…
FamilyYou 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…
Children's BooksCultured 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…
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