Author name: Bernadette Swizzlestick

On Loving Paper More Than Words

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I’ll be blunt. Life in the Booksquare mail room has not been kind to me since my last post. In the last few weeks I’ve been inundated with more books than ever before. It’s almost as if some of you took my complaint as a challenge. In the past week alone I’ve received dozens of books that are so poorly targeted I can’t even get the cleaning crew to take them off my hands. There’s a sci-fi novel about a kilted astronaut, scores of knitting themed romances, and yet another book featuring a large breasted woman wielding an enormous sword […]

The Future of Publishing

Memo from the Booksquare Mail Room

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[BS: For those who don’t know, we have an intern at BS. She nearly quit (due to the situation noted in paragraph two below), so we had a “negotiation”. She will be allowed, under limited circumstances, to write for this site. She will also take over daily BS cat maintenance responsibilities. You know what that means.] When I started working in the Booksquare mail room, I mistakenly assumed it was going to be some kind of a dream job. Blogger’s hours, free books, and plenty of wine. What could possibly be better? Little did I realize the Booksquare wine cellar

The Business of Publishing
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