Booksellers, I'm sending out some galleys now and can hook you up with Iowa if you want one. And it'll be in the galley room at Winter Institute.

Event dates to come!

It’s about the inevitable tensions that arise in small businesses, especially small businesses that market a community-minded ethos that doesn’t always extend to its own employees.

It’s told from the perspective of the lead organizer on staff, the store owner, and the middle manager between them. There is a love triangle. There is ex obsession. There are tacos, because it’s set in Austin, Texas, where I lived and worked for nine years.

This book was inspired by my many years of bookselling. It is a very queer novel about working the front lines at a small grocery store (retail life) and what happens when the floor staff decides to unionize.

Hive Mind Books is now taking pre-orders for signed copies. We ship most places. Thank you for supporting both my queer book and my queer bookstore.

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This book is sooo good! Really happy you liked it. It’s good to embrace verse! Cat does it so damn well!

Haha yes. I was suprised when they announced it again for this year, bc they had the same warehouse/fulfillment issues over the summer. I thought, surely, they won't promise it. But they did! *Technically* the promise is 2 day shipping once it leaves the warehouse. But it has to leave the warehouse!

Not my favorite, that's for sure! Especially as a very new bookstore, building customer loyalty, etc etc.

Someone also reminded me that they expanded at least one of their warehouses this year, which is probably also logistically complicated.

Aha. I figured there had to be some significant change for this to happen. It's always been a well-oiled machine. But agreed - yikes, if one person is holding it all up, that actually is NOT a well-oiled machine, it was probably a hellscape for that one person.

Will echo the other comment about concern for return shipping (it is so expensive), and consideration for the overall cost of the event (book order / labor to market & host / labor to return unsold). That said - I do usually have some backlist and def have it if a publicist requests specific titles.