Great day to buy a book...Independent Bookstore Day

Usually I use Saturdays to highlight an author in my "Authors Helping Authors" segment. But since today is Independent Bookstore Day, I'm going to use it to lend a helping hand to all the amazing independent bookstores that need readers.  The book publishing business isn't an easy one, especially not for bookstores whose margins are tight and increasingly hard to compete against giants like Amazon.

It's a beautiful day here in Virginia (I'm actually at a horse race, but had this post scheduled to go up without me). So I'm going to head to my favorite store tomorrow. But you should take a second to stop by your favorite as well.  Here are some of bookstores that I want to send some additional love to this weekend:

• One More Page Books - Arlington, VA
•  Mysterious Galaxies - San Diego & Redondo Beach, CA
• Politics & Prose Bookstore Coffeehouse - Washington, DC
• Krammer Books - Washington,  DC
• Strand - New York, NY
• Word Bookstores - Brooklyn, NY, Jersey City, NJ
• The Poisoned Pen - Scottsdale, AZ
• Flyleaf Books - Chapel Hill, NC