{"id":5062,"date":"2024-03-14T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2024-03-14T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:42:08","slug":"bookstore-solidarity-project-alibi-bookshop-of-vallejo-ca-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/bookstore-solidarity-project-alibi-bookshop-of-vallejo-ca-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookstore Solidarity Project: Alibi Bookshop of Vallejo, CA (A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nestled deep in the heart between San Francisco and Sacramento lives the Alibi Bookshop! This week, in the latest of &#8220;What makes all of these cool indie bookstores tick?&#8221; we present to you, their proprietor, Karen, to unpack what publishers could do better to interface with stores like hers and the funniest things that happen when you bring back the 90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out the other interview we did with Karen on the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/in-interview-with-karen-finlay-owner-of-alibi-bookshop-in-vallejo-california\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/in-interview-with-karen-finlay-owner-of-alibi-bookshop-in-vallejo-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the&nbsp;<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestled deep in the heart between San Francisco and Sacramento lives the Alibi Bookshop! This week, in the latest of &#8220;What makes all of these cool indie bookstores tick?&#8221; we present to you, their proprietor, Karen, to unpack what publishers could do better to interface with stores like hers and the funniest things that happen&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/bookstore-solidarity-project-alibi-bookshop-of-vallejo-ca-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/\" title=\"Read Bookstore Solidarity Project: Alibi Bookshop of Vallejo, CA (A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing)\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,221,12,11,26],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books","tag-bookstore-solidarity-project","tag-business-of-publishing","tag-interviews","tag-podcast"],"my_excerpt":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nestled deep in the heart between San Francisco and Sacramento lives the Alibi Bookshop! This week, in the latest of \"What makes all of these cool indie bookstores tick?\" we present to you, their proprietor, Karen, to unpack what publishers could do better to interface with stores like hers and the funniest things that happen when you bring back the 90s.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You can check out the other interview we did with Karen on the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/in-interview-with-karen-finlay-owner-of-alibi-bookshop-in-vallejo-california\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/in-interview-with-karen-finlay-owner-of-alibi-bookshop-in-vallejo-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Get the&nbsp;<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n<p>Nestled deep in the heart between San Francisco and Sacramento lives the Alibi Bookshop! This week, in the latest of &#8220;What makes all of these cool indie bookstores tick?&#8221; we present to you, their proprietor, Karen, to unpack what publishers could do better to interface with stores like hers and the funniest things that happen when you bring back the 90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out the other interview we did with Karen on the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/in-interview-with-karen-finlay-owner-of-alibi-bookshop-in-vallejo-california\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/in-interview-with-karen-finlay-owner-of-alibi-bookshop-in-vallejo-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the&nbsp;<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}