{"id":5490,"date":"2024-08-08T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2024-08-08T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:32:05","slug":"how-do-you-become-a-neighborhood-bookstore-w-spoke-word-books-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/how-do-you-become-a-neighborhood-bookstore-w-spoke-word-books-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you become a neighborhood bookstore? w\/Spoke &amp; Word Books | A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This month for the #BookstoreSolidarityProject, we hung out with Cierra, owner of Portland-local bookstore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokeandwordbooks.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.spokeandwordbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spoke &amp; Word<\/a>! We talked about bookselling, strategic romance and genre placement, and how much of a fan Joe&#8217;s doctor is of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/microcosm\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.<br>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<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?\u00a0<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>This month for the #BookstoreSolidarityProject, we hung out with Cierra, owner of Portland-local bookstore Spoke &amp; Word! We talked about bookselling, strategic romance and genre placement, and how much of a fan Joe&#8217;s doctor is of them. Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app.Get the\u00a0People\u2019s Guide to Publishing\u00a0here, and the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/how-do-you-become-a-neighborhood-bookstore-w-spoke-word-books-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/\" title=\"Read How do you become a neighborhood bookstore? w\/Spoke &amp; Word Books | 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],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books","tag-bookstore-solidarity-project","tag-business-of-publishing","tag-interviews"],"my_excerpt":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This month for the #BookstoreSolidarityProject, we hung out with Cierra, owner of Portland-local bookstore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokeandwordbooks.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.spokeandwordbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spoke &amp; Word<\/a>! We talked about bookselling, strategic romance and genre placement, and how much of a fan Joe's doctor is of them. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/microcosm\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.<br>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<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?\u00a0<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>This month for the #BookstoreSolidarityProject, we hung out with Cierra, owner of Portland-local bookstore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokeandwordbooks.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.spokeandwordbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spoke &amp; Word<\/a>! We talked about bookselling, strategic romance and genre placement, and how much of a fan Joe&#8217;s doctor is of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/microcosm\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.<br>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<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?\u00a0<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\/5490","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=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}