{"id":6957,"date":"2026-04-03T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:04:06","slug":"romantasy-horror-microstores-bookstore-trends-w-maureen-karb-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/romantasy-horror-microstores-bookstore-trends-w-maureen-karb-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Romantasy, Horror, Microstores: Bookstore Trends w\/ Maureen Karb | A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maureen Karb is a field sales rep and with Como Sales, a rep group that focuses on indie publishers selling to indie bookstores. Because of what she does, Maureen has a great knowledge and perspective on what&#8217;s new and trending at bookstores. From romantasy and horror to new types of bookstores opening all over the country, this week on the pod, join Maureen, Joe, and Elly to talk about what&#8217;s hot (and what&#8217;s not) in book world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen Karb is a field sales rep and with Como Sales, a rep group that focuses on indie publishers selling to indie bookstores. Because of what she does, Maureen has a great knowledge and perspective on what&#8217;s new and trending at bookstores. From romantasy and horror to new types of bookstores opening all over the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/romantasy-horror-microstores-bookstore-trends-w-maureen-karb-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing\/\" title=\"Read Romantasy, Horror, Microstores: Bookstore Trends w\/ Maureen Karb | 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":[14,12,11,26],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books","tag-business-of-publishing","tag-interviews","tag-podcast"],"my_excerpt":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Maureen Karb is a field sales rep and with Como Sales, a rep group that focuses on indie publishers selling to indie bookstores. Because of what she does, Maureen has a great knowledge and perspective on what's new and trending at bookstores. From romantasy and horror to new types of bookstores opening all over the country, this week on the pod, join Maureen, Joe, and Elly to talk about what's hot (and what's not) in book world.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n<p>Maureen Karb is a field sales rep and with Como Sales, a rep group that focuses on indie publishers selling to indie bookstores. Because of what she does, Maureen has a great knowledge and perspective on what&#8217;s new and trending at bookstores. From romantasy and horror to new types of bookstores opening all over the country, this week on the pod, join Maureen, Joe, and Elly to talk about what&#8217;s hot (and what&#8217;s not) in book world.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","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=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}