Boo! Who?

In case you didn't notice, we have changed the self-made logo over the main title on our pages to one for Halloween.  In fact, it was this very style of logo that started our trend for both our entry sign as well as our upcoming release board.  In our second year, we (and by we and mean I) wanted to change up our entry sign dry erase board.  We noticed that the first three letter of our name spelled B-O-O.  We decided to emphasize that fact.  We wrote out the name in black.  We added pupils to the first two O's.  We changed the K to an exclamation point and a carat like this <.  Some years, we even added eyes to the second O, making it a ghost thing.  The final addition was a crooked smile under the first two O's, to make it look like a ghost, or something, was trying to scare you.  At least it was doing it in a playful manner.  That is all this week.  See you next time.

They Say It's Your Anniversary

On Saturday, October 7, 2000, Booknotes opened for business, making today its seventeenth anniversary.  On that first day, we had three or four customers.  The first person payed with a check, so we never got to get to show the first dollar we ever earned, which may have proved to be a bad omen.  Over the years, we lost one main distributor, Koen, and another has recently merged with another company to become Follett/Baker & Taylor.  We have well over two dozen book signings and events with over a dozen different authors.  Although we are a small business, we have done our best to do treat our customers the best we can.  Admittedly, we never expected to stay in business as long as we have.  We thought we would have changed locations or moved on well before now, and we are proud that we have done as much as we have.  We would like to thank all of our loyal customers over the years for all the appreciation they have shown us, and we hope to have all of you in again for all long as we can.  Thank you.  Goodbye until next week.

One Week Away

Next Saturday, October 7, marks the seventeenth anniversary of the opening of Booknotes.  As of right now, we are not planning any big celebration beyond having a major sale, that has already started.  We will posting more information on it on our social media accounts soon.  Hopefully, next week's post will feature a major announcement about the store.  Until then, there is again little to mention here.  We should be posting pictures of the store as it is decorated for Halloween.  Good-bye for this week.

Scripting Posts: a Postscript

Another week goes by with little to talk about.  It can be hard coming up with new material for this blog every week.  We are still trying to get a handle on social media, especially when said media informs you that you haven't posted anything new in a few days.  Sometimes, there just really anything worthwhile to mention.  We barely even use some social media platforms anymore; others we ignore, possibly to our detriment.  Hopefully, we will at least have a lot of new pictures to put up, when we decorate the store for Halloween.  This will happen in the next week or so.  We also have our seventeeth year anniversary coming up, as well.  Both should provide for ample opportunities for posting.  We are writing and posting this week's blog a day early again, but we are not providing secondary links until our regular times.  We just wanted to get a head start on our work.  That is all for today; see you next week.

Apologies and Inconveniences

Booknotes is a small store; we only have the two owners working here.  This means that we frequently have similar schedules. It also means that we sometimes have to open up two or three hours late, or close an hour or so early to get to some appointments or to avoid bad weather.  This also means that we sometimes have to close the store entirely some days, if there is no other way to do something.  We try not to have the store closed more than one day a week, so that our customers can see us as often as possible.  We always try to leave a  message at the door, telling everyone about our schedule.  Since we joined social media, we have been posting our times there, too.  We always leave a message apologizing for not being open at our regular times and the inconvenience that it makes for our customers.  It  has become somewhat of a tradition to leave that message.  Rest assured, we try to never be closed more that one extra day a week, and to never open late and close early on the same day, or on back to back days, if it can be helped.  If we are closed on a Saturday, we try to update the website early; like we are doing this week.  Hope to be open the next regular Saturday.  Goodbye for now.

Falling into Autumn

The store has been decorated for fall, even if the picture we posted is sort of blurry.  We don't know what is happening with the digital camera, but we hope to fix it soon.  Anyway, we always do fall up at the store, possibly more than would be expected.  You see, we started business in October of 2000, and that has become one of our favorite designing times.  It also allows us to do up Halloween in a big way as well.  We will be posting more photos of the interior when we upgrade the decorations for that.  Unfortunately, many of the leaves in the window have already fallen from the invisible threads they were hanging from.  Because of all the material on the floor, it is almost impossible to go out there to place them back.  We will try to do so, however.  It is really a great time for the store, leading up to our anniversary next month.  We hope to have something planned, but you will just have to wait and see.  Until next time, goodbye.

Too Many Books, Not Enough Words

Usually, the Upcoming Releases board had between sixteen and twenty books per month.  This month, it had twenty-four,which is about as many as it can handle.  Currently, we plan on highlighting at least a dozen books per week on the site's Books page.  What all this means is, we will have a lot less time managing the blog because of all the extra typing we will have to do for other things.  Therefore, we will be cutting back a little on posts.  So, see you next week.