The Shop (Blog) is Open

Dear all,

glad you found your way to us!

We've finally decided to start a blog, because - let's face it, if you've been to our shop, you know we never shut up - 140 characters on Twitter just don't cut it. The other day I tried to talk about "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson, a book I know many of you have enjoyed, but do you think I could fit that title in a tweet in a relevant context? It ended up being "The 100-Y-O Man WCOOTWAD", and the only response I probably elicited was either "Is she drunk?" (not on the job, sigh!) or "Is the cat on the keyboard?" (Oh I want a shop cat, and a shop parrot, wouldn't that be ace? But parrots and books have an uncomfortable stencil-esque relationship, and I can't get the cat back out from behind the shelves, so no...). Anyways, to make a long story short, we decided to start a blog for a variety of reasons.

We can tell you about books. Books we love, books we might not love that much (it happens) but still think you might love.

We can let you know about events.

We can talk about books and reading and all kinds of fun stuff.

We might even post some silly stuff once in a while. (Again, if you've been in to chat with us, you know solemn sanity is not at the top of our list of priorities.)

We can let you know about new stuff coming out.

You can even post us reviews of your favourite books and we'll post them on here (Kids, adults, youse all invited!)

You can even ask us stuff or make suggestions, and we'll feed back to you and do stuffthings about it. Remember, this is your community bookshop.

THIS. IS. WITNEY! (I know, lame!)

So yeah, all that.

We'll still have our twitter account, though (@WstonesWitney). Because Hash Tags are fun.
I'll try and get everyone to post on here, and we'll try and post as often as possible, when we're not shelving or dusting or telling you about awesome books in person.

Come see us in town.
And if not, come see us on here.

We'd love to have you!

Toodle pip,


Patty :)