Celebrating Independent Bookstores! Beagle and Wolf Books and Bindery in Park Rapids, MN

Thanks to our friends, Tricia and Bob, my new book is in a great independent bookstore in Park Rapids, Minnesota. First, they introduced us to Beagle and Wolf Books and Bindery in Park Rapids a few years ago. Recently, on our fourth visit to this independent bookstore as customers, encouraged by these friends, I also asked the bookseller–who showcases poetry in the first display one sees upon entering the store!–if she would consider carrying Geranium Lake. Guess what? She said yes!

Photo by Robert Benson
View across the street from Beagle and Wolf
Bob Benson Outside Beagle and Wolf Books and Bindery

I have been rather diffident in the past about asking bookstores to care my own books, but with the encouragement of friends, this was actually rather fun for me. I have made a vow to myself to be a bit more outgoing when it comes to approaching booksellers and reading venues.

Question: Do you know of a great bookstore in your area that might be open to carrying a new collection of poetry, or a venue (library, bookstore, school, club, coffee house) that might like to have a poetry reading? If so, would you let me know? I will take it from there!

Thank you for your enthusiasm and your help!

LESLIE

Photo by Robert Benson

2 thoughts on “Celebrating Independent Bookstores! Beagle and Wolf Books and Bindery in Park Rapids, MN

  1. I’m very proud that Bob and I had a small, but important part in moving you along as you reach out to get your poetry into the public domain. It was a little push, a few words of encouragement, but just what you needed at the moment. I loved reading Geranium Lake and hope many others do too.

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