Emma Nichols

Reader, bookseller, writer, owner of @norwichbooksVT, podcaster via @drunkbookseller. Opinions are my own.

[Jacqueline Carey @JCareyAuthor]

Hear me out: Dark academia, but from the POV of the support staff and the criminally overworked and underpaid adjunct faculty.

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

First Indie Bookstore Day as indie bookstore owners

[The Norwich Bookstore @NorwichBooksVT]

A very happy wear shirts from other bookstores in the bookstore you work at day to those who celebrate. #IndieBookstoreDay

[Brittany Berger @thatbberg]

a great example of the invisible misogyny of productivity / hustle culture:

the first studies by male time use researchers didn't find a difference in leisure times of men v women...

because unpaid childcare and housework was coded as "leisure" in the research 🙃

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

@fenjamin

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

Going through book catalogs & see a $175 perfume atlas. First, and only, question: is it scratch 'n sniff?

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

You can't have bookselling without booksellers.

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

Accurate.

[The Norwich Bookstore @NorwichBooksVT]

Live image of Emma N. preparing her spreadsheets for all-store inventory

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

@OliverDepp

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@conorati 😬

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

Ok, booksellers: who uses IBID and wants to tell me all about their glorious systems and procedures?

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

@tracyfromdenver Don't look at me like that

[Henry Sotheran Ltd @Sotherans]

people imagine rare bookselling to be all elbow patches and tea, but in reality it is elbow patches, tea and screaming LEAVE HIM GARY, HES DEAD to your accomplice as you hotwire a car full of dickens in a ditch outside a mansion in cheshire and gunshots rain down overhead

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

Making a list of my fave backlist titles to order up on for our (!!) store. Pretty sure no one has ever had this much fun on Edelweiss.

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

@StefWaterStBook Pubs that reserve "hot" titles sometimes won't release them if they're not bo'd; they cancel the order instead but, at least in my experience, they don't tell your POS that. So you end up w. a lot of v important books on order that never show

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

@LiteraryNorth @KeithArsenault @GrimlyAmused Thank you and ditto! We're so excited to be joining such an amazing literary community

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

@alleeleevee Thank you, and same! Can't wait to grab a drink and browse the shelves at Still North.

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

I can't properly express how thrilled and thankful I am for the opportunity to steward this wonderful bookstore, so I'm just gonna retweet Sam:

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

@KeithArsenault @GrimlyAmused @LiteraryNorth Yes! I love their newsletter; definitely want to connect further.

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

@alexanderchee @GrimlyAmused Thank you! We couldn't be more excited.

[Emma Nichols @thebibliot]

Open a bookstore in a small town & you might inspire a kid to run their own one day