Hello everyone,
We recently changed our email provider which explains the eerily similar yet uncannily different feel of this week’s New Arrivals email. Margins are weirdly larger or smaller. Product photos sit a tad differently on the page. The shop’s politics have taken a radical shift to agrarian anarchism. Tempted as we are to chalk it up to the Mandala Effect where we all vaguely remember an older email layout but search in vain for its proof, sadly a less exciting explanation is behind the minor rebrand. Our politics aside, exporting everything over to the new service means that a few of you may have been added to this list incorrectly. We apologize if this is so. Compooters are never right all of the time, hard as we might train them to be moral stewards of our human values and market ethics. Why, just this morning our Google Mini told us, “I wouldn’t ask that question again unless you’re asking for trouble.” We had asked it what the weather was like in London, Ontario.
For those of you who HAVE recently joined, we are used and collectible booksellers who drive around our city and province in a converted school bus, selling books to the local wildlife. Our clients are mainly rodents and cryptids but we occasionally set up shop at a human market such as a local coffee shop. We also run a robust mail-order business where we sell rare and collectible things to libraries, archives and collectors the world over. Whether THESE collectors are animal or human is unverifiable. Word has gotten out in these communities that our product is reliable and delicious. We were recently contacted by the mycelium culture growing in Malheur National Forest to send a large collection of steamy Christmas romances so…who knows. It could be the local park rangers getting horny for the holidays or it could also be the world’s largest single honey mushroom growing sentient. Neither would surprise us.
All things being equal, you are now receiving our often weekly New Arrivals/Bookshop News email, a celebrated and strangely beloved mixture of personal hubris, occasional grace, and roughshod market capitalism. No, wait. That’s podcasts in general. No, THIS email is a weekly storytime of merchant life and recent acquisitions, sort of a fireside chat where we come into your house, regale you with cheeky banter, and try to sell you something. No, wait. That’s your Multi-Level-Marketing obsessed relative. Huh. What IS this thing? A publisher once asked Jason that very question after he submitted a manuscript. He did not have an answer. What is this thing? It’s whatever weird thing it is, made with care, fashioned from the ether of our dreams, and set sequentially in type so SOMEONE might understand it. And then you buy a book. Or two. Or three. Or more perhaps? Why not? We do have diapers to buy now that a new bookseller lives in our house.
At any rate, we are glad you are here. Welcome. This is our little, lovely bookshop. It often changes. It often complains. It has many lovers. We try and have the best there is book-wise. We love books. We love readers. So please dig in. You’re with good company.
Much love,
Jason and Vanessa
