Tales of Brave Bookstore
Mo DaviauNotes from a bookseller/writer. Creativity and commerce, publishing and human nature, recommendations and regrets, trouble and desire.
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Expectations
The year I turned five, my mother hired a clown for my birthday party.
She thought this was a great idea. I don’t know if I had asked her for a clown, but there was a clown.
The minute I laid eyes on the clown, I hated her.
Why?
Her wig...
Ideas for Potential Bestsellers
Don’t write for the market, they say!
I see the market at the bookstore all the time. The market is just patterns. Repetitions. Data points. Winner takes all. Theo of Golden.
I did improv comedy for many years, and even though I quit impr...
Selling My Own Book at the Bookstore
My second novel, Epic and Lovely, occupies the toniest location in the store. If Annie Bloom’s were a city, the Staff Favorites table would be the wealthy neighborhood. EAL is the queen of this fancy piece of real estate, perched next to he...
In Service to Service
The conceit of Service (published by Semiotext(e)) is that there is something loserish about being a bookseller in your late forties, and therefore the protagonist has a right to be angry about his lot in life. As a bookseller in my late fo...
The Brave Bookstore Holiday Gift Guide 2025!
The holidays have arrived. It’s barely Thanksgiving and we’ve already burned through half a roll of Christmas wrapping paper. There’s been more crowds. We put our events on pause this time of year, so I haven’t given anyone a rousing introd...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Bookseller in Portland (not at the big place). Novelist and essayist. New novel, EPIC AND LOVELY, now available from WVU Press.
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