Month: January 2019

On Sunday Ethan brought some video equipment to Marissa’s, and after a couple of run throughs, we made our video!!! Marissa has one more funny scene to tape this weekend then Ethan will work his editing magic and Voila we will have our video! Cant wait to see the finished product, and to show all of you! Now I am off to get some samples of our rewards to entice people to help! Have a great day

I am deep in my kickstarter research and planning. We have decided on our rewards and levels!! Now comes the outreach, we are spreading the news far and wide trying to reach as many people as we can. So if you are reading this, will you help? First by donating, second by sharing the info about who we are and why we would love to have our book store. Please contact Marissa or me if you have any questions or helpful suggestions. Thanks and have a great day!

So I had an interesting conversation with someone the other day. This person could not understand why some early learning classes used repetitious songs over and over to teach certain rote skills like counting and the alphabet. This person also felt like it was a waste of time. I could not really explain in a short time the purpose of those activities, but it made me think about tropes in romance and how you could have the same trope in two completely different stories and it’s almost unrecognizable.

There are so many different counting songs by different groups of people, even with just counting to ten. And there are so many wonderful iterations of enemies to lovers (for example) that are all amazingly different. Repetition doesn’t necessarily mean bad and there is a huge comfort in familiarity and routine. Even as an adult, when my schedule is changed spur of the moment, I am thrown off and can get a little cranky. I’m sure all of can relate one way or another. We should embrace the repetition and trope and celebrate that comfort in familiarity, rather than throw it away just for being ‘the same’.

Til next time!

Marissa

Busy week! ever closer to making the bookstore a reality :)! We are making contact with Romance Authors who are independently published, to carry them in our store. If you have any suggestions for us that would be great! Send us who you want us to carry, and we will do our best to make it work.

These last couple of days we have been working hard on our inventory lists, seeing locations for comparisons of rents and square footage, and emailing independent romance writers so we can carry them too! And I am not going to lie, I had a mini freak out yesterday, and a pit in my stomach thinking about making this all work. Fortunately I have the best partner in Marissa, she talked me through it:). So now Loves Sweet Arrow has a bank account, and we are one step closer to our brick and mortar store! Woohoo

Marissa here!

Happy New Year everyone! I’m not much of a writer, but here goes!

I’m not one for New Year’s parties or resolutions. Right now I am curled up on my couch right by one of my two sleeping dogs and we are ‘partying hard’ with some Netflix. It definitely beats the year I was invited to a get together and almost ditched downtown in an area I was unfamiliar in with no way to get home. And I am way warmer under a blanket crocheting another blanket.

I feel like the best way to describe my passion for books and reading is to inform you that I was punished at least once in grade school with a time out in my bedroom with strict instructions not to read. I got caught a half hour later reading a magazine and insisting that it wasn’t a book and they had said no reading books! Also, I currently have four bookcases in my condo and I have plans to pick up another one. My dining room is actually converted into a library. It makes sense that I would want to open a bookstore! And romances have been my passion for years. I had all of the Avon Teen Romances when I was in high school, all 12 of them. Of course, that doesn’t include all of my mom’s romances I would also sneak read!

And the puppy (she’s 2, but is still firmly a puppy) is now stretching like she wants to get pet, so I had better finish this and go obey the queen!

Til next time!