Bookstore Love: Liza Nash Taylor
Authors and their favorite bookstores
LIZA NASH TAYLOR
Once I had a firm release date for my hardcover, I had some postcards printed up with my contact info and the book cover on one side. I dropped by my local indie bookstore, New Dominion Bookshop, on the downtown mall. I re-introduced myself to the owner and manager. I was invited to give my very first in-person reading from my debut novel, and it was a lucky thing, because that was in February of 2020.
The shop displayed a big poster in their window, posted my novel on their social media, had a reading event, and shipped personalized books. They sold more copies than any other outlet (except the one-that-shall-not-be mentioned). I recently had a solo book talk there as well, and they have been great about promoting my second novel.
I also called my local Barnes & Noble and was fortunate to have the store manager, Melissa, answer. She was really helpful, placing my posters and books on a prominent end-cap, and displaying my postcards as well. B&N still isn’t doing in-store events, but that personal connection made a big difference. –Liza Nash Taylor, author of In All Good Faith and Etiquette for Runaways (both out now)
New Dominion Bookshop on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia:
Facebook: New Dominion Bookshop
Instagram: @new_dominion_bookshop
Barnes & Noble Charlottesville: Facebook : BN Charlottesville
Instagram: @bncharlottesville
Liza Nash Taylor is the author of ETIQUETTE FOR RUNAWAYS and IN ALL GOOD FAITH
Website- www.lizanashtaylor.com
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IN ALL GOOD FAITH
Award-winning author
“A well-researched and deftly written historical fiction novel…Highly recommended.”-Booklist (starred review)
In the summer of 1932, Americans are coming to realize that the financial crash of 1929 was only the beginning of hard times. May Marshall has returned from Paris to settle at her family home in rural Keswick, Virginia. She struggles to keep her family farm and market afloat through the economic downturn. May finds herself juggling her marriage with a tempting opportunity to revamp the family business to adapt to changing times.
In a cold-water West End Boston tenement the fractured Sykes family scrapes by on an itinerant mechanic’s wages and home sewing. Having recently lost her mother, sixteen-year-old Dorrit Sykes questions the religious doctrine she was raised in. Dorrit is reclusive, held back by the anxiety attacks that have plagued her since childhood. Attempting to understand what limits her, she seeks inspiration in Nancy Drew mysteries and finds solace at the Boston Public Library, writing fairy stories for children. The library holds answers to both Dorrit’s exploration of faith and her quest to understand and manage her anxiety.
When Dorrit accompanies her father to Washington, DC, in the summer of 1932 to camp out and march with twenty thousand veterans intending to petition President Hoover for early payment of war bonuses, she begins an odyssey that will both traumatize and strengthen her. Along the way she redefines her faith, learning both self-sufficiency and how to accept help.
Dorrit’s and May’s lives intersect, and their fates will intertwine in ways that neither could have imagined or expected. Set against a backdrop of true historical events, In All Good Faith tells a story of two women’s unlikely success during the Great Depression.
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