Peter: 
Peter just started here and has already gotten lost in the stairwell. Everyone calls him “new guy”, and he’s pretty sure someone stole his sandwich from the break room refrigerator. Still, he is ridiculously excited to be part of the BookPeople team. This place really is a national treasure, especially if you consider Texas its own country (looking at you, Rick Perry).
Cassie:
Cassie Swank is
happy & lucky to be an Inventory Manager at BookPeople. She loves her dog, her boyfriend, coffee, cardigans, New Jersey and hiking with her dog & boyfriend. She hates the sound of cats fighting, how much good haircuts cost and people who don’t use actual/full sentences. While Cassie does have a weird fascination with being an office secretary, her dream job would be Personal Book Shopper–someone who would choose all of your reading, tailored to your personal taste. However, since no such position exists (yet!), she would be happy ending up anywhere in the publishing world.
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Kester Smith stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Kester can see and hear. And so Kester Smith finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home. Kester is also a part-time bookseller and full-time pastor and has recently started referring to himself as a “maverick” simply because he can.
Brian:
Brian is a bookseller. He is over zealous with customers and bad at the registers. He likes working at BookPeople a lot. When he’s not selling books, he’s changing Oliver’s diapers, cleaning his gnome collection, or watching Gilmore Girls reruns. He’s almost certified to teach, attends a monthly book group, and is a dirty basketball player. He thinks that everyone should read Don Quixote, Revolutionary Road, and A Personal Matter, thinks science books would be great if they didn’t have math, reads cookbooks but doesn’t follow recipes, and buys more poetry books than he reads. His favorite books are usually sad.





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Is anyone on your staff interested in HAARP?
If so ask Dan Simmons a question when he comes to visit, please.
LOL XKCD on booksellers
http://xkcd.com/294/
You all look like a really friendly bunch – will certainly pop by if I ever find myself in Austin!
Well thanks! We hope you can stop by. We’re even friendlier in person.
How can I be on staff!?? =D Looks like a great place to work.
PS. Purely wishful thinking on account of I’m considering moving to Austin in the next 2 years. Currently working at a great independent bookstore in Moab, Utah! Will definitely be stopping by when I visit Austin in December. =D
What’s the name of your bookstore? This IS an awesome place to work! We’re fortunate to be in such an active, fun city. It’s a very supportive community that inspires us to be creative!
I work at Back of Beyond Books in Moab Utah! =) A fantastic source for regional titles and authors. Be sure to stop by if you’re in SE Utah and I will definitely be coming into Bookpeople this Winter. <3
Dear Peter, Cassie, Kester and Brian,
Thank you for acting as a steward of such fine literary taste. I have been reading your blog for several months now and have consistently been impressed by the intelligence and honesty of the posts.
I don’t usually do this, but I am writing to suggest a promising new novel that I recently got the opportunity to read: Edie Meidav’s LOLA, CALIFORNIA, which addresses in equal measure sexuality and the death penalty, cult followings and dystopia, the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s and child-parent relationships. As I admire your work so much, and as LOLA, CALIFORNIA explores topics that might be intriguing to you, I thought I would recommend it for potential review. It is by far the best contemporary novel I’ve read all year and I would be curious to hear your impressions of it.
Thank you for your efforts on behalf of the greater literary community, and for all your good work.
Sincerely,
Taylor H. Griffins
Greetings, all. I absolutely promise this will be my very last post on this, should it prove being an inconvenience to you all. I just thought I would most kindly ask if BP is able to provide publication assistance/advice, etc? My book is so ready for publication, with which I highly believe years and years of extremely low times (it is about a severe depression I went through) can finally be absolved and the sun to shine again. BP is by far my first choice for the closure, though again, if it is an inconvenience, I would be all means understand.
Thanks!!
Incidentally, I apologize if I had placed this above post ^ in the incorrect page. Not very internet savvy at all. On a more serious note, however, does BP have or be able to recommend someone whom for a fee would (or preferably no fee) be able to advise with the publication and marketing process of a new book? Thanks so much! Belated Happy Easter!