Meet the staff!

Peter:

Peter is the Internet Marketer . He 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).

Alison:

Alison is the Marketing Director for BookPeople, and she loves her job.  The best part is getting to meet amazing authors, like Pres. Jimmy Carter, Pres. Bill Clinton, David Sedaris, Julie Andrews, Alton Brown and tons more.  Alison loves Mr. Darcy, and also has Harry Potter lightning bolts tattooed on her feet. Also, she has a sweet hubby and super cute son named Lucas. It is widely agreed-upon that Lucas is the most adorable boy ever.  Books she is a disciple for and encourages everyone to read are:  A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Block,  The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly, City of Thieves by David Benioff, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

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.

Kester:

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.