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  • drbilltellsexcitingstories May 11, 2012 @ 7:04 pm | delete
    A great resource. Thanks for sharing! ;-)
  • VillaDejaBlue Jan 6, 2012 @ 10:34 pm | delete
    Nice lens.
  • Dec 9, 2011 @ 4:42 pm | delete
    Great lens! Love book stores (my mom REALLY loves book stores!). I am actually an author - recently published my first book! If you get a chance, maybe you can look it up. It's called "Grace Through Every Trial." Again, great lens!
  • Tupelohoney Aug 28, 2011 @ 3:40 pm | delete
    Ooops. Forgot to mention I am Carolyn O'Brien, the founder and owner of BOOKS in Grenada, Mississippi -- now Yellow Bike Books!
  • upmtraveler Aug 29, 2011 @ 4:31 am | delete
    Thank you, Carolyn, for this splendid news! And I will greatly miss working with you. Now I have two new bookstore owners to meet---one in Bay St. Louis and one in Grenada. Exciting! Did Yellow Bike keep the same phone number?
  • Tupelohoney Aug 29, 2011 @ 8:42 am | delete
    Yes, Yellow Bike Books kept the number 662-226-6676. Debbie will be happy to hear from you. I told her about UPM and this site. I love my new home but I will always be a Mississippi gal. I will be keeping up with all the bookstores through this site. Thank you so much for your commitment to the passion for books!
  • Tupelohoney Aug 28, 2011 @ 3:31 pm | delete
    I am thrilled to announce that the legacy begun by BOOKS in Grenada, Mississippi will continue! Debbie Mitchell has bought this store and will take it to a new level. Her new concept is Yellow Bike Books. (I just LOVE this name!) We couldn't help saying, "a good book and a good bike never go out of style."

    When I decided to sell my business I got constant questions and comments by my shoppers about how the Kindle or Nuk (sp? who cares) is putting book stores out of business. NOT TRUE!! I was relocating to Fairhope, Alabama. Independent book stores are thriving. Like any retail business new times call for some tweaking and small book stores or "book-tiques" I like to call them, are doing a marvelous job.

    Support your independent book stores and if you are near Grenada, Mississippi you must check out Yellow Bike Books in the Village Creek Plaza on Sunset Drive.
  • AmateurAtHTML Jun 1, 2011 @ 4:30 pm | delete
    I love the anti-Kindle sign! If I can't hold the book in my hand and physically turn the pages it just doesn't have the impact on me.
  • upmtraveler Jun 8, 2011 @ 4:18 am | delete
    Thanks for dropping by, AAHTML. And yes, these are different times. I have some thoughts about changes in the industry at http://fictionandhistory.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/end-times-and-why-we-write-fiction-from-history/ and more come up at UPM's blog http://upmississippi.blogspot.com/2011/06/mississippi-and-louisiana-bookstores-in.html
  • COUNTRYLUTHIER Mar 2, 2011 @ 12:32 am | delete
    Awesome collection of stores. I cannot wait to return to my native land and visit each of these fine establishments over time. It'd be nice if one of my lenses led to book carried by one or more of them, but that would be dreaming. Great lens.
  • upmtraveler Mar 2, 2011 @ 4:19 am | delete
    Never stop dreaming, Countryluthier! And bless you for visiting. When you return, maybe take a minute and let us know which store you visited first!
  • Serenia Feb 23, 2011 @ 5:02 pm | delete
    I wish I lived in Mississippi. But I live in one of the biggest cities on the noth american continent and there are very few independent books shops selling NEW books in this city. There is one huge chain buying up as many shops as it can.Plenty of second hand shops. This was an absolutely wonderful lens and I loved each and every personal review. Thank you. Blessed by an angel.
  • upmtraveler Feb 23, 2011 @ 6:39 pm | delete
    Serenia, I'm so glad you enjoyed the lens. It is a privilege to serve these great book stores! And I'm delighted you visited.
  • MamaRuth Feb 7, 2011 @ 7:08 pm | delete
    I was looking for links related to Tupelo when I stumbled across your lens. As a bookstore lover, I was immediately intrigued. I have visited several of the stores you mention and appreciate the excellent job you did of conveying what is unique about each. I also enjoyed the excellent photographs. Way to go!
  • upmtraveler Feb 7, 2011 @ 7:52 pm | delete
    Thanks very much, MamaRuth! Tupelo is a great city. If you have a car nut in the family, don't skip the automotive museum right off Hwy 45 near downtown. Thanks for dropping by!
  • OhMe Nov 19, 2009 @ 2:36 pm | delete
    Wonderful lens. Great photos and information with lots of local flavor of Mississippi's Book Stores. Very well crafted. Blessed by a Squid Angel and I am lensrolling to my lens Reflections of A Mississippi Magnolia.
  • upmtraveler Nov 20, 2009 @ 6:05 am | delete
    Wow! Thanks, OhMe. I received this while, you guessed it, I was on the road! I'll check "Reflections" and thanks for the blessings!
  • Mickie_G Mar 16, 2009 @ 6:15 pm | delete
    Well, I guess this Alabamian will have many book stores to visit whenever I get around to crossing the border!
  • Almor Feb 25, 2009 @ 10:08 pm | delete
    I liked all the images of the different book stores. I enjoy going to book stores and browsing. Books are addictive to me. Great lens. You are welcome to go to my book store at PennGrove Books.
    It looks bland compared to some of these stores.
    Allan
  • Kate Betterton Feb 20, 2009 @ 11:01 am | delete
    Hi Steve,

    This is a fine collection of bookstores; thanks for gathering them on one page. I was in Mississip in November for a book tour for my novel WHERE THE LAKE BECOMES THE RIVER, about growing up in the Delta. I gave readings at Square Books, Turnrow, Lemuria, McCormicks Book Inn, and finally Davis-Kidd in Memphis, and signed stock at some of the other stores you have listed here. They are all wonderful and sumptuous, each in its own way, and I just wished I had more time to hang out in them and enjoy. Will use your listing to contact some of these other fine bookstores for a return visit / booktour in Spring or Summer, so thanks for this excellent resource. All the best, Kate
  • marydayle Feb 16, 2009 @ 11:00 am | delete
    Hello! I finally got my squido on. Don't know how much further than this I can go with it. My family is already about to destroy my computers over the time I spend on our official website mccormickbookinn.com . Great job, Steve! I especially appreciate the short articles you reprint. Often use them on our site.
  • a_willow Jan 1, 2009 @ 11:39 pm | delete
    This lens entered Fresh Squid Contest for January as one of featured lenses on Fresh Squid group in December! Come by and vote!
  • a_willow Dec 5, 2008 @ 11:47 am | delete
    Welcome to Fresh Squid group! Glad to have you aboard!
  • RickBasset Dec 2, 2008 @ 4:39 pm | delete
    I see you found your way!
    Welcome to "BOOKS ON SQUIDOO!". Thanks for your great additions to the group!

    Peace! :~)

    Rick
  • Philip L. Levin Nov 25, 2008 @ 8:01 am | delete
    Wonderful article. As President of the hundred member Gulf Coast Writers Association, we independent writers value the local bookstores willingness to promote our work. Thanks for this excellent resource!
  • JamaicaWriter Nov 24, 2008 @ 10:49 am | delete
    Hello Mississippi Bookstores and Mississippi Readers,
    Margaret Cezair-Thompson here, author of "The Pirate's Daughter" (Unbridled Books) now available in paperback (Random House). I toured Mississippi last year December and had the time of my life. Invite me anytime and I'll be sure to come back. Thanks again to Jamie and his wife at Turnrow Books for making those great Jamaican appetizers, Reed's Gum Tree Bookstore for your wonderful hospitality, Square Books and Lemuria for choosing my book for your first editions clubs. Thanks too to the extended Tyler family and my great friends Amanda and Kris for driving us around and making us feel so very welcome. I want you all to know, my first novel "The True History of Paradise" will be reprinted and available in 2009. Look for it. I'm here on Squidoo, so please send me a "Hello." ps I have some photos from my Mississippi book tour & will post them if I can figure out how.
  • upmtraveler Nov 19, 2008 @ 10:06 am | in reply to DavidMeermanScott | delete
    OYAAA! David Meerman Scott is the Grand Mac Daddy of new marketing, so THANK YOU, David, for visiting and leaving word. Here's a way to complete the great circle of karma, visitors. Call one of the bookstores above or drop in and purchase or order David's great book, New Rules of Marketing and PR, ISBN 9780470379288. You will be rewarded for the reading of it, and I mean more than karmically! OYAAA!
  • DavidMeermanScott Nov 19, 2008 @ 9:46 am | delete
    Cool. Thanks, Steve.. It's great that my ideas are helpful to you.

    FYI, my newest book "World Wide Rave: Creating triggers that get millions of people to spread your ideas and tell your stories" will be released in March, 2009. http://www.worldwiderave.com/
  • Ian McNulty Nov 18, 2008 @ 10:57 am | delete
    My first book came out this summer, which was thrilling until the dread reality set in that now I would have to sell it!
    Cold calling bookstores around the region to gauge interest in hosting a signing by me, an unknown, untested author, was daunting. . .that is until I started talking with these booksellers. The consideration, the interest and the honest assessment they afforded me was amazing.
    When it came time to hit the road and visit the stores that agreed to host my signings, the hospitality and welcome their staff and owners showed me was matched by the energy and intellect they obviously pour into their work. It really wasn't until I made my ad hoc tour of local bookstores that I realized how unique and valuable they are.
    So, from New Orleans and from the road, thanks for these stores and their people. And thanks Steve for getting them some deserved attention.
    Ian McNulty
    www.seasonofnight.com
  • Joe Nov 18, 2008 @ 10:29 am | delete
    Thanks Steve - that is in fact Michael Connelly reading at Lemuria. It was a great night, but the photo reminds me that I am losing all of my hair. I too am glad you squidoo.
  • Wallace Nov 18, 2008 @ 7:45 am | delete
    Steve, what a grand idea. Personally, I have been visiting several of these stores for years and have been an advocate for these booksellers. I know that many of the publisher in New York love and respect these booksellers. On more than one occassion, I have witnessed shoppers from outside of Mississippi wander into these stores for the first time and express their surprise at the selection and the wonderful service they recieved.
  • upmtraveler Nov 17, 2008 @ 3:43 pm | in reply to senecacindy | delete
    Thanks, senecacindy! When the booksellers are this good, you have to shout it to the Hills... and the Delta and the Coast, and so on!
  • senecacindy Nov 17, 2008 @ 3:12 pm | delete
    Great reading! I love Borders in Flowood. Thanks for starting this.
  • Kathy B. Nov 17, 2008 @ 9:50 am | delete
    Cool read, Steve! You've made me want to hit the road and visit all of these wonderful Mississippi bookstores. I look forward to seeing you add more pictures, event info, and stores to this tour guide. Our state truly has such a rich literary history that you shouldn't have much trouble finding more interesting info to add. Keep up the good work!

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