{"id":6901,"date":"2009-03-16T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2009-03-16T12:38:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T18:38:06","slug":"march-is-indie-bookstore-love-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/march-is-indie-bookstore-love-month\/","title":{"rendered":"March is Indie Bookstore Love Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professional author and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joe_hill\" class=\"external external_icon\">charming Twitterer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/joehillfiction.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Joe Hill<\/a>, has something to say about b<a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23loveyourindie\" class=\"external external_icon\">uying books from indie stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8230;introducing March-is-love-your-Indie-Bookstore: The Contest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Play<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/joehillfiction.com\/?p=714\" class=\"external external_icon\">Go to a local independent bookstore. Buy something. Save the receipt. Send a photo or scan of the receipt to this address<\/a>: indie@joehillfiction.com. Make sure either your e-mail or your receipt includes the name and phone number of the bookstore in question.<\/p>\n<p>Prize: At the end of March I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have a random drawing, and send the winner a signed slipcased copy of GUNPOWDER.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=19506\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/1lockandkeyheadgames_cv01.jpg\" alt=\"LOCK &amp; KEYE\" title=\"LOCK &amp; KEYE\" width=\"150\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6903\" \/><\/a>More rules and complete information <a href=\"http:\/\/joehillfiction.com\/?p=714\" class=\"external external_icon\">live on his site<\/a>.  He&#8217;s giving away prizes, of course. Signed copies of his works and appreciation for helping out your local little guy.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, Joe Hill is the son of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Hill_(writer)\" class=\"external external_icon\">Stephen King<\/a>. We&#8217;ve heard good things about his comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=19506\" class=\"external external_icon\">LOCK &#038; KEYE<\/a>.  it&#8217;s a book that&#8217;s on our future pull list.  <\/p>\n<p>Almost forgot to mention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" class=\"external external_icon\">Indie Bound has ways to search<\/a> out local booksellers. Why hello there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/stores\/booklegger\" class=\"external external_icon\">Booklegger <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/stores\/five-point-books\" class=\"external external_icon\">5 Point Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joe_hill\" class=\"external external_icon\">@joehill<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional author and charming Twitterer, Joe Hill, has something to say about buying books from indie stores. &#8230;introducing March-is-love-your-Indie-Bookstore: The Contest. How to Play: Go to a local independent bookstore. Buy something. Save the receipt. Send a photo or scan of the receipt to this address: indie@joehillfiction.com. Make sure either your e-mail or your receipt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49],"tags":[965,230,964,212,962,963,961,700,475],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","tag-add-new-tag","tag-author","tag-contest","tag-huntsville","tag-joe-hill","tag-march-is-love-your-indie-bookstore-month","tag-time-sensitive","tag-treasure-hunts","tag-tweet-find"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}