Review by WPSU Radio BookMark program host Cheryl Bazzoui:
https://radio.wpsu.org/arts-and-entertainment/2018-12-27/bookmark-roads-by-marina-antropow-cramer
Marina Antropow Cramer’s Road
from Bookseller to Novelist
One might think that for Cramer, because of her bookselling background, publishing a book would be more familiar than for most new authors: for 17 years, she owned Cup & Chaucer Bookstore in Montclair, N.J., then for 12 years after that, she was a bookseller at Watchung Booksellers, also in Montclair.
“Being on the other side of the counter, so to speak, even though I know what happens over there, has been a revelation and an education,” she says. One example is the letter she is sending to bookstores and libraries seeking to arrange appearances, something she has put great care into. “I’ve read a lot of these letters and know how easily they get overlooked,” she remembers. And the editing process was “a little painful,” she says. “But a better book came out of it.”
Her bookselling experience was important for the writing of Roads, Cramer says…
–Shelf Awareness-March 23, 2017
A Conversation with Mary Kravenas
About life as a bookseller turned novelist and about writing family lore into fiction.
