The daily onslaught of customers and Sisyphean tasks that make up every hour spent working as a bookseller would be enough to sustain a thousand and one blogs for ever more.
However, I'd like to let my little group of readers know that I will not be posting regularly anymore.
I don't want to call an end to I WORK IN A SHOP. I am sure that the stupidity, hilarity, wit and kindness of the great Glasgow public will move me to write here again.
But, in the past few months, I have been working earnestly at writing fiction. And, given full-time work, a squillion chores and shoogly health, I don't always have a lot of time left to do the things I love. I've realised that I need to blog less to leave myself space for fiction.
I am aiming, within a year or two, to maintain a new blog or site for my stories, so watch this space for the link.
Meanwhile, it is still possible to contact me on the email address in my profile. I'm also on Facebook.
6 comments:
Sorry to hear you won't be posting any more. I've really enjoyed reading your blog & will miss it. Here's wishing you lots of luck with your creative writing though. All the best!
Looking forward to reading your stories if they're half as good a read as the blog they'll be a considerable improvement on 99.9% of your stock.
Cxx
just out of interest, and you probably have been pointed in this direction allready, but the graphic novel box office poison has a lot of stuff about working in a bookshop in it and is also bloody fantastic. I highly recommend it.
And I'm sorry you are going just as i found you.
Hey Dan, thank you for the recommendation and your kind comments!
I hadn't heard of box office poison, I really appreciate you telling me about it because I love discovering shop work in fiction. I've had a look at the first few pages on Amazon and I am intrigued!
I will be sure to give you a shout when I'm maintaining a site regularly in the future. Looking forward to browsing over your way at http://allthatcomeswithit.com/.
Eva, as a writer myself I sympathise - it's a tough gig! Good luck.
Hello, I've just discovered your blog. I colleague told me about it in nervous whispers during a till shift at the bookshop I work in. I've really enjoyed reading. There aren't as many people as I would have expected writing on the absurdity and painful insight one experience's in this line of work. If you're interested, I felt the need to deconstruct the assumption held by my manager that customer service is grounded in good manners. I wrote a piece for my own blog, with some verbatim exchanges from the frontline. You might find them familiar,
Best wishes
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