During the workshop retreat Owning a Bookstore: The Business Essentials, facilitated by the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates, co-sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, and held earlier this month, 12 book industry trainers shared best practices of bookstore retail management with prospective and existing booksellers from Maine to Washington. Pictured: (back row, left to right) Jay Jackson, Margaret Lane, Mary Patterson, Kim Elting, Ralph Peeples, Helen LaCroix; (middle row) Susan Spencer, Christine Janikowski, Cassie Clemans, Lynn Quintrell, Amanda Mosser, Becky Jackson, Tina Fricano; (front row) Pam Pescosolido, Beth Stroh, Debbie Cohen, Julia Spencer, Megan Bell, Josh Niesse; and in front, trainers Donna Paz Kaufman and Mark Kaufman.
The next Paz & Associates workshop is scheduled for August 23-26, in Franklin, Mass. An Unlikely Story, the striking new bookstore owned by bestselling author Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid series), will serve as the host bookstore. For details, click here.