The Book Shoppe, Medina, N.Y., has new owners. In a recent Facebook post, Gloria and Frederick Fierch, who had purchased the bookshop in 2019, wrote: "We are excited to announce that the Book Shoppe will be undergoing some changes this weekend! We are pleased to announce that Phil and Julie Berry will be taking over as new owners with a new name: The Author's Note! Please welcome them to Main St. Medina! Thank you for all of the support our customers have given us during our time here. You all know the value in shopping small and local and we are grateful for that and for the support, especially during a pandemic and shut down! We are happy to say that we are going back into retirement... for now!"
On the bookshop's website, bestselling author and Medina native Julie Berry confirmed the ownership change, and said Author's Note will be "a book-lover's bookstore that will connect Western New York readers in new ways with their favorite authors.... Exciting things are in store at Author's Note. We've got big plans for this little shop. We're thrilled to be your bookstore!"
Berry is the author of Lovely War; Wishes and Wellingtons; Happy Right Now; the 2017 Printz Honor and Los Angeles Times Book Prize shortlisted novel The Passion of Dolssa; the Carnegie and Edgar shortlisted All the Truth That's in Me; and the Odyssey Honor title The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, among others.