Hurray for Bookstores!

Bookstores are so pretty.  Here is a bookstore I saw in Barcelona.  I mean man.

Some of my all-time favorites are The Harvard Book Store in Cambridge:

Marfa Book Company in Marfa, TX:

Elliot Bay Books in Seattle:

(their Instagram is like 50% adorable dogs)

and Three Lives Books in NYC:

LA is a great bookstore town, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.  There is Book Soup, right on the Sunset Strip:

And Skylight:

The Last Bookstore is almost like a book theme park:

Iliad Books in North Hollywood:

And the granddaddy in Pasadena, Vroman’s:

I will be coming to some bookstores to promote my new book, The Wonder Trail: True Stories From Los Angeles To The End Of The World, in June of this year.  My book cover straight up looks good:

and will brighten any bookstore.  Can’t take the credit for that, it goes to kickass cover designer Anna Laytham, who says:

I’ve done a fair bit of traveling myself in the last couple years, and as a designer find all the vibrant color and beautifully imperfect handtype to be one of my favorite parts of being in an unfamiliar place. I was happy to express some of that feeling on your cover!

And hell yeah people judge books by their cover! I certainly do. Thats why I design them 🙂

Especially looking forward to a trip down to Laguna Beach Books:

If you work in a bookstore and want me to come visit, get at me!

helphely@gmail.com.  If at all possible I would love to do it.

And thank you for your great service to our nation!

(photo credits: Helytimes / Harvard Book Store / Marfa Book Co. Facebook / Elliot Bay insta / Google Street View / Google Street View / Skylight Twitter / Helytimes / Iliad Twitter / Helytimes / Rachel Orminston Caffoe for Vroman’s found here)