That Bookstore in Blytheville turned 32 on Saturday, or at least that’s when we all converged on Mary Gay Shipley and her wonderful ladies at the store.
Susan Gregg Gilmore and I enjoyed all the festivities and hustle and bustle of a bursting-to-the-seams party — everyone came out to indulge in a fabulous cake (baked by the brand new Cake Shop that opened in the Historic Downtown District of Blytheville this week), ice cream, books, books and more books! A special treat was a reading by Myra McLarey & Linda Weeks, co-authors under the pseudonym M.L. Rose, of their newly released soft cover The Road To Eden’s Ridge. No doubt that Tennessee was well-represented in Blytheville that day!
Since I was chatting and browsing the shelves toward the front of the store, I completely missed taking photos of the huge cake toward the back that was decorated as a stack of books. But, below are some photos I did snap.
L-R: Myra McLarey (Nashville), Susan Gregg Gilmore (Nashville), and Linda Weeks (Ripley, TN) after the reading
L-R:Mary Gay Shipley (sitting on one of her famous author chairs signed by John Grisham and others), Susan Gregg Gilmore and Cathy Mosley
While I was in the store I noticed that far from sitting on their laurels, Mary Gay and her team have a FULL schedule of events for fall with posters everywhere of famous authors and personalities who will be popping in over the next two months! Check it out.
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