It's oh so quiettttt
It's Coachella time again! Time for a bazillion music lovers to land at PSP and promptly shuttle off to Indio, leaving we poor Palm Springs shopkeepers contemplating a two weeks early end to our busy season (three weeks if you count Stagecoach).
Still, the sudden sharp dip in customers has given me time to work on my next book, and to contemplate what the current market chaos could mean for us in the summer months ahead.
If you're curious, I wrote a blog post about it here.
I also wrote a separate post about how folks (like me!) are boycotting big American tech giants as a way of sticking it to Elon, Zuck and their pals.
(Speaking of Zuck, we continue to sell bucketloads of Careless People, aka the book Meta doesn't want you to read.)
Whatever the next few months hold for us, I at least take solace in the fact that our community - full-times and snowbirds alike - consists of so many avid readers, and so many supporters of local businesses like ours. If we make it through the Summer unscathed it'll be thanks to you all.
(A quick reminder to returning snowbirds – you can continue to support us by ordering on bestbookstore.com. We ship anywhere in the world, tariffs be damned!)
And speaking of Snowbirds, we just got yet another delivery of Christina Clancy's absolutely perfect Palm Springs novel of the same name. Buy it before we sell out yet again!
For those of you staying in town, note that from May 1st we'll be returning to our Summer hours - 10am-6pm, Monday to Sunday.
More soon!
Paul
