Small Pivots, Big Warmth: Meeting Readers in a Shifting Indie Market
· 10 min read
The folding table at the community hall wobbled under stacks of paperbacks, a bowl of bookmarks catching the morning light. Coffee steamed in a paper cup, sweet and a little too hot, while a child traced a finger over a foiled title like it was a treasure map. I moved one book—just one—from the middle to the edge, and a passerby stopped as if invited. A tiny shift, a warmer moment, a new reader.