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James Paterson Gives Back
as reported in Publishers Weekly, Judith Rosen, Feb. 19, 2014
Last September 2 in an interview in the Wall Street Journal followed by an appearance two weeks later on CBS This Morning, James Patterson announced his intention to give away $1 million to independent bookstores over the course of the next 12 months. Since then he's established a place on his Web site where booksellers can apply for grants and readers can nominate their favorite bookstores. He's also reached out to other authors, including Kate DiCamillo and R.L. Stine, to recommend indies, who may not have applied but could use the money. A little over five months later, Patterson has made good on his promise and mailed out the first installment of the funding this week, totaling more than $267,000, to 54 bookstores across the country plus the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association in support of California Bookstore Day. The grants range from $2,000 to $15,000. In most instances, bookstores got what they requested; a few got even more.
In a phone conversation with PW earlier this week, Patterson stressed that this is only the first round. "We'll follow it with as many as we can do," he said and encouraged more booksellers to apply. "It's as easy as putting on half a page of paper what you need to do. It's not like applying to Harvard. It's not difficult, and there's no catch. We want to be inundated." The only qualifications are that the store be a viable bookstore and that it have a children's section.
Bookstores Receiving Grants in the First Round:
The Children's Bookstore - Baltimore, Md.
A Whale of a Tale - Irvine, Calif.
Little Shop of Stories - Decatur, Ga.
Children's Book World - Los Angeles, Calif.
Hicklebee's - San Jose, Calif.
Malaprop's Bookstore and Café - Asheville, N.C.
Odyssey Book Shop - South Hadley, Mass.
Oblong Books - Millerton, N.Y.
Subterranean Books - St. Louis, Mo.
BookPeople - Austin, Texas
Books & Books - Coral Gables, Fla.
The Bookies - Denver, Colo.
Innisfree Bookshop - Lincoln, N.H.
Book Passage - Corte Madera, Calif.
Mysterious Galaxy - Redondo Beach/San Diego, Calif.
Andover Bookstore (Hugo Books) - Andover, Mass.
Bank Street Bookstore - New York, N.Y.
Bay Company Books Inc. (Bookshop Santa Cruz) - Santa Cruz, Calif.
Book Bin - Northbrook, Ill.
Book Culture -New York, N.Y.
Books & Greetings - Northvale, N.J.
Brazos Bookstore, Inc. - Houston, Texas
Brewster Book Store - Brewster, Mass.
Broadside Book Shop - Northampton, Mass.
Lake Forest BookStore - Lake Forest, Ill.
Nicola's Books - Ann Arbor, Mich.
Norwich Bookstore - Norwich, Vt.
Old Firehouse Books - Fort Collins, Colo.
Page & Palette - Fairhope, Ala.
Park Road Books - Charlotte, N.C.
Parnassus Books - Nashville, Tenn.
Percy's Burrow - Topsham, Maine
Phoenix Books - Essex Junction, Vt.
Porter Square Books - Cambridge, Mass.
Russo's Marketplace Books - Bakersfield, Calif.
The BookLoft - Great Barrington, Mass.
The Bookstore Plus - Lake Placid, N.Y.
Wellesley Books - Wellesley, Mass.
Wonderland Books - Rockford, Ill.
Gallery Bookshop & Bookwinkle Children - Mendocino, Calif.
Schuler Books and Music - Okemos, Mich.
Alamosa Books - Albuquerque, N.M.
Book Revue - Huntington, N.Y.
Bookworks - Albuquerque, N.M.
Doylestown Bookshop - Doylestown, Pa.
Browseabout Books - Rehoboth Beach, Del.
Reading Reptile - Kansas City, Mo. (Recommended by Brian Selznick)
Booktenders - Doylestown, Pa. (Recommended by Brian Selznick)
Children's Book World - Haverford, Pa. (Recommended by Brian Selznick)
The Yellow Brick Road - San Diego, Calif. (Recommended by Pam Munoz Ryan)
Eighth Day Books - Wichita, Kan. (Recommended by Clare Vanderpool)
Red Balloon - St. Paul, Minn. (Recommended by Kate DiCamillo)
Wild Rumpus - Minneapolis, Minn. (Recommended by Kate DiCamillo)
Anderson's - Naperville, Ill. (Recommended by R.L. Stine)
Books of Wonder - New York, N.Y. (Recommended by R.L. Stine)
California Bookstore Day (Help fund California Bookstore Day)
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