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CONTACT:
Jill Hendrix
Fiction Addiction
864-675-0540
info@fiction-addiction.com
http://www.fiction-addiction.com
Book Signing for South Carolina Author Mindy Friddle and Fiction Addiction Owner Jill Hendrix
 Greenville, SC, October 24, 2012 - South Carolina author Mindy Friddle and Fiction Addiction owner Jill Hendrix will be signing copies of My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (Black Dog & Leventhal, hardcover, $23.95), a collection of essays about writers' favorite bookstores, including Mindy's essay about Fiction Addiction. The event will be held at Fiction Addiction's new location (1175 Woods Crossing Rd.) on Saturday, November 17th, from 2-4pm. We challenge customers to visit as many stores in the book as possible and get every article signed.
In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers, over eighty well-known authors -- from Richard Russo to Ann Patchett to Tom Robbins -- pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes.
In My Bookstore, our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have given them over the years. The relationship between a writer and his or her local store and staff can last for years or even decades. Often it's the author's local store that supported him during the early days of his career, that continues to introduce and hand-sell her work to new readers, and that serves as the anchor for the community in which he lives and works.
My Bookstore collects the essays, stories, odes, and words of gratitude and praise for stores across the country in 81 pieces written by our most beloved authors. It's a joyful, industry-wide celebration of our brick-and-mortar stores and a clarion call to readers everywhere at a time when the value and importance of these stores should be shouted from the rooftops.
Perfectly charming line drawings by Leif Parsons illustrate each storefront and other distinguishing features of the shops.
 Mindy Friddle's first novel, The Garden Angel, a SIBA bestseller, was selected for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers program in 2004, and was a National Public Radio Morning Edition summer reading pick. Her second novel, Secret Keepers, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. Mindy was awarded a 2008-2009 Individual Artist Fellowship in Prose from the South Carolina Arts Commission and has twice won the South Carolina Fiction Prize. She was a name a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in Sewanee, Tennessee. She graduated from Furman University and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson. She lives in Greenville where she directs the Writing Room, a community-based nonprofit program she founded in 2006 to bring writers to Greenville for paid seminars and readings.
 Fiction Addiction is owned and managed by Jill Hendrix. Ms. Hendrix grew up in Greenville and was 1991 valedictorian of Southside High School and one of its first International Baccalaureate diploma recipients. She went on to graduate magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in History.
She worked briefly in the editorial department of St. Martin's Press and then for a series of internet start-ups in New York City, including Juno Online Services. The start-up bug proved contagious, and she decided in 2001 to return home and open her own business, Fiction Addiction, which she has managed ever since. In 2009, she founded the Book Your Lunch author event series.
If you cannot make the signing, you can reserve a personalized copy of My Bookstore by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at info@fiction-addiction.com.
ABOUT FICTION ADDICTION - Fiction Addiction is a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore established in 2001. The store carries a mixture of new and used fiction and nonfiction, including children's books, as well as gift items. We have recently moved to a new, bigger location at 1175 Woods Crossing Rd.
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