Goodbye Borders--Hello Powell's

Terri Reed here. I'm sure you know that Borders is closing its doors. There had been rumblings for a while that this would happen. I had hoped it wouldn't. For the past year or so I refused to buy books anywhere but at Borders in hopes that my measly sales would keep my favorite bookstore open. Alas, it hasn't worked. This past week, my children and I visited the store at least four times, each time coming away with books. I'm sure we'll visit again in the days ahead until they close their doors for good. For me its not so much about getting the 'going out of business'l deals but about hanging on. My local Borders store is five minutes from our house. On rainy days (which we get a lot o
f here in Oregon) we'd head to the bookstore. I don't believe bookstores in general will fall. At least I pray not

Here in Portland Oregon we have a book store called Powell's. It's four stories high and takes up a whole city block in downtown

Portland. Its a must see for visitors coming to the area as well a place that locals go to spend a few hours. There are new and used books, a rare book collection and a coffee shop attached. All genre of fiction and non-fiction can be found within the its walls. If they don't have the book your looking for stocked, they'll find it.

The various floors and rooms are color coded. They have a map to help navigate your way through the aisles, shelves and floors of the building. In the rainy days ahead, my family will be making the trek downtown more often now to visit Powell's.

My most recent release THE INNOCENT WITNESS is still on sale.

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Virtual Book Tour

Terri Reed here and I'm doing something I've never done before. A virtual book tour. I'll be visiting blogs this week and next week, promoting my newest Love Inspired Suspense release, The Innocent Witness. Stop by if you can and leave a comment. I'll be giving one random commenter a $25 gift card at the end of the two weeks.

7/5/2011: Book Junkie http://myfoolishwisdom.blogspot.com

7/6/2011: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love http://www.elainepcantrell.blogspot.com

7/7/2011: A Chick Who Reads http://achickwhoreads.blogspot.com

7/8/2011: Me, My Muse, and I http://jennifershirk.blogspot.com/
7/11/2011: Lisa Haselton Reviews and Interviews http://lisahaseltonsreviewsandinterviews.blogspot.com

7/12/2011: Marianne Arkins http://www.reading-writing.blogspot.com

7/13/2011: Black Velvet Seductions Reader's Blog http://www.blackvelvetseductions.com/readers_blog/

7/14/2011: Ryshia Kennie's - Once Upon A Time...http://ryshia.blogspot.com/
7/15/2011: Theresa Stillwagon http://tstillwagon.wordpress.com

7/18/2011: The Cottage Bookshelf http://thecottagebookshelf.blogspot.com

Birthdays-How do you feel about them?

Terri Reed here and yesterday was my birthday. I kept telling my kids, its just another day. And to me it is. I don't get sentimental or start reflecting on the past year (I save that for New Years).

But my kids, and my husband, wanted to mark the day as special. And truth be told, I mark their birthdays as special so I guess it stands to reason they'd want to 'celebrate' mine.

As a kid my birthday was stressful because it usually fell on the last day of school and I didn't like having attention drawn to me. I was painfully shy as a child. Any time the spotlight was on me(other than when I was on stage) I felt physically ill and couldn't get words out. You're probably wondering about my 'on stage comment'. Well, I loved to act. I still do. When you're acting, its not you they see, but a character. As I grew older I learned to be my own character. The person I wanted to be, but was too afraid to be and as time went by, I did become that person. I'm not shy now. Reserved, sometimes too quiet still, but over all, I'm not afraid to take the spotlight even when I'm not on stage.

So how do you feel about your birthday?

Coming in July, the first book of my new series