{"id":300,"date":"2008-06-13T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/06\/13\/help-borderlands-books-in-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:47:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:47:58","slug":"help-borderlands-books-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/06\/13\/help-borderlands-books-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Borderlands Books in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

They\u2019re still going strong and still one of the finest independent bookstores in the US. Right now, they\u2019re trying to build a cafe next door to their store and in an age of chain bookstores, e-books, and Amazon Kindles, I believe indy stores like Borderlands<\/a> need all the support we can give them, or we\u2019re in danger of losing their warmth and personal service for good. On a cheerier note, I can only imagine how fabulous a cafe would be next to Borderlands. They need a city-approved conditional-use permit to do so, and Cheryl Morgan is helping with an online petition<\/a> you can sign that would help Borderlands\u2019 cause. Doesn\u2019t matter if you live outside of San Francisco, or even outside the USA \u2014 your name still counts. Take a second, and help out, OK? And a special shoutout to any authors who have done signings at the store and who have been supported by Borderlands (ahem\u2026John Scalzi<\/a>, Cory Doctorow<\/a>, Jeff Ford<\/a>, etc\u2026..) \u2014 please sign the petition, and then you might even blog about it and spread the word. Besides signing the petition, I\u2019m also nominating Alan Beatts, Jude Feldman, and Borderlands Books for the World Fantasy Award \/ Special Award (Professional). They\u2019re an integral part of the fantasy lit community and they\u2019ve been a steady bar of retail excellence for years. I encourage other World Fantasy voters to consider them when they fill out their ballots this month.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They\u2019re still going strong and still one of the finest independent bookstores in the US. Right now, they\u2019re trying to build a cafe next door to their store and in an age of chain bookstores, e-books, and Amazon Kindles, I believe indy stores like Borderlands need all the support we can give them, or we\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-4Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}