Please Support Small Presses and Independent Bookshops

I was sad to learn that  a writer I know, a huge talent who was looking to bring out a second book, may not have that chance because the small publisher that brought out the first one has lost a major grant and their very survival is now threatened.  This is a terrible time for most people; we are all in our different ways feeling the pinch of the times.  I am using this post to ask you to please keep buying books, buy them as gifts, buy them for yourself, buy them from small presses and independent bookstores.  If we do not support these small outfits, they may well go under altogether. 

Here is a book you should definitely buy if you haven't already, it is by Vanessa Gebbie, a Welsh writer who writes with incredible control and mastery of the short story form.  It is published by a small press called Salt Publishing, true salt of the earth people who are genuinely devoted to the short story.  Please buy this book, support Salt, and stand up for the small guys.