The best gift you can give is a book. There’s just no denying it. Books are: Practical; easy to carry, kill time, transport you to magical dimensions. Intimate; they reveal themselves to you and in turn reveal you to yourself. Sensual; smell good, feel good, look good. Ecclectic; sci-fi and lo-fi, comic and horny, autofiction…
Years and years (and years) ago, downtown Salt Lake City, I was trying my best to sell my first book. I’ve always had a great support system of friends and family, so the first sales come easy. Getting strangers to read my books though, that’s the nightmare. You mean, I did all this work, wrote…