Cold calling your favorite bookstore for books recs

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Quill & Quest Bookstore

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The video taps into the relatable experience of discovering new books and authors through trusted sources like local bookstores. The creator's genuine curiosity and the bookstore's enthusiastic recommendations create an engaging and authentic interaction.

Summary

The creator cold calls a bookstore, Quill & Quest, to ask for book recommendations. They discuss the bookstore's recent sales, favorite books of the year, recently discovered authors, and books that got them into reading.

Structure

1Introduction and cold call setup
2Bookstore identification and initial question
3Discussion of 'Never Whistle at Night'
4Discussion of 'Green City Wars'
5Discussion of 'Dungeon Crawler Carl'

Original caption

Cold calling Quill & Quest Bookstore to see what we should be reading! Big thank you to @Quill & Quest Bookstore in Farmington, New Mexico for a great conversation. These book recommendations sounded incredible 🔥 Never Whistle at Night anthology series (various authors) Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Redwall series by Brian Jacques Thanks to @Jordan Killinen for the great recommendation! Let me know your favorite bookstore and they might just get a call from me! Follow for more! #BookTok #bookrecommendation #bookstore

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Quill & Quest Bookstore: ACTS - it is a bookstore that sells books and provides recommendations. Removing it would change what happens in the video. Jordan Killinen: APPEARS - mentioned as a recommender of the bookstore. Removing him would not change what happens in the video. Never Whistle at Night: ACTS - it is a book that is recommended. Removing it would change what happens in the video. Green City Wars: ACTS - it is a book that is recommended. Removing it would change what happens in the video. Adrian Tchaikovsky: APPEARS - author of Green City Wars. Removing him would not change what happens in the video. Dungeon Crawler Carl: ACTS - it is a book that is recommended. Removing it would change what happens in the video. Matt Dinniman: APPEARS - author of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Removing him would not change what happens in the video. Redwall series: ACTS - it is a book series that got the creator into reading. Removing it would change what happens in the video. Brian Jacques: APPEARS - author of Redwall series. Removing him would not change what happens in the video.

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Let me know your favorite bookstore and they might just get a call!

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Cold calling your favorite bookstore for books recs Quill & Quest Bookstore Farmington, NM Most recent book sold? Favorite book of the year? Author discovered recently? Book that got you into reading?

Transcript

Cold calling your favorite bookstore to see what we should be reading today. I'll be cold calling a bookstore at a Farmington, New Mexico called Quill and Quest. And actually Jordan Killiman said I should give them a call so let's give them a call right now. Quill and Quest Bookstore. How can I help you? Hey there. Um, my name is Braden. Um, I make videos about books and I was just curious if you had a couple minutes to answer a couple questions for me. Um, yeah, sure. What's like the last book you sold selling a lot of the, uh, the Never Whistle at Night books? They're indigenous, um, anthologies that are like horror kind of dark fiction or things like that. Kind of dark fiction or things like that. And so yeah, and because of the area we're located in, that resonates really well with people. That is so cool. I've never heard of it. What's a maybe your favorite book of the year so far? Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Okay. It's kind of like a biopunk science fiction. It's like a human society is kind of like become Utopia but it's built on top of genetically engineered animals that have been engineered to be smart enough to run all of the dirty, grimy undercity parts of society. And so it follows, it follows like a, a private detective raccoon who gets wrapped up in a lot of crazy stuff in this undercity. That sounds so cool. An author you discovered recently? Matt Dinniman, the Dungeon Crawler Carl books. Yep, once I started reading his books, like wow, where this guy been? Yeah. It's like the coolest feeling. That happened to me with Ann Patchett recently. I yes. Do you like sniffing the books while you're in the store? Occasionally, yeah, yeah. The new book smell is awesome. And can you think of maybe the book that initially got you into reading as a kid? I got really into the Redwall books by, yep, Brian Jacques been great. I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, thank you.