Booksellers at the Copperfield's Books location in Petaluma, Calif., have chosen to unionize in a 13-2 vote, KRCB News reported.

In March, staff at the Petaluma store announced their intent to unionize and join the Industrial Workers of the World. With the employees' request for voluntary recognition denied, the next step became a vote overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. As of last week, the election had not yet been certified by federal regulators, though Copperfield's bookseller Robert Glover said the union contract negotiations began on May 31.

"I think everybody was very excited and elated by the outcome," Glover added. "It's a huge milestone, and I think everyone has acknowledged that. But it's also a reminder that there's still a lot of work to be done."

The bookstore employees chose to unionize over issues like wages, health care, sick leave, and harassment training. Bookseller Alfonso Gaitan told KRCB that his biggest concern was a lack of training and support for handling hostile and discriminatory customers.

Last month, Copperfield's management "alleged staff disseminated misinformation online," KRCB noted, and the unionization effort was called a "point of sadness" for the company. Aubury Doherty, Copperfield's COO, said: "We're hoping the negotiation is going to be in good faith. We really hope this works out in the favor of everyone. Senior management really believes that this wasn't the right move for our company. I really believe this isn't the right move for our company."

Founded in 1981, Copperfield's has nine stores in Sonoma, Napa and Marin Counties, just north of San Francisco. Unions at Moe's Books, Berkeley, Calif., and Page 1 Books in Albuquerque, N.Mex., are also affiliated with the IWW.

Love's Sweet Arrow, Tinley Park, Ill., has moved down the street. The romance-only bookstore, owned by mother/daughter team Roseann and Marissa Backlin, held a soft opening this past weekend at its new location, 17200 Oak Park Ave., Suite 103. Marissa Backlin has been featuring video updates on Facebook chronicling the move. 

Marissa and Roseann Backlin at the new store.

In March, Love's Sweet Arrow launched a GoFundMe campaign to help defray moving costs. "We have been in business for almost four years and we're moving to a new location in June!" Marissa Backlin wrote on the fundraising page. "Of course, signing a new lease while we are still in our current location has taken a hit on our interim finances. We are looking at a quite tight two to three months and we know things are tough for everyone. We also know that once we move, things will greatly improve, we just need to get there!... We are so grateful for all of your support in the past and now! We would not be here today without everyone's support in the past four years! Thank you again!"

Sunrise Books in High Point, N.C., will close permanently next month, WFDD reported.

Store owner Angel Schroeder told WFDD that she struggled to bring in customers despite being located on Main Street in High Point's Uptowne neighborhood. She noted that many High Point residents go to Greensboro or Winston-Salem to shop instead of staying local.

Schroeder opened Sunrise Books on Independent Bookstore Day 2016. The general-interest store sells new books for all ages, and hosts book club meetings, storytime sessions and other events. The bookstore was also home to a cat named Poe who died last fall.

Schroeder hopes High Point won't be without a general-interest bookstore for too long: "It's also really important for community. We're a 'third place,' as people say, and there's just one fewer after July."

Seven Seas Entertainment is launching Seven Seas Siren, an imprint dedicated to audiobooks. Seven Seas Entertainment specializes in bringing Japanese manga and light novels to English-language audiences, publishing books from around the globe, and producing original comics, graphic novels, and youth literature.

The first three titles from Seven Seas Siren, appearing this month, are: Classroom of the Elite by Syougo Kinugasa and Tomoseshunsaku, narrated by Eddy Lee; Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! by Ryuto and Tetsuhiro Nabeshima, narrated by Fred Berman; and The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent by Yuka Tachibana and Yasuyuki Syuri, narrated by Veronica Taylor.

"With Seven Seas Siren, we're thrilled to make the jump from the written word to audiobooks," publisher Jason DeAngelis said. "Audiobooks is a growing category and an exciting new way to experience our vast catalog of light novels and other content."

Customers and staff at Book Passage, Corte Madera, Calif., wore orange on June 2, for Wear Orange Weekend/National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

Pocket Books in Lancaster, Pa., recently held the first Matrimony Monday, a special event in which the bookstore can host, officiate and photograph up to six weddings in a single day, Lancaster Online reported.

Pocket Books owners Jessica Callahan, Julie Ross, and Austin Carter envision Matrimony Monday as something the bookstore would host a couple of times per year, with the store offering several one-hour time slots for weddings. The service costs $450 and includes the venue, photography, an officiant, and other materials.

Mary Auker-Endres, a friend of the owners and officiant with an organization called Journeys of the Heart, officiates the weddings. She has officiated more than two dozen weddings and was the one who approached the store owners about hosting weddings there. The inspiration for the event comes from Wedding Wednesdays, in which couples are wed in front of the LOVE statue in Center City, Philadelphia, Lancaster Online noted.

Auker-Endres remarked that these weddings tend to be popular with couples in their late 20s and early 30s, who "just want something kind of fun and nontraditional, usually secular. I think people really enjoy them. They're fun and short, and then they can go and do the things that they really want to do, like party."

The event has been in the works since the beginning of the year. The inaugural Matrimony Monday saw local couple Ian Darrenkamp and Sarah Kitzmann tie the knot. The next Matrimony Monday is scheduled for October 9.

"It's pretty chilly out there for June, but the fireplace is going here at TidePool and it's kinda cozy. Stop by if you're around!" TidePool Bookshop, Worcester, Mass., posted on Facebook Sunday. 

The Isolated Séance by Jeri Westerson (Severn House).

Today:
Good Morning America: Elio Morillo, author of The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir (HarperOne, $28.99, 9780063214316).

Sherri Shepherd Show: Andrew McCarthy, author of Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain (Grand Central, $28, 9781538709207). He will also appear tomorrow on the Today Show.

Tomorrow:
Good Morning America: Elliot Page, author of Pageboy: A Memoir (Flatiron, $29.99, 9781250878359).

CBS Mornings: William Barr, author of One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General (Morrow Paperbacks, $24.99, 9780063158610).

Showtime has released a teaser trailer for Fellow Travelers, an eight-episode limited series based on Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel. Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey lead a cast that includes Jelani Alladin (The Walking Dead: World Beyond), Allison Williams (Get Out) and Noah J. Ricketts (American Gods). Co-produced by Fremantle and Showtime, the series will premiere on Paramount+ with Showtime this fall.

Created by Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia), Fellow Travelers is exec produced by Bomer and Nyswaner with Robbie Rogers (All American, My Policeman). Dee Johnson. Daniel Minahan (Halston, American Crime Story: Versace) will executive produce and direct the first two episodes.

The winners of the IndieReader Discovery Awards, sponsored by IndieReader, have been announced. Winners in the many categories can be seen here. The winners of the fiction and nonfiction categories are:

Fiction:
For the Minds and Wills of Men by Jeff Lanier
Still, the Sky by Tom Pearson
Last Liar Standing by Danielle M. Wong

Nonfiction:
The C.R. Patterson and Sons Company by Christopher Nelson
What They Couldn't Take by Adira James
Me Power by LaNysha T. Adams

Spencer Quinn (Of Mutts and Men; Paw and Order; A Fistful of Collars) is the author of the fun and wildly successful Chet and Bernie mysteries, a long-running series that features a talking dog and his crime-solving, private-eye human partner. In Mrs. Plansky's Revenge, Quinn launches a dynamic series featuring an aging heroine who becomes embroiled in an adventurous mystery.

Recent widow Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a 71-year-old tennis player, is discerning and spry. She and her husband, Norm, were a sophisticated couple who made millions with their unlikely invention of a "toaster knife," a knife that actually toasts bread while you slice it. In order to retire, Loretta and Norm, parents of two adult children, sold the business with high hopes of living a leisurely Florida lifestyle of ease and comfort. However, things didn't quite go according to plan. After Norm died, Mrs. Plansky, hip replaced, decided to downsize. She moved from their large home into a new residence, an "itty-bitty" condo on Little Pine Lake, situated only a few miles from her pesky, temperamental, 98-year-old father, who resides in an upscale assisted living community. Mrs. Plansky's children and grandchildren don't live nearby, but they climb out of the woodwork, gracious and attentive as can be when they need something--mainly money.

When tired and spent Mrs. Plansky receives a frantic, distressing phone call from someone whom she believes is her grandson--he needs $10,000 to post bail for a DUI arrest--she gives him what he asks for without question. Mrs. Plansky later learns, however, that the call was a fraud perpetrated by overseas criminals who proceeded to wipe out her entire nest egg. When the police and FBI conclude they don't have enough evidence to solve the crime, Mrs. Plansky becomes intent on taking charge and seeking justice.

Quinn's briskly plotted nail-biter takes unexpected twists and turns that are nicely balanced by Mrs. Plansky's memories of her husband. He serves as a silent, tender touchstone, empowering her amidst a complicated quest for retribution. Fearless Mrs. Plansky barrels past her comfort zone and the limitations of her years, setting off to Romania, where she plunges headlong into danger. Her age never becomes a detriment. Rather, she works it to her advantage, employing great ingenuity to solve a crime that elevates her into an immensely likable, wholly appealing heroine. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines

Shelf Talker: Mrs. Plansky's Revenge is a fresh, dynamic cozy in which a strong, likable 71-year-old Florida widow is scammed of her life savings and sets off on a quest for justice.