Robert Gray has joined Shelf Awareness to write regularly about
notable developments on the indie front, and his first series of
columns, beginning with this issue, will be about bookstore Web sites.
Gray is the owner of Fresh Eyes Now,
a company that works with publishers, agents and authors to get good
books into the hands of gifted booksellers. Prior to this incarnation,
he was a bookseller and buyer for the Northshire Bookstore, Manchester Center,
Vt., for 13 years. As a writer, Bob's work has appeared in a variety of
publications, including Publishers Weekly, Bookselling This Week, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Words Without Borders, Eclectica Magazine and Cimarron Review.
