Getting closer

So, I think we’re really going to do this. No, we don’t have a location yet. No, we haven’t quit our jobs yet. But, we are writing a business plan, creating an LLC, and getting down to the nuts and bolts of it all.

About a year and a half ago, I bought the book, “Owning a Bookstore” by Paz & Associates. We joined American Booksellers Association. We’ve started putting it out into the universe what we want to do.

I think that’s the hardest part, sharing our idea with others. Of course, we can dream all we want in our own house, in our hot tub with a bottle of wine, but it feels a little more real when we start telling the universe.

We’ve visited other bookstores, outside of Tri-Cities, and know what we want. We know how big the building needs to be. We know what we’re going to need to carry as far as inventory goes. We have a good idea of the financial challenges we’ll face, and how much money we’re going to need to spend to get this going. We know how hard it will be to keep up with the yard work, and we know how sad our dog will be if we’re gone all the time. All of these things are being considered, and we think we can address all of them.

We also know we’re going to have to either go small and keep our jobs, or go big and go all in – we are pretty sure the only way to do this is to go as big as we can and quit our jobs. But, we’re working on that. Right now, I can’t quit my job because I have way too much going on to just walk away. However, I’m going to have to do it to make this work.

So, we have a two-year plan. I wish it was a two-week plan, but we have things to do to make this all make sense. And it’s going to. We’re going to have the best bookstore-coffee shop-wine bar we can imagine. And we hope it’s all the things you can imagine also. Please tell us everything you want it to be, so we can make it all of those things.