October newsletter is live! Most importantly: October is the new December. Plan and order presents now (today!) Books are going out of stock all the time, and we want to make sure you get the book you desire (for yourself or others, we don't judge). 1/12
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Gonna thread real quick for our local followers about what we're doing now through December, but @ravenbookstore is an essential follow for all the latest on how to support bookstores and local businesses (as well as how to crush Amazon). LOVE YINZ! 2/12 https://twitter.com/ravenbookstore/status/1311693997291835392

Why are books going out of stock so often?

paper shortages
U.S. printing capacity shortage
delayed spring releases pushed to fall
longer processing times at fulfillment facilities

And of course: shipping is often delayed. #SaveTheUSPS 3/12

Help us help you do your shopping by ordering and pre-ordering your gifts starting today/right now/at the end of this sentence!

We don't want you to have to wait until 2021 to gift a long-awaited, much-anticipated book. 4/12 http://whitewhalebookstore.com 

How can you start shopping now?

Stock up in store! Swing by Tuesday-Sunday 12-5. Look at that cute lil store, don't you want to come say hey and hang out? 5/12

What’s better than one book? How about one book… every month? Check out our subscription boxes. We have 6- and 12-month options for kids and adults, AND STAY TUNED: we're adding even more. 6/12 https://whitewhalebookstore.com/subscription-boxes

Take a look at what's available (in books or merch) on our website! Try the "Just Added" or "New Releases" tabs for some fresh recs from us—we update the web store roughly once a week. Shipping and curbside pickup available. 7/12 https://whitewhalebookstore.com/readytoship 

Request a book/many books through the form on our site! Try to fill it out as completely as you can—this helps us best and most expediently fulfill your request. 8/12 https://whitewhalebookstore.com/request-a-book 

Know a writer? Talk to us about gifting a spot in one of our writing workshops! Email Anna at [email protected] for more details, and check out upcoming classes here. 9/12 https://whitewhalebookstore.com/workshops 

Totally lost or need recs? Give us a call during our business hours: 412-224-2847. (If you get a message saying that the number is no longer in service, please try back in a few minutes — it just means that we're on the line with another customer.) 10/12

Plus: tons of opportunities to support us and local writers through our virtual events! Check out online classes with @Tereneh152XX and @jroycepoet, events with Yaa Gyasi, @MohnSlate, and @maggiesmithpoet, and lectures with @PghArtsLectures. 11/12 https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events 

Thanks for bearing with us as we adapt to bookselling during a global pandemic—your investment in White Whale as a community bookstore and (virtual, for now) gathering place means so much to all of us. We love and miss yinz dearly. 12/12