Good news from The Written Nerd, who recently received a PowerUp grant/award for her new business proposal to open a bookstore somewhere in Brooklyn. Looks like she’s thinking about Fort. Green.

Presently, she works in a SoHo bookstore. Someday she hopes to own a bookstore of her own (and it sounds like that’s close to becoming a reality). She loves reading, talking about books, and being where literature hits the streets.

“I think independent bookstores can be a source for culture, community, and social justice,” she writes on her blog.

She lives in I lives in Park Slope. You can reach me here: booknerdnyc at earthlink dot net. Here’s a post from May 24th. I haven’t checked in for a while.

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, and perhaps my last chance to blog for a little while, so allow me to lay some updates and anticipations on you.

Brooklyn Bookstore
I received my PowerUp! check for $15,000 in the mail sometime last week, so yesterday I visited my new friend Juan at a great local/national bank about 20 minutes away. As he and I had discussed previously, I opened a small business money market account with the prize money, which will also be the depository for other funds raised. And he gave me the paperwork to fill out for a great big (to me) small business loan application. I’m hoping to get that in by mid-June, at the same time as I’m looking for retail spaces.

In the meantime, I’ve made some other great business friends: the Retail Committee of the fabulous Fort Greene Association. It turns out that the beautiful, developing neighborhood of Fort Greene wants a bookstore almost as bad as I want to create one, so I’ll be working with them on finding a space, building community support, and doing some more fundraising. I’m so grateful to these folks for what they’ve done already, and you can be sure there will be much more to report as we lay our plans.