Author and journalist Karen Spears Zacharias has written a moving post about Wanda Jewell, Executive Director of the Southeastern Independent Bookseller Alliance (SIBA):
If God were a writer and he was married to one woman, I’m pretty sure that woman would be Wanda Jewell. If God had his wits about him, that is, which always begs the question anytime you’re dealing with creators, whether writers or God, I imagine.
It would be the perfect union. He could stay home, write, and avoid people till his big ole heart was content. Trust Wanda to do all the footwork. That’s what untold numbers of us writers do already. We hunker down and create alternative worlds. Worlds in which everything goes the way we plan it, or at least thunk it, trusting all the while that when we are done that Wanda will help us get our books into the hands of booksellers and readers the nation over.