Goals and dreams for Long Overdue heading into 2026. Goals to go from 30 to 50 books and some day become as big as Barnes & Noble

Imagine you've walked into the Long Overdue bookstore, hot chocolate in hand. Heavy on the marshmallows. You made a list, checked it twice. Family members. Friends. A couple of co-workers. You're wandering the aisles with one mission in mind: Gift some great books. And not just any books. Not the "New York Times Best Books of 2025." Oh no. Anyone could do that. You're the discoverer. The taste setter. You find authors before they're household names. When it's your turn at boo

Speaking of stepping on the scale, three weeks ago, I packed two suitcases full of books for the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas. Brought down over 100 lbs of Long Overdue books, representing 24 of our 25 titles (we're currently sold out of Oh Mother How Funny).

The october newsletter... published in November... all about how when we're running behind, we don't really need more time, we need more help.

It's a strange feeling, feeling like a regular at a book festival. Three years ago, our Printers Row Lit Fest table looked like this:...

One week to go! This map below might be a little hard to read, but look for the Long Overdue tables: #171 and #172. Same general location...

"He's been checked out for a long time." 11 New Books? This time last year, we were at 17 published books. And that took us five years to...

These Are the Good Old Days: From Texas Book Festival to Long Overdue Book Back in November, I met Russ, an Austin, Texas resident, at...

Every morning, Monday through Friday, I hop on the city bus and take my son to preschool. Last week, I dropped him off, and when I was...

I used to line up against Draymond Green. This was many technical fouls ago. Before he went to Michigan State and the Golden State...

Save the Date We'll have two exhibitor tables again. Table assignments and maps to come in a future newsletter. Our goal is to have 10...

The pursuit of writing as a lifetime achievement, a retirement hobby, a new passion, or a return to the craft you loved

Road to a 16 Seed: Win or Lose... a Tooth Keeping with our March tradition, here's a new chapter from my book-in-progress called "Road to...

By: Chris O'Brien By far, the northernmost school in the Midwest Conference is BCU, Borderline Canada University. BCU is located in...

Note - the illustration above is from Kate Buss's Long Overdue book titled The Book of Monsters from A to Z." The monster pictured here...

The wonderful illustration above is from Kate Buss in her Long Overdue book " Little Green Frond ." Highly recommend this book any time...

Wow! Talk about another exciting year for the Borchers siblings and their book, Safe Landing. Here are a few highlights. 1,000th copy...

How old is Long Overdue? It can be measured in Santa Claus cartoons. The first one was December 2019. So, here we are, five years, 20+...

On September 14th, I received this LinkedIn message from Mark Maxwell. I have an ex-colleague that may be a candidate for your Long...

Last month, I sent the October newsletter on November 1st and put "September" in the subject line. Today, I'm sending November's five...