Bundy also recoils from charge-card trade
Too much paper shuffling. She prefers, in some cases, the "trust" system. Bundy seems astounded at the elaborate security devices and procedures used at some shops, although burglars once ripped off Singing Wind to the tune of $3000. Visit to kitchenequipments.jimdo.com for more news.
The shop's personal touch extends to services, such as gift-wrapping. Bundy designs and makes her own cards. Home delivery of books, via the Jeep Cherokee, is done irregularly, usually when Bundy is in the vicinity on other business.
Promotion stems from book shows, programs and ranch parties. Libraries, schools, even water meetings, provide program opportunities. Sometimes two grandchildren, ages eight and 11, accompany Bundy on the road and manage the business when Bundy is called away. "The older one, man, she can beat you out of anything," Bandy says.
Store advertising runs mainly in the Tucson Weekly
Promotes parties. Bundy hosts at least three or four a year, "sometimes a whole bunch." Up to 400 people attend during the day-long festivities, Bundy says, with food, drink and Western music as fare.
"We try to get the authors and the people and the publishers together," she says. "That's what it's all about, trying to have them make contact. And there's a lot of deals that are cut, in the sense of publishers finding a new writer."
Party faces change; theme does not. It's always related to the Southwest. Regional writers such as Byrd Baylor and Erma Fisk have been the focus of such gatherings. Story-teller Joe Hayes has been featured in programs, as have such regional topics as horseshoeing.
This past spring Singing Wind made its first thrust at publishing with a series of regional essays by Bundy's college mentor and close friend, Lawrence Clark Powell. Southwest: Three Dimensions has a printing of about 1500.
Publishing for now, is on the back burner in Bundy's scheme of things
"It may be my first and last, you never know," she says. "I would rather make sure the book shop has a tremendous selection than go out on too many limbs. I plan to stay heavily into natural history and fiction that deals with the Southwest. I think you've got to focus."
Her favorites? Eva Wilbur-Cruce's A Beuatiful, Cruel Country, Wendell Berry's Traveling at Home and Gretel Erhlich's Heart Mountain.
Bundy in direct about her appraisals of books. If a book is bad, she says, she tells customers. She recalls that her criticism of an Arizona history got back to the author, who requested examples of errors she found. A careful critique followed, and she sent it off: "He has since cleaned up his act."
Such confidence, matched by perseverance, proves a perfect formula for a shop in the backcountry. "If you have a sese of what you want to do," she says, "that's the main thing. If you have a goal, and work at it, and you have what the public wants, they'll come to you."
One early morning not long age, Bundy was in the back of the house when she heard noises in the front, by the bookstore. She reached the front door in time to see a car driving off, down the dirt road. Bundy, not wishing to miss a sales, ran after it. Finally, the car was haled to a stop. The passengers were glad to see her. Religious people, they were distributing literature of their own. And seeking donations.
Too much paper shuffling. She prefers, in some cases, the "trust" system. Bundy seems astounded at the elaborate security devices and procedures used at some shops, although burglars once ripped off Singing Wind to the tune of $3000. Visit to kitchenequipments.jimdo.com for more news.
The shop's personal touch extends to services, such as gift-wrapping. Bundy designs and makes her own cards. Home delivery of books, via the Jeep Cherokee, is done irregularly, usually when Bundy is in the vicinity on other business.
Promotion stems from book shows, programs and ranch parties. Libraries, schools, even water meetings, provide program opportunities. Sometimes two grandchildren, ages eight and 11, accompany Bundy on the road and manage the business when Bundy is called away. "The older one, man, she can beat you out of anything," Bandy says.
Store advertising runs mainly in the Tucson Weekly
Promotes parties. Bundy hosts at least three or four a year, "sometimes a whole bunch." Up to 400 people attend during the day-long festivities, Bundy says, with food, drink and Western music as fare.
"We try to get the authors and the people and the publishers together," she says. "That's what it's all about, trying to have them make contact. And there's a lot of deals that are cut, in the sense of publishers finding a new writer."
Party faces change; theme does not. It's always related to the Southwest. Regional writers such as Byrd Baylor and Erma Fisk have been the focus of such gatherings. Story-teller Joe Hayes has been featured in programs, as have such regional topics as horseshoeing.
This past spring Singing Wind made its first thrust at publishing with a series of regional essays by Bundy's college mentor and close friend, Lawrence Clark Powell. Southwest: Three Dimensions has a printing of about 1500.
Publishing for now, is on the back burner in Bundy's scheme of things
"It may be my first and last, you never know," she says. "I would rather make sure the book shop has a tremendous selection than go out on too many limbs. I plan to stay heavily into natural history and fiction that deals with the Southwest. I think you've got to focus."
Her favorites? Eva Wilbur-Cruce's A Beuatiful, Cruel Country, Wendell Berry's Traveling at Home and Gretel Erhlich's Heart Mountain.
Bundy in direct about her appraisals of books. If a book is bad, she says, she tells customers. She recalls that her criticism of an Arizona history got back to the author, who requested examples of errors she found. A careful critique followed, and she sent it off: "He has since cleaned up his act."
Such confidence, matched by perseverance, proves a perfect formula for a shop in the backcountry. "If you have a sese of what you want to do," she says, "that's the main thing. If you have a goal, and work at it, and you have what the public wants, they'll come to you."
One early morning not long age, Bundy was in the back of the house when she heard noises in the front, by the bookstore. She reached the front door in time to see a car driving off, down the dirt road. Bundy, not wishing to miss a sales, ran after it. Finally, the car was haled to a stop. The passengers were glad to see her. Religious people, they were distributing literature of their own. And seeking donations.