{"id":5028,"date":"2026-05-03T23:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:33:29","slug":"celebrating-independent-bookstore-day-at-flutterbuy-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/?p=5028","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Independent Bookstore Day at Flutterbuy Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Independent Bookstore Day<\/strong> is one of Debra&#8217;s favorite days of the year. This year, Debra celebrated with a signing at <strong>Flutterbuy Books and More<\/strong> in <strong>Cape Coral, Florida<\/strong>, signing copies of T<strong>o Catch an Elf: Pennsylvania Fighter Pilot. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260425_124026-1-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260425_124026-1-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260425_124026-1-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260425_124026-1-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260425_124026-1-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1800&#038;ssl=1 1800w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260425_124026-1-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1920&#038;ssl=1 1920w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"2560\" data-id=\"5029\" data-link=\"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/?attachment_id=5029\" data-url=\"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260425_124026-1-768x1024.jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260425_124026-1-768x1024.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/683485094_122249758352099313_1117517280710954846_n.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=450&#038;ssl=1 450w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"600\" data-id=\"5020\" data-link=\"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/?attachment_id=5020\" data-url=\"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/683485094_122249758352099313_1117517280710954846_n.jpg\" data-width=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/683485094_122249758352099313_1117517280710954846_n.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/682062676_122249758358099313_1054251330178123072_n-1.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=450&#038;ssl=1 450w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"600\" data-id=\"5022\" data-link=\"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/?attachment_id=5022\" data-url=\"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/682062676_122249758358099313_1054251330178123072_n-1.jpg\" data-width=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/682062676_122249758358099313_1054251330178123072_n-1.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/682147012_122249758364099313_251613126966846012_n.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=450&#038;ssl=1 450w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"600\" data-id=\"5023\" data-link=\"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/?attachment_id=5023\" data-url=\"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/682147012_122249758364099313_251613126966846012_n.jpg\" data-width=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debraparmley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/682147012_122249758364099313_251613126966846012_n.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Debra also enjoyed spending time with Finn (Finnegan), Flutterbuy Books and More&#8217;s golden retriever, who reminded her of Trixie, Debra&#8217;s golden retriever of 14 years, who sat by her side as she wrote her first novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course, Debra also had to shop a bit too, and came home with a bag full of books to read, because who can resist buying books in a bookstore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Bookstore Day is one of Debra&#8217;s favorite days of the year. 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Debra also enjoyed spending time with Finn (Finnegan), Flutterbuy Books and More&#8217;s golden retriever, who reminded her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[240,120,284,264],"tags":[123,274,4,250],"class_list":["post-5028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-life","category-book-signing","category-independent-bookstore-day","category-romantic-suspense","tag-author-debra-parmley","tag-book-signing","tag-debra-parmley","tag-romantic-suspense"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p55G5w-1j6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5034,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debraparmley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}