The Creative Bookworm

Owning a bookstore was never part of Cindia Correia’s life plan. A mortgage broker by trade, she changed career paths before the ink was dry on her final exams after walking into The Creative Bookworm. Back then, the store was about to close, and Cindia decided she could save it. “I came into this bookstore; I remember thinking that I would love to own a bookstore,” Cindia recalls. “I have a passion for reading; I love the smell of bookstores, especially vintage and used bookstores. When I got home, I turned to my husband and asked him what he thought of me owning a bookstore. Initially, I thought I’d just get it back on its feet and sell it, but my passion has just grown and grown.”

Cindia set about updating the shop, organizing its shelves and turning it into the bookstore she had always imagined. The initial rearranging and updating took about eight months. That was followed by another eight months getting the entire inventory into a directory. “After I got the store, I spent a lot of time getting it ready,” Cindia says. “I stocked it with books I wanted, cleaned it all up, and rearranged it so it was better organized.”