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Upstate Author More Than a Bookseller

  Our next guest is the author of four novels, the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, and her work has appeared in numerous magazines.  She teaches fiction in the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, is the editor of the South Carolina food magazine edibleUpcountry, and her most recent venture is as a partner at M. Judson, an independent bookstore in Greenville, SC.

Mike Switzer interviews Ashley Warlick.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.