Press Release For Immediate Release, August 8, 2011 Contact: Diane Blanco diane@LipstickDigest.com 281-380-7939 Tour of England to Include the American Queen Since Prince William slipped...
How well do you know your Southern lit? We dare you to use a pen on these crossword puzzles, each inspired by one of the winning titles of the SIBA Book Award, honoring ten years of the very best in Southern literature as chosen by the people who would know...Southern Independent Booksellers! A great gift for your book club, for puzzle-lovers, and anyone who loves Southern literature.
December 21, 2011 (Columbia, SC)—Tis the season to be merry, but here in the land of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance it's also the season for a new harvest of Okra Picks. Southern Indie Booksellers have a selected the 2012 Spring Okra Picks—great southern books, fresh off the vine. It’s a bumper crop, a baker's dozen different titles representing a wide range of tastes, all the books selected have the following things in common: 1) They are Southern in nature. 2) They are 2012 spring releases (December 2011 through March 2012) and 3) There is a SIBA member Bookstore who is really excited about the book. So if you wanted to know what books you'd be reading over the next few months, check the list below! Southern booksellers love their Southern authors—we grow good books!
Spring 2012 Okra Picks
The Confession by Charles Todd
William Morrow, January 2012
The Evening Hour by Carter Sickels
Bloomsbury, January 2012
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
Grand Central Publishing, January 2012
The Healing by Jonathan Odell
Random House, February 2012
The Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polities
Simon and Schuster, February 2012
The Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
Candlewick, February 2012
The Search Committee by Tim Owens
Tyndale House, February 2012
What Happened to Hannah by Mary Kay McComas
William Morrow, February 2012
Glow by Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Viking, March 2012
The Hills Remember by James Still
University Press of Kentucky, March 2012
The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone
Hub City Press, March 2012
The Kentucky Derby by James C. Nicholson
University Press of Kentucky, March 2012
Render Unto the Valley by Rose Senehi
KIM Publishing/John Blair. March 2012
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Tag us when you post on Facebook or Twitter – At Twitter use @ReaderMtWriter and at Facebook, use @Authors Round the South; and we will see it, we will share it, we will spread the word and highlight you here in ongoing SIBA Inks. Let us know when you put the Holiday Catalog on your IndieCommerce site or when you promote the Okra Picks on your website, or when you post a photo of your Okra Picks card display for a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to #SIBA12. We can’t enter you if we don’t know you have done it. So – start spreading the news….
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December 21, 2011 (Columbia, SC)—Tis the season to be merry, but here in the land of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance it's also the season for a new harvest of Okra Picks. Southern Indie Booksellers have a selected the 2012 Spring Okra Picks—great southern books, fresh off the vine. It’s a bumper crop, a baker's dozen different titles representing a wide range of tastes, all the books selected have the following things in common: 1) They are Southern in nature. 2) They are 2012 spring releases (December 2011 through March 2012) and 3) There is a SIBA member Bookstore who is really excited about the book. So if you wanted to know what books you'd be reading over the next few months, check the list below! Southern booksellers love their Southern authors—we grow good books!
