SIBA Trade Show 2009 - Greenville, SC, Carolina First Center - September 25 - 27
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance invites exhibiting publishers to submit authors in consideration for special events to be held on Friday through Sunday, September 25-27, 2009. These programs will be held at the SIBA Trade Show in Greenville, SC. SIBA tries to balance speakers by having authors of contemporary fiction, nonfiction, biographic and childrens content as well as celebrity authors. Suggested authors will also be considered as speakers for panels and readings and other events. An administrative fee of $100 will be charged for each confirmed author at the SIBA Trade Show. Sponsoring entities will not be charged the administrative fee. Please submit your suggestions via email or fax (803-7790113) or mail to: SIBA, 3806 Yale Ave., Columbia, SC 29205 before May 1, 2009. If you have any questions call or email Wanda Jewell at the SIBA office at 800-331-9617;
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SIBA and Paz & Associates Join to Offer New Print Newsletter Benefit for Bookstore Members
As a retired textile executive, the first "book people" I met when I bought a book store were Donna Paz and Mark Kaufman. How LUCKY we were ... their newsletter [The Readers Edge] is our best tool to reach out to our customers. It's the BEST money we spend to advertise, and a GREAT plus is that it gives me a regular excuse to consult with Donna and Mark. If we have a problem, they are our FIRST call.
-Tom Warner, Litchfield Books
SIBA is pleased to announce that we're offering a new benefit to Bookstore Members - a bi-monthly print newsletter, which you can personalize with your store name, logo, and other store information.
Each is a smartly-designed 4-page newsletter with approximately 20 titles. Each issue is emailed to you as a PDF, which you can forward to your local printer, so you can Buy Local. Cost is $248 per issue. The beauty of it is that each issue comes with an average of $750 of co-op (the Feb/Mar issue has $1,000!) available for reimbursement. That's enough in most cases to pay for the newsletter, the printing, and distribution, too. It's a great way to broaden the exposure of your logo and name among your customers and community at virtually no cost and very little effort.
Click these links to see what it takes to Get Started, see a Sample of the Newsletter, and to watch a video that explains the many benefits of email marketing. We urge you to take advantage of this benefit and are grateful to Paz & Associates for making it available.
For questions about the Newsletter, or to get started, contact Paz & Associates at 800-260-8605. Paz & Associates was formed in 1992 to build insights and business skills for independent booksellers.
Columbia, SC--The 2010 SIBA Book Award "Long List" has just been released, containing a complete collection of all the eligible books nominated by Southern Independent Booksellers as favorites for 2009. The list features 101 different books in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, cooking, and children's/young adult that are either set in the South or by a southern author (or both!) and were published in 2009.
The long list will be sent as a ballot to SIBA member stores, who will then vote to choose finalists in each of the four categories. A jury of SIBA booksellers will then choose winners in each category. Finalists are announced in April. Winners are announced July.
The 2010 SIBA Book Award Long List
children's & young adult
A Certain Strain of Peculiar
Gigi Amateau
Candlewick
Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen
Viking
Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl
Little Brown
Black Angels
Linda Beatrice Brown
Putnam
Change Up: Baseball Poems
Gene Fehler
Clarion
Eli the Good
Silas House
Candlewick
Gone From These Woods
Donna Bailey Seagraves
Delacorte Press
Me with You
Kristy Dempsey
Philomel
Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys and Gulls
Lucy Nolan
Sylvan Dell
Peter and the Sword of Mercy
Dave Barry
Hyperion
Road to Tater Hill
Edith Hemingway
Delacorte Press
Ruined A Ghost Story
Paula Morris
Scholastic
Scat
Carl Hiaasen
Alfred A. Knopf
Shackles
Marjory Wentworth & Leslie Pratt Thomas
Legacy Publications
Shiver
Maggie Stiefvater
Scholastic
Soap Soap Soap
Elizabeth O. Dulemba
Raven Tree
Swamp Song
Helen Ketteman
Marshall Cavendish
The Secret World of Walter Anderson
Hester Bass
Candlewick
When the Whistle Blows
Fran Slayton
Penguin
cooking
Chefs of the Triangle
Ann Prospero
John F. Blair
Hot and Hot Fish Club Cookbook
Chris Hastings
Running Press
In the Cracker Kitchen
Janis Owens
Scribner
Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book
John Perrine
University of KY
My New Orleans: The Cookbook
John Besh
Andrews McMeel
Southern Farmer's Market Cookbook
Holly Herrick
Gibbs Smith
Sweet Carolina: Favorite Desserts and Candies from te Old North State
Foy Allen Edelman
UNC Press
The Blackberry Farm Cookbook
Sam Beall
Clarkson Potter
The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern
Ted & Matt Lee
Clarkson Potter
fiction
A Good Man
Larry Baker
Ice Cube Books
A Quiet Belief in Angels
R J Ellory
Overlook
A Separate Country
Robert Hicks
Grand Central Publishing
A Twisted Ladder
Rhodi Hawk
Forge
Accidental Bestseller
Wendy Wax
Berkley
Ancestors & Others
Fred Chapell
St. Martins
At Home on Ladybug Farm
Donna Ball
Berkley
Crowing Glory Calla Lily Ponder
Rebecca Wells
Harpercollins
Dead Weight
Batt Humphreys
Joggling Board Press
Devil's Punchbowl
Greg Iles
Scribner
Driftwood Summer
Patti Callahan Henry
New America Library
Education of Chauncey Doolittle
James Everett Kibler
Pelican
Fixer Upper
Mary Kay Andrews
Harpercollins
Girl on Legare Street
Karen White
NAL
Going Away Shoes
Jill McCorkle
Algonquin
Hell
Robert Olen Butler
Grove Press
If By Whiskey
Quentin Whitwell
Coldwater
Judas Kiss
JT Ellison
Mira
Last Light Over Carolina
Mary alice monroe
Pocket Books
Long Story Short
Marianne Gingher
UNC Press
Nuclear Jellyfish
Tim Dorsey
Morrow
One Second After
William Fortschen
Macmillan/Forge
Rebel Yell
Alice Randall
Bloomsbury Publishing
Reefer Moon
Roger Pinckney
Joggling Board Press
Saints in Limbo
River Jordan
Waterbrook
Sand Sharks
Margaret Maron
Grand Central Publishing
Saving Cicadas
Nicole Seitz
Thomas Nelson
Secret Keepers
Mindy Friddle
St. Martins
Secrets She Left Behind
Diane Chamberlain
Mira
Silent Killer
Beverly Barton
Kensington/Zebra
Sound of Building Coffins
Louis Maistros
Toby Press
South of Broad
Pat Conroy
Nan A Talese
Southern Cross
Skip Horack
Mariner Books
Swallow Savannah
Ken Burger
Evening Post Publishing Company
Tender Graces
Kathryn Magendie
Belle Bridge Books
The Better Part of Darkness
Kelly Gay
Pocket Books
The Campfire Boys
Philip Lee Williams
Mercer University Press
The Confederate General Rides North
Amanda Gable
Scribner
The Girl on Legare Street
Karen White
New America Library
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Putnam
The Last Child
John Hart
Minotaur
The Ocean Inside
Janna McMahan
Kensington/Zebra
Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts
NM Kelby
Borealis Books
Widow and the Tree
Sonny Brewer
Macadam/Cage
Wyatt's Revenge
H. Terrell Griffin
Oceanview Publishing
nonfiction
A Good Mule is Hard to Find
Kirk Neely
Hub City Writers' Project
Book of Dads
Ben George
Harpercollins
Caveat Onus
Dave Brinks
Black Widow Press
Coral Castle
Rust McClure
Ternary Publisers
Don't Say I Didn't Warn You: Kids' Carbs, and the Coming Hormonal Apocalypse
Anita Renfro
Hyperion
Education of Mr. Mayfield
David Magee
John F. Blair
Give My Poor Heart Ease
William Ferris
UNC Press
Hard Work
Roy Williams
Algonquin
Hauntings in My Head
Angela Burke
CreateSpace
Hidden History of Greenville
Alexia Helsley
History Press
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Neil White
Morrow
It Gives a Lovely Light a Biography of Chelsea Groves
Victor Whelan
Eloquent Books
Just Passin Thru
Winton Porter
Menasha Ridge
Legends of the Natchez City Cemetery, the Most Interesting Cemetery in the South
Don Estes
Don Estes
Long Snapper
Jeffrey Marx
Harpercollins
Mayhem in Mayberry
Brian Lee Knapp
Cosmic Pigbite Press
Most They Ever Had
Rick Bragg
macadam/cage
On Rocky Top
Clay Travis
It Books
Outcasts United
Warren St. John
Spiegel & Grau
Rising Sea
Orrin Pilkey
Shearwater Books
Soul Tree
Laura Hope-Gill
Grateful Steps
Splendid Isolation
Pamela Bauer Mueller
Piata Publishing
Swarm Tree: Of Honeybees, Honeymoons and the Tree of Life
Doug Elliot
History Press
Through the Glorieta Pass
Lavonne Adams
Pearl Editions
Undaunted Heart
Suzy Barile
Eno Publishers
Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices
George Stewart
USC Press
You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Morning
Wanda Jewell, Reeden Wright and Lady Banks spent some time at the South Carolina Book Festival February 27 & 28th, talking to people about the importance of independent bookstores, the difficulties of creating crossword puzzles, and why the South is full of (literary) STARS!
Each is a smartly-designed 4-page newsletter with approximately 20 titles. Each issue is emailed to you as a PDF, which you can forward to your local printer, so you can Buy Local. Cost is $248 per issue. The beauty of it is that each issue comes with an average of $750 of co-op (the Feb/Mar issue has $1,000!) available for reimbursement. That's enough in most cases to pay for the newsletter, the printing, and distribution, too. It's a great way to broaden the exposure of your logo and name among your customers and community at virtually no cost and very little effort.