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Yes, My Darling Daughter (Picador)
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March 2010
#SIBA10 is the Twitter hashtag for the SIBA Trade Show in Daytona!
2010 SIBA Trade Show registration now open! Invite your favorite vendors to the show. Email them the paragraph below, and let them know how much you’d like to see them in Daytona in September. Together, we’ll grow a great show!
It’s your lucky day! March is home to St. Patrick’s Day, and the luck of the Irish is with you if you can reserve your booth and register for the SIBA Trade Show online and this month only. SIBA is launching www.tradeshow.sibaweb.com where all things trade show (including an online, virtual component) will be gathered. Exhibitors who register & purchase booth(s) online only and in the month of March will receive a free ad at our new site April 1 through the end of 2010 valued at $500. Specs will be sent once you complete your registration & booth reservations. Learn more at http://www.tradeshow.sibaweb.com
More Luck coming your way. Attend the Spring Book Show in Atlanta – March 26 – 28.
Arrive early by Thursday evening and join us for the Southern Wing & A Prayer Tour with River Jordan and Shellie Tomlinson. Friday morning, hear from presenter Stephanie Frost on Marketing Tips Unmasked for the Small Business followed by SIBA’s new Consultation Station – this is one half hour one-on-ones with SIBA Board Members and Staff on any topic you desire. We can help find the answer if we don’t have the answer. Hit the exhibits on Friday afternoon and learn more on Saturday morning from the American Booksellers Association at the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. And then more bargain shopping in the Spring Book Show exhibits. Learn more at www.springbookshow.com
2010 SIBA Book Award Long Ballot has been mailed…here are the contenders:
SIBA will host the second annual Writers Block Auction in Daytona, Florida, and these are the writers we hope to have in attendance. We have had to collapse the Children & Young Adult titles into a single category for this year and the nominated poetry titles have been placed in Non-Fiction or Children/YA. So even though we will not be giving these in 2010, we will leave the categories available for nominations going forward. Either way, it is a great list. Core members will soon receive their long ballot in the mail (one per store) and are asked to mail it back before the deadline. http://www.sibaweb.com/siba-news/siba-news/166-2010-siba-book-award-long-list-announced
SIBA as Publisher – Opportunities for bookstores to sell unique content
SIBA has published the Southern Indie Lit Crossword Puzzle Book. This is a great combo for readers and puzzlers and collects ten years of SIBA Book Award Winners in one place. The attractive price point of $9.95 and 50% discount to SIBA Bookstores only makes it an attractive title to have at point of sale. Hear author Reeden Wright discuss her journey with the book at the South Carolina Book Festival. Available from Ingram, 978-0-9825205-0-5, SRP $9.95
We are neck and neck with the Northern California Booksellers Association to be the next region to qualify to get our own regional reader. But we need your stories. See more details and mock cover.
Lady Banks’ Pick of the Week to Encourage Consumers to Buy the Circle of Sites Banner Ad Titles
SIBA is encouraged both by the number of indie bookstores that are participating in the Circle of Sites Program and the publishers that are stepping forward and buying ads and SIBA wants to do everything to ensure the success of this program. So besides offering free dues to core members, creative, affordable pricing, and placement on the AuthorsRoundTheSouth.com (ARTS) website, we have added a new component that makes this information more tweetable. Going forward, the Circle of Sites ad is on every page of ARTS, and is designated as the Lady Banks’ Pick of the Week with a link to Free Book Stimulus Plan where consumers are encourage to buy the book and send the receipt in for a free book, and they are driven to a list of stores that are participating in the Circle of Sites Program to purchase the book. Learn more at http://www.sibaweb.com/for-publishers/circle-of-sites
More Luck and More Bucks: Savings from SIBA
Place Banner Ad Code on your website AND Get you 2010 SIBA Core Member Dues Waived! read more!
Collect Your Co-op AND Get Your 2011 SIBA Core Member Dues Paid! read more!
CloudProfile offers SIBA member discount AND gets your news out on the web! read more!
The SIBA Document Library is a great tool and provides content on tons of topics and the SIBA Bestseller Lists is one of them. Set aside some time to take a look at some of this great info and tour the document library to find a time-saver. Here’s on to print & post in store or on line & sell more books. Get the bestseller lists from the document library
Call for Authors for SIBA Trade Show 2010, Daytona, Florida – Sep. 24-26
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance invites exhibiting publishers to submit authors in consideration for special events to be held on Friday through Sunday, September 24-26, 2010. These programs will be held at the SIBA Trade Show in Daytona, FL. It is imperative that you have registered to exhibit at the SIBA Trade Show before authors can be considered. Exhibit registration will open on March 1, 2010.
Whether maintaining a website, distributing an email newsletter, writing a blog or twittering, pictures are worth…, well, you know. And everystockphoto has searchable photos that are free to use. You can have an account at everystockphoto, but it is not necessary for searching and using free pics…I had written a post about scary sites and searched “scary” after I had named the post – Short & Sweet & Scary – and loved the photo I found. It was exactly short, at one-time sweet, and very scary! I needed a paper clip, searched paper clip, and found the perfect paperclip -. Need pictures of books?
Wanda Jewell Executive Director Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance 3806 Yale Dr. Columbia, SC 29205 803.994.9530
Trade Show 2010: Daytona, FL, The Plazas; Sept. 24-26
We have published the GREAT LAKES READER and PACIFIC NORTHWEST READER, with pieces written by booksellers + librarians!!
We will now do other regions, as we receive essays. We may do 2-3 essays per state.
A SOUTHEAST READER COULD BE NEXT!!! If booksellers send in an essay about any state you desire and we’ll publish all-bookseller + librarian regional versions in paperback in the next year,
with a % of proceeds to ABFFE.
About 2,500 words and by Word doc by email to me only.
As you’ll see in State by State, some authors once lived in the state they wrote about, or do now, but some were sent to the state for a first, fresh look.
Likewise, I’m open to pieces about parts of larger states.
NOTE: These are NOT about bookstore life; you’re Jane or John Citizen on this, but of course, working in the book life as part of the piece would be more than fine.
Email me if you have any questions:
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In order to help its members take advantage of the many opportunities offered by developments in social networking, SIBA has entered into a partnership with CloudProfile.com, a service specifically geared towards small businesses that is designed to maximize their visibility on the web and simplify their presence on social networking sites.
Cloud Profile acts as a portal that allows businesses to manage their social networking accounts, publish updates to services like Facebook and Twitter, as well as their own Web sites and blogs with a single click, and connect with potential and regular customers at all these sites.
A leader in what is being called “micro-site” services, Cloud Profile allows independent business people to stay active online even when they are on the job or on the sales floor—via web, cellphone, and even email.
Cloud Profile allows businesses to respond quickly to customers, showcase (and sell) products, upload photos, and post updates. It also has advanced search engine optimization, and will automatically submit business information to hundreds of online business directories.
SIBA recognizes that its booksellers would rather be talking about books than updating web sites. Cloud Profile is a service we think will help you do just that.
For more information, contact
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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
Evening Post Publishing Company with 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 with Joggling Board Press
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!
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