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Indomitable Will
(Crown Publishing Group)
Blue Moon Bay
(Bethany Publishing House)
Temptation
(David C. Cook)
A Land More Kind Than Home
(William Morrow & Company)
Relentless Pursuit
(David C. Cook)
Leaving Church
(HarperOne)
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www.sibaweb.com
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Welcome to the Trailer Park
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I once lived in a single-wide trailer on Main Street downtown Jefferson, South Carolina. The State House Representative for Jefferson was my landlord. There was no traffic light, a bank that “covered my checks” long before there was such a thing as overdraft, and a grocery store where I could “run a tab” that billed me monthly. The Bookmobile parked in the Post Office parking lot once every two weeks and the most excitement I had the near-year I was there was checking out a paperback copy of Psycho (never read, and never saw the movie) emblazoned with a warning: Do not read after dark! I carried it home, waited til the sun went down, read every word, took a shower, and went to bed! Oh what a night!
Lady Banks’ Trailer Park is a new addition to Lady Banks’ Commonplace Book e-newsletter and one we hope you will enjoy and participate in by sending us the best book trailers you come across. We will also be collecting them on our Pinterest Board – Lady Banks’ Trailer Park -
http://pinterest.com/wjewell/lady-banks-trailer-park/
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Special to the Southern List
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Also a new segment of Lady Banks’ Commonplace Books e-newsletter is the list of books that appear on SIBA’s Bestseller List each week yet do not appear on the current National Indie Bestseller List. Some southern favorites yet to appear on the national list include Okra Pick The Healing, An Altar in the World, Pete the Cat Rocking in my School Shoes, and many others. See the list every week in the Lady Banks newsletter.
Other features of the e-newsletter include Great Bookstores and Stars Authors where both a bookseller and an author are featured and the SIBA Bestseller List and the Author Events as found at www.authorsroundthesouth.com.
Besides the thousands of consumer contacts SIBA has collected via the years of supporting the SIBA Holiday Catalog Survey and the more recent Free Book Stimulus Plan, via the ARTS Facebook Page, we have increased our coverage to a reach of nearly two million. Make sure your store is represented.
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Can people Find Your Bookstore?
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Are you on the "Find a Bookstore" page? You need to be as over ONE HUNDRED authors are letting their readers know about you!
Gigi Amateau, Claire Cook, Alan Gratz, Susan Gregg Gilmore, Joshilyn Jackson, and Jim Minick are just a few of the writers that have the "Find an Indie Bookstore" badge on their websites that link to SIBA’s Find a Bookstore page. Be sure to join SIBA and get your store listed.
Authors displaying the "Find a bookstore" links
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It's time to suggest books for the Holiday Catalog!
I know it is hard to believe that we will be turning to holiday catalog concerns before you know it. But that’s what I’m talking about. We need you to be looking to the future for great books that should be in the 2012 Holiday Catalog. We always include the SIBA Book Award Finalists so keep an eye out for the long ballot and remember that when you are voting. These will be among the books that will represent your store. http://www.sibaweb.com/home/catalog
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 SIBA wants bookstores to Eat. Read. Display their Okra!
It’s time to pick the next batch of Okra Picks! We are committed to the Okra Picks and want to assist you in selling these books. We have in place the Okra Picks Display Contest, the Okra Picks Co/Op Program, and the Okra Pick Cards. Be sure you are displaying the pick cards in the vertical display plastic beside your cash register. Take a photo of the display and email it to
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Information about Okra Picks, along with marketing materials, guidelines, and nomination forms, can be found here:
http://www.sibaweb.com/okra
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2012 SIBA Book Award Long List Announced
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 The Long List for the 2012 SIBA Book Award has just been released by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. Totaling almost 120 different titles, the “Long List” includes every eligible title nominated for the award—representing the bookseller and reader favorites of 2011 in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s, young adult and cooking categories. From Lisa Alther to Erica Wright, Mary Kay Andrews to Daniel Woodrell, the Long List is the ultimate southern reading list from the people who would know—southern indie booksellers.
The Full List
Childrens
Cooking
Fiction
Poetry
Nonfiction
Young Adult
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Thank you for your interest in SIBA,
Wanda Jewell, Executive Director
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
3806 Yale Avenue, Columbia, SC 29205
803.994.9530
Fax: 309.410.0211
www.sibaweb.com
Thank you to SIBA's Inkreadible Sponsors 2011:
Baker & Taylor
Bookazine
Trade Show #SIBA12: Sept 7-9, 2012 at Naples Grande Beach Resort, A Waldorf Astoria Collection
Find your favorite authors at Authors 'Round the South
What I'm blogging: Wanda's Wonderful Book Blog
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SIBA is now using Pinterest, the sexiest new kid on the social networking block, to highlight and promote SIBA bookstores and SIBA books.