9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Bookseller School – What’s New & Next On-line & On-the-Shelf?
9 AM - Noon - Edelweiss Workshop with Mark Evans, Above the Treeline
Edelweiss is an on-line interactive publisher catalog service that enhances or replaces the use of traditional hard copy publisher catalogs. With features such as keyword search, interior images, twitter and blog tracking, title tags, and others, Edelweiss goes far beyond simple posted PDF’s to provide a buying and research tool that cannot be matched with hard copy catalogs. Edelweiss is free to retailers and other catalog readers, requires no Above the Treeline affiliation, and interfaces with most bookstore POS systems.
This session will be a hands-on workshop focused on how frontline booksellers and buyers can use Edelweiss to review the new titles coming out this season and use notes and tags to communicate with each other. Instead of passing around the one hard copy catalog your store might have for each publisher, you can review the catalogs at the same time as others in your store and create lists of your favorites for others to see. Participating publishers for this upcoming season include HarperCollins, Penguin, Random House children’s, Hachette, Disney, Workman, Ingram Publisher Services, Diamond Books, Tyndale, Thomas Nelson, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Georgetown University Press and Microsoft Press.
Noon - 1 PM - Lunch provided to all Bookseller School participants, reps, & presenter
1:00 - 4:00 PM - Reps’ Picks.
Join your favorite Reps to hear about their favorite books.
1:00 PM - Hachette, Marty Conroy
1:10 PM - Hachette, Marty Conroy
1:20 PM – Random House, Ruth Liebmann
1:30 PM – Ingram, Robb Soriano
1:40 PM - Ingram, Marsha Wood
1:50 PM - Macmillan, Jeff Willmann
2:00 PM – HarperCollins, Eric Svenson
2:10 PM – Penguin Group, Doni Kay
2:20 PM – Penguin Group, Dave Kliegman
2:30 PM – Hachette, Judy DeBerry
3:30 PM - Penguin Group, Diane Kierpa
3:50 PM – Okra Picks, Nicki Leone
(Cost: $75.00 per store to include an unlimited number of persons per store includes continental breakfast & boxed lunch)
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM The Power of Half Industry Breakfast – Room 102
To include SIBA’s Annual Membership Meeting
Agenda: Minutes, Installation of New Directors, Open Discussion, Adjournment
Hear from Kevin Salwen, author of The Power Half (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), an inspiring story about his family and their journey out of their comfort zone and across the globe.
9:00 AM – 6 PM
SIBA Registration & Exhibitor Set Up Open
9:00 AM – 6 PM
Baker & Taylor Bookseller Lounge – Room 100
Baker & Taylor will again this year provide a respite where booksellers can check their email, meet & greet, and enjoy refreshments.
Day of Education sponsored by Random House
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM – Building Productive and Profitable Programming Partnerships with your Local Public Libraries ABC – Room 104 A
Libraries and bookstores share many common goals: to provide a community center for the exchange of ideas, to connect readers to great books, to encourage a love of reading for all ages, and to inspire people with great authors and programs. Yet often bookstores and libraries miss the opportunity to work together to their mutual benefit because they stumble over their differences rather than build on their common goals. This program will cover practical strategies for initiating a productive institutional relationship, including how to define a shared community mission, and how to develop sustainable joint programming. Participants will get practical event ideas, marketing techniques, and solutions to some of the most common roadblocks. Presented in conjunction with The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), and The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of The American Library Association (ALA).
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM – Think Outside the Books – Learning from other Indie Retailers – Room 104 B
Aimed at owners, marketing staff, and events coordinators.
Join a panel of Greenville Indies that will share successful events that have forged on the behalf of their indie customers. Restaurants, gas stations, jewelry store, gift shop and a bookstore bring you some of their best ideas for thinking outside the books. Moderator: Carl Sobocinski, Co-founder, Table 301 Restaurant Group, with panelists Jill Hendrix, Bookseller, Fiction Addiction Bookstore; Allison Spinks, Owner. Kudzu Gift Shop; Llyn Strong, Jeweler, Llyn Strong Fine Jewelery; Stewart Spinks, Owner/Founder, Spinx Gas Stations & Convenience Stores
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM – POD is not a Four Letter Word – Room 103
This session is aimed at booksellers of all levels
Interested in learning about how POD is improving availability, and contributing to more sales for bookstores
of all sizes? POD is not going away, it's thriving and growing in importance for the entire supply chain. The largest publishing houses to the smallest self publishers are embracing POD, should you? Learn how SIBA has joined the POD revolution with its first publication.
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM – Social Media and the Independent Bookseller– Room 101 B
Aimed at booksellers of all levels who are interested in social media.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and other social networking sites have fundamentally changed the way people approach not only their private lives but, also, their business transactions. Social media networks are not the wave of the future--they are the wave of now, and in today's world you are no longer building relationships with 'customers,' but with 'friends.' Come hear a discussion on these topics, and leave with a greater understanding of where this paradigm shift is taking small business
11:00 – 11:50 AM – All in the Family Author Panel – Room 104 A
Moderator: Karin Wilson, Page & Palette, Fairhope, AL
Leila Meacham, Roses (Grand Central); Donna Ball, At Home on Ladybug Farm (Berkley Trade Paperback Original); Kirk Neely, A Good Mule is Hard to Find (Hub City Writer's Project); Anna Fields, Confessions of a Rebel Debutante: A Memoir (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
11:00 – 11:50 AM – Who put the X in Xmas? Panel – Room 104 B
Moderator: Jeff McCord, Bound to be Read Books, Atlanta, GA
Edie Hand, The Soldier’s Ride / A Christmas Ride: The Miracle of Lights (Parkway Publishing); Ann Pearlman, The Christmas Cookie Club (Atria Books); Steve Tiller, Hummin Beans Tell the Christmas Story (Right Stuff Kids); Catherine Ritch Guess, Beautiful Star of Bethelehem / I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (CRM Books)
11:00 – 11:50 AM – Writing the South – Room 103
Moderator: Karen Zacharias, Will Jesus Buy Me a Doublewide? Cause I need more room for my plasma TV (Zondervan)
Batt Humphreys, Dead Weight (Joggling Board Press); Karen White, The Girl on Legare Street (NAL Trade Paperback); Donny Seagraves, Gone From These Woods (Delacorte Press); Amanda Gable, The Confederate General Rides North (Scribner)
11:00 – 11:50 AM – Overcoming Obstacles Author Panel – Room 101 B
Moderator: Janet Bollum, The Muse Book Shop, FL
David Warner, Druid City: Snapshots of Growing up in the Segregated South (River City Publishing); Linda Beatrice Brown, Black Angels (Putnam); Gino Brogdon, Demons in the Crawlspace (TotalRecall Publications, Inc.); Fran Cannon Slayton, When the Whistle Blows (Penguin Young Readers Group)
12 Noon – 1:45 PM Kick Off Kids Lunch – Room 102
Emcee: Heather Doss, Bookazine
Richard Peck, A Season of Gifts (Penguin Young Readers Group); Silas House, Eli the Good (Candlewick Press); Patricia Reilly Giff, Wild Girl (Wendy Lamb Books) Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
(Cost is $35)
1:50 PM – 2:50 PM SignAround - Courtyard
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Give It Away to Get it Back: Using “Thought Leadership” Marketing to Build Your Children’s Business – Room 104 A
Aimed at booksellers of all levels who are interested in selling children's books.
In today's challenging bookselling climate, it is critical to find and keep your edge over your competition. Covering the basics, providing solid retail service, and putting dollars into traditional marketing strategies is no longer enough. But what if we told you that there is a cost-effective tool available to you that costs very little and will reap huge returns? In this workshop, learn why you and your children's staff are your own best advertising, and how to leverage your collective expertise as a powerful marketing tool to build your children's business exponentially. This workshop will explore the definition of "Thought Leadership" in relation to current trends in New Economy Marketing and why it should be central to any children's marketing plan. We will also discuss the benefits that can come from actively giving away knowledge as a marketing technique, as well as outlining the key elements for crafting a strategic and successful Thought Leadership plan for your children's department regardless of size or staffing level.
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – The Anatomy of Spectacular Author Events: The Shoestring Tour & the Indie 100 – Room 104 B
Aimed at booksellers of all levels who are interested in author events and promotion.
Tom Warner of Litchfield Books went to see publishers in New York City. Marc Fitten approached the American Booksellers Association. Deborah Wiles contacted SIBA. Learn how to partner with authors, publishers, and non-profits to create spectacularly successful events.
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – "The South is Full of STARS" – Room 103
Aimed at booksellers or all levels who are interested in leveraging their standing with southern writers
-- A tour of the Southern Traveling Authors Registration Service with Lady Banks. How does this work? Who can use it? Where are all the authors? Can I get them to my store? This resource has the potential build not only book sales but book audiences that come back again and again. Learn about Author ‘Round the South, the Free Book Stimulus Plan, and the Okra Picks. All things consumer SIBA can help you exploit and explore.
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Independents Week: Creating a Community-Wide Local First Celebration Any Time of the Year – Room 101 B
Aimed at owners, marketing staff, and events coordinators.
We all know how vital it is to create a community that understands and practices Local First. In this session you will hear examples of existing Independents Week activities, get practical tips on creating an event that fits your size community, and brainstorm with your colleagues to host the best Indie Week--whether it is July, December, or somewhere in between.
4:10 PM – 5:00 PM – Every Child a Reader Author Panel – Room 104 A
Moderator: Gigi Amateau, A Certain Strain of Peculiar (Candlewick Press)
Hester Bass, The Secret World of Walter Anderson (Candlewick Press); Ed Briant, If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now (Roaring Book Press); Lucy Nolan, Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys and Gulls (Sylvan Dell); Tim Byrd, Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom (Putnam)
4:10 PM – 5:00 PM – South Carolina Writers Panel - Room 104 B
Moderator: Alexia Helsey, Hidden History of Greenville (History Press)
Roger Pinckney, Reefer Moon (Joggling Board Press); Mary Alice Monroe, Last Light Over Carolina (Pocket Books); Mindy Friddle, Secret Keepers (St. Martin’s Press); Nicole Seitz, Saving Cicadas (Thomas Nelson)
4:10 PM – 5:00 PM – Got Us Shaking in our Boots Author Panel – Room 103
Moderator: Sally Brewster, Park Road Books, NC
Robert J. Bennett, Mr. Shivers (Orbit); Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands & Teeth (Random House Children’s Books;); Paula Morris, Ruined, a Ghost Story (Scholastic); Rhodi Hawk, A Twisted Ladder (Tor)
4:10 PM – 5:00 PM – Bookseller, Retailer, Photographer, Editor-in-Chief: Before We Were Authors Panel – Room 101 B
Moderator: Janet Bollum, The Muse Book Shop, FL
Winton Porter, Just Passin’ Thru (Menasha Ridge Press); Erica Eisdorfer, The WetNurse’s Tale (Penguin); Joseph Kanon, Stardust (Atria Books); George Stewart, Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices (University of South Carolina Press
5:30 – 6:30 PM – SignAround - Courtyard
7:00 – 9:00 PM - SIBA Supper – Room 102
Emcee: Jake Reiss, Alabama Booksmith
Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves (Little, Brown & Company); Robert Hicks, A Separate Country (Grand Central); Robert Edsel, The Monument’s Men (Center Street); Tomie dePaola, Strega Nona’s Harvest (Putnam)
Thanks to Premiere Sponsor Hachette Books
(cost is $45)
9:30 – 10:30 PM – Late Night Readings – Room 104
Emcee: Marjory Heath Wentworth, Shackles (Legacy Publications)
Ken Wheaton, First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival (Kensington Books); Philip Lee Williams, The Campfire Boys (Mercer University Press); James Everett Kibler, Education of Chauncey Doolittle (Pelican Publishing); Sarah Blake, The Postmistress (Amy Einhorn); Laurel Snyder, Any Which Wall (Random House Books for Young Readers); Cordell Adams, Light Bread (Sweet Tater Publishing)
7:30 – 9:00 AM – A Taste of HarperCollins Breakfast – Room 202
Emcee: Emily Bell, Page & Palette, AL
featuring Ron Rash, Serena (Ecco); Padget Powell, The Interrogative Mood (Ecco); and Jess Walter, The Financial Lives of the Poets (Harper)
Thanks to Premiere Sponsor HarperCollins
(Cost is $15)
8:00 AM – 5 PM
SIBA Registration Open
9:00 AM – 12 Noon and 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Exhibits Open
9:00 AM – Chef’s Corner – Ballroom
features Chef Rodney Freidank, Soby’s New South Cuisine (Soby’s)
10:00 AM – Storytelling Stage - Ballroom
features Clay Rice, The Lonely Shadow (Joggling Board Press)
10 AM – 4 PM
Bookseller Shipping Center & Bag Check Open – Ballroom Prefunction Area
11:00 AM – Chef’s Corner – Ballroom
features Keith Snow, The Harvest Eating Cookbook (Perseus)
12 Noon – 1:30 PM –Southern Writer’s Lunch – Room 202
Join Emcee Ted Lee, The Lee Brothers Simple Fresh Southern Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor (Clarkson Potter) introducing Jill McCorkle, Going Away Shoes (Algonquin) & Pete Dexter, Spooner (Grand Central)
(Cost is $35)
2:30 PM – Storytelling Stage – Ballroom
features Doug Elliott, Swarm Tree: Of Honeybees, Honeymoons and the Tree of Life (History Press)
3:30 PM – Chef’s Corner – Ballroom
features Charlotte Jenkins, Gullah Cuisine (Joggling Board Press)
4:30 PM – Chef’s Corner – Ballroom
features Doug Varrieur, Fat to Skinny Fast and Easy! (Sterling Publishing)
6 – 7:30 – The Writers’ Block - SIBA Book Award First Ever Feed-an-Author Auction & Twitter Reception – Room 202
Bring your money and outbid your neighbor at this first ever SIBA FunRaiser! 2009 Book Award Authors will go on the block. You bid for the privilege of taking them out to dinner. Once the going, going, gones are announced the winning bidders and authors are off to dinner together. The minimum bid is $20 and must be raised in increments of at least one dollar. Shuttles will be available to take folks downtown to our sponsor Table 301’s family of restaurants which include Soby’s, Soby’s on the Side, The Lazy Goat, and Devereaux’s. Every winning bidder will receive a Table 301 coupon providing the author's meal at no charge (alcohol excluded). A percentage of the proceeds will go to Loaves & Fishes, a food rescue organization supported by Table 301 to feed Greenville’s hungry.
--Ron Rash, Serena
--Patricia Harman, The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir
--Allan Wolf, More Than Friends: Poems from Him and Her|
--John Thompson, Armageddon Conspiracy
--Shellie Tomlinson, Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On!
--Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
-- William McKinney, Holy Smoke
--Kate Salley Palmer, Almost Invisible
-- Darden North, Fresh Frozen
--Gene Fehler, Beanball
--Alan Gratz, Something Wicked
--Mary Alice Monroe, Time is a River
--Gigi Amateau, Chancey of the Maury River
--Nicole Seitz, One Hundred Years of Happiness
--Gin Phillips, The Mine and the Well
--Ed Madden, Signals!
--N. M. Kelby, Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill
--Charles Ghigna, SCORE!
--Raymond Atkins, The Front Porch Prophet
-- Howard Lee, The Courage to Lead
-- Karen Spears Zacharias, Where’s Your Jesus Now?
--Karen White, The House on Tradd Street
--Beth Webb Hart, The Wedding Machine
7:30 – 9:00 AM - Hyperion Breakfast – Room 202
Emcee Emily Bell, Page & Palette introduing Anita Renfro, Don't Say I Didn't Warn You: Kids, Carbs, and the Coming Hormonal Apocalypse; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, One Amazing Thing; and Amy Dickinson, The Mighty Queens of Freeville
(Cost is $15)
Thanks to Premiere Sponsor Hyperion
8:00 AM – Noon
SIBA Registration Open
9:00 – 12 Noon
Exhibits OPEN
AM All-STARS Autograph Area Open
Diane Chamberlain, Secrets She Left Behind (Mira Books)
Gene Fehler, Change-Up: Baseball Poems (Clarion Books)
J T Ellison, Judas Kiss (MIRA Books)
Danny Bernstein, Hiking North Carolina's Blue Ridge Heritage (Milestone Press, Inc.)
Anne Barnhill, What You Long For (Main Street Rag)
Alan Gratz, The Brooklyn Nine (Penguin Young Readers Group)
Patricia Harman, The Blue Cotton Gown (Beacon Press)
Janna McMahan, The Ocean Inside (Kensington)
Michael Sheaffer, A Hearing for Jim Thorpe (Haynes Bridge Publishing)
Kathryn Magendie, Tender Graces (Belle Books)
N. M. Kelby, The Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts, Borealis Books
10 AM – 4 PM Bookseller Shipping Center & Bag Check Open – Ballroom Prefunction Area
11:45 AM – Buyers Raffle for $1000
must be present to win
Noon – 2:00 PM - The Moveable Feast of Authors – Room 202
Emcee: Marsha Wood, Ingram Book Company
William Baldwin, Gullah Cuisine (Joggling Board Press)
Ruby Pearl Saffire, Second Sluthood: A Manifest for the Post-Menopausal, Pre-Senilic Matriarch (River City Publishing)
Alice Randall, Rebel Yell: A Novel (Bloomsbury USA)
Frank McNair, The Golden Rule for Managers (SourceBooks)
Robin Knowles, Death of Rapunzel (JimSam Inc. Publishing)
Foy Allen Edelman, Sweet Carolina: Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State (UNC Press)
Wendy Wax, The Accidental Bestseller (Berkley)
Malcolm Jones, Little Boy Blues (Pantheon Books)
Laura Hope-Gill, The Soul Tree: Poems and Photographs of the Southern Appalachians (Grateful Steps)
Beth Hoffman, Saving Ceecee Honeycutt (Viking)
Janice Hardy, The Healing Wars, Book One: The Shifter (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Marianne Gingher, Long Story Short (UNC Press)
William Ferris, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (UNC Press)
Beverly Barton, Silent Killer (Zebra Books)
Larry Baker, A Good Man (Ice Cube Books)
John Radanovich, Wildman of Rhythm (Univ Press of FL)
Michael Buchanan, The Fat Boy Chronicles (HiDef Media Group)
Gigi Amateau, A Certain Strain of Peculiar
Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air (Hachette)
Belinda Acosta, Damas, Dramas (Hachette)
Drew Perry, This Is Just Exactly Like You (Penguin Group USA)
(Cost is $50)
Thanks to Inkreadible Sponsor Ingram Book Company