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First Things First...
2/25: Reader Meet Writer Economy Hall with Fatima Shaik 3/3: Webinar with Bren McClain: Making the Most of Your Pitch to Publicists (register) 3/4: Reader Meet Writer
- Love at First with Kate Clayborn 3/9-3/12: NVNR Presents: Publicity Speed Dating (register) 3/11: Reader Meet Writer - When the Apricots Bloom
with Gina Wilkinson 3/17- 3/18: IndieCommerce Institute (info) 3/23-3/25: NVNR March Madness: Social Media Retreat (register)
Registration is now open for the NVNR Social Media Retreat, a 3-day "bootcamp" for booksellers who want to elevate their social media game. These intensive training classes will cover creating storylines, branding, visual techniques,
posting strategies, and best practices for major social media platforms. Designed for both beginners and advanced social media users, it will use recent and upcoming book releases as part of the training and for you to create actual
posts of your own. Booksellers will learn how to make creative posts for books, research for assets, and share them across social networks, including TikTok.
SBR Update: E. Shaver, Bookseller Reviews
E. Shaver, Bookseller has become the latest SIBA bookstore to embed
their store reviews from The Southern Bookseller Review on their website:
Designed to be a simple way for stores to keep their site "staff picks" sections fresh, the embedded lists automatically update as reviews from your store are published on the SBR website. Store review pages can be provided
as embed code or a simple hyperlink. Email nicki@sibaweb.com for more information
Is Your Bookstore On This List?
Limited space is still available for next month's Publicity Speed Dating event. Over 60 publicists representing over 40 imprints will be on hand to listen to booksellers talk about their stores and their strategies for successful promotions
and events. This is a unique opportunity to capture publisher attention for your store. Don't miss out.
Put your best foot forward! Register for Bren McClain's March 3rd workshop on how to make the most of your pitch, It will be great prep for your speed date! Register
Bookstores already attending:
Adventure Bound Books Bookmarks
E. Shaver, Bookseller Eagle Eye Book Shop Ernest & Hadley Booksellers Fountain Bookstore Horton's Books and Gifts M. Judson, Booksellers Main Street Reads Oxford Exchange Read It Again Bookstore South Main Book Company Square Books Story on the Square The Book Worm Bookstore The Country Bookshop The Haunted Bookshop The Snail on the Wall
Writers Block Bookstore
2021 Southern Book Prize Winners
On February 14th the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance announced the winners of the 2021 Southern Book
Prize. The Prize, representing southern bookseller favorites from 2020, is awarded to “the best Southern book of the year” as nominated by Southern indie booksellers and voted on by their customers. Winners were chosen
by popular vote from a ballot of favorite bookseller “hand sells” in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, making each Southern Book Prize winner a true Southern reader favorite. Read more
In Brief
Bookstore Romance Day Announces 2021 Ambassador Kit Rocha
Bookstore Romance Day is thrilled to announce its 2021 Ambassador is Kit Rocha, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling pseudonym for Bree Bridges and Donna Herren. Rocha was selected because their books are a strong representation
of the focus of this year’s celebrations, which will be on books that cross boundaries between genres. Read more.
Call for Nominations: 2021 PW Bookstore and Sales Rep of the Year Awards
Authors, booksellers, publishers, distributors, and others with ties to the book industry are invited to nominate their favorite bookstores and sales representatives for the Bookstore and Sales Rep of the Year Awards. (Please note
that candidates cannot nominate themselves, nor can family members nominate them.) Read more
Reader Meet Writer: Upcoming Events
Are you interested in joining the circle of bookstores
sending invites to their customers? Please email Linda-Marie and we'll discuss what's involved.
The Fortunate Ones with Ed Tarkington Thu Feb 18th 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
Ed Tarkington's debut novel Only Love Can Break Your Heart was an ABA Indies Introduce selection, an Indie Next pick, a Book of the Month Club Main Selection, and a Southern Independent Booksellers Association
bestseller. A regular contributor to Chapter16.org, his articles, essays, and stories have appeared in a variety of publications including the Nashville Scene, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Knoxville News-Sentinel,
and Lit Hub. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood by Fatima Shaik Thu Feb 25th 7:00pm - 8:00pm
FATIMA SHAIK, a former professor and journalist, is a trustee of PEN America and author of six previous short story collections and young adult novels. Economy Hall is her first nonfiction work.
This week on Circle of Sites
Read more about SIBA's Circle of Sites Program (aka the "banner for dues" program) and find out whether your store is eligible to participate and
receive free membership dues.
Read This! Recently Posted on The Southern Bookseller Review
LAST WEEK'S BOOK BUZZ: The Survivors by Jane Harper On Edelweiss
"Setting" is one of the things booksellers mention over and over again about Harper's newest book, The Survivors, set in Tasmania: "I get lost in the landscape," "full of creeping dread as the
tide rises."
"I think it's important that the setting is not just a backdrop, it actually is interwoven throughout," Harper said in an early interview after the release of her first book, The Dry, "...I mean the characters are reacting authentically to their surroundings ... And I think it's really important that you sort of try and take that 360 degree view
of it."
What booksellers
are saying about The Survivors
This was my first journey into a Jane Harper novel and I really enjoyed it. The setting of the story is just as much of a character in the story as all of the others... Strong on dialogue and very descriptive, this is a great
book for mystery lovers. --Stuart McCommon, Novel. in Memphis, TN
Jane Harper is an entertaining Australian author. Her mysteries are always engrossing and I get lost in the Australian landscape. There is always a twist in the end that I don't see coming. Great read! --Stephanie Crowe,
Page and Palette, Mobile, AL
Jane Harper has once again created a beautifully written character driven novel and mystery. And, once again the location is one of the main characters...As much as I loved her previous books, I think this was her best so far
– but then I seem to say that about each new book she writes! --Nancy McFarlane, Fiction Addiction in Greenville,
SC
Jane Harper's THE SURVIVORS is her best yet. Expertly plotted and full of vivid details, readers will find themselves full of creeping dread as the tide rises and the killer draws ever closer. Let's just say I won't be going
into caves any time soon. -- Faith Parke-Dodge, Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, NC
Being Korean American and already a fan of Michelle Zauner’s music under the Japanese Breakfast moniker, I was predisposed to love this book. Having read the title essay in the New Yorker I was predisposed to love
this book. Even so, I was struck by just how much I loved it. I’m so grateful for this book — for how it walks through grief not as a way to leave it behind, but as a way to remember its exact shape. I’m grateful
for its funny, self-deprecating and wise observations, and for its difficult beauty.
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (List Price: $26.95, Knopf, 9780525657743, 4/20/2021) Reviewed by Steve Haruch, Parnassus Books in
Nashville, Tennessee
Clovis Keeps His Cool by Katelyn Aronson, Eve Farb (Illus.) On Edelweiss | Buy
An adorable take on the classic phrase, Clovis the bull and his precious Granny’s china shop totally stole my heart. It’s a great reminder for everyone at any age that one must practice mindfulness, but if you slip
up, it’s okay—you just have to gather yourself up again, keeping calm and kind. Every face on every page is so expressive, and Clovis’ suspenders are too cute. This picture book made my day.
Clovis Keeps His Cool by Katelyn Aronson, Eve Farb (Illus.) (List Price: $17.99, Page Street Kids, 9781645672135, 8/17/2021) Reviewed by Amber Brown, Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina
1. The Four Winds Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s, $28.99, 9781250178602 2. The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291 3. The Paris Library Janet Skeslien Charles, Atria Books, $28, 9781982134198 4. The Midnight Library Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474 5. Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $26.95,
9780525657606
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 2. Four Hundred Souls Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain (Eds.), One World,
$32, 9780593134047 3. A Promised Land Barack Obama, Crown, $45, 9781524763169 4. Just as I Am Cicely Tyson, Harper, $28.99, 9780062931061 5. Keep Sharp Sanjay Gupta, M.D., S&S, $28, 9781501166730
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E. Shaver, Bookseller has become the latest SIBA bookstore to embed
their store reviews from The Southern Bookseller Review on their website:
On February 14th the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance announced the winners of the 2021 Southern Book
Prize. The Prize, representing southern bookseller favorites from 2020, is awarded to “the best Southern book of the year” as nominated by Southern indie booksellers and voted on by their customers. Winners were chosen
by popular vote from a ballot of favorite bookseller “hand sells” in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, making each Southern Book Prize winner a true Southern reader favorite. 
Are you interested in joining the circle of bookstores
sending invites to their customers? Please 
The Fortunate Ones with Ed Tarkington
Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood by Fatima Shaik
What booksellers
are saying about The Survivors
