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First Things First...
7/7: Webinar: Bookseller Safety Tips with Spencer Coursen (register) 7/8: THIS! Hybrid Events Roundtable with John Cavalier, Jamille Christman and Rebecca Doel (register) 7/9: RAMP Winter Catalog Direct/Saturation Mail Info Session (register) 7/9: Nominate title for the Winter Catalog (here)
7/15: Deadline to nominate a video to the VIndies (here) 7/16: Deadline to sign up for RAMP "Back to School/Work" email (more info)
7/19-7/22 NVNR New Owners Retreat (register) 9/27-10/1 NVNR 2021 Fall Trade Show: Opening Doors (register)
Booksellers can nominate titles for the RAMP Winter Catalog by submitting them here. Deadline is July 9th!
NVNR2021 Orientation Sessions
NVNR2021 Orientation Sessions New Voices New Rooms New and Improved!
The NVNR Team is hosting two orientation sessions to introduce booksellers and book industry members to the New Voices New Rooms 2021 Fall Conference.
Publishers and Vendors Orientation: Monday July 12 at 2:00 PM Eastern | REGISTER
Topics include: What's new for 2021, Introducing Studios, The Readers of the Last ARC Galley Room, Office Hours & the NVNR Hospitality Suite, Expanded communication opportunities, The NVNR Show Box, Important Deadlines
Booksellers and Other Attendees Orientation: Tuesday, August 17th at 1:00 PM Eastern | REGISTER
Topics include: What's new for 2021, Your NVNR Account, The Readers of the Last ARC Galley Room, Office Hours & the NVNR Hospitality Suite, Connecting with Publishers and Vendors, The NVNR Show Box and Studios, Getting the most
out of your show experience, Important Deadlines
New Voices New Rooms will be held September 27 - October 1. One of the best-rated virtual shows from 2020 returns for 2021 with even more innovative programming and opportunities for booksellers and their industry partners. With a
show theme of "Opening Doors," NVNR2021 will feature a streamlined schedule, more dedicated networking space for booksellers to connect with publishers and vendors and with each other, and a wide variety of education
for booksellers of all levels and situations.
SIBA promotes six new books every month to readers, the customers of our member stores, in our Southern Bookseller Review (SBR) Bookshelf promotion. These titles appear at the top of our weekly SBR newsletter, which has a circulation of over 60k. We also feature them on our SBR facebook page, with buy links promoted to our 15,000 Facebook friends, and on our Instagram and Twitter accounts. A different member store is featured with the
titles every week. We give SIBA member stores a heads up on each month’s featured titles, to encourage in-store and online displays.
For publishers looking to promote their new titles out to readers across the South, the SBR Bookshelf is our greatest value because of high visibility and engagement across multiple platforms. Contact us for more information or to
get your titles on “The Shelf” in coming months.
Coming up in July:
Description:
Over It by Lolo Jones
The One You're With by Lauren K. Denton
Theo Thesaurus: The Dinosaur Who Loved Big Words by Shelli R. Johannes
Reach more readers in new ways! Ordering is now open for the Winter Catalog
In the remarkable year that was 2020, five regional independent booksellers’ associations joined forces to produce consumer print and digital catalogs, leveraging a combined 150 years of winter and holiday catalog production and distribution.
Bookstores across the Mid-Atlantic (NAIBA), Great Lakes (GLIBA), New England (NEIBA), Midwest (MIBA), and South (SIBA) reached 10 MILLION CONSUMERS with new title recommendations during the holiday season.
Winter Catalog: Saturation Mail & Info Session Jul 9, 2021 1:00 PM Eastern, 12:00 PM in Central
This session will focus on our annual winter catalog and saturation mailing. In 2020 we added direct and saturation mailing options for stores to send the winter catalog to their customers. Many stores had great success
with saturation mailing. As a result we are offering this session to refresh, answer questions and highlight the process of saturation mailing and the winter catalog.
We will be joined by Kathy Lund of Postal Solutions at Quad Printing and RAMP Director of Marketing and Promotion, Suzanne Shoger.
Survey Reveals a Need for Greater Workplace Inclusivity
People of Color in Publishing and Latinx in Publishing collaborated on an online survey in summer and fall 2018, reaching out to current and former BIPOC industry members about the extent to which
they’ve experienced racism on the job. The results of the survey are now being released in a report, “Workplace Racism Survey,” that documents the
ways racism manifests itself at publishing houses. (Organizers delayed the release of the findings because of the pandemic and the uncertainty it created about the future of the industry.)
Some of the findings:
92% of respondents reported attending meetings where they were the only people of color present.
61% of respondents said that they modify their behavior fit in to their workplace culture
40% of respondants believe they havebeen overlooked for advancement opportunities because of their race.
ABA Marketing Meet Up offers July Social Media series Every Thursday in July at 1pm Eastern, ABA is offering sessions on social media best practices. Participants are asked to register for all five sessions at
once. The session themes are: (7/1) Need to Knows and Best Practices, (7/8) All About Video, (7/15) Getting Organized, (7/22) How do I know it's working?, (7/29) Ask Anything! More Info & Registration
Binc "Survive to Thrive" Campaign give 1.1 Million to Bookstores Binc’s special initiative benefits bookstores & comic shops, helping communities thrive with these key businesses. The Book Industry
Charitable (Binc) Foundation announced today the Survive to Thrive, the special, one-time store grant initiative, will make awards to 115 independent bookstores and comic shops totaling $1.1 million. Ninety-nine stores will receive
grants of $10,000 and 16 will receive $7,500. The grant recipients were determined by a juried application process with the goal of assisting stores that were poised to make a strong recovery from the pandemic. Read more
Reader Meet Writer Upcoming
General RMW Event information:
RMW events are held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7:00 PM Eastern
Each event is fully moderated and hosted, with plenty of time for author Q & A. Current host is Wiley Cash, author of When Ghosts Come Home (William Morrow, 2021)
All events are recorded and available to stream at SIBA's Reader Meet Writer TV YouTube channel.
Living Brave with Shannon Dingle Thu Jul 8th 7:00pm - 8:00pm | REGISTER
Shannon Dingle is a disability activist, freelance writer, sex trafficking survivor, and recovering perfectionist. While she knows the societal rules about which topics to avoid in public settings, she breaks them
regularly and teaches her six children to get into "good trouble, necessary trouble," in the words of civil rights icon John Lewis. She has written for USA Today, the Washington Post,and Teen Vogue,
and her story has been featured on TODAY.com, NPR, and Good Morning America and in The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, Christianity Today, and Slate.
She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Saved by a Song with Mary Gauthier Tue Jul 13th 7:00pm - 8:00pm
The Associated Press named MARY GAUTHIER one of the best songwriters of her generation. Her most recent release, Rifles & Rosary Beads, was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Folk Album, and Record
of the Year by the Americana Music Association. Her songs have been recorded by dozens of artists, including Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Bettye Lavette, Kathy Mattea, Amy Helm and Candi Staton. Saved by a Song is her
first book. She lives in Nashville.
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.
A charming collection of essays built on questions about love and identity. It invites the reader into the tortilla factory, through the Oklahoma fields, and into mimosa-soaked Brooklyn apartments to find what it means to have
a body that wants to love and be loved. -- Luis Correa from Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA Buy from Avid Bookshop
Brammer is an LGBTQ advice columnist (Substack) and this is a collection of advice to various people with serious questions which he answers with hilarious and heartfelt responses. I laughed and cried reading this outstanding book.
So many dog ears. Don’t @ me.. --Kelly Justice from Fountain Books in Richmond, VA Buy from Fountain Bookstore
Through tears and embarrassingly loud laughter this book was nothing short of relatable, and reassuring to anyone who has struggled to find their identity when they felt they had little to work with. --Cat Chapman from Oxford Exchange in
Tampa, FL Buy from Oxford Exchange
What I really loved about this book is that even though JP and I have vastly different backgrounds, there is something universal about the feelings and experiences he talks about. They transcend race and sexuality, and make you
realize that we're not all that different. --Melissa Taylor from E. Shaver, bookseller in Savannah, GA Buy from E. Shaver, bookseller
This is one freaky book, scary as all get out, and really, really, hard to put down! I was reading late the night (3pm) and the story was cresting on one of the many waves that keep the plot roiling when out of the corner of my
eye I saw my bedroom door slowly begin to creak mournfully open. Needless to say I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Turns out it was just my cat stretching out but that incident just shows how immersed I got into
this creepy good book.
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig, (List Price: 28.99, Del Rey, 9780399182136, July 2021) Reviewed by Pete Mock, McIntyre’s Fine Books in Pittsboro,
North Carolina
Linda-Marie: Reading:Not Here to be Liked by Michelle Quach, a YA debut “enemies-to-lovers rom-com about an Asian American girl who’s ambitious and a little bit prickly.” Watching:New Tricks, a British television police procedural in which retired detectives re-investigate unsolved crimes. Feels a bit like a time capsule of the early aughts. Listening: The Joni Mitchell Radio Station on Pandora.
Lucy: Reading:The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova - I just started this, and I’m already enraptured by this story’s stunning prose and captivating narrative! Listening:Questie Besties - This recently launched recap podcast for Apple TV’s Mythic Quest is everything and I adore it! Watching: RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, Season 6
Nicki: Reading:Fox & I by Catherine Raven and The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington.
Listening:BLKBOK by Black Book Watching: old seasons of MacGyver, which like most of my childhood tv shows has aged not well at all.
SP: Reading: Very much enjoying my nightly "small plate" reading: The Slightly Foxed summer issue, (the Laurie Colwin piece will make you laugh, cry,
and then raid the fridge) and SF's edition of the hilarious Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools (where else on earth would you run into someone named Bubble Carew-Pole?!),
and Diana Souhami's fun and brisk No Modernism Without Lesbians. Watching: The beyond campy, beyond words Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). There really ARE no words. Listening: My friend's radio show celebrating the birthday of legendary musical theater composer Richard Rodgers. She built an amazing playlist with performances by everyone from Julie
Andrews to Janis Joplin to Sun Ra. Stream it here! https://www.wxnafm.org/broadcasts/21431
1. Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $28, 9781524798659 2. The Midnight Library Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474 3. Project Hail Mary Andy Weir, Ballantine, $28.99, 9780593135204 4. The Maidens Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $27.99, 9781250304452 5. The Hill We Climb Amanda Gorman, Viking,
$15.99, 9780593465271
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Bomber Mafia Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, $27, 9780316296618 2. The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green, Dutton, $28, 9780525555216 3. The Premonition Michael Lewis, Norton, $30, 9780393881554 4. World Travel Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $35, 9780062802798 5.
How the Word Is Passed Clint Smith, Little, Brown, $29, 9780316492935
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NVNR2021 Orientation Sessions
Survey Reveals a Need for Greater Workplace Inclusivity
Living Brave with Shannon Dingle
Saved by a Song with Mary Gauthier
