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First Things First...
7/31: Deadline to order your Winter Catalogs (here) 8/15: SIBA Board Ballot closes
(
one vote per store) 8/17: NVNR Bookseller Orientation (
register) 8/19: Coffee with the SIBA Board (register) 8/30-9/1:
Children's Institute (register) 9/27-10/1 NVNR 2021 Fall Trade Show: Opening
Doors (register)
Booksellers, please note that the July 31st deadline to order your holiday catalogs is a HARD DEADLINE, Because of printing and paper order requirements, no late store catalog orders can be accepted. ORDER HERE | Download the Marketing Kit
SIBA Board Elections
It’s time to exercise your ownership in SIBA. As all of you have full-time jobs, stores to run, employees to hire, train, and oversee, not to mention your community outreach efforts that often mean being involved in business
associations, chambers of commerce, boards, and other volunteer efforts, it is imperative that you elect bookseller members to represent your interests in SIBA. These booksellers commit to being trained in the effective,
in-depth Carver Training required to oversee all SIBA decisions, and spend over 100 hours annually in this work for you. Thank you for exercising this right.
VOTE HERE Deadline is August 15, 2021 One vote per store. You must log in under your store's account to vote.
Ballot for the SIBA Board of Directors
There are two seats coming open on the board in 2021. Board members serve a three year term.
Current board members are: Seat 1: Janet Geddis, Avid Bookshop, GA COMING OPEN Seat 2: Jamie Rogers, Bookmarks, NC Seat 3: John Cavalier, Cavalier House Books, Denham Springs, LA Seat 4: Deanna Bailey, Story on the Square, McDonough, GA COMING OPEN Seat 5: Kelly Justice, Fountain Bookstore, VA
The slate: Errol "E.R." Anderson, Charis Circle, Decatur, GA Julia R. Davis, The Book Worm Bookstore, Powder Springs, GA Janet Geddis, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA Candice Huber, Tubby & Coo's
Mid-City Bookshop, New Orleans, LA Doloris Vest, Book No Further, Roanoke, VA
NVNR New Owners Retreat, Day 1
Video recordings for Day 1 the NVNR New Owners Retreat are now available to view on the New Owners Retreat Playlist:
Topics covered on Day 1:
"My Biggest Mistake and My Best Moves" -- Seasoned booksellers talk about what they did wrong, and right, when they first got started.
"Best Practices: A Publisher's Perspective" -- Forthright advice from Karen Torres, VP Director of Field Sales for Hachette Book Group and a thirty-year veteran of the book industry
"SIBA & NAIBA: The Benefits of Your Regional Association" -- Linda-Marie Barrett, Executive Director of SIBA, and Eileen Dengler, Executive Director of NAIBA, go over the benefits and resources of
their organizations available to new bookstores
"Why ABACUS?" -- Jamie Fiocco of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill and former board member for both SIBA and the ABA discusses how stores can use this important tool to increase the profitability of their
businesses.
"Working Store Documents" -- A panel of experienced booksellers go over some of the most important and useful working documents they use for store operations.
The Anti-Racist Bookseller
Struggling to Attract Diverse Candidates? Three questions
to ask about your hiring process
We often hear companies complain that they can’t find diverse talent using the excuse “we’d hire them if we could find them.”
Here are three questions they recommend business owners ask themselves about their hiring process:
Is that qualification really necessary for the role, or is it just listed out of habit? Are you providing respectable and dignified work? What are you doing to make sure your employees stick around?
Purchase Tickets to BINC's 25th Anniversary Celebration on 8/12 at 8pm EST Sponsored by Edelweiss/Above the Treeline and Publishers Weekly and hosted by Isaac Fitzgerald, this celebration of two and a half decades
of the invaluable BINC will feature authors, creators, grant recipients, and supporters. Featuring Leigh Bardugo, Mac Barnett, Niki Coffman, Anthony Doerr, Jeff Kinney, Anne Kubek, Jim Lee, Min Jin Lee, Kuo-Yu Liang, Steven Malk,
George Mrkonic, Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Jason Reynolds, Garth Stein, David Steward II, and more. Tickets are $5 per individual or $10 per store. Deadline to purchase is 8/11. More info
Shop Indie Local calls for partners If you're a part of a local business alliance, consider teaming up with the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) to amplify the "shop local" message and inspire businesses
to shift holiday spending from chains and online retailers to locally owned businesses from October 1-December 31. Partners receive ideas and templates to spread messaging. Participation is free.More info
Reader Meet Writer Upcoming
The Reader Meet Writer Author Series is taking a short break for the month of August, and will return in September with a great line up, including Lisa Jewell, Torben Kuhlmann, Margaret Renkl, and Wiley Cash!
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.
The Night She Disappeared with Lisa Jewell Thu Sep 9th 6:00pm - 7:00pm | REGISTER
Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels, including The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone, as well as Invisible Girl and Watching You.
Her novels have sold over 5 million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into twenty-nine languages. Connect with her on Twitter @LisaJewellUK, on Instagram @LisaJewellUK, and on Facebook @LisaJewellOfficial.
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.
Another charmer from Maggie Smith. I can't wait to sell all the copies of this one. Lyrical without feeling overwrought. So personal and altogether universal. She is just magic as a poet. -- Alissa Redmond from South Main Book
Co. in Salisbury, NC Buy from South Main Book Co.
Goldenrod is proof that a slim volume can carry great depth. Smith bends language, pours light on sorrows and beauty, raises questions and challenges cultural assumptions. Personal, universal, this collection is one to
live with and revisit. --Jan Blodgett from Main Street Books in Davidson, NC Buy from Main Street Books
If you have a moment, or if you just need a moment, this quietly stunning collection by the brilliant Maggie Smith is sure to captivate any poetry reader. --Angie Tally from The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC Buy from The Country Book Shop
Poignant, raw, and fresh, Smith's new collection of poems explores motherhood, grief, divorce, and the many complexities of weathering a pandemic. Her clear voice and effortless creation of images makes this collection a delight
to read. --Hannah Kerbs from Parnassus Books in Nashville, TN Buy from Parnassus Books
Finally the book you have been waiting for. This last year has been tough and we have needed this light hilarious book that needs to be shared with all your friends. Full of stellar observations of life and how people function
you will finish and open to the beginning to visit with old friends.
Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima, (List Price: 17.99, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 9781534441705, July, 2021) Reviewed by Chelsea Stringfield, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee
Linda-Marie: Reading:The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman, a humorous and thought-provoking cozy read about a middle-aged TV meteorologist replaced by a digital “weather girl,”
who returns to her hometown to do a life reset. Listening: birdsong and quiet traffic noise outside the office window. Watching:The Heart Doctor on Acorn, a humorous and thought-provoking Australian show revolving around a middle-aged heart surgeon with impulse control issues who returns to his hometown to do a life reset.
Do I detect a theme here?
Lucy: Reading: To Have And To Hoax by Martha Waters - This Regency era romance is a heck of a lot of fun! I’ve wanted to read this for an awfully long time, and it’s far exceeding the high expectations
I had for it! Listening: Stuff the British Stole - This podcast examines a well known item (or collection of items) that the British looted, and presents the history of said item or items. It also discusses how the
repatriation of stolen artifacts is often not a simple task. The show is interesting and informative, and I already can’t wait for its second season.
Watching: Virgin River, Season 3 - This show is now verging on ‘ridiculously soapy’ territory, and not in a fun way, but I’m extremely invested in the characters.
Nicki: Reading:Against the Loveless World by Susanna Abulhawa (winner of the 2020 Palestine Book Award), The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, which I am savoring, and Terre des hommes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "Saint-Ex" is an important part of Catherine Raven's Fox & I and
it made me nostalgic. "Wind Sand and Stars" (the book's title in English) is one of my favorites and I decided to give it a shot in the original French. Listening: Byrd 1588, Fretwork -- a gorgeous song collection by the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, kind of a soundtrack to this online Shakespeare & Language course I'm
taking, and back issues of the Reading Women Podcast, because this month's topic, "Reading Palestine," was so good. Watching: The Olympics.
SP: Reading: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers. I've read it dozens of times, but always return to it when I can't settle on what
to read next in the TBR pile. I've read some books about nuns lately, and in many ways Gaudy Night fits right in. Listening: My favorite LOL podcast for the last few months is True Story: A Documentary Podcast with Tig Notaro and Cheryl Hines. The premise is
they watch and discuss a documentary every week, but the reality is an hour of uniformly hilarious digressions. Watching: Not much makes me happier than actresses of a certain age having A Moment in which the world suddenly remembers how brilliant they are. Jean Smart had hers earlier this summer
in Hacks. And now it's Jennifer Coolidge's turn in The White Lotus. Long may they reign.
1. The Midnight Library Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474 2. Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $28, 9781524798659 3. The Last Thing He Told Me Laura
Dave, S&S, $27, 9781501171345 4. The Cellist Daniel Silva, Harper, $28.99, 9780062834867 5. The Maidens Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $27.99, 9781250304452
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593298947 2. American Marxism Mark R. Levin, Threshold
Editions, $28, 9781501135972 3. Landslide Michael Wolff, Holt, $29.99, 9781250830012 4. This Is Your Mind on Plants Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $28, 9780593296905 5. The Bomber Mafia Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, $27, 9780316296618
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