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First Things First...
3/15: Deadline to order RAMP Summer Catalog (order) 3/30: Deadline
to complete the SIBA Census (click here) 4/1: Deadline to
apply for the Wanda Jewell Scholarship (click here) 4/15:
Registration Closes for Come Together! Event in Winston-Salem (register) 4/27: Come Together! in Winston-Salem 4/30: Independent Bookstore Day
5/17: NVNR May! (register)
Booksellers, be featured in the SIBA newsletter: click here Read something great?
Submit your review to SBR: click here
Action Item: Summer Catalog Deadline is March 15th
Because of paper shortages, this is a hard deadline. No late orders can be accepted. Visit RAMPbooks.com to place your store order-- it takes just a few minutes. You can also see which titles are included, and download bookseller marketing materials. This is a FREE benefit of SIBA membership and a wonderful way to increase your store's
visiblity and profile and to reach new customers.
DON'T miss out on this. It's an easy and beautiful way to promote your store and bring in new customers. Sign up at RAMPbooks.com
NVNR May Includes Bookstore Row
This week the NVNR community has been wrapped up in Publicity Speed Dating, a fast-paced, super-fun, no-time-for-bathroom-breaks event where bookstore after bookstore steps up to the mic and pitches their store to over a hundred publishers
and publicists. The energy has been amazing. So many great stores! So many cool ideas!
Harness all that excitement by registering for NVNR May and August!
In 2021 NVNR launched "Bookstore Row" -- an enhanced showcase of bookstores represented at the show with detailed contact information, press kits, and photo galleries. Publishers and vendors praised Bookstore Row as one of
the most useful tools they have ever seen at a conference.
Bookstore Row returns for 2022. It will open April 1st, and be available through the end of September. Bookstores must be registered for NVNR May and/or August to appear. April, May and June will feature stores registered for NVNR
May. July, August, and September will feature stores attending NVNR August.
Store owners and managers who have already registered will receive invitations after March 15th to create, or update their Bookstore Row listing.
Booksellers often get their best ideas from other booksellers, which is why SIBA tries to include a bookstore tour at its (in-person, real-world!) events. The Bookstore Tour on the schedule for Come Together is a wonderful showcase
of some highly creative and innovative shops:
Scuppernong Books has been community-focused from the moment the doors opened seven years ago and has been actively involved in the rebirth of downtown Greensboro and is a founder of the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival.
They have a great sense of humor.
The BIPOC-owned Boomerang Bookshop: Nomad Chapter is a mobile bookstore that serves the Piedmont Triad, and greater Central North Carolina regions. They bought their bookmobile off of Craigslist and sees their role as promoting literacy and access to books to communities where there aren't any bookstores.
Bookmarks was a literary arts nonprofit organization which created one of the premier book festivals in the country, and created the gold standard for bringing authors into classrooms with their Authors in Schools
program. The bookstore opened in 2017 and its sales support year-round outreach literacy programs. It is also at the center of the arts and cultural life of Winston-Salem.
Last year the New York Times "In Her Words" column asked prominent women activists how they felt about celebrating Women's History Month. The responses were all a variation on a theme: Yes, there is much to celebrate. But we still have so far to go.
"..the fact is, discriminatory policies blocked women from fully participating in our country for generations. It led to disparities in wages, representation and opportunities that we are still tackling." -- Deb
Haaland, secretary of the Interior
Intersectionality, the acknowledgment that that everyone has their own unique experiences of discrimination and oppression and we must consider everything and anything that can marginalize people, becomes especially
important this month. That is, we need to acknowledge that "Women's History Month" has not traditionally celebrated or honored all women.
There needs to be more representation and inclusion in celebrations of Women’s History Month. I would like to see more actionable items from community leaders, corporations and legislators that promote equity and equal rights. -Angela Ceseña, executive director of Latina SafeHouse
We can call it progress to have a woman of color as vice president, but the on the ground realities for poor women are dire.
We need to acknowledge the unique forms of violence that trans women face. We need to acknowledge how incarcerated women and women immigrants detained at the border are experiencing a reproductive crisis. -Dr. Nneka Dennie,
co-founder of the Black Women’s Studies Association
We need to ask ourselves why we adapt, when we should be working for change.
For too long, we have been living our grandmother’s version of equality — where we quietly adapt to the structures in which we live and work.” - Dr. Kelly Graham, a physician and assistant professor at Harvard
Medical School
Women's History Month is meant to celebrate and honor the courage and determination of women who strive to make a better, more equitable society. There is much to celebrate. yes. But....
Welcome to Bookselling! ABA Resource Sheet for New Booksellers Includes SIBA The American Booksellers Association has created a downloadable info-graphic/flyer of resources every new booksellers should know and use. The sheet includes links to subscribe to important industry newsletters, create accounts
on bookselling resource sites like Edelweiss and Libro.fm, (and SIBA!) and links to networking groups such as the ABA's Meetups. Click here to view
Registration for PW's 2022 U.S. Book Show is open Registration for the 2022 edition of the U.S. Book Show is now open. The virtual book publishing trade show, produced by PW and now in its second year, will run
May 24-26. The event's primary mission is to promote fall 2022 books of particular interest to booksellers librarians, book media, agents, and publishing professionals. Here
Registration for Children's Institute opens Thursday, 3/3 Children's Institute will take place live and in person at the Biltmore Waldorf Astoria resort in Phoenix, AZ from June 20-22. Here
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.
Chorus captured my heart in a way that only a family drama can! I became completely obsessed with the seven Shaw siblings and their shared but distinct memories of two pivotal moments in their family's history: their mother's
death and their sister's pregnancy. Told throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the additional layer of historical fiction in this story makes it the perfect selection for any book club. Rebecca Kauffman has landed
the first spot on my Best Books of 2022 List! ―Beth Seufer Buss from Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, NC Buy from Bookmarks
Magnificent. The writing is somehow both simple and decadent. I had to pause multiple times throughout just to appreciate the depth of understanding of human beings, the beauty of the words chosen to convey it. This isn’t East of Eden,
but it will be compared to it. Instead, Chorus brings a contemporary style and consciousness to a family in the depression era. It explores the mysteries of family, choices, secrets, anger, grief, connection, but it
does not solve them. This book was devastating and incredible. You should read it. ―Becca Sloan from Novel in Memphis, TN Buy from Novel.
A terrific family saga that questions the meaning of home and the changing roles that family members play over time as they age and experience loss. Through shifting perspectives and over back and forth time periods, the author
unravels the mysteries and motivations of the Shaw family in perfect syncopation. I couldn't put it down! ―Maggie Robe from Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC Buy from Flyleaf Books
Memphis is a wonderful, intriguing book about a family of black women in Memphis. It primarily centers on two sisters, both with much tragedy but amazing resilience, and one of their daughters. They carry on the strong
tradition of their mother. Skipping around between different years and various characters, it weaves what undoubtedly is the story of so many black women in Memphis. Beautifully written.
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow, (List Price: 27, The Dial Press, 9780593230480, April 2022) Reviewed by Lynne Phillips, Wordsworth Books in
Little Rock, Arkansas
Linda-Marie: Reading: Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake. This wonderful rom-com emphasizes how the stories we tell ourselves can differ dramatically from the stories our family and friends would
tell about us. A comment, a look, even an absence during an important event could be for reasons we don’t know or at the time wouldn’t understand. My favorite stories involve healing from misunderstandings and discovering
the love and affection that was there all along. Am really enjoying the journey of four women, and possibly a fifth (!), allowing themselves to be vulnerable so they can overcome past misunderstandings and find the love that’s
just waiting for them.
Listening: Celtic Chill station on Pandora. I know it’s not hip, but it’s working for me right now.
Watching: Season Two of Love on the Spectrum. Coming from a family with neurodiversity, I appreciate so much the care and thoughtfulness of this program, and the vulnerability and bravery of those who are agreeing to be featured
as they try to find love.
Robin: Reading: The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clement and Onjuli Datta Listening: Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire Watching: We just binged the back half of season 7 of Legends of Tomorrow. Fingers crossed for Season 8.
Nicki: Reading: Nikolski by Nicholas Dickner, The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk Listening: I downloaded You Don't Know Us Negroes & Other Essays, the new collection of Zora Neale Hurston's work from Libro.fm. I wanted to hear how some of the folk stories were told. The narrator, Robin Miles, does a really good job. Watching: Halfway through Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica. But to be honest, I mostly have the news running.
SP:
Reading: February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins. I am halfway through this incredibly delightful book
and Jane Bowles, my literary crush (maybe it's time for a Two Serious Ladies re-read?), hasn't even come on the scene yet. Listening: It's never not a good time for Patti Smith's Horses, and for two weeks running I have yet to get tired of Hurray for the Riff Raff's latest Life on Earth or Erin Rae's Lighten Up. Watching: The same thing most people are incessantly watching and worrying about, I expect.
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Maid Nita Prose, Ballantine, $27, 9780593356159 2. The Paris Apartment Lucy Foley, Morrow, $28.99, 9780063003057 3.
Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $30, 9781982168438 4. Devil House John Darnielle, MCD, $28, 9780374212230 5.
The Midnight Library Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. The Nineties: A Book Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $28, 9780735217959 2. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, One World, $38, 9780593230572 3. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us Cole Arthur Riley, Convergent
Books, $26, 9780593239773 4. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743 5. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience Brené Brown, Random House, $30, 9780399592553
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