Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ . Thanks to Avid Bookshop, Bookmarks, Bookmiser, Copperfish Books, E.Shaver, booksellers, Fiction Addiction, Flyleaf Books, Fountain Bookstore, Malaprop's, Novel., Oxford Exchange, Page 158 Books, Parnassus, Square Books, Star Line Books, Story on the Square, The Little Bookshop, and Writer's Block Bookstore
9781948226424 The Ungrateful Refugee 9/3/2019
"This is a book that should be read by everyone. . .Nayeri urges us all to go beyond shallow political maneuvering to see the real, human stories hidden within the people we meet." -- Hannah DeCamp, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA
9781492678892I'm Not Dying with You Tonight 8/6/2019
"Sucks you in from the first page and leaves you wondering what's next when you finish."-- Lizy Coale, Copperfish Books , Punta Gorda, FL
9781492680772There Was a Black Hole that Swallowed the Universe 9/3/2019
"Um, so this is one of the most excellent picture books that's ever been made? Like, I read it and I could not believe how much fun I had! I forced all my coworkers to read it." -- Carl Kranz, Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA
9780763679361Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot! 9/3/2019
"Laugh out loud funny reading to my nephew! This book made me a superstar in his eyes!" -- Suzanne Lucey, Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, NC
9781538731338Imaginary Friend 10/1/2019
"Chbosky weaves an incredibly creepy tale, reminiscent of early Stephen King. There's creepy woods, invisible forces, and precocious kids. This one will keep you up at night." -- Jennifer Jones, The Bookmiser, Roswell, GA
9780525558996Grand Union 10/8/2019
"Grand Union is an excellent collection for our present cultural moment: sharp, prescient, and bold." -- Caleb Masters, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, NC
On Wednesday, August 14 at 2PM EST, SIBA is hosting “Small Presses Present Fall & Winter Lists” as part of our Publisher Picks: Best Bets for SIBA Booksellers series. In this bi-monthly series, publishers, editors, marketing directors, and reps present their favorite frontlist titles via Zoom to booksellers. Besides forging important connections with publishers and their reps, attending booksellers will discover new titles to add to their store shelves and earn 10 B3! points. The following industry folks will present: Jacqueline Jarik of Agate Publishing, Ellen Zielinski Whitfield of JKS Communications, and Jon Sealy of Haywire Press. Please rsvp lindamarie@sibaweb.com to attend.
More info on our presenters:
Jacqueline Jarik is the Associate Manager of Publicity at Agate Publishing where she oversees the publicity campaigns and event planning for all titles across Agate’s four main imprints: Bolden Books, Midway Books, Surrey Books, and B2 Books. She has been employed by Agate since 2015 in a variety of publicity roles. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and she lives in Chicago, IL.
Ellen Zielinski Whitfield is a Senior Publicist with JKS Communications, a literary publicity firm that has represented many southern authors and SIBA award-winning books over the past two decades. Before joining the JKS team, Ellen worked at The Dallas Morning News, The Advocate newspapers of Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Waco Tribune Herald and others. She’s also a popular Bookstagrammer, an avid bibliophile living in Louisiana with her newspaper-executive husband, bright-and-spirited daughter, and an ever-growing collection of 550 books.
Jon Sealy is a Richmond, Virginia-based author and newly minted publisher. His first novel, The Whiskey Baron, was published by Hub City Press in 2014 to high acclaim. This year, he launched a small publishing house, Haywire Books, which is dedicated to making sense of a chaotic world. Titles in his catalog include his own The Edge of America (current Okra Pick, pubs Sept. 10), Patricia Henley's Hummingbird House (20th anniversary reprint, Nov. 5), Mark Powell'sFirebird (Jan. 7), and Heather Bell Adams'sThe Good Luck Stone (Summer 2020).
The SIBA Discovery Show is only a little over a month away, which means that bookstores should be creating their plan of action now in order to make the most use they can of the show. The current list of exhibitors is now available, and show specials are being added daily.
Note, especially, the listings in red and dark blue. Those are show sponsors, and first-time exhibitors:
Bookish Birds
-- A #SIBA19 First Time Exhibitor!
We upcycle old books into new gifts, creating page art and ornaments using pages of books destined for the trash. We love our bookstore partners (many are SIBA members) and look forward to meeting more booksellers and discussing our designs. SIBA special: Free shipping on orders of $250 or more.
Stylus Publishing-- A #SIBA19 First Time Exhibitor!
Stylus publishing focuses on higher education, covering such areas as teaching and learning, student affairs, professional development, and gender racial diversity on campus. We distribute clients such as Mercury Learning & Information and Baseball Prospectus Books. SIBA special: Buy 5 copies of Baseball Prospectus books, Get 1 free
Outside of the Discovery Show, the Holiday Catalog is SIBA's most popular member benefit. A gift-giving resource for your customers, it features options for every kind of reader. This great tool for selling books to your customers off-site, virtually, and in-store is beloved by booksellers and customers across the South with a reach of almost a million readers.
The Holiday Catalog has Print, Email, and Web componants, allowing you to mazimize your catalog sales across all your sales platforms: in store, online, and via your store mailing lists.
Don't wait to sign up -- no extra copies are printed, so once the ordering deadline has passed, they will no longer be available
Important Dates:
August 15: Deadline to order Imprinted Catalogs
September 19: Deadline to order non-imprinted catalogs
It's Show Time! The #SIBA19 Discovery Show is Upon Us!
There are so many things coming up at the show this year but I'm particularly excited about ourMilk & Cookies Pajama Silent Reading Gathering on Friday night. These are a few of my favorite things: cookies, pjs, books, reading with friends - I imagine this could be a great event for bookstores to host and I'll let you know how easy it is. The hardest part may be picking out my pajamas. I hope everyone will bring their book and settle in for a couple of hours of community silent reading. I think this could be healing. Let's find out.
Saturday Night Hub City Press is hosting a blow out celebration after the Reader Dinner. It's right across the street from the hotel and it will be a night to remember. Spartanburg is so excited we are bringing all of you to their town and they want to show us a good time. So make sure to put this event on your dance card. You don't want to miss it. Drinks are on Hub City!
Hollins Exposition Services Provides Bookseller Shipping at SIBA Discovery Show in Spartanburg, SC
Booksellers often want to ship items home after the show in the event they have flown and SIBA wants to provide this service. We also want the pricing to be transparent so everyone understands what they are being charged. On site bookseller shipping services is provided by Hollins Exposition Services.
Bookselling shipping will be available from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the exhibit hall on Sunday, September 15.
There is a charge of $15 per box which covers labeling, taping, transporting back to Greensboro, off loading and delivery to UPS for outbound shipping. This is in addition to the regular UPS charges which are based on weight and dimensions.
There is also UPS store 3 miles from the Marriott Spartanburg, and a US Post Office a half mile away.
Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ using the "send to SIBA" option. Thanks to Avid Bookshop, Book No Further, Bookmarks, Fiction Addiction, Fountain Bookstore, Garden District Book Shop, Givens Books, Itinerate Literate, M Judson, Bookseller, McIntyre's Books, Page & Palette, Page 158 Books, Quail Ridge Books, Righton Books, Square Books, Story on the Square, The Country Bookshop, The Little Bookshop, Wonderland Bookshop, and Wordsworth Books
9781419739088 Caging Skies 8/6/2019
"This dark novel is full of psychological insights, beautiful allusions, and compelling writing, and I will be thinking through its implications for weeks to come. " -- Lucy Stoltzfus, The Bookshelf, Thomasville, GA
9781616208219Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? 8/27/2019
"A thoughtful coming of age story wrapped in a screwball mystery caper. . .It may inspire you to learn about John Calvin, the pellet stove, or even small animal pornography. It will most certainly make you smile."-- Tony Peltier, Quail Ridge Books , Raleigh, NC
9780062836625My Jasper June 9/3/2019
"Snyder writes a unique kind of fiction that straddles the line between realism and fantasy, and this book is sure to please both kinds of readers." -- Hannah DeCamp, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA
9781476749297This Tender Land 9/3/2019
"William Kent Krueger is a storyteller par excellence" -- Britton Trice, Garden Disctrict Bookshop, New Orleans, LA
9780823442614Small in the City 9/3/2019
"Sydney Smith has a gift. His thoughtful, winsome illustrations can tell stories brimming with emotional depth and meaning" -- Damita Nocton, The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, NC
9781948226424The Ungrateful Refugee 9/3/2019
"The book reads like a thriller and coming of age story at the same time." -- Doloris Vest, Book No Further, Roanoke, VA
SIBA promotes six new books every month to consumers in our Lady Banks Bookshelf promotion. These titles appear at the top of our weekly Lady Banks Commonplace Book newsletter, which has a circulation of over 60k. We also feature them above the fold on the homepage of Authors ‘Round the South and on the cover image of the ARTS Facebook page with buy links promoted to our 15,000 Facebook friends. A different member store is featured with the titles every week.
By promoting through Lady Banks, publishers are making an investment in SIBA member bookstores’ attention and market. SIBA works with them to select titles your customers are looking for, and then we drive those customers to your stores. It’s very worth your while to bring Lady Banks Bookshelf titles in before the month begins, and put up a display.
Edelweiss announced the release of their new “Edelweiss +Communities” this week. This allows groups of users with similar interests or functions to share reviews, collections, nominations, and more. If you are a bookseller member of SIBA, you most likely are already in our community. SIBA provided Edelweiss a list of our membership, which they used along with their own list of SIBA Edelweiss users to create the SIBA community. However, if you do not see SIBA among your communities, please join us. You can find SIBA in the list of available communities to join.
You can access the communities set up tool by clicking on “people” in the top menu, beneath the search bar. Clicking on “people” directs you to the “communities set up tool,” which you can click on for more information beyond the list of available communities to join.
One important change is the removal of the “Send to SIBA” option with reviews. You can still share your reviews with SIBA by choosing the SIBA community box, along with any other community you’re including in the review share. By sharing with SIBA, your reviews count as Okra Pick and Southern Book Prize nominations, earn you B3! points, plus potential inclusion in our newsletters to booksellers and our industry partners, on our consumer-facing ARTS site, in Lady Banks newsletter, and more. You’re also alerting other SIBA booksellers to the books you’re loving and recommending in your store, which helps everyone stay on top of what’s new and noteworthy. When SIBA booksellers get behind a book, it becomes a regional and, often, national bestseller. So, let’s stay connected in the SIBA “community” on Edelweiss and make great things happen. If you have any problems joining the SIBA community or accessing "Communities" on Edelweiss, please contact us. We're here to help you!
States in your territory:Alabama (AL), Arkansas (AR), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Kentucky (KY), Louisiana (LA), Mississippi (MS), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), Tennessee (TN), and Virginia (VA).
Number of years as a rep:This is my first year as a rep. It has been an eye-opening experience as I’ve now looked into the world of independent booksellers and their effect on communities and the consumption of all types of literature.
Best part about being a rep: Working closely with the dedicated independent bookstore employees, seeing the enthusiasm and passion the publishing industry shares, better understanding the customer base in each region, and having a small influence on how and where great literature finds its home.
What were you doing before you became a rep?Most recently I worked for HarperCollins in New York as a Foreign Rights Associate, where I sold translation rights into over thirty-five territories for four major HarperCollins imprints. Before that, I worked as a Literary Scout for Mary Anne Thompson Associates and as a Foreign Rights Assistant at Trident Media Group.
What's the coolest thing/a great idea you've seen at one of your stores?Drag Queen Storytime and/or a book delivery service (like ordering a pizza, but books!).
Do you see Edelweiss reviews from booksellers? Occasionally! However, I’d love to see more and begin interacting more frequently using this great industry wide resource we share.
Do you follow any stores especially closely on social media? What are they doing right? I think if you have an active social media presence, you’re already ahead of the game. There are so many people out there looking for a sense of community and to share enthusiasm towards their interests. Reviewing books and kicking off discussions on social media can be a great way to interact with your customers. Also incentivizing them with special social media promotions can be a great way to increase your audience and promote events.
What can a bookseller do to make a sales call more effective?Being forthright about how much time you can devote to the call and your personal preferences. Some accounts enjoy discussing IPG’s list title by title, others only like going over the highlights. Some prefer to submit an order and only expect a small additional list of suggestions, while others prefer a curated list based off past orders and conversations. As a rep, I’m always happy to direct our call in the direction you’d prefer! Whatever is easiest and most effective for you.
Most memorable thing that’s happened during a sales call? Mid call our building was struck by lightning, all of the power went out in the building, and a small fire started close by. Being evacuated in the midst of a huge rainstorm was a sales call I certainly won’t forget. It may sound like a ‘dog ate my homework’ moment, but I promise I didn’t hang up – the power went out!
What’s one thing you wish bookstores would do, or do more often? Take a chance on more fiction. There are so many great voices out there – from smaller and independent publishers – that deserve to be given a chance to sell, to have a prominent spot on the shelf, and find an audience.
Favorite book you’re currently promoting:Into Captivity They Will Go by Noah Milligan (adult), How to be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters (YA), and A Friendship Yarn by Lisa Moser (children’s).
What three things should a bookstore have when they come to meet with you at your booth at the #SIBA19 Discovery Show? Unfortunately, I will not be attending SIBA this year – it coincidentally falls on the week of my wedding! However, my colleague Aaron Howe will be there. I think it's always helpful to have a business card, time to get to know each other and hear more about IPG’s amazing list, and a sense of adventure – it can be fun to pick up a title you may not have normally sought out.
Patterson announced in May that he would pledge a personal contribution of $250,000 to independent bookstore employees, which will be granted in amounts of $500 to 500 individual booksellers. New this year, 100 of the bonuses will be set aside for children’s booksellers. This year’s campaign is open to all U.S. independent bookstore employees through October 12.
Free "How to Buy Direct From Publishers" training session
Jill Hendrix, owner of Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC will lead a 30-minute Zoom training on Wednesday, August 14 at 2 PM EST focusing on strategies for purchasing directly from publishers. All booksellers are welcome to participate. If you're interested in attending this training, e-mail Jill (jill@jillhendrix.com) with subject line "Direct Buying Training." Zoom details and a reminder will be sent closer to the event date.
Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ using the "send to SIBA" option. Thanks to Avid Bookshop, Book No Further, Bookmiser, Books & Books, Fiction Addiction, Flyleaf Books, Fountain Bookstore, Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, McIntyre's Books, Octavia Books, Oxford Exchange, Page & Palette, Page 158 Books, Quail Ridge Books, Righton Books, Square Books, Story on the Square, The Country Bookshop, The Little Bookshop, Wonderland Bookshop, and Wordsworth Books
9780062889362 After the Flood 9/3/2019
"The issues of trust, family and loss were powerfully drawn and made for riveting read!" -- Stephanie Crowe, Page & Palette, Fairhope, AL
9781592702886Layla's Happiness 9/3/2019
"This story of family, community, love & happiness reads beautifully and leads to wonderful, important conversations"-- Cristina Russell, Books and Books, Coral Gables, FL
9781250205933Dominicana 9/3/2019
"Dominicana offers a wonderful glimpse into the universal story of risks and love and the powerful pull of family and traditions." --Laura Taylor, Oxford Exchange, Tampa, FL
9781452149875Hungry Jim 9/3/2019
"A little bit WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, a little bit MR. TIGER GOES WILD, but wholly it's own" -- Hannah DeCamp, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA
9781534436589She's the Worst 9/3/2019
"a sweet, fun book about sisterhood" -- Jennifer Jones, Bookmiser, Roswell, GA
9781984830173American Royals 9/3/2019
"American Royals has the juiciness of Gossip Girl with the excitement of Princess Diaries." -- Deanna Bailey, Story on the Square, McDonough, GA
San Francisco’s Green Apple Books has created social media posts to bring attention to the value of indie bookstores on Amazon’s Prime Day, which begins Monday, July 15. Green Apple is encouraging all indie bookstores to make use of the posts, customizing with store photos that reflect the importance of shopping local and supporting community.
“On this #PrimeDay, remember that Amazon won’t bring scores of authors to your community for FREE events each year. #ShopLocal” (with a photo from an event or of a famous author at the store)
“On this #PrimeDay, remember that Amazon won’t entertain your kids with a FREE drag queen story hour. #ShopLocal” (with a photo from recent event)
“On this #PrimeDay, remember that you can’t get engaged to your fellow booklover at Amazon. #ShopLocal” (with a photo of a couple that recently got engaged at the store)
“On this #PrimeDay, remember that Amazon won’t reinvest all its money in your neighborhood to keep local cafes, restaurants, services, and schools thriving. #ShopLocal” (with a photo of neighboring shops)
“On this #PrimeDay, remember that Amazon won’t donate a gift card to your school fund-raiser. #ShopLocal” (with a photo of envelopes to schools with the store’s return address)
“On this #PrimeDay, remember that Amazon employees aren’t represented by a union. #ShopLocal #UFCW #ShopUnion” (with a photo of the store’s collective bargaining agreement)
“On this #PrimeDay, remember that you never have to pay an annual fee for $.99 shipping at greenapplebooks.com #ShopLocal” (with a photo advertising 99-cent shipping on the store site)
Publishers Picks: Fall Fiction to Look Forward To!
On Wednesday, June 26 at 2PM EST, SIBA is hosted “Fall Fiction” as part of our Publisher Picks: Best Bets for SIBA Booksellers series. In this bi-monthly series, publishers, editors, marketing directors, and reps present their favorite frontlist titles via Zoom to booksellers. Besides forging important connections with publishers and their reps, attending booksellers discover new titles to add to their store shelves and earn 10 B3! points. The following industry folks presented: Eric Svenson, sales representative for HarperCollins, Bob Werber, sales representative for IPS, Gavin Grant, publisher of Small Beer Press, and Doni Kay, sales representative for Penguin Young Readers
Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ using the "send to SIBA" option. Thanks to Avid Bookshop, Book No Further, Bookmarks, Bookmiser, Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, Fiction Addiction, Firestorm Books, Fountain Bookstore, Givens Books, McIntyre's Books, Parnassus Books, Righton Books, Underground Books, and Wonderland Bookshop
9780399182105 Wanderers 7/2/2019
"anyone looking for a big, bold book will finding Wanderers both thought-provoking and satisfying" -- Darryl Peck, Righton Books, St. Simons, GA
9781571313782Late Migrations 7/9/2019
"After finishing this, I paid more attention to the natural world in my backyard and was immensely nostalgic for evenings on my grandma's back porch."-- Chelsea Stringfield, Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN
9780525562115Death and Other Happy Endings 7/9/2019
" This book is filled with nonstop surprises. It is unexpected, original, and at times even funny." --Dean Hunt, Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA
9780008333072Mother 8/6/2019
"The mother-daughter connection hit me like a brick wall. Well done" -- Easty Lambert-Brown, Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, Tuscaloosa, AL
9781534431454The Okay Witch 9/3/2019
"Cute, rich, and colorful . . . Full of humor and heart, a great debut!" -- Caleb Masters, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, NC
9781984830173American Royals 9/3/2019
"With all the appeal of reality television and royal fantasies, this book will draw you in to its love triangles and court intrigue" -- Melissa Oates, Fiction Addiction, Greensville, SC
The reviews booksellers submit to Edelweiss have become one of the most important tools SIBA has to promote and advocate for its members in the book industry and to the reading public at large. It's so important that SIBA gives stores SIBA credit for every review they post. A couple reviews a week can really add up!
Things to keep in mind when you submit reviews:
Check your store information is accurate on your account. SIBA only looks at reviews from stores within SIBA territory. If you have no State information, or if your Organization doesn't correspond with SIBA records, your reviews won't show up in our list
Make sure your review "role type" equals "Bookseller." We filter out all non-bookseller reviews, and if you don't select a role type at all, your review will not be reported to SIBA.
Note: If you have never actually requested a review copy on Edelweiss, you may not have ever been prompted to choose a role type. The best way to fix that is to go to the Review Copies section in Edelweiss and click on one of the request buttons. (see below)
Get your staff to participate. More reviewers = more SIBA credit and more chances for your store to be seen by publishers, customers, and potential customers. (Hear from Jill Hendrix at Fiction Addication on how she gets her staff involved on Edelweiss
How does SIBA use your reviews?
Store reviews (and consequently store reviewers) are shared on SIBA's websites, blogs, newsletters and social media:
Reviews of forthcoming books are shared on both SIBA's bookstore and industry blogs, and sent out via the "SIBALAND" newsletter to every bookseller, publisher, sales rep, and publicist in our database.
Positive reviews of eligible titles are marked as potential Okra Picks for the forthcoming season and considered de facto nominations for The Southern Book Prize
Once the books are published, positive reviews are posted to SIBA's consumer website, AuthorsRoundtheSouth.com under its Read This! banner. All books are linked back to the recommending store for purchase. There are nearly 1000 book reviews from Southern booksellers on the ARTS website, making it one of the most extensive collections of bookseller recommendations online.
The current week's reviews are published in the Lady Banks newsletter, and featured in all editions of the Lady Banks Calendar newsletter of member store events.
Blurbs from store reviews are also used wherever appropriate in the promotional materials SIBA creates for its member bookstores.
Thanks to the Edelweiss Reviewer tool, your short reviews can have a big impact for your store.
Posted By Linda-Marie Barrett,
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Indie bookstores nationwide will celebrate the romance book genre with store events, author readings, and themed merchandise on Saturday, August 17, 2019. Avoiding the oversaturation of Valentine’s Day in February, Bookstore Romance Day is scheduled to take place during Romance Awareness Month, occurring each August (because August is the hottest month of the year). Begun in 1987 by Eileen Buchheim, Romance Awareness Month was intended to celebrate romance in all its forms. Tired of the antiquated notion that independent bookstores are too snobby to sell romance titles, the independent booksellers behind Bookstore Romance Day intend to show romance authors, romance publishers, and romance readers that romance books are more than supported – they’re celebrated. “There are those of us who have been quietly reading and supporting the genre for years, and we’re being joined and supported by a new generation of booksellers who believe all reading is good reading,” said Billie Bloebaum of Third Street Books in McMinnville, OR, the bookseller who first proposed the event. “There’s still a lot of work to do, still hearts and minds to change, but progress is being made, and an event like this should, we hope, raise the visibility of romance-friendly bookstores.” The 2019 date is intended to be a soft launch for what will become a yearly event with booksellers and bookstores around the country, corporate and independent publishers, authors from all romance genres and sub-genres, and romance readers coming together for author readers, in-store and virtual events, exclusive merchandise, and above all, a celebration of love and romance.
For more info:BookstoreRomanceDay.org or contact Billie Bloebaum billie@bookstoreromanceday.org
Deadline to participate in ABACUS extended to July 12
The ABA has pushed back the deadline to submit your store's info to the annual ABACUS survey. By becoming part of the ABACUS community of participating bookstores, booksellers will receive:
a full ABACUS benchmarking report (including comparative financial ratios, operations data, and company profile information),
a customized bookstore performance report, and
a range of online reporting tools that provide a wide variety of specific analyses, allowing stores to evaluate performance versus similar companies and track their company’s performance over time against the industry results, among other criteria.
(Asheville, NC) –Southern indie booksellers have announced their 2019 Summer Okra Picks, a baker’s dozen of the titles they are most looking forward to telling their customers to try. Taken together, the Okra Picks are not your average summer reading list – each book was chosen because it is Southern in nature and has devoted fans in the Southern indie bookselling community. The Summer Okra Picks release in July, August, and September, and every book on the list has a Southern bookseller ready to put it in the hands of readers with that most exciting phrase in the English language, “You’ve got to read this!”
Southern independent bookstores – we grow good books!
Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl Milkweed Editions, July 2019
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis Sourcebooks Landmark, July 2019
The Substitution Order by Martin Clark Knopf, July 2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Doubleday, July 2019
Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson William Morrow, July 2019
The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins Gallery Books, July 2019
Sing a Song by Kelly Starling Lyons, Keith Mallett (Illus.) Nancy Paulsen Books, August 2019
Stay by Bobbie Pyron Katherine Tegen Books, August 2019
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Grove Press, August 2019
My Jasper June by Laurel Snyder Walden Pond Press, September 2019
The Edge of America by Jon Sealy Haywire Books, September 2019
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Riverhead Books, September 2019
No Judgments by Meg Cabot William Morrow, September 2019
Find more information about the Okra Picks at AuthorsRoundtheSouth.com/okra
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Indie bookstores nationwide will celebrate the romance book genre with store events, author readings, and themed merchandise on Saturday, August 17, 2019. Avoiding the oversaturation of Valentine’s Day in February, Bookstore Romance Day is scheduled to take place during Romance Awareness Month, occurring each August (because August is the 
(Asheville, NC) –Southern indie booksellers have announced their 2019 Summer Okra Picks, a baker’s dozen of the titles they are most looking forward to telling their customers to try. Taken together, the Okra Picks are not your average summer reading list – each book was chosen because it is Southern in nature and has devoted fans in the Southern indie bookselling community. The Summer Okra Picks release in July, August, and September, and every book on the list has a Southern bookseller ready to put it in the hands of readers with that most exciting phrase in the English language, “You’ve got to read this!”
