We at PSB, and all indie booksellers I’d wager, are always brainstorming for ways to engage with our community of writers - published, non-published, self-published, aspiring – in a meaningful and mutually beneficial way. We, actually our marketing team, have hit on something that may not be novel in the literary world, but may be in the context of a bookstore.That is a Writer in Residence program. The idea was first hatched back in January 2018. Management was unanimously behind it and requests for proposals went out to the public in June. The response was overwhelming. Read more about the program HERE.
If this sounds like something you might want to institute in your bookstore, feel free to contact us.
You can always check out more Brilliant Bookseller Ideas here
SIBA has recently seen an uptick in the number of bookstore events appearing on the "ARTS Calendar" -- SIBA's promoted calendar of events at her member stores. The average number of events has been climbing steadily, from about 50 to 70 per week. In fact next week, March 10-16, 2019, lists over 100 events!
With the extra events has come extra interest -- especially from authors and publishers looking to see if their events are listed, and from bookstores who don't see their events on the calendar at all. SIBA's membership has climbed by more than 20 new bookstore members over the past year, so we thought a short refresher would be of use to new members, or members who haven't taken advantage of the ARTS Calendar and would like to start:
What is the ARTS Calendar?
The ARTS events calendar is one of the most actively accessed parts of SIBA's consumer-targeted website, authorsroundthesouth.com. An average of a 150 bookstores list between 50-80 events every week. SIBA booksellers can post their store events, which are collected in a searchable calendar, included in the Lady Banks newsletter, and shared on SIBA’s social networks, including author tags and hashtags. Listing events on the ARTS calendar is one way SIBA works to increase the visibity of its member stores in their own community and within the book industry.
You don't need to be logged in to use the form, although it will be easier if you are. It will take up to 24 hours for each event to appear on the site calendar.
Do I have to enter each event separately?
The form is for a single event entry. You can also upload your event list as a batch using the ARTS Calendar Event Spreadsheet, which can be emailed to nicki@sibaweb.com.
Do we earn B3! credit for entering our events?
Yes! Stores earn $.50 in B3! credit for each event submitted via the form or spreadsheet. SIBA has several members who regularly earn enough credit to pay their membership dues just by entering events on the calendar
Why are there already events listed for my store in the calendar? I haven't entered any!
SIBA elves like to spend their free time entering events on behalf of our member stores. They get event information from your store websites and newsletters. While we can't promise that all of your events will be added to the calendar, we make an effort to represent every store with an accessible and active events calendar.
Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ using the "send to SIBA" option. Thanks to Avid Bookshop, Book No Further, Bookmiser, Fiction Addiction, Fountain Bookstore, Lincoln's Loft Bookstore, Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, McIntyre's Books, Page & Palette, Page 158 Books, Parnassus Books, Sassafras on Sutton, The Country Bookshop, The Little Bookshope, The Story on the Square, Union Ave Books, and Wonderland Bookshop.
9781982102807 I Miss You When I Blink 4/2/2019
" just the right touch of humor and honesty to appeal to me"
9781250295088I Will Be Fierce 4/23/2019
"A glorious take on the difference a good attitude can make in facing the challenges of the day."
9781101947869Furious Hours 5/7/2019
"A remarkable story of a series of crimes, insurance fraud, courtroom drama, a brilliant defense attorney Tom Radney and the famous writer (Harper Lee) who tried to capture it all. "
9781635573169Light from Other Stars 5/7/2019
"filled with wonderful and fully-realized characters, heartbreaking and realistic portrayals of parent/child relationships, and fascinating science...will keep you reading well into the night"
9781101980286Spying on the South 5/14/2019
"Tony Horowitz is one of the best social historians walking the globe today, his peripatetic imagination taking us readers places we'd never think of going otherwise"
Posted By Nicki Leone,
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
"What's significant about this isn't that Stefani hand-sold my book, or that any indie bookstore did. It's more the fact that customers at an indie bookstore trust the booksellers."–Cathy Salustri, author of Backroads of Paradise: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida
Last week the iconic Tampa, FL bookstore Inkwood Books announced that it would be closing at the end of March. The news prompted an outpouring of community support, ranging from grief to "good luck for the future" to some truly original emoticons.
It also, as such things are wont to do, prompted many people to share their memories and feelings of why the long-standing independent bookstore was so important in their lives. "As a literary and Florida writer, Inkwood is one of the main reasons anyone ever read a Connie May Fowler book," wrote none other than Connie May Fowler herself. "Working there inspired my husband and I to open my own bookstore" wrote a former staff member. "You guys were my daughter's first bookstore" said someone else. The columnist Cathy Salustri wrote an extended and heartfelt tribute to the store in the Tampa edition of Creative Loafing, recounting her journey into the wide weird world of promoting her first book with Inkwood's owner Stefani Beddingfield as a willing and generous guide. "What's significant about this," she sums up, "isn't that Stefani hand-sold my book, or that any indie bookstore did. It's more the fact that customers at an indie bookstore trust the booksellers."
Posted By Nicki Leone,
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
THE BOOKS YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE TALKING ABOUT
Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ using the "send to SIBA" option. Thanks to Avid Books, Bookmarks, Bookmiser, Books & Books, Fiction Addiction, Flyleaf Books, Fountain Bookstore, Garden District Bookshop, Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, Midtown Reader, New Dominion Bookshop, Page 158 Books, Quail Ridge Books, Square Books, The Bookshelf, The Country Bookshop, and Underground Books.
9780765398512 Redemption Point 3/19/2019
"Candace Fox brings her characters to life in such a way that you even like the ones who should be unlikeable. And the setting in Cairns, complete with alligators, wetlands, and tropic heat just helps add to the intensity of the fabulous story."
9781250156297Fake Plastic Girl 3/26/2019
"A modern take on Great Gatsby, but with lots more Taylor Swift references. Fun. neurotic, and twisty!"
9780802128423At Briarwood School for Girls 4/2/2019
"Michael Knight has written a quiet symphony that captures the long memories of boarding schools in a dreamy, delightful and thoughtful novel that dives into progress, history, personality and the repletion of life after life."
9781250303172Llama Destroys the World 5/7/2019
"Who knew cake could be so deadly? Or that the apocalypse could be so hilarious?"
9781948226196Rough Magic 5/7/2019
"Prior-Palmer seems a natural born memoirist, baring her loneliness, competitiveness, and more than occasional ridiculousness so freely you almost feel you’re cantering through the Mongolian wilderness beside her."
9780525656135Orange World and Other Stories 5/14/2019
"[Karen Russell's] utterly original concoctions often involve complex female characters, gorgeous imagery and language, and a sideshow setup that takes you on a wild ride. Orange World delivers on all counts."
Posted By Wanda Jewell,
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Need a Mini-Wini? Let SIBA in the Springtime be your miniature Winter Institute: your time to reconnect with colleagues, writers, find inspiration and innovation.
Visit indie bookstores, enjoy Happy Hour, and dinner with writers and booksellers, learn about ABACUS and pre-orders from the ABA and enjoy a full day of EUREKAsiba Talks on a wide variety of topics from a variety of presenters from booksellers to publishers to writers to industry pros. These talks are the cornerstone of SIBA in the Springtime and I’m quite proud of what SIBA is building in this program for SIBA members. This is a day together that flows from presentation to small group discussion & sharing to presentation to more discussion & note-taking.It is a most intimate opportunity for everyone and must be experienced to be fully appreciated.Don’t let this pass you by.We want to see you in Atlanta in March.Make your hotel reservation today and join us!
SIBA in the Springtime & EUREKAsiba
Monday, March 18 –Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Embassy Suites by Hilton Atlanta Airport | Hotel Reservations
Since 1983, the Women’s National Book Association has awarded one of the most prestigious honors in children’s bookselling in the United States. Given annually at BookExpo America’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, the WNBA Pannell Award recognizes bookstores that enhance their communities by bringing exceptional creativity to foster a love of reading and books in children and young adults.
The SIBA member stores nominated for the 2019 WNBA Pannell Award are:
General Bookstore Category
Main Street Books (Davidson, NC)
Octavia Books (New Orleans, LA)
Park Road Books (SIBA’s current Bibb Pick) (Charlotte, NC)
The Book Cellar (Lake Worth, FL)
The Book Tavern (Augusta, GA)
Children’s Specialty Bookstore Category
Hooray for Books (Alexandria, VA)
Square Books Jr. (Oxford, MS)
Along with the WNBA, Penguin Young Readers Group co-sponsors the award, which was established in honor of Lucille Micheels Pannell, founding member of one of the WNBA chapters. Established in 1917, the Women’s National Book Association is a national organization of women and men who work with and value books. For more than hundred years, the WNBA has worked to promote reading and support the role of women in the community of the book. For more information, go to www.wnba-books.org.
Cindy Dach, co-owner of Changing Hands Bookstores and First Draft Bookbar (Tempe, & Phoenix, AZ), will present techniques for time management, planning, and organizing daily tasks, all with an eye toward completing the big-picture projects. Finding it hard to deal with interruptions, protect your time, and achieve your goals? Dach has developed tools and approaches specific to the world of bookselling to address these problems and be more effective. Please RSVP lindamarie@sibaweb.com to attend.
Posted By Nicki Leone,
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
THE BOOKS YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE TALKING ABOUT
Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ using the "send to SIBA" option. Thanks to Bookmarks, Bookmiser, Copperfish Books, Fiction Addiction, Flyleaf Books, Fountain Bookstore, Lincoln's Loft Bookstore, Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, McIntyre's Books, Octavia Books, Oxford Exchange, Page 158 Books, Parnassus Books, Quail Ridge Books, Square Books, The Country Bookshop, The Story Shop, Underground Books, Union Ave Books, and Wordsworth Books.
9781631492167 Biloxi 5/21/2019
"Everyone who knows a southern, white, single male in his sixties should read Biloxi."
9781635573169Light from Other Stars 5/7/2019
"A thrilling journey through space and time and a deeply moving exploration of the bond between parent and child."
9781593763909Loudermilk 5/7/2019
"A grand comic novel with hints of Charles Portis and Pynchon, a great post-Millenium, pre-Millennial foray into America at the cusp of its decline. Hilarious, touching, ambitious and endlessly playful."
9781536204803Sadie and the Silver Shoes 4/23/2019
"Read this for the joy of rooting for Sadie, a girl who knows her own heart. Also, read this for the pleasure of seeing a silver shoe float down a river like a shiny fish."
9781452172781Tomorrow Most Likely 4/2/2019
"A book about wonder and joy and the possibilities of tomorrow. (Oh, and a squirrel named Stu, too.) Giggles and magic abound."
9780525561255A Good Enough Mother 4/30/2019
"a deeply insightful story of a mother who always wants more for her child in the name of love, and how this may not always be for the best."
Posted By Nicki Leone,
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
February Small Press Presents: Spring and Summer Picks
Publisher Picks: Best Bets for SIBA Booksellers: Publisher Picks brings publishers and booksellers together outside of rep visits to stores and the Discovery Show.
Featuring: Michael Reynolds, Editor in chief of independent publisher, Europa Editions, Carin Siegfried, the Mid-Atlantic field sales representative at Macmillan, Emily Midkiff, editorial assistant and marketing director at Month9Books, Meg Reid, Director of Hub City Press, and Lynn York, publisher of Blair.
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.
Since SIBA redesigned Lady Banks Bookshelf last year, this promotion experienced a 23% increase in audience reach(from 17K to 22.5K), and a 16% jump in engagement (from 585 to 700) in on social media, and a 10% rise in impressions, 14% rise in click throughs via email. SIBA attributes the success to a more strongly focused target audience, more active engagement with member bookstores, and a fresh, more visually appealing presence that also appeals to the reader's sense of adventure and individuality.
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. Here are our March titles:
Martin Luther King Jr.: Voice for Equality by James Buckley Jr., Portable Press
How the Light Gets In by Jolina Petersheim, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou by Ken Wells, W.W. Norton & Co.
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll, West Virginia University Press
Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina edited by Wilton Barnhardt, University of North Carolina Press
I think small businesses, in this case indie publishers and indie bookstores, have this characteristic in common: we’re all doing too many different things. At Europa, we’ve attempted, and I think mostly succeeded, at turning this into a strength, and certainly my own skill set and career path into publishing make me unsuited to wearing only one hat. I think the way of staffing, approaching work flow, and more intangible things like an editorial aesthetic or style of community outreach are informed by the diversity of skills we have and jobs we do.
Michael Reynold’s talk is part of SIBA in the Springtime (SITS) & EUREKAsiba, a program of bookseller education in an intimate format, designed to emphasize creative and innovative solutions to running a business. SITS takes place Monday, March 18 –Wednesday, March 20, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Atlanta Airport. Here’s a link to REGISTER!
Micheal Reynolds is the Editor in chief of independent publisher, Europa Editions. He is the recipient of numerous industry awards, and has served on the jury for the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators, and the foreign jury of the Strega Prize. He is a regular speaker at the Columbia School of Journalism’s Columbia Publishing Course, and at publishing and translation conferences in America and internationally. He is the founder of Bookselling Without Borders, a scholarship program that diversifies the culture of reading by building bridges between the American bookselling community and the international book industry. He is also an author and a translator whose published translations include three historical mysteries by Carlo Lucarelli, and Viola Di Grado’s prize-winning novel, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool.
Reviewing the most recent four years of Amazon's U.S. retail sales, Prime Numbers documents that in 2018 alone Amazon and its third-party vendors sold $189 billion of retail goods. The report’s analysis reveals that the nationwide results of those sales were:
540 million square feet of displaced retail space,
900,000 displaced retail jobs, and
$5.5 billion to $7.0 billion in uncollected sales tax.
For the period of 2014–2018, the cumulative loss in uncollected sales tax is estimated to be as high as $22.5 billion.
Posted By Nicki Leone,
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2019
The 2019 Southern Book Prize Winners
(Asheville, NC) – Celebrate Independents! Announcing the 2019 Southern Book Prize Winners -- the best in southern literature, from the people who would know . . . Southern Independent Booksellers and their independently minded customers. Nominated by booksellers and selected via popular vote by Southern booksellers and their customers, the chosen books represent the indie answer to the question “What was the best Southern book of the year?”
2019 Southern Book Prize Winners
FICTION The Line That Held Us by David Joy G.P. Putnam's Sons, 9780399574221
“With the Southern grit of Daniel Woodrell and the rich Appalachian cadence of Ron Rash, David Joy is the new voice of Southern noir. In The Line That Held Us, Joy drags the reader by the gut on a dark and twisted journey of violence and vengeance in a story that will not be soon forgotten.” – Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, NC
CHILDREN’S Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe by Jo Hackl Random House Books for Young Readers, 9780399557385
“Cricket is all alone -- her mama ran away, and her dad died, and now she's stuck with her Aunt Belinda, who doesn't want her. So Cricket sets out on a quest to find and solve a clue trail that she hopes will lead her to her mama and make everything right in her world. On the way, she learns to rely on herself and discovers that some treasures aren't monetary but are just as valuable. Fans of Sheila Turnage's Three Times Lucky will love Cricket and her journey of self-discovery.” – Fiction Addiction, Greenville, SC
NONFICTION The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg* Knopf, 9781400040414
“Rick Bragg is the whole package. Intelligent, to the point, hilarious and beyond generous with his time and storytelling. A true man's man and momma's boy who makes us cry with laughter. He embraces his Southern roots and contributes to the overall reason we all love the South.” – Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, NC
*recipient of the 2019 Conroy Legacy Award
The 2019 Southern Book Prize represents a change in both format and timing from past years. Previously timed to be announced in the summer, voting in 2019 began November 10 as part of the Love Your Bookstore Challenge Week, and was opened to Southern booksellers and their customers. Winners were selected by popular vote and will now be announced on Valentine’s Day.
The response to the new format was enthusiastic as booksellers, readers and writers all rallied around their favorites on the ballot. Over 2800 ballots were submitted by Southern readers, representing over 150 Southern independent bookstores and confirming the Southern Book Prize as a true “Southern Readers’ Choice” award. “It was a phenomenal response” said Wanda Jewell, the Executive Director of The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, which administers the Southern Book Prize. “It illustrates the magic that happens when independent bookstores get behind a book and get their customers involved.”
Posted By Nicki Leone,
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Speak up for your favorite forthcoming Southern books! Okra Pick Nominations due 3/1
Nominations for the Spring Okra Picks are due on March 1. Booksellers can nominate a book by reviewing it on Edelweiss, or by submitting a nomination form:
To be eligible, books must be Southern in nature or by a Southern author (or both) and have a publication date of 4/1-6/30. Nominations must come from SIBA member booksellers. Members receive 2 B3 points for every eligible nomination.
Posted By Nicki Leone,
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
THE BOOKS YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE TALKING ABOUT
Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ using the "send to SIBA" option. Thanks to Avid Bookshop, Bookmarks, Bookmiser, Books & Books, Fiction Addiction, Flyleaf Books, Fountain Bookstore, Inkwood Books, Lincoln's Loft Bookstore, Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, McIntyre's Books, Page 158 Books, Quail Ridge Books, Scuppernong Books, The Bookshelf, The Country Bookshop, The LIttle Bookshop.
9780525533672 Lot 3/19/2019
"[These stories] are funny and heartbreaking and genuinely surprising, and they are great on their own, but as they add up you realize their collective power."
9781683319979Little Darlings 4/30/2019
"a blend of the currently popular domestic thriller and supernatural horror...it has just the right amount of creepiness and action."
9781948226196Rough Magic 5/7/2019
"A stirring adventure and a gorgeous meditation on landscape and our place within it."
9780763699505Landscape with Invisible Hand 4/9/2019
"a fresh and darkly funny scifi parable, like Douglas Adams scripting a Black Mirror episode!"
9781250200587When All Is Said 3/5/2019
"Oh, this book. This beautiful, heartbreaking book. I never wanted it to end"
Based on a True Story: Fiction, Memoir, and Authenticity, a EUREKAsiba talk by Erica Witsell
Where is the border between autofiction and memoir? Who has the right to tell which stories? Erica Witsell will discuss the limitations and freedoms of both genres, the works that inspired her, and her own novel’s transformation from memoir to fiction. She will also explore the question of authenticity in the age of identity politics and sectionality.
Witsell’s talk is part of SIBA in the Springtime (SITS) & EUREKAsiba, a program of bookseller education in an intimate format, designed to emphasize creative and innovative solutions to running a business. SITS takes place Monday, March 18 –Wednesday, March 20, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Atlanta Airport. Here’s a link to REGISTER!
Erica Witsell is the author of the novel Give, the story of one family’s troubled quest to redeem the mistakes of the past, and a testament to the bonds of sisterhood. Ron Rash praises, “Give is a striking, often unflinching, depiction of a doomed marriage and its enduring consequences. Erica Witsell is a very talented writer and her debut should garner a wide and appreciative audience."
Posted By Nicki Leone,
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
THE BOOKS YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE TALKING ABOUT
Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ using the "send to SIBA" option. Thanks to Avid Bookshop, Bookmarks, Bookmiser, Fiction Addiction, Flyleaf Books, Fountain Bookstore, M Judson, Bookseller, McIntyre's Books, Oxford Exchange, Page 158 Books, Quail Ridge Books, Sunrise Bookshop, The Country Bookshop, Turnrow Books, Underground Bookshop.
9781338143867 What Is Inside THIS Box? (A Monkey & Cake Book) 2/26/2019
"Mo Willems meets Schrodinger in this genius early reader by Drew Daywalt."
9780062699763A Woman Is No Man 3/5/2019
"I just read the final words of A Woman Is no Man. Here is my vow: I will read everything Etaf Rum writes."
9781982102357Stay Up with Hugo Best 4/2/2019
"I laughed at least once every few pages."
9781982102807I Miss You When I Blink 4/2/2019
"What this book is not: whiny, self-aggrandizing, know-it-all, boring. What this book IS is a masterfully written memoir about finding a way to live in our modern whirlwind."
9780385543897Southern Lady Code 4/16/2019
"Bright, bubbly, charming, and just the right amount of naughty."
Posted By Wanda Jewell,
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR
THE 2019 WNBA PANNELL AWARD
Since 1983, the Women’s National Book Association has awarded one of the most prestigious honors in children’s bookselling in the United States. Given annually at BookExpo America’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, the WNBA Pannell Award recognizes bookstores that enhance their communities by bringing exceptional creativity to foster a love of reading and books in children and young adults.
Every year a panel of publishing professionals selects two award winners: one general bookstore and one children’s specialty bookstore. Nominations come from customers, sales reps, bookstore employees, or anyone who has been impressed with the work of a particular independent bookstore.
There are two easy ways to nominate a bookstore for the WNBA Pannell Award.
Email WNBAPannell@gmail.com and include the following:
Name, email address, and phone number of person making the nomination
That person’s connection to the nominated bookstore
Bookstore name, address, and contact information for the bookstore owner/manager
A brief statement outlining the reasons for nominating the bookstore
Nominations must be received by February 21, 2019. Then the WNBA Pannell Award co-chairs will reach out to all nominated bookstores to request a formal electronic submission. Submissions should include a description of programs, events, activities, goals, and any contributions to the bookseller’s local community that focus on connecting kids to the love of reading. Photos, media coverage, letters from customers, and other supplementary material may be included in the submission.
Once the WNBA Pannell Award jurors have reviewed all submissions, the winning bookstores will be notified by phone and all submitting bookstores will also receive a call. Each of the two winners will receive a $1,000 check and a framed signed original art piece from a children’s book illustrator. The presentation of the award will be in New York City at the BookExpo/ABA Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, which draws more than 1,000 attendees.
Along with WNBA, Penguin Young Readers Group co-sponsors the award, which was established in honor of Lucille Micheels Pannell, founding member of one of the WNBA chapters. Established in 1917, WNBA (www.wnba-books.org) is a national organization of women and men who promote the value of the written word by championing the role of women in the book community and by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information about book lovers and professionals.
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SIBA has recently seen an uptick in the number of bookstore events appearing on the "
It also, as such things are wont to do, prompted many people to share their memories and feelings of why the long-standing independent bookstore was so important in their lives. "As a literary and Florida writer, Inkwood is one of the main reasons anyone ever read a Connie May Fowler book," wrote none other than Connie May Fowler herself. "Working there inspired my husband and I to open my own bookstore" wrote a former staff member. "You guys were my daughter's first bookstore" said someone else. The columnist Cathy Salustri 
I think small businesses, in this case indie publishers and indie bookstores, have this characteristic in common: we’re all doing too many different things. At Europa, we’ve attempted, and I think mostly succeeded, at turning this into a strength, and certainly my own skill set and career path into publishing make me unsuited to wearing only one hat. I think the way of staffing, approaching work flow, and more intangible things like an editorial aesthetic or style of community outreach are informed by the diversity of skills we have and jobs we do.
The 2019 Southern Book Prize Winners
Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe by Jo Hackl
The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg*
Speak up for your favorite forthcoming Southern books! Okra Pick Nominations due 3/1
Registration is now open for bookstores looking to participate in the 2019 Where's Waldo | Shop Local event co-sponsored by Candlewick Press.