Name: Sarah Pishko

Store and location: Prince Books, 109 E. Main Street, Norfolk, VA 23510      

website || facebook

Number of years as a bookseller: 35!

Best part about being a bookseller?: First of all, the product always changes! I stole a line from Books & Books: "NEW YEAR. NEW BOOKS. NEW AUTHORS." Bookstore customers are always "interested and interesting." And, books are always in the news!

What book(s) are you reading?:Varina and Manhattan Beach

Favorite handsell of 2017: News of the World by Paulette Jiles. We all just thought it was a fresh, new story with a unique setting.

Best thing you did this year at your store: Doubled my inventory of greeting cards! Last April, after 3 years of heavy construction right across the street from me, the Hilton Norfolk The Main opened. It's a beautiful hotel with state of the art convention facilities and it's fronted in glass. The registration desk is on the second floor, and as one takes the escalator to the second floor, they have a great view of Prince Books. Most of my greeting cards were in front of the window. A month later, my card inventory was practically wiped out, so I summoned my greeting card rep, Richard Walters,  purchased two new barrel-style card displays and greatly increased my card inventory. My greeting card sales have more than doubled since June 2017

 Social Media Stats (FB likes, Twitter followers, etc)  FB likes 1000

 Top priority going into 2018: I have dropped the ball the last few years regarding reporting to ABACUS. I need to get back to it, and then study my financials. 

Favorite SIBA programming benefit: Seeing my sales reps, and educational sessions.

What are some ways you work with your community? 

Hmm I’m on the board of the DOWNTOWN NORFOLK COUNCIL, and part of it’s VIBRANT SPACES COMMITTEE which was tasked a year ago to develop a marketplace for micro- or incubator retail businesses in a downtown space.I’m on the board of RETAIL ALLIANCE, and am on it’s LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE which monitors legislation that may affect the organization. With regard to legislation, The RETAIL ALLIANCE teamed up the RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION, headquartered in Richmond, and formed the VIRGINIA RETAIL FEDERATION that lobbies for both retail organizations.I spent twenty years being a book reviewer for the annual book review contest put on by the FRIENDS OF THE NORFOLK PUBLIC LIBRARY. I have recently stepped in to take the place of an ill reviewer.Every winter I volunteer with my church’s participation in NEST, Norfolk Emergency Shelter Team, a consortium of churches in the city who provide overnight shelter, dinner and breakfast to the homeless who arrive at the church doors.

April 25 at 2PM: Getting your Staff on Edelweiss  with Jill Hendrix. Join Jill Hendrix of Fiction Addiction to learn how to use Edelweiss for reviews, requesting ARCs, author event proposals, etc., plus instruction on creating tags and filters to share with staff. Edelweiss is a wealth of information on the books your customers want.  And it is a wonderful way to get your store on the radar of many publishers.  Plus SIBA has her own share button where booksellers can let us know which books they love.  Earn B3! credit by attending the webinar and using Edelweiss to let us know about your fave titles.  RSVP with lindamarie@sibaweb.com.

SIBA presents The Southern Book Prize Long List

(Asheville, NC) The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, (SIBA), is pleased to announce the 2018 Southern Book Prize Long List, featuring all the eligible titles that have been nominated for the Southern Book Prize (formerly the SIBA Book Award). Nominated titles must be Southern in nature or by a Southern author (or both!) and have been published in 2017. 100 great Southern books were nominated by Southern Indie booksellers, making the Long

List one of the most comprehensive and exciting reading lists of new Southern literature.
Continuing with established tradition, the Long List prize categories are created by using BISAC categories of the nominees. "The categories work like 'shelves' in our member stores – if there are enough books in a given subject, they deserve a special display" explained SIBA Executive Director Wanda Jewell.

SIBA member booksellers will vote on the Long List over the next few weeks. Finalists for each category in the 2017 Southern Book Prize will be announced April 16, 2018. From there, Finalists will be sent to a jury of booksellers in each category, who will then choose the winning book for their category. Winners will be announced on July 4, "Independents Day."

THE 2018 SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE LONG LIST

FICTION

Women and Family

• Beach House for Rent | Monroe, Mary Alice | Gallery Books | 9781501125461
  
• The Bookshop at Water's End | Henry, Patti Callahan | Berkley Books | 9780399583117
  
• Close Enough to Touch | Oakley, Colleen | Gallery Books | 9781501139260
  
• Girls Like Her | Stone, Pam | Stone's Throw Publishing | 9780692819968
  
• Miss Julia Weathers the Storm | Ross, Ann B | Viking | 9780735220478
  
• One Good Thing | Wax, Wendy | Berkley Books | 9780451488619
  
• Same Beach, Next Year | Frank, Dorothea Benton | William Morrow & Company | 9780062390783
  
• Slightly South of Simple | Woodson Harvey, Kristy | Gallery Books | 9781501158056
  
• To Be Where You Are | Karon, Jan | G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9780399183737
  
• Young Jane Young | Zevin, Gabrielle | Algonquin Books | 9781616205041
  

Literary

• The Barrowfields | Lewis, Phillip | Hogarth Press | 9780451495648
• Ember | Adams, Brock | Hub City Press | 9781938235320
  
• Eveningland: Stories | Knight, Michael | Atlantic Monthly Press | 9780802125972
  
• Extraordinary Adventures | Wallace, Daniel | St. Martin's Press | 9781250118455
  
• Fire Is Your Water | Minick, Jim | Swallow Press | 9780804011846
  
• Grief Cottage | Godwin, Gail | Bloomsbury USA | 9781632867049
  
• The Ice House | Smith, Laura Lee | Grove Press | 9780802127082
  
• The Last Ballad | Cash, Wiley | William Morrow & Company | 9780062313119
  
• The River of Kings | Brown, Taylor | St. Martin's Press | 9781250111753
  
• The Salt Line | Goddard Jones, Holly | G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9780735214316
• Shadow of the Lions | Swann, Christopher | Algonquin Books | 9781616205003
  
• Sing, Unburied, Sing | Ward, Jesmyn | Scribner Book Company | 978150112606
• The Weight of This World | Joy, David | G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9780399173110
  

Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense

• A Murder for the Books: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery | Gilbert, Victoria | Crooked Lane Books | 9781683314394
  
• Asking for Truffle: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery | St James, Dorothy | Crooked Lane Books | 9781683312918
  
• Bones to Pick | Lovely, Linda | Henery Press | 9781635112627
  
• Camino Island | Grisham, John | Doubleday Books | 9780385543026
  
• Carolina Cruel | Thackston, Lawrence | Rivers Turn Press | 9780998575513
  
• The Cover Story | Richardson-Moore, Deb | Lion Fiction | 9781782642404
  
• The Devil's Muse | Loehfelm, Bill | Sarah Crichton Books | 9780374279776
• Gradle Bird | Sasser, J C | Koehler Books | 9781633932630
  
• Heaven's Crooked Finger: An Earl Marcus Mystery | Early, Hank | Crooked Lane Books | 9781683313915
  
• In It for the Money | Burnsworth, David | Henery Press | 9781635112436
  
• Lowcountry Bonfire | Boyer, Susan M | Henery Press | 9781635112276
  
• The Night the Lights Went Out | White, Karen | Berkley Books | 9780451488381
  
• Small Treasons | Powell, Mark | Gallery Books | 9781507203385
  

Southern Fiction

• A Kind of Freedom | Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson | Counterpoint LLC | 9781619029224
  
• Ashes to Fire | Martin, Emily B | Voyager | 9780062473738
  
• Before We Were Yours | Wingate, Lisa | Ballantine Books | 9780425284681
  
• The Cage-Maker | Seitz, Nicole A | Story River Books | 9781611178432
  
• Desperation Road | Smith, Michael Farris | Lee Boudreaux Books | 9780316353038
  
• Floods and Fires | Leach, Dan | University of North Georgia | 9781940771359
  
• The Guests on South Battery | White, Karen | Berkley Books | 9780451475237
  
• The Hidden Light of Northern Fires | Wang, Daren | Thomas Dunne Books | 9781250122353
• If the Creek Don't Rise | Weiss, Leah | Sourcebooks Landmark | 9781492647454
  
• The Indigo Girl | Boyd, Natasha | Blackstone Audiobooks | 9781455137114
  
• No One Is Coming to Save Us | Watts, Stephanie Powell | Ecco Press | 9780062472984
  
• None But the Living | Smith, Kenneth P | Middleton House Publishing | 9780998107103
  
• One Good Mama Bone | McClain, Bren | University of South Carolina Press | 9781611179828
  
• Perennials | Cantrell, Julie | Thomas Nelson | 9780718037642
  
• The Second Mrs. Hockaday | Rivers, Susan | Algonquin Books | 9781616205812
  
• Signals: New and Selected Stories | Gautreaux, Tim | Knopf Publishing Group | 9780451493040
  
• The Sisters of Glass Ferry | Richardson, Kim Michele | Kensington Publishing Corporation | 9781496709554
• Strangers to Temptation | Gould, Scott | Hub City Press | 9781938235306

CHILDRENS

Juvenile Fiction

• Goldeline | Cajoleas, Jimmy | HarperCollins | 9780062498755
  
• The Ethan I Was Before | Standish, Ali | HarperCollins | 9780062433381
  
• Hamster Princess: Giant Trouble | Vernon, Ursula | Dial Books | 9780399186523
  
• Raccoon Rescue | Miller, Christa ; Barratt, Christian | Christa M. Miller Communications | 9780994569073
  
• Refugee | Gratz, Alan | Scholastic Press | 9780545880831
  
• Serafina and the Splintered Heart (Serafina Book 3) | Beatty, Robert | Disney-Hyperion | 9781484775042
  
• Skin Again | Hooks, Bell ; Raschka, Chris | Jump at the Sun | 9781484799239
  
• Through Your Eyes: My Child's Gift to Me | Earhardt, Ainsley ; Kim, Ji-Hyuk | Aladdin Paperbacks | 9781534409590
  
• Tumble & Blue | Beasley, Cassie | Dial Books | 9780525428442
  

Young Adult

• Between Two Skies | O'Sullivan, Joanne | Candlewick Press (MA) | 9780763690342
  
• Blight | Duncan, Alexandra | Greenwillow Books | 9780062396990
  
• Control Freakz | Evans, Michael | Michael Evans | 9781641110334
  
• Dear Martin | Stone, Nic | Crown Books for Young Readers | 9781101939499
  
• Flame in the Mist | Ahdieh, Renee | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers | 9780399171635
  
• Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairy Tale | Poston, Ashley | Quirk Books | 9781594749476
  
• Goodbye Days | Zentner, Jeff | Crown Books for Young Readers | 9780553524062
  
• The Hate U Give | Thomas, Angie | Balzer & Bray/Harperteen | 9780062498533
  
• Invictus | Graudin, Ryan | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | 9780316503075
  
• Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case | Powell, Patricia Hruby ; Strickland, Shadra | Chronicle Books | 9781452125909
  
• Midnight at the Electric | Anderson, Jodi Lynn | HarperCollins | 9780062393548
  
• Nemesis | Reichs, Brendan | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers | 9780399544934
  
• Starting Over: A Trina Ryan Novel | Levy, Sheri S ; Koepp, Cindy | Barking Rain Press | 9781935460770
  

NONFICTION

Biography and History

• Flight Path: A Search for Roots Beneath the World's Busiest Airport | Palmer, Hannah | Hub City Press | 9781938235283
  
• He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty | Bass, S Jonathan | Liveright Publishing Corporation | 9781631492372
  
• Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs | Fennelly, Beth Ann | W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393609479
  
• The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home | Kiernan, Denise | Touchstone Books | 9781476794044
• Mothering Addiction: A Parent's Story of Heartache, Healing, and Keeping the Door Open | Hatcher, Lynda Harrison | Frontier Press (NY) | 9780692908921
  
• My Life, My Love, My Legacy | King, Coretta Scott ; Reynolds, Barbara | Henry Holt & Company | 9781627795982
  
• Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey | Ball, Troylyn ; Witter, Bret | Dey Street Books | 9780062458988
  
• Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat | Williams, Patricia ; Amber, Jeannine | Dey Street Books | 9780062407306
  
• The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign | Oliphant, Thomas ; Wilkie, Curtis | Simon & Schuster | 9781501105562
  
• Tales of a Cosmic Possum: From the Appalachia Mountains to the Cotton Mills | Ingle, Sheila | Ambassador International | 9781620206126
• Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War | Sharfstein, Daniel J | W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393239416
  

Nonfiction

• The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings | Berry, Wendell | Counterpoint LLC | 9781619020382
  
• At Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe: Life in the University of South Carolina President's House | Moore-Pastides, Patricia | University of South Carolina Press | 9781611177800
  
• Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South | Howard, Vivian | Little Brown and Company | 9780316381109
  
• The Fonville Winans Cookbook: Recipes and Photographs from a Louisiana Artist | Winans, Melinda Risch ; Nobles, Cynthia Lejeune | Louisiana State University Press | 9780807167687
• Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami | Farzad, Roben | Berkley Books | 9781592409280
  
• Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them | Kolata, Gina | St. Martin's Press | 9781250064349
  
• The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South | Edge, John T | Penguin Press | 9781594206559
  
• Southern Sunrises | Bryant, Tom | Country Bookshop | 9780999131701
  
• Stones at the Crossing: Aiming True on My Journey from Scared to Sacred | Webb Phd, Amy D | Prose Press | 9781941069776
  
• Sunshine State: Essays | Gerard, Sarah | Harper Perennial | 9780062434876
  
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America | Dyson, Michael Eric | St. Martin's Press | 9781250135995
• The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems | Brown, Molly McCully | Persea Books | 9780892554782
  
• What Can I Bring?: Southern Food for Any Occasion Life Serves Up | Heiskell, Elizabeth | Southern Living | 9780848754389
  

For more information contact SIBA Executive Director Wanda Jewell at wanda@sibaweb.com, or visit the SIBA website at sibaweb.com.

Call for 2019 Conroy Legacy Award Nominations!

Dear SIBA booksellers, Now is the time to nominate your choice for the 2019 Conroy Legacy Award. This award represents a “Lifetime Achievement”. The Conroy Legacy Award honors the example of beloved author Pat Conroy and recognizes writers who have achieved a lasting impact on their literary community. Recipients have the following attributes: Support for independent bookstores, both in their own communities and in general. Writing that focuses significantly on their own home place. Support of other writers, especially new and emerging authors. The Conroy Legacy Award is given to one writer in SIBA territory per year. A juried panel of SIBA member booksellers will choose among nominated writers to determine the year’s winner. Although it is not necessary for a nominated writer to have a new book out in the award year, nominated writers must be living, and must have books in print. Nominations must come from SIBA member bookstores. The Legacy Award provides an opportunity for its member stores to recognize writers who have been important in their community. Both a donation to the Pat Conroy Literary Center and a donation to a literary entity close to the heart of the writer will be made in the name of the Legacy Award recipient. Nominations close on April 30th. Nominate your choice today!

 Get Your Store on the Tour! 

SIBA offers you two webinars with Maribeth Pelly, event planner at BookTowne and independent marketing consultant, to make it so!

Want to be a star at Publicists Speed Dating at Book Expo? Want publishers to choose you when they plan author tours? Stand out among your colleagues by signing up for both of these upcoming webinars.

Thursday, April 12 at 2PM: How to Prepare a Press Kit for Your Store.  In this webinar you'll learn:

• How to put together a press kit.
• How to improve an existing press kit.
• How to highlight and format your store’s most compelling selling points (and which information to leave out).

For those with existing press kits, Maribeth will offer comprehensive reviews. Fourteen stores will receive a LIVE review of their press kits. The webinar will be recorded so you can share with your staff.

Thursday, May 24 at 2PM: How to Pitch Your Store to Publishers. After you’ve prepared your press kit, learn how to have a productive conversation with publishers, emphasizing how you can support their author tours. In this webinar you'll learn:

• What publishers want to know (and what they don't).
• How to build a successful author event program, even if you haven't had an author yet.
• That store size doesn’t matter!
• Tips for staying on publishers' radar all year long.

Attendees of these webinars are invited to a meet & greet pep talk with Maribeth at Book Expo before Publicists Speed Dating begins.

RSVP: lindamarie@sibaweb.com, and include a copy of your current press kit. Deadline to register for April 12 webinar is Friday, April 6.

 

 

• Winners will be announced by April 10th.
• BookExpo representatives will contact each regional association’s winners to discuss their individual goals for the show.

 

• A $400 AMEX gift card to be used to pay for travel
• A room at the official ABA hotel (The New Yorker) - Room and tax only – incidentals not covered
• A custom itinerary of meetings, education sessions and author events
• A mentor who will share tips and tricks on maximizing the BookExpo experience before, during and after the event
• Each bookseller will receive a complimentary:
• 3-Day badge to BookExpo for access to the exhibit floor and all conference sessions
• Premium ticket to the BookExpo Adult Author Breakfast and Children’s Author Breakfast (one ticket per breakfast)
• Collectible 2-Day BookCon badge for access to the exhibit floor and all panels
• BookExpo will host a reception for the eighteen scholarship recipients in the VIP lounge onsite
• BookExpo leadership staff will provide an onsite overview and tour of BookExpo
• Exclusive opportunity to participate in meetings with executives of top publishers in their booths
• Access to the ABA Lounge featuring a Galley Room, special Autographing Sessions

 

B & L Books for sale:

Successful New and Used Bookstore located in "Sunny" Central Florida has been a local treasure for 31 years.  This booklover’s paradise attracts a loyal base of customers who come from all over to buy and trade used books.  Unique system of tracking what the customer has already read is a big plus for avid readers. Inventory includes 38,000 titles.  Immaculate, organized storefront is next to very popular chain sit down casual restaurant on busy thoroughfare. Owner retiring.

Please contact Sharon Nina, Business Broker, 407-497-5535

Make ARC giveaways very exciting in a register to win program!

Invite Customers to be "Literary Insiders" by gifting ARCs in raffles, with large purchases, or as a way to cultivate customer reviews for shelf-talkers and newsletters. Here's what Bookstore1 in Sarasota is doing with their ARCs."

GREAT NEWS! SIBA is very pleased to announce a new self-guided course for booksellers on the art of using social media and content marketing:

Social Media and Content Marketing Basics for Booksellers: The Art of Increasing Reach and Engagement 
with Sarah Benoit and the JB Media Institute.

April 16 - July 16

Sarah was one of the most popular presenters at both Winter Institute in Memphis and EUREKAsiba in Atlanta earlier this year. Not only did she receive enthusiastically positive feedback from attendees, she was pretty consistently mobbed by people with questions throughout the entire day in Atlanta and never once lost her smile or her enthusiasm. You'll note that there are two options for this course -- a "DIY" version for those of you who are comfortable taking online courses on your own, and the "Expert Support" version, which comes with live Q&As and access to "office hours" where you can talk to the instructors in person.

I do encourage you to sign up for the latter, if you can swing it. I am -- I am usually the kind of person that would work her way through an online course on her own. I think I've gone through half of lynda.com that way! But I signed up for the Expert Support option because I want to pick Sarah Benoit's brain. I always have questions! As we all know, nothing beats being able to talk to a real person in real time about your real questions!

Those of you who attended EUREKAsiba already know how helpful and enthusiastic Sarah can be. But if you didn't have a chance to attend, take a few minutes to watch the video of her EUREKAsiba talk.

Social media and content marketing can be stressful and confusing. Many booksellers need to know how to be more efficient and effective so the time and energy they spend marketing online has greater impact and creates results.

Join Sarah Benoit and the JB Media Institute to learn the basic best practices and strategies the professionals use to share stories, build community, and grow your business.

Topics covered include:

• content branding
• keyword research
• content calendars
• Instagram and Facebook tracking
• social media tracking on Google Analytics
• Facebook and Instagram advertising
• event marketing
• and more

Register now

2 PACKAGE CHOICES AVAILABLE

1. DIY Online Learning Membership Price $149.00 
use the code BooksellersDIY

2. Expert Support Online Learning Membership Price $299.00
no code necessary

 

 

 

Click here to view online | Like us on Facebook! NOTE THE DATE: 3/21: Non-Traditional Bookstores: Hybrids, Pop-ups, Non-Profits Webinar (details) (rsvp) 3/23: ABA/SIBA Bookseller Forum at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill (rsvp) Important and useful links: #SIBA18 Discovery Show Coming up on Lady Banks' Pick of the Week The current Southern Indie Bestsellers (PDF): HC | PB | Kids Bookseller Benefits Package || The Booksellers' WaterCooler || Read This! THE SITE VISIT (AKA, Nicki goes to VALSPAR) When Wanda Jewell told me that our annual site visit to the Innisbrook Resort in preparation for upcoming Discovery Show in September would be in March, she did warn me. "It will be during Valspar" she cautioned. I must have looked blank, because she added "the golf tournament." I shrugged and nodded. It was Florida. There would be golf, I thought. It wasn't until we hit the traffic on US 19 and found ourselves behind a row of coach buses that I realized, oh it's a GOLF TOURNAMENT. I'm not a huge golf fan, but I still immediately called my dad. "Guess where I am!" I gloated. (Read more! || Register for #SIBA18) So what do we have to look forward to in September? Well, the place is beautiful. The exhibit hall is fantastic. The rooms are really, really comfortable. USEFUL TIP: CO-HOST YOUR FACEBOOK EVENTS WITH SIBA Are you creating events on Facebook?  SIBA would like to co-host those events with you.  When creating the event just choose Authors 'Round the South as your co-host.  It's easy and likely to increase not only awareness but attendance at events.  This makes it easy for SIBA to share the upcoming event with her 15,000+ Facebook friends and followers.  Be sure to tag the author and publisher in your events post.  We are at your service.       EUREKAsiba: BUILDING LITERARY BRIDGES with Broche Fabian "Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance."   MEET THE BOOKSELLER Tony Peltier, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC website || facebook || twitter How long you've been a bookseller: I've been a bookseller for 16 years. 10 years at Borders and 6 at Quail Ridge. Best part about being a bookseller: . . .is the books! I get to buy and sell books for a living! And, of course, connecting with people through books.     Books I'm reading: I just finished Sadness is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher. Almost finished The Sea Beast Takes a Lover by Michael Andreasen. In the middle of Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi. And just started The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner. They are all wonderful and completely different from each other.             Favorite handsell of 2017: Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume So beautiful and beautifully written, devastatingly sad, but in a way that reminds you that you're alive. Social Media Handles: I'm not on social media. I did Twitter for about 6 months, but made myself delete it. Best thing we did this year at the store: I'd have to say, the amazing people we hired this year. We have a wonderful staff, but this year in particular we added some incredible people with great experience in and out of bookselling Top priority for 2018: Get the word out. Get all these amazing books in people's hands and brains. And get people to realize that if they don't buy from us, we won't be around forever. Don't take your independent bookstore for granted. Favorite SIBA programming benefit: SIBA gave scholarships to two of our staff to go to New Orleans, which they raved about. I'd love to learn more about what SIBA does. BRILLIANT BOOKSELLER IDEA(S) OF THE WEEK: Use Your Sidewalk Sign to bring Staff Favorites to the Street! via Shelf-Awareness Mystery to Me bookstore, Madison, Wis., added a new twist to its staff recommendations by featuring selections on its sidewalk chalkboard: "New board outside! Ever wonder what your booksellers' favorite books are? Every week we will tell you! This is our first one with Jayne, Joanne and Morgan's favorite books currently! Ask us about them on your next visit!"   THE BOOKS YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE TALKING ABOUT Submitted this week on Edelweiss+ using the "send to SIBA" option. Thanks to Avid Bookshop, Octavia Books, Square Books, Turnrow Books, Bookmarks, The Country Book Shop, McIntyre's Books, Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, Quail Ridge Books, Fiction Addiction, Union Avenue Bookshop, and Fountain Bookstore. 9780525508748 The Distance Home 8/1/2018 "Saunders shows us a world where hate and love are made of the same stuff." 9780763696078 Square 5/8/2018 "OMG! Can this pair get any cuter?!" 9781476756554 The Mars Room 5/1/2018 "There is so much messy complexity here. Growing plant life in the cracks of a concrete slab. How do you describe such beauty?" 9780399180989 Spinning Silver 7/10/2018 "This book is filled with clever women making clever plans and saving the day." 9781617756276 Beautiful Music 5/1/2018 "Like beautiful music, this book is permeated with the power to make you sad, lift you up, and carry you home." If your store does not have an Edelweiss+ account and need help setting one up, contact Linda-Marie. In the last issue: Read This Next! Is your membership current? Your name: @@first_name@@ @@last_name@@ Your store: @@employer@@ Your member type (store/staff): @@member_type@@ Your membership expiration: @@membership_exp_date@@ * Your B3! Credit: ##B3TOTAL## **if your member type says "staff" then your expiration date is whenever your bookstore's membership expires. Stores can add staff to their accounts under the "Subaccounts" link under the "Information & Settings" tab. Renew here | Booksellers Benefits Package --- Thank you for your interest in SIBA,   Nicki Leone SysAdmin nicki@sibaweb.com Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance 51 Pleasant Ridge Drive, Asheville, NC 28805 803.994.9530 Fax: 309.410.0211 www.sibaweb.com   #siba18: Fall Discovery Show Sept 13-15 THU-SAT | Tampa, FL   Many thanks to our 2018 Inkreadible Sponsors below:

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