The MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association will be exhibiting at the Baltimore Book Festival, a consumer street festival held annually in Baltimore. This year the festival will be September 24-26. They are offering IBPA members the opportunity to exhibit at their member prices. Anyone displaying with them may also send marketing pieces (postcards, bookmarks, pens, etc.) to include in their giveaway bags.
More information at
www.midatlanticbookpublishers.com. Deadline is September 17th.
Bridgeross Communications let us know that their title
After Her Brain Broke is
being recommended by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (
NAMI) in Washington. Their most recent book,
My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness
has received praise as well, with a glowing review in the
Vancouver, Library Journal.
Susan and Scott Stevenson were recently
interviewed on the
Single Again show at BlogTalk Radio. They had a blast talking about their title
LOOKS EASY ENOUGH, A Joyful Memoir of Overcoming Disease, Divorce, and Disaster. Reviewers are calling it "the
Eat Pray Love for guys."
Dr. Steven Haymon sent us his author
interview on YouTube where he speaks with Marc Giles about his book,
Stress: Climbing Out of Its Pits with God, at the National Black Book Festival. Thanks, Dr. Haymon!
Jerry Craft, author of
Mama's Boyz, let us know what's going on with him, which is a LOT! Besides recently speaking on the panel at the Harlem Book Festival, his title was selected for inclusion in the upcoming SVA (School of Visual Arts) alumni graphic novel exhibition, Ink Plots, taking place October 8th through November 6th at the Visual Arts Gallery in Chelsea. The book was also reviewed in
School Library Journal, on
RAW Sistaz website
and won the
S'indie Award for best Children's Book by an independent publisher.
Carolyn CJ Jones told us that her book,
Opening the Gates of the Heart: A Journey of Healing, won two Honorable Mention Awards: one at the San Francisco 2010 Book Festival for photography/art and one at the New York 2010 Book Festival for spirituality. Her book trailer can be viewed at
www.gatelady.com.
Speaking of book trailers - thank you to those who participated in our Facebook chat about them and shared your book trailers with us. Irene Kendig, M.A.,
Conversations with Jerry and Other People I Thought Were Dead sent a great example. Check it out
here and if you have a book trailer, please go to our
Facebook page and post it to the conversation. We'll share them all!
Ecolibris has invited IBPA members to participate in the 2nd Annual Green Books Campaign: 200 bloggers simultaneously publishing reviews of 200 books printed on recycled paper or FSC-certified paper on November 10, 2010. This campaign provides publishers with a great opportunity to promote books printed in an environmentally sound manner, make their "greenness" more recognizable, and receive further recognition and appreciation of readers for their commitment to the environment. Much more information can be found
here.
C&T Publishing announced a new series of iPhone apps filled with beautiful how-to illustrations from Judith Baker Montano's
bestselling embroidery & crazy quilt stitch tool, combined with instructional video clips from her popular
crazy quilting DVD. Together, all three apps show you how to create over 180 stitches and stitch combinations.
Examiner.com pays authors to write local columns on many different subjects and has 20 million unique visitors every month. Note: This website also has a roster of 400 book reviewers. If you'd like to apply to be one of their paid columnists,
check here. Thanks to
Bookmarket.com for the info!
Pay for review--what do you think?
From time to time we'll offer a short (2-4 question) survey to give you a chance to weigh in on topics of current interest to the publishing industry and/or specifically to you as an IBPA member. This time, we'd like to know how you feel about publishers paying for book reviews.
Please click here for a two-question survey that will take less than two minutes to complete. The results will be reported in the next issue of
Independent Publishing Now and responses are anonymous.
