e-Newsletter November 21, 2015

In This Issue
Welcome to Wylder Jane Burnett!
Small Business Saturday November 28, 2015
The Bookies to Host Over 20 Authors on Small Business Saturday
Winter Catalog 2015 Receiving Rave Reviews
Kim Heacox Wins NOBA
MPIBA Offices Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday




Laura Ayrey Burnett
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Mark Your Calendar!

Fall Discovery Show (Trade Show) 2016
October 6-8, 2016
The Renaissance
Denver Hotel
Welcome to
Wylder Jane Burnett!
Laura Ayrey Burnett, MPIBA's Executive Director, and husband John Burnett welcomed Wylder Jane Burnett on
November 18, 2015. 

Congratulations to Laura and John, big sister Ellie (pictured above), and big brothers Finn and Easton.

 

Small Business Saturday
November 28, 2015 
 Small Business Saturday is a week away, so make sure to publicize your events on Indies First!
A Letter to MPIBA Booksellers
from Betsy Burton and Valerie Koehler  

Dear Booksellers,

Small Business Saturday is a week away, and stores are planning their Indies First events for November 28!

Is your store on the Indies First map, so all the shoppers looking to shop small that Saturday can find you?

 
Last year, thousands of people visited the Indies First map daily during the month of November. This is the one place where customers, media, authors and publishers can see what's happening in bookstores nationwide on Small Business Saturday. Making sure your store is represented helps all those visitors see at a glance just how vibrant the indie channel is.

Please note that stores that were on last year's map have not been automatically included on this year's, as author and event lineups will have changed.

Remind your participating authors to promote their involvement, too, by using the hashtag #indiesfirst.

Finally, look out for daily Indies First countdown emails beginning November 18! They'll each include a quick reminder for how to make the most of Small Business Saturday.

Sincerely,
Betsy Burton, ABA President
The King's English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, UT

Valerie B. Koehler, ABA Board Member
Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston, TX 

The Bookies to Host
Over 20 Authors on
Small Business Saturday
The Bookies in Denver, Colorado, is hosting more than 20 authors as part of its Indies First events.

"Over the last number of years, we've been concentrating on local and new authors," said sales floor manager Larry Yoder, "including both self-published authors and those with traditional publishers."
 
While individual signings for some of these authors have not produced big turnouts, when the bookstore holds a showcase of authors, as it plans to do this year for Indies First, "a kind of cross-pollination takes place," said Yoder. "We've found this to be good for our authors and good for our bottom line."
 
Authors will visit the bookstore for two-hour segments throughout the day on November 28, with as many as eight appearing for each block of time.

The authors will meet and greet customers, chat informally, snap selfies, and hand-sell their own titles or their favorite reads.
 
Among the many authors visiting The Bookies will be Indies Introduce author Judith Robbins Rose (LOOK BOTH WAYS IN THE BARRIO BLANCO, Candlewick), Ellen Byerrum (THE DOLLHOUSE IN THE CRAWLSPACE, Lethal Black Dress Press), and Nancy Sharp (BOTH SIDES NOW, Books & Books Press).
 
-Bookselling This Week, November 19, 2015

 

Winter Catalog 2015
Receiving Rave Reviews
 
"I've had a great response from these.
Can't wait to do it next year!"
Monique Tischer, The Purple Chair in New Braunfels, Texas
New member bookstore and new to the Catalog process in 2015

Many bookstores received their imprinted Winter Catalogs before they journeyed to the Fall Discovery Show in Denver in October 2015.

Other stores have big newspaper insertions planned for the months of November and December 2015.

MPIBA has posted the Winter Catalog in its entirety on the website, along with individual book descriptions.

Thank you to the publishers who have advertised amazing titles in the Catalog this year! MPIBA will be sending a packet of Winter Catalogs to each advertiser within the next few weeks.

 

Kim Heacox wins National Outdoor Book Award for JIMMY BLUEFEATHER
A masterful portrait of the real Alaska, Kim Heacox's novel centers around a 95-year old Tlingit native named Old Keb, the last living canoe carver in a small village in Southeast Alaska. His grandson, a promising athlete, sinks into a depression after a disabling accident ends his sports career. In response, Old Keb begins work on what will become his last great canoe and entices the grandson to help. When the canoe is finished, they embark on a voyage to the Tlingit ancestral homeland. It's a voyage fraught with the hazards of sea as well as an eager government bent on saving them. What makes this story so appealing is the character Old Keb. He is as finely wrought and memorable as any character in contemporary literature and energizes the tale with a humor and warmth that will keep you reading well into the night.
 
Heacox, a nature writer and photographer, was haunted for over a decade by a character that now lives in JIMMY BLUEFEATHER. Old Keb "spoke to him" about adventures, love, growing old, and reconciliation. A labor of love, Heacox had worked on the book for twelve years before approaching Douglas Pfeiffer, Publishing Director of Alaska Northwest Books. "We hadn't published a work of original adult fiction in 56 years, but Kim's manuscript took us by storm."
 

MPIBA Offices Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
 
MPIBA offices will be closed from Thursday, November 26 through Sunday, November 29 and will reopen on Monday, November 30.

We wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving!