Two Days of Authors & Education
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Wednesday, April 1210:00 am - 5:00 pm Ninkasi Better Living Room
11:00 - 1:00 pm DEI Workshop with Krista Perez, Perez Consulting author of Unearthing Our Roots 1:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch Sponsored by Scholastic (a boxed lunch will be provided but must be pre-ordered) 1:30 - 3:00 pm PNBA Education Committee Programming • Sidelines/Faire with Amy Cooper, Barn Owl Books How often do you order sidelines? Where do you discover them? Do you use Faire, Abound or other 3rd party shopping platforms? How do you analyze the success of your selections? • Staff Training & Communication with Cassie Clemans, Roundabout Books An idea swap about how you train and communicate with employees and how to build a team culture in your bookstore. • Book Clubs with Elisa Saphier, Broadway Books What genres have worked well for your store, maybe surprisingly? Do you require purchase of the book through your shop, or is there another way to guarantee monetary contribution? • Budgeting/Finance with Rising Book Prices with Michelle Bear, Edmonds Bookshop Book prices have started to increase at an alarming rate across all publishers, frontlist and backlist. With Amazon and Barnes and Noble already receiving higher discounts and undercutting indie bookstores on price, might ABA be able to help negotiate price freezes or higher discounts for indie bookstores? What other ways might indies leverage our collective power? 3:00 - 4:00 pm Author Keynotes / Signing Claire Dederer - Monstrers: A Fan's Dilemma Keith Rosson - Fever House Laini Taylor / Jim Di Bartolo - Billie Blaster & Robot Army... 4:00 - 5:00 pm Rep Picks Happy Hour • Chris Satterlund - Scholastic • Christine Foye - Simon & Schuster • BrocheAroe Fabian - Sourcebooks • Jamil Zaidi - Chronicle Books • Katie Hartman - Macmillan • Laura Stanfill - Forest Avenue Press 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm Graduate Eugene Hotel Authors On The Map Reception William Ritter - Rook Amy Seto Forrester - Search For a Giant Squid Dani Nichols - Buzz the Not-So-Brave Stephanie Shaw - All By Myself Jennifer K. Mann - Maple & Rosemary Lauren J.A. Bear - Medusa's Sisters Whitney Philllips - Share Better and Stress Less Ash Van Otterloo - The Beautiful Something Else Kevin O'Brien - The Enemy at Home Dori Hillestad Butler - King & Kayla and the Case of the Cat Hunt Waka T. Brown - The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura Sponsored by Sourcebooks Book Bags sponsored by Blackstone Publishing |
Thursday, April 1310:00 am - 12:30 pm Tsunami Books
Coffee & pastries sponsored by Astra Books for Young Readers 10:00 - 11:00 am Successful Branding and Selling Strategies Learned from the World of Romance Publishing Presented by Sourcebooks Romance is one of the fastest-growing categories in book sales for the past 12-24 months. Obviously #BookTok is a huge part of that, and using social media, in general, to make sales trend that’s here to stay for the foreseeable future. Sourcebooks has embraced bringing these TikTok/social media-successful self-published authors, especially in the romance genre, into mainstream publishing through their Bloom Books imprint, adding to their already successful Sourcebooks Casablanca romance and other genre imprint. Sourcebooks is offering romance-loving readers so many new romance writers, being embraced by the romance-loving indies whose numbers are significantly growing YOY as shown by the ever-growing Bookstore Romance Day started by Billie Bloebaum. The authors will discuss how to sell romance, and furthermore, how to use those lessons to increase brand recognition and selling strategies for indie bookstores themselves, shedding important light on how to engage with followers and organically grow a bookstore’s business across social media platforms. About the Authors: LUCY GILMORE (THE LONELY HEARTS BOOK CLUB) is a celebrated novelist in a wide range of genres, including literary fiction, contemporary romance, and cozy mystery. She lives in Spokane, Washington. PIPER J. DRAKE (WINGS ONCE CURSED AND BOUND) is a bestselling author of romantic suspense, paranormal romance, science fiction, and fantasy. She lives in the Pacific Northwest. LAURA THALASSA (BEWITCHED) is the author of over a dozen paranormal and fantasy romance novels. She fell in love with stories as a child and decided she never wanted to escape them. She lives in sunny southern California. 11:00 - 11:30 am TBD 11:30 - 12:30 pm Author Keynotes/Signing |
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