The California Booksellers Alliance and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association are taking advantage of virtual freedoms and bringing their indie audiences together for two days of education, author and rep promotion, April 5 and 6.
Day one, focusing on books from the adult list, offers author presentation opportunities for four breakfast keynotes and 12 spots for an afternoon showcase. The "Authors on the Map" event, a PNBA tradition, offers a dozen five minute slots for authors from the collective western region—AK, CA, ID, MT, OR, WA, and BC. The "Complete-with-Authors Breakfast" is open to authors nationally and even internationally, featuring five ten-minute slots with a brief Q & A on the tail end.
Day two, reserved for the children’s list, offers a later morning "Second Breakfast" for four big national or international names on the kids' side of things. Later in the day, 12 authors from the collective western region will take part in the CALIBA “Kids Buzz.”
Day one, focusing on books from the adult list, offers author presentation opportunities for four breakfast keynotes and 12 spots for an afternoon showcase. The "Authors on the Map" event, a PNBA tradition, offers a dozen five minute slots for authors from the collective western region—AK, CA, ID, MT, OR, WA, and BC. The "Complete-with-Authors Breakfast" is open to authors nationally and even internationally, featuring five ten-minute slots with a brief Q & A on the tail end.
Day two, reserved for the children’s list, offers a later morning "Second Breakfast" for four big national or international names on the kids' side of things. Later in the day, 12 authors from the collective western region will take part in the CALIBA “Kids Buzz.”
Thank you to our Spring Fest West sponsor:
8:30 am - 9:45 am
Complete-With-Authors Breakfast Featuring: Ash Davidson (Damnation Spring) Willy Vlautin (The Night Always Comes) Daniel James Brown (Facing the Mountain) Kate Moore (The Woman They Could Not Silence) Zakiya Dalila Harris (The Other Black Girl) WATCH THE RECORDING 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Rep Picks—Adult Edition WATCH THE RECORDING 12:30 - 1:45 What We Talk About When We Talk About Resisting Amazon with Danny Caine, author of How to Resist Amazon (Microcosm Publishing) and owner of The Raven Book Store (Lawrence, Kansas) opening reading from Microcosm author and owner of Neverending Bookshop (Edmonds, WA), Annie Carl: My Tropey Life: How Pop Culture Stereotypes Make Disabled Lives Harder. WATCH THE RECORDING 2:00 - 4:00 Rep Picks—Mixed List Edition WATCH THE RECORDING 4:30 - 5:45 Authors on the Map Featuring: Sonora Jha (How to Raise a Feminist Son) Sarina Dahlan (Reset) Shawn Hitchins (The Light Streamed Beneath It) Kate Lebo (Book of Difficult Fruit) Elissa Washuta (White Magic) Steven Reigns (A Quilt for David) Melissa Bahen (Farmhouse Weekends) Trystan Reese (How We Do Family) Wajahat Ali (The Domestic Crusaders) Eileen Garvin (The Music of Bees) Chris Stuck (Give My Love to the Savages) Shruti Swamy (The Archer) WATCH THE RECORDING 5:45 - 6:30 Western Round-up happy hour Casually hosted by staff from both parties |
8:30 am - 9:15 am Gratitude the Great Editor, Summer Dawn Laurie in conversation with author, Pamelyn Rocco, and Deepika Chopra discuss the creation of Gratitude the Great. 9.30-10:30 am Second Breakfast featuring: Molly Knox Ostertag (The Girl From the Sea) ...and more to come 11 am- 1pm Rep Picks—Kids Edition 1:30 pm-2:30 pm Education: Diversity in Action This session aims to present actionable items that bookstores can use to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion with their staff, their customers, and their books. Three experts will speak to each topic - hiring and human resources, book curation, and dealing with difficult customers and conversations - then there will be a short audience Q&A. 3 pm-4:15 pm Kids Author Buzz Featuring: Vera Brosgol (Memory Jars) Arnee Flores (Firebird Song) Ian + Sarah Hoffman (Jacob's School Play) Jane Kurtz (Chickens on the Loose) ... more to come 4:45 Bridgerton and Beyond: The Capacious Landscape of Romance Featuring: Julia Quinn (The Duke and I) Thein-Kim Lam (Happy Endings) Preslaya Williams (A Lowcountry Bride) Diana Quincy (The Viscount Made Me Do It) WATCH THE RECORDING |
