Two Days of Authors & Education
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Thursday, April 14 |
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11:00 am - 3:00 pm Squalicum Boathouse
11:00 - Indie Exclusive Programs and Top Title Picks Sourcebooks Marketing Manager (and former Annie Bloom’s bookseller), BrocheAroe Fabian provides an overview of Sourcebooks programs being offered exclusively to independent bookstores in 2022! If you have a specific question you would like her to address during the session, please email her at BrocheAroe.Fabian@Sourcebooks.com. 11:30 - PNBA education Education Committee chair Michelle Bear (Edmonds Bookshop) will start this year’s idea exchange and introduce the team’s new asset, web and e-commerce designer, Murray Sampson (Trail’s End Bookstore): "Based on my time at IndieCommerce, I saw a real need in our industry for more learning opportunities and sharing of collective wisdom and lessons as e-commerce takes off as a bigger part of many stores' incomes than they ever expected.” 12: 00 - Authors: Jamie Ford - Many Daughters of Afong Moy Nikki McClure - Old Wood Boat 12:30 - Signings/Lunch A boxed lunch will be provided by Penguin Random House (lunches must be pre-ordered) 1:00 - Open Forum with Binc, PNBA, & ABA 2:00 - Authors: Leyna Krow - Fire Season Laura Stanfill - Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary Jennifer Weiner - The Summer Place 3:00 - 5:00 - Open House at Village Books Staff will be on hand with refreshments and available to give informal tours of the store--including behind the scenes. Drop in to explore and appreciate Village Books. 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm Four Points by Sheraton
Authors On The Map Naz Kutub - The Loophole Rachel Griffin - Wild Is the Witch Jonathan Case - Little Monarchs Robert Albanese - The Birders Linda Stewart Henley - Waterbury Winter Rachel Linden - The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie Hiron Ennes - Leech Laura Kalpakian - Memory Into Memoir Sabina Khan - Meet Me in Mumbai Darin Shuler - Dog & Hat and the Lost Polka Dots: Book 1 Ellie Peterson - How to Hug a Pufferfish - School Is Wherever I Am Susan Thistle - The Memory of All That (representing her mother Mary MacCracken) Sponsored by Sourcebooks |
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Village Books, Fairhaven
Coffee & pastries sponsored by Read Island 10:00 - Shelf Awareness Partnership Program Manager Kristianne Huntsberger will share some of the exciting developments in Shelf Awareness’ free customized bookstore newsletter program. We’ll talk about e-mail marketing strategy, best practices and tracking and take a walk through the new data dashboard for email partners and improved design and features for your PNBA Summer Reading e-blast and Holiday catalog emails. 10:30 - Village Book Presents Working with Writers in Your Community: From in-store consignment and display to on-site publishing services and community events, Village Books has a reputation for keeping it local, from the sales floor and all the way to the Chuckanut Writers Workshop/Classes Series. 11:00 - Authors: J.M. Miro - Ordinary Monsters Lauren Kessler - Free Belinda Huijuan Tang - A Map for the Missing 12:00 - Shop Village Books! 7:00pm to 8:00pm - Firehouse Performing Arts Center
Chuckanut Radio Hour featuring Sasha LaPointe, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk Join hosts Paul Hanson and Kelly Evert for this radio variety show performed live a couple of blocks away from Village Books at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center...music, poetry, literature, and a little humor. |
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