2024 in Olymia, WA was a lot of fun! 

Be sure to join us next year in 2025 (dates and location TBA)

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At Browsers Bookshop and DoubleTree Olympia
Wednesday, April 10
Day

​DoubleTree Olympia

​Education, authors, and sales rep presentations, at the Doubletree Olympia, including 3 - 4 author podium slots of 10 - 12 minutes each, followed by a social signing period.

11:00 am    
Opening Education

Edelweiss, Indie Next List, and Reporting Sales – Oh My!: A Bookseller-Publisher Education Session
Presented by Broche Fabian, Indie Marketing Manager, Sourcebooks 

Publishers need independent bookstores just as much as independent bookstores need publishers. This education session is designed to be a real-time working session and talk about the top three ways we can help each other and the technology that exists to help us do it:

  1. Edelweiss catalogs, orders, and event grids
  2. Indie Next List nominations
  3. Reporting sales to the ABA, the New York Times, and USA Today
 
Bring your laptop, your questions, and let’s dive into how to help each other, our favorite authors, and the ultimately, our readers!


12:00 pm    
Author Keynotes

Julia Phillips, Alison Cochrun, David F. Walker, and Willy Vlautin.

1:00 pm      
Signing Social / Lunch Break
(box lunch sponsored by Scholastic)


2:00 pm      
Education Roundtable

Let's learn from each other! 
Members of your PNBA Education Committee will be leading a handful of small group discussions on such topics as time management, events, and returns. Join the group that interests you most, but don't fear that you're missing out. We'll come back together at the end to share what we've learned.

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3:00 pm
It's a Crowded Shelf out There:
Supporting local Small Presses & Self-Published Authors

Ali Shaw from Indigo Editing and Christine Longmuir from Two Rivers Bookstore share insights and strategies on hosting a local small and self-publishing faire to support your local authors.

4:00 pm      
Rep Picks
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Chris Satterlund - Scholastic
Kurtis Lowe - Imprint Group
Jamil Zaidi - Chronicle Books
​Phil Garrett - Epicenter Press
Katie Hartman - Macmillan
​Rob Pine - Ingram Content
Amy Rockwell - PRH Children's
​Craig Bunn - Penguin Random House
Megan Jessop - The Collective Book Studio
Evening

​Browsers Bookshop

The evening will bring a shift in venue, a five minute walk from the hotel, to Browsers Bookshop, where guests will meet 10 - 12 authors at individual greeting and signing tables.

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm  
​Browsing for Authors

Pamela Statz, Hannah Murphy Winter & Billie Winter, Nikki McClure, Lola Miholland, Elizabeth Goddard, Sydney Langford, Jared Pechaček, Ray Stoeve, Julie Paschkis (Illustrator), Sara Berhman, David Ciminello, Cherie Priest, Chris La Tray, and K.A. Cobell.
Thursday, April 11th
Day

​DoubleTree Olympia

Education, authors, and sales rep presentations, at the Doubletree Olympia, including 3 - 4 author podium slots of 10 - 12 minutes each, followed by a social signing period.

9:30 am    
Open Forum
(coffee & pastries sponsored by The New Press)

10:00 am    
​Education Presentation​

Champion Inclusion in Your Community

Bookstores are bastions of intellectual freedom and inclusion. Yet our communities are facing an unprecedented spike in censorship attempts. What can bookstores do to support the titles, authors, and readers under attack? How can we take action and build coalitions that protect the freedom to read? Explore powerful ideas and practical strategies shared by Dr. Audrey Barbakoff, a nationally recognized intellectual freedom activist, librarian, and author of an #ownvoices picture book. 

11:00 am    
Author Keynotes

Meredith Adamo, Jessica Shattuck, Renée Watson and ​Suzy Vitello. 

Suzy Vitello will be joined in conversation by Sibylline Press publisher Vicki DeArmon for "Women’s Voices Over 50.” Women of a certain age are often not seen in the publishing industry, their manuscripts going unpublished and their books unread. Come hear how we’re all making inroads together in publishing and selling these books and how the model for doing it rests in collaboration—the specialty of women.

12:00 pm    
​Book Signings






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