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Award-winning author A.S. King delivered these inspiring remarks at the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Fall Conference on Sunday, September 21. King’s latest novel for young adults, Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, will be published next month.

Stephen Cogil Casari, who founded the Tattered Cover Book Store in 1970 in Denver, died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on September 15, 2014, at the age of 66.

After more than 25 years as the chief financial officer of the American Booksellers Association, Eleanor Chang will be retiring at the end of this year.

Caitlin Doughty is the author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, a 2014 Summer/Fall Indies Introduce nonfiction title and a September Indie Next List pick. “Doughty’s book is a clear-eyed look at death and a call for us all to think about a difficult topic in healthier ways,” said David Enyeart of Common Good Books.

ICSC poll finds support for e-fairness at all-time high; Chase and Google to award small business grants; Study analyzes reading habits of Millennials; Man Booker Prize shortlist revealed; Neil Gaiman to present lifetime achievement award to Ursula Le Guin; Ellen Chodosh named director of NYU Press

Amy Zhang is the author of Falling Into Place, a 2014 Summer/Fall Indies Introduce New Voices title for middle-grade readers and a top 10 pick on the Autumn Kids’ Indie Next List.

Madeline McIntosh has been appointed president of the Penguin Publishing Group, which brings together the Penguin imprints Penguin Adult and Berkley/NAL under one leadership team.

Betty Bruce Morrissette Fairchild, former vice president, field director for Random House Adult, died on August 27, at age 67.

Mitch Kaplan to announce National Book Award finalists on NPR; Winners of the American Poets Prizes revealed; Corporate communications changes announced at Penguin Random House; Ingram adds two distribution clients

Jennifer Longo is the author of Six Feet Over It, a Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce New Voices pick for young adults.

In Pages of the Past, Julie and Lucas Cade have created a history bookstore that holds equal appeal for local community members and visitors to the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, area.

Earlier this month while on vacation in Alaska, ABA CEO Oren Teicher and his wife, Alison Greene, punctuated their exploration of the area’s natural beauty with stops at 10 ABA member stores in Alaska, Canada, and Washington State.

Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre, a former Marine Corps officer who deployed twice to Iraq, is “a mesmerizing debut set in the Iraq war and its aftermath,” said Bill Cusumano of Nicola’s Books. Here, Pitre talks about the inspiration for his debut novel, how literature can help us understand the experiences of America’s military men and women, and more.

Earlier this summer, Annie Philbrick of Bank Square Books talked with The Book Report Network’s Teenreads about becoming a bookstore owner, the store’s role within the coastal community, and her favorite — and least favorite — parts of the job.

Tom Bouman is the author of Dry Bones in the Valley (W.W. Norton), which was chosen by booksellers for both the Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce promotion and the July 2014 Indies Next List.