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Wednesday, May 11, 2022  
 
Ci10 Registration Closes This Friday, PLUS Charlie Jane Anders Keynote Announcement
 

Ci10 will be here before we know it. With this amazing lineup of authors and speakers so far, there is so much exciting programming that it’s difficult to narrow down highlights: 

The children’s book character costume party is always a favorite (a scholarship to Ci11 is among the prizes!). 

The Juneteenth celebration promises to be special.

The bookstore bus tour is a chance to explore a bookish Phoenix.

We have fantastic keynotes and featured speakers with more to come, including our newly announced Closing Keynote: Charlie Jane Anders!

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in the Unstoppable trilogy, Even Greater Mistakes: Stories, Never Say You Can’t Survive, The City in the Middle of the Night, and All the Birds in the Sky. She’s won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford, and Locus Awards. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, Tor.com, Tin House, and other places. Her TED Talk, “Go Ahead, Dream About the Future” got 700,000 views in its first week, and she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

We hope you join us for what's sure to be a special occasion in person with the bookselling community.
 
REGISTER FOR Ci10 NOW

Not able to make it to Phoenix? Virtual Ci registration will open Wednesday, May 18! On July 13, 2022, watch the best of the best from the Education Sessions presented at Ci10 in Phoenix! For $25, you’ll be able to catch recordings of some of the best featured panels and keynotes, engage with attendees in Roundtables and Idea Exchanges, and request books in the Virtual Galley Room. Panelists and moderators will be available in the chat to continue the conversation for an experience unique to our virtual show.
Action Items

In the interest of equity and access, and in response to questions raised at Town Hall, the ABA’s Bookseller Advisory Council (BAC) will now be nomination-based instead of by appointment. Booksellers and bookstore owners can self-nominate to be considered to serve on the BAC, a council that helps inform ABA’s work by sharing their experience, ideas, and needs, and by offering ABA feedback. The current council will help select new council members and will give consideration to all types of representation (region, store size, format, and the many ways members identify)  to ensure that BAC reflects the diversity of the membership. Nominations are due by May 30, 2022.

Join us on June 8, 2022 at 4:30 pm ET for the Summer/Fall 2022 Indies Introduce Adult Titles Presentation! Discover exciting debut authors and share the best with readers across the country. You will hear from the bookseller panelists who curated the list, and many of this season’s debut authors will be present to read a short passage and answer a question posed by a panelist.

Let us know about your IBD exclusives sales by Sunday, May 15, 2022. This information will help us work with publishers as we determine next year’s exclusives. The instructions to submit your sell-thru data are as follows:

  1. Login into BookWeb.org (you must log in with the account you used to submit your IBD order)
  2. Visit your IBD Form Submission
  3. Select Edit
  4. Update the Quantity Sold field to indicate how many of the item you sold YTD
Save the Date

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What to Know

Congratulations to Kelly Klein of Reads by the River in Waterford, Wisconsin for winning a Ci10 Scholarship for reporting sales for the Indie Bestseller lists and BookScan industry tracking tool!

Andrew Joseph White is the author of the novel Hell Followed with Us, a Winter/Spring 2022 Indies Introduce young adult selection. Here, White and Cliff Helm of Left Bank Books discuss Hell Followed with Us.

Joseph Han is the author of the novel Nuclear Family, a Summer/Fall 2022 Indies Introduce adult selection. Here, Han and Jonathan Hawpe of Carmichael’s Bookstore discuss Nuclear Family.

The North American Hardware and Paint Association (NHPA) will be visiting Manhattan and Brooklyn Tuesday, May 24–Thursday, May 26 primarily to visit independent hardware and paint stores for their series, Renee on the Road. They would also like to highlight other businesses outside their industry, and have asked for any interested indie bookstores within Manhattan or Brooklyn to be featured in their series.

If you are, please email Membership by Friday, May 13, and include a name, email address and phone number for the person at your store that they can coordinate a visit with. NOTE: Responses will be reviewed and visits will be chosen within their travel path. Due to time constraints, it’s possible not all stores will be included. 
 
 
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