ABA member stores interested in promoting themselves to publicists at publishing houses big and small have just a week left to register for Publicists Speed Dating [5] at BookExpo America 2016 [6].

Next Wednesday, April 20, is the deadline to sign up for the program, which will feature conversations of approximately 12-minutes duration between one bookstore and one publisher at a time. During the “dates,” the bookstore’s staff — owners, managers, and/or event coordinators — will meet together with a publicist to not only promote their store but also discover what publicists look for when planning author tours.

Publishers participating in Publicists Speed Dating include:

• Catapult
• Scholastic
• F&W
• Coffee House Press
• ECW Press
• W.W. Norton
• Charlesbridge Publishing
• New Press
• Candlewick Press
• Sourcebooks
• Akashic Books
• Grove Atlantic
• Consortium Books (various publishers)
• Agate Publishing
• Bloomsbury
• Midpoint Trade Books
• Capstone
• HarperColllins Adult
• Hachette Book Group
• Perseus
• Soho Press
• Macmillan Publishing
• Quirk Books
• New York Review Books
• Graywolf Press
• Milkweed Press
• Penguin Young Readers
• Diversion
• Harlequin
• Shambhala
• Workman Publishing

Space for Publicists Speed Dating at BEA is now limited; register your store now [7].

Questions about this event should be sent to ABA Senior Program Officer Joy Dallanegra-Sanger [8].