A round of applause to the following publishers who are committed to seeing frontline booksellers at the Fall Conference and are sponsoring their event ticket packages:
Bookazine - 10 booksellers
HarperCollins - 10 booksellers
Hachette - 10 booksellers
Northeast Publishers Reps:
(NPR) - 1 bookseller
Publishers Group West/Perseus
-1 bookseller
Scholastic - 5 booksellers
Simon & Schuster - 3 booksellers
BookPage- 5 booksellers
These sponsorships cover admission to two breakfasts, one lunch and one dinner. Scholarships will be awarded as conference registration forms are received and while they last. For frontline booksellers only. So sign up now and be sure to bring a frontline bookseller!
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Conference Schedule for Children's Booksellers
A good time was had by everyone at the 2011 Fall Conference, with some great speakers and educational opportunities. See the schedule below to get an idea of what went on.
Click here to download a pdf of the events for children's booksellers at the 2011 Fall Conference.
Click here to download a pdf of the 2011 Fall Conference program and schedule.
Monday, Sept 19
7:30 - 9 pm
Preview Dinner
Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt (Farrar Strauss Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Followed by the Quiz Bowl (care to be part of a children's bookselling team?)
Tuesday, Sept 20: Bookcentric - A day when it is all about the books
8 - 9:20 am
Author breakfast
Kenneth Oppel, This Dark Endeavor (S&S)
Peter Brown, You Will Be My Friend (Little Brown) **Peter also received our Book of the Year award and will be at the Awards Banquet!
9:45 - 10:45 am
Keynote presentation
Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, The Essential Guide to Getting Published, Workman. They will share all the ideas and great marketing programs that they've witnessed at the hundreds of bookstores who have hosted Bookapalooza. Moderator: Rita Maggio.
11am - 12 pm
Pick of the Lists by booksellers for children's books
Alicia Michielli, Talking Leaves will do YA books; Sam Droke Dickinso of Aaron's Books will cover middle readers; and Heather Hebert of Children's Book World will share her picture book favorites. Everyone will be invited to share their favorite reads during the session.
12:30 - 2 pm
Lunch: Pick of the Lists
All of our reps will use this time during lunch to share their picks of the lists. They will visit the tables to do more in-depth presentations, as well as quick plugs of their favorites to the entire audience. There will be dedicated children's tables - be sure to request one on your registration form.
2 - 7 pm
Publisher Marketplace (exhibits)
All afternoon you'll be visiting the publishers' tables in the exhibit ballroom. But wait - we have a special treat for children's booksellers. (Aside from cocktails at 5pm. floor sponsord by INGRAM.) There will be a special Speed Dating with Children's Authors & Illustrators from 3:30-5pm. You'll sit back and enjoy the brief presentations by these authors, and book them into your community for school and store events. Authors include:
Mary Quattlebaum Eric Wight Michaela MacColl Kathleen Van Cleve
Gene Barretta Mary Amato Tad Hills Emily Jenkins Lee Harper
Julie Sternberg Maryrose Wood Christopher David Sudipta Bardhan Quallen
Lindsay Barrett George Sylvie Kantorovitz Janet Wong Michelle Knudsen Daniel Kirk
John Rocco John Bemelmans Marciano Brian Floca Dan Yaccarino
7:30 - 9 pm
Awards Banquet
Join us as we present the Dashiell Hammett Award, the Legacy Award, the Helmuth Sales Rep of the Year to Bill Getz from PGW and the Drabyak Handseller of the Year Award to Ellen Mager of Booktenders Secret Garden Children's Bookstore. You'll also get to meet:
Stephen Alcorn when he receives the Carla Cohen Free Speech Award for Odetta (Scholastic)
Peter Brown, Children Make Terrible Pets, (Little Brown) for Picture Book of the Year
Laurie Halse Anderson, Forge (Atheneum) for Middle Reader Book of the Year
Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution (Random House) for YA Book of the Year
9 pm
Author Reception - members of the Bookmakers Dozen will be there.
9 pm
Emerging Leaders - frontline booksellers from all our stores are invited to get-together at the author's reception to chat about work and make some new friends.
Wednesday, Sept 21: Bizcentric - A day when it is all about the bookstore
8 - 9:30 am
Author Breakfast
Patrick Carman, Floors (Scholastic)
Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po (HarperCollins)
Breakout sessions (these are the ones specific to children's bookselling)
9:45 - 10:45 am
How to Host Successful YA events:
Suzanna Hermans, Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, NY will be joined by YA authors A.S. King, Melissa Walker and Matthew Quick to share ideas on attracting YA readers and events that appeal to them. Heather Hebert, Children's Book World, will moderate.
11 am - 12:30 pm
Sidelines for Children:
Our panelists will get us started and we'll all share our favorite merchandise for kids and offer suggestions for the missing product line in your store. Panelists include Mary McCarthy, Ingram, who spent years at some of the best bookstores, including Kroch's & Brentano's in Chicago; Library, Ltd in St Louis; Joseph-Beth in Cleveland; and VP/COO at the Harry W Schwartz Bookshops in Milwaukee.
12:45 - 2 pm
Movable Feast
Movable Feast with 12 authors and a big bag of books. A highlight of the convention, you'll dine with authors and hear them handsell their books to you. Our confirmed authors include:
Martha Southgate, The Taste of Salt, Algonquin
Lisa Tucker, The Winters in Bloom, Simon & Schuster
Brian Biggs, Everything Goes: On Land, HarperCollins
Sarah Weeks, Pie, Scholastic
David Owen, The Conundrum, Penguin
Julianna Baggott, Pure, Hachette
Sarah Pekkanen, Skipping A Beat, Simon & Schuster
Marisa de los Santos, Falling Together, HarperCollins
Sabrina Benulis, Archon, HarperCollins
Matthew Norman, Domestic Violets, HarperCollins
Evan Mandery, Q: A Love Story, HarperCollins
2:15 - 3:30 pm
Roundtables
We are breaking the "roundtable" mold and making this an "ask the experts." Speakers from the morning sessions will be on hand to answer questions and share ideas. You can use this time to get the ideas and advice shared in the sessions you missed. This is informal, and you may go from table to table at your leisure. We will offer additional subjects that were not covered in morning workshops.
City stores
Small store-small town
Spending
Efficiency
Publicity
Alternate business models
Graphic
Business2Business
Small Business Administration
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