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Conference Schedule
Hyatt Regency Crystal City, VA
Friday - Sunday
September 21 - 23, 2012
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 conference program and schedule.
Click here to see a schedule of the events for children's booksellers.
Monday, Sept 19
Preview Dinner
Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
(Algonquin)(title featured in holiday catalog), Jack Gantos, Dead End
in Norvelt (Farrar Strauss Giroux Books for Young Readers);
Doron Weber, Immortal Bird (Simon & Schuster) and
Heather Poole, Cruising Attitude (HarperCollins).
Dinner will be followed by our rip-roaring-good-time Quiz Bowl.
Tuesday, Sept 20: Bookcentric - A day when it is all about the books
The whole day is a learning experience about books - interactive, entertaining, educational, and sometimes traditional.
8am - 1 pm
Exhibit set-up
8 - 9:30 am
Author breakfast
Colson Whitehead, Zone One (Random House); Kenneth Oppel, This Dark Endeavor (S&S); Peter Brown, You Will Be My Friend (Little Brown) (title featured in holiday catalog).
9:30 - 10:00 am
NAIBA Annual Meeting and Town Hall
9:45 - 10:45 am
Keynote presentation
Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, The Essential Guide to Getting Published, Workman. Frequent guests with their Pitchapaloozas at bookstores across the country, they've been sharing the good ideas they've seen, experienced, and heard - so we can all steal some new ideas.
11 am - 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.
11 am - 12 pm
Editor Buzz for adult books
Marysue Rucci, Penguin, Kate Miciak, Random House, Jamie Levine, Hachette, and Carl Lennertz, HarperCollins are the editors joining us to whet our appetites for great books.
12:15 - 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.
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
5 pm
Cocktail Party - sponsored by INGRAM
On the exhibit floor.
7:30 - 9 pm
Awards Banquet
Where we'll hear from our Book of the Year winners; Legacy Award winner & the Dashiell Hammett award-winning author. Come and congratulate the Helmuth Sales Rep of the Year, Bill Getz and Ellen Mager, our Drabyak Handseller of the Year winner.
Carla Cohen Free Speech Award: Odetta, Stephen Alcorn
Books of the Year:
The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht (Random House)
Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)
Extra Indians, by Eric Gansworth (Milkweed Editions)
Children Make Terrible Pets, Peter Brown (Little Brown)
Forge, Laurie Halse Anderson (Atheneum)
Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly (Random House)
Dashiell Hammett Award nomninees:
Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel (William Morrow)
Jonathan Eig, Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster (Simon & Schuster)
T. Jefferson Parker, Iron River (Dutton)
Olen Steinhauer, The Nearest Exit (St. Martin's/Minotaur)
9 pm
Author Reception & Emerging Leaders Reception
Relax and spend some time meeting more authors, getting autographs, and learing more from other booksellers.
Authors include (this list will grow!):
Kevin Fox, Until The Next Time, Algonquin
Edward Lazellari, Awakenings, Forge
Lisa Tucker, The Winters in Bloom, Simon & Schuster
Julie Klam, Love at First Bark, Penguin
David Rowell, The Train of Small Mercies, Penguin
Wednesday, Sept 21: Bizcentric - A day when it is all about the bookstore
8 - 9:30 am
Author Breakfast
Mark Bowden, Worm (Grove Atlantic); Neil Abramson, Unsaid (Hachette); Patrick Carman, Floors (Scholastic); Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po (HarperCollins).
9:45 - 10:45 am
Breakout sessions (4 concurrent sessions) - sponsored by Random House
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.
Efficiency Translated for Booksellers:
Stephanie Anderson, WORD, Brooklyn NY will show us how she has taken the ideas she heard from David Allan (Getting Things Done, Penguin) and translated them for bookstore operations, marketing, and publicity.
Publicity: What They Need:
We have to understand the pressures, demands and expectations put upon publicists in order to be the store that gives them what they need, and then they can give us what we need - authors. Margot Sage-EL, Watchung Booksellers and Michael McKenzie, HarperCollins will show us how.
Small Business Administration Assistance:
The resources of the U.S. government's Small Business Administration (SBA) offer a wide range of assistance to new and established booksellers, including loans, loan guarantees, business counseling, and other forms of support. ABA and SBA have established a strategic alliance in order to streamline the delivery of SBA services, improve communications, and help ensure that booksellers seeking working capital have the best chance possible of securing loans and lines of credit. Come to this session, introduced by ABA, and hear directly from SBA representatives about the programs and opportunities for booksellers. There will also be an opportunity to meet one-on-one with SBA staff.
11 am - 12:30 pm
Breakout sessions (3 concurrent sessions)
These sessions are interactive and hands-on!
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.
Spend Your Way to Success:
At Winter Institute we were amazed at the openness and thoughtfulness of the presentation by Andrea Avantaggio, Co-Owner, Maria's Bookshop, Durango, CO. She'll be joining us in Atlantic City, with Len Vlahos, COO, American Booksellers Association, to discuss best practices to control operational expenses.
Alternate Business Models:
This session will be a big think-tank of alternative services you can offer customers that will generate income, such as used books, refreshments, food, trips, classes, retreats…and so on. Each idea will be analyzed to see how it could, should, would work in a bookstore, so you aren't left to figure it out on your own.
12:45 - 2 pm
Movable Feast - sponsored by HarperCollins
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
Alison Gaylin, And She Was, HarperCollins
Evan Mandery, Q: A Love Story, HarperCollins
Leah Hagen Cohen, The Grief of Others, Penguin
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.
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Alternate business models
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Small Business Administration
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