The 50th annual New England Independent Booksellers Association Fall Conference started yesterday in Providence, R.I., with an opening keynote and education panels, and was capped by a lively author reception. Today's program consists of a range of events, including the children's author & illustrator breakfast and NEIBA's 50th Anniversary Gala. Below are pictures from the author reception.
Books on the Square (Providence, R.I.) manager Jennifer Kandarian with An Unlikely Story (Plainville, Mass.) adult book buyer Bill Carl.
Sourcebooks marketing manager BrocheAroe Fabian with Gibran Graham, owner of the Briar Patch bookstore in Bangor, Maine.
Josh Cook, author, bookseller, and co-owner of Porter Square Books, Somerville, Mass., with his recently published book from Biblioasis, The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-First Century.
Author Donna Barba Higuera (Alebrijes) dropped by the NEIBA author reception to visit with fellow Levine Querido author, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (You're Breaking My Heart, January 2024).
TJ Alexander, author of Second Changes in New Port Stephen (Emily Bestler Books, December 5, 2023), with Hannah Moushabeck, Simon & Schuster marketing manager and author of Homeland (Chronicle Books).
David H. Rosmarin, Ph.D., author of Thriving with Anxiety: 9 Tools to Make Your Anxiety Work for You (Harper Horizon).