The second full day of Winter Institute featured a wonderful breakfast keynote panel, plenty of educational programming and meetings, as well as the jammed evening author reception. Today is the last day of Winter Institute, which features the community forum and the closing keynote with Brian Selznick.
Black booksellers celebrated following Tuesday's breakfast keynote on "The Legacy and Future of Black-Owned Bookstores" (see article below).
At last evening's author reception: Shelf Awareness's Kristianne Huntsberger; Calvin Crosby and Will Eakland, The King's English, Salt Lake City, Utah; Whitney Berger and Alison Sheridan, Cleary's Bookstore, Mount Holly, N.C.
V.E. Schwab, whose novel Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil will be released by Tor on June 10, with Deborah Lefebvre from Buffalo Books and Coffee, Buffalo, Minn.
Andrew Firment, Jackson Hole Book Trader, Jackson, Wyo.; Mandy Martin, novel, Memphis, Tenn.; with Randy Chan, marketing director at HTP Books.
David Litt, author of It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Pursuit of Common Ground (to be published by Gallery Books on June 24) with Emma Pattee, author of Tilt (Marysue Rucci Books), reviewed in Shelf Awareness yesterday.
Monday's programming included a lively conversation about generating pre-orders for stores, led by (from left) veteran booksellers Suzanna Hermans (Oblong Books, Millerton, N.Y.); Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo (Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y.); Shane Mullen (Left Bank Books, St. Louis, Mo.); and Michael Chin (Skylight Books, Los Angeles, Calif). The session offered tips on best practices and ideas, such as working with your landlord to get space to manage shipping of special orders; coordinating with local authors; and using social media. (If your store has an e-mail list, Shelf Awareness's turnkey Pre-Order eBlast and Kids' & YA Pre-Order eBlast can be a simple solution for helping your customers place pre-orders with your store. Contact bookstores@shelf-awareness.com for information.)