Footnotes: September 2022
Updates and Ideas from and for the Indie Northwest
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Post Show Bonuses
Reimbursements Available
We started off the show by giving away money to lucky attendees who happened to sit upon a golden ticket envelope when they settled in for the opening event. We now wrap things up by offering our members travel reimbursements for their efforts in getting to Tacoma.
The Money for Miles program is back, and we've added an "emergency' wrinkle this time around. PNBA negotiated a package deal to pay for your parking charges at the Hotel Murano. For many of you, that charge was not moved from your room bill to the association's master bill. But we've got you!
The mileage credit form now contains a box for you to note the number of nights you were charged parking during your stay as a registered guest at the hotel.
Money for Miles
Miles traveled (one way):
50 - 100 = $25; 100 - 150 = $50; 50 - 200 = $75
200 - 250 = $100; 250 - 300 = $125; 300+ = $150
Parking credit: $11 per night
Stores sending 1-3 attendees are eligible for a single Money for Miles grant. Stores sending 4+ attendees are eligible for a maximum of two. Parking reimbursements are available on a one car, per room, per night formula.
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Home Court Buzz Win!
Tacoma's Blue Cactus Takes the Prize
Where Rivers Change Direction by L. Bundrock, published by Tacoma's Blue Cactus Press, was selected as this year's BuzzBooks contest winner by booksellers and librarians on the show floor.
The Blue Cactus pitch: Tana, a white woman, falls in love with Colette Little Crow. Her coming out as a late-blooming Gay woman is messy, painful, and full of fumbles. Tana’s love with Collette ultimately cleaves her heart in two and she must decide whether to piece it back together in Montana, her home, or cross geographic and cultural divides to start over in Seattle.
Winners of the $100 participant prizes:
Christine Longmuir, Two Rivers Books, Portland, OR
Anne Brangwin, North Central WA Libraries, Wenatchee, WA
Erin Chervenock, Village Books, Bellingham, WA
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The Latest on the ABA Front
Good Stacks
After calculating the votes, ABA is excited to introduce Stacks, its brand new bookstore cat mascot! The name nomination came courtesy of PNBA's own James Crossley, manager of Seattle's Madison Books, in teamwork with his daughter.
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Across the Literary Northwest
NWBookLovers Has It Covered
Thursday Themes
Consider potential displays built around NWBL's signature Thursday Themes, identified and packaged by the astute creative forces behind NWBL and PNBA. Super fun!
Check out last week's collection and connect it to the story below in Member Notes. WWWD? Sell a bunch of books over the summer!
Face Outs
Jazz up your shelftalker offerings by promoting the voices of your indie colleagues across the Northwest via their NWBL-featured Face Outs.
Use the NWBL-branded template and promote the site while you promote NW indie voices and your own sales!
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Holiday Catalog Heads to Press
The 2022 Gives Books layout is currently being edited for the printing press, just ten days out! If you neglected to order catalogs, this is your last chance to secure generic quantities for display, bag-stuffing, stacks for neighboring businesses, etc. Case count is 250. Email Brian by 10/5.
The Business of Books
Share it with your staff and your community! The Business of Books: Workshops for BIPOC Entrepreneurs is a a series of classes for BIPOC literary entrepreneurs hosted by Seattle Public Library with the support of African American Writers’ Association, Business Impact Northwest, Hugo House, Indigenous People’s Institute, Langston Seattle, Seattle City of Literature, Seattle Credit Union, Seattle Office of Economic Development, Seattle Urban Book Expo, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.
The series launched Sept. 22 and three events remain:
Saturday, October 8, 1 - 5 pm, Douglass-Truth Branch
Saturday, November 12, 1 - 5 pm, Columbia Branch
Tuesday, December 6, 6 - 7:30 pm, Rainier Beach Branch
Binc Sponsored Scholarship
Applications are open for the fourth annual Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists. Presented by the Friends of Carla Gray Committee and the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, the scholarship is intended to help a bookseller with fewer than five years of experience connect with other booksellers, publishers and authors to establish the long-term relationships that keep the book industry thriving.
The winning bookseller will be awarded a year-long scholarship for professional development, which includes: travel and hotel for attendance to Winter Institute 2023, travel and hotel for attendance to their 2023 regional fall trade show, and a $1,000 stipend to fund a community outreach project.
Indie to Indie
PNBA members are invited to join gatherings with indie booksellers, indie presses, reps, and indie regionals, to brainstorm ways that indie presses and indie bookstores can better support and uplift each other.
Upcoming sessions:
Sept 30: Sales reps’ roles in highlighting indie presses.
Oct 14: Improving communications between presses and booksellers.
Oct 28: Role of regionals in connecting presses and booksellers. (Featuring PNBA E.D. Brian Juenemann, et al)
Nov 11: Series debrief, best practices, resource overview.
Times will be confirmed by the Independent Publishers Caucus with registration.
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"I am so happy to be a part of PNBA and consider myself so fortunate to be involved with such a caring Board." —Karen Emmerling (r), owner of Beach Books, Seaside, OR, and PNBA board member. |
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"I wanted to send you and the PNBA team a huge THANK YOU for all of your support for Andrea's event! She was so happy with talk and book signing, and it was such a pleasure making it all come together with you."
—Jessica Tackett, Marketing Manager, Princeton Architectural Press
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Calendar Highlights:
Check out the full calendar of member-related
deadlines and events featured on pnba.org.
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