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Book Industry Charitable Foundation - Scholarship Poster

The Binc Foundation was initially started by the Borders Group, to assist booksellers with emergency grants and funding for education. With the folding of Borders, Binc is continuing its work in aiding the bookselling community. We'll be sharing more about this organization in the future, but you should be aware that the scholarship drive has just begun.

The Binc Foundation 2013 Higher Education  Scholarship Program is open and accepting online applications from bookstore employees, owners & their dependents. You can check out the blog about the program. 

Managers and owners, here is a printable poster that you can post in your backroom or break area.

 

 

SCIBA 2013 Membership Now Due!

The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association (SCIBA) membership year runs through December 31 of each year. Dues must be paid by February 1 (EXTENDED THIS YEAR UNTIL MARCH 15TH) to be included in the SCIBA Guide to Independent Bookstores.  Membership is open to retail bookstores, as well as to book publishers, distributors, sales reps, vendors, prospective booksellers, and others in the bookselling community.Read More

2013 SCIBA Membership Form for Booksellers, Reps, Distributors, Publishers

2013 SCIBA Author Membership Form

2013 Librarian and Teacher Membership Form

 

SCIBA's Children's Books & Literacy Dinner

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Westin Pasadena Hotel

 

 

Shannon Hale to emcee the 2013 Children's Books & Literacy Dinner!  SCIBA so enjoyed Shannon at our 2011 dinner with her husband Dean, that we invited her back and she said yes.  

 

Shannon Hale is the New York Times best-selling author of six young adult novels, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy. Its sequel, Palace of Stone, released August 2012. She also wrote Austenland and other books for adults. She co-wrote the hit graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack with husband Dean Hale. They live with their four small children near Salt Lake City, Utah.

The 2013 Children's Books & Literacy Dinner will be held on Saturday, February 16 at the Westin Pasadena Hotel.  This dinner is a wonderful opportunity for you to thank your teachers and librarians for their patronage of your store and to meet other educators as well.  No other store can offer such an opportunity!  You are providing educators the opportunity to find the best books and authors to share with their students. The best part of all is creating stronger ties between independent bookstores and teachers / librarians.  The past six years have seen this dinner double in size to 162 attendees last year to an expected 200+ this year.  Attendees are booksellers, teachers, librarians, authors and of course reps / publishers.

Click here to register!

 

Our Speakers ...

Tom Angleberger

Tom Angleberger is the bestselling author of the Origami Yoda series, including 

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, Darth Paper Strikes Back, and 

The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee. Visit him online at OrigamiYoda.com. He lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, with his wife, the author-illustrator Cece Bell.

 

In the third book of this series, an origami Wookiee arrives to provide all the answers the McQuarrie Middle School students need. Tom Angleberger has written another amazingly funny read that captures the quirks and drama of middle school.

Brandon Mull

Brandon Mull is the author of the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street

Journal bestselling Beyonders and Fablehaven series. Brandon resides in a happy little valley near the mouth of a canyon with his wife and four children. He spent two years living in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile where he learned Spanish and juggling. He once won a pudding eating contest in the park behind his grandma's house, earning a gold medal. 

 

 

 

 

Stephen Savage

Stephen Savage is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of the highly acclaimed and award-winning picture book, Polar Bear Night, written by Lauren Thompson, as well as the creator of Where's Walrus? He creates illustrations for a wide range of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsweek. Stephen lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit him online atwww.stephensavage.net. 

 

Polar Bear Morning is a natural to follow Polar Bear Night. The new book features pure, simple linocut illustrations, with crisp blues in early dawn and bright polar sunshine.

 

 

 

Just Added! Ruta Sepetys  

In 2011, author Ruta Sepetys published her debut novel, BetweenShades of Gray, a poignant account of Joseph Stalin's ethnic cleansing in the Baltic countries during WWII as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-old Lithuanian girl.  Between Shades of Gray went on to become an international bestseller and one of the most acclaimed novels of the year, landing on numerous Best Book of the Year lists, including those from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Publishers Weekly. With prose "restrained and powerful" (The Washington Post), Ruta Sepetys' "heart-wrenching" (The Los Angeles Times), "engrossing and poignant" (The Associated Press) novel went on to garner the IndiesChoice Best Young Adult Book of the Year.  

 

 Named one of Bookspan's top thirteen new books of 2013, Out of the Easy is a rich and poignant historical coming-of-age novel that firmly establishes Ruta as one of today's most talented writers. www.outoftheeasy.com

 

 

 

 

 

Publishers, Publicists, Authors: Use SoCal Reads to Give Booksellers Advanced Access

Zero in on SCIBA booksellers with your free ARCs, galleys and review copies. It's a great way to drum up advance orders and get booksellers talking about your titles. Details/deadlines here.