2006

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More Books I Bought…

I wanted to finish out the list of books that I purchased for unsuspecting customers at Page & Palette the week I was there.  I am taking the titles from the receipts and it appears that some of them are shortened so the titles are not all complete.  The $500 of our $1500 expenditure went [...]

Loving it in the Trenches

I cannot believe that my time here is coming to an end.  It is early.  I wanted to get here ahead of the TV people and just have a few minutes to chill.  Last night was amazing.  Page & Palette held a customer appreciation sale from 5-8 PM where customers could buy one item and [...]

Working Hard for the Money

Well, today is Sunday and I am in the Latte Da Cafe at Page & Palette in Fairhope, Alabama.  It is a beautiful day.  I imagine it is about 70 degrees outside and sunny on this December 17th.  This is my third day working in the bookstore and things are a tiny bit slow today [...]

Can I Open a Store Called Booksense?

Let’s talk about how this trip came to be.  I’ve had a few stores ask me why not them…why weren’t they asked or considered or put on the tour.  When in New York City with the SIBA Board of Directors, I commented at dinner that I really needed to spend some time in a bookstore [...]

Rock & Roll – Books & Bells

It has certainly felt like Christmas and I feel like Santa on Dec. 26th.  Patrick and I have spent today in a beautiful house on the river.  I slept most of the day.  And I do not have internet access so I am typing up my blog to post once I get to Page & [...]

What A Day…

Well, I wrote this post last night at 1 am and then when I tried to publish it got kicked off the internet and am now writing this from Horton’s Books & Gifts in Carrollton, GA and I have quickly spent my $100. I wanted to put together a quick post and will take [...]

Giving is Good!

I am already having so much fun. My cameraman/husband and I went off to Happy Bookseller yesterday. We had to argue in advance to make sure we were late to meet Natasha from The State Newspaper and I would say it was all Patrick’s fault but that would be a lie. I [...]

Cold Turkey!

I have so much to be thankful for and for some reason, I have spent the last few weeks focusing on all of the things in my life that are not going the way I’d like and I am spending this holiday time turning all of that around.  It is not easy.  I am basically [...]

What is Wrong with Me?

Do we all ask this question or is it just me?  I certainly hope I am not alone in this.  Well – where have I been?  I have been losing the same damn weight again!!!  Yesterday morning, I weighed 189.  This is an old old story but I’m telling it anyway.  The trade show weigh [...]

Depressed & Distressed

Well, it has been awhile, no, and I have yet to get on the scale since I got back from SIBA.  I think I ended my last post with “and I’ve been eating ever since” and that is just too true.  So – I have spent today (Sunday) rolling around in the bed and wondering [...]

RSS News from SIBA

  • 2010 SIBA Book Award Long List Announced
    Columbia, SC--The 2010 SIBA Book Award "Long List" has just been released, containing a complete collection of all the eligible books nominated by Southern Independent Booksellers as favorites for 2009.  The list features 101 different books in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, cooking, and children's/young adult that are either set in th […]
  • SIBA at the SC Book Festival
    Wanda Jewell, Reeden Wright and Lady Banks spent some time at the South Carolina Book Festival February 27 & 28th, talking to people about the importance of independent bookstores, the difficulties of creating crossword puzzles, and why the South is full of (literary) STARS! […]
  • 2010 Spring Book Show Education
    The Spring Book Show March 26-28, 2010 The Cobb Galleria ~ Atlanta, GA. Register here Featuring SIBA-Sponsored Education Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Register {loadposition addthis} Thursday, March 25 Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Register 6 – 7 PM An Evening on a Wing & a Prayer Booksellers will not want to miss out on an evening with River Jordan an […]
  • Paz & Associates Print Newsletter Benefit
    SIBA and Paz & Associates Join to Offer New Print Newsletter Benefit for Bookstore Members  As a retired textile executive, the first "book people" I met when I bought a book store were Donna Paz and Mark Kaufman. How LUCKY we were ... their newsletter [The Readers Edge] is our best tool to reach out to our customers. It's the BEST money w […]
  • 2010 Winter/Spring Okra Picks Announced
    Isn’t it a little early to pick okra?SIBA Announces the 2010 Winter/Spring Okra Picks—great southern books, fresh off the vine.(Columbia, SC)-It may still be frosty outside but in the South it’s always Okra Season!  Southern Indie Booksellers have a selected a basket full of books for the 2010 Winter/Spring Okra Picks—great southern books, fresh off the vine […]
  • Update Your Address Book
    SIBA has new numbers.  The new phone number for SIBA is 803.994.9530.The current fax number for SIBA is: 509-463-5923.The previous numbers will work for a short time. […]
  • SIBA takes a leap of faith and introduces the "Circle of Sites"
    SIBA believes in its booksellers and takes a leap of faith(Columbia, SC)—In order to demonstrate the collective clout of independent bookstores and booksellers in the South, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) has taken an unprecedented, and daring, step. In a new policy just announced to its members this week, SIBA has offered to forgo coll […]
  • Eat. Sleep. Read. Every Day.
    The EAT. SLEEP. READ. CALENDAR! Created exclusively for independent bookstores by your regional booksellers’ associations, independent booksellers, and IndieBound. Here’s an exclusive offer for independent booksellers to show support of IndieBound and the regional booksellers’ associations. EAT. SLEEP. READ. offers daily book trivia provided by independent b […]
  • 2009 SIBA Book Award Winners Announced
    2009 SIBA Book Award Winners Announced A hard-as-nails woman. A hard-drinking man. A city that sings the blues and serves it up with red beans and rice. A lost dog and a lost cat and a lost world waiting to be discovered. It can all be found here…the best in Southern Literature as chosen by the people who would know. . .Southern Independent Booksellers Colum […]
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    Announcing FreeBookStimulusPlan.comIncrease Your Karmic Footprint Wanda Jewell has a problem. After serving nearly 20 years as Executive Director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) she is overrun with books. All kind of books; finished copies and galleys, advance reading copies, advance reader editions, paperback and hardbound, slip-cove […]