#followreader Summary for Bloggers & Others with interest in #SIBA10
1. Win a free hotel room during SIBA. How Tweet It Is! Contest – Win a FREE Hotel Night during #SIBA10
A little bird told me. . .The hashtag for the SIBA Trade Show is #SIBA10.
Any member of SIBA who tweets – “How tweet it is. #SIBA10″ between now and August 1st will be entered to win one free hotel night at SIBA 2010. There will be 5 winners, so start twittering! Follow SIndies to find out the latest Show news!
2. The Trade Show will be held in Daytona, Florida Sep. 24-26, 2010. #SIBA10 is Around the Corner – Mark Your Calendar
This year, the SIBA Trade Show is being held at sister indie properties that are side by side by the seaside. And it is predicted that the air will be filled with book-talk among the southern book industry elite. The most successful Southern Social Networking Summit Redux will be offered on Thursday. Linda Barrett-Knopp of Malaprops’ credits the summit for Malaprops’ finding its sweet spot. We are also expecting a host of bloggers so that booksellers can Get in Bed with a Blogger. Education, Publishers, and Authors, oh my! The ever popular Moveable Feast is back along with many SIBA favorites. New this year is the Tweet Up a Rep and the Technology Pavilion where anyone visiting the exhibits can stop and learn a new piece of technology that will help you sell more books. Twitter, Facebook and Ustream, oh my!
3. Who are you in bed with? SIBA’s Get in Bed Blog Project
SIBA’s own Wanda Jewell has launched the Get in Bed Blog Project.
Read more and sign up today.
4. Book Bloggers are valued as press partners by SIBA. Press: People from the media can obtain a press pass for the show by sending a request to Wanda Jewell.
5. Where should I stay for #SIBA10? Call to book your rooms at either hotel: 800-874-7420 (mention siba). Rates are: $139 at the Plaza Resort and $119 the Plaza Ocean Club
6. What’s going to be happening at the show? http://www.tradeshow.sibaweb.com/schedule
7. Confirmed authors for #SIBA10 as of today – 8/5/10
| Johnny | Atomic | Z is for Zombies | Morrow Avon |
| Robert | Barclay | If Wishes Were Horses | Morrow Avon |
| Hester | Bass | The Secret World of Walter Anderson | Candledwick Press |
| Lisa | Black | Trail of Blood | William Morrow |
| Ellen | Brown | Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind | Taylor Trade Publishing |
| Adam-Troy | Castro | Z is for Zombies | Morrow Avon |
| J. S. | Chancellor | Guardians of Legend Trilogy, Book One: Son of Ereubus | Rhemalda Publsihing |
| Brock | Clarke | Exley | Algonquin Books |
| Henry | Cole | A Nest for Celeste | HarperCollins Children’s Books |
| Katie | Crouch | Men & Dogs | Little Brown & Co. |
| Jasmin | Darnik | The Good Daughter | Grand Central |
| Nancy Raines | Day | On a Windy Night | Abrams |
| James | Dean | Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes | HarperCollins Children’s Books |
| Lou | Dischler | My Only Sunshine | Hub City Press |
| Emma | Donoghue | Room | Little Brown & Co |
| Adam | Edwards | Faster Pastor | Ingalls Publishing |
| Kim | Edwards | Lake of Dreams | Viking |
| Patricia | Engel | VIDA | Grove Atlantic |
| Georgann | Eubanks | Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook | University of North Carolina Press |
| Fannie | Flagg | I Still Dream About You: a Novel | Random House |
| Debra | Frasier | A Fabulous Fair Alphabet | Beach Lane Books |
| Mark | Greaney | On Target: A Gray Man Novel | Jove Mass Market |
| H. Terrell | Griffin | Wyatt’s Revenge | Oceanview Publishing |
| Benjamin | Hale | The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore | Twelve |
| Jessica | Harris | High on the Hog | Bloomsbury USA |
| Marti | Healy | The Secret Child | The Design Group Press |
| Alexia | Helsley | Hidden History of Greenville | The History Press |
| Patti Callahan | Henry | The Perfect Love Song | Vanguard Press |
| Laura | Hope-Gill | Look Up, Asheville | Grateful Steps |
| Richard Jay | Hutto | A Peculiar Tribe of People; Murder & Madness in the Heart of Georgia | Globe Pequot Press |
| Joshilyn | Jackson | Backseat Saints | Grand Central |
| Steven | Johnson | Where Good Ideas Come From | Penguin |
| Christy | Jordan | Southern Plate | Morrow Avon |
| River | Jordan | Praying for Strangers | Berkley |
| Janet | Keeler | Crazy for Cookies | Seaside Publishing |
| Watt | Key | Dirt Road Home | Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group |
| Michael | Knight | The Typist | Grove Atlantic |
| Brian | Knopp | Mayhem in Mayberry | Cosmic Pigbite Press |
| Michael | Koryta | The Cypress House | Little Brown & Co |
| Eric | Litwin | Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes | HarperCollins Children’s Books |
| Kat | Magendie | Sweetie, Tender Graces | BelleBooks |
| Margaret | Maron | Christmas Mourning | Grand Central Publishing |
| Carole | Marsh | Real Kids! Real Places! America’s National Mystery Book | Gallopade |
| Anna Jean | Mayhew | The Dry Grass of August | Kensington Books |
| Sharyn | McCrumb | The Devil Amongst Lawyers | Thomas Dunne |
| Sharyn | McCrumb | Faster Pastor | Ingalls Publishing |
| Patricia | Moore-Pastidies | Greek Revival: Cooking for Life | USC Press |
| Mark | Mustian | The Gendarme | Amy Einhorn Books |
| James | O’Neal | Double Human | TOR |
| Daniel | Palmer | Delirious | Kensington Books |
| Jerry | Pinkney | Three Little Kittens | Dial |
| Beth | Revis | Across the Universe | Razorbill |
| Bland | Simpson | The Coasts of Carolina: Seaside to Sound Country | University of North Carolina Press |
| Maggie | Stiefvater | Shiver | Scholastic |
| James | Swanson | Bloody Crimes | William Morrow |
| Shellie | Tomlinson | Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy | Berkley |
| Jay | Varner | Nothing Left to Burn | Algonquin Books |
| Jessica | Verday | The Haunted | Simon Pulse |
| Ursula | Vernon | Dragonbreath 3: The Curse of the Were-weiner | Dial |
| Neil | White | In the Sanctuary of Outcasts | William Morrow |
| Karen | White | Falling Home: A Novel | Berkley Trade Paperback Original |
