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appear for her new picture book about
the medieval world, Don’t Let the
Beasties Escape This Book! (Getty),
rather than one of her many middle
grade or YA novels. And former
member of the boy band Streetwize
Donal Skehan will participate in the
author reception for his cookbook
Donal’s Meals in Minutes (Quercus).

● Romance is back
at SCIBA, which held a panel on the topic
two years ago and wanted to remind book-
sellers not to overlook this increasingly
popular genre. Julie Slavinsky, director of
events at Warwick’s Bookstore in La Jolla,
will host a panel titled “Romance: Love It...
And Don’t Leave It off Your
Shelves!” with Wicked
Wallflowers Club podcaster
Jenny Nordbak and authors
Tessa Dare (The Wallflower Wager:
Girl Meets Duke, Avon) and
Alisha Rai (The Right Swipe,
Avon). The Children’s Book
Awards Breakfast will be on
Saturday, where Cynthia Kadohata (A Place to Belong, Atheneum/
Dlouhy) will serve as emcee. Other authors appearing with her
are Elana K. Arnold for her YA novel Red Hood (Balzer + Bray)
and debut novelist Ernesto Cisneros, author of Efrén Divided
(HarperCollins).

● Authors will be in conversation in several sessions. Donna
Rifkind will talk about The Sun and Her Stars (Other Press), her
biography of little-known screenwriter Salka Viertel, who
wrote the scripts for five of Greta Garbo’s films. Joining Rifkind
is writer Debra Ginsberg, frontlist buyer at Bay Books in
Coronado. Children’s bookseller Brein Lopez, general manager
of Children’s Book World, will lead a panel on the importance
of exploring the past, “Setting Our Future Free by Writing
About Our Past,” with Hope Anita Smith, coauthor with
Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet of It Rained Warm Bread (Holt), and
Cisneros.

● Though SCIBA is very familiar with Independent Bookstore
Day—it helped launch California Bookstore Day, the precursor
to IBD—it will be one of many regionals to host outgoing ABA
CEO Oren Teicher, who will speak about IBD, which is now a
project of ABA. Other educational sessions taking place on
Friday will be more nuts-and-bolts, including a roundtable on
buying in the wake of Baker & Taylor’s exit from trade distribu-
tion. The session will focus on how to manage buying with a
10-day window for lead time.

Denver • October 10

Meet the Authors

at the MPIBA Fall Trade Show

$15.95

Trade Paper

Fiction/

Mystery

978-1-

948814-05-8

$17.95

Trade Paper

Fiction/

Literary

978-1-

948814-12-6

$18.95

Trade Paper

Nonfiction/

Climate

Change

978-1-

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$18.95

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Fiction/

Literary

978-1-

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Scott Graham • Arches Enemy

C. Joseph Greaves •

Church of the Graveyard Saints

Ayja Bounous • Shaped by Snow

Susan M. Gaines • Accidentals

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Corners/

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selection

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