Publishers Weekly - 02.09.2019

Fall Regionals

NEIBA Fall Conference
Oct. 2–4
RI Convention Center Ballroom
(Providence, R.I.)

● After taking on the role of executive
director of the New England Independent Booksellers
Association last year, Beth Ineson has begun shaking up one of
the country’s oldest regional fall shows, NEIBA (this year will
be the 46th). “Most of our new initiatives,” Ineson says, “are
totally centered on what bookstores tell me they value: talking
with their peers and connecting with editors.” This year,

NEIBA will be one of several regional trade shows to mix panels

with roundtables, which allow booksellers with similar con-

cerns, such as managing bookstores with cafés, to address their

needs directly. And it is adding two editors’ buzz panels, one

for adults and one for kids. Their lunchtime placement, in the

middle of the exhibit day, is meant to give booksellers a lunch

option and an incentive to go back to the exhibits to pick up

copies of the spring 2020 titles that are presented.

● Typically, the conference opens with either an industry panel

or a keynote. But before this year’s Wednesday keynote with

Erik Larson (The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill,

“ e thirty stories in this superior collection are remarkable

for showing how harmoniously Kiernan’s own visionary weird

 ction resonates with the best cosmic horror tales of H.P.

Lovecra. Some selections, such as ‘Pickman’s Other Model

(1929),’ are ingenious extensions of well-known Lovecra

works. Others, including ‘From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6’ and

‘ e Drowned Geologist (1898),’ ri on the cosmic conspiracies

rampant in Lovecra ’s mythos  ction. No matter how strange

or outré the phenomena, Kiernan meticulously builds details

into her stories that ground them in a believable reality...  is is

a must-have for fans of Kiernan’s work or the Cthulhu Mythos.”

—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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Houses Under the Sea

Mythos Tales

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Erik

Larson

Elisha

Cooper

Erin

Morgenstern

Aarti

Namdev

Shahani

Nikki

Grimes

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