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02 Apr

Partner Spotlight: Apply Stickers

Apply is a Brooklyn-based creative studio that makes extraordinary stickers designed to inspire the artist in each of us. Inspired by the museums, galleries, and gritty stickered streetscapes of their hometown, Apply Stickers lets everyone be their boldest, brightest self.

Bookselling This Week spoke with Apply Stickers CEO and co-founder Spencer Lazar to learn more.

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26 Mar

125 Years of ABA: Q&A with Tegan Tigani

This year marks ABA’s 125th year of helping indie bookstores thrive. As part of our 125th anniversary celebration, we’ll be sharing interviews with key figures in the industry and exploring how the organization has changed since its inception in 1900.

This week, Tegan Tigani sat down with Bookselling This Week to discuss her time on the Board, the industry changes she's witnessed over her bookselling career, and her hopes for the future.

 

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12 Mar

125 Years of ABA: Q&A with Danny Caine

This year marks ABA’s 125th year of helping indie bookstores thrive. As part of our 125th anniversary celebration, we’ll be sharing interviews with key figures in the industry and exploring how the organization has changed since its inception in 1900.

This week, Danny Caine sat down with Bookselling This Week to discuss his unique perspective of the industry and the part bookstores play.

 

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05 Mar

Q&A with K. O'Neill, Author of March/April Kids’ Indie Next List Top Pick “A Song for You and I”

“K. O'Neill’s new graphic novel is another winner. It speaks to anyone who has ever second-guessed themselves or lost who they are. Two young people, both uncertain in their way, manage to find the answers they seek with each other’s help,” said Amber Brown of Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina.

 

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05 Mar

A Q&A with Charlotte McConaghy, Author of March Indie Next List Top Pick “Wild Dark Shore”

“An achingly beautiful novel, a page-turning thriller, and an ode to the landscapes disappearing before our eyes. It so perfectly captures the deep heartbreak of loving a place in your very bones and knowing there is nothing you can do to save it. Still, the book was full of hope,” said Nina Lundstrom of Maria’s Bookshop in Durango, Colorado.
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19 Feb

125 Years of ABA: Q&A with ABA CEO Allison Hill

This year marks ABA’s 125th year of helping indie bookstores thrive. As part of our 125th anniversary celebration, we’ll be sharing interviews with key figures in the industry and exploring how the organization has changed since its inception in 1900.
 
This week, ABA CEO Allison Hill (it’s also her 5th anniversary at ABA!) sat down with Bookselling This Week to discuss the challenges of becoming CEO during the pandemic, share her most vivid memories of the past five years, and her hopes for the future.
 
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29 Jan

A Q&A with Virginia Feito, Author of February Indie Next List Top Pick “Victorian Psycho”

“Grotesque, wildly funny, and utterly weird, this novel will have you hooked as the new governess enters the dysfunctional halls of Ensor’s House. Feito takes the Gothic and tames it like a misbehaving charge,” said Joshua Lambie of Underground Books in Carrollton, Georgia.
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08 Jan

Q&A with Lily Braun-Arnold, Author of January/February Kids’ Indie Next List Top Pick “The Last Bookstore on Earth”

“An engaging YA novel about a young woman riding out a post-apocalyptic world in the bookstore where she worked pre-Storm. A nice mix of trials and tribulations with wry humor and a sweet budding sapphic romance. I was hooked from the first chapter,” said Jean Bartz of Books on Main in Friendship, Wisconsin.

 

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08 Jan

A Q&A with Grady Hendrix, Author of January Indie Next List Top Pick “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls”

“A beautifully haunting, thought-provoking story about societal views and motherhood that dabbles with witchcraft. There are moments where you laugh, feel scared, and even cry. That’s the beauty of this book: everything comes with a price,” said Caylee Wilson of Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, Florida.
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04 Dec

Partner Spotlight: NetGalley

NetGalley has been providing publishers (and booksellers, librarians, and other professional readers) with an alternative to physical galleys since 2008. Bookselling This Week spoke with Tarah Theoret, NetGalley's Senior Director of Community Experience to learn more.

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