Wi2024: Indies Introduce Lunch

Lee Hooyboer2h 59min

Speaker 1

30:39

Hi everyone, we're gonna get started. I know we still have some folks coming in after grabbing lunch. Welcome Welcome to these introduce I'm just alpha from the ABA. In these introduce unnecessary. indies introduced was developed with the goal of discovering new voices and building relationships between independent booksellers and authors who are at the beginning of their careers the program has now been around for 11 years. I've been working on it for seven years since I've been at ABA. And the beginning of each season is always the same. The booksellers who have agreed to be on that season's committees get a little overwhelmed by the number of submissions they're receiving. And some of them start wondering if they've made a mistake. Luckily, many of them have furry friends for moral support. But after three to four months of reading and discussing they with their fellow panel panelists across the country, they have read books they never would have picked up otherwise built friendships with bookselling colleagues across the country and found new voices and stories that they're so excited to share with you all. And that's what we're here to do today to share these voices and stories. There are flyers on some of the tables and also available for download in the app and on book web.org. If this process sounds like something that you're interested in, let me know we're all we keep our list of potential readers for future seasons. And today we are so lucky to have many of the authors who were selected for the winter spring 2024 season with us in person to tell us about their books. We're so grateful to your publishers for bringing you to Cincinnati, and we're excited to hear from you. First I'd like to introduce our chairs for the season this season. Starting with the Chair of the adult panel, Luis Correa of Avid Bookshop, and Athens, Georgia, who will introduce the adult panelists.

Luis Correa

32:47

Thank you, Jess. It gives me great pleasure to introduce my colleagues who were on the panel with me for the adult list this year. We have Cathy bomb with tattered cover bookstore in Denver, Colorado, Francis Metzker from County, a country bookshelf in Bozeman, Montana, Devin overly with loganberry books in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Melissa Sagan Dorf with Harvard bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephanie skis, the novel neighbor in Webster Groves, Missouri. And I'd also like to mention Paula farmer who couldn't be with us with book passage in Madera Corte Madera, in California. Thank you

Speaker 1

33:53

Thank you, Louise. And now I'd like to welcome the chair of the kids panel, Molly Olivo of Child's Play in Washington DC to introduce the kids booksellers and then we will move right into author introductions.

Speaker 2

34:12

Hello, well this room is big. Okay. So I'm happy to introduce our children's panelists and Branson from beach books in Seaside Oregon. Marianna lieben are leaving from cover to cover books for young readers. Andy Richardson from Charlton bookstore in Richmond, Virginia. Teresa Steele from old firehouse books in Fort Collins. Paul swipedon from the silver unicorn bookstore in Acton and not with us today but always with us is Aaron Rivera from the frugal frigate in Redlands.

Speaker 3

34:59

Hi, everybody I told my friends to do that. Thanks friends. I am honored to start things off today by introducing ratio. Here he comes. And his adorable graphic memoir alterations.

Speaker 4

35:20

Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Mr. Q. My bad my bad. I'm here now. Thanks, Andy. Okay, tell us about your book. All right. Well, my book alterations is about Kevin, this 11 year old kid. It's kind of loosely inspired by my own life growing up in Toronto as a child of immigrants and being raised with my single mom living with my sister and my grandma. And it's just about the kids trying to figure out how he's gonna fit in the world at home and outside and dealing with how to be seen and also an unseen also, but also learning to gain the courage to stand out. So that that's a bit of the

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