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NCWN Members on SIBA Long List

The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) just released the Long List of nominees for the 2012 SIBA Book Awards, and the Network was well represented.  Congratulations to the members who made the list: New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle (UNC Press) A Passel of Hate by Joe Epley (CreateSpace) Accidental Birds of the Carolinas [...]

While We Were Away . . .

The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance celebrated our nation’s independence (as well as their own) by announcing the winners of the 2011 SIBA Book Awards.  Congratulations to the authors of this year’s winners. A few days before SIBA celebrated independence, some Amazon book reviewers were called out for their lack of same.  Always keep those grains [...]

Links of Interest

A few links of interest for your Tuesday reading pleasure: Kathryn Stripling Byer wants her readers to nominate their favorite 2010 books for the SIBA Book Awards.  Meanwhile, her publisher is looking for old Stars and Bars to cover Kay’s upcoming collection of sonnets. Over on the Ploughshares blog, Megan Mayhew Bergman offers advice on [...]

Long Time, No Blog

It’s been awfully quiet at the Virtual White Cross School, because it’s been awfully hectic at the Network.  The 2009 Squire Summer Writing Residency went tremendously well, unless the registrants were even better at acting than they are at writing.  Since then your Network staff has been busy finalizing all the details for the 2009 [...]

The Network at SIBA

If you haven’t been to the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance trade show, you may not realize what a great opportunity the Network started offering today. In my past life with John F. Blair, Publisher, I attended every SIBA trade show but one since 1999.  There is no better opportunity for a writer in the South [...]