The Southern Indpendent Booksellers Association (SIBA) has just released its its 2013 Okra picks—great southern books, fresh off the vine. These twelve books have two things in common: they are southern in nature, and there is a southern indie bookseller that wants everyone to read each one! A Place at the Table by Susan Rebecca White [...]
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Meet the Voice Behind Lady Banks
Friday, March 1, 2013
Some of you may be familiar with the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance weekly e-newsletter Lady Banks’ Commonplace Book and its charming and irresistible editor/contributor Lady Banks. But have you ever wondered who Lady Banks actually is? Well it’s none other than the Network’s very own Trustee, Nicki Leone! Along with serving as the web administrator and newsletter [...]
NCWN Members on SIBA Long List
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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 . . .
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
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
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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
Monday, August 4, 2008
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 [...]