One of our favorite reps, Chris Kerr of Parson Weems, reports:
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association held another successful Central New York "Trunk Show" Tuesday, June 13, attended by 39 booksellers from 21 stores and 18 publishers who sent 23 staff. New publishers this year included Walck-Rikhoff Bookpeddlers, Workman and Chesapeake & Hudson. Bookstores who hadn't participated at last year's inaugural event included Present Tense, Red Maple Books, Lavender Inkwell, the Bookery II, Ganesvoort Book House and Munchkins Books, the last of which came all the way from Wexford, Pa.
Located in beautiful East Syracuse, conveniently adjacent to the world-famous Dinosaur BBQ, the Trunk Show featured nine morning publisher presentations, followed by a non-poisonous Holiday Inn lunch, and afternoon individual store/publisher meetings. The recently rechristened Hachette Group seems to have sent all of the galleys they couldn't give away in Washington, requiring that each bookseller back their car up to the door for a trunk full of George Pelicanos and other hot authors. Rob Stahl, NAIBA board member, Colgate Bookstore trade book manager and one-person Central New York Chamber of Commerce, worked with Eileen Dengler, NAIBA executive director, and the region's other directors, Patty Kutz, Lift Bridge Bookstore, and Talking Leaves/Elmwood Ave. branch manager Lucy Kogler, to pull the show together. Stahl said that he wrote more orders at the trunk show than at any recent trade show. At the end of the day, survivors re-grouped for another assault on the Dinosaur BBQ.
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association held another successful Central New York "Trunk Show" Tuesday, June 13, attended by 39 booksellers from 21 stores and 18 publishers who sent 23 staff. New publishers this year included Walck-Rikhoff Bookpeddlers, Workman and Chesapeake & Hudson. Bookstores who hadn't participated at last year's inaugural event included Present Tense, Red Maple Books, Lavender Inkwell, the Bookery II, Ganesvoort Book House and Munchkins Books, the last of which came all the way from Wexford, Pa.
Located in beautiful East Syracuse, conveniently adjacent to the world-famous Dinosaur BBQ, the Trunk Show featured nine morning publisher presentations, followed by a non-poisonous Holiday Inn lunch, and afternoon individual store/publisher meetings. The recently rechristened Hachette Group seems to have sent all of the galleys they couldn't give away in Washington, requiring that each bookseller back their car up to the door for a trunk full of George Pelicanos and other hot authors. Rob Stahl, NAIBA board member, Colgate Bookstore trade book manager and one-person Central New York Chamber of Commerce, worked with Eileen Dengler, NAIBA executive director, and the region's other directors, Patty Kutz, Lift Bridge Bookstore, and Talking Leaves/Elmwood Ave. branch manager Lucy Kogler, to pull the show together. Stahl said that he wrote more orders at the trunk show than at any recent trade show. At the end of the day, survivors re-grouped for another assault on the Dinosaur BBQ.