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| S&S v-p of independent sales Wendy Sheanin with Maggie Robe of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill and Emily Sommer of East City Bookshop, who made the trip from D.C. for the event | |
Simon & Schuster recently concluded its Fall 2025 Simon & Schuster Selects tour, bringing six authors with September releases to meet area booksellers in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Cambridge, Mass. V-p of independent retail sales Wendy Sheanin and independent retail sales marketing manager Liv Stratman hosted 40 booksellers from bookstores in each area for a cocktail party and meet & greet.
The Chapel Hill event included booksellers from Flyleaf Books, Epilogue Books, Bookmarks, Page 158 Books, The Regulator Bookshop, and Quail Ridge Books, among others. In Cambridge, attendees included booksellers from Harvard Book Store, Concord Bookshop, Lovestruck Books, Porter Square Books, Belmont Books, Wellesley Books, Copper Dog Books, Trident Booksellers & Café, Newtonville Books, and Brookline Booksmith.
The featured authors were Mona Awad (We Love You, Bunny, Marysue Rucci Books); poet Patricia Smith (The Intentions of Thunder, Scribner); M.L. Rio (Hot Wax, Simon & Schuster); and three debut novelists: Eliana Ramage (To the Moon and Back, Avid Reader Press), Laura Dickerman (Hot Desk, Gallery Books), and Lacey N. Dunham (The Belles, Atria Books).