As noted in a previous post, BookExpo America — the annual publishing/bookselling convention-marathon-extravaganza — is in NYC this week. I’m not there, but thanks to social networking (this blog, FB, Twitter), I have a pretty good idea what’s happening, and I’m not totally exhausted with sore feet and sensory overload. Armchair BEA was set up [...]
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The belle next door
Posted in Fiction, Southern Books, Thoughts on Books, Uncategorized, Writing and Reading, tagged Alabama, Crazy in Alabama, Georgia Bottoms, Mark Childress, Okra pick, SIBA, Southern-fried fiction, Tender on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Southern belles are nothing if not resourceful. Scarlett O’Hara set the bar high when she turned those green velvet curtains into a fancy ballgown. Then there was Aunt Lucille in Mark Childress’ 1993 novel Crazy in Alabama, who came up with an unconventional use for Tupperware as she headed for Hollywood. Now, there’s Georgia Bottoms – not a place but a person [...]
Spring for okra picks
Posted in Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Southern Books, Thoughts on Books, Writing and Reading, tagged A Southerly Course, Caroline Cousins, Christy Jordan, cookbooks, High on the Hog, Martha Hall Foose, Okra Picks, peaches, recipes, rice, SIBA, Southern Plate on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I am gorging on Florida strawberries, but I am studying okra and dreaming peaches. Let me explain. SIBA — Southeast Independent Booksellers Alliance – recently announced its dozen “Okra Picks: Good Southern Books Fresh off the Vine” for the spring season as selected by its indie members. The fiction and nonfiction look appealing, but, yum, three books [...]
My home island bookstore
Posted in Southern Books, Thoughts on Books, Uncategorized, tagged book club, bookstore cat, Clay Rice, Edisto Bookstore, Edisto Island, Emily Grace, indies, Karen Carter, Lowcountry, SIBA, Southern books, Southern writers on January 14, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Last summer, the good folks at SIBA, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, suggested that its members “get in bed with a blogger,” which sounded kind of hot. (Remember when we were complaining about the heat?!) Actually, the idea was that indies partner with bloggers to reach more readers and let them know what was going on at their local [...]
Harvesting the Okra picks
Posted in Fiction, Reviews, Southern Books, Thoughts on Books, Uncategorized, Writing and Reading, tagged Beth Webb Hart, Crooked Letter Crooked Letter, Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You, Love Charleston, Okra Picks, SIBA, Tom Franklin on October 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
When Southern booksellers and publishers were in Daytona Beach last weekend for their annual trade show (SIBA), okra was on the agenda if not the menu. SIBA recently announced its dozen “Okra picks” for the fall season as voted on by independent booksellers, and I hear the chosen authors wore bright red sashes on the [...]
Okra Picks
Posted in Fiction, Nonfiction, Southern Books, tagged Beth Hoffman, Charlotte Jenkins, Okra Picks, Patricia Sprinkle, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Ron Rash, SIBA, Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, William Baldwin on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, you read that right. SIBA — the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance — has announced its pick of the winter/spring 2010 crop of books. Go to www. sibaweb.com to see the list. Congrats to all the authors involved. Several of these books were already on my radar — Connie May Fowler’s How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly, [...]
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