Wednesday, April 5 - Friday, April 7, 2023
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Wednesday, April 5
1:00PM
Lobby
Registration Desk Open
Stop here first to pick up your name tag and welcome bag.
2:00PM-2:45PM
Minuet
New Member/First Timer Orientation
Are you a new bookstore member of MPIBA or a first time conference attendee? If so, meet the MPIBA board and Executive Director Heather Duncan for a Q&A session to get yourself oriented for the show!
3:30PM-4:45PM
Minuet
Author Speed Round
Bestselling Texas author James Wade will join us as a special guest emcee for our show kick-off author event! This fast-pased and fun event will feature fiction authors answering rapid-fire questions about themselves and their work.
James Wade
HOST
Jennifer Deibel
The Maid of Ballymacool
Revell
Brenna Raney
The Meister of Decimen City
CamCat Books
Jonny Garza Villa
Ander & Santi Were Here
Wednesday Books
Gabi Burton
Sing Me to Sleep
Bloomsbury YA
Erin A. Craig
House of Roots & Ruin
Delacorte Press
Z. W. Taylor
the Bite
W by Wattpad Books
Elizabeth Crook
The Madstone
Little, Brown & Co.
Sierra Simone
Salt Kiss
Bloom Books
Sara Herchenroether
The Night Flowers
Tin House Books
Johnny Compton
The Spite House
Tor Nightmare
4:45PM-6:30PM
Minuet
Show Opening Author Reception
Sponsored by Shelf Awareness
Thursday, April 6
8:00AM
Lobby
Registration Desk Open
9:00AM-10:30AM
Minuet
Children's Authors All Around Breakfast
Dez Azaad
The Carpet
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Debra Raso O’Conner
Annabelle Bee & the Butterfly Tree
Brown Books Kids
Chris Barton
Glitter Everywhere
Charlesbridge
Jenn Bailey
Henry, Like Always
Chronicle Books
Jacquetta Namer Feldman
The Putterman’s Are in the House
HarperCollins
Lalena Fisher
Friends Beyond Measure
HarperCollins
Wendelin Van Drainen
Mr. Whiskers & the Shenanigan Sisters
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Betty C. Tang
Parachute Kids
Grafix
Apryl Stott
Find Your Brave
Paula Wiseman Books
R. L. Toalson
The First Magnificent Summer
Aladdin
Kari Lavelle
Butt or Face?
Sourcebooks Explore
Janet Sumner Johnson
The Recess Genius
Pixel+Ink
11:00AM-12:00pM
Patio
Marketing Session: Up Your Email Marketing Game
11:00AM-12:00pM
Cavalier
Financial Literacy Session: Understanding your Profit & Loss Statement
Candice Huber, Owner, Tubby & Coo’s, New Orleans, LA, and Dean of the Professional Booksellers School Bookstore Finances Course will provide an entry level understanding of a store’s profit and loss statement, including a brief look at each individual line item.
Presented with the support of the Professional Booksellers School
12:00PM-2:00pM
Lunch on Your Own, Explore San Antonio
There are dozens of restaurants within an easy walk to the hotel. Strike out and enjoy the Riverwalk!
2:15PM-3:15pM
Patio
Marketing Session: Tell Your Story Through Design & Branding
Details to come.
2:15PM-3:15pM
Cavalier
Financial Literacy Session: Understanding Cost of Goods
Candice Huber will offer an entry level session covering what is included in the cost of goods line on your P&L and how small tweaks can effect your margins.
Presented with the support of the Professional Booksellers School
3:45PM-5:00PM
Minuet
Pick of the Lists: Books & Gifts
5:00PM-6:30PM
Patio
Meet our Reps: Happy Hour Reception
Join us for drinks and snacks while you mix and mingle with our guest reps and your bookselling and publisher colleagues.
Sponsored by HarperCollins
9:00PM
Patio
Literary Quiz Match
Friday, April 7
8:00AM
Lobby
Registration Desk Open
9:00AM-10:30AM
Minuet
Keynote Author Breakfast: Community & Character as Essential to Storytelling
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Harvest House
Candlewick
Bryan Washington
Family Meal
Riverhead
LaToya Watkins
Holler, Child
Tiny Reparations Books
Ruchira Gupta
I Kick and I fly
Scholastic Press
Safiya Sinclair
How to Say Babylon
Simon & Schuster
Mona Gable
Searching for Savanna
Atria Books
11:00AM-12:00PM
Patio
Marketing Session: Building Community & Selling Books on Social Media
Join Reign Kingsberry (Book Seller and Social Media Coordinator at Twig Book Shop), Kayla Kleinman (Marketing Associate at Bookshop.org), and Sarah High (Senior Bookstore Partnerships Manager at Bookshop.org, and former bookseller and manager at Book Culture) for a lively discussion on using social media to foster community and sell more books online! They’ll share all the top tips for booksellers on where to start and where to go when you want to grow your online sales and presence.
11:00AM-12:00PM
Cavalier
Financial Literacy Session: Managing Your Cash Flow
Candice Huber will discuss how better management of money coming in, and going out (inventory, accounts payable and accounts receivable), can lead to a healthy cash flow for your business.
Presented with the support of the Professional Booksellers School
12:15PM-1:45PM
Minuet
Author Smörgåsbord Lunch
A wonderful variety of authors will join us for lunch and present their new and forthcoming books in brief 4-minute bites.
Sponsored by Libro.FM
Tosca Lee
The Long March Home
Revell
Steve Magness
Do Hard Things
HarperOne
Seraphina Nova Glass
The Vanishing hour
Graydon House
Khadijah Vanbrakle
Fatima Tate Takes the Cake
Holiday House
Sim Kern
The Free People’s Village
Levine Querido
David Bowles & Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Secret of the Moon Conch
Bloomsbury YA
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch
The History Press
Jennifer Troice
My Silver Lining
Brown Books
Lorena Hughes
The Queen of the Valley
Kensington
Claire Legrand
A Crown of Ivy and Glass
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Nicholas McIntire
A Wicked Wind
Black Dove Press
Brittany N. Williams
That Self-Same Metal
Amulet Books
2:00PM-3:00PM
Patio
Idea Sharing Wrap-up Session
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