Upcoming Heartland Event
Bellwether Books:
Authors Imagine a Future America
Wednesday, October 20
4:00 pm CDT / 5:00 pm EDT
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What do visions of a near-future America look like from the heart of the country? From whimsical to foreboding, this event showcases a collection of Midwestern sci-fi, cli-fi, and speculative fiction authors who spin a startling story out of visions of this country seemingly pushed to its limits and imagine where our most challenging problems and moments could lead us. Hosted by Sanina Clark, an editor at AK Press and speculative fiction fan, please join us to meet the authors of these compelling new titles.
Authors Imagine a Future America
Wednesday, October 20
4:00 pm CDT / 5:00 pm EDT
(JOIN THIS EVENT)
What do visions of a near-future America look like from the heart of the country? From whimsical to foreboding, this event showcases a collection of Midwestern sci-fi, cli-fi, and speculative fiction authors who spin a startling story out of visions of this country seemingly pushed to its limits and imagine where our most challenging problems and moments could lead us. Hosted by Sanina Clark, an editor at AK Press and speculative fiction fan, please join us to meet the authors of these compelling new titles.
- Rebecca Scherm, A House Between Earth and the Moon
- Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
- Maurice Broaddus, Sweep of Stars
- John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
- Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk: A Novel
- adrienne maree brown, Grievers
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As GLIBA looks to the future we are always striving to find new ways to stay connected with each other in our region. As the next step in this process we have started a Discord Server exclusively for GLIBA members. We are looking for GLIBA booksellers interested in joining.
Discord is an American VoIP, instant messaging and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities. Users communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers."
Discord will help to keep bookseller conversations going across platforms, events, meetings and anywhere else we congregate.
If you are familiar with Slack you will acclimate quickly to Discord. Think of Discord as a community message board for GLIBA booksellers to stay connected, organize and have conversations.
If you would like to join the GLIBA Discord Server please email larry@gliba.org and I will send you a personal invitation.
We will maintain the GLIBA public Facebook page but would like to move away from using Facebook as a private communication tool amongst GLIBA members. This will include at some point phasing out the private GLIBA Facebook Group.
Thank you and let's talk!
Larry
Discord is an American VoIP, instant messaging and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities. Users communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers."
Discord will help to keep bookseller conversations going across platforms, events, meetings and anywhere else we congregate.
If you are familiar with Slack you will acclimate quickly to Discord. Think of Discord as a community message board for GLIBA booksellers to stay connected, organize and have conversations.
If you would like to join the GLIBA Discord Server please email larry@gliba.org and I will send you a personal invitation.
We will maintain the GLIBA public Facebook page but would like to move away from using Facebook as a private communication tool amongst GLIBA members. This will include at some point phasing out the private GLIBA Facebook Group.
Thank you and let's talk!
Larry
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GLIBA wants to streamline ARCs / Galleys getting to the right booksellers. If you have other booksellers in your store that wish to receive ARCs / Galleys please have them fill out this form separately. The selections and contact information in this survey will only be shared with publishing partners with current GLIBA memberships. This list is ongoing so as your circumstances or preferred reading genres change please re-submit your form. We hope this process will cut down on waste, help publishers better understand bookseller reading preferences and simplify the process. Thank you!
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