Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce Titles Announced, Signup Opens

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Publishers are once again offering specials on 10 adult titles and 10 children’s titles chosen by panels of ABA member booksellers from across the U.S. as the top debuts of the upcoming publishing season.

The Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce program features titles for adults and for middle grade and young adult readers, all publishing between June and November 2017.

Of this season’s selection process, Quail Ridge Books’ Sarah Goddin, the chair of the Adult Debut panel, said, “To get a stack of typed manuscript pages by an unpublished author and dive into it without preconceptions was both a liberating experience and a responsibility that all the panelists took very seriously…. We’re enormously proud of these 10 books, passionately whittled down from a much longer list, and hope that you, too, will embrace the opportunity to introduce 10 new and compelling voices to your customers and the world.”

The chair of the Middle Grade/Young Adult Debut panel, Lauren Savage of The Reading Bug, said, “Reading all of these new books before anyone else in their raw form (sometimes bound by paperclips!) was so much fun and makes you feel like part of the writing process. It was challenging and exciting to read so many debut novels all at once, knowing that we would be deciding what our fellow booksellers across the country will handsell to their customers next season.”

For stores that have taken part in past Indies Introduce promotions, there’s no need to sign up to take advantage of publishers’ Summer/Fall offers; however, stores that are new to Indies Introduce must complete the Indies Introduce sign-up form by June 9 in order to participate in the program.

To access the list of titles with bookseller blurbs and full details on publishers’ offers, booksellers will need a BookWeb.org login name and password. Booksellers can sign in or create a new password here. The Indies Introduce logo is available for download in BookWeb’s DIY and sell sheets will be included in the June Red Box mailing.

The Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce Adult Debuts are:

The Long Haul by Finn Murphy
W.W. Norton & Company, HC Nonfiction, $26.95, 9780393608717. On sale date: June 6, 2017.

The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins
Scribner, HC Fiction, $26, 9781501162299. On sale date: July 4, 2017.

We Shall Not All Sleep by Estep Nagy
Bloomsbury, HC Fiction, $24, 9781632868411. On sale date: July 4, 2017.

Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, HC Fiction, $26, 9780399575068. On sale date: July 11, 2017.

Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
Simon & Schuster, HC Fiction, $26, 9781501144370. On sale date: August 1, 2017.

The Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose
Viking, HC Fiction, $26, 9780735221833. On sale date: August 1, 2017.

See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Atlantic Monthly Press, HC Fiction, $25, 9780802126597. On sale date: August 1, 2017.

A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Counterpoint, HC Fiction, $26, 9781619029224. On sale date: August 15, 2017.

The Glass Eye by Jeannie Vanasco
Tin House Books, Trade Paperback Nonfiction, $15.95, 9781941040775. On sale date: October 3, 2017.

The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
Atlantic Monthly Press, HC Fiction, $22, 9780802126894. On sale date: November 7, 2017.

The Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce Middle Grade/Young Adult Debuts are:

Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
Salaam Reads, HC Young Adult, $18.99, 9781481499248. On sale date: June 13, 2017.

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee
Amulet, HC Young Adult, $18.99, 9781419725487. On sale date: August 8, 2017.

The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
Viking Books for Young Readers, HC Middle Grade, $16.99, 9780425290408. On sale date: August 22, 2017.

Sidetracked by Diana Harmon Asher
Amulet Books, HC Middle Grade, $16.99, 9781419726019. On sale date: August 22, 2017.

All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
Harlequin Teen, HC Young Adult, $18.99, 9780373212446. On sale date: August 29, 2017.

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
Margaret K. McElderry Books, HC Young Adult, $17.99, 9781481497589. On sale date: September 26, 2017.

Greetings From Witness Protection! by Jake Burt
Feiwel & Friends, HC Middle Grade, $16.99, 9781250107114. On sale date: October 3, 2017.

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser
HMH Books for Young Readers, HC Middle Grade, $16.99, 9780544876392. On sale date: October 3, 2017.

Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Crown Books for Young Readers, HC Young Adult, $17.99, 9781101939499. On sale date: October 17, 2017.

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, HC Middle Grade, $17.99, 9780316508889. On sale date: October 31, 2017.

Booksellers on the Adult Debut panel, chaired by Sarah Goddin of Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina, were:

Booksellers on the Middle Grade/Young Adult Debut panel, chaired by Lauren Savage of The Reading Bug in San Carlos, California, were:

Learn more and sign up for the Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce program here.