Indies Introduce Author Interviews Now on YouTube

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A series of five- to 10-minute interviews of Winter/Spring 2016 Indies Introduce authors, conducted by booksellers at Winter Institute 11 in Denver, is now available on YouTube.

Featured are 10 authors whose inaugural work — either an adult or a children’s title — was deemed by a panel of independent booksellers as among the best debuts of the season.

The Indies Introduce interview matchups are:

  • Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, author of the YA title The Smell of Other People’s Houses (Wendy Lamb Books), with Sara Grochowski of Brilliant Books in Traverse City, Michigan
  • Ed Tarkington, author of Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Algonquin Books), with Linda McLoughlin Figel of pages: a bookstore in Manhattan Beach, California
  • Harriet Reuter Hapgood, author of the YA title The Square Root of Summer (Roaring Brook Press), with Danielle Borsch of Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, California
  • Lindsay Eagar, author of the middle grade title Hour of the Bees (Candlewick Press), with Erin Barker of Hooray for Books! in Alexandria, Virginia
  • Martin Seay, author of The Mirror Thief (Melville House), with Anmiryam Budner of Main Point Books in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
  • Matthew Griffin, author of Hide (Bloomsbury Publishing), with Michael Barnard of Rakestraw Books in Danville, California
  • Molly Prentiss, author of Tuesday Nights in 1980 (Scout Press), also with Michael Barnard
  • Patrick Dacey, author of We’ve Already Gone This Far (Henry Holt), with Shirley Wells of Watermark Books & Café in Wichita, Kansas
  • Sean McGinty, author of The End of Fun (Disney Hyperion), with Caitlin Baker of University Book Store in Seattle, Washington, and Will Walton of Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia
  • Sunil Yapa, author of Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (Lee Boudreaux Books), with Mary Wolf of Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Winter/Spring 2016 is the seventh consecutive season that publishers offered specials on 10 adult titles and 10 children’s titles chosen by panels of booksellers from across the U.S. as the top debuts. The selected titles include adult fiction and nonfiction, middle grade, and YA publishing between January and June 2016.

Booksellers who are interested in volunteering for the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce panels, which start in May or June, are asked to contact Senior Program Officer Joy Dallanegra-Sanger.