Mark Your Calendars! 2005 Book Sense Picks Deadlines

Book Sense has announced the deadlines for the 2005 Book Sense Picks lists. The entire list is available here.

In addition to the 12 monthly Picks selections and three Children's Picks lists, there will be eight Book Sense Top Ten lists and three special focus lists -- the Reading Group list, the Summer Paperback list, and the Year End list. (And Book Sense will continue to produce the monthly "We Also Recommend..." list in a downloadable PDF format, available at www.bookweb.org/read/6977.)

The Top Ten lists will coincide with gift-giving times -- such as Easter/Passover and Halloween -- as well as with such important industry initiatives as the Poetry Top Ten and the Banned Books Top Ten.

Book Sense Picks Editor-in-Chief Dan Cullen encourages booksellers to print out the deadline list and post it in the store to help remind store colleagues to submit nominations to any of the upcoming lists. In addition to the many great fiction titles that are selected for the Book Sense lists, booksellers can also send in nominations for the notable nonfiction titles published throughout the year, including worthy titles from such categories as cooking and business.

To nominate, simply send an e-mail noting in a few sentences why you will be enthusiastically handselling a particular title. (You can also use the nomination form at www.bookweb.org/read/6305.) And remember that what you have already written for staff picks or for store newsletter copy can be used for Book Sense Pick nominations as well.