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Publisher’s Letter GAB TALKS: Interview with Craig M. Porter Rollins Bookstore LOVE Discover Indie Book Listings Children’s Book Award GAB TALKS: Interview with Timothy J. Brown PH. D. Call for entries in the NYC Big Book Award Call for entries in the Independent Press Award Thank you Booksellers!
INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD and NYC BIG BOOK AWARD
IndieBooks DISCOVER
Author’sPICK Main Street Books
St. Charles, Missouri • www.mainstreetbooks.indielite.org
Main Street Books is a fantastic independently owned bookstore nestled in the heart of St. Charles Missouri on Main Street. Their staff is friendly and knowledgeable. The store carries every title you are looking for and, more importantly, ones you didn’t even know you needed. If you can’t find something in the stacks, the staff is happy to order it for you and even ship it to you for your convenience. Main Street Books hosts events regularly including local author book signings, children’s story time, book clubs for youth and adults, and even works with the local county library system to bring in nationally renowned authors. Their business is books and they excel at what they do! Jessica Mathews’ Pick Author, and President of the St Louis Writers Guild
www.IndependentPressAward.com
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www.nycbigbookaward.com