Yep, sent my suit to the cleaners and picked out a new pair of flip flops, we’re going to the big city to meet with the publishers. As John said in his last blog the two of us are hopping on a jet airplane Monday at dawn – heading to New York in an attempt to make our store better, find authors for the fall, and explore the future of our industry. It’s our book industry trade show – Book Expo America or BEA.

John asked me to give a round-up of the authors we’re excited about this fall,  he mentioned three “big fish” – Jim Harrison, Michael Ondaatje, and Paul Hendrickson – here are a few more:

Authors we think we have a pretty good chance of scoring:

Charles Frazier is firmly in the category of bookstore friend. He’s been here for both of his books and is truly a wonderful person. The rumor is that Frazier’s new book is going to be great – a page turner set in the 60s so a bit of a departure.

Our new friend Karl Marlantes of Matterhorn fame already has another book coming out. This is non-fiction, the title says it all: What It Is Like to Go to War. Read all about his visit to Lemuria last year here.

I’m pretty sure we’re going to be able to get Jeffrey Eugenides. The author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex‘s first book since winning the Pulitzer in 2002.

A few authors that have been to Lemuria before, but we would love to have back include: Daniel Woodrell of recent Winter’s Bone fame, Tony Horwitz author of Confederates in the Attic and A Voyage Long and Strange, Hillary Jordan who wrote Mud Bound, Tom Perrotta, and, it’s been a while, but we can always hope for James Lee Burke to come back to Lemuria.

A couple of new up and comers that we’re excited about are:

Erin Morgenstern author of Night Circus. A bunch of folks on staff have already this book and really really want to meet Erin.

Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle Mississippi and is currently the Grisham writer in residence at Ole Miss. We’re hearing a lot of good buzz about this one.

We’re thrilled to announce that we already have Chuck Palahniuk on the Schedule!

Authors who have never been to Lemuria, but we’re shooting for are: Mark Bowden, Ha Jin, and Haruki Murakami. Murakami’s 1Q84 is said to be his Magnum Opus and is certainly a huge book for this fall – think Cormac McCarthy big or Jonathan Franzen big.

and last but not least a few Children’s authors that we’re working on:

Christopher Paolini, Anna Dewdney (Llama Llama), Loren Long (Otis the Tractor), Rick Riordan, Jane O’Connor (Fancy Nancy), William Joyce, Mem Fox, and Kate DiCamillo (again!).

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The Bookstore Key Series on Changes in the Book Industry

Lemuria’s Headed for NYC (May17) Barnes & Noble Bankrupt? (April 28) Decluttering the Book Market: Ads on the latest Kindle (April 14) Independents on the Exposed End of the Titantic? (April 6th) Border’s Bonuses (March 30) The Experience of Holding a Book (March15) Finding “Deep Time” in a Bookstore (March 8th) Reading The New Rules of Retail by Lewis & Dart (March 3) The Future Price of the Physical Book (Feb 18) Borders Declares Bankruptcy (Feb 16) How Great Things Happen at Lemuria (Feb 8th) The Jackson Area Book Market (Jan 25) What’s in Store for Local Bookselling Markets? (Jan 18) Selling Books Is a People Business (Jan 14) A Shift in Southern Bookselling? (Jan 13) The Changing Book Industry (Jan 11)

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