Thank You for Coming to the Del Mar Spring Forum!

Dear Bookseller, 

Thank you for participating in CALIBA's Spring Forum on May 7th, 2025! We hope you had a fun and educational experience.

Your feedback is valuable to our team, allowing us to improve future CALIBA events. 

SPRING FORUM TRAVEL REBATE FORM

We know that travel is costly, so CALIBA is offering rebates for booksellers that traveled to the show! You can request assistance for travel and hotel expenses through the link below.

REQUEST SPRING FORUM TRAVEL ASSISTANCE

SPRING FORUM REP PICKS LUNCH

Were you unable to note all the rep picks you heard about on Wednesday?

We've compiled the Reps' Edelweiss lists for your reference. Save these lists and share with other booksellers in your store.

• Liz Camfiord, Penguin Random House
• Shannon Grant, Simon & Schuster
• Kristin Rasmussen, Scholastic
• Joe Murphy, W.W. Norton and Clients
• Andrea Tetrick, PGW & Two Rivers/Ingram Academic
• Leslie Jobson, PGW & Two Rivers/Ingram Academic
• Vicki DeArmon, Sibylline Press
• Click here to access the google sheet
• Cortney Yee, Sourcebooks
• Dave Ehrlich, Chronicle Books 
• Julia Callahan, Hachette Book Group
• Suzi Hough, HarperCollins

KEYNOTE

• Charlie Jane Anders - Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Tor Books)
• Annalee Newitz - Automatic Noodle (Tordotcom)  

EDUCATION: HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE CALIBA WINTER CATALOG

• Presentation slideshow - The Who,What,When, Where, Why, and How of CALIBA Catalogs

Winter Catalog orders are now open for CALIBA stores! Winter Catalogs accelerate your Fall/Winter sales, make your store stand out, and benefit CALIBA by providing revenue that supports booksellers with essential services and industry opportunities.

Visit RAMP for more detailed information.

Looking for tips & tricks to use the Indie Summer Reading Guide? Visit Summer Catalog Resources page. 

Resources page includes:

• Professionally designed digital graphics from website banners to social media profiles and banners to email newsletter graphics, JPG files of catalog jacket images.
• Professionally designed printable pieces including posters, bookmarks, and shelf-talkers.
• A Bookshop.org banner image and exportable ISBN list to build your collection.
• The 2025 Indie Summer Reading Guide Edelweiss collection.
• An online and downloadable PDF of print catalog.
• The digital store catalog directory.

EDUCATION: COLLABORATING WITH OTHER STORES

• Partnerships presentation document

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE AUTHOR PANEL

• Olivie Blake - Girl Dinner (Tor Books)
• Kashana Cauley - The Payback (Atria Books)
• Mona Awad - We Love You, Bunny (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)

THE BOOK BUSINESS: THEN AND NOW

• Vicki DeArmon - Foghorn: The Nearly True Story of a Small. Publishing Empire (Sibylline Press)

AUTHOR "SPEED DATING"

• Aisha Muharrar - Loved One (Viking)
• J. Penner - A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Dana Elmendorf - Grave Birds (MIRA)
• G. T. Karber - Murdle Jr.: Sleuths on the Loose (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Muon Thi Van - You Make the World (Orchard Books)
• Philip Fracass - The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre (Tor Nightfire)
• Bridget Crocker - The River's Daughter (Spiegel & Grau)
• Alex Killian - In-Between Places (Chronicle Books)

AUTHOR RECEPTION

• Gerardo Iván Morales representing D. Esperanza - Detained: A Boy's Journal of Survival and Resilience (Atria Books / Primero Sueño Press)
• Suzanne Enoch - A Duke Never Tells (Bramble)
• Susie Ghahremani - Rosemary Long Ears (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Michelle Huneven - Bug Hollow (Penguin Press)
• Jennifer Safrey - After Happily Ever (Sibylline Press)
• Paul Bradley Carr - The Confessions (Atria Books)