Pickin' the Picks in 2007

This week, Book Sense announces the schedule for 2007 Book Sense Picks nominations.

In addition to the 12 monthly Picks selections, there will now be four Children's Book Sense Picks lists -- in February, May, August, and November. Also in those months, Book Sense will augment its current monthly Red and White Box programs with a series of quarterly mailings of materials specifically geared toward children's booksellers.

In 2007, Book Sense will continue with its popular Reading Group list, the Summer Paperback list, the Year End list, and a number of Top Ten lists, which will coincide with gift-giving times and important industry initiatives. (And Book Sense will continue to produce the monthly "We Also Recommend..." list in a downloadable PDF format, available via BookWeb.org.)

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 staff to submit nominations to any of the upcoming lists.

Nominations, noting in a few sentences why a bookseller will be enthusiastically handselling a title, may be sent by e-mail to picks@booksense.com or via a convenient webform. And remember, what a bookseller has already written for staff picks or for store newsletter copy can be used for Book Sense Pick nominations as well.

In addition to the many great fiction titles that are selected for the Book Sense lists, booksellers can also send in nominations for notable nonfiction titles published throughout the year, including worthy titles in such categories as cooking and business.

Past Picks lists, shelf-talkers, the nomination deadlines, and more are all available on the BookWeb's Book Sense Picks page.