Reading Group and May Picks' Deadlines Approach

There are two important deadlines coming up for the Book Sense Picks programs:

• Friday, March 4, is the deadline for the Reading Group Book Sense List, and
• Friday, March 11, is the deadline for the May Book Sense Picks List.

Now in its third year, the Book Sense Reading Group list -- initiated at the suggestion of booksellers in the Book Sense program -- has been a big success with book-buying consumers.

The procedure for compiling the Reading Group List will be unchanged: Just send 10 to 15 of your reading group favorites, especially those that might have been published in the past year. No need to rank them, or to send in a quote -- just e-mail the titles to Book Sense Picks Editor-in-Chief Dan Cullen at dan@booksense.com or use the convenient online nomination form at www.bookweb.org/read/6305.

Please help make this year's list a valuable marketing resource for reading groups.

And, while you're at your computer, why not send in a nomination for the titles that you are especially looking forward to handselling in May. (For the answers to some frequently asked questions about nominating titles, go to www.bookweb.org/read/5156.)