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Greetings! Here is your Spring, 2008 edition of Making Waves, the newsletter of the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association.

Please consider helping out the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association by submitting articles for us to use in our newsletter. You don't have to be an expert to write an article!

Every year, PMA hosts an educational event for publishers called PMA Publishing University, or just PMA-U for short. PMA-U is held each year right before Book Expo America and in the same city. In 2008, PMA-U will be held in Los Angeles, California, the last week in May. If you've never been to PMA University, it's a great event, packed with educational sessions and networking opportunities.

PMA provides a scholarship for one member of each affiliate group to attend PMA University. Here's the information on the scholarship from PMA:

The 2007 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) show was held On October 14th and 15th at the Sheraton City Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association exhibited at the NAIBA show in conjunction with PMA.

The exhibits were set up in a ballroom on the main level of the hotel, an open space that made walking the floor easy, and was more pleasant than last year’s basement location. There were approximately 295 booksellers in attendance, representing around 100 stores in the MidAtlantic area.

Greetings! Attached to this message you'll find the summer newsletter for the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association. The newsletter, called "Making Waves," is in PDF format and requires Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat to view. Thanks to Jennifer Stein and Mary Shafer for all the work they put into the newsletter! (If you don't see the attachment, click on the title above—"MBPA Summer Newsletter"—to get to the page with the attachment.)

Please join the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association for a special event at the Baltimore Book Festival. We'll be hosting "Tea with Mr. Twain," with an entertaining presentation by a Mark Twain impersonator, followed by light refreshments and a chance to network with your colleagues in the publishing business. The event is free and open to anyone who would like to attend, and we hope to attract both experienced publishing professionals and those new to, or considering, publishing.

The Baltimore Book Festival will be held this year from September 28-30. The MBPA has reserved a booth where we can provide information about the association and promote members' books. Books will be displayed face-out at our booth. In addition, anyone signing up to display books is also eligible to reserve time for an author autographing session, during which you can sell your books.

To register your titles, please fill out the form attached to this message, and return it, along with for payment, by September 1, to the address on the form.

Greetings, MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association members!

I know that you haven't heard from us in a while, so I wanted to send a quick note and let you know what we've been up to.

As you know, a couple of months ago we did a survey to try to determine if there was enough interest in continuing the association, and what benefits would most interest members. If you didn't see the results of the survey, you can see them here: