Thank you for Joining us at springCon 2024!
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Wednesday, April, 9 through Friday, April 11, San Antonio, TX.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
APRIL 30-MAY 2, 2024
AT THE HISTORIC MENGER HOTEL,
LOCATED NEXT DOOR TO THE ALAMO AND STEPS AWAY FROM THE FAMOUS RIVERWALK.
Booksellers from across the MPIBA region gathered with our industry colleagues for three days of education, authors, networking, and fun!
Industry SPONSORSHIPS & PromotionAL OPPORTUNITIES
SpringCon 2024 in San Antonio, Texas is the perfect place to promote your authors, books and gift items to our enthusiastic and engaged booksellers and buyers from across the vast MPIBA region! Check out our sponsorship and advertising options to support this amazing event, and make the most of this wonderful marketing opportunity.
Sales CLOSED
Contact Executive Director Heather Duncan with questions and late inquiries.
Schedule at a GLANCE
(Events are subject to change)
TUESDAY, April 30
1:00PM | Ballroom Lobby
REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
Stop here first to pick up your name tag and welcome bag.
2:00PM - 2:45PM | Ballroom AB
NEW MEMBER/FIRST TIMER ORIENTATION
Are you a new bookstore member of MPIBA or a first time conference attendee? If so, meet the MPIBA board and Executive Director Heather Duncan for a Q&A session to get yourself oriented for the show!
3:30PM - 4:45PM | Ballroom AB
AUTHOR SPEED ROUND
Bestselling Texas author James Wade will join us once again to guest emcee our show kick-off author event! This fast-paced and fun event will feature fiction authors answering rapid-fire questions about themselves and their work.
4:45PM - 6:00PM | Ballroom AB
SHOW OPENING AUTHOR RECEPTION
Keep the conversation going! Join us for drinks and snacks while you mix and mingle with our guest authors and your bookselling and publisher colleagues.
After 6:00PM
DINNER ON YOUR OWN, EXPLORE SAN ANTONIO
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1
8:00AM | Ballroom Lobby
REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
9:00AM - 10:30AM | Ballroom AB
FEATURED AUTHOR BREAKFAST
A perfect way to start your day! Enjoy a breakfast buffet as six authors of extraordinary works of fiction and nonfiction discuss their new and forthcoming books.
11:00AM - 12:00PM | Ballroom C
KEYNOTE EDUCATION SESSION: How to Be Indivisible with Denise Hamilton
12:15 - 1:45PM | Ballroom AB
ROMANTIC READS LUNCH
From meet-cutes to romantic fantasies and thrillers, our guest authors' books cover it all! Enjoy lunch with a wonderful, diverse group of authors as they present their lovel-ly new books for every type of romance reader.
2:15 - 3:15PM
BOOKSELLER EDUCATION SESSIONS
Ballroom C • Marketing: It's All a Display with Lisa Urhik
Poolside 123 • Finances: Basic Bookkeeping
3:45 - 5:00PM | Ballroom AB
PICK OF THE LISTS: BOOKS & GIFTS
Regional reps from publishers and vendors big and small will move from table to table giving 5-minute elevator pitches for the books and products they're most excited about.
5:00 - 6:30PM | Ballroom AB
MEET OUR REPS HAPPY HOUR RECEPTION
Join us for drinks and snacks while you mix and mingle with our guest reps and your bookselling and publisher colleagues.
After 6:30PM
DINNER ON YOUR OWN, EXPLORE SAN ANTONIO
THURSDAY, May 2
8:00AM | Ballroom Lobby
REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
9:00AM - 10:30AM | Ballroom AB
KID-LIT BREAKFAST
Immerse yourself in kids' books! Our wonderful guest authors and illustrators will join us over breakfast to present their new and forthcoming titles for young readers.
11:00AM - 12:00PM
BOOKSELLER EDUCATION SESSIONS
Ballroom C • Marketing: Approaching Your Store Like a Publisher Would
Poolside 123 • Finances: Budgeting
12:15 - 1:45PM | Ballroom AB
LITERARY BUFFET LUNCH
A wonderful variety of authors will join us for lunch and present their new and forthcoming books in brief 4-minute bites.
2:15 - 3:15PM | Ballroom C / Poolside 123
IDEA SHARING WRAP-UP SESSION
Before heading back to your store, take a last moment with your bookselling friends, new and old, to process your SpringCon experience! Which authors, titles, and products are you most excited about? What did you learn that will make the most difference to your business? How was the show?
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