Yay! for new Sad Shop Card Items

Check out these great new items from Sad Shop Cards!!

New Sad Shop Onesies and Cards are ready for you to order from your Abraham Associates rep or order online today. See below for list of new items.

• Minimum Order: $100 

• Cards – order in 6’s, $2.50 net each 

• Onesies – order in 3’s, $12.50 net each

• Flat Shipping Fee: $15

new Baby Onesies

• CRYING HELPS

• OLD SOUL, NEW BODY

• BOYS CRY

• FUTURE VOTER

new Holiday Cards for 2018

• All I want for Christmas is a new president.

• Rudolph was too cool for reindeer games anyway.

• Dear Santa, please stop kissing mommy.

• Best holiday wishes from our dystopian future.

new Valentine Cards for 2019

• My therapist says I'm great.

• You had me at I hate parties.

• I'm glad you're single too.

• I like my men how I like my pizza. With pizza.

• The world is a mess, but I'm glad you're in it.

• My heart is as full of love as the ocean is full of plastic.

• Steal my heart, but don't steal my food.

• I'm proud of you for picking me.

You can also ORDER ONLINE.
Let us know if you need a login to the new Sad Shop wholesale site for convenient ordering.

National Book Award Longlist

We are very excited for our Publishers and Titles on the Longlists for the National Book Awards.

Congratulations to all our publishers who have books in the running for National Book Awards this year: Candlewick Press, Coffee House Press (two picks!), Haymarket Books, Omnidawn, Oxford University Press (two picks!), and Wesleyan University Press.

Click on each book for more information.

Here’s the full selection of longlisted titles: 2018 National Book Award Longlists

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Comemadre

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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge

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Call Them By Their True Names

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The New Negro

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The Indian World of George Washington

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Indecency

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Ghost Of

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Wobble

New Items From Ideal Bookshelf

Check out these new items from Ideal Bookshelf!

Also, don't miss Jane Mount's new book Bibliophile released this week from Chronicle Books.

Click Here for the new Ideal Bookshelf Catalog.

Bloomsbury Academic, welcome back to our list of publishers!

We are thrilled to announce that we are now representing Bloomsbury Academic again. They are a leading publisher in humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.

Bloomsbury Academic is home to some fantastic indie bookstore-friendly series like the classic and ongoing 33 1/3 music series, the Object Lessons on the history and design of objects all around us, and the BFI Film Classics series, as well as the Bloomsbury Revelations series of classics of philosophy!

Their terms include seasonal specials offering a generous discount and free freight. We have lots of resources below, including several collections on Edelweiss. Here's their fall catalog.

33 1/3 series

Now publishing 10 per year, this is the acclaimed series of short books about popular music, focusing on individual albums by artists ranging from James Brown to Celine Dion and from J Dilla to Neutral Milk Hotel. Each album covered in the series occupies a very specific place in music history, so each book-length treatment is different. Beloved by fans, musicians and scholars alike. Edelweiss collection here.

Object Lessons series

A series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from a specific inspiration: an historical event, a literary passage, a personal narrative, a technological innovation-and goes on to explore the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. Written with lucidity and brevity by writers, artists, scholars, journalists, and more. Edelweiss collection here.

BFI Film Classics series

The BFI Film Classics series introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema. Each volume offers an argument for the film's 'classic' status, together with discussion of its production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, an account of its technical and aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the author's personal response to the film. Edelweiss collection here.

And of course, the total Bloomsbury Academic backlist contains so much more. We're very excited to re-introduce this esteemed publisher to you!

Our very own John Mesjak has been named the 2018 Publishers Weekly REP OF THE YEAR!

We are so unbelievably proud! Congratulations, John, and thanks for everything that you do for bookstores, publishers, and your fellow sales reps!

John has been in the Book Business for 28 years and a Book Rep for 18 years. He is one amazing person and anyone who has been lucky enough to work with him knows the passion he has for the written word. We could not think of a better Rep to be the newest PW Rep of the Year!

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“John Mesjak, who joined Abraham Associates in 2007, was named PW Rep of the Year one decade after Roy Schonfeld, his colleague at the Midwest-based rep group, received that honor. Before joining Abraham Associates, Mesjak represented Publishers Group West.

In her nominating letter, Kris Kleindienst, co-owner of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, wrote: ‘John has consistently set the standard that all reps should aspire to. He sweats every detail, whether it’s sorting out a shipping confusion, or making sure the right bookstores know about the right books, or letting a publisher know that the cover they have in mind is in need of help. In the publishing and bookselling world, he is all in.’”

— PW, March 28, 2018