Happy Wednesday!

The Book Oscars of books is Today (also known as the National Book Awards).

If you are a book content creator attending this year, please send us some photos — we would love to share them in the newsletter!

Here's the list of the finalists.

Our National Book Awards Giveaway:

• 📚 Holiday Indie Bookstore Support

•  📺 Kierra Lewis Book Event in NYC

• 📖 New Book from Viral Author of Pumpkin Spice Cafe

This Week On Bookum:

We are kicking off our Support Local Bookstores Throughout the Holidays campaign.

This week, we are partnering with Call & Response in Chicago to give away a free copy of James by Percival Everett (a National Book Award finalist and a retelling of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim).

And guess what...

As readers of our newsletter, we’re giving you the homie hook-up!

That’s right, we’ll do an additional book giveaway for one lucky winner from our newsletter.

To Enter:

1. Post on the community feed on Bookum about your favorite indie or local bookstore (so we can discover more great ones to support!).

We’ll pick one winner at random.

Easy, right?

Head over to Bookum now at www.bookumapp.com to participate!

This Week in The Book World:

Kai Cenat isn’t the only influencer who can shut down NYC.

This week, book content creator Kierra Lewis hosted a free book giveaway in Washington Square Park, and let’s just say the Reading Humans of New York™️ (officially trademarked by us) showed up!

Kierra announced on her Instagram that she would be giving away her overflow of books (4-6 maximum per person) in the park, and within 30 minutes, all of her books were gone!

We love stories like this because they show the power of creators, community, and creating in-person events to connect with your people.

Let us know what creator meet-up events you’re planning for the end of the year or 2025!

This Week in Publishing:

This is the second-to-last newsletter before Thanksgiving, so basically Christmastime.

From the author of the viral TikTok book Pumpkin Spice Cafe comes Laurie Gilmore’s new book The Christmas Tree Farm.

It’s Book 3 in her 5-part Dream Harbor series (each book can be read as a standalone).

Book Summary:

“Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town that’s too cute for its own good.

Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor, taking a break from his life in California. And most importantly, taking a break from his latest run of disastrous dates.

After a run-in with Kira in her fields, Ben has no intention of offering to help the grumpy owner set up her tree farm, despite the fact that she’s clearly got no idea what she’s doing.

Kira knows she should stop being so stubborn, but her farm is not all cute and cozy like people always show on social media. It’s borderline dangerous with no heating, and she’d rather no one saw it.
But somehow, fate finds Ben at Kira’s farm once more...”

If you’re a romance reader, this one’s for you!

Add The Christmas Tree Farm to your bookshelf on Bookum.

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Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):

Book Content Creator, Keyona (Chocolate Covered Pages) sits down with Author Kennedy Ryan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3sihEaQbM8

Over 3,200 people attended Baldwin & Co’s Conversation with Author Ta-Nehisi Coates at Xavier University of Louisiana -https://www.threads.net/@baldwinandcompany/post/DChtIVJRyPh