Abraham Associates is hiring a new sales rep!

We are hiring a metro Chicago based, full time, commission sales rep to represent our publishers to bookstores, museums, and wholesalers here in the midwest. If you have at least 2 years of bookstore or publishing experience, we'd like to talk with you about joining our group. 

Please see our job description for all the details and job requirements. You can download it here.

Please send your resume and cover letter to John Mesjak at john@abrahamassociatesinc.com, by Friday August 18, 2017.

Ideal Bookshelf is here! Enamel pins, mugs, notecards, prints and more!

We are very proud to announce that Abraham Associates are the midwest representatives for Ideal Bookshelf! 

Beginning with prints of artist Jane Mount's paintings of her clients' favorite books' spines, Ideal Bookshelf has become one of the coolest new gift companies out there. We've never seen sidelines more perfectly suited for bookstores! (In fact, you might have sold her book from Little Brown, My Ideal Bookshelf, in 2012!)

From those original art prints (now available for purchase in 8x10 sizes through us), Ideal Bookshelf also offers boxed and single notecards, postcards, wrapping paper, and ceramic mugs, all featuring Jane's paintings of bookshelves of beloved books!

The latest addition to the Ideal Bookshelf line are enamel pins of favorite books – we describe them as fan-art tributes to beloved classics. Enamel pins as a bookstore sideline was just described in Shelf Awareness as one of the hottest new trends, taking off in the last six months.

You can check out the full range of Ideal Bookshelf's offerings in their downloadable Fall 2017 catalog, or click through to their site. When you're ready to place an order, get in touch with your Abraham Associates sales rep!

Please join us in welcoming our new publisher, Boydell & Brewer!

We are very glad to welcome a new publisher to our ranks – the esteemed UK-based academic publisher Boydell & Brewer.

Founded in 1978 by the merger of Boydell Press and D.S. Brewer, the press has long experience in medieval studies, the humanities, and classical music. In recent years, their partnerships with additional distribution client publishers around the world have brought expertise in diverse fields – African studies, German and American literature, Hispanic studies, and many other fields of study.

Perhaps their own introduction says it best: "Boydell & Brewer remains a defiantly independent publisher of scholarly works for the academic community and thought-provoking, attractively-produced books for the general reader."

In addition to their own site, and their catalogs, we'll see them on Edelweiss shortly. You will find them active on social media, too, on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

You can download their new Spring 2017 catalogs here: trade books and comprehensive new titles for Spring.

Welcome to Diamond Book Distributors!

We are proud to welcome Diamond Book Distributors to the list of publishers that we represent. As of September 1, 2016, we're your midwest source for some of the best independent graphic novel and comic book publishers, including Image Comics, IDW, Oni Press, Dynamite, Top, Shelf, Udon, and Joe Books. We can sell you Pathfinder - the top-selling role-playing game in the country, from Paizo!

We'll have lots more news from Diamond's publishers in the coming weeks, but if you have any questions, you can check out their catalogs on Edelweiss, or ask your Abraham Associates rep for more information!

How To Draw A Coloring Book →

One of the upcoming fall books we are most excited about here at HQ is Chronicle Books' entry in the hottest trend of 2015: coloring books! Here's a blog post from the always-illuminating Chronicle blog by illustrator Steve McDonald, creator of FANTASTIC CITIES!

His method involves photographs and sketches, a digital projector, and originals up to six feet square:

“I’ve always loved drawing buildings. When I was young, I even had aspirations of becoming an architect, but ended up as an illustrator instead. When creating a piece of art, the most appealing part for me has always been the line work. Even when I’m working on a painting, the part I enjoy most is always the initial drawing. I really love lines, and I think that shows in the finished work.

I have my daughters to thank for how Fantastic Cities came together as a coloring book. After creating artwork focusing on individual and small groups of buildings, I started to veer toward larger groups and then aerial views of cities. My daughters saw this work and told me that they thought it would be fun to color in the lines themselves (whereas I might normally keep going past the line-work stage to color it myself).”

Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book Of Amazing Places Real And Imagined
Steve McDonald
9781452149578 | $14.95 | Paper
Chronicle Books