The INDEPENDENT MYSTERY BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION (IMBA)

Connecting Criminally Inclined Readers with Arresting Mysteries

Are you a mystery bookseller interested in joining us?  Go to ABOUT IMBA for more information and a link to our online application.

Mystery PUBLISHERS & AUTHORS:  Click here to learn about our new GET A CLUE Blog for discussing mystery publishing practices and policies.

Get a clue!

Publishers:  Thinking of changing the way premium paperbacks are handled? Mulling a change in your returns policy?   Wonder what you can do to help us with signings and events?  Want some tips on the overseas or out-of-print mystery writers we'd most like to see you publish?  Want to learn what makes us scream bloody murder? 

Authors:  Have a peeve you'd like to share, or praise you'd like to publish?  Wondering about the best ways to get your book noticed and read?  Or how you can help us make your signing a success?

We want to hear from you -- and we want you to hear from us!

We do NOT accept promotional materials for specific books or authors -- you need to contact each store individually for that -- but if you have a question you'd like some general feedback on, this is the place.

Go to our Get-a-Clue blog to view past discussions and post a response.  To start a new discussion, or to circulate a response privately to our members only, please email us.

Even if you don't have something pressing to say at the moment, please email us to introduce yourself for the publisher and author databases we're in the process of building.