Heather Duncan

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In this Behind the Scenes interview, Heather Duncan and I chat about her role as Executive Director at Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association, what her job entails, FallCon and SpringCon, the states that make up the MPIBA region, Reading the West book awards, and much more.

Heather's recommended reads are:

Gideon the 9th by Tamsyn Muir
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Middlegame by Seanan Maguire

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Executive Director

Heather Duncan began her career in the book industry as a holiday bookseller at the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, Colorado. Other than a brief and educational stint at Fulcrum Publishing, she worked at the bookstore for the next 29 years, first in the Ordering Department, then as the Outside Corporate Sales rep, and finally as Director of Marketing and Events. While at the Tattered Cover, Heather served on the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) Advisory Council, then on the Board of Directors. She left the Tattered Cover in January 2018 to join MPIBA as Executive Director.

When she was around 8 years old, Heather’s older sister gave her a copy of A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'engle (which she still owns). She read it once, then again, and has never looked back. She reads mostly science fiction and fantasy, but loves literary speculative fiction, humor and satire, some historical fiction, and cookbooks.