Candice Huber

Candice Huber (they/them) is a sixth generation New Orleanian who owns New Orleans’ premier geeky, queer, progressive, and genre-focused bookstore, Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop, named after their grandparents. They are a writing, editing, publishing, bookstore operations & technology, and virtual event consultant. Candice serves on the boards for the Southern Independent Booksellers Association and for the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association. They also serve on the national Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee, Science Fiction & Fantasy Task Force, and the Independent Bookstore Day Advisory Committee for the American Booksellers Association and on the Programming Committee for The Word Margins Bookselling Month. They are also an instructor for the Professional Bookseller School. Candice established TALES Publishing in 2018, which has thus far published three books, with the fourth coming, a role-playing game supplement called Carnival of Creatures focusing on Louisiana monsters of myth and legend.