Archive for August, 2007
August 9, 2007
Emerging Debut Fiction Voices
At each year’s BEA, the Emerging Voices session features up-and-coming authors who deserve to have their voices heard. Coinciding with the thematic focus on debut fiction at this year’s show, five top new fiction authors were chosen to talk about and read from their novels.
Featured authors included: Peter Charles Melman, author of Landsman, [...]
August 8, 2007
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Library: The Unshelved Guys
What possessed Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum to write a comic strip about a library? And how do they keep tens of thousand of librarians around the globe laughing every day?
In this BEA 2007 session, the co-creators of Unshelved discuss their inspiration for this project and what makes libraries so darned funny.
August 8, 2007
Sunday Book and Author Breakfast
As BEA 2007 wound down, the Sunday Book and Author Breakfast brought together a diverse and talented group of authors.
To open, Alice Sebold, author of The Almost Moon, discusses the pressure she felt to follow up the wildly popular The Lovely Bones and reads from her new book. She is joined by [...]
August 6, 2007
Turf Wars II: Caught in the Crossfire
At last year’s BEA the Turf Wars panel discussion, focusing on international rights issues between US and UK publishers, turned into a heated and passionate debate. This year’s Turf Wars II: Caught in the Crossfire – How Authors, Booksellers, Distributors and Others are Impacted by the U.S./UK Territorial Imbroglio, promised a kinder, gentler exchange.
This [...]
August 5, 2007
Saturday Book and Author Breakfast
This BEA Book and Author Breakfast brings together two of the most popular authors of today with perhaps the most successful documentarian of all-time.
Ken Burns, author (with Geoffrey C. Ward) of The War: An Intimate History, 1941 – 1945, gives us a sneak preview of his book’s companion PBS documentary The War. Lisa See, [...]
August 1, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Kurt Hassler, Yen Press
Kurt Hassler is the former Graphic Novel Buyer at Borders Group and is currently co-publisher of Yen Press. He was recently named the most powerful person in the American manga publishing industry in a survey by ICv2’s Retailers Guide to Anime/Manga. In this Upfront and Unscripted session, Hassler sits down with Calvin Reid, [...]
