This Insight Stage event features actor and author John Lithgow. Lithgow discusses the genesis of his upcoming memoir Drama: An Actor’s Education.
Archive | May, 2011
Insight Stages: John Lithgow
ABA: E-Books 101
Are you lost in the e-book woods? You are not alone! Listen in to this beginner-level discussion about the rapidly evolving digital marketplace.
Len Vlahos, ABA Chief Operating Officer, speaks to booksellers who need basic answers about what e-books are, how they are used, and why they matter.
The World’s Next Big Super Markets: Why Brazil, Russia, India and China Are Vital to Your Future
The BRIC countries are among the fastest growing economies in the world with publishing playing a vital role. From trade to STM to education, they offer vast opportunities for American publishers not all of them obvious. In this BookExpo podcast episode industry experts share their knowledge of how to best work with these fast growing markets.
This panel was moderated by Ed Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives. Nawatka was joined by Miriam Gabbai, P.T. Rajasekharan, and Wang Xin.
2011 Thursday Adult Breakfast: Roger Ebert (Part 2 of 4)
The 2011 BEA Thursday Adult Author Breakfast features today’s leading and most notable authors discussing their new work and the personal and professional experiences which have shaped and defined their careers.
This video features Roger Ebert, one of the world’s most famous film critics. He’s been writing for the Chicago Sun Times since 1967, and his reviews are now syndicated in more than 200 newspapers around the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975. Ebert’s new book is Life Itself: A Memoir.
2011 Thursday Adult Breakfast: Jim Lehrer (Part 1 of 4)
The 2011 BEA Thursday Adult Author Breakfast features today’s leading and most notable authors discussing their new work and the personal and professional experiences which have shaped and defined their careers.
This video features Jim Lehrer, the author of twenty novels, two memoirs, and three plays, and for years was the executive editor and anchor of NewsHour on PBS. Lehrer’s new work of non-fiction is titled Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to McCain-Obama.
2011 BEA (Young Adult) Editors Buzz
Insightful and passionate, this intimate editorial exchange will provide you with an editor’s perspective on some of the Fall’s new YA discoveries and potential breakouts.
This event featured Courtney Bongiolatti, Editor, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing with Michelle Hodkin’s Unbecoming of Mara Dyer; Margret Raymo, Sr. Executive Editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with Joe Schreiber’s Au Revoir Crazy European Chick; Alvina Ling, Executive Editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers with Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone; Susan Chang, Sr. Editor, Starscape Tor / Macmillan with Bill Willingham’s Down The Mysterly River; and Erica Sussman, Sr. Editor, HarperCollins Children’s Books with Leigh Fallon’s The Carrier of The Mark.
2011 Wednesday Adult Breakfast: Charlaine Harris (Part 3 of 3)
The 2011 BEA Wednesday Adult Author Breakfast features today’s leading and most notable authors discussing their new work and the personal and professional experiences which have shaped and defined their careers.
This video features Charlaine Harris, currently one of the biggest-selling authors in the world. The books in her Sookie Stackhouse series have been topping bestseller lists for several years now, but Harris has become increasingly familiar to people all across America and in twelve countries around the world thanks, in part, to the success of HBO’s highly rated series, True Blood, which is based on her popular novels. Dead Reckoning is the latest installment in her Sookie Stackhouse series.
2011 Wednesday Adult Breakfast: Jeffrey Eugenides (Part 2 of 3)
The 2011 BEA Wednesday Adult Author Breakfast features today’s leading and most notable authors discussing their new work and the personal and professional experiences which have shaped and defined their careers.
This video features Jeffrey Eugenides, whose fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta‘s “Best of Young American Novelists.” Eugenides’s new novel is The Marriage Plot.
2011 Wednesday Adult Breakfast: Mindy Kaling (Part 1 of 3)
The 2011 BEA Wednesday Adult Author Breakfast features today’s leading and most notable authors discussing their new work and the personal and professional experiences which have shaped and defined their careers.
This video features actress/writer/comedian/producer Mindy Kaling of the Emmy Award winning NBC series, The Office. Mindy’s debut book of humorous essays is called Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns).
Insight Stages: Michael Moore
This Insight Stage event features filmmaker/author Michael Moore. His upcoming book is sort of anti-memoir. Moore breaks the autobiographical mode while he hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life.
ABA Opening Plenary featuring Chris Zane
Chris Zane is the owner and CEO of Zane’s Cycles in Connecticut.
His story includes getting a state tax ID number at age twelve, buying an ailing bicycle shop at age sixteen, and owning Zane’s Cycles, the largest retail bicycle shop in Connecticut before reaching the age of 30. Today, with only one location, Zane’s Cycles is not only one of the five largest retail bicycle stores in the nation, it’s truly “world famous”.
Zane’s unique approach to marketing includes strategies such as continual learning, the lifetime value of a customer, guerilla marketing, bootstrapping, community relations, cost controlled customer service and image branding.
Zane’s new book is called Reinventing the Wheel: The Science of Creating Lifetime Customers.
2011 Children’s Breakfast: Kevin Henkes (Part 4 of 4)
Presented in cooperation with the Children’s Booksellers and Publishers Committee [A cooperative committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), The ABC Children's Group at the ABA, and the Children's Book Council (CBC)] this opening-day breakfast featured today’s leading and most notable authors discussing their new work and the personal and professional experiences which have shaped and defined their careers.
This video features Kevin Henkes, the creator of many books for children, including his new books Little White Rabbit and Junonia.
2011 Children’s Breakfast: Sarah Dessen (Part 3 of 4)
Presented in cooperation with the Children’s Booksellers and Publishers Committee [A cooperative committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), The ABC Children's Group at the ABA, and the Children's Book Council (CBC)] this opening-day breakfast featured today’s leading and most notable authors discussing their new work and the personal and professional experiences which have shaped and defined their careers.
This video features Sarah Dessen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nine books, who discusses her tenth book for teens, What Happened to Goodbye.
Insight Stages: Guys Read: Thriller
This Insight Stage event, “Guys Read: Thriller,” was moderated by Jordan Brown. Brown was joined by panelists Mac Barnett, Eoin Colfer, Matt de la Pena, Jack Gantos, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, and Jon Scieszka.
- Interview with Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend
- Interview with Maureen Johnson, Author of The Name of the Star
- Interview with Kathleen Schmidt, President of KMSPR
- BEA #2 – John Updike Speech
- James Patterson Introduces Maximum Ride
- Children’s Book and Author Breakfast
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