Margaret Atwood is the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Asassin and The Year of the Flood. She is the author of more than forty books — novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world.
At BookExpo America 2011, Atwood capped ABA’s Day of Education with her closing plenary speech.
This Insight Stage event, “Magic and Myth for Modern Middle-Grade Readers,” featured Carson Ellis, Colin Meloy, and Lauren Oliver. This session was moderated by Jennifer Brown.
Watch this BEA video podcast for hot trends in Italy, where a great deal of fiction is in translation, and the majority is in English. Hear about Italian author success stories in the US and the new faces of Italian literature coming across the pond.
This session featured Michael Reynolds, Europa Editions; Maria Leonardi, nottetempo; Paolo Zaninoni, Rizzoli; and Chad Post, University of Rochester, Three Percent.
A panoramic overview of publishing in Italy and today’s challenges, including the impact of new technologies.
Jane Lynch is an actress and singer. Lynch has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role as Sue Sylvester in Glee, and has reached cult icon status for her roles in comedies Best in Show, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Role Models.
Lynch’s new book, Happy Accidents, is a memoir about her life as a journey toward happiness. In her funny and honest way, she wants to assure everyone to relax — it will be alright!
Jane Fonda is an actress, fitness instructor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and activist. Prime Time is her inspiring new book on love, health, fitness, sex, spirit, and friendship to make the most of all your life.
Barbara Kafka is the author of numerous award-winning books, among them Vegetable Love, Roasting: A Simple Art, Party Food, Soup: A Way of Life, and the New York Times bestseller Microwave Gourmet. Vegetable Love was winner of the 2006 IACP award for Best Single Subject Cookbook and Barbara was recently honored with the James Beard Foundation lifetime achievement award.
In this Insight Stage event, Kafka speaks about her new cookbook, The Intolerant Gourmet: Glorious Food Without Gluten & Lactose, with Corby Kummer, The Atlantic.
Paulo Coelho was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, Coelho did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, Coelho published The Alchemist. His new book is titled The Aleph.
In this Insight Stage event Coelho joined the BEA crowd, although intermittently, via Skype. He was joined by Mike Masnick.
This Insight Stage event, “Dear Bully,” featured authors Ellen Hopkins, Perfect; Megan Kelley Hall; Mo Willems, Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator!; and Maryrose Wood, The Poison Diaries: Nightshade.
In this Insight Stage event Joel Klein, former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, is joined by Dr. Steve Perry, CNN Education correspondent and author of the new book Push Has Come to Shove.
In this podcast episode Copyright Clearance Center’s Skott Klebe reviews the characteristics of market disruption, and discusses how they apply in the changing world of eBook publishing, with special attention to the author-direct publishing model currently gaining attention on the Kindle and Nook.
In honor of Clarence Clemons, who died Saturday of complications from a stroke he suffered last weekend, we are re-distributing this 2009 podcast.
The BookExpo America 2009 Opening Night Keynote featured Clemons, famed saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, along with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. In this video from the event, Clemons discussed his memoir Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales. He was joined on stage by the book’s co-author Don Reo and interviewer Chuck Klosterman.
On behalf of BookExpo America and booksellers and bookbuyers everywhere, Clarence Clemons’s words and music will be missed.
Barry Eisler, who has published his thrillers for nearly a decade with two of the biggest houses in town, just turned down half-a-million dollars for a 2-book deal to self-publish. In a 1-on-1 conversation with Mike Shatzkin, Eisler explains the financial logic behind his decision and answers a series of other questions.
Is he giving up print or doing it another way? What’s his plan for selling translation rights? Without a publisher, how will he let his fans know about his new books when they arrive? And, most important, does he see himself as an outlier or as the avant garde of what will be a trend of established authors walking away from big advances in favor of doing it on their own?
Traditional book marketing routinely falls on deaf ears. As readers become increasingly jaded to conventional book promotion, publishers and authors are devising stunts to get the attention for their books in an increasingly crowded marketplace. This panel looks at some of the best and most unusual examples from around the world and talks about what worked, what didn’t, and why.
This event was moderated by Ed Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives.
George Aristidos: Nothing new said about writing a sex scene here.
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