Archive BEA 2007
December 13, 2007
Noah Oppenheim Discusses The Intellectual Devotional
Noah Oppenheim, along with co-author David S. Kidder, have released the second book in their popular The Intellectual Devotional series.
The Intellectual Devotional: American History Edition: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation’s Past is a secular version of the spiritual devotionals that have been popular for generations. This book [...]
October 17, 2007
Everyone’s a (Former) Critic
In this special event from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival, three music and arts critics known for their humor discuss what it means to be a critic and the art of writing beyond the review.
This session features popular essayist, memoirist, critic and soon-to-be novelist Chuck Klosterman, Rolling Stone music critic and new memoirist Rob [...]
October 17, 2007
Simmons Clan Makes Brooklyn Book Festival a Family Affair
The Simmons family has taken American culture by storm. At this session from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival they discuss their new books, along with other matters of family and culture. In this unprecedented event, painter/poet Danny Simmons shares the stage with his brother, rap star Joseph “Rev. Run” Simmons (of Run-DMC), and Joseph’s [...]
October 15, 2007
Carter and Markowitz Discuss Politics, Growing Up In NYC
Dominic Carter is a veteran New York City journalist and Senior Political Reporter for NY1 News. Earlier this year, he self-published a memoir entitled No Momma’s Boy.
In this special event from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival, the tables are turned as Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz gets to ask Carter the questions. In [...]
October 14, 2007
All This Week: BEA Podcasts From The Brooklyn Book Festival
On September 16, 2007 nearly 100 booksellers and thousands of books filled Borough Hall Plaza and Columbus Park in Brooklyn, NY for the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival.
This event also featured a series of dramatic readings, author interviews, and panel discussions. By special arrangement with the Brooklyn Book Festival, we will be [...]
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, [...]
July 31, 2007
The Crisis in American Book Pages
It’s no secret our country’s newspapers are suffering from decreased readership and resources. As decision-makers cut costs and features, the book review is often one of the first to see the chopping block.
To help fight this alarming trend, National Book Critics Circle President John Freeman, who moderates this panel discussion, has launched [...]
July 30, 2007
The Heard Word: BEA’s Audiobook and Author Tea
In recent years, audiobooks have become a hugely successful avenue for authors to bring their works to a time-strapped audience.
Master of Ceremonies and veteran audiobook narrator Oliver Wyman opens this session, hosted by the Audio Publishers Association, with a reading from Richard Brautigan’s novella Trout Fishing in America. Wyman is joined by John [...]
July 29, 2007
Editors’ Buzz on Debut Fiction
This BEA 2007 session, hosted by Brigid Hughes of A Public Space, brings together five of the industry’s top publishers. Each shares with us their top debut fiction novels for the upcoming season.
Hughes is joined by Judy Clain of Little Brown, Jonathan Karp of Twelve, Fred Ramey of Unbridled Books, Rob [...]
July 26, 2007
Lit Insiders Spotlight: Shelfari
This session, hosted by BEA Director Lance Fensterman, was born out of the BEA Lit Insiders group on Shelfari.com. This group, comprised of industry insiders as well as everyday book lovers, chose one new author that they wanted to hear more from at BEA. Matthew Eck, author of The Farther Shore, was chosen [...]
July 25, 2007
Nancy Pearl’s Lust for Publishers’ Lists
In this BEA 2007 session, author, librarian hall of famer, and liaison extraordinaire Nancy Pearl focuses the spotlight and dialogue on the best of new and forthcoming titles from some of the industry’s largest publishing houses.
Pearl is joined by a distinguished group of publishing professionals who are focused on informing librarians about the best [...]
July 23, 2007
A Winning Season? It’s Time to Take Sportswriting Seriously
This panel discussion, sponsored by Beyond the Book, searches for signs of a renaissance in 2007 for “serious” sportswriting – identifying books and writers that are moving beyond celebrating today’s championships, and glorifying star players, toward seeing sports and athletes from all angles, including sports as integral to the global entertainment business, the lost and [...]
July 22, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: MJ Rose, author, The Reincarnationist
MJ Rose is an international bestselling author and writer of the new book The Reincarnationist. This book, which is Rose’s ninth novel, is also her first foray into historical fiction.
In this Upfront and Unscripted session, Carol Memmott, Book Critic and Publishing Reporter for USA Today, and Rose discuss The Reincarnationist, as well as [...]
July 19, 2007
Ethics in Book Reviewing: The More Things Change…?
In 1989, the NBCC (National Book Critics Circle) published an extensive survey of ethics in book reviewing by Philadelphia Inquirer literary critic Carlin Romano, drawing on responses from NBCC members about whether it’s ever okay not to read a whole book before reviewing it and similar moral dilemmas.
This panel discussion, sponsored by the NBCC, poses [...]
July 18, 2007
Mapping English Reading Markets
Over the past several years, English language books have been given increased shelf space in traditionally non-English reading countries. As this trend continues, publishers are searching for more ways to infiltrate these new markets. Ruediger Wischenbart, Principal of Content and Consulting, leads this diverse panel of experts. Together, they identify trends of [...]
July 17, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Laurell K Hamilton
Laurell K Hamilton is a New York Times bestselling author of two series of books, including the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels. Through a joint venture with Dabel Brothers and Marvel Comics, the Anita Blake series has now been transformed into a series of comics.
In this Upfront and Unscripted session, Hamilton and Heidi Macdonald [...]
July 16, 2007
MySpace for Authors and Publishers
Since its launch in 2003, MySpace has not only been an internet phenomenon, but has helped boost the careers of numerous bands, comics, and filmmakers. In this BEA session, MySpace for Authors and Publishers: Everything You Need to Know to Make it Payoff, the publishing industry gets a first-hand lesson in how to make [...]
July 15, 2007
Atheism: The Rise of a New Subcategory in Religion
The dominant role of religion in politics and culture in recent years has produced a backlash, evidenced by the rise of a new subcategory—the anti-religion books. The past two years have brought a striking number of impassioned critiques of religion—any religion, but Christianity in particular—and calls for a return to reason rather than faith as [...]
July 11, 2007
BEA Global Market Forum: Spotlight on China
Uncertainty and apprehension for staking a claim on China’s mainland can make fence-sitters of even the most aggressive market seekers. However, there have been a handful of publishing risk-takers who have painstakingly set up shop to publish books to this massive market.
Robert Baensch, author of The Publishing Industry in China, leads this panel in [...]
July 10, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Christopher Hitchens, author, God is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens is an author, journalist and literary critic who has written for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and The Nation. His new book is titled God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
Jeffery L. Sheler, Contributing Editor of U.S. News & World Report, sits down with Hitchens to discuss this new book and how [...]
July 9, 2007
Saturday Book and Author Luncheon with Alan Alda
This BEA 2007 Special Event focused on political, cultural and social change. Alan Alda, actor and author of Things I Learned While Talking to Myself was the Master of Ceremonies.
Featured panelists were Valerie Plame Wilson, author of Fair Game, Paul Krugman, author of Conscience of a Liberal, and Russell Simmons, [...]
July 8, 2007
The 8 Deadly Sins of email for Book Industry Professionals
Will Schwalbe is Senior VP and Editor-in-Chief of Hyperion. David Shipley is Deputy Editorial Page and Op-Ed page editor of the New York Times. Together, they are authors of the new book Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home.
In this BEA 2007 session, Schwalbe and Shipley discuss the [...]
July 3, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Shalom Auslander, author, Foreskin’s Lament
Shalom Auslander is the author of Beware of God and the new book Foreskin’s Lament. In this memoir Auslander, who was raised as an Orthodox Jew, humorously questions God’s role and the religious beliefs he was brought up with.
In this Upfront and Unscripted session, Maud Newton, editor and blogger of maudnewton.com, speaks with Auslander [...]
June 29, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Nancy Pearl
Nancy Pearl is a legendary librarian in the Seattle area. Now retired from the Seattle Public Library, Pearl speaks and writes about the books the rest of us should be reading. Her newest book is called Book Crush.
In this session, Pearl speaks with Bob Minzesheimer, Book Editor for USA Today, about the [...]
June 28, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Ken Lombard, Starbucks Entertainment
Ken Lombard is President of Starbucks Entertainment. Lombard, a longtime business partner of Earvin “Magic” Johnson, took the helm of Starbucks Entertainment in 2004 with plans to expand the coffee retailer’s presence in the book, movie, and music markets.
In this Upfront and Unscripted session, Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of WIRED, and Lombard discuss the Starbucks [...]
June 27, 2007
Ian McEwan on Chesil Beach Preview
At BEA, Powell’s Books in partnership with Out of the Book Films, introduced a groundbreaking series of short films about authors. The first in the series, the 28-minute film, “Ian McEwan on Chesil Beach,” was screened on Saturday, June 2. Shot over four days in England and the United States, the film includes interviews [...]
June 26, 2007
A Mighty Heart: From Manuscript to Screen with Mariane Pearl
Presented by Paramount Vantage, this panel discussion offers a behind-the-scenes look at the feature film A Mighty Heart. The movie, starring Angelina Jolie, is based on Mariane Pearl’s memoir, detailing the unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s life and death.
Panelists include: Scribner Vice President and Editor-In-Chief Nan Graham, [...]
June 25, 2007
BookExpo 2007 Editors Buzz Forum
The BEA Editors Buzz Forum is always a highly anticipated event. This year’s session, moderated by Sara Nelson of Publishers Weekly, featured a panel of six top book editors. Each had a chance to speak about the one book that has them excited this year.
This year’s panel included: Daniel Halpern of [...]
June 24, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Adam Bellow and Hannah Tinti
Adam Bellow is Executive Editor and Co-Founder of Doubleday Broadway and Pamphleteer Press. Hannah Tinti is Editor of One Story magazine and author of the book Animal Crackers.
Bellow and Tinti are leading the movement to resurrect the pamphlet as a viable means to connect with the public. In this [...]
June 21, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Nancy Horan, author, Loving Frank
Nancy Horan is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications. Her first novel, Loving Frank, tells the story of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s love affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney, a married woman who, along with her husband, had commissioned Wright to design their family home.
Kristin Matthews, Book Producer [...]
June 20, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Terry Moore, Strangers in Paradise
Terry Moore is the creator of the graphic novel series Strangers in Paradise. After authoring nineteen graphic novels, six pocketbooks, and over one hundred comic books in the series, Moore has decided to retire the Strangers in Paradise franchise. Charles Brownstein, Executive Director of the Comic Legal Defense Fund, and Moore reflect on [...]
June 19, 2007
Thinning the Ivy: How Yale University Press Used New Media to Change its Image
As the publishing industry embraces the world of new media, lessons can be learned from the pioneers of our business. Daniel Lee, Web Marketing Manager for Yale University Press and Chris Gondek, Producer and Host of the Yale PressCast will speak about the genesis of their successful project and share real results from their [...]
June 18, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Chris Anderson on BookTour.com
Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of WIRED, author of The Long Tail, and co-founder of the new website BookTour.com. Along with Kevin Smokler, editor of Bookmark Now and creator of the Virtual Book Tour, and Adam Goldstein, author of several volumes of the Missing Manual computer book series, Anderson created this new service as the [...]
June 17, 2007
African-American Keynote Address: Victoria Rowell
Victoria Rowell is a versatile actress of theatre, primetime, daytime and feature films and has been nominated twice for a Daytime Emmy and awarded eleven NAACP Image Awards. Rowell has recently released her first book, The Women Who Raised Me, which pays tribute to the role models in her life. In this session, [...]
June 14, 2007
Corporate Social Media Platforms: A Case for Publisher Participation
Corporations in all industries are experimenting and effectively using social networking tools to build product awareness and communicate with customers. In the publishing environment, books provide an easy platform for the many individual consumer and author blogs that exist – and there are many – but what about the publishers?
This session provides an [...]
June 13, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: George Jones, CEO of Borders
George Jones is CEO of Borders Group, having been appointed in July of 2006. In this Upfront and Unscripted session, he sits down with Shelf Awareness publisher John Mutter. Jones explains Borders’ strategic plan for the future and why he believes that this plan is the right one to drive a long-term [...]
June 12, 2007
Customer Focused Publishing: Michael Hyatt of Thomas Nelson
Michael Hyatt is CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc. In this BEA 2007 session, “Customer Focused Publishing: How Thomas Nelson Moved Away from Imprints and Closer to Customer Wants,” Hyatt explains why Thomas Nelson dropped 21 publisher imprints and instituted their One Company Initiative; adjusting their focus on categories. With two full [...]
June 11, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: David Michaelis, author of Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
David Michaelis is the author of N. C. WYETH: A Biography as well as the new book Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. In this BEA 2007 Upfront and Unscripted session, documentary producer Mary Murphy and Michaelis discuss the life and work of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. Michaelis touches on the success of Peanuts [...]
June 10, 2007
Giving it Away: Free Lunch or Unrealized Opportunity
For publishers and authors alike, control of their content is traditionally of paramount importance. Yet for a growing segment of book publishing, a “free lunch” – usually served online, or at least dished out in one digital form or another – is seen as a smart marketing ploy to lure readers.
Christopher Kenneally, Director [...]
June 8, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Jon Karp, publisher of TWELVE
Jon Karp is publisher and editor-in-chief of TWELVE. This new imprint aims to release just twelve new books per year. Karp discusses this “quality over quantity” approach and previews the titles that will be released in the upcoming year. Carl Lennertz, VP of Independent Retailing for HarperCollins, hosts this discussion.
June 7, 2007
My Debut Novel: What I Wish My Publishing House and Booksellers Knew Before the Release
Lisa Tucker, author of Once Upon a Day and The Song Reader, moderates this panel discussion focusing on ways first-time authors can create industry buzz for their novels. Panelists include Marly Russoff, President of Marly Russoff and Associates, Mary Gay Shipley, owner of That Bookstore in Blytheville, Arkansas, and Michael Selleck, Senior Vice President, [...]
June 6, 2007
Upfront and Unscripted: Tony and Maureen Wheeler, co-founders, The Lonely Planet
Tony Wheeler is the co-founder and publisher of The Lonely Planet series of guidebooks. Along with his wife, Maureen Wheeler, he has written the new book Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story. The Wheelers discuss how they met in London, why they started The Lonely Planet, and where this series has taken [...]
June 5, 2007
The Role of Publishers in the Real Digital Age: An Insider’s Perspective
Jeff Gomez is Director of Internet Marketing at Holtzbrinck Publishers and author of the upcoming book Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age. In this seminar, sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association, Gomez discusses the new landscape of publishing in the digital age and ways the industry can keep up with rapidly changing [...]
June 4, 2007
BEA 2007: Podcasts Are Coming
With BookExpo 2007 just completed, we are busy preparing a great sampling of audio podcasts from the show featuring the Special Events, Education Programs, Upfront & Unscripted Interviews, and coverage of the Audio Publishers Association Conference.
Click here for a complete listing of the podcasts that you can expect to hea. We will start [...]
May 29, 2007
Ken Burns on The War
For more than thirty years Ken Burns has directed and produced some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including Baseball, The Civil War, and JAZZ. His latest documentary, The War, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially [...]
May 25, 2007
Christopher Kenneally to Host Two Sessions at BEA
Christopher Kenneally is the Director of Author Relations at Beyond the Book, an information program of the Copyright Clearance Center.
On Thursday, May 31 at 3:00 pm, Kenneally will moderate a panel entitled, “Giving it Away: Free Lunch or Unrealized Opportunity,” which will address the pros and cons of supplementing the sale of a book [...]
May 23, 2007
Will Schwalbe on the Pros and Con of Email
Will Schwalbe is the Sr. VP and Editor-in-Chief of Hyperion Books. Along with David Shipley, Schwalbe is the author of the new book Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home. Schwalbe and Shipley will host The 8 Deadly Sins of Email for Book Industry Professionals on Friday, June 1 [...]
May 22, 2007
James Patterson Introduces Maximum Ride
James Patterson is a top-selling author, best known for thrilling novels such as Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Recently, he has taken his first foray into kid-accessible fiction, with the critically acclaimed Maximum Ride series. With the success of Maximum Ride, Patterson became the first author to have #1 [...]
May 22, 2007
Chris Anderson Addresses the Changing Retail Landscape
Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of WIRED and the author of The Long Tail. In this episode, Anderson gives us a preview of two sessions he’ll be involved with at BEA.
“Giving it Away: Free Lunch or Unrealized Opportunity” will take place on Thursday, May 31 at 3:00. “Giving it Away” [...]
May 22, 2007
Riley Weston Discusses Before I Go
Riley Weston, actress and scriptwriter for television and movies, is the author of the new book Before I Go. This is Weston’s first book. She discusses the impetus behind Before I Go and the switch from writing for the screen to writing a novel. This is a User-Sponsored Podcast.
May 21, 2007
BEA Bonus: Emerging Technology Trends: Deciphering the Next Chapter
This bonus podcast is made possible by the Association of American Publishers and contains coverage from their General Annual Meeting, which was held March 6, 2007.
In this episode, Peter L. Bloom, Managing Director of General Atlantic, LLC, puts into perspective the rapid technological changes and the unanticipated effects that they are having on [...]
May 21, 2007
Bob Prosen Teaches Business Leaders to Kiss Theory Good Bye
Bob Prosen, business consultant, educator, and speaker, is the author of Kiss Theory Good Bye. This new book details Prosen’s Five Attributes of Highly Profitable Companies, which he has been successfully teaching to top business leaders from around the United States. Prosen will be at BEA 2007 from May 31 to June 3 [...]
May 17, 2007
BEA Bonus: Searching for Principles: Online Services and Intellectual Property
This bonus podcast is made possible by the Association of American Publishers and contains coverage from their General Annual Meeting, which was held March 6, 2007.
In this episode, Thomas C. Rubin, Associate General Counsel of Microsoft Corporation, talks about how recent copyright infringement lawsuits have raised concerns that some companies’ online services and [...]
May 17, 2007
Meet McGraw-Hill’s EST and AccessScience
You’ve known and trusted them, but have you ever met them? In this skit meet The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (EST) and AccessScience, its online sibling. They may bicker and playfully tease, but as part of the McGraw-Hill science reference family they always support each other in bringing you the latest, most [...]
May 16, 2007
BEA Bonus: Publishing in the MySpace Era
This bonus podcast is made possible by the Association of American Publishers and contains coverage from their General Annual Meeting, which was held March 6, 2007.
In this episode, Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe Systems Incorporated, addresses the challenges publishers face in the new digital age. Chizen outlines the various ways Adobe helps [...]
May 16, 2007
Rone DeBeauvoir on It’s Only Dinner
Rone DeBeauvoir is the author of It’s Only Dinner. The topic of this new book is the connection between relationships and dining, helping readers pair cuisine with the social situation. DeBeauvoir will be signing copies of It’s Only Dinner at BEA booth 455. This is a User-Sponsored Podcast
May 15, 2007
Paulo Coelho to Speak on June 3
Paulo Coelho is the author of numerous best-selling books, including The Alchemist. He discusses his new book, The Witch of Portobello, as well the personal journey that led him to become a writer. Coelho will speak at the Book and Author Breakfast on Sunday, June 3.
May 15, 2007
Carrie Brown-Wolf Helps Parents Teach Religious Understanding
Carrie Brown-Wolf is a public speaker, diversity trainer and the author of Soul Sunday: A Family’s Guide to Exploring Faith and Teaching Tolerance. This book helps parents to teach their children about their family’s faith as well as other religions of the world. Soul Sunday includes a series of interactive projects that parents [...]
May 14, 2007
John Freeman Talks with BEA Director Lance Fensterman About the Crisis of Book Coverage in Print Media
National Book Critics Circle President John Freeman sat down recently with BEA Director Lance Fensterman to talk about the current crisis facing print media book coverage.
This casual conversation covers what is currently happening to print coverage of books and what can be done about it, (panels that the NBCC is helping to create [...]
May 14, 2007
Shaun Powell Examines Blacks’ Sports Participation
Newsday columnist Shaun Powell reads an introductory excerpt from his upcoming Souled Out?, which captures the true nature and flavor of the present sports experience for blacks. Powell will sign advance reading copies of Souled Out? Friday, June 1 at 3 p.m., BEA Booth 2414. This is a User-Sponsored Podcast
May 13, 2007
A Tribute to David Halberstam
The literary world suffered a great loss on April 23 when David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of 21 books, was killed in an automobile accident south of San Francisco. Halberstam was 73.
In this podcast, Will Schwalbe, Halberstam’s friend and the editor of his last four books, reflects [...]
May 10, 2007
Nancy Pearl Offers Advice to Librarians at BEA
Nancy Pearl is a legendary librarian in the Seattle area. Now retired from the Seattle Public Library, Pearl speaks and writes about the books the rest of us should be reading. In this podcast, she offers advice and strategy tips for librarians planning to attend BEA.
May 10, 2007
Talia Ross Bridges Gap Between Librarians and Publishers
Talia Ross is the Library Marketing Manager for Holtzbrinck Publishers. In this podcast, Ross outlines her BEA 2007 must-do list. She will be speaking on a variety of panels and invites attending librarians to visit her at booths 3628-3653 during the show.
May 10, 2007
Important Tips for BEA First-Timers
If you’re a bookseller or librarian planning your first trip to BookExpo America, this podcast is a must-listen. We’ll give you helpful tips on what to bring, how to prepare, and what to wear. Even if you’re a seasoned veteran, take a listen to brush up on your BEA etiquette!
May 8, 2007
Khaled Hosseini to Speak on June 2
Khaled Hosseini is the author of the best-selling The Kite Runner as well as the new book A Thousand Splendid Suns. He discusses the pressure to follow-up a successful debut novel, as well as the excitement leading up to his first BEA. Hosseini will be speaking at the Book and Author Breakfast [...]
May 8, 2007
Gregory Gordon on The Undead President
Gregory Gordon is the author of the new book The Undead President. This book was written in support of Gordon’s mission to keep US currency free of Ronald Reagan’s image. Gordon will be displaying his book at BEA with the Publishers and Marketing Association. This is a User-Sponsored Podcast
May 7, 2007
Jonathan Karp Discusses Twelve
Jonathan Karp, publisher and editor-in-chief of Twelve, discusses this new imprint. Karp will be speaking twice at BEA. You can see him Friday, June 1 at 2:30 during a discussion on Emerging Imprints or Saturday, June 2 at 2:30 at the Editor’s Buzz on Debut Fiction.
May 3, 2007
BEA 2007 – Lance Fensterman Discusses New Technologies
Lance Fensterman, Director of BookExpo America, talks about the ways BEA is using technology to make it easier for attendees to manage and enjoy their experience.
Once attendees register for BEA, they are invited to join MyBEA a tool that helps them plan their schedules and connect with other BEA attendees. [...]
May 3, 2007
Cynthia Weaks on Prayers of the Innocent
Cynthia Weaks is the author of Prayers of the Innocent. A first-time author, Weaks based this book on an experience her own family had with a con-artist. A portion of the proceeds generated by Prayers of the Innocent will be donated to the Mad Parent Corporation, which was set up to help protect [...]
May 2, 2007
Lisa Tucker to Speak to New Fiction Authors on June 2
Lisa Tucker is the author of three novels, including the best-selling The Song Reader. Tucker will be speaking on two panels at BEA 2007, both on Saturday, June 2. At 2:00 PM, she will be leading Making That First Novel Work. Tucker will be serving on the Emerging Debut Fiction: Voices [...]
May 2, 2007
Nightengale Press Showcasing 25 Titles at BEA
Valerie Connelly is the founder, president, and publisher of Nightengale Press. Nightengale Press authors receive publishing information, marketing training, one-on-one product development of their books, industry connectivity, online visibility, co-operative marketing opportunities, bookstore trade distribution, profit from their work, and a helping hand from the start.
Nightengale Press will be located at booth 2969 at [...]
April 30, 2007
Author Lisa See on Peony in Love
Lisa See, best-selling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, discusses her new book Peony in Love. See will be speaking at the Saturday Book and Author Breakfast at 8:00AM on June 2.
April 30, 2007
Shirley Cheng Inspires You to Dance With Your Heart
Shirley Cheng is a child prodigy, poet, author, motivational speaker and the creator of Dance With Your Heart Publishing. The blind, disabled Cheng empowers you with her new book, Waking Spirit: Prose and Poems the Spirit Sings, which she will sign on Saturday, June 2, at 2:30 at the BEA autographing area. This [...]
April 26, 2007
Alice Sebold To Speak June 3 at Book and Author Breakfast
Alice Sebold, best-selling author of Lucky and The Lovely Bones, discusses her new book, The Almost Moon. Sebold will speak on June 3 at the Book and Author Breakfast, taking place in the Special Events Hall.
April 26, 2007
Make Your Vision a Reality with VMC Art and Design
VMC Art and Design, is a graphic design company focused on the book and publishing industry. Make your project stand out from the crowd with VMC Art and Design. This is a User-Sponsored Podcast
April 26, 2007
Paul Krugman to Speak June 2
Paul Krugman, noted economist, columnist for the New York Times and author of several books, talks about his new book Conscience of a Liberal. Krugman will be speaking at the Saturday Book & Author Breakfast at 8 am on June 2 at BEA.
April 26, 2007
Dr. Ida Greene Discusses Two New Books
Dr. Ida Greene, professional speaker, and the author of fifteen books, talks about her two newest books Angels Among Us, Earth Angels and Stirring Up The African-American Spirit. Greene can be found at BEA Exhibitor Booth 248, located in the African-American Pavilion. This is a User-Sponsored Podcast
April 24, 2007
BEA 2007 – Sneak Preview with Director Lance Fensterman
Welcome to the premiere 2007 episode of BookExpoCast, the official podcast of BookExpo America. BEA Director, Lance Fensterman, welcomes you to the upcoming BEA show (May 31 through June 3) with a sneak preview of events, plus some of his favorite picks.
Over the next five weeks we will be sending you interviews [...]
