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BEA 2016: Take a Steampunk Selfie and Celebrate Women
What do romance, history, and children’s books have in common?
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BEA 2016: The Okee Dokee Brothers Celebrate America’s Great Outdoors
While the late Prince represents the Minneapolis sound to millions of adults, two other Twin Cities musicians, the Okee Dokee Brothers, represent its flip side: a more pastoral and family-friendly Minneapolis sound.
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BEA 2016: Catch the Buzz from YA Editors
A select handful of children’s book editors have arrived at BEA eager to spread word of forthcoming first novels for which they have have high expectations.
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BEA 2016: Melissa de la Cruz: A Banner Year
Since her Blue Bloods series with Disney-Hyperion debuted a decade ago, Melissa de la Cruz has published a steady stream of bestselling novels and become a luminary in the YA universe.
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BEA 2016: Brian Welch: Returning to Music & Books
Brian “Head” Welch hadn’t planned to write a second book after Save Me from Myself came out in 2008 (HarperOne). Folks already knew about his drug addiction, finding Jesus, and quitting his band, Korn.
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BEA 2016: Ann M. Martin: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Niece Follows in Her Footsteps
Introduced in 1947’s Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Betty MacDonald’s eponymous heroine won the hearts of children and their parents, who were—and continue to be—enchanted by her magical cures for such timeless vexations as kids’ impudence, interrupting, bickering, and refusal to share.
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BEA 2016: Aaron Becker: Bringing a Journey Full Circle
In Journey, Aaron Becker’s wordless debut picture book, a lonely girl embarks on a voyage of adventure and danger after going through a magic door she draws on her bedroom wall.
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BEA 2016: Kenny Loggins: Cutting Loose on the Page
Grammy Award–winning rock-and-roll musician Kenny Loggins isn’t nervous about performing today, at 1 p.m., at the Quarto Publishing Group’s booth (2300, 2301), where the company’s 40th anniversary party will be in full swing.
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BEA 2016: Ridley Pearson: Holmes and His Notorious Rival, We Presume?
As he did with the villains of Peter Pan (in "Peter and the Starcatchers," written with Dave Barry) and Disney (in "Kingdom Keepers"), Ridley Pearson reimagines the lives of two famous fictional characters in his latest middle-grade series.
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BEA 2016: Three Authors Agree: There's No One Way to Publish
A panel of three bestselling authors criticized the traditional publishing model and advised writers to maintain as much control over their intellectual property as they can.
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BEA 2016: The Mystique Continues
Yale University Press is honoring the fashion designer Alexander McQueen with two different publications at Book Expo. Alexander McQueen: Unseen by Robert Fairer debuts in November.
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BEA 2016: How Booksellers Can Create Better In-Store Events
Building relationships in one's local community is key to creating productive and profitable events, a panel of veteran booksellers told an audience of 50 at BEA on Wednesday.
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BEA 2016: For Booksellers, Change of Venue Welcome. For the Big Houses, Not So Much
While some attendees, especially booksellers, rejoiced at a more “intimate” BEA, this year's show, in the Windy City for the first time in 12 years, left others concerned about what’s lost when the event leaves its standing locale of New York City.
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BEA 2016: Is A Flat Royalty Rate Possible?
A discussion on Wednesday between two publishers, a literary agent, and the executive director of the Authors Guild floated the possibility of a single royalty rate across book formats.
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BEA 2016: In Poland, Plenty of Potential To Grow
Polish publishers see a promising future in the country's billion-dollar book market, but growth will not come without challenges.
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BEA 2016: Getting Out the New Localism
The next step for the buy local movement is to move it into the policy arena, said Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
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BEA 2016: Kobo's User Data Reveals Its 'Sexiest' E-book Consumers
Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn notes that readers over the age of 50 drive e-book sales, though they still love their print titles.
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BEA 2016: Richard Peck: On a Mission to Debunk Stereotypes
Richard Peck is thrilled that BEA is in Chicago this year. Not only is it a homecoming for the Decatur, Ill., native—“if you can go home again,” he says—but he credits the Illinois legislature with producing the spark that became "Best Man."
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BEA 2016: Jeffrey Brown: Making Prehistory Entertaining
One impetus for Jeffrey Brown’s participation in BEA is the new trilogy he’s launching with "Lucy and Andy Neanderthal."
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BEA 2016: Grace Lin: Again Mining the Power of Folklore
As she did in her Newbery Honor Book, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and in Starry River of the Sky, Grace Lin tapped into Chinese folklore to shape her latest illustrated middle-grade fantasy, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown, Oct.).
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