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BookCon 2015: Judy Blume Dishes on Life in Fact and Fiction
After 750 fans gave Judy Blume a standing ovation before she even said a word on stage, Jennifer Weiner kicked off an hour-long Q&A with Blume during BookCon.
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BookCon 2015: Attendance Up, But Concern Lingers Over 2016 Locale
In its sophomore year, the consumer show drew 18,000 fans over its two-day run at the Javits Center. Show organizer ReedPop said the statistic represents an 80% increase over last year's attendance.
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BookCon 2015: A 'Mostly Positive' Second Day of Literary Fanfest
BookCon 2015, held at Javits this weekend, drew mostly positive comments from both attendees and publishers who exhibited there.
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BookCon 2015: Talking Truth, Love, Diversity, and Writing at ‘Reality Bites’ Panel
On a Saturday BookCon panel, Ellen Hopkins, Patrick Ness, Lauren Oliver, and Jason Reynolds discussed the relationships, characters, themes, and settings of their latest YA novels.
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BEA 2015: Straight Talk On Digital Branding
Fauzia Burke and Kristen Frantz offered an hour of genial and common sense advice about using social media to build your brand online.
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A Lively BEA
BookExpo America ended its Wednesday–Friday run last week at New York City’s Javits Center before giving way to the consumer-oriented BookCon, held at Javits over the May 30–31 weekend.
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BEA 2015: Second Library Buzz Panel Highlights Nonfiction
Eight publishers' representatives kept the mood light as they introduced librarians to the anticipated titles of fall.
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BEA 2015: Chronicling Middle Grade Characters and Adventures
A panel of novelists of forthcoming middle-grade titles, talks the difference between middle grade and YA, the origins of their stories, and life before publication.
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BEA 2015: WNDB Advocates for Diverse Books
We Need Diverse Books marked its first anniversary with a BEA panel of diverse authors who advocated for booksellers to stock and handsell diverse books.
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BEA 2015: Editors Buzz About Middle Grade Books
Editors gathered at BEA Friday morning to share their favorite middle-grade books for fall.
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BEA 2015: Children's Breakfast Speakers Say That Life Is a Story
While all of the four speakers at Friday's Children's Book and Author Breakfast emphasized the importance of storytelling to their lives, James Patterson went even further, insisting that books save lives.
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BEA 2015: Jill Bialosky Enjoys Wearing Two Hats
2015 is shaping up to be a memorable year for Jill Bialosky, the prize-winning poet, memoirist, and novelist.
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BEA 2015: The Polish Eagle Has Landed
Aquila Polonica is a publishing house in Los Angeles cofounded by Terry Tegnazian, a former attorney, who decided to specialize in books that bring to light the Poles who bravely helped underground resistance fighters.
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BEA 2015: Ringo and Wrestling and Goth, Oh, My!
Performing arts publisher Hal Leonard’s booth (1948) will be bouncing all day today with lively events.
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BEA 2015: A Princess for all Ages
After 18 bestselling books, two hit Disney movies, and 15 years, Meg Cabot’s Princess Diaries series is coming to an end when "Royal Wedding" (Morrow) hits stores in June.
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BEA 2015: 2015 Pannell Winners Honored
At today’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, two bookstores—Anderson’s Bookstore in Naperville, Ill., and Once Upon a Story in Montrose, Calif.—will receive this year’s WNBA Pannell Award.
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BEA 2015: Kids Only on the Uptown Stage
For the third year running, children’s book creators will take over an author’s stage for an entire day, and devotees of books for young readers will be happy to learn that today is that day.
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BEA 2015: At the Kids’ Breakfast Table
Guests at this morning’s annual Children’s Book and Author Breakfast will be entertained by a quartet of children’s book creators. The lineup is impressive: Nathan Lane, Oliver Jeffers, Rainbow Rowell, and James Patterson.
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BEA 2015: Chris Waters Dunn & Cappy Lawton - Food Writers Were Country Music Singers
A tortilla rolled around, say, chicken and smothered in a blanket of gloppy, neon-hued cheese is the image typically conjured when thinking of the enchilada. But Texas-bred Chris Waters Dunn and Cappy Lawton wanted to delve beyond such a simplistic notion of the cantina favorite in Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex (Trinity, Oct.).
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BEA 2015: Amy Stewart - Gardening Expert to Debut Novelist
When gardening writer Amy Stewart was researching The Drunken Botanist (Algonquin, 2013), about the intersection of botany and booze, she came across Henry Kaufman, a gin smuggler from a hundred years ago. Although she hasn't been able to verify that he's the same Kaufman who ran a silk-dyeing factory in Paterson, N.J., and got into an "over-the-top" dispute with three sisters.