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BEA 2013: Happy 50 for UVA
Fifty years ago, the University Press at Virginia began as a consortium press designed to serve the needs of the higher education system in the state.
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BEA 2013: Healthy Connections
As one of the leading publishers of alternative health titles, including raw foods spirituality, and martial arts, North Atlantic Press has created a lineup of events and giveaways that complement its commitment to healthful lifestyles and respect for the natural world.
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BEA 2013: Medical Witness To 11/22/1963
A witness to history, Dr. Allen Childs was at Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963, when the mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy was rushed into the emergency room. Much has been written about the assassination in Dallas that ended America’s “Camelot,” and Childs offers yet another perspective timed for the 50th anniversary later this year.
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BEA 2013: A Year of Free E-books
Canadian publisher ECW, celebrating the first anniversary of its free e-book initiative, is promoting the program at its booth (2527) by distributing postcard handouts it hopes will make more booksellers aware of its innovative offer.
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BEA 2013: Life Advice, Buddhist-Style
BEA attendees who need a little help with relationships, have concerns about their future, or wonder about their spiritual health can find help thanks to Huffington Post advice columnist Lodro Rinzler, author of Walk Like a Buddha: Even if Your Boss Sucks, Your Ex is Torturing You & You’re Hungover Again (Shambhala, Oct.).
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BEA 2013: Fashionable Ducting
It’s gray, it’s sticky, and most often found buried in a toolbox—it’s duct tape.
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BEA 2013: Landmark's Fiction Goals
If there is one thing that Shana Drehs, editorial manager of Sourcebooks Landmark imprint wants booksellers to know about its fiction line, it’s that while it remains committed to publishing good historical fiction, Jane Austen–inspired sequels, and new work by noted authors like Michael Malone, it is in pursuit of novels that will be “great book club reads” and provide lots of hand-selling opportunities.
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BEA 2013: Read the Movie
Best known for beautiful art books, Thames & Hudson this year expands its definition of visual culture with a big title that celebrates the moving image.
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BEA 2013: Booth Advice From Mar
Mar Jennings, a lifestyle expert, television personality, and interior designer, has come to BEA to promote Life on Mar’s: Creating Casual Luxury from Room to Room (S&J Multimedia, Sept.), the latest in his Life on Mar’s series, but he’d also like to give BEA exhibitors some “sMARt tips” regarding booth design.
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BEA 2013: Biology a la Dawkins
If you haven’t previously encountered Richard Dawkins, now’s the perfect opportunity to meet this celebrated English evolutionary biologist.
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BEA 2013: Graywolf Delights
Graywolf Press’s mascot, the gray wolf, might be on the list of endangered species (although word has it the U.S. government intends to take it off that list), but the press certainly isn’t in any danger; in fact, it’s coming off of a year marked by triumph, such as a Pulitzer Prize for one author (Tracy K. Smith) and an NBCC Award in Poetry for another (D.A. Powell).
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BEA 2013: Livrada's E-book Delivery Platform
Corporate and event giving of books, pre-pub sales, and book promotions have now officially entered the 21st century.
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BEA 2013: Redhook's Big Catch
Hachette’s new commercial fiction imprint, Redhook, will be making its BEA debut this year, with four debut novels and a much talked about new marketing philosophy.
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BEA 2013: Hoffman Meets New Challenges
Bestselling author Alice Hoffman got involved with fund-raising for breast cancer research following her own bout with the illness 15 years ago.
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BEA 2013: Play Ball
New York City’s history is seldom as colorful as when viewed through a historic lens—and the Yankees fit the purpose nicely.
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BEA 2013: Discounts! Let's Make a Deal
This A–Z listing includes specials available to retailers who place orders at BEA.
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BEA 2013: Creature Features at Penguin
Those popping into Penguin Young Readers Group booth (1520) will get an animated preview of the exotic cast of The Creature Department by Robert Paul Weston, an illustrated middle-grade novel due from Razorbill in November.
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BEA 2013: Close Collaborators, On and Off the Page
Acclaimed authors and illustrators Ted and Betsy Lewin have written seven children’s books together and have created dozens of additional titles either solo or in tandem with other authors.
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BEA 2013: The Kids Take Over Uptown Stage
Children’s authors will be front and center on the Uptown Stage tomorrow, when a day of back-to-back kids’-only programming takes place.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight On Children: Editors Happy to Buzz
Two popular panels return to BEA’s programming this year, giving five editors of young adult and five editors of middle-grade books a chance to share news of a forthcoming novel for which they have high hopes.
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