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BEA 2012: The Tao of Publishing
If you’re interested in learning more about recent trends in publishing from a spiritual perspective, you might want to head over to Wicker Park Press’s booth, 4488, 1–1:30 p.m., today. Radio personality and intuitive life coach Jillian Maas Backman, the author of Beyond the Pews: Breaking with Tradition and Letting Go of Religious Lockdown, will do a live broadcast from there of her talk radio show, Change Already, Your Future, Your Choice. Her guest will be Eric Miller, publisher of Wicker Park Press, a Chicago company that has specialized for the past decade in publishing titles of regional interest.
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BEA 2012: Personal Insights From Che’s Widow
Revealing a personal story left untold for decades, Che Guevara’s widow, Aleida March, has broken her silence with the new memoir Remembering Che, the lead title from Ocean Press. While March will not be at BEA because she cannot enter the United States, her publisher will have advance reader copies available in the Consortium aisle (3910). There will also be a blad with examples of the 100 photographs from the family’s photo albums that are included in the book.
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BEA 2012: Four Agreements Celebrates 15
When Amber-Allen Publishing released Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements in 1997, the editors never imagined that the book would become a classic of the personal growth genre, championed by Oprah Winfrey, and go on to sell 5.2 million copies. An illustrated 15th-anniversary commemorative edition is now available.
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BEA 2012: Life After Mars
Tracy K. Smith wasn’t on Graywolf Press’s original list of authors to bring to Book Expo this year. After all, Smith’s collection of poems, Life on Mars, was released in May 2011. And as anyone attending BEA will tell you, a book published last year is ancient history here in the halls of Javits, where everybody is focused on what’s coming down the publishing pipeline.
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BEA 2012: The Hobbit Turns 75
It’s been 75 years since Bilbo Baggins first captivated readers in J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic The Hobbit, and his appeal has not diminished. A prequel to Tolkien’s mythic trilogy the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit paved the way for fantasy fiction, says Bruce Nichols, senior v-p and publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the original (and current) U.S. publisher. “J.R.R. Tolkien helped invent the now-booming genre. He remains one of our bestselling authors many decades later, and we expect he will be a lodestar to readers and writers for many decades to come.”
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BEA 2012: Is It a Book? A Game?
There’s significant buzz in Scholastic’s booth (3439) about Infinity Ring, a multiauthor, alternate history time travel series set to launch on August 28 with James Dashner’s A Mutiny in Time, which has an announced 500,000-copy first printing. The middle-grade series has an online game component (available on the Web, smartphones, and tablets) featuring immersive 3-D gaming technology, and each book is packaged with a collectible map that includes a code to unlock content in the game. Dashner created the story arc for the series and will also write its final installment, due out in March 2014. Carrie Ryan, Lisa McMann, Matt de la Peña, Matthew J. Kirby, and Jennifer A. Nielsen will also contribute Infinity Ring installments.
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BEA 2012: New Panels Focus on the Future
Booksellers and publishers involved in the children’s book world will want to catch a pair of new BEA educational sessions assessing paths that the industry will follow in the future. Pulling together publishing professionals from various walks are panels centering on evolving YA marketing strategies and the children’s digital marketplace. Here’s a look at where to be and when—and what to expect.
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BEA 2012: Children’s Books Take Center Stage
The Uptown and Downtown Author Stages will be humming with children’s publishing–oriented programs over the next three days. The kids’ events are more plentiful and varied than ever, with a range of children’s authors, editors, and other industry folk stepping into the spotlight. The events run the gamut from a single author appearance to multiple author panels, editor-author discussions, and programs involving presenter-audience activities.
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BEA 2012: A Toast to a Host of Anniversaries
The year 2012 boasts a bumper crop of milestones for children’s publishers, and a number of houses have arrived at BEA ready to celebrate. Here’s a look at some of the anniversaries—of companies, imprints, series, or books—that publishers are commemorating at the show.
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BEA 2012: The YA and Middle-Grade Fiction Buzz
What books will everyone be talking about in a few months? For the editors presenting at the two buzz panels, one for YA and one for middle-grade, the hope is their book.
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BEA 2012: Browsing the Booths, Chapter 1
For booksellers scouting out new and upcoming children’s books, here’s a sampling of projects on display, authors on hand, and raffles and giveaways at the children’s booths. Look for a second installment of booth highlights in tomorrow’s issue.
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BEA 2012: How to Make Facebook Friends and Influence Them
The Day of Education got off to a rousing start Monday morning with Cindy Ratzlaff of Brand You Marketing presenting "19 ‘Money Spots' to Promote and Sell Your Book on Facebook and Other Secret Strategies" in PowerPoint to an audience of approximately 200, many of them authors and self-publishers. "The goal is to help the people likely to buy your book find you," she said, explaining that while some of her strategies might seem insignificant, when conducted in tandem, they could have "breathtaking results."
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BEA 2012: IDPF Pushes Experimentation
The imperative to develop a connection to communities of “passion,” the institutionalization of self-publishing, and the transformation of book publishing from a “product lottery” to an industry that delivers “services” were just a few of the themes bouncing around the morning session of IPDF’s Digital Book.
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BEA 2012: Self-Published Titles Topped 211,000 in 2011
A nearly week-long period filled with BookExpo America events kicked off Sunday at the Javits Center as the uPublishU self-publishing seminar drew nearly 300 people attracted by panels and exhibitors offering the latest developments in the self-publishing field.
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Huge Russian Arts Celebration Arrives in New York
Read Russia, the new initiative celebrating contemporary Russian literature book culture, will host more than 50 Russian writers, publishers, librarians, journalists, and historians in events around New York City between June 2-7, to coincide with BEA.
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Patti Smith to Interview Neil Young at BEA
Patti Smith will interview Neil Young at BEA on Wednesday, June 6 at 12 noon in the Special Events Hall. The discussion will focus on Young's upcoming memoir, Waging Heavy Peace (Blue Rider Press). “A Conversation with Neil Young and Patti Smith” is free to all convention attendees. Seating will be provided on a first come, first served basis.
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BEA Children's Art Auction to Feature Live Bidding
Honorary chairman Walter Dean Myers and his son will share auctioneer duties for BEA's Children's Art Auction. Live bidding will be opened for several rare items.
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Spaces Left for the Children's Institute at BEA
The American Booksellers Association is extending registration to May 11 for its one-day Children’s Institute, to be held on Wednesday June 6 at BEA.
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BEA 2012: Highlights of the Biggest BookExpo Yet
With five days of programming, hundreds of exhibitors, and a show floor open to the public for the first time, BookExpo 2012 promises to be a show unlike any before. Wondering where to begin? We've got you covered with highlights of this year's massive show.
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Children’s Galleys to Grab: BEA 2012
Lots to pick up at publishers’ booths this year: favorite authors like Rachel Cohn, David Levithan, and Libba Bray are exploring new genres; some popular series are drawing to a close; and stars of other media (incuding Hunger Games director Gary Ross) are trying their hands at fiction.
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