Day
2
A L L T H E B U Z Z
The Agency Model Gets Mixed Grades
Some rue its complications, others welcome the stability
By Calvin Reid
Digital Book 2010, the Inter-
national Digital Publishing
Forum’s annual conference
on e-book publishing,
picked a “hot day for a hot
subject,” according to e-
book retailer Bob LiVolsi,
referring to the impact,
back in April, of the agency
model, a new business
model for selling e-books,
on small and independent
retailers and their custom-
ers. The founder of the e-
book retailer Books on
Board, LiVolsi is always out-
spoken, and he used his
time on the podium to criti-
cize publishers for the
rushed implementation of
the new model while prais-
ing the work of wholesalers
like Ingram and OverDrive,
who he said worked tire-
lessly to make sure small
retailers would be ready for
the changes.
LiVolsi was critical of
aspects of the agency
model, delivering a com-
prehensive (and sometimes
amusing) critique of its
impact on his business and
on his customers’ spending
habits, as well as speculat-
ing on the viability of brick-
and-mortar bookstores in
the future. His presentation
capped off a morning of dis-
cussion about the “e-book
revolution,” in the words of
OverDrive CEO Steve Pot-
ash, who moderated Digital
Book 2010, the first time the
annual event has been held
in conjunction with BEA.
Indeed, the session
before the agency model
panel focused on success
stories from “The Global
Digital Community,” fea-
turing presentations from
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O N B O O K E X P O
LibreDigital’s Tyler Ruse,
Daihei Shiohama from e-
book developer Voyager
Japan, and Michael Tamb-
lyn of e-book retailer Kobo.
Ruse outlined the well-
known successes of
romance publishers Harle-
quin and its Mills & Boon
imprint, and the effective
use of embeddable book
widgets that allow readers
to preview M&B titles. Shio-
hama outlined a Japanese
e-book market with 300,000
titles that had $600 million
in sales in 2009. He said 80%
of the Japanese e-book
market was via mobile
phones and aimed at young
women in their 20s. Digital
manga, and Japanese com-
ics of all kinds, “offer a
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A young girl, caught up in a lifestyle of drugs
and insanity, who overcame her past and
ultimately became a powerful example of the
g and resiliencyy of the human spirit.
courage
Signing within
Medallion Press Booth
today at 10:30A.M.
Medallion Press is located
within IPG Booth #2723
m e d a l l i o n p r e s s . c o m
Wednesday
May 26, 2010
A M E R I C A
larger potential as e-books
than textbooks,” Shiohama
believes. “Text is limited,
but it’s possible to make
manga available globally.”
Tamblyn had a long list of
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international e-book
accomplishments (one day
Kobo sold books in 174 dif-
ferent countries) and a wish “The Value of the Book” was a hotly debated topic at yesterday morning’s
list for the category going CEO Panel, moderated by FSG’s Jonathan Galassi. See our story on page 4.
forward: simpler territorial
rights, simultaneous global
release of print and e-
books, more EPub in more
ABA Partners with Google
places, and global meta- Ever since Winter Institute, with ABA COO Len Vlahos
data with multiterritorial there has been much buzz and Tom Turvey, director of
pricing and rights data. about a possible partner- strategic partnerships for
LiVolsi’s presentation was ship between ABA and Google. Both groups will
the heart of the morning Google. Yesterday the two partner on digital books
event. He followed very made it official at a session starting with the official
capable presentations by on Google Editions during launch of Google Editions
continued on page 5 the ABA Day of Education this summer.
“Think of us as Ingram.
We’re wholesaling that dig-
ital book and providing that
book to you,” explained
Turvey, who anticipates
having 400,000 books—
trade, STM, and profes-
sional—at the launch. The
books will be compatible
p with all e-readers except
for Amazon’s Kindle and
can be read offline using
Google Gear, which allows
for caching in the browser.
Currently, ABA offers e-
books on the IndieBound.
com Web site through
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Signing within Medallion bundled with the digital
Press Booth today at edition. Further down the
line, Google and ABA will
3:00P.M. allow bookstores to geo-
Medallion Press affiliate, so that bookstores
is located within will share in the sale when
IPG Booth #2723 a customer downloads a
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2 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010

IN-BOOTH HIGHLIGHTS
AUTHOR SIGNINGS OF THE DAY
Today at Medallion Press Booth
#2723 meet two women who MEETINGS AND EVENTS

overcame violence and tragedy to
become an inspiration to others.
LURED INTO A DARK AND ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE KING OF PORN, A YOUNG GIRL ESCAPES
WITH HER LIFE . . . AND HER INSPIRING TRUE STORY.
8–9:30 a.m. Children’s Book & Author Breakfast. Speakers: Cory Doctorow,
Mitali Perkins, Richard Peck; Master of Ceremonies, Sarah Ferguson,
the duchess of York (Special Events Hall)
8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. “Big Ideas at BEA” Conference. Panels include “How the
Digital Cloud Works for Publishers and Users”; “Rights, Royalties &
Retailers: What Works?”; “Writing Sex: 3 Granta Writers about Intimacy
on the Page”; “Who’s Reading E-books?”; “The New Landscape of
Collab oration: Where Do Book Producers Fit In?”
9 a.m.–6 p.m. Exhibit Hall, Author Stages, and International Rights &
Business Center open.

Dawn Schiller 10:30 a.m.–noon Speed Dating with Children’s Authors & Illustrators
(this event is for booksellers only, Room 1E15)
THE ROAD THROUGH WONDERLAND 2–3:15 p.m. BEA Young Adult Editor’s Buzz. Moderator, Jack Martin,
SURVIVING JOHN HOLMES New York Public Library. Editors: Julie Strauss-Gabel, Dutton; Jennifer
Weis, St. Martin’s Press; Cindy Eagan, Poppy; Farrin Jacobs, Harper Teen;
10:30A.M. Arthur Levine, Arthur A. Levine Books (Room 1E15).
3–4 p.m. Town Hall (Room 1E10)
4–5 p.m. Annual Membership Meeting (Room 1E10)

AUTOGRAPHS
More than 750 authors autographing; here are just a few names: Michael,
Koryta, Adriana Trigiani, Oscar Hijuelos, Karin Slaughter, Dorothea Benton
Frank, Lisa Gardner, Rosemary Wells, Michael Lister, Michele Lang, Karen
Kingsbury, Ridley Pearson, Jack Owens, Bruce Lansky, Ed Briant, John
Moody, Mary Higgins Clark, Scott Spencer, Steve Berry.

THROUGH HER PERSONAL LIFE STORIES OF

STRUGGLES AND SUCCESSES STACI WILL SHOW
YOU HOW TO RESTRUCTURE YOUR BELIEFS AND
BEHAVIORS AND POINT YOU TOWARD A BETTER LIFE

Staci Boyer
MOTIV8N’ U
3:00P.M.
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Kris Kringle, the Musical, based on a book by Maria

Ciampi, drew nice crowds throughout the day Tuesday,
with 15-minute perfomances at the top of the hour.
Meanwhile, the temperature outdoors rose into the upper
80s, with hotter weather predicted for today and Thursday.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Daisy Maryles

MANAGING EDITORS Michael Coffey, Sonia Jaffe Robbins
ART DIRECTOR Clive Chiu
PICTURE PRODUCTION EDITOR Igor Tsiperson
PHOTOGRAPHER Steve Kagan
STAFF REPORTERS Andrew Albanese, Lynn Andriani, Rachel Deahl, Louisa Ermelino, Lynn

Medallion Press is located
within IPG booth # 2723
m e d a l l i o n p r e s s . c o m
Garrett, Sarah F. Gold, Jim Milliot, Calvin Reid, Diane Roback, Mark Rotella, Jonathan
Segura, Parul Sehgal, John A. Sellers
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Gwenda Bond, Sue Corbett, Lucinda Dyer, Donna Freitas, Karen
Jones, Hilary S. Kayle, Bridget Kinsella, Claire Kirch, Sally Lodge, G. Jeffrey MacDonald,
Suzanne Mantell, Shannon Maughan, Marcia Z. Nelson, Diane Patrick, Karin Pekarchik,
Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen, Liz Thomson, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Wendy Werris, Leigh-Anne
Williams, Kimberly Winston, Douglas Wolk
PRODUCTION MANAGER Paula Gordon, Kady Francesconi
TECHNOLOGY MANAGER Milan Patel
Meet JUSTIN CRONIN
Wednesday at 10:00 AM, Autographing Table 8

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Thursday at 4:00 PM, Random House Booth #4341

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4 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010

CEOs Debate Piracy, E-books ing piracy an “enor-

ways. Galassi and Turow criticized
Amazon for simultaneously releas-
ing print and e-editions of certain
T The opening panel of BEA’s mous” risk, one that books. “It was a mistake,” said
day of educational program- should be at the fore- Galassi, to which Miller responded:
ming, “The Value of the Book,” front of publishers’ “It’s pretty hard to go back now.” And
certainly demonstrated that minds. Speaking to when Newberg brought up all the
there is value in the book—but the rest of the enhancements that can be made to
those who are leading the panel—which e-books, especially on the iPad,
industry have wildly varying included Workman Galassi retorted, “Who has time to
opinions of what that value is, group publisher Bob enhance an e-book? [With all the
and how best to exploit it. Miller, ICM execu- links to external Web sites], you
Within the first 20 seconds of tive v-p Esther New- could be in an e-book forever.”
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his introduction, Farrar, berg, Ingram CEO Shanks had little to say about e-
Straus, and Giroux president Skip Prichard, Pen- books in general, continually noting
Jonathan Galassi, who guin Group CEO that print books still make up “90-
moderated, brought up what David Shanks, and plus-percent of our business.”
would turn out to be the issue Executive action: ABA CEO Oren Teicher, Workman group publisher Bob Miller, American Booksell- Getting back to the panel’s official
of the morning: how the indus- Authors Guild’s new president Scott Turow, ICM executive v-p Esther Newberg, ers Association CEO subject—what the value of a book is
Ingram CEO Skip Prichard, Penguin CEO David Shanks, and FSG president
try should navigate the Jonathan Galassi, who moderated Tuesday morning’s well-attended CEO Panel. Oren Teicher— in today’s market—Newberg men-
“bumpy landscape” of e-books. Turow said, “You tioned a new Steve Martin novel that
That quickly led to a heated debate Turow—who was recently named guys have got to do a better job.” Grand Central is publishing this fall,
about piracy, with author Scott president of the Authors Guild—call- Prichard, however, noted that most An Object of Beauty. With its vellum
books that are pirated today are being pages and high-quality jacket, New-
scanned in from paper editions, and berg said the book must have cost

‘PW’ Launches an iPhone App that e-books “did not cause piracy.”
Prichard, along with Miller,
seemed to be more pro e-book than
Hachette a fortune to produce. Yet
she was confident that “if you make a
beautiful product, they will come.”
In partnership with the U.K. digital vendor Exact Editions, Publishers the other panelists, and Teicher Prichard disagreed. “People around
Weekly has launched an iPhone app to coincide with the start of BEA. Read- repeatedly urged publishers to be books care [about that sort of thing],
ers will be able to download the new PW iPhone app and access PW content “format neutral” so that booksellers but the vast majority of readers
starting with the April 26 pre-BEA issue on through current issues, includ- can serve readers in a number of don’t.” —Lynn Andriani
ing free daily access to Show Daily content from BEA (the first print issue of
Show Daily was published today with two more editions to come).
The launch of the app comes a day after PW announced deals with Scribd for The Old-Fashioned Way:
a PW-branded Scribd reader and a partnership with Zinio to offer free access to Abrams installed a giant
manual typewriter in its
BEA Show Daily content. Zinio is also offering for-pay online subscriptions to
booth in connection with
PW for the iPad as well as for PC and Mac laptops and desktops. PW editors Cal- Kevin O’Callaghan’s eulogy
vin Reid and Andrew Albanese will be at the Zinio booth (2329) today and to bygone days, Monumen-
tomorrow, respectively, to demonstrate access to PW content using Zinio’s tal: The Reimagined World
iWall, a giant video screen display set up at the Zinio booth. of Kevin O’Callaghan.
Before the platen are (from
PW president George Slowik Jr. said the PW/Exact Editions iPhone app
right to left) Kerry Liebling,
offers a “Freemium” model. Initially, readers will be able to freely access PW marketing manager; Andrew
content—from the pre-BEA issue up to the Show Daily—for a 30-day period Gardner, publicity; Erica
before being offered a variety of subscription plans. Those plans will range Kochman, trade sales man-
from full access to all PW print and online content to selected levels of ager; and Ashley Gillespie
Rich, marketing manager.
access to the specialty newsletters. Details on subscription pricing and
access levels will be announced later.

People Who Love People

He showed up at 8:45 a.m., he said, assent to that sentiment. They vari-
and staked out a spot on the lower ously informed this reporter of the
level near the PW Show Daily press title of Streisand book (My Passion
room. He idled the morning away for Design), the publisher (Viking),
reading Show Daily. In about an and even the pub date (November).
hour, Nicholas Pierro, a 20-year-old Pierro, who just graduated from
actor and writer, was joined by a acting school in New York, hails
pair of women, then from Minneapolis—
another man. By “I saw Barbra in St. Weird looks: Amy Kaneko, v-p of sales, and Terry New-
noon, Pierro was at Paul in 2006 on her ell, president, at Weldon Owen’s booth donning 3D wear
the head of a growing world tour,” he said in connection with their book, 3D Snapshots.
line of BEA attendees proudly. He is cur-
waiting for one thing. rently acting in an
When asked, Pierro off-Broadway play in
and a few new friends, Greenwich Village,
said in unison, “We’re but is also working
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here for Gayle King.” the BEA for his

“The content and the buzz,” indeed.
It’s a joke, it turns out, father’s publishing BEA show motto was all over the
for the object of their company, Pierro floor.
devoted vigil is none Enterprises. “We
other than Barbra Nicholas Pierro,first in line, with his publish amateur
hot ticket to Streisand keynote.
Streisand, who would poems—by kids and
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be interviewed at 6 p.m. by King in teens and people who don’t have

the Special Events Hall. the opportunity to be published by
“In truth,” said Pierro earnestly, big houses,” he said of his father’s Editors at the Buzz Panel: Cary Goldstein, Twelve; Mitzi Angel,
“I’m a huge Streisand fan.” All the business, which is now in its 17th FSG; Susanna Porter, Random House; Chuck Adams, Algon-
others in the line nodded their year. “But today belongs to Barbra.” quin; Nan Graham, Scribner; Judy Clain, Little, Brown.
 WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010
NYU/Abu Dhabi Host Training Seminars
The New York University Center for
Publishing today announced that it
will host a series of
professional pub-
lishing seminars
beginning this fall
for Arab publishers.
The venture will be
hosted in partner-
ship with KITAB, a
joint venture of the
Abu Dhabi Author-
Chambers inspired
by Abu Dhabi visit. ity for Culture and
Heritage and the
Frankfurt Book Fair, and will be con-
ducted by faculty from NYU’s Center
for Publishing and hosted at NYU’s
new campus in Abu Dhabi.
Andrea Chambers, director of the
NYU Center for Publishing, said the
program came about after she vis-
ited the Abu Dhabi book fair in
March, met with publishing execu-
tives in the region, and was struck by
the opportunities—and difficulties—
for publishing in the Middle East,
which is a relatively nascent indus-
try, Chambers notes, with still largely
untapped market potential.
The first seminar will be held
Christopher Kenneally, director of business
development for the Copyright Clearance Cen-
ter, spoke to panel-goers at the “Copyright in
Motion” panel. He strongly urged publishers to
protect copyright on Web pages.
Frank Sanchez, head buyer at Kepler’s Books and Magazines,
Menlo Park, Calif., stocks up at the Remainder Pavilion.
PUBL I SHERS
November 6–11, 2010, with two more
in the works for spring and fall of
2011. The initial participating faculty
members will include Peter Balis
(John Wiley & Sons), Philip Patrick
(Random House), and Mario Pulice
(Little, Brown). The first seminars,
says Chambers, will focus on the
“challenges of developing a targeted
publishing strategy; best practices
for marketing, sales, distribution,
and graphic design; and digital pub-
lishing, including social media,
mobile, and the use of digital media.”
Publishing in the Arab world has
made strides in recent years, bol-
stered by an influx of investment in
both education and in the industry‘s
infrastructure. The region hosts a
number of book fairs, but Arab pub-
lishing efforts have been limited by a
range of professional issues.
“Enabling the region’s emerging
publishing industry to compete and
communicate at an international level
relies on building confidence and
competency,” notes Monika Krauss,
general manager of KITAB, which was
chartered to address these very
issues. —Andrew Albanese
A Collegial Spirit: At
the Nuts and Bolts of
Children’s Bookselling
roundtable, children’s
booksellers swapped
tips and strategies.
Workwomen at Workman: Janet
Harris and Jodi Weiss hauling
stuff.
W E E K LY
Agency Model continued from page 1
OverDrive’s legal counsel, Erica Laz-
zaro, and Ingram v-p Andrew Wein-
stein, who both outlined the agency
model—in which publishers set the
price of books and designate an
“agent” who sells for them—and the
traditional wholesale book model.
They also listed all the problems the
switch-over entails for them—the
distributors—as well as for their
retailer clients. Lazzaro and Wein-
stein almost seemed wistful about
the passing of the wholesale model, a
business model that was simple in
comparison to the complex changes
and new requirements wrought by
the agency model.
Publishers are responsible for
sales tax, although distributors and
retailers need to collect it—“now
we have to be tax experts, too,”
Weinstein said—often on books that
now may be governed by multiple
contracts. The agency model pro-
hibits any kind of discounting, so
customer loyalty programs and dis-
count coupons are banned, and as
Weinstein said, “We’re still thrash-
ABA/Google continued from page 1
Google digital book in the store.
“Strategically, I think that puts you
in the mix,” said Turvey.
Although some booksellers, like
Powell’s, have long been using
Google’s book search capabilities,
ABA’s IndieBound will offer it as
well. Vlahos announced the site will
soon offer a more seamless shop-
ping experience across formats
thanks to the ABA board’s recent
decision to substantially upgrade
the site.
Other educational sessions at
the show expanded on ones at
Winter Institute, including a book-
buying survey promised by Jack
McKeown, director of Verso Digi-
tal Advertising and co-owner of
Books & Books Westhampton,
which opens in July. The survey,
which was completed at the end of
April, bears out much of Verso
Digital’s two earlier consumer
surveys about 62 million avid book
buyers. The new survey explored
what McKeown called the mind
share/market share problem, the
number of people who say that
they prefer buying at indepen-
dents and the percentage of peo-
ple who actually do. McKeown
identified three key factors that
keep people from shopping in
indies: discounted bestsellers,
better selection, and proximity to
home and work. The survey also
looked at customers who browse
independents then shop online or
at chains. That translates into $260
million annually of lost revenue,
said McKeown. The complete
results are available at www.ver-
soadvertising.com/beasurvey/.
At a reprise of a Winter Institute
BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 5
ing about on all these issues. There
are no best practices as yet.”
But the rushed implementation
also meant that some retailers, like
Books on Board, simply were not
allowed to sell e-books that did not
have contracts, updated metadata,
or pricing data settled. Books on
Board also had to discard all of its
loyalty programs, and some books
were even removed from custom-
ers’ bookshelves, if they had been
purchased but not yet downloaded.
LiVolsi said agency model books
were about 57% of his sales, and he
ended up going seven weeks with-
out any of that revenue because the
books were not ready.
While LiVolsi said the shift to the
agency model likely means more
predictable margins, he is con-
cerned that the model will lead to
“Apple and Amazon destroying
brick-and-mortar bookstores, just
like Apple did to music stores. I
hope we can build a system that can
put books in front of people and
isn’t just about quarterly earnings
and stock prices.”
panel on alternative business mod-
els, “The New Reality,” a trio of pan-
elists who have Espresso Book
Machines spoke about a variety of
initiatives. Carole Horne, general
manager of Harvard Book Store in
Cambridge, Mass., said that the
store’s green delivery system was
really part of a three-pronged
approach that includes the book
machine. At the moment, the store
is subsidizing the bicycle delivery
service so that customers pay a flat
rate. The response has been under-
whelming, said Horne. She antici-
pates that it will grow significantly
when the third prong, a revamped
Web site, is up and running and
more customers begin shopping
online.
At Northshire Books in Manches-
ter Center, Vt., general manager
Chris Morrow is looking for ways to
innovate through consignment. Ini-
tially, he began with baby clothes
produced by Zunato, a local com-
pany, and dedicated 250 sq. ft. in the
children’s section just to them.
Since then he’s added books from
local publisher Chelsea Green and
is considering several other con-
signment options. “As long as it’s
complementary and synergistic, I’ll
keep doing that. We need to find
ways to support our core business,”
he said.
Chuck Robinson, co-owner of
Village Books in Bellingham,
Wash., has found a way to turn his
marketing budget into a profit
center. Instead of spending 2%, as
most stores do, with the help of
the store’s quarterly 56-page
Chuckanut magazine, it now
spends 1%.
—Judith Rosen
6 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2
Ah, Yes! He Remembers It Well
This year marks City Lights
head book buyer Paul
Yamazaki’s 40th year work-
ing his one job in the book
business. Whether called ABA
or BEA, Yamazaki has seen
his share of book industry
trade shows and says he
would not be the book buyer
he is today without attending
the annual industry extravaganza.
So what are some of his fondest
memories of trade shows past?
Number One: Hanging with the
Barney Rosset and the Grove and
New Directions staffs at a party the
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What was the best Pub-
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Simple: Wilson Pickett at
Kilimanjaro in Washington,
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bookseller dinner in New Orleans
with Simonson and Claremont Col-
lege Huntley Bookstore’s Craig
Gilmore and wife Ruthie Wilson.
“James Brown was going to play,”
says Yamazaki. (Simonson does not
remember that party; “we crashed
a lot of things together,” he says.)
Even when the trade show was
held in Anaheim, a city Yamazaki,
as a Los Angeles native, is obligated
to loathe, the City Lights book buyer
still values going there. “It’s where I
met Sonny [Mehta],” he explains.
“Rick dragged me over and said,
‘You two should know each other.’”
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Yamazaki fondly remembers Toni
Morrison bumming a cigarette
from him.
Such meetings are what ABA and
BEA events do best, says Yamazaki.
“It’s where a little guy like me who
was just starting out gets a chance to
meet heads of houses,” he says.
“What happens on the floor is
important, but what happens off the
floor can be more important.”
Book publishing is a people busi-
ness, after all. But Yamazaki is
known for using up every minute of
the show to search for book trea-
sures on every inch of the floor.
Yamazaki loves the chance to
make book buzz at BEA with some
of his favorite booksellers. In 2003
he remembers how, along with
Simonson and Carla Cohen from
Politics and Prose, they decided
whenever anyone asked about the
hot BEA books they’d name just
one: The Known World by Edward P.
Jones. “By the third day people
were telling me about it,” remem-
bers Yamazaki. (Jones went on to
win the Pulitzer and National Book
Critics Circle awards that year.)
Incidentally, Yamazaki’s 2010
BEA buzz book pick: I Hotel by
Karen Tei Yamashita (Coffee House
Press, June). You heard it here first.
—Bridget Kinsella
On the Bus
With C-SPAN
The C-SPAN Civics Bus parked in
the Crystal Palace at Javits will pro-
vide the backdrop for drinks and
conversation about the Supreme
Court this afternoon at 4 p.m. Public
Affairs head Peter Osnos will mod-
erate a q&a with C-SPAN president
and co-COO Susan Swain and fea-
ture producer Mark Farkas, who
together with founder and chair-
man Brian Lamb edited a collection
of interviews with all nine sitting
justices of the Supreme Court for
the newly released The Supreme
Court (Public Affairs). In it Justice
Sotomayor reflects on
her first impressions
of the job, and Chief
Justice Roberts talks
about the role of the
court in society.
The bus, which once
served as a mobile
production studio and
has since evolved into
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Harding’s Road to the Pulitzer
Paul Harding’s story
sounds like a publishing
fairy tale, something told to
aspiring writers to counter-
act cruel business realities
and let them sleep at night.
Only this fairy tale really
happened.
Harding worked for years
to complete a draft of Tinkers, a lit-
erary novel inspired by his memo-
ries of his clock-repairing grandfa-
ther, only to collect rejection slips
from every editor and agent he
approached. Disheartened, he put
the manuscript in a drawer and, he
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says, “moved on to the next
thing.” Then, during a
night of drinking and com-
miseration, a poet friend
suggested another place
he might try—that pub-
lisher didn’t have a place
for the book, but asked for
permission to pass it on to
an editor at Bellevue Literary Press,
a new publisher attached to the
New York University School of Med-
icine. Harding said sure, and a week
later he had an offer from Bellevue.
The match has worked out well
for both the publisher and the
W E E K LY
author—Harding will be coming to
BEA fresh off Monday’s Pulitzer
Prize luncheon, where he’ll accept
the 2010 fiction prize. He’s also the
recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fel-
lowship and was a finalist for the the
2010 Indies Choice Award for Book
of the Year—Adult Debut.
“The only analogies I can make are
extreme weather. I feel like part of a
tornado,” says Harding. “It still hasn’t
registered—orders of disbelief.”
Harding will make several
appearances today at BEA. He signs
in the ABA Booksellers Lounge
(Room 1E07/08), 10–10:30 a.m., and
will be at the ABA Celebration of
Bookselling lunch at noon. He will
also sign at Bellevue’s booth (4513) in
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the Consortium aisle at 3:30 p.m.
Initially published in January
2009 with a printing of around 15,000,
Tinkers recently became Bellevue’s
first national bestseller, and the
publisher has an 80,000-copy reprint
in the works. Bellevue’s editorial
director, Erika Goldman, says that
while the Pulitzer and other awards
are something she couldn’t have
predicted, she is not surprised to
see so much enthusiasm, given early
reception to the book. “The thing
that’s been so gratifying about pub-
lishing Paul’s book is the incredible
response from the start,” says Gold-
man. “While it’s night and day now
that the Pulitzer has hit, it’s been
wonderful to watch the word-of-
mouth phenomenon building
momentum all along.”
The novel’s growing number of
fans will also be glad to learn that
his second novel, Enon, focuses on
one of the grandsons of Tinkers’s
protagonist and is set in the same
town. Harding says the book is half-
complete and will be out from Ran-
dom House in 2012.
—Gwenda Bond
A Crafty Idea
C&T Publishing,
known for its quilting,
paper, and fiber art
books, launched a
new imprint this
spring called Stash,
which is specifically
aimed at the new gen-
eration of craft sew-
ers. “People really
want to get back to basics,” market-
ing director Lisa Fulmer tells Show
Daily. “They want to get back to a
simpler life—a handmade lifestyle.
Like our tagline says, ‘Fabric art for
a handmade lifestyle.’”
Fulmer points out that every new
generation puts its own spin on rec-
reational hobbies. “There’s a whole
contingent of 20- and 30-somethings
that have rediscovered quilting as if
it were something brand-new.
There’s a great selection of projects
ranging from craft sewing—like,
‘softies,’ and cute little things that sit
on the desk—to quilts, to items for
the home, whether it’s pillows or dif-
ferent kinds of home décor.”
One of the four books featured in
C&T’s spring catalogue is Socks
Appeal, written by former Washing-
ton Post editor Brenna Maloney.
Assigned to cover the recession and
housing crisis that was brewing in
2008, Maloney started making sock
animals for her children as a stress
reducer. Maloney found that the
more traumatic her job got, the more
creating a new sock animal each
night seemed to help. Says Fulmer,
“Her wit and candor in how she writes
the instructions is hilarious.” You
can see for yourself today when
Maloney signs copies of her book at
the C&T booth (3777) at 2 p.m.
—Hilary S. Kayle
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Memorializing Mockingbird
In 1956, Nelle Harper Lee received a
most unusual Christmas gift. Her
friends Michael and Joy Brown gave
Lee enough money to quit her job as
an airline ticket agent in New York
City and write full-time for one year.
Because of their gift, the Browns
became godparents to one of Ameri-
ca’s most revered novels, To Kill a
Mockingbird. Published in 1960—the
summer Elvis returned to civilian
life, Janet Leigh was murdered in the
shower at the Bates motel, and JFK
and Nixon were vying for the presi-
dency—Lee’s novel of honor and
injustice in the Deep South has now
been translated into more than 40
languages and sold more than 30
million copies.
For the staff at HarperCollins,
working on the events surrounding
the novel’s 50th anniversary has
been “a very special experience,”
associate publisher Kathy Schneider
reports. “People from every part of
our company have happily become
part of the team—my intern’s eyes lit
up when I asked if she wanted to join
in. We’ve also reached out to
Hachette, to agent friends, and col-
leagues at other houses to help
gather authors for our ‘50 Years 50
Events’ promotion. And, of course,
booksellers have been incredible
with their support.”
“50 Years 50 Events” will run
throughout the summer and into the
fall, with events now being scheduled
at bookstores and libraries across
the country. Most will feature a local
author (among those already signed
up are Wally Lamb, Brunonia Barry,
and Mary Kaye Andrews) who will
speak about how the book influenced
them as a writer. Some libraries and
bookstores will screen the classic
film To Kill a Mockingbird, while oth-
ers are teaming up with local writers’
workshops, universities, and book
clubs to plan events in their commu-
nities. For more information on the
anniversary events, visit www.ToKil-
lAMockingbird50Year.com.
The celebration was officially
launched this month with the publi-
cation of two new trade paper edi-
tions of the novel as well as a special
50th anniversary hardcover edition
that includes the original art work.
And on June 8, Scout, Atticus & Boo:
A Celebration of Fifty Years of ‘To Kill
a Mockingbird’ by Emmy award–win-
ning journalist Mary McDonagh
Murphy will be in stores. Based on
Murphy’s upcoming documentary,
Hey, Boo: To Kill a Mockingbird &
Harper Lee, it includes a collection of
interviews with prominent Ameri-
cans who share their memories of
the novel and its author. Oprah Win-
frey remembers Harper Lee turning
down her request for an interview.
Tom Brokaw describes reading the
book as an impressionable college
student at the start of the civil rights
movement. Anna Quindlen debates
theories that Truman Capote had a
hand in the book, and Alice Lee,
Harper Lee’s sister, talks about their
lives growing up in Monroeville, Ala.
Murphy’s book, says its editor,
Hugh Van Dusen, “makes us realize
the breadth and depth of the passion
people have for this book in a new
and very celebratory way. The
famous names Mary interviewed
weren’t just being nice or doing a job,
they really love this book.” For Mur-
phy, the projects (both book and film)
were journeys filled with the unex-
pected and the surprising. “As I
headed into my 19th, 20th, and 21st
interviews, I wondered if anything
new could be said about the novel.
But I was struck over and over again
by the variety of responses. I asked
Celebrating 50 years with 50 events.
everyone to read aloud a favorite
passage and there were hardly any
repetitions.” She was also delighted
to be published by HarperCollins. “I
had the benefit of working with peo-
ple who have a history with the novel,
who know all about its power, influ-
ence, and popularity. And Hugh, my
editor, actually knows Harper Lee,
whom he calls Nelle, as do all her
friends. How great is that?”
Events will be going on throughout
BEA at both the HarperCollins booth
(3340) and a special To Kill a Mocking-
bird booth (3359). At that booth, HC will
be filming attendees reading their
favorite passages and reflecting on
when they read the book. Harper Lee
fans can also show their appreciation
by writing a message to her in a special
leather-bound autograph book. Today
Murphy signs copies of Scout, Atticus
& Boo, 2:30–3:30 p.m., at the HC booth.
—Lucinda Dyer

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Graphic Highlights
The largest nexus of the comics
scene at this year’s BEA will be
graphic novels row (4558), hosted by
Diamond Book Distribution and
featuring exhibitors Dark Horse,
IDW, Dynamite, Paizo, Image/Top
Cow, Japanime, and Marvel.
Dark Horse will be stirring up
interest for Janet and Alex Evanov-
ich and Joëlle Jones’s forthcoming
Troublemaker Book One. Dynamite’s
got giveaways like signed prints by
Dean Koontz and print-signing
appearances by Garth Ennis, L.A.
Banks, and Anne Elizabeth. Marvel
has two signings today: Eric Sha-
nower and Skottie Young for The
Marvelous Land of Oz, 11 a.m.–noon,
and Nancy Butler for Sense and Sen-
sibility, 2–3 p.m. Image will have give-
aways of its recent Image First comic
books, and Fractured Fables’ Free
Comic Book Day issue, as well as a
signing by Todd McFarlane.
Abrams (4640) is displaying dum-
mies and blads of a handful of fall
ComicArts titles, including Audrey
Niffenegger’s short graphic novel,
The Night Bookmobile; the Chip
Kidd–designed Shazam! The Golden
Age of the World’s Mightiest Mortal;
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N.C. Christopher Couch’s biography,
Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Com-
ics; the Michael Uslan/Stan Gold-
berg/Bob Smith collaboration Archie
Marries...; and Krazy Kat and the Art
of George Herriman, an art book
edited by Craig Yoe. On the kids’
side, Abrams will have previews of
Barry Deutsch’s November graphic
novel Hereville: How Mirka Got Her
Sword, about an 11-year-old Ortho-
dox Jewish troll fighter, and a signing
by Diary of a Wimpy Kid’s Jeff Kinney
tomorrow, 11 a.m.–noon.
Speaking of which, over at NBM/
Papercutz’s booth (3141), Stefan
Petrucha and Rick Parker will be
signing copies of their Tales from
the Crypt series, featuring “Diary of
a Stinky Dead Kid.” (Petrucha’s
signing his “Nancy Drew” graphic
novels, too.) NBM is displaying pre-
views of Mark Badger and Gerard
Jones’s privacy-related thriller,
Networked, as well as new volumes
of Miss Don’t Touch Me and Dun-
geon; Papercutz will have a free
comic book previewing its Septem-
ber launch of a Smurfs series.
Fantagraphics’ booth (3422) fea-
tures galleys for upcoming books,
W E E K LY
including Joyce
Farmer’s graphic
memoir, Special
Exits, and Moto
Hagio’s manga collec-
tion Drunken Dream
and Other Stories, as
well as advance sam-
ples of a handful of its
summer books. Pantheon (4341) is
showing off Charles Burns’s long-
awaited X’ed Out, its only fall graphic
novel release. Orbit Books/Yen
Press will be at the HBG booth (3748)
with giveaways of Mizuki Nomura’s
Book Girl, a prose novel connected to
a manga series launching in July.
Bloomsbury (4051) is pubbing Sey-
mour Chwast’s adaptation of Dante’s
Divine Comedy (Sept.) and Martin
Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: My
Brooklyn Boyhood (Oct.). Over at
Feral House’s booth is Mel Gordon
and Thomas Andrae’s Siegel and
Shuster’s Funnyman: The First Jewish
Superhero, the history of a lesser-
known later character from the cre-
ators of Superman. And Steerforth/
Campfire (2265) is starting a line of
several dozen educational graphic
novel titles to be published over the
next year.
There are some notable graphic
novel publisher absences and semi-
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absences from this year’s show floor:
DC isn’t exhibiting this year, and nei-
ther are Scholastic, Drawn & Quar-
terly, or Top Shelf. Archaia won’t
have a booth, but will be talking with
book buyers about its fall and winter
titles; Viz will also be meeting with
retailers in a meeting room, focusing
on such titles as Vampire Knight Fan
Book, Kekkaishi, and the zombie-
themed Grand Guignol Orchestra.
First Second will have catalogues as
part of Macmillan’s display, and the
imprint’s editor, Mark Siegel, partici-
pated in yesterday’s “Drawing the
Line Between Picture Books and
Graphic Novels” panel. Other BEA
comics panels include “Big Name
Authors with Graphic Novels: How
Will This Change the Market?”
tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. in room 1E14,
and “Hot Fall Graphic Novels for
Libraries” in the same room tomor-
row afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
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Sharjah’s
International Goals
In the last few years, each of the West’s major book fairs—Frankfurt, Lon-
don, and, last year, BEA—has focused on the Arab world. On both sides, ini-
tiatives have been launched that help bring all the publishers together—
Kitab, the translation program; the so-called Arab Booker for Arab fiction;
and the Etisalat Prize for Arab Children’s Literature, Bloomsbury Qatar—
and out of the International Book Fair in Sharjah, in particular, have come
moves to formalize and stabilize a once rather ad hoc industry, the chal-
lenges of which can deter all but the most determined Western publisher.
The book fairs taking
place across the Middle
East offer local publishers
the chance to sell to book-
shops, librarians,
schools—and the public.
And they are now just
beginning to be places
where Anglo-American
and European publishers
also go, selling books and,
little by little, rights. It’s a
complicated market, but
one that is increasingly
open for business to the Ahmed al Amri is Fair director.
trade as well as to educa-
tional publishers, and from which both sides have plenty to gain.
Sharjah, established in 1982 in the United Arab Emirates and now under
the direction of the dynamic Ahmed al Amri, is the region’s oldest fair; last
year it attracted some 750 publishers from 40 countries and more than
400,000 visitors—a hub around which book lovers congregate and exchange
ideas.
The Emirates’ goal is to create “a fully literate community, rich in learn-
ing,” values, and cultural pride “rippling out” over the community at large.
Not surprisingly, there is particular emphasis on children and on the impor-
tance of reading for pleasure (not merely for education) in Arabic as well as
English, which is becoming “the preferred language” in the multiethnic
Emirates. Sheikha Bodour al Qasimi, founder of children’s publisher Kali-
mat, also recognizes that for indigenous Arab publishing to flourish, a
young generation of publishing professionals must be nurtured (in Sharjah
and London, a group of 15 attended a course tailor-made by Oxford Brookes
University) and the industry itself put on a professional footing in order that
it be taken seriously at an international level. Thus will Sharjah and its
neighbors build “the knowledge economy.”
Sheikha Bodour is also the driving force behind the Emirates Publishers
Association, of which she is president. Founded in February 2009 and now a
member of the International Publishers Association, it aims to support UAE
publishers and to raise awareness of copyright and intellectual property.
Piracy in the region has long been a major concern for Western publishers,
and the EPA recognizes that Arab publishers need educating on a subject in
which they too have a vested interest. “The association is pushing ahead
with its march toward achieving its target of becoming a platform for all
UAE publishers, and to provide an environment in which educated people
and intellectuals can contribute to enriching the cultural movement with
their creativity,” says Sheikha Bodour. “It will spare no effort in achieving its
aspirations, including enriching this important sector with more expertise,
legislation, services, and facilities, all of which is in line with the vision of the
association’s members and the nation’s intellectuals,” she added.
Among its plans is the establishment of a Copyright Management Centre
in the UAE, a joint initiative of the EPA, the Ministry of Economy, and the
Emirates Writers Union, which would manage copyrights across the media
spectrum and conduct negotiations with universities, schools, and copy
centers on behalf of writers and publishers to ensure the necessary licens-
ing and the prevention of violation. It would also represent the ownership
rights of foreigners in the UAE and, crucially, launch campaigns and coordi-
nate seminars aimed at informing institutions and the public about the
rights of authors.
Together, al Qasimi and al Amri are working hard to bring about all man-
ner of changes in the Arab publishing world. In a little over a year, the EPA
has grown to include some 50 publishers, and its stated aims are to spread
an awareness of and respect for copyright, to nurture the first generation of
publishing professionals with sufficient skills to operate and do business on
an equal footing with their Western counterparts, and to develop a program
of book-related cultural activities. For Western publishers, there’s all to play
for. —Liz Thomson

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Abu Dhabi Marks the Spot information titles

The Abu Dhabi International Book
Fair, the second oldest in the Mid-
dle East after Sharjah, has long
been a crucial way sta-
tion for Western pub-
lishers doing business
in the region and, for
local publishers, a hub
to which booksellers,
librarians, and the pub-
lic flock to browse and
buy. Over the past few
years, the additional
muscle provided by
Kitab, the joint venture
between the Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Mohammed has
Authority for Culture ambitious plans.
and Heritage and the
Frankfurt Book Fair, has boosted
both the profile and reach of ADIBF,
which, in March 2010, attracted 840
visitors from 63 countries, generat-
ing about $10 million in business.
Held under the patronage of His
Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin
Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi sees
itself as a fair at which culture and
commerce intersect. Held in what
will eventually be the world’s larg-
est exhibition center, it offers a mix
of professional programming and
intellectual discourse in a city-state
that places a premium on literacy
and education. Indeed, schoolchil-
dren were a notable presence; 226
groups were brought by
their teachers to spend
the book vouchers they
received before the fair.
This year, the Interna-
tional Publishers Asso-
ciation chose Abu Dhabi
for its Copyright Sym-
posium, and the gather-
ing of so many distin-
guished international
figures just ahead of the
book fair—among them
authors Ahdaf Soueif
and Azar Nafisi; Mary-
beth Peters, Register of Copyrights
at the Library of Congress; and
Christine de Mazières of the French
Publishers Association—served to
underline the growing interna-
tional importance of the event.
Under the Spotlight on Rights
banner, the Kitab rights subsidy ini-
tiative, a three-year program offer-
ing a $1,000 subsidy for rights deals
negotiated or concluded at the fair,
received some 220 applications
from publishers across Europe
ranging from children’s fiction and
to academic
texts. Matchmaking sessions intro-
duced suitable publishers to each
other or to agents and distributors,
a move that proved popular with
Western publishers as it set them
on course for a successful applica-
tion.
Alongside that there’s the Kalima
translation project, which selects
about 100 books annually to be
translated into Arabic. The initia-
tive, promoted by Sheikh Moham-
med, already includes work by Syl-
via Plath, Charles Bukowski, and
Langston Hughes, as well as Alan
Greenspan’s The Age of Turbulence
and Barack Obama’s Dreams from
My Father. It aims to make the
translation of new books into Ara-
bic “part of the publishing land-
scape” while promoting intellectual
property rights “in accordance with
international standards.” Kalima
works with a team of international
advisers under the direction of Dr.
Ali bin Tanim.
At the March fair, American and
British publishers were mostly
present on their national collec-
tives, though those few that have a
presence in the Middle East—Scho-
lastic, Oxford University Press,
Pearson, for example—exhibited
independently. For these latter
publishers, the prime goal is to pub-
licize their lists, though this year
OUP took an order for 3,000 copies
of its Essential Arabic Dictionary
from a regional bookseller, while
Scholastic sold lots of books to visit-
ing children and their families.
Two major awards evenings also
took place at the fair: the Interna-
tional Prize for Arabic Fiction, sup-
ported by the Booker Prize Founda-
tion and thus known as “the Arab
Booker,” was awarded this year to
Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles, a
satire by Abdo Khal, the quietly dis-
sident Saudi novelist, and the
Sheikh Zayed Book Award, which
honors “the most precious assets of
our nation—the thoughts of our
sons.” Collecting a special award as
Cultural Personality of the Year,
Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Al-
Qasimi asked that Emiratis perpet-
uate the visions and values of their
founding father, whom the awards
honor: “I call on everybody—
fathers, mothers, gather your chil-
dren and with them read and write.
This is what Zayed loved.”
When it comes to book fairs,
that’s as good a call to action as any.
—Liz Thomson

N E W B O OK FROM THE SWED ENBO RG F OU NDAT ION

“The best consideration of God’s role in tragedy from a traditional perspective that I
have ever read.” —Rabbi Harold Kushner author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Why Does God Let It Happen?

BRUCE HENDERSON
In the wake of life-changing events—whether as global in reach as the terrorist
attacks on September 11 or as personal as the death of a child—the first question
that springs to mind is “Why?” Why do good people suffer pain and loss? Why does
God allow these things to happen?
In this simple, straightforward book, Bruce Henderson tackles some of the most
difficult questions that people of faith face in their lives. Drawing from the wisdom
of visionary Emanuel Swedenborg, who wrestled with these same questions more
than two hundred years ago, Henderson describes a universe in which God allows us
free will and choice, subtly guiding the course of our lives with an insight no mortal
can comprehend. Pain and suffering ultimately lead to good, and as we walk the path,
k
we draw ever closer to heaven.
112 pages / 5.5 x 8.5 / paperback, 978-0-87785-332-9 / $11.95

Visit us at booth #3163 for an AUTHOR BOOK SIGNING with Bruce Henderson
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 / 11:00 — 2:00 at BOOK EXPO AMERICA

Swedenborg Foundation Publishers ❘ West Chester, Pennsylvania

Orders: call Continental Sales ❘ (847) 381-6530 or Chicago Distribution Center ❘ (800) 621-2736
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 18 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2
Harlequin’s New Footprints
It should be tough to miss. At the top
of the stairs going into the main hall
for BEA, fitness and nutrition guru
Tosca Reno’s publisher plans to hang
a 60-foot banner promoting her new
book, Your Best Body Now, and her
appearance and signing time.
Her Eat-Clean Diet series (Robert
Kennedy Publishing) has sold more
than a million copies, but the new book
has a new publisher—Harlequin.
Reno’s book is part of Harlequin’s
new venture into nonfiction, which
began in 2009 and has a full cata-
logue of 13 titles for 2010. So mingling
See
Children’s Book and Author Breakfast:
Wednesday, May 26, 8AM – 9:30AM,
followed by a book signing at 10AM • TABLE 16
From Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
All books are $7.95 • 8 x 8 • 24 pages (all in color)
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S imple, comforting stories about new experiences for parents and children to share—
along with helpful hints from a leading child psychologist.
MARKETING:
• National TV appearances, including the Today show
• Pre-publication buzz campaign, including featured
speaker at ALA conference
• National radio, online, and print media campaign
• National print and online consumer advertising
campaign
• Extensive blogger outreach campaign
• Expanded promotion on social networking
orking sites
such as Facebook and Twitter
• 100,000 first printing
• 20-copy floor display available
(5 copies of each book)
• sterlingpublishing.com/kids
g.com/kids
PUBL I SHERS
among the more than 40 authors
Harlequin is bringing to BEA will be
some of its nonfiction stars, including
Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff,
authors of Queen of Your Own Life;
Erin Bolger, author of The Happy
Baker: A Girl’s Guide to Emotional
Sarah Ferguson
at the
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978-1-4027-7391-4
Coming Spring 2011
Molly Makes Friends
978-1-4027-7397-6
Olivia Says Goodbye to Grandpa
978-1-4027-7394-5
Jacob Goes to the Doctor
and Sophie Visits the Dentist
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When Katie’s
Katie s Parents
P Separated
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W E E K LY
Baking; and Dr. Howard Shapiro and
Franklin Becker, who wrote Eat &
Beat Diabetes with Picture Perfect
Weight Loss. And, of course, Reno.
Why did Harlequin decide to step
outside fiction and romance, where
it has such solid success? “At Harle-
quin, we concentrated on fiction for a
long time for obvious reasons,” says
Harlequin’s Craig Swinwood, execu-
tive v-p, retail division. But having
built an “emotional brand relation-
ship” with women over many years,
he says the company asked what else
it could offer them.
The company will also be promot-
ing its new Harlequin Teen imprint.
“We’ve known for a long time that
BECAUSE EVERY
CHILD CAN USE
A HELPING HAND
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390-7
978-1-4027-7390-7
Coming Fall 2011
Lauren’s Moving Day
978-1-4027-7398-3
Healthy Food for Dylan
978-1-4027-7400-3
Zach Gets Some Exercise
978-1-4027-7399-0
Get Well Soon, Adam
978-1-4027-7401-0
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010
our readers start reading Harle-
quin in their mid to late teens, but
we weren’t creating anything spe-
cific for that age group,” Swinwood
says, explaining that the company
didn’t want to market books to
teenagers with content that might
be considered age inappropriate.
Not surprisingly, there is a strong
paranormal theme with books such
as Gena Showalter’s Intertwined
series, about a teenager with four
different souls, and Rachel Vin-
cent’s Soul Screamers series, about
a high school girl who is also a ban-
shee. But there is also the sorority/
fraternity Greek series based on
the ABC Family television series.
Swinwood believes both new
lines will continue to build the Har-
lequin brand, he says: “We’re for
women, about women, and by
women, for the most part, and that’s
really what these lines are all
about.” —Leigh Anne Williams
Taking It Off with
Medallion
Show attendees may
remember that at
BEA 2009 Medallion
Press got an early
start on promoting
its December 2010
self-help release,
Motiv8n U by fitness
expert and motiva-
tional speaker Staci
Boyer. The company
announced that one
Nuccio lost 50
of its employees was
pounds.
going to walk the
walk: Sam Nuccio, Medallion’s oper-
ations director, would undergo a six-
month training program with Boyer
whose goal was to lose 80 pounds.
A year has passed, and Nuccio’s life
has changed for the better. He’s lost 50
pounds, gotten life insurance to help
out his family financially in case trag-
edy strikes, opened up an IRA for
retirement, improved his relation-
ships with family members, and
become better organized.
Also Nuccio and his wife are
expecting a baby sometime this
week, or he’d have been here, show-
ing off his svelte new figure and posi-
tive attitude.
Boyer will be here, talking up
Motiv8n U, in which she provides the
steps necessary to discover life-
transforming mental and physical
fitness. Boyer will sign copies of
ARCs made exclusively for BEA at
Medallion’s booth (2723), today, 3–4
p.m., and at Table 8 tomorrow, 10–11
a.m.
Medallion is also handing out
Expando-media foldouts to booth
visitors, to inspire them to write
down their own goals as a first step
toward starting out on the path to
overall life fitness/wellness.
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 20 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY
HCI Gets Real with Romance
When Veronica Blake, a young sales
assistant at HCI, suggested to pub-
lisher Peter Vegso that the house
consider entering the romance mar-
ket, it might have seemed an
unlikely direction for a publisher
best known for the original Chicken
Soup for the Soul series.
But Vegso and the sales
force decided it would
be an exciting new ven-
ture for HCI, and edito-
rial director Michele
Matrisciani was given
the job, in 2009, of “figur-
ing out how to execute this
endeavor.” The first step, Matrisciani
remembers, was for HCI to build a
bridge from the nonfiction to the fic-
tion world “without stepping on toes,
pretending to be something we are
not, competing with the genre’s pow-
erhouses, or reinventing the wheel.”
Thus was born a new subgenre of
romance—Reality-Based Romance
books (RB Romance).
Each HCI book in the aptly named
True Vows series would be based on a
MEET real couple’s true-life romance. While
BOBBI BROWN
dialogue could be embellished for dra-
matic effect, the bare bones of the cou-
ple’s story would not be altered and
the names of the couple would not be
changed. HCI brought Olivia Rup-
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR & FAMED MAKE-UP ARTIST
DeMille’s Here Again!
TODAY • 2:00 PM If you see a middle-aged man walk-
ing backwards with a book covering
his badge, that’s most likely Nelson
DeMille, whose fifth novel about
former NYPD homicide detective
BOOTH NO. 2641
John Corey, The Lion (Grand Cen-
tral), will be published early next
month. DeMille perfected the walk
LEVEL 3 over the course of 35 years of
attending BEA (or ABA, as it was
originally known). He sneaked into
his first show when it was in two
hotels in New York City in 1975. He
had just begun publishing his nov-
els, under the name Jack Cannon.
As DeMille recalls, his first ABA
was “energizing and eye-opening. It
kind of connected me to the pub-
lishing industry.” What draws DeMi-
Come by to get your lle to BEA, he says, is that “everyone
2010 CHRONICLE
in publishing is right there, and you
make some serendipitous meet-
ings.” That’s where he first met then
TOTE BAG
aspiring writer Michael Connelly.
This BEA marks one of DeMille’s
few appearances for The Lion, the
Give-aways at sequel to The Lion’s Game, which
9:00 AM and 12:00 PM was published a decade ago. For
him, continuing the story of Corey,
while supplies last! who is on the Anti-Terrorist Task
Force; his partner, now wife, FBI
agent Kate Mayfield; and Asad
Khalil, or the Lion, has been diffi-
cult. Says DeMille, “You really have
to pick up the action [in a sequel]
and tell the backstory the way it
was.” That means rereading the
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010
precht (aka romance novelist Mallory
Rush, author of Love Game) on board
to help develop the series and over the
next six months.
The True Vows series launches this
October with three books, each with
a first printing of 50,000: Hard to Hold
from USA Today best-
selling author Julie
Leto; The Icing on the
Cake from Alison Kent,
the author of No Limits;
and Meet Me in Manhat-
tan from Judith Arnold,
whose novel Love in
Bloom was named one of the best
books in 2002 by PW. A fourth novel
will be out in January, and after that a
new book every other month.
Matrisciani has been “blown away
by the support, creativity, enthusi-
asm, and fun exhibited by the novel-
ists as well as the romance commu-
nity as a whole. It’s reawakened a
sense of literary community that I
don’t want to ever let go of.”
You can meet the authors and
pick up a signed galley today, 10–11
a.m., at Table 4 and at the HCI booth
(3577), 2–3 p.m., both today and
tomorrow. And if you have the
afternoon munchies, HCI is serving
wedding cake along with signed
galleys. —Lucinda Dyer
first book to make sure both books
match up, while each works as a
stand-alone. What made The Lion,
which is set three years after The
Lion’s Game, particularly tricky was
avoiding anachronisms. “When you
do a novel in the near past you have
to be careful. Did they use cell-
phones? E-mail?” says DeMille.
He agreed to do a sequel at the
suggestion of readers, some of
whom even sent DeMille outlines
suggesting what he should write.
“The Lion was fan-driven and
reviewer-driven.
People asked for a
sequel because The
Lion’s Game has an
ambivalent ending,
and the publisher
© Sandy DeMille
wanted another
John Corey book,”
he says, adding that
DeMille has been
this will be his last
here 35 times.
sequel. His only
other sequel, The Gate House, is a
follow-up to The Gold Coast. Next is
Captain, another book about an air-
line disaster. In 2004, he wrote about
TWA flight 800 in Night Fall.
Today DeMille will appear in con-
versation with audiobook narrator
Scott Brick at 10 a.m. at the Sound-
stage Get Caught Listening. He will
sign afterward at Table 30 at 11 a.m.
Then at 3 p.m. he signs at the GCP
booth (3740). —Judith Rosen
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22 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2
SPOTLIGHT
ON C H I L DREN
Browsing the Booths, Chapter 2
For children’s booksellers navigat-
ing the convention floor, here is the
continuation of our roundup of
books to peruse, goodies to grab,
raffles to enter, and authors to
spot.
Penguin Young Readers Group
(3540) has a quartet of in-booth
author signings scheduled. Today,
Jan Brett autographs copies of The
Three Little Dassies (Putnam), 2:15–
3:15 p.m., and Ally Condie signs
galleys of Matched (Dutton), 3:30–
4:30 p.m. Visiting tomorrow are
Judy Schachner, who will sign cop-
ies of the original Skippyjon Jones
book (Dutton), 11:15 a.m.–12:15
p.m., and Kirsten Miller, who’ll
autograph galleys of The Eternal
Ones (Razorbill), 1–2 p.m. Booksell-
ers can pick up tote bags promot-
ing Heather Brewer’s Vlad Todd
YA vampire series and bags featur-
ing art from The Three Little Das-
sies.
Three in-booth author signings
are taking place at the Bloomsbury
booth (4051). Today, the publisher
hosts Leslie Margolis, who’s auto-
graphing ARCs of Girl’s Best
Friend: A Maggie Brooklyn Mystery,
11 a.m.–noon. Simone Elkeles will
sign copies of Rules of Attraction
tomorrow, 9:30–10:30 a.m., after
which Ivy Devlin autographs ARCs
of Low Red Moon, 11 a.m.–noon.
The publisher is holding a raffle to
promote Chick ’n’ Pug, the first in a
picture-book series by Jennifer
Sattler centering on odd-couple
animal friends. Those dropping off
business cards at the booth today
and tomorrow will have a chance to
win a piece of original art from the
book; the winning card will be
drawn tomorrow at 2 p.m.
Little, Brown Books for Young
Readers welcomes a pair of
authors to booth 3751 today for
ticketed signings. Cornelia Funke
PUBL I SHERS
will autograph deluxe hardcover
editions of Reckless, 11:30 a.m.–
12:30 p.m.; and James Patterson
signs ARCs of Witch & Wizard 2:
The Gift, 2–3 p.m. A raffle is being
held for a piece of framed, original
art from Holly Hobbie’s Everything
but the Horse, an October book
based on the author’s childhood
love of horses.
Greeting visitors to the booth
tomorrow is an imposing item pro-
moting Peter Brown’s fall story,
Children Make Terrible Pets: a life-
size standee that riffs on the book’s
title and proclaims, “Booksellers
Make Terrible Pets.” The winner of
tomorrow’s raffle promoting Lisi
Harrison’s Monster High series,
which Poppy launches in Septem-
ber, will take home an iPod Touch.
Giveaways tying into that series
include T-shirts and door clings.
Booksellers can enter a second
raffle tomorrow to win a ghost-
hunting kit touting Ghost Hunt:
Chilling Tales of the Unknown by
Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.
Also on hand are T-shirts promot-
ing a Poppy series that ties into
TV’s Glee, debuting in September,
and tote bags filled with offerings
from the Little, Brown list. And
those with a sweet tooth can pick
up a candy bar promoting Wendy
Mass’s novel, The Candymakers.
At booth 2559, Twin Sisters Pro-
ductions is offering a 55% discount
on all orders placed during BEA.
Featured at this booth are the Ses-
ame Street Lap Books and Read-
Along CD series, available in
August, and Sesame Street Elmo
Handlebox Set, due in June, which
includes six storybooks introduc-
ing concepts as well as a read-
along CD.
Non-squeamish booksellers will
want to head to the Chronicle
booth (2641), where a contest is
W E E K LY
underway promoting
The Worst-Case Sce-
nario Survival Hand-
book: Gross Junior
Edition by David Bor-
genicht, Nathaniel
Marunas, and Robin
Epstein, which
focuses on all things
“utterly disgusting.”
Booksellers can
select three “gross
ingredients” on an
entry form avail-
able at the booth,
and the winner will
be selected after
BEA. A video will
then be made of
series creator Bor-
genicht combining—
and consuming—the
ingredients on the
winning entry. The
winning bookseller’s
store will be mentioned in the
video and will receive a display
filled with eight copies of the book.
Chronicle is also giving away
branded CFL light bulbs to pro-
mote Ivy and Bean: What’s the Big
Idea? by Annie Barrows and
Sophie Blackall, in which the hero-
ines participate in a science fair
with a global-warming theme.
Random House Children’s
Books’ booth (4341) will be buzzing
with authors dur-
ing the show.
Today, James
Dashner signs
chapter samplers
from The Scorch
Trials, 9–10 a.m.;
Paul O. Zelinsky
autographs f&gs
of Dust Devil,
12:30–1:30 p.m.;
and Lauren Kate
signs ARCs of Tor-
ment, 3–4 p.m.
Tomorrow, Sarah
Mlynowski will
sign copies of Gimme a Call, 9–10
a.m.; Jennifer Donnelly autographs
ARCs of Revolution, 1:30–2:30 p.m.;
and Elise Primavera signs f&gs of
Thumb Love, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
At booth 2526, Long River Press
is featuring its new picture book,
Buzaak Chinie: The Porcelain
Goat, a traditional Afghan folktale
that has never appeared in print in
English. Asma Salehi, who wrote
and illustrated the story, will be at
the booth today, 2–3:30 p.m., to
meet booksellers. The publisher is
giving away posters promoting the
book.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (4441)
is commemorating the 70th birth-
day of one iconic mischievous
monkey. To celebrate, the pub-
lisher is publishing The Complete
Adventures of Curious George: 70th
Anniversary Edition by Margret
and H.A. Rey, with an introduction
by Leonard S. Marcus, a “publish-
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010
er’s perspective”
by Anita Silvey, a
retrospective essay
by Dee Jones, and
two CDs featuring
readings of each
story. The book will
be released in
August, as will a
paperback reprint of
The Journey That
Saved Curious George:
The True Wartime
Escape of Margret and
H.A. Rey by Louise
Borden, illus. by Allen
Drummond. Due in
September is Curious
George Christmas
Carols Book & CD,
with musical nota-
tions and art by H.A.
Rey. HMH has desig-
nated September 25
“Curiosity Day,” and book-
sellers can register to receive
event kits to stage their own anni-
versary celebrations. Authors vis-
iting the booth today are Brian
Lies, who will sign Bats at the Ball-
game, a September title, 11 a.m.–
noon, and three-time Caldecott
winner David Wiesner, who will
sign copies of Flotsam and posters
based on his October picture book,
Art and Max, 2–3 p.m. The pub-
lisher is giving out baseball hats
promoting Lies’s book.
Fans of Ian Falconer’s Olivia can
greet a costumed version of this
precocious piglet today at the
Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers booth (3940), where tote
bags promoting Olivia Goes to Ven-
ice, a September Atheneum
release, will be given out today and
tomorrow at noon. Scheduled for
an in-booth signing today is Tony
DiTerlizzi, who’ll autograph The
Search for WondLa, a September
novel from S&S, 10–11 a.m. Tomor-
row, Laurie Halse Anderson will
sign bound manuscripts of Forge,
due in October from Atheneum, at
11:30 a.m. Visitors to the booth can
enter two raffles, one promoting
The Search for WondLa and the
other promoting Romero Britto’s
My Alphabet Playbook, a June title
from Little Simon.
At booths 2458–2459, American
Girl is introducing Innerstar Uni-
versity, a contemporary book line
that lets readers select from multi-
ple story paths leading to 20 end-
ings. The line debuts in September
with four titles, including Braving
the Lake, copies of which author
Erin Falligant will autograph in the
booth tomorrow, 11 a.m.–noon.
Also scheduled for in-booth sign-
ings are Jane Kurtz (Lanie) today,
11 a.m.–noon, and Jacqueline
Dembar Greene (Secrets at Camp
Nokomis) tomorrow, 1–2 p.m. The
winner of a raffle featured at the
booth will take home an American
Girl doll. —Sally Lodge
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SPOTLIGHT
Kids’ Galleys ON CHILDREN
To Grab
There will be plenty of options for
fans of the supernatural and dysto-
pian at BEA this year, as well as
highly anticipated books from Cor-
nelia Funke, Cassandra Clare, Ally
Condie, and many more. Here we
gather a selection of the many mid-
dle-grade and YA galleys that pub-
lishers are offering during the
show.
Favorite Authors, New
Projects
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra
Clare (S&S/McElderry) launches
the Infernal Devices trilogy, which
will be a prequel series to the Mor-
tal Instruments books.
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
(Harper) is a dystopian novel from
the author of Before I Fall, in which
love is considered a disease.
I Am Number Four by Pittacus
Lore (Harper) is first in an SF series,
pseudonymously coauthored by
James Frey, about alien teenagers
hiding on earth; optioned by Steven
Spielberg for DreamWorks.
PUBL I SHERS
The Magnificent Twelve: The Call
by Michael Grant (HarperCollins/
Tegen) kicks off a humorous fantasy
series from the author of the Gone
series.
On the Blue Comet by Rosemary
Wells, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline
(Candlewick). A boy’s adventures
involve trains and time travel.
Reckless by Cornelia Funke (Lit-
tle, Brown) begins a new series, set
in a world inspired by the Brothers
Grimm, in which dark fairy tales
come alive.
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
(Delacorte) interweaves the stories
of a girl living in present-day
Brooklyn and one who lived in Paris
200 years earlier.
The Search for WondLa by Tony
DiTerlizzi (S&S). A girl who has
been hiding underground searches
for others like her.
Steps Across the Water by Adam
Gopnik, illus. by Bruce McCall (Dis-
ney-Hyperion), is a fantasy in which
a New York City girl discovers a
hidden sister city, U Nork.
Sequels and Series
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Gar-
W E E K LY
cia and Margaret Stohl (Lit-
tle, Brown) is a sequel to
the bestselling fantasy
Beautiful Creatures.
Clementine: Friend of the
Week by Sara Pennypacker,
illus. by Marla Frazee (Dis-
ney-Hyperion). A great
week for Clementine takes
a turn for the worse.
The Exiled Queen: A
Seven Realms Novel by Cinda Wil-
liams Chima (Disney-Hyperion) is
the second book in the trilogy that
began with The Demon King.
Judy Moody, Girl Detective by
Megan McDonald, illus. by Peter H.
Reynolds (Candlewick) centers on
a missing puppy.
N.E.R.D.S.: M Is for Mamma’s
Boy by Michael Buckley (Abrams/
Amulet) is the second book in
Buckley’s series about misfit
nerds/spies.
Witch & Wizard: The Gift by James
Patterson (Little, Brown) follows
Patterson’s dystopian adventure
Witch & Wizard.
Debuts to Watch
Adios, Nirvana by Conrad Wes-
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010
selhoeft (Houghton Mifflin). A teen-
ager survives the death of his twin
with help from his guitar, Walt
Whitman, and Pearl Jam’s Eddie
Vedder.
Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon
(Disney-Hyperion). After her par-
ents’ deaths, 16-year-old Renée is
drawn to a boy at her new boarding
school.
The DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat
Friend) by Kody Keplinger (Poppy).
In this novel, featured at BEA’s YA
Editors Buzz Panel, a teen enters
into a secret relationship with the
school hottie.
The Familiars by Adam Jay
Epstein and Andrew Jacobson
(Harper) is a fantasy adventure
starring a cat; film rights have been
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 25

dle-grade novel inspired by the life by Elizabeth Scott, Avery connects

optioned by Sony with Sam Raimi
to produce/direct.
Girl Parts by John M. Cusick
(Candlewick). A robot designed to
be a boy’s companion develops a
will of her own.
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by
Lish McBride (Holt) stars a boy who
discovers he is a necromancer, falls
in love, and must save Seattle.
Hush by Eishes Chayil (Walker).
In this pseudonymously written
novel, a teenager confronts her
memories of and guilt about abuse
she witnessed in her Hasidic com-
munity in Brooklyn.
Matched by Ally Condie (Dutton).
This dystopian novel, set in a world
where people are paired with their
ideal mates, is featured in BEA’s YA
Editors Buzz Panel.
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
(Philomel) is a paranormal
romance in which a shape-shifting
wolf falls for a human boy.
Nightshade City by Hilary Wag-
ner (Holiday House). Three orphan
rats rebel against a subterranean
dictatorship and attempt to create
a new city.
Prisoners in the Palace by
Michaela MacColl (Chronicle). This
historical novel follows a 16-year-
old girl who becomes the future
queen’s maid.
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
(Houghton Mifflin) is a YA romance
set in a Victorian insane asylum.
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and
T.R. Simon (Candlewick) is a mid-
of Zora Neale Hurston and set in a
turn-of-the-century African-Amer-
ican community.
Fantastic Adventures
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
(Houghton Mifflin). This fictional-
ized account follows Peter van Pels
from the attic he shared with Anne
Frank on to Auschwitz.
Draw the Dark by Ilsa J. Bick
(Carolrhoda Lab). A teen whose
drawings may have power from
another world uncovers long-bur-
ied secrets about his Wisconsin
town.
Firelight by Sophie Jordan
(Harper). First in a trilogy, this
novel about a girl who can change
into a dragon is featured in BEA’s
YA Editors Buzz Panel.
Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
(Feiwel and Friends) is the story of a
teenage angel who falls in love with
a human boy.
Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler
(HMH/Graphia). In Kessler’s first
book for teens, an anorexic teen-
ager becomes one of the four horse-
men of the apocalypse.
Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin
(Bloomsbury). In this paranormal
mystery, pseudonymously written
with a new boy who could be
involved in her parents’ mysterious
deaths.
Tyger, Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book
by Kersten Hamilton (Clarion). Tea-
gan’s life is on track until the arrival
of Finn Mac Cumhaill.
Middle-Grade Magic
Ask Amy Greene: Boy Trouble by
Sarah Webb (Candlewick). The
niece of an advice columnist strug-
gles with her own questions about
romance.
Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the
Search for the Unseen by Jason
Hawes and Grant Wilson (Little,
Brown). The stars of the SyFy
Channel’s Ghost Hunters offer a
collection of paranormal investiga-
tions.
Girl’s Best Friend: A Maggie
Brooklyn Mystery by Leslie Margo-
lis (Bloomsbury) kicks off a middle-
grade mystery series starring a
young sleuth with a secret dog-
walking business.
Misty Gordon and the Mystery of
the Ghost Pirates by Kim Kennedy
(Abrams/Amulet) follows a girl
who uses special glasses to see the
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YA Authors on Stage
Authors of young adult and middle-
grade books will be front and center
on Javits stages today and tomor-
row. Conventiongoers interested in
listening in on conversations about
popular publishing trends and
hearing authors discuss their works
should put the following pro-
grams—a sampling of what’s being
offered—on their agendas.
Dystopian Fiction, today,
10:30–11:30 a.m., Uptown Stage.
Authors Ally Condie, Lesley
Hauge, and Adam Dunn will
discuss the dystopian fiction
genre and their forthcoming
additions to it. Condie’s
Matched (Dutton), acquired at
an auction that included seven
publishers, is a futuristic YA novel
about a teen who falls in love with
someone else after “the Society”
has selected her ideal mate.
Hauge’s Nomansland (Holt) is set
on an island populated solely by
women, including a group of teen-
age “Trackers” entrusted with the
task of protecting their shores from
the enemy: men. Debut novelist
Dunn’s Rivers of Gold (Bloomsbury)
is an adult thriller set in 2012 New
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York, a
city plagued by massive unemploy-
ment, rampant crime, a worthless
currency, and broken government.
Asked about the current boom in
dystopian fiction, Dunn replies,
“There are specific years in which
cultural malaise and mass neuras-
thenia are visibly manifest, when
the common perception of the
future is dread rather than hope—
2010 is one such year.”
YA Authors Crossing Over, today,
11–11:50 a.m., Midtown Stage.
Elissa Petruzzi of Romantic Times
hosts a panel of authors who will
address issues they face as writers
of both YA and adult novels. Melissa
Marr, author of the Wicked Lovely
series (HarperCollins) and Grave-
minder (Morrow), proposed the idea
Have you met
Meet author & illustrator
Lincoln Peirce
mischief maker in BIG NATE STRIKES AGAIN
May 26th, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. at table 19
W E E K LY
for the panel. She is
aware that many
adults read her YA
novels and expects
that her teen fans will reach for
Graveminder, her first novel for
adults, when it pubs next winter.
“The fact that teens are reading
adult books and its impact on what
authors are willing to tackle in their
books presents an interesting prob-
lem,” she says. “As a writer, a
mother of a teen, and a
feminist, I am trying to
juggle many consider-
ations and be responsible.”
Paranormal Fiction for
Teens: From Vampires to
Werewolves to Zombies
and Shape-Shifters,
today, 11 a.m.–noon,
Downtown Stage.
Panelist Richelle Mead, whose
fifth Vampire Diaries novel, Spirit
Diaries, is just out from Razorbill,
notes that one of the biggest chal-
lenges in writing any type of para-
normal fiction is that “you have to
be consistent with your world, its
details, and its rules as you flesh out
the fantasy elements. I find that my
audience—especially teens—know
this world I’ve created better than I
do, and if I slip up and there’s an
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010
inconsistency, they spot it.” She
observes that a key to the popular-
ity of vampire tales today is their
balance “between fantasy and the
real world.”
Guys of Guys Read, tomorrow, 1–
1:50 p.m., Downtown Stage.
A group of guys whose books
have encouraged many younger
guys to read will get together with
moderator Jordan Brown, editor,
HarperCollins Children’s Books, to
talk about reaching that often elu-
sive boy audience. Panelists
include Jon Scieszka, the Time
Warp Trio series (Puffin); Jeff Kin-
ney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
(Abrams/Amulet), Adam Rex, Fat
Vampire (HarperCollins/Balzer +
Bray); David Lubar, Nathan Aber-
crombie: Accidental Zombie series
(Starscape); and Mac Barnett, Oh
No! (Or How My Science Project
Destroyed the World) (Hyperion).
Brown oversees editorially the
Guys Read Library, a series edited
by Scieszka that grew out of his 15-
year-old Guys Read literacy organi-
zation. The line debuts in Septem-
ber with Guys Read: Funny Busi-
ness from the newly launched
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Cartoonists Galore Choppy Socky

Cartoonists are everywhere—
including three who are here pro-
moting their new releases for chil-
dren and YA readers. Lincoln
Peirce’s new book, Big Nate: In a
Class by Himself (HarperCollins,
Mar.) expands upon his Big Nate
comic strip. Ed Briant (Tales from
the Slush Pile) and Chris Monroe
(Violet Days), whose comics are
intended for adult readers, have
leapt into the children’s book
market—Briant for the first time
with Choppy Socky Blues (Flux,
Apr.) and Monroe for the third
time, with Sneaky Sheep (Lerner,
Sept.).
Peirce’s comic strip Big Nate,
about the ongoing misadventures
of its sixth-grade hero, is syndi-
cated in 200 newspapers nation-
wide and featured as an island on
a children’s Web site, Poptropica.
While two compilations of Big
Nate comic strips have been pub-
lished, Add More Babes! Awesome
Big Nate Comics (Paros, 1992),
and I Smell a Pop Quiz (United
Media, 2009), Peirce uses both
narrative and cartoons for the
first time in Big Nate: In a Class by
Himself.
While insisting that writing
prose and drawing cartoons “each
have their charms,” Peirce enjoys
combining the two, as it provides
an opportunity to tell longer sto-
ries. Peirce plans on writing five
more books in the Big Nate series.
Ed Briant’s comic strip, Tales
Cartoonists at work for kids: three different artists are signing today.
from the Slush Pile, is well-known
in the industry, as it’s carried
exclusively in the PW Children’s
Bookshelf newsletter. While Briant
has been creating Tales from the
Slush Pile for the past five years,
Blues marks a
return to his
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true calling in
life.
“When I have time, I write,” Bri-
ant explains. But while he enjoys
creating a comic strip featuring
adults that’s for adults, he has no
interest at all in writing books for
adults. “I write from my own expe-
rience,” he says, “The most impor-
tant part of my life is my first 18
years.”
Chris Monroe, whose comic strip,
Violet Days, is carried in Minneso-
ta’s two largest newspapers and in
the nationally distributed Funny
Times, rather
hopes there
won’t be too
much overlap
between her Violet Days fans and
readers of her illustrated children’s
books. With two Lerner children’s
books, Monkey with a Tool Belt
(2008) and Monkey with a Tool Belt
and the Noisy Problem (2009), as
well as a compilation of cartoons,
Ultra-Violet: 10 Years of Violet Days
(X-Communication, 2004), Monroe
has had ample opportunity to have
encounter both sets of fans.
Monroe draws from personal
experience in creating both her
comic strip and her children’s
books, and readily admits that
being a cartoonist influences her
writing process, although the con-
tent of her children’s books is
“toned down” from her sometimes
salty cartoons. “I keep it simple
and easy to read,” she says, disclos-
ing that “just to pull it off,” she
writes her books initially on story-
boards in a cartoon format.
All three cartoonists are signing
finished books in the formal auto-
graphing area: Monroe at Table 25,
2–2:30 p.m.; Pierce at Table 19, 2–3
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A ‘Thriller’ Exclusive
In 1983, Life magazine sent photog-
rapher Douglas Kirkland and jour-
nalist Nancy Griffin to the set of
Michael Jackson’s new video for
the song “Thriller,” the only mem-
bers of the media allowed. The
result was a short article in the
magazine—until now.
Filipacchi Publishing v-p/pub-
lisher Dorothee Walliser discov-
ered Kirkland’s treasure trove of
never-before-seen photos from the
assignment while talking with a
mutual friend shortly after the sing-
er’s death. The result is October’s
Michael Jackson: The Making of
“Thriller,” a heavily illustrated trib-
ute to the pop icon.
“These photos are candid. They’re
not posed because he was working,”
says Walliser, describing shots like
the singer sipping coffee with a straw
in full werewolf makeup. “You can
see him at the best of his craft and in
control of his life.”
Acclaimed photographer Kirk-
land will be at the Filipacchi booth
(3759) today, 3–4 p.m., to sign lim-
ited edition collectible prints of a
photo from the book for the first 100
Meet
Melissa Marr
author of the New York Times bestselling
Wicked Lovely series
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famous subjects and done behind-
the-scenes work on more than 100
show attendees in line.
He will also sign blads of
the book once the prints
are exhausted. Kirkland
began photographing
for Look and Life maga-
zines in the ’60s and
’70s, first earning fame
for his photos of Marilyn
Monroe. He has since
shot a multitude of All photos are candid.
A Combo of Moxie & Good Taste
Conservative, careful publishing is
how Jeffrey Goldman, the heart,
soul, and chief honcho of the inde-
pendent Santa Monica Press,
explains how he gathered the
moxie to jump into the waters of
big-time publishing with hefty,
glossy, hardcover books printed in
full color on coated stock and, at
times, better suited to a coffee table
than a bookshelf.
“Obviously, as a small indepen-
dent press, we have to tread care-
fully in these expensive waters, but
so far so good,” he says. He is espe-
Melissa will be
signing copies of
her latest novel,
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at 4:00 p.m. at
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motion pictures.
While the main
attraction of the book
is the 200 exclusive
photographs, it also
includes a q&a with
Kirkland and Griffin
and newly collected
interviews and quotes
from a host of musi-
cians and celebrities
about Jackson—and
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projects: The Art and Design of
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Michael Mondavi ($45), John Van
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and MGM: Hollywood’s Greatest
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Filipacchi currently plans a con-
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Walliser says early interest from
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reaction is at Book Expo,” she says.
“We may have to increase that.”
—Gwenda Bond
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Taylor’s Tailored Tale
Bernie Ilson is no stranger to
BEA, having promoted more
than 100 books for the clients
of his public relations com-
pany since 1963. But at this
year’s show he’s supporting
his own book, Sundays with
Sullivan: How the Ed Sullivan
Show Brought Elvis, the Bea-
tles, and Culture to America Sullivan: “And now,
(Taylor Trade), which offers an here they are, the
Beatles!”
insider’s view of his very first
client’s famous TV variety show.
“The stories in the book have never
been anywhere else,” says Ilson. “I
have personal insights into why the
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show was so successful. Sul-
livan brought ‘drops of cul-
ture’ to America—in every
show there was at least one
classical artist.”
The book, which contains a
number of photos, is out now in
hardback and will be released
in paperback this November.
Ilson will sign copies at the
Taylor Trade booth (3777)
tomorrow at noon.
Taylor Trade has several titles it’s
excited to talk about at BEA. The
publisher’s parent company, Row-
man & Littlefield, was recently able
W E E K LY
to reacquire the rights to perennial
bestseller The Millionaire Next Door
by Thomas J. Stanley, and Taylor will
release a new edition in November
featuring the first new foreword
since it debuted in 1996. The book
has sold more than two million cop-
ies, including 40,000 in 2009 alone.
And Carmela LaVigna Coyle is
back with her first new Princesses
book in four years, for the publisher’s
Rising Moon children’s imprint.
Illustrated by Mike and Carl Gordon,
Do Princesses Have Best Friends For-
ever? (Dec.) celebrates friendship by
depicting two girls doing a variety of
activities together, from dressup to
playing in the mud. The Princesses
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010
line is aimed at “parents looking to
counter mainstream princess mes-
saging.” The series’ first title—Do
Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?—has
sold more than 100,000 copies since
its 2003 publication.
The publisher’s other in-booth
signings include Art Ortenberg, for
Liz Claiborne: The Legend, the
Woman (Apr.) today at 2:30 p.m.;
Joanna Martine Woolfolk, for the
hot-selling The Only Astrology Book
You’ll Ever Need, today, at 3:30 p.m.,
and Andy Piascik, for both the Grid-
iron Gauntlet: The Story of the Men
Who Integrated Pro Football, in Their
Own Words (Oct. 2009) and The Best
Show in Football: The 1946–1955
Cleveland Browns (paperback, Oct.),
tomorrow at noon.
—Gwenda Bond
Calling Franken’s
Vote
In our nation’s his-
tory, there have been
a few nail-bitingly
close elections, with
results that are still
hotly disputed by
historians and politi-
cos. There was the It’s time for a BEA
vote.
presidential election
in 2000, when the U.S. Supreme
Court halted a ballot recount in Flor-
ida and declared George W. Bush the
winner over Al Gore. And there was
the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Minne-
sota, which sparked eight long and
bizarre months of recounts and law-
suits that captivated more than one
late-night TV comedian. It was an
election that, in retrospect, is almost
reminiscent of a Saturday Night Live
skit—featuring, coincidentally, SNL’s
own satirist and author, Al Franken.
On June 30, 2009, after a campaign
that cost $20 million, Franken was
declared the winner over Norm
Coleman by 312 votes. But though
Senator Franken was sworn in on
July 7, 2009, this election really isn’t
over until the booksellers weigh in.
Thus, the University of Minnesota
Press is conducting a poll today and
tomorrow at booth 4153, asking show
attendees if they believe Franken is
good enough, smart enough, and,
doggone it, whether voters liked him
enough to have won the election fair
and square over Coleman.
While booksellers are pondering
who to vote for, they might want to
check out the sample readers the
press is giving out, containing the
introduction and first few chapters of
This Is Not Florida by journalist Jay
Weiner, which the press is releasing
with a 7,000-copy print run this fall.
This Is Not Florida is a behind-the-
scenes look at every surreal twist
and turn in the longest, most expen-
sive election recount in American
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Educational Full Circle in 10 Years and has to date sold 1.6 million
copies. Booth visitors may also

Snacking Carl R. Sams II, the Michi-

Workman’s done it again, offering
Potato Chip Science by A. Kurzweil
& Son. Charmingly packaged in a
potato chip bag, complete with
“Nutrition Facts” (servings per con-
tainer: 29; calories from fat: none;
calories from facts: all) on the back
and a “Quality Guarantee,” the
book claims to “explore major
branches of science” and warns
that it is “High in Saturated Facts!”
Potato Chip Science starts off
expounding on all things potato:
bags, chips (dimensional character-
istics of crinkle, regular, kettle,
baked, saddle), lids, scientific clas-
sification, potato diseases (hopper-
burn and corky ring spot, among
others), weird uses (shoe polish and
spinning yarn), and more before
chipping away at the 29 “snactivi-
ties.” It’s a slim workbook, but
packed with offbeat stuff, from a
faux newspaper (The Chipping
News) to four pages on “The Life
Cycle of the Potato Chip.” The
“snactivities” fall into five scientific
categories—astronomy, biology,
chemistry, earth science, physics—
with analo-
gous, no-
non-
sense
chip categories (bags, chips, lids,
spuds, tubes).
Zany, silly, madcap, this is the
irresistible fare at which Workman
excels. Unusual packaging, slick
design, silly yet educational experi-
ments—it’s a combination guaran-
teed to delight all ages, though
technically aimed at ages 8 and up.
Kurzweil will be at the Workman
booth (4259) today, where he will be
performing different chip experi-
ments, 2–3 p.m. —Karin Pekarchik
Chinese Spoken Here
“For years I had been thinking
about how to develop a new kind of
Chinese learning program,” says
Chinese publisher Rex How,
founder of Locus Publishing in Tai-
wan. He recently spun off Chinese
Cubes Co. Ltd. to develop and sell
Chinese Cubes, the Web-based
gan publisher of four chil-
dren’s books, three board
books, and four movies
inspired by photos taken of
animals in their natural set-
tings, is celebrating a decade
exhibiting at BEA by presenting each
visitor to booth 3058 with a memento
(as long as supplies last).
There’s a lot to see at the booth:
Carl R. Sams II will unveil the new
lenticular cover for the 10th anniver-
sary collector’s edition of the compa-
ny’s first book for children, Stranger
in the Woods. The book, billed as a
“photographic fantasy,” featuring
wildlife shots taken by publisher/
professional photographer Carl
Sams, was first published in fall 1999
learning system he invented.
For him, the key to learning
Chinese is block characters,
which are integral to Chinese
Cubes. Each Chinese character
has its own definition, and when
characters are combined they form
complex words and sentences. Put-
view the trailer for the new
movie, First Snow in the
Woods, inspired by the 2007
release. The movie will be
released this fall as a DVD.
Bridget Llewellyn will
also be in the booth today
signing copies of her children’s book
about conservation, One Child, One
Planet, 3–4 p.m.
Reflecting upon the past 10 years,
Sams recalled that the first year he
attended BEA, Stranger in the
Woods won a Benjamin Franklin
award for best illustrated children’s
book. “This year, One Child, One
Planet is one of three finalists in the
children’s illustrated book cate-
gory,” he says. “I feel we’ve come
full circle.” —Claire Kirch
ting together character blocks
for “good” and “to eat,” for
example, creates the word
“delicious.”
At BEA, the company is
giving demos at booth
3571, near the Midtown
Stage. A final version will
be released in the U.S. market
later this fall. —Judith Rosen

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010
Feminist Press Pushes 40
The Feminist Press plans to
mark its 40th anniversary at
BEA with champagne, a
party, and by promoting a
hot slate of new releases
that showcase the diversity
of its offerings.
The press invites show
attendees to drop by its
booth (4514a) at 4:30 p.m. A big fall book for a gimlets.
today for a champagne resurgent small press.
toast and to meet current and forth-
coming authors Karen Finley, Eliza-
beth Streb, Josh MacPhee, Reiko
Rizzuto, Taslima Nasrin, among
others. Following the toast, Femi-
Getting the Inside Scoop
Barricade Books hopes readers
who like getting the inside scoop on
real-life intrigue will flock to two
major October titles it’s promoting
at BEA—Mordecai “Morty” Dzikan-
sky’s Terrorist Cop and Sean Pat-
rick Griffin’s Gaming the Game.
“We are a small, independent
publisher and what I always look
for is a book that is unique—both
these books could only be done by
these authors,” says Carole Stuart,
Celebrating 35 years in publishing!
Stop by booth #3883 for these hot titles and more!
Surviving Your Doctors
by Richard Klein
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is located in booth #3883 within NBN booth #3777
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PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 37
formed the press yet
again,” says Scholder.
American readers. And, Scholder
says, by the 1990s, the publisher’s
nist Press is cohosting a “With a new logo/design, the offerings began to diversify again,
BEA Bash with City Lights, launch of a vibrant Web site, and a with the press bringing out books
Alyson Books, and St. new mission statement, we are targeted not only for the classroom
Mark’s Bookshop at the publishing feminist books with an but a more general readership.
Happy Ending Lounge on activist spirit.” Among the books the publisher
the Lower East Side, 6–8 The Feminist Press was founded will be promoting at BEA are such
p.m. In a nod to publishing in 1970 with a focus on books writ- offerings as American Book
tradition, the publishers ten by women for women, which Award–winner Rizzuto’s memoir
will be serving two for one brought titles like Barbara Ehren- Hiroshima in the Morning (Sept.),
reich and Deirdre English’s about the author’s revelatory jour-
Editorial director Amy Witches, Midwives, and Nurses and ney to Hiroshima to explore her
Scholder says the celebration is not Charlotte Perkins’s The Yellow heritage, and Courtney Young’s
only about honoring the past suc- Wall-Paper into college classrooms From Madea to Michelle (Aug.), a
cesses of the Feminist Press but for the first time. The focus began to critical examination of how women
where it’s headed in the future. “As shift to bringing books by women are portrayed in African-American
we enter our 40th year, we’ve trans- from around the world to North pop culture. —Gwenda Bond
publisher at ricade’s booth (3782) at 11 a.m. today.
Barricade. Barricade’s other hot title divulges
Dzikan- details so secret that galleys won’t be
sky’s book, written with Bob Slater, available at BEA—instead, author
chronicles his career as an Orthodox Griffin will be on hand in the publish-
Jew in the NYPD who became known er’s booth tomorrow to meet show
as the “go-to Jewish cop,” working attendees and answer questions.
cases that included busting the Gaming the Game gives the real
thieves of stolen Torahs. After Sep- story behind the referee betting
tember 11, Dzikansky was dis- scandal that broke in 2007, rocking Barricade is betting on these two.
patched to Israel by police commis- the NBA and resulting in jail time for for a title,” says Stuart, noting that
sioner Ray Kelly to learn as much as referee Tim Donaghy. Jimmy “Baba” Griffin garnered applause in a
he could about suicide bombers and Battista, providing new revelations recent sales conference appear-
effective counterterrorism efforts. . about what happened. ance in support of the title.
Dzikansky will sign galleys at Bar- “I’ve never had such excitement —Gwenda Bond
THE ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHING GROUP, INC.
is one of the largest and fastest growing independent publishers in
North America. Consisting of many imprints, the company publishes
in virtually all fields in the humanities and social sciences.
While celebrating our 35th anniversary in 2010, we will publish over 1,500 new
general interest, academic, and reference books, as well as several journals.
IMPRINTS INCLUDE:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sheed & Ward
Taylor Trade Publishing
Ivan R. Dee
AltaMira Press
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Government Institutes
Jason Aronson
Lexington Books
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The Scarecrow Press
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It’s Reigning Babies features in People and InTouch

Last fall, Sellers pub-
lisher Ronnie Sellers
caught an interview
on the Today Show
with twin sisters Tracy
Raver and Kelley
Ryden, photogra-
phers best known for
their innovative por-
traits of sleeping new- Twin sisters’ portraits of babies.
born babies. “The images stopped
me in my tracks,” says Sellers. “I’d
never seen photographs that cap-
tured the essence of babies as purely
and as organically as those taken by
Tracy and Kelley. I knew immedi-
ately that I wanted to be their pub-
lisher.” Sellers tried e-mailing Raver,
but a deluge of e-mails following
their Today Show appearance had
crashed her server. He tried calling,
but her voice mail was full. There was
only one option left to a publisher
this determined—he’d have to fly
from Portland, Maine, to the twins’
home in Omaha.
Sellers got up at 3 a.m. to catch the
first flight out of Portland, connected
through Chicago, and by 11:30 that
morning, he was knocking on the
door of the twins’ studio in Omaha.
Not surprisingly, he wasn’t the only
publisher interested
in securing the rights
to a book by Raver
and Ryden, and he
spent the day making
his best case for the
twins signing with
Sellers Publishing.
That evening, he went
to dinner with Raver
and her attorney husband. “The first
question he asked,” remembers Sell-
ers, “wasn’t about contracts, it was
whether I was a Yankee, Red Sox, or
Mets fan.” He wisely decided that
honesty was the best policy and
admitted to being an ardent Red Sox
fan. “Right answer,” smiled Raver’s
husband. And the deal was done that
very evening.
Published in April, Sleeping Beau-
ties: Newborns in Dreamland got an
immediate response from buyers—
“we sold out the first print run before
it arrived in the warehouse, and it
quickly became Amazon’s #1 art and
photography book.” As for media
requests, “it’s been a struggle for our
PR department to keep up with it
all.” There’s been a return visit to
Today, an appearance on the Satur-
day edition of CBS’s Early Show and
Weekly. So what accounts for the suc-
cess of this unlikely bestseller? “It
evokes the same reaction from teen-
agers as it does from mothers,
fathers, and grandmothers,” Sellers
believes. “Everyone is entranced by
these images.”
Clubbing in a Box
Who says you can’t shrink a book
club into a box? Eight years ago,
teacher, librarian, and book club
leader Marilyn Herbert moved her
book club discussions online and
launched bookclubinabox.com.
From there, she says, “the concept
has rippled out.” Today she and her
staff have created 45 Bookclub-in-a-
Box Guides, approximately 80 pages
long, on novels ranging from Like
Water for Elephants to
The Memory Keeper’s
Daughter. “We take the
story, the characters,
and the focus points,”
says Herbert, “so people
can see why the book
works. We’re not com-
peting with publishers’
readers’ guide, we’re
complementing them.”
Online worked for Herbert.
Tracy Raver and Kelley Ryden
will be in the Sellers booth (3585–
3686) today, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. A tip for
locating the booth on the crowded
BEA floor—look for a large over-
head hanging sign featuring the
book’s cover of a sleeping newborn.
—Lucinda Dyer
This year Bookclub will up the num-
ber of guides it publishes from six to
between eight and 10, including some
PDF-only Novel Notes. In February it
opened Bookclub-in-a-Box TALKS!— a
community center in Toronto—where
the company is based, which offers writ-
ing, art, and drama classes, as well as
book clubs. Last month it launched a
new Web site that enables readers to
connect in a virtual book club.
At BEA, booksellers
can pick up sample
guides at the Bookclub
booth (5058), where they
can also see two 15-min-
ute book club presenta-
tions on Lawrence Hill’s
Someone Knows My
Name at 2:30 p.m. today
and 11:30 a.m. tomorrow.
—Judith Rosen

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AUTHORS
then it became an obsession. I had to know more about this man that I thought
I knew so well.”
The seasoned reporter, chosen journalist of the year in 2009 by the
National Association of Black Journalists, tracked down some of the officers
AT THE S H OW who were on the police force at the time of the incident. “I yearned to know
what those police officers’ lives were like, and I ultimately wanted to under-
stand more about the way people tried to participate in that conversation

Ian Frazier about race if you were on the other side of the color line.”
Norris has never been to Book Expo before. “We usually send someone
Enchanted with Siberia from NPR, and it’s never been me,” she laughs. “I love books! They’ve meant
so much to me through the course of my life—as a child, as a confused teen-
After Ian Frazier’s first trip to Siberia in 1993, ager, the curious journalist. I still find comfort in books at the end of the day,
he discussed his impressions of this mysterious so to basically swim in a sea of authors for a couple of days sounds like a sub-
and isolated area of Russia with the late Roger lime experience.”
Straus, who had published Frazier’s first book, Norris will be at today’s ALA breakfast and will sign galleys at the Random
The Great Plains, at FSG. “Roger had an enthu- House booth (4341), at 2 p.m. —Hilary S. Kayle
siasm for the subject, and he sent me a book

© Sigrid Estrada
about Russia to read,” Frazier says. Despite not
having any Russian ancestry, his motivation to Rick Riordan
begin writing Travels in Siberia (FSG, Oct.) was Making Learning Fun
sparked.
Frazier found many parallels between the steppes of Russia and the Amer- You can take the teacher out of the classroom,
ican plains he’d written about. “The hard red winter wheat that’s one of the but you can’t always take the classroom out of
crops of the Great Plains came from Russia. Tumbleweeds—a visual short- the teacher. Rick Riordan, who spent 15 years
hand for the west—came from Russia. Silo missiles that are still on the plains teaching social studies and history to middle-
were aimed at Russia,” the author and New Yorker staff writer notes. “And I school students before leaving in 2004 to write
just have a strong affection for Russia that’s hard to explain.” During the full-time, is still making abstract concepts and
course of 10 subsequent trips to Russia, Frazier spent more than six months events that happened 3,000 years ago both
in and around Siberia to research and immerse himself in his next project. interesting and relevant to the lives of middle-

Travels in Siberia is Frazier’s most ambitious book; he devoted 17 years,
intensive language studies, and several trips to Russia, compiling a histori-
cal, detailed travelogue scattered with frequent hilarious anecdotes and
impressions typical of his writing. “There’s more of a connection to humor in
the book than might be apparent by the subject matter, which is grimly
funny,” Frazier explains. His Russian-language skills, which one of his tutors
referred to as “hooligan Russian,” were the catalyst for episodes of mayhem
and charming confusion during Frazier’s research trips to Siberia.
One of the most striking cultural differences Frazier found in his travels
was in the way people express themselves visually. “Russians think we’re
crazy for smiling all the time,” says Frazier. “To them, smiling is a sign of sub-
missive behavior, like weakness. In Russia people come up to you extremely
stern-faced, and your first thought is, ‘Have I done something wrong?’ But
then they ask you to come for tea.”
With large communities of Russian immigrants on both the east and west
coasts in the U.S. it’s possible for Frazier to reach a broader audience for
Travels in Siberia than he’s accustomed to. “Russians are really culturally
curious people, and they may like this book,” says Frazier.
Frazier fans can meet the author, who is signing copies of his new book
today at 3 p.m. in the Macmillan booth (3953). —Wendy Werris
Michele Norris
The Accidental Memoir
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign
spurred a type of conversation about race in
this country that prompted Michele Norris, a
co-host of National Public Radio’s All Things
Considered, to expand on an NPR project on
the subject and write her first book, The Grace
of Silence (Pantheon, Sept.). Norris tells Show
Daily, “I was originally going to write a series of
essays where I endeavored to give a voice to
the hidden and robust conversations about
race in America—the conversations you don’t
© NPR-Stephen Voss
© NPR-Stephen Voss
grade audiences.
Not content with resting on his laurels after
concluding the Percy Jackson & the Olympians
series, about the adventures of the modern-day
son of Greek god Poseidon, Riordan is working on a spinoff trilogy featuring
a few more young offspring of the Greek gods and goddesses. The Heroes of
Olympus series will debut this fall with the October release of The Lost Hero.
This month, Hyperion launches another new series from the author, the
Kane Chronicles, which features a completely different cast of divine char-
acters. This time, the Egyptian gods and goddesses have invaded the 21st
century to wreak havoc.
In the first installment, The Red Pyramid, Carter Kane and his sister,
Sadie—descended from both the pharaohs and from magicians—try to stay
one step ahead of the gods and goddesses as they crisscross the globe, simul-
taneously searching for their father and trying to save the world from
destruction.
Although Egyptian myths are not as familiar today as Greek myths, Rior-
dan insists that ancient Egypt “fascinates kids.” It intrigues him as well. He
recalls “reading and reading” about Egypt, delving into subjects he previ-
ously knew nothing about, and including what he learned in The Red Pyramid.
“The magic, the spells, the shabti,” he explains, “are all grounded in reality.”
Although adhering to the winning formula of breathing new life into
ancient mythology that has made him a household name with young read-
ers, Riordan mixes it up in The Red Pyramid, with the two siblings taking
turns narrating their story. “It’s very important to me that both genders have
protagonists they can identify with,” the author, ever mindful of his young
charges, says. “And I’ve never done alternating points-of-view before.”
Like any good teacher, Riordan knows he himself has to be actively
engaged if he hopes to successfully immerse readers in his worlds of myth
and magic. “I keep myself interested and entertained by pushing myself to
try something new,” he says. “If I’m having fun, I think the readers will enjoy
the ride, too.”
Riordan will sign copies of The Red Pyramid today, 3–4 p.m., at Table 24.
—Claire Kirch
Mac Barnett

usually hear.”
In the course of her work, however, she
started hearing stories from her own family
that came as a bit of a shock, and that’s when
the project changed. “When I realized that secrets were spilling out of the
elders in my family, the whole writing process changed, and the book wound
up being a much deeper and more personal examination of my own family
and the things I never knew about the people who raised me.”
Norris learned from an uncle that her father, a WWII veteran, was shot by a
police officer upon his return to his hometown in Birmingham, Ala. Her
father never talked about the incident; in fact, Norris was the one who
informed her mother about it. “This discovery about my dad—first, it was a
surprise, then it was like an itch I couldn’t scratch. Then it was an ache, and
TellsTale of a Rampaging Robot
How off-track can a science project veer? Plenty far, as envisioned by Mac
Barnett, whose new picture book from Disney-Hyperion is Oh No! (Or How
My Science Project Destroyed the World). Illustrated by Dan Santat, this June
title tells of a girl who builds a humongous robot, fully expecting to win first
place in the fair. Instead, her invention wreaks havoc throughout the city as
the girl scrambles to find a solution.
But that is not easy to come by. “She soon realizes her robot has certain
serious design flaws,” Barnett says. “Like maybe giving him a laser eye
wasn’t the greatest idea and maybe giving him ears would have been a good
idea. She comes up with a solution, but even that is full of problems.”
44 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS
AUTHORS
The author’s
experience with
826LA, a non-
profit writing and
AT THE S H OW tutoring center
in Los Angeles,
helped inspire the story. “I worked with a lot of
kids at the center and came to appreciate their
undersized sense of regret,” he says. “They’d
create huge disasters and be a little bit sorry—
but still couldn’t see the scope of the problem
they’d created.” Barnett shares the memory of
taking kids to visit a police station with cen-
tury-old plumbing. He recalls watching a girl
who had stuffed paper towels in the toilet and
caused a flood casually leave the bathroom.
“She shrugged, said a simple, ‘Sorry,’ and
walked away, leaving behind a huge night-
© NPR-Stephen Voss
mare,” he says.
Barnett’s earlier books, all illustrated by
Adam Rex, include a middle-grade novel, The
Brixton Brothers: The Case of the Case of Mis-
taken Identity, and picture books Guess Again! and Billy Twitters and His Blue
Whale Problem. “I try to write a very different book each time,” he says. “I
think there are so many unexplored possibilities in children’s books, and I get
frustrated that the same books seem to get published over and over again.”
Barnett, who gives high praise to Santat’s illustrations for Oh No! (“he did a
fantastic job—he totally blew the story out of the water”), is attending his first
BEA and is pleased at the prospect of spending time with booksellers. “My
first job was working at an independent bookstore in San Francisco,” he
notes. “Even before that, when I was a kid, independent bookstores were
very important to me. And these booksellers have been very supportive of
my books.” Next off press for the author is the second Brixton Brothers novel,
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Downtown Stage. —Sally Lodge
Rosemary Wells
Drawn to Write
Rosemary Wells’s considerable fame springs from her irrepressibly drawn
mice, rabbits, kittens, and dogs, so it’s no surprise she has three illustrated
books coming out this fall. But only one of them she illustrated herself. “Phyl-
lis Fogelman once told me, ‘Everything you draw is funny, so don’t try to draw
everything,’ and she was right,” Wells says.
Wells has been a BEA regular “since it was ABA.” This year, she’ll be talk-
ing up Max and Ruby’s Bedtime Book (Viking, Sept.), as well as two Candle-
wick titles for middle graders, each of which had a long and winding path to
publication.
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Wells heard a radio report about Secundino
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bedroom—cardboard buildings, tin foil sea,
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“What he had done was so particular and
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boyhood. “His story is about the resiliency of young people,” Wells remarks.
“I want children to know you can overcome tremendous hardship.”
Wells is also promoting On the Blue Comet, a September historical novel
set in Depression-era Illinois, about a boy, his father, and their love of model
trains. “That’s the book of my heart,” she says. This one took some time, too—
Wells started it 25 years ago.
“I wrote 40 pages, but I couldn’t end it. Then suddenly in 2007, I figured it out.
I gave it to Karen Lotz at Candlewick, who guided me on how to make it work,
because there is a time-travel element, and that can be tricky,” Wells says.
The paintings for this book were done by Bagram Ibatoulline. “I think he’s
done the most beautiful job, illustration at the level of the greats, including
Rockwell,” says Wells. Chris Paul, Candlewick’s creative director, sent her
the paintings as Ibatoulline finished them, and Wells says, “I couldn’t wait for
the next one to come in. I would call the whole family, ‘Come! Look at this
one!’ I wish I could draw like that.”
Today, Wells is signing My Havana ARCs, 11 a.m.–noon at Table 27, and
ARCs of On the Blue Comet, 2:30–3:30 p.m., at the same table. Tomorrow, she
signs copies of Max and Ruby’s Bedtime Book, 10:30–11:30 a.m. at a ticketed
event at Table 10. —Sue Corbett
Justin Cronin
Dad Meets Daughter’s Challenge
At nearly 800 pages, Justin Cronin’s The Passage (Ballantine, June 8), the
first in a vampire trilogy about a girl who saves the world, could be the
weightiest tome at the show. It’s certainly one of the most talked and tweeted
about. The buzz began building three summers ago when Ballantine pur-
chased the trilogy at auction for $3.75 million. A few weeks later, the unfin-
ished manuscript fetched an additional $1.75 million when Fox 2000 and Rid-
ley Scott’s Scott Free Productions bought film rights.
AUTHORS
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The Passage emblazoned on the front—Cronin is surprisingly down–to-
earth. He describes himself as a “suburban dad from Texas who wrote in his
garage.” Thanks to the initial $5.5 million, along with the sale of publishing
rights in 25 countries, he now has an office above the garage, where he is fin-
ishing volumes two and three, to be published in 2012 and 2014.
Before The Passage, Cronin was best known for literary works like his
debut novel in stories, Mary and O’Neil, which received a PEN/Hemingway
Award, and The Summer Guest, a quiet novel set in a fishing camp in Maine.
By contrast, The Passage is a lot more thrilling, although he didn’t exactly
set out to write a thriller. The book began as a game, explains Cronin. While
he ran alongside his then nine-year-old daughter, Iris, on her bicycle, the
two made up characters and situations, much like a creative writing exer-
cise. “I had zero expectations,” says Cronin, who soon had enough material
from their conversations for a 30-page single-
space document. Another motivation behind
the book was the war in Iraq. “We’d been in the
war for a long time and it troubled me,” says
Cronin. “I wondered what 10 more years of
this was going to do to us. I was worried as hell
as a person and a parent. That was the dark
impulse.”
Cronin will have a full schedule at his first
BEA. He is doing two signings: one today at
Table 8, 10–11 a.m., the other tomorrow, at 4 p.
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“A true masterpiece... AUTHORS

Brilliant, sharp, suspenseful, and AT TH E SH OW
engrossing.” —Brad Thor,
#1 bestselling author Lemony Snicket
In Search of BEA Swag
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, must be
fond of the number 13. His darkly funny A
Series of Unfortunate Events series spanned 13
books, and now his latest project, a picture
book illustrated by Maira Kalman, is entitled 13
Words (HarperCollins, Oct.). Snicket and Kal-
man are signing broadsides of the book today,
2–3 p.m., at Table 16, at a ticketed autographing.
13 Words is an adventure inspired by 13
“essential” words including dog, panache, and
haberdashery. “It begins as a primer, not unlike
a Dick and Jane book,” says the author, “then
goes quite awry, digressive in the manner of
Lemony Snicket and Maira Kalman.”
Snicket already has a couple of picture books
in his oeuvre, including The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christ-
mas Story and The Composer Is Dead. Asked why he wanted to write another
picture book at this juncture, he says, “I suppose it has something to do with
the fact that I have a small child, and a wife who is a picture book author [Lisa
Brown]. I grew jealous that my son appreciated her work, but is still immune
to the charms of a bona fide novel.”
Tops on his BEA to-do list is wandering around in search of swag. “Me and
a few independent booksellers form a small, aggressive posse looking for
freebies,” he says. “I make sure my Lemony Snicket name tag is hidden so I
can get as many galleys as possible.”
When he’s not gathering goodies, Snicket will actually have duties to keep
him busy. He’ll be promoting a work for adults called The Hour: A Cocktail
Manifesto by Bernard DeVoto (Tin House, June), for which he’s written an
introduction. “There’s going to be a cocktail gathering in Brooklyn, where I’ll
be signing,” he says. “I know it’s shocking to picture alcohol being served in
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to deliver exactly what readers want...Settle back much that we’ll be working together again, on a YA novel called Why We
Broke Up,” he says. “It’s about a long letter from a girl to a boy about why they
and savor this perfect piece of entertainment.” broke up.” Scheduled by Little, Brown in 2011, that project is part of a larger
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author deal that includes a new four-book series by Snicket due out in 2012.
—Shannon Maughan
“A perfectly balanced, fast-paced, and compelling
thriller…that never loses its way.” —Booklist Brunonia Barry
“This tale is going to cost you some sleep!” Mapping Salem’s History
Fans of Brunonia Barry’s bestselling first novel,
—Stephen Coonts, New York Times The Lace Reader, will remember that the town
bestselling author of Salem, Mass., was a central character in the
story. What they may not know is how deep Bar-
ry’s own roots go in the historic and sometimes
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who built it and why it doesn’t have the widow’s walk found on almost every
other captain’s house,” she says. As a self-described “writer of contemporary
stories but always with history,” Barry is grateful to live in a place where his-
tory is literally just around the corner. “Our home is not far from Chestnut
Street, which Eleanor Roosevelt called the prettiest street in America. Some-
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Barry’s second
AT TH E SH OW novel, out this
month, The Map
of True Places (Morrow), a tale of tragedy, secrets, identity, and love, in which
psychotherapist Zee Finch must find the strands of her own life after the sui-
cide of a troubled patient. Ten years separate the stories told in the two novels,
a decade in which, says Barry, “the desires of the town itself have changed.
Salem in the 1990s of The Lace Reader wanted forgiveness for the witch trials.
The Salem of my new book wants to redraw the map and be seen as a cosmo-
politan, intellectual community. And it is changing—we’ve been discovered by
Boston commuters and architecture fans, and even the old Salem jail (once
one of the scariest gothic buildings I’ve ever seen) has been turned into luxury
condos.” While the town will continue to appear in her books, promises Barry,
she’s “taking a step away in the third novel that I’m just beginning. But Salem
will be back in my fourth—I won’t leave it for long.”
Barry will be signing copies of The Map of True Places this morning, 9:30–
10:30 a.m., at Table 13, and attending the IndieBound Luncheon at noon.
—Lucinda Dyer

Judith Viorst
What a Lulu of a Girl
Despite her parents’ naysaying, a strong-willed
girl is determined to acquire a pet dinosaur in
Lulu and the Brontosaurus (Atheneum, Sept.),
an early chapter book by Judith Viorst. Illus-
trated by Lane Smith, the book first sprang to
life during the author’s storytelling sessions
with grandsons Nathanial and Benjamin, now
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up stories about a girl named Lulu,” she
explains. “I became quite interested in this girl
and her desire for something impossible, and
the boys, too, were intrigued by her.”
Lulu and the Brontosaurus (which Viorst notes is dedicated to those grand-
sons, since “if it weren’t for them, it wouldn’t have happened”) marks a
departure for the author. “I’ve never written a book like this, and part of me
kept saying, ‘Where is this coming from?’ ” she says. “The author is in the
story as a character—if I were being pretentious, I’d call it postmodern. In
addition to telling a story with an adventure, as Lulu searches for her bronto-
saurus, I’m telling a story about telling a story.”
Lulu’s personality, which the author describes as “hardlike,” as distin-
guished from adorable, cuddly, irresistible characters, is not unfamiliar to
the author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
and its sequels. “Lulu is a pain, kind of like the way Alexander is a pain,”
Viorst says. “They’re ultimately redeemable and lovable, but you have to
work at it. They have an edge to them. I’m very fond of Lulu, and I’d like to
give her more adventures, more opportunities to drive people crazy.”
Viorst’s latest addition to her decades-themed books for adults is Exceed-
ingly Eighty: And Other Adaptations (Free Press, Oct.). “It’s a bit weird to be
coming out with back-to-back books, one for the around-eight set and the
other for the around-80 set,” she says.
A highlight of BEA, remarks Viorst, is meeting Lane Smith in person for
the first time. “I count my blessings that he illustrated this book,” she says.
“I’ve said to him, ‘Don’t think I don’t have high standards, because I do have
high standards. But your art is perfect, just perfect.’ If I were an illustrator,
this is exactly how I would illustrate this book.”
Another big moment will be Alexander’s induction into the Indies Choice
Picture Book Hall of Fame at today’s Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon.
“On the same day as my book signing with Lane! It’s going to be a glamorous
day for me,” she says.
She and Smith sign ARCs of Lulu and the Brontosaurus, 11–11:30 a.m., at
Table 15. —Sally Lodge

Cara Black
Conjuring Up More Paris Intrigue
Paris may be the perfect place for lovers, but for Cara Black it’s also an ideal
setting for murder. At this year’s BEA, she’s promoting Murder in the Palais
Royal, the 10th installment in her popular Soho Crime series chronicling the
exploits of the stylish half-French, half-American private investigator Aimée
Leduc.
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Black says she fell in love with the fascinat-
ing political and social climate she encoun-
tered in Paris during the 1990s, and decided to
pair modern France with classic noir in her
1999 debut novel, Murder in the Marais. She
worked hard to make Leduc a compelling
lead, calling her “a modern French girl with a
penchant for bad boys and vintage couture.”
But Black says it came as a surprise when her
editor asked if the book was the start of a
series and wanted to know where the charac-
ter was headed next. “I said, ‘Of course!’ ” she
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San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and has been favorably reviewed by
the New York Times and Boston Globe. Soho will be giving away copies for her
signing at Table 22 today at 10:30 a.m.
The book’s plot finds Leduc falsely implicated in the murder of her busi-
ness partner, while the title refers to a famed palace and garden located
across from the Louvre. Black points to the link between the first book in the
series and the latest. “This was interesting for me, because it leads back to
the first book. The repercussions come back, with the return of a character
Aimée put in prison,” explains Black.
And with the series’ 11th novel, Murder in Passy, already set for next
March, Black doesn’t see herself running out of topics to explore in the
streets of Paris’s many neighborhoods during the 1990s—a time when France

says. She decided to focus each book in one of
Paris’s 20 arrondissements, or municipal
administrative districts.
To highlight the sense of occasion around the 10th novel in the series, Soho
broke with its usual house style, publishing the title in a larger format with a
new cover treatment. Released in March, the book spent five weeks on the
was confronting issues from its past and looking toward a future in the Euro-
pean Union.
“Every book comes from something real, an issue that was in the news at
the time,” says Black. “You can never get away from the past. I’m fascinated
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angels, doppelgängers and other spirits. “If I did not know it came from God, I
would give it up. He wants us to have an insight into the other side because it
helps us understand what we are here to learn. It gives us hope.”
Browne, considered a psychic and spiritual teacher by many, will sign
books today, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., at Table 26.
James Dashner
A Challenging Start
Authors often say that fictional characters have a way of taking on a life and
a voice of their own, inside their creator’s imagination. James Dashner
knows the feeling well. “Unless
you’re a writer, you would think
we’re psycho,” he jokes. Clearly, the
voices of Thomas and the other
“Gladers” who star in Dashner’s
2009 dystopian thriller, The Maze
Runner, still have plenty to say.
Fans will get a taste of what that is
when Dashner signs sneak peek
excerpts from the second in the
Maze Runner trilogy, The Scorch
Trials (Delacorte, Oct.) at the Ran-
dom House Children’s Books booth
(431) today, 9–10 a.m.
Following that, 11–11:30 a.m., the
author will be at Table 10, signing
the Aladdin paperback editions of
the first two books in his 13th Real-
ity series, The Journal of Curious
Letters and The Hunt for Infinity.
The hardcover edition of book
three, The Blade of Shattered Hope,
published by Shadow Mountain, hit
shelves last month.
Dashner notes that The Scorch
Trials “picks up just four hours after
The Maze Runner ends, so it’s a very,
very direct sequel.” In the latest
adventure, the Gladers are on a
mission to cross the Scorch, a
wasteland filled with people called
Cranks who have been ravaged by a
disease that drives those infected
insane. “Readers start to find out
why the Gladers are being put
through these trials,” says the
author.
Dashner went through some tri-
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published.
Roughly 10
years ago,
when he got
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tract with a
small pub-
© Mitchell Reichler
others. “I know it bit at the offer and began “pounding the pavement,” as he calls it, to sell A
is from God,” she Door in the Woods. “I’m glad I went through it all, making school visits and
says of what she doing signings where I sold only two or three books. I worked my tail off,” he
sees as her power recalls. “Now it’s fun to tell that story at conferences.”
to communicate Next up is the third book in the Maze Runner trilogy. Then, Dashner says,
with ghosts, “I already have two or three other ideas. I’ll probably decide around Christ-
mas what to do next.” In the meantime, Dashner and his family are planning
a post-BEA trip to Georgia, where he grew up: “We’ll visit family and relax—
we’re all looking forward to that.” —Shannon Maughan
—Kimberly Winston
Jennifer Donnelly
Returns to the YA Realm
The lives of two teenage girls—one from present-day Brooklyn, the other from
late 19th-century Paris—intersect in Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly’s first YA
novel in more than six years. Her earlier work of fiction for young adults, A
Northern Light, was a Printz Honor book and won the Carnegie Medal in the U.
IN-BOOTH AUTHOR SIGNING AND GALLEY GIVEAWAYS
COME VISIT US AT BOOTH #3953
Wednesday, May 26th Thursday, May 27th
9:00 AM Galley Giveaway: 9:00 AM Galley Giveaway:
Carry the Rock, Jay Jennings (Rodale) The Lost and Forgotten
Languages of Shanghai,
9:30 AM Galley Giveaway: Ruiyan Xu (St. Martin’s Press)
Fame, Tom Payne (Picador)
Galley Giveaway:
Galley Giveaway:
Burn, Nevada Barr
Molly Fox’s Birthday,
(Minotaur Books)
Deirdre Madden (Picador)
10:00 AM Galley Giveaway: 10:00 AM Galley Giveaway:
Rogue Island, Bruce deSilva (Forge Books)
The Holy Thief, William Ryan (Minotaur Books)
Galley Giveaway:
10:30 AM In-Booth Author Signings: Still Missing, Chevy Stevens
Beth Bernobich, Passion Play (Tor Books) (St. Martin’s Press)
11:00 AM Galley Giveaway:
10:30 AM In-Booth Author Signings:
Halo, Alexandra Adornetto (Feiwel & Friends) Alyson Noël, Radiance (Square Fish)
Galley Giveaway:
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, Lish McBride
11:00 AM Galley Giveaway:
(Henry Holt Books for Young Readers) By Nightfall, Michael Cunningham
11:30 AM In-Booth Author Signings: (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Paul Auster, Sunset Park (Henry Holt) Galley Giveaway:
City of Tranquil Light,
2:00 PM In-Booth Author Signings: Bo Caldwell (Henry Holt)
Lane Smith, It’s a Book (Roaring Brook Press)
Galley Giveaway: 11:30 AM In-Booth Author Signings:
Twilight Forever Rising, Lena Meydan Ntozake Shange, Some Sing, Some Cry
(Tor Books) (St. Martin’s Press)
3:00 PM In-Booth Author Signings:
2:00 PM In-Booth Author Signings:
Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia Deborah Coonts, Wanna Get Lucky?
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (Forge Books)
Galley Giveaway: Galley Giveaway:
Mothers & Other Liars, Amy Bourret
Halo, Alexandra Adornetto
(St. Martin’s Griffin)

lisher in his (Feiwel & Friends)

home state of Galley Giveaway: Galley Giveaway:
Utah, to pub- A Secret Kept, Tatiana de Rosnay Hold Me Closer, Necromancer,
lish a fantasy (St. Martin’s Press) Lish McBride (Henry Holt Books
novel for kids. The house, Cedar
Fort, specialized in religion publish- 4:00 PM Galley Giveaway: for Young Readers)
ing and asked Dashner to pay some Jews and Money, Abraham H. Foxman
of the costs for producing the book, (Palgrave Macmillan)
as it was a risky venture for them.
*Please note: Only a limited quantity of galleys are available for signings and giveaways, and will be distributed on a first-come, first serve basis. Author signings will last 30 minutes (or until galleys run out).
Eager to make his mark, Dashner

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K. Delacorte will publish Revolution in Septem-

MEET Blossom ber with a 250,000-copy first printing.

Her new novel was long in the making. Its
genesis dates back a decade, when a New York

and Rocky—two very Times article grabbed Donnelly’s attention—

and refused to let go. Accompanied by a photo

sneaky sheep and of a small human heart inside an old, etched-

glass urn, the account revealed that DNA tests
had just confirmed that the heart belonged to
STARS of the son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoi-
nette, who after his parents’ executions
remained imprisoned until he eventually went
mad and died at the age of 10.

© Doug Dundas
“The dauphin was heir to the throne and was
considered a huge threat by the revolutionar-
ies,” says the author. “Since Robespierre
couldn’t order him to be executed, he let hunger, neglect, and disease do the
job for him. The article really upset me, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it
and wondering how this awful thing could happen to a fragile, innocent
child—how did the Revolution devolve into such cruelty?”
Though she “recognized that feeling I get when a book is starting up inside
of me,” Donnelly was facing deadlines for other books (she’s also written
adult novels The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose) and time passed. After her
daughter was born six years ago, the cruel treatment of the young dauphin
began to haunt her all the more.
coming this fall The author reports that Revolution was the most difficult book she’s ever
written. “I struggled on many levels,” she recalls. “Wrapping my head around
from Lerner Publishing Group the Revolution was very daunting. And the two characters [from the Revolu-
tionary period and today] were warring for control of the book. I finally
stepped back, surrendered, and gave the book to both of them. I discovered
MEET Chris that I could combine both voices into a single cohesive narrative through the
diary of the Revolution-era girl, which the contemporary girl finds.”
Monroe, Donnelly says, “I can’t wait to reconnect with people in the YA world” at
BEA. She’ll have multiple chances: the author is participating in today’s YA
author and Authors Crossing Over panel, 11–11:50 a.m. at the Downtown Stage, as well
illustrator of as signing Revolution ARCs at the Random House Children’s Books booth
Sneaky Sheep, (4341), 1:30–2:30 p.m. —Sally Lodge
today from
2:00-2:30pm in the Carlos Eire
autographing area.
He Can’t Go Home Again
It’s been 40 years since Carlos Eire left his Cuban homeland, yet not a day
goes by that this award-winning author and renowned professor says he
and get does not still feel like an exile.
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“Anyone who can’t go back to the place where they were born is definitely
FREE books in the Autographing Area: an exile,” Eire tells Show Daily. “If the people who run the place where you
were born declared you an enemy of the state, you are definitely an exile.”
• Floyd Cooper, That’s what happened after the publication of Eire’s first memoir, Waiting
Coretta Scott King Award-winner and for Snow in Havana (Free Press, 2003), which covered his idyllic, pre-Castro
illustrator of Ruth and the Green Book childhood. The book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003, and
Wednesday, May 26, 1:00-1:30pm
Eire, a professor of history and religious studies at Yale, now continues his
• Stacia Deutsch, story in Learning to Die in Miami (Free Press, Nov.), which he will autograph
author of Hot Pursuit today, 3–4 p.m., at Table 6.
Wednesday, May 26, 2:00-2:30pm The first book covers the first four years of the young Eire’s life after being
airlifted out of Cuba as part of Operation Pedro Pan, in which 14,000 Cuban
• Steve Brezenoff,
author of The Absolute Value of -1 children were relocated to the U.S. Eire details how he went from foster
Wednesday, May 26, 4:30-5:00pm home to foster home, each move feeling like a death and rebirth as he tried
to remake himself without his parents, who were prevented from leaving
• Colleen AF Venable, Castro’s Cuba.
author of the Guinea PIG,
Pet Shop Private Eye series Waiting for Snow struck deep with readers, something Eire attributes not
Thursday, May 27, 3:30-4:00pm to his own special story but to the power of childhood memories. “That is
something we all share, regardless of our cul-
ture,” he says. ‘In childhood, all the big ques-
tions come up, about life and love and justice
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Carolrhoda f ou™r new Learning to Die in Miami, which takes him to
The Absolu Lab YA titles— the cusp of adulthood. “Spiritually, the book is
(signed by te Value of -1 about the wonders of loss,” Eire says. “Loss is
Draw the Dthe author!), not all negative. There is much to be gained
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Observer. of ourselves and become new selves, and that is
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AUTHORS
AT THE S H OW
Gary Hart
Past and Present
It’s quite an understatement when a University
of Colorado professor named Gary Hart
explains that he wrote his memoirs, Thunder
and the Sunshine: Four Seasons in a Burnished
Life (Fulcrum, Sept.) because he considers that
he’s had an “interesting life,” filled with “rare”
and “unique” experiences. Perhaps, he says,
his life-long odyssey through the political
realm may make an “important contribution”
to history. After all, Hart’s story reads almost
like one of the four political thrillers he’s writ-
ten under a pseudonym: he served as Sen.
George McGovern’s campaign manager in the
1972 presidential campaign, investigated ties between organized crime and
the CIA during the 12 years he served in the U.S. Senate, and ran for presi-
dent of the United States in 1984 and again in 1988—only to have his cam-
paign derailed by scandal.
While Hart’s name still evokes in most people memories of the 1988 “Mon-
key Business” affair that essentially destroyed any possibility that he might
ever become president, it’s obvious in Thunder and the Sunshine, as well as
in conversation with Hart, that the dashed hopes of the 1984 presidential
race weigh upon him just as much as, if not more than, the pain and embar-
rassment of his aborted 1988 campaign.
More than 25 years later, Hart remains surprised that he emerged from
relative obscurity to become the main challenger to former vice-president
Walter Mondale during the 1984 primaries. It was a hotly contested race for
the nomination between the two—the closest in two generations—that went
all the way to the Democratic Party’s national convention in San Francisco.
Insisting to this day that he would have had a better chance of running a
close race against the incumbent—President Ronald Reagan—than his
opponent did, Hart says that he lost the nomination to Mondale because he
failed to persuade “older” Democrats that it was “time to change the direc-
tion of the party.”
It was a “generational struggle,” Hart recalls, between the party establish-
ment and “newer” Democrats—much like the hard-fought battle for the
nomination between Sen. Hillary Clinton and then senator Barack Obama in
2008. Comparing his own unsuccessful bid for the nomination to Obama’s
successful campaign, Hart says that Obama succeeded where Hart had
failed because Obama was “a much better candidate” and because the Inter-
net allowed him to raise a lot of money.
Hart will sign galley copies of Thunder and the Sunshine at Table 7 today,
10:30–11:30 am. —Claire Kirch

Rick Springfield
The Road after Jessie’s Girl
When the pop/rock classic “Jessie’s Girl” rock-
eted to #1 in the early 1980s, it put singer/song-
writer Rick Springfield on the celebrity fast
track. In 1982 he won a Grammy Award for Best
Male Vocal Performance and played the char-
acter of Dr. Noah Drake on the hit TV soap
opera General Hospital. Though Springfield
was riding the high of success, he was also bat-
tling depression, a condition that had plagued
him since his teenage years.
The good news for loyal Springfield fans, and
there are many, is that he has just written a
memoir titled Late, Late at Night (Touchstone
Fireside, Oct.). A candid look at the highs and
lows of celebrity along with his struggle with depression, Springfield insists
he did not write a depressing book, but instead wanted to share a journey he
believes many can relate to. He says writing the book was “an amazing and
fun experience,” and the book contains a lot of humor and wisdom. “It is
funny and moving.... I think it is a very human story.”
As to the creative process, Springfield says while at school he always
thought he would be a writer “because it’s the only subject I was ever any
good in.” Though his English teachers encouraged him, he eventually chose
58 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS
AUTHORS
to write music
instead. Today he
maintains a busy
touring sched-
AT THE S H OW ule, does acting
guest spots and
even has his own celebrity cruise. “I love what I do and am very happy to still
be working and making productive things, especially when they break new
ground.”
Late, Late at Night (taken from a line in “Jessie’s Girl”) encompasses both
new and old ground for Springfield, who admits it was a “revelation” to redis-
cover his voice as a writer.
Springfield is making his debut appearance at BEA today, something he
says he has been looking forward to. “I am very excited about the BEA. It is
like going to a record industry event, but this is a whole new thing for me.”
An admitted bibliophile, one of his favorite things to do is to wander into a
bookstore and pick out new books. “Though I was a terrible student, I have
always been an avid reader—that, and traveling, were my education.”
He will be interviewed today by Jim Fusilli, novelist and pop critic for the
Wall Street Journal, on the BEA Stage starting at 10 a.m. He will later be sign-
ing a specially designed Late, Late at Night brochure (with a music CD) at the
Simon and Schuster Booth (3940), 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. —Karen Jones
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Beauty, Bullets, Bombs, & More
Expectations for The Moses Expedition, a novel predicated on a search for
the Bible’s lost Ark of the Covenant, can be summed up in two words: sum-
mer blockbuster.
Simon & Schuster’s Atria imprint has adjusted its publication plans with
hopes that this thriller from a 32-year-old Spaniard, Juan Gómez-Jurado, will
make a big splash at the beach. Originally planned as a spring paperback,
The Moses Expedition is now slated to go on sale as a hardcover August 3.
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“Our sales team said, ‘You’re selling this too
short,’ ” said David Brown, deputy director of
publicity at Atria. “ ‘This needs to be hardcover.
This needs to be out during the thriller-reading
time of year. This needs to be on the beach.’ ”
High hopes are based on the author’s previ-
ous success. Gómez-Jurado’s first novel, God’s
Spy, has sold more than 1.5 million copies. The
Moses Expedition has already been a bestseller
in Europe. Gómez-Jurado isn’t shy about his
ambition to see the book inspire a suspenseful
Hollywood movie.
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“The Moses Expedition is a very powerful
novel from a visual point of view, with chases in
the Jordanian desert or shootings in high-tech
New York buildings,” Gómez-Jurado writes via e-mail in response to a ques-
tion about whether he has moviemaking goals. “So let’s cross our fingers!”
Gómez-Jurado’s visit to BEA signals his publisher’s big ambitions. While
other authors might sign autographs at a booth for an hour or two, Atria is
making Gómez-Jurado available at booth 3909 for every minute that the
Expo is open. Brochures and advance reading copies will be available.
In The Moses Expedition, a CIA operative and member of the Vatican’s
secret service finds a fragment of an ancient map that points to the Ark and
the original Ten Commandments tablets. This discovery sets off a wild hunt
in the Jordanian desert as clues beckon archeologists, armed guards, a tena-
cious reporter, and a knockout Israeli doctor. Advance publicity on the book
promises “an explosive, satisfying end.”
Readers interested in religious trappings may find a bit more than beauty,
bullets, and bombs in these pages. “The core question in the book is: how
does your contract with God affect your daily life?” Gómez-Jurado writes in
an e-mail. “For Christians, that can be to attend church on Sunday. For a rad-
ical Muslim terrorist, it can be detonate a bomb in a car or crash a plane. In
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Godine’s First 40 Years nearly 30,000 copies.

It may not have
seemed like an aus-
picious start—sev-
eral recent college
graduates with
some experience in
printing books and a
cow barn in Brookline, Mass. But this
year David R. Godine, Publisher, is
celebrating its first 40 years and still
going strong, or as Godine puts it,
“doing what I’ve always done, which
is screw up.”
Maybe. Godine discovered 2008
Nobel Prize laureate J.M.G. Le
Clézio, as well as John Banville,
Georges Perec, and
Andre Dubus. His chil-
dren’s list includes
authors and illustra-
Ask about tors Mary Azarian,
Godine’s lecture Barbara McClintock,
tour.
and Daniel Beard. And
he published the first photography
books of Sally Mann, Rosamond Pur-
cell, and Arnold Newman. Plus
Godine is one of the few literary
houses known for publishing well-
made books to have one of its books
featured in Playboy, being read by a
Playmate. As a result or in spite of it,
William Gass’s On Being Blue sold
“Most interesting,” says Godine,
“that book was really a gift thrown
our way by Bob Gottlieb at Knopf.
Before the days of on-demand pub-
lishing, publishers would call us
because they couldn’t print enough
copies or they wanted to retain the
license. So we have all four volumes
of Orwell’s essays from Harcourt
Brace. We did a lot of books with Ban-
tam, which wanted a hardcover pub-
lisher for Jorge Amado and for a
wonderful book by Irving Howe
called Short Shorts.”
But the press’s two top-sellers
Godine and his staff found on their
own. Peter Bowler’s The Superior
Person’s Book of Words, which
Godine and George Gibson (now
head of Bloomsbury USA) bought at
Frankfort for $500, has gone on to sell
600,000 copies. Bill Goodman bought
The American Boy’s Handbook for
even less; it was in the public domain.
Although Godine calls it “the ugliest
book on our list,” it has sold close to a
million copies.
As part of the 40th anniversary cel-
ebration, booksellers can pick up
40th anniversary buttons and
Godine’s new fall catalogue at the
booth (3734), which has a cover illus-
tration by Glenna Lang of Godine
setting type. One of several books
Godine will be promoting at the
show—the 38th BEA he has attended—
is his own upcoming fall release,
Godine at Forty, a retrospective of
the press’s history from handpress to
offset publisher. —Judith Rosen

Music, Food & More

The BookMasters Group is featuring
a wide range of books at BEA and has
some special entertainment lined up
to attract attendees to its booth
(3040).
In-booth activities kick off today
with a signing by Sid Phillips at 10 a.m.
promoting his May book, You’ll Be
Sor-ree!—a memoir that tells the per-
sonal story that inspired Tom Hanks
and Steven Spielberg’s 2010 HBO
miniseries The Pacific.
Two of the distributor’s biggest
titles bring powerhouse musicians
and their music to the children’s
book scene. This afternoon, legend-
ary songwriter Neil Sedaka will be
on hand to promote his new picture
book, Waking Up Is Hard to Do
(Sept.), a companion to his bestsell-
ing children’s CD released last year.
Sedaka will sign copies of an exclu-
sive CD made for BEA featuring new
tunes, 1–3 p.m.
Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yar-
row of the group Peter, Paul, and
Mary will undoubtedly draw a crowd
of their own at the booth tomorrow.
They are at BEA
to support a
new picture
book version of
The Night Before
Christmas
(Oct.), which
comes with an
accompanying
Food & book giveaways.
three-track
musical and narrative that includes
Clement C. Moore’s tale set to the
music of Peter and Noel Paul with a
Visit us for a reading by Mary Travers and the
chance to win a classic Peter, Paul, and Mary holiday
limited edition favorite “A Soalin’.” The book will
signed galley.* ship with a 100,000-copy first printing.
Also tomorrow, Chad Carns, a pri-
vate chef and author of a debut cook-

WE WALK AMONG YOU AT BOOTH #3340! book, The Gourmet Bachelor, in 2009,
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—Gwenda Bond

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AMP Says, ‘Give ’em Art’
Andrews McMeel is celebrating
its 40th birthday this year. It’s
booksellers, however, who are
getting the presents. Not only is
the press handing out Posh Puz-
zle books at its booth (3559), but
AMP’s most popular cartoonists
and illustrators—Garry Trudeau
(Doonesbury), Tom Wilson
(Ziggy), and James Gurney (Dinoto-
pia)—will be on hand to give out
more goodies.
Trudeau, who was discovered by
AMP 40 years ago, and became the
house’s first syndicated cartoonist,
will be making a rare public
appearance, dropping in at BEA
this afternoon. He will sign limited
edition lithographs inspired by
AMP’s fall release, 40: A Doones-
bury Retrospective, which hits
bookstores October 26. Trudeau
will be signing at Table 15, 1–2 p.m.,
and in AMP’s booth, 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Wilson will sign Ziggy lithographs
featuring the cover of his latest car-
toon collection, Ziggy Goes for Broke
(Apr.) today, in the autographing
area, Table 1, 11 a.m.–noon, and in
the AMP booth, 1–2 p.m.
Gurney is coming to BEA to sign
Paying It Forward... with Love
Ask booksellers or publishers what
accounts for the vitality of the
romance genre and you’ll get a wide
variety of opinions—the legions of
devoted fans; hardworking, talented
authors; the public’s desire for
escapism in tough times. Bestselling
author Cathy Maxwell offers a more
intriguing reason—generosity of
spirit. “When you come up to a
romance writer and tell them you’re
writing a book, they’ll all take time to
hear your story and answer your
questions. Romance writers believe
in paying it forward.”
For Maxwell, her “pay it forward”
was Kensington author Christine
Dorsey. In 1991, Maxwell went to
Color and Light posters inspired by his
second art instruction book, Color and
Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
(Nov.). Gurney, the author and illustra-
tor of the bestselling Dinotopia books,
about a lost world populated by dino-
saurs, will sign posters tomorrow at
Table 18, 11–11:30 a.m., and in the booth
(#3559), 1–1:30 p.m.
And for those who would like
cake (because what’s a birthday
hear her speak at a small library in
Midlothian, Va. Afterwards, she
approached Dorsey, confessed her
desire to write romance novels, and
was given a few specific must-dos:
among them, join the RWA and
attend an upcoming conference.
Maxwell promptly signed up for the
conference as well as a workshop in
which Judith French, Kathleen Kirk-
wood, and Colleen Faulkner would
evaluate 10 pages of manuscript sub-
mitted by aspiring writers. “Mine
was set during the Revolutionary
War and probably some of the worst
writing known to man,” laughs Max-
well, “but Kathleen French read my
pages and told the group, ‘this per-
party without cake?) you might
score the next best thing from the
good people at AMP: a book about
cakes and other desserts. Booth
visitors can enter a drawing for a
Bon Appétit gift basket, in honor of
the November release of Bon Appétit
Desserts, a collection of 600 delecta-
ble recipes compiled by Barbara
Fairchild, editor-in-chief of Bon
Appétit magazine. —Claire Kirch
son has talent.’ ”
Inspired and
encouraged, Max-
well set to work and
in 1993 sold her first
book, All Things
Beautiful. “Stories
like these,” says
Maxwell, “are so Maxwell’s helping hands.
common in the
romance genre. You don’t write
romance unless you believe in the
idea of community and relation-
ships.”
Today Maxwell will be signing
copies of The Earl Claims a Wife
(Avon) at the RWA booth (3484), at
9:30, and tomorrow, she signs cop-
ies of The Marriage Ring (Avon) at 2
p.m., Table 23. —Lucinda Dyer

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Acclaimed writer and physician
Abraham Verghese is receiving the
2010 Indies Choice Award for Best
Adult Fiction Book of the Year at
today’s Celebration of Bookselling
Luncheon for his first novel, Cutting
for Stone (Knopf, Vintage), about a
pair of twins orphaned by their
mother’s death and abandoned by
their surgeon father. The author
began his relationship with book-
sellers in 1994 during the tour for
his first book, My Own Country, an
autobiographical rendering of his
being a doctor in the heart of an
AIDS epidemic in rural Tennessee.
“I recall that being somewhat of a
lonely book tour—but what I do
remember is the wonderful warmth
of the independent booksellers.”
Russell Perreault, v-p and director
of publicity for Vintage and Anchor
Books, notes that Verghese made a
point of developing relationships with
independent booksellers. “His
paperback bookstore tour was more
like meeting with old friends. In fact,
in some cities, we had to carefully
arrange readings, luncheons, and
teas to accommodate all the book-
sellers who were eager to see him.”
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Verghese attributes
the success of his novel
to the kind of word of
© Joanne Chan
mouth that can only
come from independent
booksellers. He cites
Verghese has high praise for booksellers.
Betsy Burton at the
King’s English in Salt Lake City and
her efforts for his paperback tour. “I
had no idea the kind of crowd she
would generate for the reading.”
Another early champion of his
novel was Elaine Petrocelli at San
Happy 10th to Cedar Cove
Cedar Cove, the small Pacific coast
town created by Debbie Macomber,
is turning 10 this year—that’s 10 in
publishing years. “Like all great fic-
tional towns,” says Harlequin pub-
lisher/CEO Donna Hayes, “Cedar
Cove seems as though it’s always
existed. It’s hard to imagine that
Debbie Macomber’s first Cedar
Cove novel, 16 Lighthouse Road,
debuted in 2000.” And while Cedar
Cove’s populace may be small, its
impact on the publishing world has
been anything but modest. “It’s not
only the most successful series of
W E E K LY
Francisco’s
Book Pas-
sage. The
author
couldn’t
imagine who
would show
up at a read-
ing on a
beautiful
Saturday afternoon, but the place
was packed. To his surprise, just as
he was being introduced, a gentle-
man tapped him on the shoulder
before he walked on stage and said,
‘Hi, I’m Michael Ondaatje, and I
books in the history of Mira Books
but also in Harlequin Enterprises’
six-plus decades,” reports Hayes.
“The seventh book in the series, 74
Seaside Avenue, was the first Harle-
quin Enterprises title to top the New
York Times, USA Today, and Pub-
lishers Weekly bestseller lists.” The
series has also spawned a restau-
rant, the bestselling Debbie
Macomber’s Cedar Cove Cookbook,
and a five-day Cedar Cove festival
in Macomber’s hometown of Port
Orchard, Wash., last September.
The newest entry in the Cedar
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010
came to listen to you.’”
The busy author continues to jug-
gle demanding careers as a writer,
and as a physician and teacher at
the Stanford University School of
Medicine. “I feel tremendously
privileged to be a physician. It’s
awesome that you can be in this
position where you can be with peo-
ple at their most dramatic and dan-
gerous moments. If you can’t help
them, you are at least committed to
being there with them on their jour-
ney. To me the writing always has
emanated from seeing the world in
this fashion.” —Hilary S. Kayle
Cove series, 1022
Evergreen Place,
will hit bookstores
in September and
continues the sto-
ries of Mary Jo
Wyse and her
infant daughter.
Debbie Macomber will be signing
copies of both 92 Pacific Boulevard
and Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove
Cookbook today, 10–10:45 a.m., at
the Harlequin booth (3922). She will
be signing Hannah’s List tomorrow,
10:30–11:30 a.m., at Table 25 in the
autographing area. —Lucinda Dyer
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66 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010

What Jane Jacobs Saw
Urban activist and pres-
ervationist Jane Jacobs, a
hero to many city dwell-
ers, died in 2006, a month
shy of her 90th birthday,
but her spirit lives on,
especially in New York,
her home of choice for
many years. It’s no exag-
geration that Jacobs
would relish the contin-
ued vitality of Greenwich Village,
which she is credited with saving from
destruction by highway development;
the High Line, recently reclaimed
from abandoned train tracks up Man-
hattan’s mid–West Side; the islands of
cafe tables and chairs lining Broadway
in midtown; and the proposed (and
likely) creation of a pedestrian plaza
on 34th Street between Herald Square
and the Empire State Building at Fifth
Avenue.
Jacobs was a fierce champion of
urban livability, and her ideas—the
importance of community involve-
ment, the critical role of public
transportation, the value of “eyes”
on the street—have found ardent
defenders around the world.
“Jane Jacobs had no degrees in
city planning or economics, but her
book, The Death and
Life of Great American
Cities [published in
1961 and never out of
print], has reached
beyond city planning to
influence the spirit of
the times,” says Lynne
Elizabeth, director of
the nonprofit New Vil-
lage Press and one of
the editors of What We See: Advanc-
ing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
(New Village Press, May).
The idea for What We See origi-
nated with the Jacobs-oriented
A DNA Test for a Queen?
Could the mummy of a Sumerian
queen discovered at the Royal Tombs
at Ur actually hold evidence that she
was a descendant of alien visitors to
earth? In his new book, There Were
Giants Upon the Earth: Gods, Demi-
gods and Human Ancestry: The Evi-
dence of Alien DNA, Zecharia Sitchin
explains how Anunnaki space travel-
ers, the giants depicted in ancient
Sumerian texts, first inhabited the
Earth and how the Anunnaki created
Center for the Living City as a cele-
bration honoring Jacobs, but the
book took on a different form under
Elizabeth’s guidance. “I thought
Jane would not have wanted a book
about her,” Elizabeth says, noting
that two histories centering on her
and a biography have recently been
published. “Instead, we invited peo-
ple from diverse fields to write their
own ideas about how things work
and describe the systems they see
operating now and into the future.”
Among the pundits, community
members, and developers who con-
tributed essays is Janette Sadik-
Khan, the commissioner of the New
York City Department of Transporta-
modern man
by combin-
ing their own advanced DNA
with that of the primitive hom-
inids inhabiting our planet.
Sitchin believes the bones
of Queen Puabi could reveal
the DNA differences that
represent our genetic “miss-
ing link.” But London’s Natural His-
tory Museum continues to refuse his
request for DNA testing. Never one
to back down from a challenge, the
now 90-year-old Sitchin has begun a
tion, who writes, “In so many ways,
the intellectual DNA of our work to
create more sustainable streets can
be found in The Death and Life of
Great American Cities.”
To see the townhouse where
Jacobs lived, take a stroll down to
555 Hudson Street (the building
sold in 2009 for $3.3 million); one of
her favorite haunts, the White
Horse Tavern, is nearby, at 567 Hud-
son Street. And to participate in or
create a Jacobs-inspired Jane’s
Walk, visit the Web site
janeswalkusa.wordpress.com.
What We See will be on exhibit in
the Consortium booth (4510,4513).
—Suzanne Mantell
petition drive that will for-
mally request the museum
to allow a DNA extraction
from the remains of Queen
Puabi.
If you’d like to support
Sitchin in his quest for the
truth, come by the Inner
Traditions/Bear & Co.
booth (2532) and sign his petition.
Sitchin will also be signing copies of
his book today, 11 a.m.–noon, at
Table 8, and 1–2 p.m. at the booth.
—Lucinda Dyer

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No Glass Ceilings Here
The topic of women in the military is
always a hot one, especially with the
U.S. fighting two wars. So it isn’t sur-
prising that David Weber’s Honor
Harrington novels, which follow the
adventures of a female naval officer
in the futuristic Star Kingdom of
Manticore, have appeared regularly
on the New York Times bestseller
lists. Mission of Honor, the 12th book
in the “Honorverse,” will be released
in July from Baen Books. Although
this is Honor’s first stand-alone book
since 2005, she also appears in two
sub-series set within the same uni-
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Wages of Sin, written with
Eric Flint.
While Honor is popu-
lar with female readers
from all military
branches, Weber said he
didn’t set out to com-
ment on gender and the Weber “honors” Harrington. says Weber. “By Honor
armed forces when he began writ-
ing her first novel, 1992’s On Basi- whether women should be equal to
lisk Station. The character, he says, men will have all the burning signif-
“happened to be female” when he
began writing her. Even so, in her
universe, equality between the
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sexes is “a done deal.”
“I’ve always been
bothered by far-future
science fiction in which
women face exactly the
same challenges they
face today—where the
glass ceiling is still in
place in 3200—because I
think it both undersells
our society and women,”
Harrington’s time, the question of
icance Pharaoh’s policy to the Hit-
tites has for us.”
Along with a protagonist who
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shatters the idea that women have
to, as Weber puts it, “out-testoster-
one men” to be successful com-
manders, the “Honorverse” also
shatters the notion that military
science fiction has to be a blood-
bath. As a military historian, Weber
says he emphasizes the politics and
consequences of battle as strongly
as the action in star fields. The
result is a universe that bears much
in common with Europe during the
Napoleonic Wars. In fact, Weber has
said that Honor herself has a per-
sonality similar to that of British
Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson,
one of Napoleon’s most powerful
adversaries.
“I have a deep respect for the mili-
tary and for people who choose that
profession as their calling,” he says.
“If I have a bias, it’s pro-military, not
anti-military. But I think if that
weren’t the case, this probably
wouldn’t be the kind of fiction I’m
writing.”
Weber will be signing Mission of
Honor this morning at 11:20 a.m., at
Table 21. —JoSelle Vanderhooft
Personalized
Books from
RHYW
Two-year-old large print publisher
Read How You Want is readying its
newest format, which enables the
reader to personalize just about an
entire book, from its trim size to its
font and line, word, and character
spacing. In addition, book buyers can
add a personalized dedication. This
new format also marks RHYW’s
entree into the e-book market, since
readers will be able to order person-
alized books as PDFs or print-on-
demand editions. RHYW saves the
settings for future use, or they can be
fine-tuned.
“It’s very exciting,” says director of
publisher relations Maureen Watts.
“You’ll be able to have a book with all
the formatting you need. We have
some great technology, and there’s a
lot we can do with it now.” Although
personalized format books won’t
launch until the third quarter, RHYW
is beta-testing them at the show. The
company is offering five public
domain titles that can be personal-
ized at the booth (3912). Showgoers
will be able to adjust the font size up
to 24 points and line spacing to triple
space. RHYW will then e-mail them a
PDF of the personalized book.
RHYW is also demoing its DAISY
(digital accessible information sys-
tem) format, which enables readers
to also hear books. It is showcasing
an excerpt from Paul Harding’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Tin-
kers, throughout BEA.
—Judith Rosen
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Penguin Celebrates BEA is part of that vision, starting

with the Mini Cooper. “The Mini’s
summer’s end Penguin will auction
the autographed Mini and donate

75 Years cute and flippant, and that’s what

The bright orange Mini Cooper
in the lobby, aka the Penguin
Books Anniversarymobile, is
just one piece of the celebration
to mark the publisher’s first 75
years. Penguin traces its birth
back to July 30, 1935, when
Allen Lane launched 10 inex-
pensive paperbacks. In the
midst of the Depression and the Kathryn Court with Penguin’s Mini Cooper.
growing Nazi threat, the press
sold three million copies the first
year.
Today, says Penguin president
and publisher Kathryn Court, “We
may be 75 years old, but we’re
always striving to be true to Allen
Lane’s vision—to be energetic and
innovative.” Arguably, the upcom-
ing anniversary celebration/road
trip, literacy campaign, and Nature
Conservancy benefit launched at
a Penguin is,” says v-p, director of
marketing, John Fagan, adding
that they never really considered
anything else.
The Penguinmobile’s first stop
after BEA is Edina, Minn., where
Garrison Keillor will drive it to
the first of a series of anniversary
parties to be held at bookstores
all summer long. The car will
cross the country with an assist
from driver/authors like Michael
Pollan in Berkeley, Calif., and
Nathaniel Philbrick in Nantucket,
Mass. Each will sign the car, and at
the proceeds to a literacy group to
be announced.
In addition, Penguin has selected
a set of 75 titles from Penguin’s
backlist that Fagan describes as
“iconic.” The titles range from 60
Seconds and You’re Hired! to Zlata’s
Diary. The names of the books are
being released one by one on a spe-
cial 75th anniversary Web site. At
each anniversary event, Penguin
will donate a set of all 75 books to a
local library or literacy group and
will also donate sets to U.S. military
bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
—Judith Rosen

Sterling Goes
Green
Sterling Publishing is teaming up
with Ecosystem to show off its green
spirit at BEA. Show attendees can
stop by Room 1A02 on the lower
level of the Javits Center to preview
samples of Ecosystem sidelines,
which include a range of notebooks
and calendars in bold colors made
of 100% postconsumer recycled
paper.
Sterling and Ecosystem will have
staff available for one-on-one con-
sultations with retailers and mem-
bers of the
media. Free
notebooks are
also available
for show attend-
ees as long as
supplies last,
says Organic
Works publicist
Katie Hunsberger. “Though we will
have many on hand, it is possible
—The End —
that they may run out at some
point, so we encourage people to
swing by when they can,” she says.
The products by Ecosystem are
designed with a sleek, modern sen-
sibility and offer a variety of color,
size, and type combinations,
including artist (blank pages),
author (lined), advisor (calendar),
and architect (grid). All notebooks
and calendars are produced in the
U.S. using a low-impact, fair-trade–
consistent process that fits the goal very funny, very sad and wickedly clever. I wish I had written it.”
of environmental responsibility. —Zoë Heller, author of The Believers
Consumers can visit Ecosystem
online at www.ecosystemlife.com to
learn the origin of every compo-
nent in the product they buy and
how it was constructed. And if
Meet CHARLES ELTON, author of MR. TOPPIT,
someone loses a notebook or calen-
dar, the Web site even offers a way
at Booth #4340, Thursday, May 27, 10 AM.
to register online with a unique ID
number that can help get it back. .
—Gwenda Bond
www.otherpress.com OTHER PRESS

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 70 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010

Faith Comix for All Celebrating Viente y Cinco Años

Kingstone Media Group is “brand
new,” says Art Ayris, its chairman
and president, though the group
began doing research and develop-
ment years ago on faith and the
comic industry, and has been work-
ing on production for its fall 2010 list
since 2009.
“One of the rea-
sons we started
Kingstone is
because not many
people were play-
ing with the faith
market for comics
and graphic nov-
els,” says Ayris,
“and the response we’ve had from
buyers, church bookstores, and
retailers has been great—we just
signed with our first Christian chain,
Mardel.” He continues, “But this is
Kingstone’s first time at BEA and our
first foray into the general trade
market. We are featuring our debut
launch for the company and intro-
ducing titles we think are general-
market friendly.”
This debut list features a number
of serialized comics and graphic nov-
els, including Babylon and 2048, and
what Ayris refers to as “cinematic
novels”—three of them: The Memory
Closet (Sept.), Sudan (Aug.), and
Home Grown (Sept.), all written by
Ninie Hammon.
Ayris has big plans for Kingstone,
not only this year at BEA but for King-
stone’s presence
at the trade show
in the future.
“Each year we’ll
continue to do
BEA. Even though
some of our com-
ics are primarily
for the faith mar-
ket, a fair amount
of our stuff is general trade—a lot of
our artists have worked for Marvel
and DC—and then, we are having a
lot of international meetings at BEA
as well. Riggins Rights out of Nash-
ville is representing us internation-
ally at the show.”
Attendees interested in checking
out Kingstone (3264) should come
by the publisher’s booth for today’s
signing by Marvin Olasky, author of
the graphic novel series 2048, 10–11
a.m., and for comic book sample
giveaways. —Donna Freitas
If you stop by booth
4504A at 4 p.m.
today, you’ll be able
to wish the award-
winning Cinco Pun-
tos Press a happy
25th anniversary.
“We’re serving
Mexican-styled
sweets, the star of Editor John Bryd and copublishers Lee
and Bobby Byrd.
which will surely be
a delicious cookie inspired by our
logo,” promises John Byrd, senior
editor of the El Paso, Tex., press.
Authors Youme Landowne and
Cynthia Weill, as well as illustrator
Christopher Cardinale, will also be
on hand.
Lee Merrill Byrd, Cinco Puntos
Press president, co-publisher, and
co-owner (with her husband Bobby
Byrd), tells Show Daily that what
the house is most proud of is that
“almost without knowing it, we
seem to have made a good mirror
of this culture along the U.S./Mex-
ico border where we live. “
The press’s bestseller is La Llo-
rona/The Weeping Woman, pub-
lished in 1987. Although at the time
Cinco Puntos didn’t understand the
advantages of bilin-
gual publishing, it
wisely heeded the
advice of author
Joe Hayes, who
urged them to pub-
lish his book in
both English and
Spanish. Now, pub-
lishing bilingual
books for children
is the house’s specialty.
Recently, Cinco Puntos
expanded its list with titles focusing
on Native American culture, such
as Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey
from Darkness into Light by Choc-
taw storyteller Jim Tingle. The
house also plans to publish books
on serious topics. “We are so close
to Mexico,” says Lee Byrd, “that we
see the results of the lengths people
will go to for drugs. Legalizing them
might change that situation.”
To that end, in September Cinco
Puntos will publish Drug Lord: The
Life & Death of a Mexican Kingpin-
A True Story by Terrence Poppa, an
out-of-print adult title self-pub-
lished in 1990.
—Diane Patrick

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Ready, set, go! You’ve got three days
to explore the greatest city in this
hemisphere (says this local, with the
understatement we New Yawkers
are known for). It’s unlikely you’ll get
to many of the city’s most famous
sites—the crown of the Statue of Lib-
erty, Ellis Island, the United
Nations—as those places, alas, close
when the sun sets, and you’re going
to be too busy at the BEA itself. But
here are 10 other must-dos that you
should be able to slot in, before and
after your time in the Javits Center.
Head to a Broadway or Off-
Broadway Show: You can’t say
you’ve been to the Big Apple with-
out participating in a standing ova-
tion. Surf BroadwayBox.com to
snag a discounted seat (quicker
than the line at the TKTS booth); for
show reviews, check NYTimes.com.
Stroll a Gallery at 3 a.m.: The Whit-
ney Museum’s Biennial, its retro-
spective of the best American art of
the last two years, is in full swing, and
this year, from midnight Wednesday,
May 26, through 11:59 p.m. Friday,
May 29, the museum is opening its
doors for 72 hours straight. The show,
the first in its history with more
female artists than male, is a solid
one... though seeing who wanders
through at dawn may be just as inter-
esting as the art.
Museum Hop: It’s not only the
Whitney that stays open late. The
New-York Historical Society (170
Central Park West, at 76th Street) is
featuring a popular show on the his-
tory of the Grateful Dead and doesn’t
boot out visitors until 8 p.m., Tues-
day–Friday. On Thursdays, four ter-
rific museums—The New Museum
(235 Bowery, near Stanton), the
Rubin Museum (Tibetan Art, 150 W.
17th St.), the Museum of Arts and
Design (2 Columbus Circle, between
58th and 59th streets), The Jewish
Museum (1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd
Street)—stay open until 9 p.m. (the
first three) and 8 p.m. (the Jewish
Museum), respectively.
Take a Walk: New York is a pedes-
trian’s paradise, and the best way to
view three of the city’s most iconic
stretches is on foot. Consider taking
an early morning window-shopping
expedition à la Breakfast at Tiffany’s
along Fifth Avenue (55th Street down
to 41st Street); trek across the Brook-
lyn Bridge as the sun rises or sets; or
get lost in Central Park for an hour or
two.
Marvel at the Sky-
line: Make your way
either to the Brooklyn
Promenade or hop a
ferry to Staten Island
(free). Be sure you have
a camera with you, as
the vistas will be spec-
tacular.
Get high: I’m suggest-
ing views, at either the
Empire State Building Pauline Frommer’s Big Apple tips. Center, Harlem’s Lenox
or Top of the Rock in
Rockefeller Center (not as tall, but
timed admissions mean you won’t be
stuck in an hourlong line).
Shop the Sample Sales: One of the
few areas the Javits Center is actu-
ally near is New York’s Garment Dis-
trict. Pick up a copy of the magazine
Time Out New York or check out
NYMag.com to see if any good sales
are going on at the designers’ show-
rooms this week, then run out at
lunchtime to score a deal.
Feast: Foodies love New York
City and for good reason: not only is
our grub amazing, it’s often quite
reasonably priced, whether you’re
downing wood-burning-oven–fired
pizzas at John’s Pizzeria (260 W.
44th St.) or Motorino (349 E. 12th
Momofuku Noodle Bar
(171 First Ave.) or Ippudo
(65 Fourth Ave.); or gour-
met Malaysian food at
Fatty Crab (643 Hudson
St.). These are just a few
of the city’s dazzling yet
affordable restaurants.
Jazz It Up: There’s no
better place in the world
to listen to jazz. Try the
refined Jazz at Lincoln
Lounge, or Greenwich
Village’s Blue Note or the Village
Vanguard.
Take a busman’s holiday: Browse
the “18 miles of choices” at the
Strand Bookstore (Broadway at
12th Street), marvel at the Beaux
Art splendor of the New York Pub-
lic Library at 42nd Street, or
indulge your inner child with a pil-
grimage to Books of Wonder (18 W.
18th St.). There are so many options
for bibliophiles in this literate city.
—Pauline Frommer
Arthur and Pauline Frommer will be
signing copies of NYC: Free & Dirt
Cheap and Pauline Frommer’s New
York City in the Wiley booth (4141)
tomorrow, 10–11 a.m.

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Goodies Galore
T Well, we’ve survived another year
and are gathering with anticipation
to see what new titles await to thrill,
charm, astonish, and capture our
imaginations. It’s also an opportunity
to load up new tote bags with more
than just books. As always there is a
vast array of posters, pens, notepads,
pencils, mousepads, and more. Oh, if
you need a little nibble to keep your
energy up, you’ll also find taste treats
here and there.
Canvassing for Bags
Okay, tote bags, shopping bags and
Design Dossier
drawstrong back-
packs at Paintbox
Press (2722); at
Weldon Owen
pick up an eco-
To celebrate 25 years, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (4510, friendly farmers’
4513) is giving away bumper stickers to promote indie booksellers that
market canvas
say “Start Seeing Booksellers” –which marketing director Jennifer
Swihart Voegele says, “is kind of a riff on the popular “Start Seeing tote bag—in lim-
Motorcycles” bumper stickers. ited quantities
carryalls are in abundance this (4251); Sandra
year—check out these booths to Boynton tote bags (limited edition)
make your selection: Abbeville are at Workman (4259, 4359); Raven
Press will have totes and choco- Tree Press provides tote bags with
lates (4215); Appalachian Trail books to the first 100 booth visitors
Press adds note pads as well (4533); (2666);
Lonely Planet Publications offers Robert Kennedy Publishing will
canvas bags and buttons (3371); get give out the Eat-Clean Diet shopping
bag with a book purchase (3777); zip-
pered totes are the thing at Moody
Publishers (3635, 4950); try Soho
Press for totebags (4505); Running
Press offers Hello Kitty tote bags
(4235). More bags: Blue Apple Books
(2641); DK (3553, 3641); Thunder Bay
Press (3223); Headline Books (3164);
Portable Press (3223); Kodansha
(4742); Duke Univ. Press (3727); Silver
Dolphin (3223), and more.
Stuff for the Store
Check out Anthology, where you
can pick up a bar code scanner
($255 value) with a Visual Anthology
software purchase (2634); two free
displays of E-Z Books will be given
away at Barron’s Educational
Series (3240, 3241); at Ben Bella
Books, pick up a “Smart Pop Books”
sampler (1411, 1412).
MP3-CDs (various) are the attrac-
tion at Blackstone Audio (3980);
they’ll be giving out MP3-CDs at in-
booth signings at Brilliance Audio
(3977); Hachette Audio (Hachette
Book Group) will give out audio
download cards (3746); Sounds
True offers meditation and healing
music sampler CDs (3848).

Come to booth #4251
to win an
eco-friendly tote bag.
Drawings daily!
Simon & Schuster
Order Dept
1 800 223 2336
Eating Opportunities
At some point, you’ll be feeling
ready for a nibble of this and a taste
of that, and a boost of sugar will
perk up your possibly flagging
energy level. Check out Chronicle
Books for gluten-free cookies
(2641); sweets are available from
EDC Publishing/Usborne/Kane
Miller (3070); everyone loves Her-
shey’s Kisses—pick them up at
Getty Publications (2835); at
Peachtree Publishers, get your spe-

Stock your pantry with fresh titles from cial Cracker Jacks (2869); or try fish
candy from Candlewick Press
(2759); or for a double-whammy, get
over to Running Press for “boozy
1_4 hor.indd 1 5/7/2010 3:44:45 PM cupcakes” (4235). There will be in-
booth tastings at Red Rock Press
(3146); snacks at Newmarket Press
(4114); and to bring a glow to your
cheeks, go to Octopus Books USA
for a whiskey tasting (3758).

Miscellaneous Stuff
W.W. Norton (3423) offers luggage tags
(to make sure those book-filled bags
get to their destination); Interweave
will give out yarn, knitwear, jewelry
samples, and project items to promote
its craft books (4113); Baker & Taylor
has branded merchandise and a com-
prehensive suite of information about
products and companies (3223, 3323);
at Dundurn Press, look for sticky pads;
pens; and mystery/teen fiction prize
packs (4404, 4405, 4409). Marvel Enter-
tainment is giving away comics and
posters (4558). Pick up Read/Write/
Revolt pins and stickers from South
End Press (4511); your dog will happily
greet you when you bring home Nylab-
one dog chew products from TFH Pub-
lications (4461); and drop by Publica-
tion Services for an always useful glos-
sary of publishing terms (2940).

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 , 2010 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 73

Be a Winner 2010 frontlist titles (3868); win the

While the days of drawings for
weekend vacations and other luxu-
ries have disappeared from the
scene—at least for the time being—
entire spring 2010 list at Tundra
Press, where you can win $100
“bear bucks” to purchase SBP
Books, Books Everywhere Books (4252); go to Sleeping Bear books (2243).
As always, BEA exhibitors hold
drawings for a wide range of books.
Pets Horoscopes is raffling off a set

Hot New Titles

there are still opportunities to take of books and greeting cards and
home some very nice surprises. other surprises (3161); at Hay
Visit these booths to enter and win. House, enter to win its “log on and
Need to replace your iPod? At load up” contest, a $1,000 value

from Omnibus Press

Turner (4271), you can win an iPod (3605); Abbeville Press’s offering is
Shuffle or Ancestry gift basket China: A Photographic Journey
(complete with one-year World Through the Middle Kingdom, and
Deluxe Membership, a $300 value; from Abbeville Kids, Wonders of the
Kaplan Logistic will also offer an Indian Wilderness by Erach Bharu-
iPod (2247). If you’re interested in cha, a $100 value (4215);
the New York dining experience, Appalachian Trail Press has a
hasten to Red Rock Press to win a package of official guides and
“memorable meal for two” at the maps for the Appalachian Trail
Four Seasons, 21 Club, or Carnegie Conservancy and other Trail-
Deli (3146) or to Taunton Press for related books, calendars, and note
“dinner for two” at a New York City cards (4533); Brannin Books, a first-
restaurant featured in Harvest to time exhibitor, is a mother-daugh-
Heat (3858). ter team that writes children’s
At Octopus books and is offering an auto-
Books USA graphed copy (4481); at Chronicle
(3758), win a Books, enter to win “The Worst-
necklace Case Scenario Survival Handbook:
worth $550 Gross Junior Edition
from Judith Recipe Contest”
Miller, author of (2641); Welcome
Miller’s Costume Books will hold a
Jewelry, or an Orla drawing each day for Lady Gaga
Le on ar d Co hen 9781849
384056
Kiely handbag promot- one title: The Consti-
3
97 8184938138
ing her new book, Pat- tution of the United
tern; at Interweave States, Limited Edi-
(4113), there is a draw- tion, $500 value; The People You’d
ing for an original neck- Book of Exodus, Lim- Like to Know
lace designed exclu- ited Edition, $500 9781849382304
Visit
sively for BEA by Lisa value; Canyon Wil-
us at
booth #
Niven Kelly, author of derness of the South-
Stamped Metal Jewelry: Lucky winners can take home a west, Limited Edition,
Creative Techniques & Karen Karnes ceramic art piece or $195 value (4352). Win
Designs for Making Cus- Judith Miller’s handcrafted piece a complete set of www.omnibuspressusa.com
2635
tom Jewelry. of costume jewelry. anthologies with
Available from Ingram Publisher Services
If you’re a movie buff, check out business-card drop-off at WriteGirl Telephone: 866 765 0178
Newmarket Press for movie memo- (2448); Fox Chapel Publishing Co. is Email: customercare@ingrampublisherservices.com
rabilia (4114); Nintendo DS Lite is the raffling off a complete set of fall
prize at Plexus Publishing (2353);
HighBridge Co. will hold daily draw-
ings for audio prepacks (4259, 4359), 1_4 vertical.indd 1 5/7/2010 1:46:57 PM

while Oasis Audio will raffle off an

audiobook library (4177).

This ’n’ That

To celebrate the publication of A
Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of
Karen Karnes, win a Karen Karnes
ceramic art piece, valued at $300,
from University of North Carolina
Press (3723); at Tuttle Publishing
the prize is an original piece of
origami art by artist/author
Michael G. LaFosse (3623); Kodan-
sha America offers a piece of orig-
inal fabric art by Jeffrey Rutzky
and Chris K. Palmer (4742).
Amber Communications Group
holds a daily drawing for gift bas-
kets (4952); Cleis Press/Viva Edi-
tions holds a drawing for an “Eden
Fantasies Gift Basket,” a $500
value (4324); go to the Jewish Pub-
lication Society booth where there
is a raffle for four $25 gift certifi-
cates, two each day (3453); and at
ManLoveRomance Press you can
win a 10-mystery gift basket (3481).

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 74 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY
A Few Good Nancy Pearl is famous for
guiding readers to the best
her recommendations on
NPR or her popular Book
Words books in every section of the library
and bookstore—whether through
Lust series. Now with Book
Lust to Go: Recommended
Reading for Travelers, Vag-
abonds, and Dreamers
(Sasquatch, Oct.), Pearl will
Soho Press Author Signings send readers on a literary
journey around the world.
May 26th in the Autographing Area Known as “America’s favorite
librarian,” Pearl admits she’s not a
“comfortable, happy traveler” in
CARA BLACK
real life, but says that made her well-
suited to write this book. “I’m a total
traveler in the virtual world of books.”
MURDER IN THE Pearl began her career working
PALAIS ROYAL
as a bookseller and librarian in
Detroit; Tulsa, Okla.; and Seattle. In
Seattle, she became a local celebrity
Table 22 | 10:30-11:30 known for her recommendations
and the creation of the “If All Seattle
HENRY CHANG
Read the Same Book” program in
1998. The release of her bestselling
RED JADE
Book Lust in 2003 brought her
Li on New Leadership Paradigms
Table 23 | 10:30-11:30 Charlene Li is the founder of the
Altimeter Group, a strategy firm
JAMES R. BENN that counsels clients how to success-
fully use emerging technologies to
RAG AND BONE drive business. Li, coauthor (with
Josh Bernoff) of Groundswell (Har-
Table 24 | 10:30-11:30 vard Business School Press, 2008), is
a noted speaker on the strategic use
of emerging technologies. Her new
MICK HERRON
book, Open Leadership: How Social
Technology Can Transform the Way
You Lead (Jossey-Bass), pubbed this
SLOW HORSES week. She will be signing in the
Wiley booth (4140, 4141) at 1 p.m.
Table 25 | 10:00-11:00
Briefly, what is Open Leadership
about?
Leadership has fundamentally
changed because the relationship
between leaders and followers has
changed. You are no longer a leader
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national prominence as a
practicing advocate for
connecting good books and
readers. And, of course, she
also has bragging rights as
the only librarian with a
mass-produced action fig-
ure based on her, complete
with “shushing action.”
Says Pearl, “It was a joy discover-
ing all these books that I hadn’t
read before, hunting used book-
stores and libraries.” Pearl cites as
some of her favorite discoveries
books by Patrick Leigh Fermor on
his travels through Greece—which
New York Review Books has in
print through its classics series—
and the work of Sara Wheeler on
her travels in Chile and Antarctica.
Pearl signs galleys of Book Lust to
Go, the fourth in the Book Lust series,
today at 11 a.m. in the Sasquatch
booth (4330B). —Gwenda Bond
tion of command. The information
you collect and share allows you to
lead. Things can seem very chaotic
because everything is all over the
place, very fast and very flexible.
That’s the way work is
getting done now.
How has technology
changed between the
publication of
Groundswell and
Open Leadership?
The biggest change is
that social media was
still pretty new and
everyone was trying to figure out
things. Twitter was one year old;
now it’s become mainstream. More
people are using Facebook than
Yahoo. It’s become so mainstream
that it’s become a habit, this culture
of sharing. It’s quite normal to
share with complete and total
strangers. We’ve started to see the
benefits of sharing, but we haven’t
seen this in the workplace.
How is the ongoing economic down-
turn affecting this?
Last year, people were slashing
marketing budgets because
demand wasn’t there. First, compa-
nies turned to social marketing
because of the low cost. Second, it
was a way to stay in touch with cus-
tomers already in the pipeline
rather than trying to drive demand.
Which company is a poster-child for
using social technology to drive its
businesses forward and increase
ROI?
Bestbuy. They have trusted their
employees; they recruit enthusias-
tic people, part-time workers usually
in their 20s who want a discount.
They started using social media to
reach employees internally, then
thought it would be a way to reach
the customer—employees have blogs
and e-mails to talk to customers.
The company is social and open—a
tremendous advantage over other
retailers. —Karin Pekarchik
Visit the Harlequin booth and meet
your favorite authors!
Wednesday, May 26th
IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS
Time Event Author Title
10:00-10:45 am Debbie Macomber Debbie Macomber 92 Pacific Boulevard
Hour Debbie Macomber’s
Cedar Cove Cookbook

11:00-11:45 am Tosca Reno Hour Tosca Reno Your Best Body Now:
Look and Feel Fabulous at
Any Age the Eat-Clean Way

12:00-12:45 pm Young Adult Hour Gena Showalter Intertwined

Rachel Vincent My Soul to Keep
Maria V. Snyder Inside Out
Artist Arthur Manifest
Celeste O. Norfleet She Said, She Said
Earl Sewell Decision Time

1:00-1:45 pm Kimani Hour Brenda Jackson Hidden Pleasures

Rochelle Alers Breakaway
A.C. Arthur Defying Desire
Celeste O. Norfleet Sultry Storm
Gwynne Forster Yes, I Do

2:00-2:45 pm Harlequin Series Kate Hewitt Her Mediterranean Playboy

Showcase Leslie Kelly Blazing Bedtime Stories, Vol V
Linda Goodnight The Wedding Garden
Susan Mallery High-Powered, Hot-Blooded
Christine Merrill Pleasurably Undone!
Terri Brisbin Pleasurably Undone!

3:00-3:45 pm Harlequin Series Sandra Marton Blackwolf’s Redemption

Showcase Brenda Jackson Hot Westmoreland Nights/
Spontaneous
Anna Leonard The Hunted
Daly Thompson Dream Daddy
Kerry Connor Stranger in a Small Town
Janet Tronstad Wife Wanted in Dry Creek

Booth #3922

OFFICIAL BEA AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH SESSIONS

Time Table Author Title
9:30-10:30 am 7 Robyn Carr A Summer in Sonoma
10:00-11:00 am 1 Linda Lael Miller McKettricks of Texas: Garrett
10:00-11:00 am 2 Susan Mallery Almost Perfect

ABA BOOTH SIGNINGS

Time Author Title
10:30 am Diane Chamberlain The Lies We Told
10:30 am Deanna Raybourn The Dead Travel Fast

ABA LUNCHEON/Special Events Hall

Time Author
11:45 am Diane Chamberlain
11:45 am Deanna Raybourn
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Relax with from the Society of Illustrators.

Parallax Press, the principal
Child’s Mind: Mindfulness Practices
to Help Our Children Be More

Buddhist publisher of Vietnamese Zen Bud-

dhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, is
focusing on mindfulness for chil-
Focused, Calm, & Relaxed.
Parallax and Wisdom will cohost
their annual tea gathering for Bud-

Publishers dren in two signings at the show.

Two publishers specializing in Bud-
dhist materials offer a meditative
breath, signed books, and tea.
Hoof it over to the Wisdom Publica-
tions’ booth (4307B) at 2 p.m. today for
a signed copy of The Banyan Deer by
Rafe Martin, illus. by Richard Wehr-
man. The gift book’s subtitle, A Para-
ble of Courage and Compassion,
telegraphs its little story about a deer
who teaches a king a lesson; it’s based
on a “jataka tale,” a fable that tells a
story from an earlier lifetime of the
Buddha and that, like a fairy or folk
tale, conveys a moral. It doesn’t men-
tion the Buddha. “It has a very uni-
versal message of kindness and com-
passion,” says Joe Evans, who han-
dles publicity and marketing at Wis-
dom. The book is being positioned as
a gift for all ages. Author Martin’s
pile of awards includes three Ameri-
can Library Association Notable Books
awards and four Parents’ Choice
Gold Awards. Illustrator Wehrman’s
recognitions include a gold medal
Today, at 1 p.m., author Gail Silver
and illustrator Christiane Krömer
will sign copies of the award-win-
Both authors are doing book signings.
ning Anh’s Anger at Table 14.
Same time tomorrow at Table 16,
A Few Good Words
Phyllis Pellman Good,
author of the Fix-It and
Forget-It series of cook-
books, is celebrating the
10th anniversary of the the
first Fix-It and Forget-It
Cookbook, which has just
been updated. Sales are
close to 10 million units for
all of the Fix-It cookbooks.
Recipes from homes.
Why did you update this cookbook?
There are three elements missing
from the first edition—What is the
ideal slow cooker size for this recipe?
How long does it take to prep? How
long does it take to cook? I wanted to
include this information so people
Dr. Christopher Willard will sign
could see at a glance what
they were committing to.
How has cooking changed
since it was first published?
The commitment to cook
at home has grown in the
past 10 years, yet I see
how little people know
about it.
What makes the Fix-It
cookbook so popular?
It’s not intimidating. Peo-
ple have also said that they
love that the recipes come from
other families. It reassures them that
they come from other people’s
homes and that they work.
Is the economic downturn affecting
how families cook?
The economy has been a big ele-
dhist and Buddhist-friendly publish-
ers and editors at long day’s end
tomorrow. Tea and cookies will be
provided from 4 to 5 p.m. at Wisdom’s
booth. BYOM (bring your own mind-
fulness). —Marcia Z. Nelson
ment. Eating at home is considerably
less expensive. And less expensive
cuts of meat do very well in a slow
cooker.
Is the growing interest in local and
sustainable agriculture an influ-
ence in your new book?
This book doesn’t hinge on the need
for fresh, only because the recipes
tend to cook for a long time. These
aren’t salad recipes. But people
clearly are concerned about that.
We now have a consciousness and
conscience about what we feed our
families. There is mystery in buying
packaged, finished foods. People
are becoming highly alert to where
meat comes from. Locally produced
meat will certainly pay off in the
final results of these dishes.
—Karin Pekarchik

Meet the Authors

Peter Quinn
Autographing Copies of
The Man Who Never
Returned
Wednesday, May 26 1:00-2:00
Table 9

Frank Deford
Autographing Copies of
Bliss, Remembered
Thursday, May 27 10:00-11:00
Table 9

P.F. Kluge
Autographing Copies of
A Call From Jersey
Thursday, May 27 3:00-4:00
Table 13

Booth 3552

The Overlook Press

www.overlookpress.com

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Your BEA Horoscope
GEMINI (May 21–June 20)
Something has depressed you, but
these feelings will dissipate the
minute you put your trade show
plan into action. A fascinating idea
(maybe the one that saves publish-
ing?) is hidden in your brain, and
you have the power to recruit a key
person to your cause!
CANCER (June 21–July 22)
This week signals a long-term shift
(perhaps to a new location or a new
audience for your work). All this
adds up to more money—and your
talents blooming in a setting with-
Usjtubo!Qvcmjtijoh
books with a message
Booth 4132
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Knitters Rejoice
New England Knits is available
July 2010. Come to booth #4113
and check out an advance copy!
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PUBL I SHERS
out the usual schedules and dead-
lines! Did you bring your résumé to
the show?
LEO (July 23–Aug. 22)
Currently, fiery Mars is zooming
through Leo, and you have a chance
to make it big. Take a brave stand
with powers-that-be. It’s time to
close a door and put on speed
toward a special ambition! Go
ahead, have that extra glass of wine
at dinner with your boss tonight.
VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22)
You’re not a bragger, but it’s defi-
nitely time to blow your own horn.
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Grab your free skein of
yarn from Interweave
Wednesday only! Stop by the
Interweave Booth #4113 to pick
up a FREE skein
of yarn to
celebrate the
release of New
England Knits.
We’re handing
out free skeins
of Princess yarn,
a merinocashmere blend from
Classic Elite Yarns, featured in
the gorgeous Old Port Pullover
found in the book. Swing by
while supplies last!
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W E E K LY
Make sure others see the visionary
scope of your idea. You have bril-
liance for handling money and can
tap into public taste.
LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22)
A “no” turns into a “yes,” but with a
slight twist. Think out of the box.
This is a special opportunity to get
to your goal, but in a way that allows
you to take on a far more public
role. Just remember: what happens
at the PGW party doesn’t stay at the
PGW party!
SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 22)
Complex career issues that others
would run from are where you
shine. So refuse to be hampered by
petty rules and plunge forward
with your attention-getting project.
You’re about to get good financial
news. Sales are up! Returns are
down!
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23–Dec. 21)
Your observant eye has already
spotted opportunity. Now you need
to say “no” to a previous arrange-
ment and handle an enterprise
according to your own vision. Deal
directly with an outfit that can mar-
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