BEA Show Daily, May 31, Day 2

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Friday
May 31, 2013
Publishers Weeklys Show Daily is produced each day during the 2013 BookExpo in New York.
The Show Daily press office is in 4A Terrace. PWs booth is #1252.
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Stability Brings Hope at BEA

Although some reports
from the consumer press
may have overstated the
health of the independent
book businessthe APs
Hillel Italie used the term
growth industrybooksellers at this years
BookExpo America do
seem in better spirits. And
with good reason: for starters, the numbers are there.
The ABA reported an uptick in membership for the
fourth straight year, and
ABA CEO Oren Teicher
said that the independent
channel saw a gain of 8%
from the previous year.
Beyond those gains, though,
the cheerier mood seems,
as many industry members
told PW from the show floor,
due in large part to a sense
that the digital business has
leveled off. After years of
concernat times panic
that e-books would replace
print books and, in turn,
wipe out bricks-and-mortar
bookstores altogether,
there is a sense that print
and digital can, and will, coexist. Or as Perseus Books
Groups CEO David
Steinberger put it, for the
first time in a few years the
future doesnt feel like its
changing that rapidly.
The show has brought its
usual collision of celebrities
and authors, high culture
and low. (Steinberger, for
example, had just flipped
from a conversation with
former Jersey Shore cast
member Snooki, whose
book Baby Bumps is coming
from Running Press in
December, to one with investigative journalist
Jeremy Scahill, whose book
about the mounting dangers of Americas drone
program, Dirty Wars, was
published by Nation Books
in April.) There is also a
feeling that, after a tumultuous few years, there is a

solid future in books.
Things are picking up for
[independent] booksellers,
said Olga Nolan, a sales supervisor for HarperCollins.
Theyre seeing theres a
market for both print books
and e-books. At Nolans
booth, the morning had
brought long lines for galley
giveaways of two anticipated November novels: Wally
Lambs We Are Water and
Amy Tans The Valley of
Amazement.
Things are pretty good
in their world, said
Nortons field sales manager, Dan Christiaens, referring to independent booksellers. Christiaens, who
regularly talks to owners of
indie stores, said there is

certainly a sense, after
years of watching independent stores close, that those
that are still standing are
doing so for a reason.
Terry Adams, Little,
Browns v-p of digital and its
paperback publisher, said
the e-book revolution
seems to have met its level
and that the indie booksellers, accordingly, seem
stronger than ever. Adams
also noted that BookExpo
remains one of his favorite
times of the year because
the publishers are put on
the sales front lines that
the booksellers are always
on, having to pitch their
books to those who will then
bring the message to the
consumers. It is, as Adams
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By Rachel Deahl
Fair-goers were in a buoyant mood yesterday morning at the opening of the

Exhibit Halls for BEA 2013.
elaborated, the one time of

year when the publishers
need to hand-sell to their
biggest hand-sellers.
Megan Sullivan, from
Bostons Harvard Bookstore,
said she thought many publishers have a bigger presence than last year and
that the booths were, overall, bigger. Though some
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said he misses the ability to
meet with publishers during the week and then attend the show on Saturday
and Sundayit was not an
overwhelming complaint.
Welcoming Power Readers
The weekend, this year,
brought more questions
about Consumer Day, which
is entering its second year.
Booksellers, as well as those
working at the houses, said
they were eager to see how
many consumers would actually show up on Saturday,
and what kind of consumers
they would be. Questions
about who the mysterious
Power Readers are persisted; some wondered if
more would-be authors would
come, eager to pitch ideas
to publishers as opposed to
pick up books to read.
Nonetheless, many who
spoke to PW said this years
Consumer Day, which seems
to have an improved concept
compared to the inaugural
event last year, would be a
better test of whether this
longtime trade show is a
good place for the general
public. It was less advertising-driven and less programmed last year, said
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hoping Saturday draws the
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Chelsea Morning
soldiers, A Long Way Gone, took up
by moving directly into a talk on the
importance of storytelling. I
learned stories are the escorts of
our lives, said Beah, who credited
storytellers in the village where he
grew up in Sierra Leone with shaping his decision to become a writer.
He also spoke about how he would
ride on his fathers shoulders as a
young boy and his father would pretend to be blind. Beah would have
to describe the things around him.
We have a tradition, when you
write a story, when you tell a story,
it is no longer yours, said Beah.
You can only be the shepherd of
the story. For me, the most important part of my work is to share the
story, to write the story. Stories are
the foundation of our lives. Theyre
even how we dream and shape the
future. In his new book, a debut
novel, Radiance of Tomorrow (FSG/
Sarah Crichton Books, Jan. 2014),
he said that he wanted to imagine
what it would be like to return
home after a village is destroyed.
Storytelling, too, was at the heart
of the talk by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Thursdays author breakfast involved time travel, Theodore

Roosevelt, storytelling, Chelsea
Handler, and even a quote from
Kierkegaard: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be
lived forwards. After the presentation of this years PW Sales Rep of
the Year Award to Bruce Joshua
Miller of Miller Trade Book
Marketing, and Bookstore of the
Year to Square Books in Oxford,
Miss., which in turn gave PW a
framed piece of the stores wooden
balcony, Handler took over as mistress of ceremonies.
Im very excited to be here this
morning. I am not sure how the
publishing industry is going, but Id
like nothing more than to keep it
alive. I thought maybe I would appear on Kindle, she said. She offered to read a passage from her
new book, her fifth, Uganda Be
Kidding Me (Grand Central, Oct.).
But its not ready yet. Im publicly
asking for an extension.
Its no easy act to follow Handler,
a challenge Ishmael Beah, best
known for his 2007 book about
Sierra Leones civil war and child
and Taft for the past six years based

on a key criterion for all her books:
I have to live with this character
year after year. And there are
some, like Hitler, whom she
wouldnt want to wake up to day
after day.
Wally Lamb, the time traveler, in
his new novel, We Are Water
(HarperCollins, Nov.), said that he
revisits two key incidents from his
childhood in Greenwich, Conn.
One is the death of a black man,
folk artist Ellis Ruley, who may have
been murdered. The second is a
flash flood in 1963 that killed five
mill workers and a young mother.
Along his journey back in time,
Lamb offered scenes from his high
school involving escaped fruit flies
and dead cats that convinced him
not to choose a life in the physical
sciences and to become an English
teacher insteadin the same high
school and town where he grew up.
Although each speaker thanked
the audience for supporting their
writing and getting their books into
the hands of readers, perhaps
Lamb said it best: I want you to
know how grateful I am to every
one of you booksellers, librarians,
bloggers. The writer and the reader
are two poles apart from each other. And you in the audience are the
Judith Rosen
electricity.
Breakfast speakers (l. to r.) Wally Lamb,

Chelsea Handler, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and
Ishmael Beah
about her newest book, The Bully

Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William
Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of
Journalism (Simon & Schuster,
Oct.). My belief is, history at its best
is about telling stories. I have spent
a lifetime telling stories about presidents, she said. It may seem an
odd profession to tell stories about
dead presidents. Her only fear, she
joked, is that in the afterlife, shell
have to face a panel of presidents.
There Lyndon Johnson will attack
her for writing a book on the
Kennedys that is twice as long as
the one on him. Goodwin noted that
she chose to write about Roosevelt
A Bookseller Hat for Jeff Kinney?

In the runup to book eight in the
hugely successful Wimpy Kid series
(Nov.), creator Jeff Kinney is keeping himself busy with a new project,
a possible bookstore and cafe in
downtown Plainville, Mass., a small
town in southern New England. If all
goes well, he could be the latest in a
string of successful writers to turn
bookseller.
The bookstore actually had its
roots 17 years ago when Falks
Market, once the towns central
building, closed and fell into disrepair. It was literally falling apart
and caved in, Kinney told PW.
Everybody who lived in Plainville
gave a sighor did the head-down
Charlie Brownwhen they passed

by, because it represents our town.
Kinney and his wife ended up
buying the market and the building
next to it, which will be made into a
parking lot. Ive had a lot of success. It seemed like the right thing
to do, said Kinney, who wanted to
help his community by restoring the
downtown to its former glory.
Because the market was in such
bad shape, he had to tear it down
and is currently working with architects to build a three-story colonial
on the site. He envisions retail on
the ground floora 3,000-sq.-ft.
bookstore and cafea community
center with yoga and classes on the
second floor, and offices above.

As he continues to explore
whether a bookstore makes sense,
Kinneys been working with Paz &
Associates and meeting with booksellers around New England. We
understand the financial decisions,
he said. My hope is that it will be a
bookstore. Its got to be useful to the
town. He knows, too, that a bookstore will have to draw people into
Plainville (pop. 6,000). We have to
be smart and cautious, he said. For
now, that translates into moving forward with plans for a general bookstore, which will likely have a strong
Wimpy Kid section.
Marisha Pessl signed copies of galleys for Night Flying at

the Random House booth.
Judith Rosen
As part of a project to develop a

code of best practices for book reviews, the NBCC hosted a panel to
present data from its ongoing survey and discuss questions that have
arisen in the process. Moderated by
board member Marcela Valdes, the
panel featured Carlin Romano of
the Chronicle of Higher Education,
agent Eric Simonoff of William
Morris Endeavor, critic Maureen
Corrigan of NPRs Fresh Air, editor
Parul Sehgal of the New York Times
Book Review, and editor Lorin
Stein, editor of the Paris Review.
Corrigan, in discussing notions of
objectivity in book reviewing, noted
that one pleasure of reading criticism is to watch the mind at work.
She questioned the value of sterilized reviews stripped clean of their
biases. Her fellow panelists agreed,
adding that of greater importance
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is that a critic be honest about any

impartiality or biases. Sehgal remarked that different publications
have different contracts with their
readers, and expectations change
as readers needs change. A good
critic, she continued, should always
be interrogating their own tastes
in the process of reviewing.
Simonoff provided an agents
perspective and brought up issues
surrounding the importance of who
receives a particular assignment.
At a time when less space is given
to criticism generally, every review
counts that much more, while
Romano reminded the audience,
Literary ethics dont take place in
a vacuum. In that light, is it beneficial to make space for polite or
inoffensive reviews? Sehgal and
Stein both questioned the value of
refusing to write negative reviews,
since it is important to a critics

evolving sensibility. Stein also noted that its not necessary that a reviewer finish a book, but in the rare
case that happens, the why
should be fleshed out in the piece.
Valdes asked, Are there any
hard rules that we could put out
there? The panelists concurred
that, despite Romanos earlier sentiments against applying a universal code for reviewers, being honest
about biases within a piece is fundamental, and that its vital to take
a book on its own terms, not those
desired by the critic. Sehgal and
Romano added that a good critic
never misrepresents an authors
argument or exaggerates the flaws
in a text.
The NBCC continues its explorations into these issues through the
Alex Crowley
summer.
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Literary Ethics for Reviewers
Veronica Roth signed posters for her book,

Allegiant, the highly anticipated conclusion
to her Divergent trilogy, at the HarperCollins booth.
PUBL I SHERS
W E E K LY
g at
Legendary comedian Tim Conway was on

hand to sign galleys of his memoir at the
Simon & Schuster booth.
Lyn Roberts, general manager of Square Books in

Oxford, Miss., presents PW co-editorial director Jim
Milliot with a framed piece of the stores old wooden
balcony, signed by staff members. Square Books was
PW s Bookstore of the Year, and the award was given
just before Thursdays Authors Breakfast.
ABA CEO Oren Teicher, flanked by

Becky Anderson,
outgoing ABA
President, and
Steve Bercu, her
successor, before
the Town Hall
meeting on Thursday afternoon.
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ket in e-books is what consumers

want, and when consumers win,
everyone wins.
However, Rosenblatt, a longtime
critic of ReDigi and the whole concept of a used e-book market, believes a used-digital marketplace
would lead to a loss leader pricing
model that would drive the price of
an e-book to zero. But he said that if
publishers want a usede-book market they need to start it now, in order
to establish a precedent for value
rather than basing all this on an abstract theory of what will happen.
Aiken made the case that if there
were a legal resale market, it would
destroy any incentive to fund serious
books and will undermine the primary book market. This should be
left to Congress, he said. However,
he did agree that if publishers want
to start a secondary market they
should do so. If authors and publishers want to do it, fine, but trying
to do it [with ReDigi] under current
law is not how to do it.
Undaunted, Ossenmacher replied, Businesses shouldnt wait for
the government to decide about
digital resell. If you wait for the government, publishers will be left
Calvin Reid
out.
YA Buzz: Books with

Identity Issues
The Fight Over Digital Resell

The debate over digital resell continues, this time at the IDPF 2013
Digital Book Conference in a panel
called When Is a Sale Not a Sale?
Selling vs. Licensing Digital Content,
featuring a familiar set of debaters,
including ReDigi CEO John
Ossenmacher, Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken, and digital media consultant Bill Rosenblatt.
Despite a series of court rulings
against the concept of digital firstsale rights, ReDigis Ossenmacher
was on hand to continue to make the
case for the practice. ReDigia firm
that offers a digital resale market for
music and is looking to add e-books
allows customers to sell their used
digital files (and offers publishers a
royalty on the sales), but the proceeds
can only be used within the digital
economy of ReDigi. Accordingly
Ossenmacher made the case that
ReDigi is helping the music business
and will do the same for publishers.
Indeed, Ossenmacher claims, Our
resellers sell, but they want to get
new goods with the funds. He even
claims that people are buying albums on ReDigi because they know
they can get their money back after
listening to the album. Ossenmacher says that a secondary mar-
rector, Emily
Meehan, posed a
scenario to the audience: Imagine your
20-year-old self has
the chance to go
back and talk to your
16-year-old self.
Cristin Terrills All
Our Yesterdays explores that possibility in what Meehan
said was pitched as
Terminator meets
At the YA Buzz Panel, editors enthused about their titles: (l. to r.)
The Time-Travelers
Sara Goodman, St. Martins; Elise Howard, Delacorte; Kate
Wife. I wish I could
OSullivan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Emily Meehan, Disneytake credit for the
Hyperion; and Wendy Loggia, Random House.
amazing pacing and
Young adulthood is all about trying
plotting, Meehan said, explaining
on different personas, so its not surthat what also drew her in were the
prising that the five books in discusemotional connections between the
sion at Thursday mornings Young
characters and the deceptive simAdult Editors Buzz panel all feaplicity of Cristins writing. Terrill,
ture main characters who are eishe added, has just delivered book
ther sampling, or being thrust into,
two.
different identitiessometimes litAnother book with a
erally.
Hollywoodesque pitch was Amy
Suzanna Hermans, co-owner of
Rose Capettas Entangled. HMH exOblong Books & Music in
ecutive editor Kate OSullivan said
Rhinebeck, N.Y., wasted no time inthat at BEA 2012, Capettas agent,
troducing the first panelist: Sara
Sara Crowe, spoke of Capettas deGoodman, associate editor at St.
but, If the TV show Firefly were a
Martins Press. Editors love to comYA novel, it would be Entangled.
plain about the ones that got away,
And as a self-described Browncoat
Goodman said, and for her that one
(a Firefly fan), OSullivan said, That
was Rainbow Rowells debut, an
was all I needed to hear. Entangled
adult novel called Attachments
is set in the year 3129; Cade is a
(Dutton, 2011). I pined for this
17-year-old loner with a cherry-red
book. Goodmans unrequited love
guitar. When she learns that shes in
had a happy ending, with the acquifact a lab creation, entangled at a
sition of Rowells first young adult
subatomic level with a boy named
novel, Eleanor & Park and its followXan, she sets out to locate him, joinup, Fangirl. In the book, which
ing up with a crew of outlaws. The
Goodman described as young
story is about human connection,
adult literature with a capital L,
OSullivan said. How much are we
Cath and her twin sister, Wren, have
willing to risk to connect? Unmade,
a huge online following as authors
the sequel, is due in fall 2014.
of fan fiction based in the universe
Elise Howard, editor and publishof Simon Snow (think Harry Potter).
er of Algonquin Young Readers
In the canonical version, Simon and
launching its first list this fallconhis roommate, Baz, are sworn enecluded the panel with her discusmies; in Caths fan fiction, theyre in
sion of If You Could Be Mine, Sara
love. Goodman sounded like a bit of
Farizans debut. First, she gave
a Rowell fangirl herself, closing
some background: Many people
with, Youll want to write fan fiction
are aware that in Iran its a crime to
about Fangirlits just that good.
be gay, often punishable by death.
Alternate universes also feature
What they may not know, she said,
prominently in Anna Jarzabs
is that gender reassignment surTandem. What would it be like to
gery is legal. In Farizans novel,
live in a world thats like ours, but
17-year-old Sahar has been in love
different? asked Delacorte execuwith her best friend, Nasrin, since
tive editor Wendy Loggia. Who
they were six. Then Nasrins parwould you be in this alternate unients arrange a marriage between
verse? Thats the question 16-yearher and an older, successful doctor.
old Sasha Lawson of Chicago must
At a party given by Sahars cousin
answer when she finds herself
Ali, who is gay, and has never gone
trapped in the parallel world of
to great pains to hide it, Sahar
Aurora, in which shes a princess
meets a girl who began life as a boy,
whose disappearance threatens
and realizes that she may have
peace between lands. Loggia
found the way to be with Nasrin
praised the novels terrific worldthough it would mean sacrificing
buildingthe world teens know,
her true self in the process. At its
and the world of Aurora. In addicore, Howard said, the book is
tion to a sequel, Tether, planned for
about being in love with a person
spring 2014, Delacorte will also rethe world says is wrong for you
lease digital originals in the Manysomething that many young readWorlds trilogy.
ers, regardless of identity, will reDisney-Hyperions editorial dilate to.
Carolyn Juris
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MEETINGS AND EVENTS

89:30 a.m. Childrens Book and Author Breakfast: Mary Pope Osborne, Rick
Riordan, Veronica Roth, and Octavia Spencer as emcee
9 a.m.5 p.m. Exhibit Hall

9 a.m. 5 p.m. International Rights and Business Center
1111:50 a.m. Middle-Grade Editors Buzz (Room 1E12/13): Caroline
Carlson, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Matthew Ward, Bob Pflugfelder and Steve
Hockensmith, Amy Herrick
45 p.m. Audio Publishers Association Author Tea: Bill Bryson, Louise Penny,
Brandon Sanderson, and Janis Ian as emcee
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
3 p.m. Visit the Chronicle Books booth (739) to be photographed with Internet
sensation Grumpy Cat and get postcards of her famed frown.
3:154 p.m. Workman author Sharon Salzberg (Real Happiness at Work:

Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace) is doing a
bookseller meditation in the ABA lounge.
4 p.m. At the Random House booth (2739), there are sample cocktail recipes
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and a special giveaway celebrating Storied Sips by Erica Duecy; she will be on
hand to answer questions and make cocktail recommendations.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Daisy Maryles

MANAGING EDITORS Sonia Jaffe Robbins, Michael Coffey
(Final cove
ART DIRECTOR Clive Chiu
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PHOTOGRAPHER Steve Kagan

STAFF REPORTERS Andrew Albanese, Matia Burnett, Peter Cannon, Jessamine Chan,
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An Eclectic Mixture of Book Buzz

Its a perfect loop of editors, sales
reps, and booksellers who create
buzz for the books they love, an
excitement fueled by trust, faith,
and knowledge, noted moderator
Betsy Burton, co-owner of the Kings
English Bookshop in Salt Lake City,
during Wednesday afternoons
Editors Buzz panel. Six editors
introduced the upcoming releases
they are most excited about to a
packed room of 500 booksellers,
publicists, editors, and media.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt editor
Deanne Urmy kicked off the session
with Hitlers Furies: German Women
in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy

Lower, a history professor at
Claremont McKenna College and
research associate at Ludwig
Maximilian University in Munich.
Its original, rigorous research
she asks brave questions, Urmy
said, explaining that Lower had
delved into newly opened Soviet
archives and had discovered that
at least 500,000 German women
had been in direct contact with
Nazi atrocities on the eastern front
as witnesses, accomplices, or murderers. Hitlers Furies profiles 13 of
these women. Foreign rights have
been sold in a dozen countries.

Editor Lise Mayer celebrated that
The Facades by Eric Lundgren was
the first Overlook title to be included
on a buzz panel. Its a debut novel
about self-deception and self-discovery, as a young man, Norbert,
searches for his missing wife in the
streets of Trude, a once-great
Midwestern city that has fallen into
ruins. Disclosing that she has read
The Facades seven times, and each
time it breaks my heart, Mayer
promised that readers will also be
instantly blown away.
Anna de Vries described The
Join two of this falls most

buzzed-about authors
for a moderated discussion on why
realistic teen fiction is making a major comeback
Lisa Burton
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Realistic Fiction Stage Panel

Friday, May 31, at 3:00 pm
Uptown Stage
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KATIE COTUGNO
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Friday, May 31, at 1:30 pm Table 12
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signing How to Love

Friday, May 31, at 10:30 am Table 25
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An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Affairs of Others, the debut novel by

Byliner Inc. editor Amy Grace Loyd,
as a story that New Yorkers can
relate to, as well as any woman of a
certain age. This is a sexy book, de
Vries said, about a widow, haunted
by memories of her husband, who is
drawn into the affairs of the neighbors in her small apartment building. I hope you understand and
even like Celia as she rages against
fate, de Vries said, drawing laughs
when she said that this was the first
time she received critiques of her
editing by one of her authors.
Five Days at Memorial by Pulitzerwinning journalist Sheri Fink will be
released in early September, eight
years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, and six years
after Fink started researching the
suspicious deaths of 45 patients at
Memorial Hospital there. Crown
editor Vanessa Mobley called it
masterful storytelling by a writer
with impeccable credentials. Even
though Five Days tells the story of
how doctors hastened the deaths of
some of their most critically ill
patients, its a book teeming with
life, memorable names, and colorful
personalities.
Scribner editor Whitney Fricks
presentation was probably the most
moving, as she related Knocking on
Heavens Door: The Path to a Better
Way of Death by care over cure
advocate Katy Butler to her own
familys situation. While editing
Butlers account of her parents
deathsher fathers an agonizing
and drawn-out process, and her
mothers a graceful oneFricks
93-year-old grandmother was hospitalized. Katy was giving me and
my family a gift, Frick said. We
were able to have that conversation
with my grandmother. Comparing
Knocking on Heavens Door to
Andrew Solomons Far from the Tree
and Anne Fadimans Spirit Catches
You and You Fall Down, Frick
praised Butlers lyrical writing,
declaring that her voice transcends the serious subject matter.
Its also extremely timely, Frick
pointed out: 24 million baby boomers are caring for aging parents.
Moving to the other end of the
spectrum, Ecco editorial director
Lee Boudreaux finished up the session with her presentation of All Joy
and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern
Parenthood by Jennifer Senior. I
didnt think all joy and no fun would
be the common theme of this panel,
Boudreaux joked, then said that
Senior spent three years researching modern parenthood at three
stages: newborn, middle-grade, and
teen. This is not a parenting book,
Boudreaux emphasized, calling it
the sequel to What to Expect When
Youre Expecting. This is a parenthood book. It describes what its like
to be a parent in this day and age....
You will recognize yourself on every
page of this book. You are not alone,
Claire Kirch
Boudreaux said.
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Audio Publishers Hear Out Brafman

A bestselling author and organizational expert, Ori Brafman laid out a
plan for the audio industry to better
influence consumers Wednesday in a
lively and interactive keynote that
kicked off APAC at Javits.
With irrational customer decisionmaking holding back increased audio
revenues, Brafmanthe author of
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational
Behaviorsuggested several guidelines to help the industry change the way people view audiobooks.
When it comes to making decisions, the higher the consequences, the
more irrational the behavior. When we cant possibly [weigh] all the different
factors, we start simplifying, Brafman said. And this leads to poor decisions.
To counter irrational decision-making, Brafman suggested setting the
value of products (i.e., price) to manage initial consumer reception, and then
attempting to gain small initial commitments from customers that could be
later parlayed into larger commitments. Brafman also urged taking advantage of consumers aversion to losing out on a product. We feel the pull of a
loss much more intensely than we feel the pleasure of a gain, Brafman said,
calling the pairing of loss aversion and small commitments a very powerful
combination.
Brafmanwho joked that he was jealous and resentful of the audience
because he had not been allowed to narrate his own audiobookssuggested
that consumers often fail to understand the audiobook production process,
which leads to misconceptions about unfair pricing. He stressed that maintaining consumers perceptions of fairness was important.
Finally, Brafman insisted that the audio industry create and maintain
strong bonds with customers, while also controlling perception.
Setting the context is the most important thing that anybody can do in an
industry or in an organization, Brafman said. You dont have to change the
message, you dont have to change the content. What you can change is how
you deliver it.
Adam Boretz
Being Social Matters

Moderator Kirsten Hess, director of events and marketing at R.J. Julia
Booksellers in Madison, Conn., kicked off Wednesday afternoons panel by
observing that two to three years ago, social media was not important
enough to bring up in a business plan. In 36 months, quite a lot has changed,
as social media was the central concept of the panel Being Social: Reaching
Your Customers and Community.
The panelists, who including Twitters Andrew Fitzgerald and Ingram
Group Contents Amy Cox Williams, varied in their preferred method of
social media, though all agreed it was a 24-hour job. They also agreed that
booksellers and authors should understand the viral forums before attempting to navigate them. The Booksmiths Amy Stephenson noted, Different
platforms have different cultures. Learn the cultures first. Fitzgerald, an
obvious advocate of Twitter and also the Vine forumsaid, Twitter is a
platform you can experiment with because its in real time. It gives booksellers the opportunity to interact and engage with customers in and out of the
store.
Customers and community were a strong focus in the hour talk. The
whole idea of who are we talking to is are we talking with them or at
them? said Hess. Readers want to know why booksellers recommend a
book, and why its important to them, rather than having titles pushed at
them. The experts explained that this, in a nutshell, is what social media
affords those willing to use it and use it wisely. The various avenues of social
media are wide. Williams noted, Social media is a stream, and it can be easy
for your audience to miss your message. An expert in e-mail and e-mail
marketing, Williams advised using a call to action, whether its asking for a
feedback or someone to like or follow you.
Choosing a social media platform is an often daunting process. Pick a
goal, said Lynette Young, owner of Purple Stripe Productions. Young, who
also chaired the panel Hosting a Global Book Tour Using Google+, advised,
Determine first what you want to get out of social media. When the purpose
is determined, its easier to choose relevant topics to support it. Fitzgerald
suggested booksellers use cross-promotion and generate online word of
mouth to reach goals. Create cooperative relationships with publicists and
authors, and bring your community together.
Whichever social media platforms booksellers or authors choose, the panel
agreed that consistency of involvement is crucial. Once youre in, stay
engaged, said Stephenson. Transparency is vital, and the aim should be to
keep content authentic. Booksellers should be geared to inform, not shout,
Paige Crutcher
at their audience.
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THE POWER OF SOUND.

Acoustik, powered by Findaway World, is more than a free audiobook app.
It enables retailers to expand their offerings without new inventory costs.
It gives libraries more formats to offer their patrons. It gives readers
a whole new way to enjoy a vast collection of stories, on most popular
devices. And its easily downloaded from the Apple App store, Google
Play or the NOOK Store. If Acoustik sounds amazing, its because it is.
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Tans Pre-Pub Anxiety

Amy Tans highly anticipated new novel, The Valley of
Amazement, was more than six years in the making,
and no one was more eager to celebrate its completion than the author herself. Liberation Day, she
wrote on her blog, AmyTanAuthor.com, this past
August, citing the anxiety she felt while trying to
write and a limitless list of experiences she had while
not wrestling with words at my desk.... those reasons
were due to Lifewith a capital Lin all its messy,
unpredictable, lovely and unhappy forms.
I was incredibly moved by that blog post, says
Leigh Haber, book editor at O, the Oprah Magazine,
who is moderating a q&a with Tan at the Downtown
Author Stage at 1 p.m. today. But I have to say I was
surprised to find out that even a writer of Amy Tans stature could feel such
anxiety about her work, though the humanity in her work suggests that she
suffers just like the rest of us.
Haber says that The Valley of Amazement (Ecco Press, Nov.) reflects Tans
brilliant touch with even the smallest detail.... her ability to capture the
exotic and make it feel relatable, and her gift for constructing worlds in
which community is everything. The book, like her first, The Joy Luck Club,
spans generations; it also spans continents, bringing readers from a love
story in 19th-century San Francisco to the back rooms of the courtesan
houses of Shanghai.
Tan is a master writer, says her editor, Ecco publisher Daniel Halpern, who
says the two have been in close touch since the HarperCollins imprint acquired
the book in March 2011. The blog post, he says, reflects her work ethicshe is
the toughest critic of her own writing, he saysand is a testament to the effort
she put into the story: So nuanced and so psychologically sophisticated, he
says. Its the book she needed to write at this point in her career.
Sarah J. Robbins
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In the fall of 2010, when the celebrated Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin
approached National Geographic Press with a serious book proposal advocating for a U. S.-led mission to Mars that would include corporate as well as
international cooperation, senior editor Susan Hitchcock says it sounded a
bit out of this world. In the past two years, so many things have happened
that he was presaging, Hitchcock says, referring to the rise in space tourism
and President Obamas assertion that the U.S. aspire to manned missions to
Mars by the 2030s.
In his book just released by NGP, Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration, Aldrin teamed up with Leonard Davis, an award-winning space journalist, to lay out his plan for the U.S. to build a space station on Mars; a plan
for a station on an asteroid and then on the Moon are only stepping stones. In
Mission to Mars, Aldrin lays out the history of space flight, including a nonnostalgic view of the people, technologies, and policies that helped make the
Apollo moon landings a success, as he writes about a project for further
space exploration beginning with bold executive branch support now and
looking into the future.
Aldrins very proud of the foreword for the book, written by his son Andrew,
which addresses the corporate policies and perspectives that are essential
elements in future space exploration. At one point, Hitchcock says, she suspected the ambition of the book might have been too lofty, but then the trio of
writersAldrin, son Andrew, and Davissent her a picture with Aldrin holding a sign that read men at work to assure her the job was getting done.
The result is a book that builds on Aldrins personal and professional history, combined with his perspective on the U.S. space programs history, as
it presents a plan of action looking forward. Aldrins aim is for the U.S. to
lead a United Strategic Space Enterprise, to boldly go where no one has
gone before. An international station on Mars
(with participation by
Japan, China, and India)
is a central part of that
program. Its my plan
for the rest of my life,
says Aldrin.
Aldrin signs copies of
Mission to Mars today
at 11 a.m. at the
National Geographic
Aldrin (c.) with son Andrew (l.) and space journalist
booth (2950).
Leonard Davis.
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30 and Going Strong

You wouldnt think that Algonquin Books, with its literary and erudite tradition, and Storey Publishing, with its country living, how-to focus, would
have much in common. But both are under the Workman Publishing
umbrella, and both are celebrating their 30th anniversaries. Today at 4 p.m.,
they are having a joint celebratory cocktail party at their booth (839) and
two lucky raffle winners (and their companions) will find themselves winning an all-expenses-paid (airfare and lodging) trip to either the scenic Berkshires of
Massachusetts, which Storey Publishing
calls home, or to Algonquins picturesque
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Algonquin publisher Elisabeth Scharlatt
(she has been with the company for 25
years) is particularly excited with its launch
of Algonquin Young Readers (see p. 32): I
think its appropriate that at age 30, Algonquin is giving birth. And the baby is a way
for us to expand without doing a larger list.
One of the things that I have always thought
we were so lucky about is that we could
keep the Algonquin list small. We do only 20 new
titles a year, which is a gift.
As for milestones over the years, Scharlatt
mentions, among many others, Kaye Gibbonss
Ellen Foster [1987] which, 10 years after publication, was selected as an Oprah Book Club pick,
and we still had it in print in hardcover. By 2006
,when we published
Water for Elephants,
wed realized that no
one could love our
books as much as we love them, and we decided it
was time for us to do our own paperback reprints.
And theres Ariel Sabars My Fathers Paradise,
which was an NBCC winner in biography in 2008.
Storeys origins couldnt be more different.
Though the company was created in 1983, its publishing program began nearly two decades earlier
when the Garden Way Corporation, which manufactured gardening power tools, used books as a
way to market its products. CEO Dan Reynolds
says, One of their titles published in the 70s was
The Joy of Gardening and every other page you
would see a picture of a Troy-Bilt rototiller, but it
was also a great gardening how-to book. Over the
years, they developed a line of books, and someone realized it was taking up a lot of resources. In
1983 they sold it to John Storey, who worked there
and turned it into Storey Publishing.
Notes Reynolds, Our main focus is books for
country living; what that means has been redefined over the years. Our key categories are gardening and animal husbandry. Crafts have taken
on a whole different personality over the last 10
years, so fiber crafts have been explosive for us
knitting, crocheting, and sewing. When I started
here in 1995 our demographic was a man in his
50s, and that has totally changed to a younger
audience: females and males in their 20s. With the
back-to-the-land movement, people care about
local food and sustainable living. Thats driving
our growth these days.
In 2014 Storey will launch a new line of books
called Storey Basics. According to Reynolds,
Theyre based on narrow thoughts that can be
covered completely in a 96-110page book. Right
now we have twoStarting Seeds and Finding Good Farm Landbut we will
have 12 new titles next spring.
Its big BEA title is a new two-volume, four-color book called Butchering.
Volume one focuses on chicken, rabbits, and other small animals, while
volume two is on beef cattle. Reynolds says, We took 12,000 photos for the
two books over a one-week period. We actually bought all these animals
and did the photo shoot right in the field with the author at our side. Its
quite a commitment to do [butchering] properly and humanely and to
make the photos helpful to someone new to the endeavor.
Hilary S. Kayle
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m Visit n Spotlight
Three authors well-known to bookcially those who dont have the
sellers and one debut author celeresources to go to the movies or
brated for her work on another
theme parks.
stage share the spotlight at this
Spencer will sign ARCs of The
mornings Childrens Book and
Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit
Author Breakfast. Octavia Spencer,
this morning, 11 a.m.noon, in the
who won an Academy Award for
S&S booth (26382639).
her role as Minny in The Help,
will act as master of ceremonies. Joining her on the podium
are Mary Pope Osborne, Rick
Riordan, and Veronica Roth.
Octavia Spencer has long
dabbled in writing, and notes
that she has volumes of unfinished things on my computer.
One story that she did finish is
Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective:
The Case of the Time-Capsule
Bandit (Simon & Schuster, Oct.).
The novel launches a series of
Octavia Spencer
Mary Pope Osborne
middle-grade mysteries, a
genre Spencer loves to read. I
love mysteries because I am a puzMary Pope Osborne arrives at
zle person and thats what mysterBEA to celebrate the forthcoming
ies are, she says. They also help
release of her 50th Magic Tree
one develop deductive reasoning
House novel, Hurry Up, Houdini!,
skills, which is a great thing. Everydue in July from Random House.
thing I do as an actor is in fact a
Osbornes interest in what she calls
mysteryI try to discover the truth
other realities inspired the series
about the character Im playing. So
21 years ago. I began to think,
I gravitated toward mysteries in my
What if I could travel through time
writing, too. I think mysteries are a
with a couple of kids? she recalls.
great way for kids to learn.
It took me a about a year to come
The author didnt have to search
up with the tree house. I first tried
far to create the characters for her
writing about other magic things,
series, which stars a girl who sets
but none was really working. Then
out to crack the case of a valuable
one day my husband and I were
time capsule that goes missing in
walking through the woods and saw
her Tennessee town. Every one of
an old abandoned tree house. By
the kids in the book represents
nightfall, I had the Magic Tree
some facet of who I am, she
House. That was a lucky discovery
explains. Randi recently lost her
in those woods. The Magic Tree
mother, and I lost my own mom at
House novels and their Magic Tree
18. I understand that sense of loss,
House Fact Tracker spinoff nonficand also her feeling of not fitting in.
tion series have sold more than 100
All three kids in the book are mismillion copies in North America
fitsand I was also a geekand
alone.
they all think theyre the odd kid
The author believes she has found
out, but dont realize that others
the ideal career. As a childrens
feel the same way, too. This novel
book author, I get to be a profesgave me a chance to revisit some
sional dreamer, she says. I litervery formative years of my life.
ally spend my life living in alternate
A devoted reader of childrens
realities. In Hurry Up, Houdini! I got
to be in Coney Island in 1908. For my
books (I buy one or two of them
next book, High Time for Heroes, I
every time I buy adult books, she
got to meet Florence Nightingale in
says), Spencer notes she was honEgypt in 1849. What a wonderful way
ored to be invited to participate in
to spend your life if youve always
todays breakfast program. Im
been a dreamer like me.
thrilled, excited, and scared to
Osborne is really thrilled to
death, she says. It is such a priviaddress booksellers at the breaklege to be included in a group of
fast. I am a strong advocate of
writers I emulate, and who touch
independent booksellers, she says.
the lives of so many children, espe randee st. nicholas
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Rick Riordan
After wrapping up the Heroes of

Olympus series, Riordan will set his
sights on more northerly climes
and write a series based in ancient
Norse mythology. For a long time,
Ive been thinking about doing a
Percy Jacksonesque spin on Norse
mythology and bringing that
mythology into the 21st century, he
says. I envision doing the same
kind of thing: having modern-day
kids and a lot of action and irreverence, while staying true to Norse
myths. Im going to have fun with
it.
A veteran BEA attendee, Riordan
has been a Childrens Book and
Author Breakfast audience member many times. After breakfast, he
will greet fans, 10:3011:30 a.m., at
Table 15 in the Autographing Area,
at a ticketed signing of paperback
editions of The Kane Chronicles, Book Three: The Serpents
Shadow.
Veronica Roth, who is making
her third trip to BEA, doesnt
hold back relating her reaction
to being asked to speak at
todays breakfast. I think I
actually squealed! she says.
Its going to be really nervewracking after listening to the
other authors speak, but it will
be fun and amazing.
She will, of course, be among
friends. Since its 2011 launch,
her Divergent trilogy has sold
more than three million copies and
rights have been sold into 40 territories worldwide. HarperCollins/
Katherine Tegen Books will release
the final installment, Allegiant, in
October with a two millioncopy
first printing.
It boggles the mind, says Roth
of the success of the trilogy, which
was purchased in a pre-empt deal
while the author was still in college.
When I was writing the first book
in my rubber ducky jammies in my
parents house, I certainly didnt
think anything like this would happen. Its amazing and very exciting
how readers have responded.
Wrapping up the trilogy was bittersweet, the author reports. I was
really sad after finishing Allegiant
and completing a story that was
building for such a long timeand
knowing I had to let the characters
go, she says. I moped around for a
couple of days, and then began
thinking about moving on to something else, so that was exciting.
Though uncertain about her next
literary step, Roth suspects shell
stick with YA. I love the readers I
write for, so in all likelihood Ill
keep writing for teens, she says.
Im playing around with a couple
of book ideas, so Ill see what
sticks.
Roths fans can catch up with her
this afternoon, 12 p.m., at the
HarperCollins Childrens Books
booth (2039), where shell be signing
posters promoting Allegiant.

Sally Lodge
Veronica Roth
The House of Hades, which DisneyHyperion will publish in October

with a 3.5 millioncopy first printing. This series follows in the bestselling tradition of Riordans Percy
Jackson & the Olympians and the
Kane Chronicles; the U.S. in-print
tally for the three series tops 33 million copies, and the novels have
been translated into 37 languages.
The author reflects that writing
The House of Hades, the penultimate installment of the series,
came easilymore or less. The
novel flowed very nicely, now that
all the characters are in place,
though I would say that writing a
book is never easy, he says. I
always try to challenge myself to do
something different with each
novel. And The Heroes of Olympus
has seven different narrators, and
thats a challenge to juggle. But I
feel as though things have jelled
nicely, and the characters have
become a team. Now its all about
letting them shine.
Riordan is taking a break from
writing the final installment to
write Percy Jacksons Greek Gods,
an anthology of Greek myths told
from the perspective of this character. It will include chapters on
each of the Olympian gods,
explains Riordan. Im hoping that
teachers can use the book to supplement units on mythology. And I
hope it will be of interest to kids
who want to learn about Greek
gods and myths from a more primary source.
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In-Booth Signings & Giveaways
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Friday, May 31st
9:00 am
Giveaway
Fierce Reads Tote Bag
9:30 am
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Rick Atkinson,
The Guns At Last Light (Henry Holt & Company)
Galley Giveaway
How To Be a Good Wife,

Emma Chapman (St. Martins Press)
10:00 am Advance Listening Copy Giveaway

Close My Eyes, Sophie McKenzie (Macmillan Audio)
10:30 am In-Booth Signing
Louise Penny,
How the Light Gets In (Minotaur Books)
Galley Giveaway
nelson fitch
michael frost
I care strongly about their work

and what they do for authors. Booksellers, librarians, and teachers
have done so much to help the
Magic Tree House. I am thrilled to
have a chance to speak and talk
about how important it is to support
beginning readers and what reading at a young age means in terms
of ones whole life.
Osborne and her sister (coauthor
of the Fact Trackers) Natalie Pope
Boyce will sign copies of Magic Tree
House: Stallion by Starlight and
Magic Tree House Fact Trackers:
Horse Heroes today, noon1 p.m., in
the Random House Childrens
Books booth (2739).
Rick Riordan has something new
to share with booksellers this
morning: he will reveal the cover of
The Heroes of Olympus, Book Four:
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Gennifer Albin
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers)
11:00 am Galley Giveaway

The Witch of Little Italy,
Suzanne Palmieri (St. Martins Griffin)
11:30 am In-Booth Signing
RAinbow RoweLL, Fangirl (St. Martins Griffin)
Galley Giveaway
The Dogs of Christmas,

W. Bruce Cameron (Forge Books)
2:00 pm
In-Booth Signing
PAuL PoPe,
Battling Boy (ARCs & Tee-Shirts) (First Second)
Galley Giveaway
Hild, Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2:30 pm
Galley Giveaway
3:00 pm
In-Booth Signing
Havisham: A Novel, Ronald Frame (Picador)
bRAndon sAndeRson,
The Rithmatist (Tor Teen)
Galley Giveaway
Necessary Lies,
Diane Chamberlain (St. Martins Press)
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Browsing the Booths, Chapter Two

For those navigating the booths of
childrens publishers today, here is
a preview of new books on display,
authors doing signings, and giveaways being offered.
Harlequin Teen welcomes a hefty
crew of YA authors to booth 1238
during the show. Today, 11:30 a.m.
12:30 p.m., Julie Kagawa will be on
hand to autograph copies of The
Eternity Cure, the second book in
beth Scott (Heartbeat), Amanda

Sun (Ink), Jason Mott (The
Returned), Susan Mallery (Just One
Kiss), Pam Jenoff (The Ambassadors Daughter), Linda Lael Miller
(Big Sky Summer), Mira Lyn-Kelly
(Once Is Never Enough), Michelle
Willingham (To Sin with a Viking),
Rochelle Alers (Forever an Eaton),
and Heather Graham (The Night Is
Watching).
At booth 2657, AMP! Comics for
Kids has several author visits
scheduled. Today, 12 p.m., syndicated cartoonist Mark Tatulli will
sign galleys of Desmond Pucket
Makes Monster Magic, the publish-
ers first illustrated novel, due in

October. Pens and sticky notes are
among the giveaways tying in to
this book.
Tomorrow, Lincoln Peirce will
be on hand to
sign copies of
his April release, Big Nate: Game
On!, 1011 a.m., and to talk up his
October book, Big Nate: I Cant
Take It! The publisher is also promoting the July release of Stephan
Pastiss Beginning Pearls, a collection of Pearls Before Swine comic
strips created especially for kids.
Zest Books editorial director,

Daniel Harmon, is wearing two
hats at the booth of the companys distributor, HMH
(1657). Harmon will sign
copies of his
Super Pop! Pop Culture Top Ten
Lists to Help You Win at Trivia,
Survive in the Wild, and Make It
Through the Holidays today,
3:304 p.m. The publisher is also
giving away copies of new additions to its True Stories series
and How Not to Be a Dick: An
Everyday Etiquette Guide by
Meghan Doherty.
Bunker Hill Publishing will host
several authors at the Midpoint
Trade Books booth (14261427)
today. The author-illustrator team
of Robert Sullivan and Glenn Wolff,
whose A Childs Christmas in New
England is due in October, will be
on hand to sign copies of this memoir of growing up in Massachusetts, 1011 a.m. From noon to 12:30
p.m., D.M. Cataneo will sign galleys of Eggplant Alley, a novel
about a Bronx teen coping with
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her Blood of Eden series. Tomorrow, 1011:30 a.m., the publisher

will hold a group signing by
Kagawa and 11 other authors:
Katie McGarry (Dare You To), Eliza-
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ame Workshop, Im Sorry, Grover:

A Rosh Hashanah Tale. Also featured at the booth is Sammy Spiders First Book of Jewish Holidays
by Sylvia A. Rouss, illus. by Katherine Janus Kahn, the first board
book starring this character. Visitors to the booth can also view a
plush toy based on Sammy Spider,
who celebrates his 20th anniversary this year. On hand tomorrow
is National Jewish Book Award
winning author Ann Redisch
Stampler, who will sign copies of
her new book, The Cats on Ben
Yehuda Street, 1010:30 a.m.
Eerdmans is holding a drawing
in booth C1379 for a complete set
where a life-size cutout of this

Sesame Street character is
available for photo ops. The
publisher is promoting its
fourth collaboration with Ses-
change in 1970. And Charles F.D.

Egbert will autograph galleys of
The Story of Princess Olivia, a fable
illustrated by Kathie Kelleher,
12:301 p.m.
St. Martins Griffin will host
Rainbow Rowell, author of the YA
novels Eleanor & Park and this
falls Fangirl, at booth 1557 today,
11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., when she
autographs ARCs of her new book.
Big Bird fans will want to wander
over to the Kar-Ben booth (2456),
of Eerdmans Books for Young

Readers 2013 releases. Visitors
can enter the drawing for the 14
titles at the booth; the winner will
be announced at a to-be-determined date in June. Tomorrow
morning, 1011 a.m., Marisabina
Russo will sign copies of her
November picture book, Peter Is
Just a Baby, a story about adjusting
to the arrival of a new sibling.
Booth giveaways include a poster
promoting Satoe Tones The Very
Big Carrot, a mini-poster for Little
Naomi, Little Chick by Avirama
Golan, and postcards and bookmarks based on various other
upcoming books.
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New for Fall

Those feeling a bit peckish
should make their way to booth 632
at 3:30 p.m., when David R. Godine
staffers are serving pizza to promote Pizza in Pienza, a bilingual
English-Italian picture book by
Susan Fillion, due in June. Booksellers can pick up a copy of the
publishers new, large-format edition of Richard Adamss Tyger Voyage, illus. by Nicola Bayley.
BOOTH #1109
Committed to Recovery
Lerner welcomes YA author

Meagan Spooner to booth 2456
tomorrow, 11 a.m.noon, when she
will autograph ARCs of Shadowlark, the second installment of her
dystopian Skylark trilogy from
Carolrhoda. The publisher is also
giving out ARCs of two upcoming
Darby Creek books, The Dojo by
Patrick Jones and The Dario
Quincy Academy of Dance by
Megan Atwood.
Creston Books, in Berkeley, Calif.,
is debuting its launch list at the
PGW booth (1327). Publisher and
author Marissa Moss reports that
copies of four fall titles will be given
away: How to Be Human: The Diary
of an Autistic Girl by Florida Frenz;
Cozy Light, Cozy Night by Elisa
Kleven; Lola Goes to Work by Marcia Goldman; and Rotten Pumpkin

by David Schwartz, photos by
Dwight Kuhn. Booksellers can enter
a drawing for an Amelia kit featuring a copy of Mosss My Notebook
(With Help from Amelia), an Amelia
doll, markers, and a necklace; the
winner will be notified by phone.
Iron-on Amelia patches are also
available at the booth.
At booth 1125, C+T Publishing is
celebrating the launch of its childrens imprint, FunStitch Studio,
whose tagline is Stitch Your Art
Out. The company, which turns
30 this year, plans to issue six howto books annually under the
imprint, aimed at sewists, quilters, and embroiderers ages 814.
Featured at the booth are ARCs of
FunStitch Studios fall releases: A
Kids Guide to Sewing: 16 Fun Projects Youll Love to Make & Use by
Sophie Kerr with Weeks Ringle
and Bill Kerr; Creature Camp: 18
Softies to Draw, Sew & Stuff by
Wendi Gratz with Jo Gratz; and
Girls Get Stitching: Personalize
Your Clothes, Your Room & Your
Stuff by Shirley McLaughlan.
Chronicle Books welcomes

actress Julianne Moore to booth
739 this morning, 11 a.m.noon,
when she will sign mini-posters
promoting her September picture
book, My Mom Is a Foreigner, but
Not to Me, illus. by Meilo So. To celebrate its 25th year of publishing
childrens books, Chronicle is giving away anniversary posters and
cookies. Other giveaways include
company tote bags and ARCs of
two fall novels, The Clockwork
Scarab: A Stoker & Holmes Novel
by Colleen Gleason, and Ellis
Weiners The Templeton Twins
Make a Scene, illus. by Jeremy
Holmes.
At the National Book Network
booth (1120), Taylor Trade is hosting author and illustrator Linda
Kranz, who will sign copies of Love
You When, You Be You, and Only
One You today, 10:3011:30 a.m.
The publisher is distributing postcards promoting Kranzs My
Nature Book, a journal due in September.
Magination Press is giving out
copies of Lauren Rubensteins Visiting Feelings, illus. by Shelly
Hehenberger, today, 11 a.m.noon,
at the American Psychological
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Association booth (2233). Also featured at the booth are the presss
other fall releases, School Made
Easier: A Kids Guide to Study
Strategies and Anxiety-Busting
Tools by Wendy L. Moss and Robin
Deluca-Acconi; Oh No, School! by
Hae-Kyung Chang, illus. by Josee
Bisaillon; Learning to Feel Good
and Stay Cool: Emotional Regulation Tools for Kids with AD/HD by
Judith M. Glasser and Kathleen
Nadeau, illus. by Charles Beyl; and
A Happy Hat by Cecil Kim, illus. by
Joo-Kyung Kim.
At the F+W Media booth (1947),
first-time exhibitor Merit Press is
featuring The After Girls, an April
YA novel that addresses teen

suicide. The author, Leah
Konen, is attending BEA. Also
present at the show is Alison
Ashley Formento, whose Twigs,
a coming-of-age novel of self-reliance and forgiveness, is due in
September.
Free Spirit Publishing is celebrating its 30th anniversary at
booth C1281, where it will host a
signing by author Erin Frankel and
illustrator Paula Heaphy today,
12:301:30 p.m. The collaborators
will autograph copies of novels in
their Weird series, Weird!, Dare!,
and Tough!, which address the
issue of bullying.
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At booth 1102B, staffers from

Minneapolis-based Coffee House
Press are giving away galleys of
the houses inaugural YA publication, Angel de la Luna and the 5th
Glorious Mystery by M. Evelina
Galang, a November release. Set
against the backdrop of the 1986
Philippine People Power Revolution, the novel centers on a teen
who must look out for her family
after moving from Manila to Chicago.
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Charlotte Grahams never spoken about the

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knows the truth. But, even now, can she risk sharing it?
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Jennifer Burns has always had an old soul, but

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Stranded by Dani Pettrey
Singularity by Steven James
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A desperate young woman teams

up with a tenacious private investigator to
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While investigating a friends

disappearance, Darcy St. James discovers
a dangerous operationand becomes its
next target. Can the McKennas find her
before its too late?
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2013 Pannell Awards Bestowed

At this mornings Childrens Book
and Author Breakfast, two bookstores will receive the WNBA Pannell
Award, given annually since 1983 by
the Womens National Book Association to two bookstoresone general and one childrens specialty
storethat excel in bringing books
and young people together. This
years winners are both Michigan
stores: Nicolas Books in Ann Arbor
won in the general bookstore category, and Bookbug in Kalamazoo
clinched the award for a childrens
specialty store.
A jury of five book industry professionals deliberated for four weeks
before selecting the winners based
on creativity, responsiveness to community needs, and an understanding
of young readers. Each recipient of
the award, which is underwritten by
a gift from Penguin Young Readers
Group, receives a check for $1,000
and a piece of framed original childrens book art, this year donated
by James Dean of Pete the Cat fame
and Susan Stockdale, author and
illustrator of Stripes of All Types.
The jurors cited Nicolas Books
for the stores over and above com-
mitment and partnering skills to

benefit children, families, and the
community at large. Nicola Rooney,
who has owned Nicolas Books since
1995, said that her stores childrens
department has doubled in size since
2001, when Linda Goodman, the
childrens buyer and our childrens
empire builder, came on board.
The store works closely with local
schools, libraries, and authors to
create programming that motivates
children to read. Programs have
included science-themed camps,
events with a local nature center
whose staffers bring animals into
the store, and summer reading programs with various incentives for
young customers.
This is the first award weve won,
and Im totally thrilled that it is a
childrens award, Rooney says.
Our customer base is entirely sympathetic to the importance of childrens books and encouraging
reading at a young age. Ann Arbor
does have a reputation for being
academic and literary, but I think it
is very important to get children
reading by exposing them to books
that they enjoy.
Nicola Rooney (l.) and

Linda Goodman at Nicolas; Bookbugs Derek
and Joanna Parzakonis.
Since
Rooney is
unable to attend BEA, Nicolas Books
adult buyer Bill Cusumano and
events coordinator Lynn Pellerito
Riehl will accept the award this
morning.
The Pannell Award jurors praised
Bookbug for having a terrific history of civic engagement, actively
engaging in all aspects of the local
community to stay relevant and of
service to children and their families. Joanna Parzakonis, who has
owned Bookbug with her husband,
Derek, for five years, notes that
winning the award is amazing and
humbling and surprising, because
of the youth of our store compared
to other booksellers with so much
more experience than we have.
Bookbugs outreach has included
partnering with local schools and
libraries, as well as
smaller organizations that connect
with youth in a
grassroots way, like
Open Roads, a bike
program for kids,
and Peace House, a
safe haven and learning center in a
tough area of town. We work with
them to provide books for kids
attending their programs.
Parzakonis says that she and her
husband share this award with our
town in every way and are directing
the cash component of their Pannell
award to RAWK: Reading and Writing Kalamazoo, a newly launched
nonprofit literacy initiative that will
include creative writing workshops,
author-led events, and reading support for children ages 618.
Attending BEA for the first time,
Joanna and Derek Parzakonis are
on hand to accept the award at this
mornings breakfast. We are
thrilled to be here among so many of
our colleagues and to have the
chance to recognize Kalamazoo in
New York City, she says.

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Akashics Black Sheep

A hip and iconoclastic Brooklyn press that focuses
on gritty noir fiction but is most known for publishing a faux childrens picture book aimed at
frustrated and tired parents, Go the F**k to
Sleep, is really moving into childrens book publishing this fall. Akashic Books will publish YA
and middle-grade fiction under the Black Sheep
imprint, beginning in February 2014, with Changers, Book One: Drew, a YA novel by T Cooper
and Allison Glock, the first in a four-book series
about a protagonist who assumes a different
identity in each book, and Game World by C.J.
Farley, a middle-grade novel, which will include
both fantasy elements and illustrations.
Akashics publisher, Johnny Temple, says that
his staff has been interested for years in publishing YA and middle-grade fiction, but what
held them back was their feeling that they
didnt understand the genre well enough. Noting that hes recently been reading up on YA,
Temple says hes been blown away by what
hes read, especially Jacqueline Woodsons 2012
Beneath a Meth Moon. Theres not as much of a
gap between YA and adult fiction as many of us
thought there was, Temple says. Theres great
crossover, in the same way that literary fiction
and mysteries can cross over.
Emphasizing that Black Sheep titles will
respect the conventions in YA literaturethat
there not be excessive sex, profanity, or violenceTemple says that the imprints two debut
YA releases are particularly strong and suit
Akashics adult list as much as PG-rated books
can suit a list containing authors who dont usually hold back when it comes to sex, profanity,
and violence.
Akashic wants to prove this claim to booksellers. The publisher, whose
books are distributed by Consortium, will be giving away autographed galleys of Changers, Book One: Drew and Game World at its booth (1104A), and
Cooper, Glock, and Farley will be on hand this afternoon at 3 p.m. to give
sneak peek readings of their Black Sheep novels.
Claire Kirch
The Benefits of Common Core
The buzz about Common Core, shorthand for the Common Core State Standards Initiative, has been getting louder in recent months. The overarching
goal of the initiative (led by the National Governors Association and the
Council of Chief State School Officers) is for states to adopt a uniform set of
educational standards in English
language arts and math that will
successfully prepare students for
the rigors of college or the workforce. Common Core content
requirements allow for classroom
use of trade books that meet the initiatives criteria. To date, 45 states and
the District of Columbia have adopted Common Core, and those states plan
to fully implement the standards by 2015.
What does this mean for the childrens book industry? Ideally, a whole lot
of knowledge sharingand increased book sales. The panel discussion,
Common Core: Insight from Industry Touchpoints, which takes place
today, 9:3010:50 a.m., in Room 1E11, features representatives from the
bookselling, publishing, library, and school library arenas who will explain
how each of their respective fields is responding to this new approach in
education.
Richard Buthod, national sales manager at Turtleback Books, will moderate the panel. Speakers are Becky Anderson, co-owner, Andersons Bookshops; Cheryl Dickemper, director of purchasing and collection development, the Booksource; Kenny Brechner, owner of DDG Booksellers; Melissa
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Imagine, if you will, a secret group of people called Poets who have
the power to control others simply by speaking to them. Barry has,
and the result is an extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller.
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About as close as you can get to the perfect cerebral
thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell.
Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind
on Snow Crash.
Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling
author of The Magicians and The Magician King
An absolutely rst-rate, suspenseful thriller with convincing
characters who invite readers empathy and keep them
turning pages until the satisfying conclusion.
Booklist (Starred Review)
The fate of humanity is at stake in this ambitious satirical
thriller...amuses as much as it shocks. Publishers Weekly
For freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all
grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a
bloody story.
Kirkus Reviews
A love letter to language, a nely-tuned thriller, and a
secret-society conspiracy, all rolled up into one. With unique
perspectives, hurtling adventure, and characters you cant
help but be invested ineven when theyre pitted against
each otherLexicon is the triumph of Barrys career.
Drew Williams, Little Professor Book Center
Max Barry has always been one of my favorite writers,
but with Lexicon he has catapulted to all new heights.
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Secret Societies. Aboriginal artifacts. LinguisticsLexicon
is that rare thriller that is both ridiculously thought-provoking
and relentlessly heart-racing.
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City Department of Education;

Phoebe Yeh, editorial director,
HarperCollins Childrens Books;
and Victoria Stapleton, director of school and library marketing, Little,
Brown Books for Young Readers.
Buthod expects a packed room as the speakers dispel Common Core
myths and point to ways they can work together in new ways. Teachers
need bookstores for this, Buthod says. Bookstores can seize the opportunity because booksellers have up-to-date knowledge that many teachers do
not have. They are well matched to schools adopting Common Core.
As a member of the panels bookseller contingent, Brechner plans to
share his ideas on what booksellers can do to support Common Core with
educational partners in their communities. Paramount to being strong
partners is being an effective resource for schools, he says. The best practice for us is to help teachers transition from textbook to trade book, and
keep asking how we can make it work. Brechner believes it is also important to be cognizant of concerns out there that could derail Common Core
or shorten its lifespan.
Among some of the general concerns being voiced in various states are
fears of increased commercialism and complaints that Common Core
materials are not written by educators. Common Core is about real books,
Brechner notes. Its about the smooth transition from school to reading
books to succeeding in college. If we can show an appreciation and understanding of Common Core and demonstrate that its about the power of
reading, sales will follow.
Yeh will share her companys response to Common Core and use some
examples of how some HarperCollins titles can be aligned with the standards. Our kids are testing worse. They cant read and write. We need to
figure it out. Shes hopeful about the role publishers can play. Trade publishers feel that Common Core brings people back to the books, and we are
delighted about this.
Shannon Maughan
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Back to the Past

Gen-Xers, born between 1965 and 1980, may be
more eager than any other generation of
Americans to hold onto the objects that
remind them of their youth. Theyre also more
capable than any previous generation of doing
soeven when it comes to out-of-print books.
Tapping into that Gen-X nostalgia, Ig Publishing, which for more than a decade has been
doing fiction and nonfiction for adult readers
and reissues for the academic market, is
launching a new imprint, Lizzie Skurnick
Books.
The imprint, says Ig publisher Robert Lasner, will bring back the very best in young
adult literature, from the classics of the 1930s
and 1940s to the thrillers and social novels of
the 1970s and 1980s in both print and digital
formats.
Skurnick, a freelance journalist and author
of Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never
Stopped Reading (Morrow, 2009), will handle
acquisitions and edit the books. Lizzie Skurnick Books launches in the fall, releasing one
title per month between September and
March 2014. The inaugural release is Lois Duncans Debutante Hill, which was originally published by Dodd, Mead in 1958 and has been out
of print for approximately 30 years.
While Ig Publishing (distributed by Consortium) intends to market Lizzie Skurnick Books
to YA readers, Skurnick believes that Gen-X
women who, like herself, came of age in the late 70s and 80s, will form the
core readership. These books were so important to women of my generation, says Skurnick, describing them as a shared shorthand for Gen-X
women. Its always been my dream to get those books back into print.
Skurnick is speaking about the past and future of Gen-Xs favorite reads
on todays panel, Backlist to the Future: How Will E-Releasing Out-of-Print
Works Change Reading & Publishing? 1111:50 a.m., in Room 1E09. The
moderator is Bill Tipper, B&N Review managing editor; other panelists
include author Laura Lippman; Philippa Brophy, president of Sterling Lord
Literistic; and Rachel Chou, chief marketing officer of Open Road InteClaire Kirch
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Algonquin Young Readers

Stages Booth Takeover
Algonquin, for 30 years publishers
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adults, is celebrating its entrance
into the childrens market with a
nonhostile takeover at BEA. This
afternoon, 25 p.m., the new Algonquin Young Readers imprint is
appropriating booth 839 to host a
party for the new imprint. Three of
the authors on the inaugural list,
debuting in August, will be signing
books: Amy Herrick (The Time
Fetch), Sara Farizan (If You Could

Be Mine), and Hollis Seaman
(Somebody Up There Hates You).
At the helm of Algonquin Young
Readers is editor and publisher
Elise Howard, who explains that
the new imprints tagline (A wellread life begins here) riffs off of
Algonquins tagline, Books for a
well-read life. Her lists mission is
pretty direct, she says. I hope to
publish books for true readers who
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parent company, Howard appears
to be off to a running start. Two novels on her debut list landed coveted
spots on this years BEA Editor Buzz
PanelsIf You Could Be Mine for
the YA panel and Herricks The
Time Fetch for the middle-grade
panel. Its gratifying, says Howard
of this recognition. It is a nice validation that were getting this measure of support from the bookselling community.
Howard is eager to talk about
both novels during the Editor Buzz
Panels. Sara Farizans novel,
which centers on two lesbian
teens in Lebanon, very effectively
pushes a couple of envelopes, and
Amy Herricks novel has one foot
firmly in contemporary Brooklyn,
but also transports readers to
magical places, she says. They
both deserve to be talked about,
which is of course the mission of
these panels. I look forward to
sharing both.
The editor notes that middlegrade and YA fiction are at the
heart of the Algonquin Young
Readers publishing program,
though she adds, If I found a terrific chapter book, I would want to
publish it, and Id also think about
adding one or two narrative nonfiction titles a year to the list. The
imprints launch list includes new
and veteran childrens book
authors, which Howard says is
more coincidental than intentional. What Im striving to find are
books I absolutely fall in love with
and can get behind passionately. At
the start, Ive had the good fortune
to line up some authors with established publishing records as well as
new voices.
Howard is thrilled to be hosting
todays booth takeover, whose
guest attendees will include
authors as well as what she calls
our merry band of booksellers.
These are indie booksellers Algonquin recruited as early readers.
Craig Popelars, our head of marketing, and our field reps contacted a number of booksellers
Algonquin had established rapport
with to read our books as manuscripts and offer early endorsements as well as advice, she notes.
Were very excited some of them
will be with us at the BEA.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
As a young girl, Elizabeth Gilbert was forbidden to touch a family heirloom that belonged to
her great grandfather, a 1784 edition of Captain
Cooks voyages around the world. Of course I
used to touch it all the time, Gilbert confesses.
It was a sort of talismanic object in my childhood. I came upon it again [recently] and got
really stirred by the idea of the 18th-century
Age of Enlightenment explorers. That led her
to Joseph Banks, the English naturalist and
botanist who traveled with Cook and introduced hundreds of plant specimens to the
Western world. These people were bringing
taxonomy and order to the world through the
study of plants. I became completely overwhelmed by their endeavors, and
wanted to write about that.
Her latest novel, The Signature of All Things (Viking, Oct.), centers on the
Whittaker familystarting with Henry, a London-born member of the lower
class who makes his fortune in the quinine trade. His daughter, Alma, born in
1800, becomes a botanist who falls in love with a painter named Ambrose
Pike, and with them the worlds of art and science collide. Gilbert spent three
years doing research before beginning to write. She read contemporary,
scholarly books about the Age of Enlightenment, as well as diaries, journals,
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and letters from that time. I did a lot of research in the New York Botanical
Garden library, she says, and I also read a lot of letters by naturalists and
botanists. But I also read the letters and journals of people in the 18th and
19th century who were not in those fields, Abigail Adamss letters, Walt Whitmans, anybody I could get at, really, Emerson, Thoreau. They wrote a lot
about nature and the spirit, but they also brought you into the language of
the time.
Gilbert is aware that whatever she writes, she will always be associated
with Eat, Pray, Love, which made her a household name. She tells Show
Daily, Its been a tremendous boon in my lifenot just the success of that
book but the writing and the living of that book. I agree with everybody in
terms of it being a significant event in my life, but it doesnt mean that Im finished doing my work. She adds wryly, It may mean that Im finished doing
work that sells 10 million copies, but thats all right, too.
Its been about 12 years since shes written fiction, so Gilbert has high
hopes for her novel. I wanted to write in the spirit of the great 19th-century
novelists who Ive always loved. I want readers to have that wonderful feeling
that somebodys taking you by the hand and saying, Come with me, were
going to go on a really long trip together. Its going to be amazing. That feeling of throwing yourself into an authors hands like that with such trust is
what I hope people get from The Signature of All Things, and that from the
first page theyll join me on an emotional voyage, and on a voyage through
time.
This is Gilberts first time at BEA. She signs galleys today at 10 a.m. at the
Penguin booth (1521). Tomorrow, 1:303 p.m., in Room 1E12/1E13, she and
Wally Lamb will be participating in a discussion presented by the Huffington
Post and Bookbliss.com entitled, Creating the Ultimate Book Club Experience. Andrew Losowsky, senior book editor at Huffington Post Books, will
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Weighty Issues
When it comes to eating habits and body image,

you might not think that someone who is too
thin would have much in common with someone who is grossly overweight, but thats the
conclusion MSNBC Morning Joe cohost Mika
Brzezinski came to when she and her good
friend and co-writer Diane Smith embarked on
a journey together to confront their obsession
with food. Obsessed: Americas Food Addictionand My Own (Weinstein Books, May)
began with a challenge that the two friends
gave each other, because they were equally
concerned about the others health. Brzezinski
offered to pay her friend $100,000 to lose 75
pounds and keep it off. Her part of the bargain,
which some might find hard to fathom, was similarly difficult: to gain 10
pounds and be satisfied with the way she looked. Both struggled equally to
achieve their goals, and now they are much healthier and have improved
self-esteem.
We both had unhealthy bodies and unhealthy minds, says Brzezinski,
who was partaking in an afternoon run while she spoke to Show Daily. I
wasnt any more healthy than Diane after what I had put my body through for
the past 25 years. I dont know whats worse, throwing it up, obsessively exercising it off, or allowing yourself to become obese.
The two decided to write this book to help others have a conversation
about self-image and food. After speaking to experts in the fields of medicine, nutrition, and health, they concluded, You have to take a look at the
food environment and the culture we live in that has caused the obesity crisis. Look at the growing amount of science that is calling sugar toxic, that is
looking at the amount of salt in our food, that is looking at its addictive qualities. The book also includes comments from well-known public figures who
have been open about their own food problems, including singer Jennifer
Hudson, New Jerseys Gov. Chris Christie, and actress Kathleen Turner.
Asked why both women had a neurotic relationship with food, Brzezinski
replies, Its very complex, but it has to do with the addictive nature of certain ingredients that are in most of the food we eat, and a certain need for
attentiona void in life that food can fill. It becomes a vicious cycle. We both
did the same thing to ourselves in different ways. She ruined her metabolism, and mine was shot, too. She adds, The experience we went through
has given us something to offer the rest of the country. I would love for them
to have this much needed conversation.
Brzezinski signs today at the Perseus Books Group booth (1402) at 10 a.m.

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sword, Larry Watson will sign copies of Let Him
Go (Milkweed, Sept.) today at Table 3 in the
Autographing Area, 12 p.m., with the same
Waterman pen he used the last time he was at
this annual booksellers convention. That was
back in 1995. The ABA gave him the pen to sign
copies of his Milkweed short story collection,
Justice. Watson is sure BEA in New York City
during the digital revolution will be quite different from the ABA held in Chicago during
the heyday of independent bookselling. The
book industry has changed so much, Watson
tells Show Daily. Im curiousI just hope I get
in and out of there alive.
Like the rest of us, Watson, 65, has gotten a lot older since 1995: the characters hes created in his eighth novel are no different. While hes most
renowned for Montana 1948 (1993) and American Boy (2011), novels that feature teenage protagonists, Let Him Go narrates a sequence of events leading
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James Preller
Pursuing a New Direction
AT THE S H OW
suades her husband, George, a retired sheriff, to accompany her on a road

trip from North Dakota to Montana to persuade their late sons widow to give
them their four-year-old grandson, or theyll simply take the child from its
mother. Its a quest doomed to failure from the outset, as the Blackledges
become embroiled in a struggle over the little boy with their erstwhile
daughter-in-laws new family.
Watson felt a greater sense of urgency after entering the Blackledges universe. Older people have a different sense of time, he explains. Time
seems to pass more quickly, when you have more of it behind you than in
front of you. Margaret, he adds, feels like she has to make things happen
while she still can. While the road trip was a literary device meant to provide
a structure to the novel, Watson says that theres also a more personal reason for George and Margarets trip through the Badlands into eastern Montana. A native of Rugby, N.Dak., Watson, who has lived in Milwaukee since
2003, where he teaches at Marquette University, says, I know that terrain.
But its more than setting a story in a familiar specific place; its also important to him to set his stories during an era he remembers well, having come
of age in the 60s. Im stuck in the mid20th century, he admits. It was an
era of repression, when desires were unstated and conflicts were submerged, he says, before the explosions of the late 60s and early 70s
changed everything.
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you
have more of it behind you.
Larry Watson
The author of the Jigsaw Jones Mysteries ventures onto chilling turf in his latest series,
Scary Tales, which premieres in July with
Home Sweet Horror. James Preller calls the
project, published by Feiwel and Friends, a
massive departure for me. Ive always really
adhered to realistic fiction. If someone had said
that I would be writing a novel about zombies
outside of a schoolthat happens in the third
bookI would have said, Thats ridiculous!
But whats interesting to me is how the other
characters, ordinary people, respond to and
interact with those zombies. With this series,
Im giving myself new freedom, and Im really
having fun with it.
Prellers inspiration for Scary Tales had several sources. His most recent fiction has been geared to older readers,
including middle-grade novels Six Innings and Bystander, and Before You
Go, his debut YA. I hadnt written anything for the second- and third-grade
audience for a while, and I wanted to get back to that, he says. I hear from
teachers and librarians that kids love scary books and that there isnt much
that is fresh and new in that area.
The authors fondness for old Twilight Zone episodes also fueled his imagination. I love that the show spans a number of genres, from science fiction to
gangster stories, he says. I want to do something similar with Scary Tales. I
see these books existing on a broader canvas than just being scary. The
series is not going to be just one ghost story after another. Each will be different, though all will have an intellectual twist at the end that will blow readers minds a little.
Preller is hopeful that Scary Tales will provide kids with a positive, fun
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mereaching them is something I feel passionate about.
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Rita Williams-Garcia. And the memorable
adventures of three young sisters during the
tumultuous summer of 1968 were at the heart
of her 2010 middle-grade novel, One Crazy
Summer, a Newbery Honor Book and a
National Book Award finalist. In the much
anticipated sequel, P.S. Be Eleven, out this
month from HarperCollins/Amistad with a
50,000-copy first printing, Williams-Garcia
again looks at the changes sweeping the nation
in the late 1960s through the eyes of a family
going through changes of its own.
The new book picks up where One Crazy
Summer leaves off, says Williams-Garcia. We
follow the girls back to Brooklyn, to their familiar surroundings, where they are reunited with family. But they walk into all
kinds of changes. Inspiration for this second installment came largely from
Delphines desire to know something more about love and her family, the
author says. Her father is remarrying, and Delphine knows that he never
married her mother, so she wonders if her parents ever loved each other.
The author had not initially planned on doing a sequelabsolutely not!
she says with a laugh. But I really loved these girls. The more I understood
why and how things happened [to them], I could see those scenes. Halfway
through One Crazy Summer, I would make notes that said, leave it alone,
belongs in book two, because there was too much for just one book.
Though readers learn more about Delphines journey, they also glean
some history of the day, be it the effects of the Vietnam War on a relative or
the girls Jackson Five fever. My hope is that kids will ask their grandparents and aunts who remember that time in detail and who, in story, can tell
them about their experiences, Williams-Garcia says. The result can maybe
have more of an effect than reading it in a history book.
The author plans to relive the era one more time with Delphine and her
sisters in a third and final book of the family saga, Williams-Garcia says.
Weve seen the girls and their mother and the Movement and the girls at
home. Next, Delphine is going to be concerned with her family breaking up.
Williams-Garcia signs copies of P.S. Be Eleven today, 10:3011 a.m., at Table
9 in the Autographing Area. While at BEA, I have to walk the entire floor,
she says. I feel like a child on a sugar rushI want to see everything and
read everything. She is especially thrilled when she spies books by her students at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she teaches in the Writing for
Children and Young Adults program. We scream like its the Jackson Five!
she says.
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Lian Dolan
Tapping the Bard
Its no wonder that Lian Dolan, author of Elizabeth the First Wife (Prospect Park Books, May)
has infused her romantic comedy novel with
Shakespearean themes: shes been reading
and seeing Shakespeares plays since the second
grade in Fairfield, Conn.; took field trips with
her middle school class to watch Shakespeare
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Calif., and whose ex-husband is a famous movie star. She comes from a
wealthy and sometimes meddlesome family thats the crux of her social life;
her mother and sisters think they know whats best for Elizabeth, including
everything from her job to her home decorating style and taste in men. The
arc in Dolans second novel (the first, Helen of Pasadena, was a 2010 Los
Angeles Times bestseller) finds Elizabeth free of her complicated family
when her ex asks for help with his performances at the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival.
The youngest of eight children, Dolan, who lives with her family in Pasadena, created the nationally syndicated radio show The Satellite Sisters with
her four real sisters in 2001. She worked at the American Film Institute and
produced promotional videos for Nike before that, and her radio show,
which at its peak had one million listeners, led to columns in both O and
Working Mothers magazines. I didnt write about family in Helen of Pasadena, but its a profound part of the story in Elizabeth, Dolan says. How do
you define yourself in terms of family? This is an important question to me,
coming from a big and very close family. I decided to explore it in Elizabeth.
The book almost didnt get finished when both her mother and father died
within three months of each other this year. Even in the midst of the hard
stuff, though, I found time to finish Elizabeth, Dolan says. It was very therapeutic for me.
Dolan, who compares her writing to that of Gigi Levange Grazer and
Maria Semple, always envisioned a three-book series when she began writing fiction. I wanted to write about contemporary women with complex lives
framed in a historical context, she says, and with lots of humor. Elizabeth is
a Shakespeare professor who also reads US magazine. My character Helen
was inspired by Helen of Troy. The Middle Ages and a queen from that
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period will underscore Dolans as yet unnamed third novel.

I Googled Shakespeare and relationships when I was researching Elizabeth, Dolan says, laughing, and couldnt find any contemporary stories.
After that I started writing the book. The novel is interspersed with chapter
dividers that are snippets of Alls Fair, the relationship book Elizabeth talks
about writing in Elizabeth the First Wife. These include facetious quizzes, and
dating and matchmaking tips based on Shakespeares works and characters. One is titled Which Shakespearean Bad Boy Is for You?
Lian Dolan signs today at Table 21 in the Autographing Area at 2:30 p.m.

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Spirit Animals is set in the world of Erdas,
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My head lives in the fantasy world.

Brandon Mull
project where I didnt come up with the initial premise, though I had the
freedom and the privilege to design the world and characters. It is also my
first series collaborating with a team of authors.
Mull has impressive authorial teammates. Subsequent books in the series
will be written by Maggie Stiefvater, Garth Nix and Sean Williams, Shannon
Hale, Tui T. Sutherland, Eliot Schrefer, and Marie Lu. Mull sees advantages to
incorporating multiple writing styles into the series. It can help keep each
book fresh, he says.
After creating the story arc for the series, writing its first installment came
quite easily to Mull. I spent a lot of time developing the world and outlining
the series, so once I started writing I felt like I was on familiar ground, he
says. It was a challenge to show the point of view of four diverse main characters, but I connected to each, so none of them tripped me up much.
The author praises the online game component, which partners kids with
a kindred-spirit animal. It seems inevitable to me that as kids have their
own online adventures in Erdas, they will become more interested in that
world and feel drawn to read the stories that happen there.
Attending BEA for the seventh time, Mull says, With each passing year, I
have more people to see here, and it gets more fun. He signs ARCs of Spirit
Animals today, 12 p.m., at Table 19 in the Autographing Area. Sally Lodge
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The prolific Oliver Jeffers has been as busy as

ever. The author and illustrator of Stuck and
This Moose Belongs to Me has illustrated two
upcoming books: The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas (Candlewick), a novel by David Almond,
and The Day the Crayons Quit (Philomel), a picture book by debut author Drew Daywalt.
Both of Jefferss new projects mark a bit of a
departure for him. Though Almonds is not the
first novel he has illustratedhe created the
art for The Terrible Thing That Happened to
Barnaby Brocket by John Boynehis illustrative approach to The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas was less traditional. This
was a more organic process, he explains. This novel is written in a way that
is not very straightforward, not quite literal, so we thought it would be in the
better interest of the novel to have sporadic drawings scattered throughout,
to give it a strong visual flow from beginning to end.
The Day the Crayons Quit is the first picture book by another author that
Jeffers has illustrated. I have enough ideas in my head for which I want to
both tell the story and do the art, and I have less interest in trying to figure
out how to illustrate someone elses manuscript, he says. Michael Green,
my editor at Philomel, knows that, so he was quite sly in his approach. I was
in his office, and he excused himself for a minute and asked me not to look at
anything on his desk. So naturally I had a look when he left.
On Greens desk was Daywalts manuscript and Jeffers liked what he saw.
The story is told through letters from the crayons, and there was no opportunity to use the pictures to inform the words, and to me that was an asset
rather than a hindrance. I could picture immediately how the book would
workthe visual solution jumped out at me. So I asked Michael who was
illustrating the book, and he said, No one yet. Are you interested? I wasnt
sure I wanted to open a can of worms, illustrating someone elses words, but I
knew Id be kicking myself if I didnt.
Jeffers is pleased to be attending BEA for the first time. Its all well and
good making books in the isolation of my studio, he says. But meeting booksellers who give a book support and get it into the hands of readers who
might otherwise never find itthats fantastic.
He signs ARCs of The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas today, 10:3011:30 a.m.,
at Table 1 in the Autographing Area.
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books have helped them, and Wild Cards will surely elicit more strong
responses. She says one of the best parts about writing is being able to touch
the lives of the people who read her books. Through Facebook, a girl contacted me and said that she stopped cutting herself because of my books,
she says. And two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed
their daughters lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters
because, come on... thats the coolest.
Elkeles has attended BEA before and is again looking forward to meeting
her fans. Im so excited to be sharing a new series, she says. BEA is a big
attraction for her for other reasons as well. One is its worldwide presence.
Its not just the U.S., she says. There are people from lots of different countries. And its booksellers, bloggers, and people in the industry all together.
And of course, all those free books.
Today, she signs galleys of Wild Cards, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., at Table 25 in
the Autographing Area.
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Simone Elkeles
Football Passion Inspires Series
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Coming from Chicago, Simone Elkeles says

theres no getting around being a big sports fan.
I think the nurses stick something in your
blood when youre born, she quips. And being
sports-crazed means a love of football. But its
not the sport itself that the author wanted to
write about; its the players. Football players
are misunderstood, she says. They arent the
dumb jocks people think they are.
Four books are planned for her new, footballthemed Wild Cards series (Bloomsbury/
Walker), each narrated by a different teammate. The first installment, Wild Cards, will be
released October with a first printing of 125,000
copies.
This series is dear to her heart, not only because of her love of football but
because one of the main characters, Derek, deals with something Elkeles
herself has dealt with: the loss of a parent. I lost my dad when I was younger,
and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent, she explains. Its hard
because my dad cant see my kids and cant see them play sports. I would
have a limb cut off if I could have five or 10 minutes more with my dad, and
Derek feels the same way I do.
Over the years, Elkeles has heard from many readers about how much her
Honoring a Neglected Muse

Inspired by the neglected 19th-century woman
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revolves around a tortured young woman who
struggles free from stone to come to life, and a
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Franco says. A young friend of mine, a dance major, did a performance

there. She picked out a sculpture and brought it to life, moving the way the
sculpture would move. I thought, the spirit of one of these sculptures could
come to life. Many of the statues in the garden were inspired by Camille
Claudel, who had a dark history. I wanted to bring her to life to let people
know about her but also to let her heal from all the darkness that happened
to her. I researched the book heavily in terms of Camilles life, but it is all fictionalized.
Franco has written many books for children, as well as plays and screenplaysshes even done some movie actingbut she took her editors challenge to write for an adult audience. What a freeing experience to be able to
say whatever I wanted! she says. Im uncensored anyway, but somehow
knowing I was writing for adults opened doors I didnt even realize werent
opened. I have already started another novel for adults. All these ideas came
rushing forward.
Most satisfying about the novel, Franco says, is that it brought together so
much of what she is interested in: my past, my present, my knowledge of
young men, of art. Two of Francos three sons helped directly with the book:
Tom, a sculptor, did the artwork for the cover, and Jamesyes, the actor
introduced her to performance art.
Camille Claudel helped her, too, she says. So many women in history
didnt get their due because they were born in an age that didnt understand
them. They didnt have a path to follow. Camille was really revolutionary.
She made a path for other women artists. It broke my heart, the darkness of
her story, and I wanted to do something to help her.
Betsy Franco signs galleys of Naked today, 11:30 p.m., at Table 18 in the
Autographing Area.
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Richelle Mead says she has been writing since

she was a child, first picture books and then short
stories. But she was never sure if she had the
maturity and focus to write a novel, which
sounds pretty ironic coming from the author of
the bestselling Vampire Academy YA series
who is launching a new adult series, Age of X,
with the first book, Gameboard of the Gods
(Dutton, June).
I cannot not write a series, says Mead.
Whenever I start a book, I know it is going to
be part of a big saga. She says her ideas come
to her as big sprawling stories with plots that tend to span several books.
You conceive things in the first book that you know are going to come to fruition in the last book, she adds. I am not even sure if I could tell a self-contained story in one book.
Gameboard of the Gods takes place 100 years in the future in a world
rebuilt after a virus kills half the population. In the Republic of United North
America, unlicensed religion and belief in the supernatural is strictly forbidden. Justin March was an investigator hunting down religious extremists
before he was exiled after a job went very wrong, but he gets called back into
action to solve the mystery of a string of ritualistic murders with the help of a
Praetorian soldier with enhanced reflexes and unworldly beauty named
Mae Koskinsen.
Mead says that she has heard from other fantasy writers that one of the
reasons the genre lends itself to series is that the authors spend so much
time imagining and creating worlds with rich detail it would be a shame to
I cannot not write a series.
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Mead lives in Seattle with her husband and young son now, but the idea for
Gameboard of the Gods came to her when she was finishing her masters
degree in comparative religion in her native Michigan. She even consulted
the first draft she did of the book in 2002 when she got to work on what became
Gameboard.
At the time, I thought I was so cutting edge and brilliant, says Mead about
the technology in her first draft. But now, 10 years later, its old hat. Staying
ahead of technologys evolution is a particular challenge for fantasy and science fiction writers, Mead notes.
She will be signing copies of Gameboard today, 10:3011:30 a.m., at
Penguins booth (1520).
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Ann Romney
Food and Family Matters

Ann Romney, former first lady of Massachusetts, wife to husband, Mitt, for 44 years,
and mother of five with 21 grandchildren, certainly knows her way around the kitchen. Since
cooking has long been a tradition in her family,
and with five sons, she presented her daughters-in-law with an organized folder of recipes
as each joined the family. Soon friends started
asking for copies of the folder. She tells Show
Daily, It was my son Josh who had the idea for
me to write a cookbookthat never would
have occurred to me. He said, Mom, you are
well-known now, and you should just do your own cookbook, and I thought,
Okay, that sounds like fun. One thing led to another, and thats how we
started the whole project.
What makes The Romney Family
Table (Shadow Mountain, Oct.) different from other cookbooks is that
its full of family anecdotessome
having to do with food, others just
family stories that she wanted to
share. Romney says, Theres a real
narrative I think people will enjoy,
even if theyre not going to be using
the recipes. The book features recipes handed down from the authors
grandmothers and mother, others
that she originated, and her own
version of some basic recipes that
shes used for years.
But even avid cooks need to take
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a break. She describes how life

changed when she and Mitt became
empty nesters. After my last son
was going to college, my husband
and I dropped him off at the airport.
Mitt expected to see great big tears
in my eyes, that I would be sobbing,
and I looked at him and said,
Youve just had your last homecooked meal. She laughs and continues, After all those years of feeling like I was a short-order cook, I
felt liberated! But after a few
months, I actually missed my own
cooking. In the phase of life Im in
now, I only cook a couple of times a
week, but when I do, I want to make
it good and I want to bring the family together. I want to have the touch
of love that brings everybody to the
table.
Romney is busy today with three
BEA appearances. Shes at the
Livestream stage at 11 a.m. for
about 10 minutes. She signs galleys
of The Romney Family Table at Table
1 in the Autographing Area, 12
p.m., and 23 p.m. she will be at the
Shadow Mountain Booth (2338) for
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Deborah Serani
Depressed No More
Treated for depression as a teenager, Dr. Deborah Serani found her treatment life changing. She majored in psychology and treated people who
struggled with the same disorder. When she began to write about depression, she decided to write a trilogy. I know the good, the bad, and the ugly of
this disorder, she tells Show Daily. So my first book, Living with Depression,
was from both sides of the couch, as I like to say.
The psychologist explains that she developed her current book,
Depression and Your Child: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers (Rowman &
Littlefield, Sept. ) both as a resource guide and as a primer to help parents
recognize symptoms of depression in their children. Depression looks different in adultsthey can get irritable, angry, or lethargic, but theyre good
about saying, I feel sad. Young children, however, often have what we call
masked depressiontheyre just kind of quiet, prefer solitude, and sleep a
lot. They might be irritable, but its seen as
whininess or clinginess. Dr. Deb, as she likes
to be called, adds, We have the highest rates of
anxiety and depression of any industrialized
nation.
She notes that parents can tell when their
children are having a tough time after a significant event occurslike the loss of a loved one
or a major accident. But there are many children who are in a loved home, have shelter and
food and everything they could possibly want,
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but are struggling with the neurochemistry of a unipolar depression or a

bipolar depression, and parents dont understand that. I wanted to write a
book for those parents.
The last part of the trilogywhich she just started working onis a picture
book to help young children have a better understanding of what its like to
be depressed and what they can do about it.
Dr. Deb attended Book Expo for her first publication. Im embarrassed to say that when I was here the first time and someone gave
me a book, I took my wallet out, and they said, Noyou can take
this! Its a thrilling experience to walk the aisles and see all the
new books and all the people promoting or selling books. It
makes me feel really good about the book industry. Dr. Deb will
be signing galleys in the Rowman & Littlefield area within
the National Book Network megabooth (1120) today
at 2 p.m.
Hilary S. Kayle
Pierce Brown
Six Is the Charm
Twenty-something Pierce Brown has written six novels, but none has been published
until now. Congratulate him today, 11 a.m.
noon at the Random House booth (2739),
where hes signing galleys of his science fiction
debut, Red Rising (Del Rey, Feb. 2014). With its
young-protagonists-fighting-repressive-government plot, its predicted to invite comparisons to
The Hunger Games.
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theyre terraforming the planet to pave the way
for colonization. But soon he learns this is a lie
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a strictly regimented society, and hes at the bottom. When an uprising

forms, Darrow must transform from a Red into a Gold so that he can infiltrate the upper echelons and start unraveling their empire from the inside.
Since the age of 18, Brown has written six fantasy and historical fiction
manuscripts, but none was published, or even agented. I have been rejected
120 times, probably because I didnt write the right book. I was learning the
craft; I didnt study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me, he says. Interestingly, Brown points out, both his
agent, Hannah Bowman, and his editor, Mike Braff, for this book, like himself, are in their 20s. If this manuscript had been rejected, Brown says, I was
about to change careers.
The inspiration for Red Rising? Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teachers cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others. In watching how
kids dealt with it, I loved seeing them defeat their oppressors. Experientially,
I was on a mountain climb in the Cascades in Washington State, on Dragontail Peak in the Aasgard Mountain Pass. At night in the snow, the terrain
there looks a lot like one of the settings in Red Rising. No lights, stars so close
you can reach out and grab them. I started writing the next day.
Its Browns first time at BEA. Ive heard that its hectic and chaotic, but in
all the right ways, he says. Im hoping to meet some of my favorite authors
and booksellers; thatll be a new experience for me. Ive always looked at
independent booksellers in a romantic light.
Diane Patrick
Jamie Ford
Depression-Era Novel
Thanks to a series in Seattlecalled Bedtime Stories, sponsored by the nonprofit Humanities Washington, author Jamie Ford wrote a short story that
changed his writing direction. Although working on what he thought would
be his second novel, he decided to write something original for the event. I
was doing a bunch of research and stumbled across mention of an orphanage in Seattle during the Depression. About two-thirds of the kids there had
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their children over to the orphanage hoping
theyd be able to come back and retrieve their
child at some point. He discovered that writer
and environmentalist Wallace Stegner and his
brother spent nine months there, and he was
intrigued by his findings. I just knocked out 12
pages and read it at this event. The reaction
was so positive that I just threw myself into this
new story and here we are now.
Songs of Willow Frost (Ballantine, Sept. )
takes place in Depression-era Seattle, focusing
on a young Chinese-American orphan and his
search for the Chinese actress he believes is
his long-lost mother. Fords bestselling first
novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, took place in the 1940s. Asked
what it was about earlier periods in history that appealed to him, Ford
replied, I like old movies, I like the decorum of the past. There was a different social veneer and something else below the surface that created a really
interesting dynamic. I could write books so much faster if I wrote them in a
contemporary setting, but I like turning over the rocks and looking at the
squishy things underneath when it comes to history.
Ford told Show Daily what he hopes readers will take away from his latest
book. I hope they find theres about 50% entertainment, 40% education, and
maybe 10% enlightenment. I would also like readers to have an appreciation
for what previous generations went throughespecially those in a minority
or a woman. Theres a famous Seattle restaurateur named Ruby Chow who
was born on the docks in downtown Seattle because at the time Chinese
women were not allowed in Caucasian hospitals. And thats just a generation
and a half behind us. Its very easy for us to take certain things for granted.
This is Fords first time at Book Expo. I think Ill be a small fish in a big
pond. It will be interesting to commune with other writers, people in the
industry, and readers. He will be signing galleys today at the Random House
booth (2739), 1011 a.m.
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Tom Barbash
Even though Im living in California, my fictional life has stayed on the East Coast, says
Tom Barbash, who grew up on New York Citys
Upper West Side, the setting for several stories
in his first collection: Stay Up with Me (Ecco
Press, Sept.). Now living in Marin County and
teaching in the California College of the Arts
M.F.A. program, Barbash uses BEA as an excuse
to return to his hometown. During his first trip
to BEA 10 years ago, he came to support two books that were coming out in
the same season: the award-winning novel The Last Good Chance, and the
nonfiction book, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and
9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal, which became a New York Times bestseller.
This time around, Barbashs storiescontained in a galley wrapped in
glowing blurbs from Jess Walter, Dave Eggers, and David Mitchellare
remarkable for their dark humor, elegant renderings of awkward family
dynamics, and emotional intensity.
Barbashs career is a tale punctuated by precocious talent and big breaks.
After college, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Syracuse and only
began writing short stories in his mid-20s. As he explains, with modesty and
gratitude: I had only written about two stories when Doug Unger and Tobias
Wolff took me under their wing and let me into their graduate M.F.A. workshop [at Syracuse University] when Id never applied and was still a working
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local newspaper reporter. After Syracuse, Barbash earned a fellowship to

the Iowa Writers Workshop, followed by the prestigious Stegner Fellowship
at Stanford University. A Michener Fellowship helped him complete his first
novel, and hes been writing fiction and journalism and teaching creative
writing ever since.
An advocate for short stories, Barbash finds it highly gratifying to see the
collection, written over the past 10 years, in print: In any ways, the most
important writing Ive done is in my stories. You always hear about a lack of
interest in story collections, but I didnt find that to be the case. The team at
Ecco has been terrifically supportive.
Barbash is currently working on a novel about a family living in the Dakota
apartments in 1980, the year John Lennon was assassinated. But Barbash is
also writing about the city in that era. As he notes: If you want to see the New
York of my childhood, rent Dog Day Afternoon or The French Connection. Im
fascinated by how tough a place it was.
Today, Barbash signs ARCs of Stay Up with Me: Stories at Table 16 in the
Autographing Area, noon12:30 p.m.
Jessamine Chan
Stephen L.
Carter
Playing the Conspiracy

Theorist
Today, 11 a.m.noon, meet Yale law professor

and bestselling author Stephen L. Carter (The
Emperor of Ocean Park) at the HarperCollins
booth (2038) as he signs galleys of his new thriller,
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for The Tale of Despereaux
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for The Tiger Rising
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Caroline CarlSon
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Wendy Corsi Staub

InternetThriller
AT THE S H OW
The Church Builder (Zondervan, Oct.). But watch that signature: The Church
Builder is the first book in a series of at least three Christian-themed thrillers
to be written under his pseudonym, A.L. Shields. Carter says he created the
pseudonym as a way of branding the series. I knew it would take timeat
least three booksto tell the story, so I decided to call it a series.
In the book, he explains, protagonist Bethany Barclay is a smalltown lawyer whos caught in a power struggle between the Wilderness and the
Garden, organizations that have been competing for centuries. This comes
from the famous 17th-century essay by Roger Williams, founder of Rhode
Island and inventor of the concept of the separation between church and
state. In it, the Garden was the place of faith, and the Wilderness was the faction who sees religion as superstition and wants to eradicate it.
Aware of a long history of thrillers where the religious faction are the bad
guys and the religious folks are either conspiring or being conspired against,
Carter wanted to change that. I wanted to write a story where the religious
ones are the good guys and the conspirators are from the secular side. Im not
a conspiracy theorist, but its sure a lot of fun to write about it in fiction!
Carter points out that while hes published 14 books, this is only his third
BEA. Im looking forward to it because I really like meeting and talking to
booksellers. Whenever I pass a bookstore, I have to go in and buy a bookit
doesnt matter if its an antiquarian bookstore, a big chain, an independent,
or a specialty store. I know booksellers are struggling now, and its terrifying
because it says something unsettling about the culture. Ive written about the
importance of physical books, what they symbolize. Theres a deep symbolic
connection between books and the idea of democracy. So people who sell
books are heroic.
Diane Patrick
Im not a conspiracy theorist.
Stephen L. Carter
A few years ago, bestselling writer Wendy Corsi

Staub and her agent of nearly 20 years, Laura
Blake Peterson, were commiserating about
having middle schoolaged children with
access to the Internet and social networking.
Staub observed at the time, Its like a strangers in the room with your kid and you just
worry all the time. It can be a portal into really
scary stuff. A week later, Peterson told her,
Thats untapped territory for a thriller. Ive not
seen anybody explore the social networking
thing to that extent. Staub tells Show Daily, So
The Good Sister (Harper, Sept.) was her idea
completely, and Ive dedicated the book to her.
The author decided to create a fictionalized
version of Facebook in her novel. I called it the
People Portal, and you have Peeps instead of friends. I made up this whole
world around it. Cyberbullying is such a hot topic, too, and all of those things
come into play.
In the course of her research, Staub explored several suicide Web sites
because some girls in her novel that are being bullied commit suicide. She
says, It was alarming, reading about kids who want to kill themselves. Some
people do try to talk them out of it and give them resources for help, but you
see kids asking, Whats the most painless way to die? or Can you give me a
recipe for drugs to take? Its a really dark place to go for research.
Staub hopes that readers will learn some lessons about the Internet by
reading her novel. Its a cautionary tale because you never know whos
behind that screen name. You have to remember youre not alone when you
put something out there online.
May 2013 marks a milestone for the author: her 20th year of being published. Seventy-five novels later, with worldwide sales of more than four mil-
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lion books, the author is still busy at work in her suburban New York home.
When Im on deadline, I write seven days a week in my office. I just live and
breathe it until its done.
Staub signs twice today, first at the Mystery Writers of America booth
(2551), 10:4511:15 a.m., and at Table 15 in the Autographing Area, 34 p.m.

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His book also features a gallery of notorious bad guys like Al Capone and
Charles Ponzi. Asked why criminals flourished in the 20s, Bryson says,
Thered never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America
than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United Statesalcohol
productionand just handed it to criminals, a pretty remarkable thing to do.
Overall, however, there was less violence than you would think, certainly
less than movies and TV have led us to believe. Al Capone, for one thing,
never clobbered anybody to death with a baseball bat.
Today, Bryson signs galleys at the Doubleday booth (2739), 9:3010:30 a.m.,
and is participating in the Audio Publishers Association Tea this afternoon,
45 p.m.
Hilary S. Kayle
Bill Bryson
bath & north east somerset council uk
Serendipitous Summer
Bestselling writer Bill Bryson stumbled upon
the concurrence of Charles Lindberghs historic flight across the Atlantic the same summer that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs. At first he
thought hed pen a dual biography, but after
discovering a confluence of other events occurring at the same time, he wrote One Summer:
America 1927 (Doubleday, Oct.). He remarks,
An extraordinary number of other important
things also happened that summerthe dedication of Mount Rushmore, the filming of the
first talking picture, the Great Mississippi
Flood, the execution of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, Calvin Coolidges
surprising decision not to run for re-election, and a whole lot more. You could
make a good case, and I hope I have, that it was the most eventful summer in
modern American history. Yet nobody seems to have noticed that all these
things happened at the same time and influenced each other.
During his research, he discovered many surprising facts: I hadnt realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindberghs achievement was in flying
the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew
straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
That was a huge accomplishment with the technology of the day. When Richard Byrd flew the same route a month later with a copilot, radio operator,
and navigator, they missed Ireland by 250 miles and couldnt find Paris.
Tony Kushner
From Stage to Page
Only after the renowned Lincoln movie hit the

screens did the idea come up to publish Lincoln: The Screenplay (TCG Books, Jan.).
Besides the public clamor for it, publication
was a handy way to supply the script to Writers
Guild and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts
and Sciences members for awards consideration. Writer Tony Kushner tells Show Daily, I
wanted to take the publication of the script
seriously and treat it as if it were a text to be
read. Theatre Communications Group published all of my plays and they have an expertise in publishing dialogue-based reading material, so I went to them.
Asked about how he originally felt working on such a daunting topic as the
16th president of the United States, Kushner admits that he was initially
reluctant to take on the project: It seemed like an imponderably difficult
subject, and the level of expectation was sort of crushing.
To help him make the decision, director Steven Spielberg, movie pro-
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ducer Kathleen Kennedy, and writer/historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (the

movie is partly based on her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of
Abraham Lincoln) assembled 20 of the countrys leading Lincoln scholars at
the St. Regis hotel in New York. Kushner spent six hours with them. I was
really dazzled by the encounter, he recalls. But he still had doubts. I said to
Doris, Im not entirely sure I can do this because I still dont know how you
make a genius on the scale of Abraham Lincoln into a plausible character.
And Doris said, If youre looking for guarantees, there arent anyI had the
same anxieties working on Team of Rivals. But I can guarantee one thing
youll never regret any of the time you spend with Abraham Lincoln. I was
very moved by that, and I thought, shes probably right. So I said yes.
In the course of his work, Kushner read all of the major Lincoln biographies and much of the historical record of his antislavery battles. I have my
own private Lincoln library now. Its hard to stop reading about him and
move on to other things because I got so used to devouring the material. The
subject of Lincoln is kind of magically inexhaustible.
Kushner last appeared at BEA with Maurice Sendak for their illustrated
childrens book, Brundibar, in 2003. I remember enjoying it a lot when I was
here with Maurice and Im looking forward to being here again. Im hoping
that people will drop by. He signs Lincoln: The Screenplay today at noon at
the TCG booth (1105A).
Hilary S. Kayle
Bob Shacochis and

Kent Wascom
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They met as teacher and student in a graduate nonfiction workshop, Bob Shacochis,
taught at Florida State University, Shacochis
a National Book Awardwinning author with
a heralded reputation as a novelist, short
story writer, and journalist; Kent Wascom, a
young aspiring novelist. What evolved over
the next two years, says Wascom, was a twining of apprenticeship and love, the sort of love
and care only a good master can show a rough Bob Shacochis
and untutored apprentice.
This year, both mentor and student have
novels coming from Grove Atlantic. Shacochis calls The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
(Sept.) a 50-year prologue to 9/11, as it
reaches back to the bandit-dominated
Dubrovnik of WWII, Istanbul in the 1980s, and
to Haiti in the late 1990s to chronicle the catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror. Wascoms The Blood of Heaven (June)
moves from the early 19th-century bordellos
Kent Wascom
and plantations of Mississippi to New Orleans,
where would-be revolutionaries plot to create a new country under the leadership of renegade founding father Aaron Burr. It earned a PW starred
review, which called it a masterly achievement.
At the time of this interview Shacochis and Wascom were roughing it at
Shacochiss home in New Mexico. Its at 8,000 feet between Santa Fe and
Taos, off the grids with no indoor plumbing, reports Shacochis. Kent is staying in the guest yurt. Wascom was working on his second novel for Grove
while Shacochis was on deadline for a magazine piece and getting back into
my next novel.
You can meet Shacochis and Wascom today at 11 a.m. at the Grove Atlantic
booth (1321), each signing copies of his new book.
What did you think of Kents early efforts as a writer?
Bob: I thought of him the same way my wife thinks of me, which is as an idiot
savant. His work was best characterized as an overheated effort that contained splashes and globs of brilliance, like oil slicks, floating in a vast sea of
incoherence. But I could see the potential if he ever got his act together...
which he did without my help.
Kent: It began as a rather strained workshop relationshipBob played the
Laurence Olivier to my mewling, jabbering Dustin Hoffman la Marathon
Man, as he painfully extracted semilucid commentary and prose from me.
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Hal Ross
Dave Cataneo
Charles Egbert
Simran Singh
Mar Jennings
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James Cusumano
Susan Baroncini-Moe
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Ticktock at Octopus
Octopus Publishing Group believes
that time is on its side in wrapping
its tentacles around the childrens
illustrated book market. A year
after acquiring Ticktock, Octopus,
renowned for its illustrated book
lines, is officially relaunching its
ninth imprint
with a hot
new logo. Its
also jazzing
up the 80
titles currently on the
Ticktock list
by giving
them a more
contemporary look and
releasing
them as e-books becauseyou
know children these days. Theyre
trendsetters.
This age group have come to
expect good design and engaging
content across all digital platforms, says deputy executive editor Andrew Welham from Octopuss London headquarters. We
need to ensure we are delivering
just that wherever possible in the
books they read.

Ticktock will publish primarily
illustrated nonfiction books for the
58-year-old age range. Booksellers
can check out Ticktocks new look
at booth 844, where Octopus staff
will hand out finished copies of If
Dinosaurs Were Alive Today (May)
CRP Is 40
Chicago Review Press is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
The Windy City publisher of adult
nonfiction and childrens books will
host a celebration at its booth
inside the IPG pavilion (2527) today
at 3 p.m. Cupcakes and champagne
will be served. Also, during the celebration as well as throughout the
show, CRP will hand out travel coffee mugs emblazoned with its signature chair logo.
CRP was founded in 1973 by Curt
and Linda Matthews. Curt Matthews was a graduate student
studying American literature at the
University of Chicago at the time,
and poetry editor of the Chicago
and Fast & Furious

(June). The first 100
visitors to the booth
will also receive a hot item at a
show where the days are long and
the nights are short: ticktocky
alarm clocks.
Ticktock will continue to
count down 2013 with such
releases as Journey
Through the Solar System
(Oct.), The Big Body Book (Nov.),

and Book of Beasts (Nov.). No word
yet if Book of Beasts will include
anything about sea creatures like
cephalopod mollusc of the order
Octopoda, which have two eyes and
eight arms.
Claire Kirch
Review journal (from which the

name was borrowed) at the university. Operating initially out of their
basement, the Matthewses published, that first year, contemporary Japanese poetry in translation, an experimental novel, and
what might have been the first
graphic novel: Prairie State Blues
by Bill Bergeron.
It was just a handful of books
back then, publisher Cynthia
Sherry says. The press now has
four imprints and publishes such
books as Backyard Ballistics by
William Gurstelle, Outwitting
Squirrels by Bill Adler Jr., and My
Bloody Life by former gang member Reymundo Sanchez; all three
are perennial bestsellers. Plans
are for 32 fall releases, including
paperback and reprint editions.

Everyone knows that 40 is the
new 30, and like any self-respecting
40-year-old, CRP intends to become
even more provocative in the
future, with bigger, better
releases certain to empower readers, including Not So Fast: Parenting Your Teen Through the Dangers
of Driving by Tim Hollister (Sept.)
and Redefining Girly: How Parents
Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to
Tween by Melissa Atkins Wardy
(Jan. 2014).
Backyard Ballistics and Outwitting Squirrels capture our presss
quirky side, Sherry noted, but
weve never been afraid to take on
controversial topics, too.

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Revisiting
The Holy Grail
From the Knights of the Round
Table to Indiana Jones, the
search for the Holy Grail has
proved to be a timeless story. Not
only has it set the stage for epic
adventures, the Grail was made to
order for historical suspense
thrillers, says bestselling author
Nelson DeMille.
Legend has it that the Holy Grail
is the cup used by Christ during the
Last Supper, and its whereabouts
has remained a mystery for more
than 2,000 years. DeMille, a history
major, has tackled the Grail twice.
In 1975 he wrote The Quest, published in paperback by Manor
Books. It was my first big book and
it did well, DeMille tells Show
Daily. I had thought about bringing it back for some time.
Now he is doing just that with a
revised hardcover version of The
Quest due from Center Street in
September. Publisher Rolf Zettersten says the project took root during a casual dinner conversation
with DeMille, adding, We were
thrilled to have a major bestselling
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biggest surprise was discovering

that some of the original dialogue
was awful and dialogue is my
trademark. He believes publishers should not hesitate to reissue
old books, revised or not. I think a
lot of authors would like the opportunity to take one of their earlier
author giving us a gem from his

backlist.
Zettersten says he originally
thought DeMille would do a light
edit of The Quest. Instead, Nelson
dove into the project and has
become very ambitious about revising it. This wasnt a shave and a
haircut. In essence it has become a
whole new book.
The revision did not include fast
forwarding the action to 2013, says
DeMille, who had to make sure dialogue and events stayed true to the
books 1970s time capsule. Set
during the Ethiopian civil war, the
plot follows four distinct and determined characters on a deadly
search for the Grail.
As to revisiting an older work,
DeMille says, It was a good break
for me. It was challenging and
something different. Every writer
likes to know he or she can do
something different. He says his
books which are good, but not as

good as they could do after all the
years of working in the trenches.
Authors do become better writers.
DeMille signs copies of the first
six chapters of The Quest in the
Hachette Book Group booth (1828)
today, at 3 p.m.
Karen Jones
E-Books with Chocolate

Colorados Douglas County Libraries and Califa, a consortium of California libraries, are both so eager to
introduce you to their new e-book
purchasing model, the DCL Model,
theyre going to do something at
BEA thats definitely verboten
inside public libraries: theyre
handing out samples of Frrrozen
Hot Chocolate, the signature treat
from New York Citys Serendipity 3
at booth 963.
The DCL Model was developed by
the Douglas County Libraries and
quickly adopted by Califa, because
even librarians in California are
trendsetters. The DCL Model promotes purchasing e-books directly
from small and independent
presses, as well as from self-publishers, rather than from thirdparty vendors.
Nancy Marr, DCLs marketing
and communications specialist, has

never been to BEA before, but she
knows how show attendees minds
work: books will draw them to
booths, certainly, but so will free
food with chocolate.
If you visit the booth today
between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m., you
might even catch Maureen Sullivan, the ALA president, stopping
by for an informal meet-and-greet
Frrrozen Hot Chocolate treat. And
if all that chocolate inspires you to
learn more about the DCL Model,
heres some guilt-free serendipity:
a panel with Rochelle Logan, DCLs
associate director of support services; Sameer Shariff, Impelsys
CEO; Sourcebooks publisher Dominique Raccah; and Tyndale Houses
director of marketing services,
Alan Huizenga, in Room 1E07, 11:30
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A Nibble from Deen

Its been a few years since Paula
Deens last book appearance, and
shes come to BEA with a new cookbook and lifestyle.
After a diabetes diagnosis forced
her to shed 40 pounds, Deen was
determined to still enjoy her favorite Southern fare. Her new cookbook, New Testament: 250 Favorite
Recipes, All Lightened Up (Ballantine, Oct.), shows readers how to
lose calories but not the taste, in
her most popular Southern recipes.
New Testament reunites Deen with
Pamela Cannon, the editor who
discovered her, and her original
publisher, Random House. Cannon
says of the reunion, Paulas just a
wonderful person. She makes you
feel like youre part of the family.
Its been a really great reunion.
Cannon first met Deen when she
was in Savannah as part of the publicity team for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Cannon
recalls, I had been spending a lot
of time in Savannah, and Id been
itching to flex my muscles in a different way. She accomplished her
goal and then some at Deens restaurant, the Lady and Sons. While
Cannon
didnt
expect
more than a great
meal that fateful day,
she ended up with a
bestseller: I finished
my meal and was so
impressed with the
hostess/waitress/
back of the house
woman. I thought she

was a riot. Shed done
a little book, and Id
never edited anything, but I wanted to
clean it up and give
the book a shot. Cannon talked her boss
and Deen into it, and
her first foray as an
editor paid off. From
Life Is Like an Hourglass

The publishing industry has endured
many changes over the past two
decades that have surely tested our
collective mettle. Its all the more
reason that booksellers might want
to take a peek at Growing Through
the Narrow Spots by cancer survivor
Ruth Bachman, who is the founder
of the Hourglass Fund Project,
which funds organizations offering
resources that help people live life
wholeheartedly. Bachman will be
signing copies of Growing Through
the Narrow Spots at Tristan Publishings booth (1732) today, 12 p.m.
In Growing Through the Narrow
Spots, Bachman shares through her
words and her husbands photographs the journey through a cancer
that resulted in the loss of her dominant left arm. Bachman emphasizes to the reader through her
story that there is one constant in
life, and that is change. Once we all
accept that our existence is a series
of inevitable transformations, she
points out, we can accept whatever
life brings with a
more positive attitude and resilience.
Think of an
hourglass, Tristan
publisher Brett
Waldman urges in
explaining Bachmans philosophy.
As the sand flows
Deens first cookbook, The Lady

and Sons Savannah Country
Cookbook, in 1998, through her
next 13 cookbooks, shes sold more
than eight million copies. Deen
and Cannon will appear together
today at the Random House booth
(2739), 34 p.m., and there may
even be a little nibble of a surprise in store for attendees.

Paige Crutcher
down, it becomes refined and redefined after passing through the narrow spot. Its the same sand from
top to bottom, but its in a different
arrangement. Sheila Waldman,
Tristans president of relationships,
notes that Growing Through the
Narrow Spots is not a self-help
book: its a gift book, meant to
inspire, uplift, and provide hope to
any recipients facing their own personal difficulties.
Tristan is giving
away antique-style
bronze hourglass
charms to promote Growing
Through the Narrow Spots.
Claire Kirch
Ricki Heller is one of the most inventive, talented,

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Q&A Bob Shacochis and Kent Wascom continued from page 60
Is it true you finished your novels on the same day?

Bob: Kent showed up on my doorstepwith his manuscriptan hour after I
finished my own novel, a book that had taken me 10 years to write, which
means I began it when Kent was 14 years old. It seemed like one of those
convergences that was unstoppable and meant to be.
And you actually found Kent his publisher?
Bob: When I saw Kent had knocked it out of the park, I sent the manuscript
to Colin Harrison at Scribners. I didnt hear from him, so I called a month
later and told him, This is a great book. He told me he was busy, so I told
him I was sending it to Morgan Entrekin and Elisabeth Schmitz at Grove
Atlantic. They called in three days.
But you didnt tell Kent that Grove wanted to buy his book. You let him think
they werent interested.
Kent: He kept up his charade until the Grove author annual dinner, me
turning more gray-faced and dour by the dayup to the moment when
Elisabeth stepped out of a cab on a snowy Chicago night and offered me a
contract. His trickster efforts made that moment so unbelievably special, so
beautiful. Of the multitude of ways Im in his debt, this may be chief among
them.
What has having Bob as a mentor meant to you as a young writer?
Kent: I can only hope that one day I will do for an apprentice writer one-tenth
of what Bob has done for me. He has been more than mentor, teacher, or
friend. Before I knew Bob, I wrote. Because of Bob I am a writer.

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Louise Penny
Beyond the Mystery
Louise Penny loves a good story. Whether shes

talking about the interior journey of Chief Insp.
Armand Gamache (the hero of her New York
Timesbestselling murder mystery series, set
in Three Pines, Quebec) or the feeling of
community among readers and writers that
shes excited to encounter at this years BEA
her firsther passion is contagious.
I love that explosion of enthusiasm around
books, she says. Its like finding your home
planet. She is excited about her eighth
Armand Gamache mystery, How the Light Gets
In (Minotaur Books, Aug.), which is already garnering excellent reviews.
The Three Pines books have made Penny a fixture in the literary-mystery
genre, but her enthusiasm means the story rarely stops on the page. Shes
worked with Tours Voir Qubec to develop a tour based on Bury Your Dead
(book six), and a Gamache movie is in the works, with Nathaniel Parker as
the chief inspector.
This passion for sharing stories is also one of the driving forces behind her
work with the Yamaska Literacy Council, which Penny says was eyeopening. Id never connected the dots so clearly. Being able to read and
write doesnt guarantee a happy, rich, fulfilling lifenot being able to is
pretty well a guarantee that you wont be as fulfilled as you could be. Shes
since written a Three Pines novella for GoodReads Canada, an organization
which fosters emerging adult readers.
She is one of the featured speakers at todays APA Audio Tea, 45 p.m.
love that explosion of enthusiasm

Iaround
books.
Louise Penny
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Among the discoveries shes made about audiobooks, perhaps the most
important comes courtesy of Ralph Cosham, who performs the Gamache
audiobooks: Its how critical a good narrator is. It should be self-evident, and
it probably is, but what a difference. He clearly brings these books alive, lifts
them right off the page. (She promises she passes along the best of the fan
mail she receives for him; some include marriage proposals.)
Penny doesnt take herself seriously (her solution for insecurity: Hide on a
mountaintop!), but her books reflect a depth of storytelling that she hopes
sets Three Pines apart in the mystery world. Each book on the surface is a
murder mystery, but below that are themes that interest me and challenge
me and humble me. I want to explore myself.
The murder is about fear, she explains. But also about all of our faults
and our flaws and the choices we make, about love and community and
longing and yearning, the yearning to belong, the fear of loneliness, the fact
of loneliness. I really feel strongly its not about the blood, its about the
marrow.
Genevieve Valentine
Hannah Kent
A Lonely Inspiration
Twenty-seven-year-old Hannah Kent, who grew up in Adelaide Hills,

Australia, says her decision to live in Iceland in a small, rural village for a
year after graduating from high school was largely a deferral tactic. As it
turns out, it was an extremely important one. Her first book, the historical
novel, Burial Rites (Little, Brown, Sept.), is set in rural Iceland. It is the
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fictionalized account of the last days of Agnes

Magnusdottir, a 34-year-old servant woman
who was charged with the brutal murder of two
men in 1828. Kent first heard Agness story from
her host mother, who explained that Agnes had
been beheaded in Icelands last execution in a
valley covered in hundreds of small hills.
Kent was immediately intrigued by Agnes,
who had awaited her execution sequestered on
a farm. Kent says the initial period of her stay in
Iceland was difficult and lonely. Retrospectively,
I can only speculate that the strange, isolated
place of Agness death made me think of my own
feelings of lonelinessthat I saw something of
my own condition, just a tiny fragment,
mirrored back to me in her story of alienation.
As Kents stay as part of an exchange program progressed, she continued
to feel haunted by Agnes, and after doing some research, the absence of
any real information about Agness life motivated her to flesh out the story.
Burial Rites, she explains, was written out of a desire to offer an alternative
representation of Agnes, as well as a longing to articulate something of
Icelands grip on my heart.
Kent is also the cofounder and deputy editor of the Australian literary
journal Kill Your Darlings, a print and online publication of commentary,
interviews, reviews, and selected fiction. Asked how her life is different since
her book was published in Australia earlier this month, Kent says, In some
ways my life has been completely altered, and in other ways its completely
unchanged. However, now I can devote my full attention to my next book. Its
an absolute luxury.
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Kent, the initial period of her stay in

For
Iceland was difficult and lonely.
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ne Gibson Publishes Her Third
Childrens Book
Award-winning author, Catherine Gibson, has published her third childrens book, Sophie Discovers
Synchronized Swimming.
Swimming Previously, we met
Sophie as a budding ballerina in Cathys rst book,
Through Sophies Eyes.
Eyes Her second book, Coach
Bob & Me,
Me is about a boy who is a loner, befriended by a coach who offers encouragement and
guidance.
In Sophie Discovers Synchronized Swimming,
ming Sophie is intrigued by the beauty and form
of synchronized swimming while attending her cousin
Gillys swim meet. Gillys steadfast support of Sophie combined with Sophies
determination, once again, leads to her success and acceptance as a swimmer
and as a friend. Gillys friends learn to embrace Sophies individuality, discovering how the physical challenges of others can change them as well.
As in the rst Sophie book, Sophie Discovers Synchronized Swimming offers the reader the opportunity to learn the nger spell alphabet
with examples of vocabulary words from the book and their accompanying
nger spell diagrams. Diagrams are large and clearly drawn for both children and adults. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each book will
be donated to The For Children With Love
Foundation, created by Cathy to support
local childrens causes.
Fascinated by the beauty of sign language,
Cathy learned to sign at The American School
for the Deaf in West Hartford, Connecticut where
she taught pre-school dance through signing and
body movement. Later in life, Cathys friendship
with a deaf friend who was a champion synchronized swimmer inspired her to write this story.
Title: Sophie Discovers Synchronized Swimming

Author: Catherine Gibson
ISBN: 978-0-983-1221-1-1
Cost: $15.95 Hard Cover
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Date of Publication: 2013
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Audrey Penn
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Galen Longstreth &

Maris Wicks signing
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tion, set to hit theaters in June.

Sales signs today at Table 7 in the Autographing Area, 22:30 p.m.
Why so much interest in the story of the Bling Ring burglaries?
Their crimes encapsulate so many of our modern obsessionscelebrity,
designer brands, wealth. People want to know what happened in all its
bizarre detail: that Rachel Lee took the key from underneath Paris Hiltons
[welcome] mat and put it on her keychain, and then Paris replaced the key
with another one, not even realizing at the time that she had been robbed.
That they developed a system in which they would go into a house, grab a
piece of luggage from a closet, and then start filling it up, as ifas they said
they were going shopping. That they equated burglary with a trip to the
mall.
Has the cult of celebrity informed how the perpetrators see themselves and
their actions?
Since the 20th century, criminals have often identified with stars and been
glamorized as suchin part because the news of their crimes sells newspapers. Our interest in criminals probably says as much about us as it does
about the criminals. Whats different now is the pervasiveness of outlets for
celebrity and the accessibility of the tools for self-promotion. What would
Bonnie and Clyde have done with Facebook? They were just kids themselves, in their early 20s. The Bling Ring kids were advertising their burglary hauls, in thinly veiled ways, on Facebook before the police ever caught
up to themand this is in part how they were caught.
Every generation bemoans the moral failures of the subsequent generation.
But is the Facebook generation really an altogether different kind of animal?
I make the case that there are some real differences with kids in America
today, beginning with their extreme interest in wealth. Ive interviewed kids
for magazines for almost 20 years, and the phrase living the lifestyle
comes up a lot. Their interest in fame is connected, I think, to their interest
AT THE S H OW
She is very excited about visiting New York City and attending BEA. She
spent exactly 16 hours in Manhattan in 2011 on her way home to Australia
after a research trip to Iceland. Most of that time, she says, was spent
sleeping on a bunk bed in Chinatown, so shes looking forward to exploring
the city. Ive made up my mind to sleep as little as possible, so I can fit in as
much of New York as I can.
Kents editor, Judith Clain, presents Burial Rites today at 10 a.m. at the
Great Fall Fiction panel at the Downtown Stage.
Ruby Cutolo
Nancy Jo Sales
jayne wexler
Shoplifting Bling
In 2008 and 2009, a teenage clique burgled

the homes of numerous Hollywood stars
including Paris Hiltons, Lindsay Lohans,
and Orlando Bloomsmaking off with
more than $3 million in cash, clothes, and
jewelry before they were caught. In The
Bling Ring: How a Gang of FameObsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood
and Shocked the World (It Books, May),
Nancy Jo Sales builds upon her 2010 Vanity Fair article (The Suspects Wore
Louboutins) to tell the story of the audacious heists, the narcissistic culprits, and
the corrosive cult of celebrity. Be on the
lookout for Sofia Coppolas movie adapta-
Bling Ring kids were advertising

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their burglary hauls, in thinly veiled
ways, on Facebook.
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in living a lifestyle that is only available to 1% or less of the population. We

are thirsting after things we can never have. I think thats part of what motivated the Bling Ring kids to rob. There was a storming-the-gates-of-Versailles aspect to their crimes, which a lot of people I spoke to found kind of
marvelous, however wrong.
Samuel R. Slaton
David Margolick
David Margolick, a historian and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, has written about everything from boxing rivalries to
legal affairs and the Billie Holiday song
Strange Fruit. In his newest, Dreadful: The
Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
(Other Press, June), he takes on the life and legacy of a gay novelist whose work caused a stir
when it was published in the 1940s, but has
largely been forgotten. Margolick thinks were
missing out on something big, and its high time
Burns is given a second chance.
He is signing today at the Other Press booth
(2839), 33:30 p.m.
What prompted you to write this biography?
It was an idea that had been percolating in me for more than 40 years.
Shortly after arriving at the Loomis School in Windsor, Conn., I learned
actually, someone whispered it to me conspiratoriallythat a guy named
John Horne Burns had trashed the place in a novel that, nearly 20 years later,
was still banned from the school library.
What most surprised you during the writing process?
My biggest surprise was that Burns was gay. The student who told me about
him never mentioned that. And in retrospect, this isnt all that surprising,
since the gay side of Burns and his writingand particularly the gay cast of
CELEBRATING TEN YEARS

OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING
Beach Feet
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A New York Public Library 2012 Best Book
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A quietly sublime depiction of a child at play by the sea.
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his greatest novel, The Gallery (1947), in which, among other things, Burns
devotes an entire chapter to a gay bar patronized by Allied soldiers during
WWIIoften went unmentioned at the time. In the late 1940s, it was easier
for the straight world, and straight critics, simply to pretend it did not exist.
So, for many years, it didnt, except privately among Burnss gay readers.
And he had many of them.
Why do you think Burns chose dreadful as his epistolary euphemism for
gay?
It was campsomething that conjured up mock horror, schoolmarmish disapproval, playfulness, and societal taboos all at once: to write explicitly
about anything gay in the 1940s just wasnt done, even among gays. To me, its
a sign of Burnss wit and charm, not of any self-hatred, though he may well
have had that, too.
Did your opinion of Burnss literary works change as you wrote?
I simultaneously grew more and less impressed. His greatest works, like The
Gallery and his wartime letters, are simply extraordinary. He tossed off brilliant prose with dazzling ease. But whether due to alcohol or scathing
reviews or his own demons, his work deteriorated startlingly after that. His
last novel, which he was working on in Italy when he died, was not only
unpublished but unpublishable.
How does Burnss work fit in with contemporary gay literature?
As a crucial, even an essential, part of its developmentan early explosion
of it, in fact. Gore Vidal, who was not just Burnss contemporary (actually, he
was a few years younger) but his greatest rival, has called Momma (the gay
bar chapter in The Gallery) the most important passage in gay literature of
the 20th century.
Samuel R. Slaton
write explicitly about anything gay

Toin the
1940s just wasnt done, even
among gays.
David Margolick
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Colin McAdam
I Am an Ape
I started wanting to write solely about chimpanzees, Colin McAdam tells

Show Daily about A Beautiful Truth (Soho Press), his latest noveltheir politics, their jealousies, their desires. I thought it would be fun to strip away the
language and still portray those elements. Thats how it started, but it took a
major change after I met my first chimps.
McAdams novel covers considerable territory. From the cages of a Florida
research institute to the Vermont home of an aging couple, the chimps hab-
its and affinities are juxtaposed against

the humans that care for them. Washoes
disgust for her new human handlers provided a jolt of energy to McAdams
research. That was a somewhat epiphanic moment for me because you see ape
arrogance at work. The very same arrogance that we haveand Ive come to recognize it as instinctive as much as cultural.
We just instinctively look down on other
apes, without ever including oneself in the
mix, and to see a chimp do that was just
remarkable.
The book, which had a Canadian release in March, is set for a September
U.S. publication. Its poised to ride a wave of press from north of the border
following extensive coverage in the Montreal Gazette and the Toronto Star.
Says McAdam, Were lucky to be born in this time and age so we can have
these luxurious conversations. But were not equipped culturally to examine
what our bodies are. For me, I am an
ape. By our own definition. If you
take two gophers, two subspecies of
gopher, on either side of the Colorado River, lets say, those two
gophers have less in common with
each other genetically than we do
with chimpanzees. Were very
happy to look at both gophers as
gophers, but we just cannot look at
ourselves as apes.
McAdam is signing today at 2 p.m.
at Table 14 in the Autographing
Area.
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A Global Roll Out
Anticipation is running high for

Bloomsburys global publication of
The Bone Season in August. Rights
have been sold in 20 countries, and
film rights have been optioned by
the Imaginarium Studios. Much of
the publishers excitement centers
on the authors ambition and rich
imaginationits the first
installment in a
seven-book
series by Oxford
University senior
Samantha
Shannon. Her
setting is a nearfuture London,
year 2056, where
a Big Brother
style corporation
called Scion
controls every
aspect of society. An underground
syndicate of voyants, persecuted
for their ability to enter the minds
of others, are the only opposition.
Shannons bleak, panoptic future is
shaded with elements of the occult,
resting somewhere between Harry
Potter and 1984. Early readers have
raved a must read (Kami Garcia,
coauthor of the Beautiful
Creatures series) and truly
extraordinary and thrilling (Andy
Serkis, actor/director).
Bloomsbury signed Shannon to a
three-book deal after The Bone
Season grabbed considerable
attention at 2012s London Book
Fair. Shannon will be autographing
today at 2:30 p.m. at Table 22 in the
Autographing Area.

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Inspirational Brilliance
THE ART OF BOB PEAK
The Father of the Modern Movie Poster,

not only revolutionized the movie industry,
but redefined illustration art that ushered in
the age of the Mad Men advertising era.
The folks at Brilliance Audio have had a good thing going with audiobooks
since the companys founding in 1985, and have more recently developed
an expertise in print fulfillment with Amazon publishing imprints. It was
only natural that they decided to form a new entity last December, Grand
Harbor Press, that includes a new print and e-book imprintall with an
inspirational/self-help focus.
We recognized that there was a lot we
could bring to publishing and our authors by
getting into some of these other formats, Brilliance publisher Mark Pereira says.
Associate publisher Gary Krebs adds, We
were already in the inspirational publishing
business through our audio products, so we
know that customer quite well. In audiobooks,
we publish Jack Canfield, Anne Lamont, and
Steven Covey. With Grand Harbor Press, we
have an opportunity to reach an untapped
market in people looking for practical solutions on a wide range of issues from real people who have overcome problems themselves
and have a passion to share their solutions, as
opposed to past years where people were
looking for celebrity authors or talk show hosts to write self-help books.
The debut Grand Harbor Press title, Happy This Year: The Secret to
Getting Happy Once and for All (Apr.) by bestselling author Will Bowen,
made a big splash and became a bestseller within its category on Amazon. Says Krebs, Wills philosophy is that if you have the right mindset,
you can actually train yourself to become happy. He came up with this
highly original idea of being able to measure your happiness level, and
theres a free app that we created with himthe HappyStat smartphone
appwhere you can track your happiness every day. Bowen will be at
the Brilliance booth (DZ1857) tomorrow, 1011 a.m., signing copies of his
book.
Another major author for Grand Harbor is disco legend Gloria Gaynor,
whose book We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement, Inspiration,
and the Power of Song comes out this fall and details 50 true stories of
people whose lives were transformed by the singers 1978 hit song, I Will
Survive. Gaynor will be at the Brilliance booth today, 10:3011 a.m.,
signing a sampling of her stories as well as music CDs.
Hilary S. Kayle
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There are a lot of celebrities wandering around Javits this week, but none
are as cute and friendly as Kushka, the Russian Maltese whose name is
the Russian word for cat. Kushka, the real-life pet of author Eli Kowalski,
has been immortalized by him in Kushka: The Dog Named Cat; Kushka
Visits the Zoo; and the Kushka Coloring & Activity Book. Theres even a
20-piece wooden Kushka puzzle and a Kushka plush toy launching at
BEA.
Kowalski explains that Kushka, who celebrated her eighth birthday yesterday, was named Cat because she displays catlike behaviors. She also
understands commands
given to her in Russian,
which Kowalski, who is from
Israel and lives in
Philadelphia, speaks.
Kushkas eccentricities
dont end with her thinking
she is a cat who understands Russian: she also
likes to wear hats, prefers
the color pink, sits on
Kowalskis lap during book
events to meet and greet
The dog that thinks shes a cat poses with the book that
her fans, and will even do
made her famous.
paw-a-graph signings.
Kowalski and Kushka sign today, 12 p.m., at the Moms Choice Awards
booth (27672768). And you can meet Kushka throughout the show at L.E.
Publishings booth (C881). Kushka is more than a pretty dog-face, Kowalski
says: she can teach all of us, especially independent booksellers, some
important lessons on accepting ourselves and embracing what makes us
unique. Its okay to be different, Kowalski says. Look at this dog, who
Claire Kirch
thinks shes a cat. She enjoys life.
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Fine Giveaways at Abbeville

If you love the finer things, stop by the Abbeville Press booth (1206), where
the press is celebrating its commitment to fine art with giveaways, some by
drawings, tied in to some of its popular books pubbing in the fall. And demo
copies of all featured e-books are available at the booth.
Oscar is visiting the booth to celebrate both his 85th birthday and the publication of 85 Years of the Oscar by Robert Osborne (Oct.), Abbevilles official
history of the Academy Awards. Rarely seen outside of movie premieres
and Hollywood hot spots, a life-size statue of
Oscar will be available for photo ops. Giveaways include the official ad posters from the
85th annual ceremony, held earlier this year.
Collectors of fine wristwatches can view
Abbevilles two new guidesWristwatch
Annual 2013 e-book (June) and Wristwatch
Annual 2014 (Sept.), both edited by Peter Braun,
and Classic Wristwatches 20142015 by Stefan
Muser and Michael Ph. Horlbeck (print and
e-book, both Nov.)and enter a drawing for a
new wristwatch from one of the featured brands.
Lovers of fine ornithological prints and John
James Audubon can enter the drawing for a
one-of-a-kind Audubon collectors set, including a full-size facsimile of a print from the slipcased Audubons Birds of America (Jan.) and its
enhanced e-book version (June), both with text
by Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie
Peterson. Bird calls are embedded in the e-book,
so that birdwatchers can access all of the information without an Internet connection.
Admirers of the work of the renowned botanical photographer and retired podiatrist Jonathan Singer can enter to win a full-size Singer
print together with a bonsai tree, a giveaway
celebrating the publication of Spirit Stones:
The Ancient Art of the Scholars Rock (Sept.), the third book in Singers photographic trilogy. (The other two titles are Botanica Magnifica: Portraits of
the Worlds Most Extraordinary Flowers and Plants and Fine Bonsai: Art &
Diane Patrick
Nature).
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1 PM Autograph Area
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Sourcebooks Goes Hollywood

Sourcebooks is giving BEA
attendees a shot of
Hollywood glamour today
at 10 a.m. in booth 829,
when Oscar- and Emmy
Awardwinning actress
Jessica Lange will sign up
to 100 broadsides promoting her first childrens picture book, Its About a
Little Bird (Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, Oct.). Its
the story of two sisters who visit their grandmother, Mem, on her farm. After the two girls
sneak into the barn and find treasures, including
an antique birdcage, Mem reminisces about living in Europe as a young
woman, where she adopted a canary named Uccellino, or Little Bird.
Publishing a childrens picture book was not something Lange set out to
do. I just woke up one morning with the story in my head and sat down
and wrote it, says Lange, who once lived in Paris and now owns a farm in
the Hudson River Valley. I decided to illustrate it by tinting my black
and white photographs, since Ive always loved and collected hand-colored postcards. And then I thought to make it into a book to give to my
granddaughters.
After a friend suggested that Lange have the hand-bound book published,
Sourcebooks made the best offer. I couldnt imagine exactly what a Jessica
Lange picture book would be, recalled Jabberwocky editorial manager
Steve Geck. But once I saw it, with her delicately hand-painted photographs, I understood what made this book so distinctive.
In a way, having her first childrens picture book acquired by Geck, a
native Minnesotan, and published by a Midwestern publisher brings it all
full circle for Lange, who was born near Duluth in 1949. She first studied
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Licensing at BEA
Across the show floor, including
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and the International Rights
Center, a number of companies
are exhibiting licensed books,
products, and properties.
Atlantyca S.p.A. (802): Italian literary rights holder Atlantyca S.p.A. is
introducing its new and existing
catalogue to American publishers
and pursuing partnerships for
English-language rights. It is presenting properties that include
Dinofriends, about the friendship
between a boy and a shy dinosaur;
Me, Mum & Mystery, billed as
Gilmore Girls meets Agatha
Christie, about an 11-year-old
detective and her mom; and Cats &
Clues, about four mystery-solving
Parisian cats. Atlantyca also continues to promote its Geronimo Stilton
and Thea Stilton book franchises,
which are published worldwide.
Bendon Publishing International
(C1457): Bendon is highlighting its
new Kathy Ireland infant, toddler,
and preschool products, which
include books, blocks, puzzles, and
matching games.
Retail prices for
the 18 initial titles
will range from
$5.99 to $18.99. It is
also offering a full
line of Disney
Junior preschool products, including
Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First, Jake
and the Never Land Pirates, Mickey
Mouse Clubhouse, and Minnies BowToons. Other titles include movie
tie-ins to Man of Steel and The
Smurfs, eight to 12 new coloring and
activity titles based on Nickelodeon
shows, and two new properties:
The Jungle Book and WWE/World
Wrestling Entertainment.
Carson-Dellosa Publishing (C1075):
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licensed product line, which
encompasses
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cards, and tangram puzzles.
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flash cards, and other supplemental educational materials, including
products under the Summer
Bridge, Summer Splash, Spectrum,
and Singapore Math brands,
among others.
Kappa Books Publishers (RC4445):
This year, Kappa
is spotlighting its
titles tied to
licenses from the
digital world,
building on its
successful Angry
Birds line. Its new
Cut the Rope
products, licensed from ZeptoLab,
include formats ranging from giant
coloring and activity books to highend floor pads. Kappa is also previewing a new digital acquisition,
the mobile game Wheres My Water?
licensed by Disney, and displaying
additional Angry Birds products,
including new, higher-end formats.
Aside from promoting its books,
Kappa is meeting with its international partners, from printers and
packagers to licensors.
Merrymakers Inc. (1546): Plush
maker Merrymakers is featuring
dolls based on new properties
including Nightsong Bat, from the

book written by Ari Berk, illus. by
Loren Long; Bear from Ashley Wolffs
Baby Bear Sees Blue; and Owl from
Nina Ladens Peek-a-Who. New fall
products include Willie from Ezra
Jack Keatss Whistle for Willie; Dear
Zoo Dog, from the book by Rod
Campbell; and Geronimo Stilton,
which the company has been pursuing since 2004. Merrymakers
also showing two strong
sellers from spring,
Goodnight,
Goodnight,
Construction Site
and Little Critter.
The latter marks
the first time author
Mercer Mayer has
authorized a doll based on the character. And the company is expanding
its two bestselling franchises, Pete
the Cat and Llama Llama, adding
standard, giant, and holiday dolls,
puppets, and backpack pulls.
Parragon Publishing (1846-1847):
Parragon is exhibiting its latest
titles under several licensed property umbrellas, including Marvel,
Disney, Nickelodeon, Power
Rangers, Discovery Kids, Trash
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is launching a TLC-branded cookbook at BEA. Its list now has lifestyle
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tied to the upcoming films Man of
Steel (June), The Hobbit: The
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Godzilla (May
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storybook content for such
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When Mark Bailey retired from a
successful financial career in Salt
Lake City, he spent some quality
time at the second home he shared
with his wife in Torrey, Utah, a treelined community and gateway to the
Capitol Reef National Park. There,
he was moved by how much more
work still needed to be done to secure
the countrys natural resources, so
he decided the best way was to
become a publisher of stories that
brought the issues to light.
Using print-on-demand technology, Torrey House Press was born in
2010 with three novels. Less than
three years later, it found its way to
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publishing model. This season, Torrey House is getting noticed for the
novel Monument Road by Charlie
Quimby, set in Colorado, which has
been chosen to be part of the ABAs
fall debut authors promotion recently
renamed Indies Introduce.
Bailey says that Quimby was very
smart when he submitted the unsolicited manuscript: He had
reviewed some of our books, so we
had this dialogue going before I
even knew I had a special book in my hands.

Quimby has the
terrific combination of
being a skilled fiction
writer and a really
effective marketer,
says Kirsten Allen,
Baileys wife and
cofounder of the press.
In Quimbys novel, a Colorado
man is determined to jump off the
cliff on Monument Road he plans to
scatter his wifes ashes from, only to
be thwarted by several characters
who all have some connection to
the couple or the terrain in which
the book is set. Anne Holman, manager of the Kings English (a bookshop not far from Torrey House
Press in Salt Lake City), read the
book in one week and immediately
suggested it be considered for the
ABA debut author program.
Once that happened, Allen says,
the fledgling environmental press
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feel about publishing in an increasingly digital age and marketplace?
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Maxwell, Grand Central, Nov.), Scott
Turow (Identical, Grand Central,
Oct.), and George Pelecanos (The
Double, Little, Brown, Oct.). All four
will be on hand for todays panel on
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Talking shop with such talented
novelists is a great way to spend
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writers are always getting together
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truth is we rarely come out of our
caves at the same time. I know all of
these writers, consider them friends,
but havent had the chance to get
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Stability Brings Hope at BEA

feeling that, after a tumultuous few years, there is a

indie stores, said there is

Fair-goers were in a buoyant mood yesterday morning at the opening of the

elaborated, the one time of

Come meet Sylvia

See the next page for harlequinS Schedule of todayS SigningS.

of Wisconsins Books & Co.

A sizzling new contemporary

Two scintillating stories

Visit Harlequin at Booth 1238 to meet

11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.

Harlequin Teen Hour

1:00 p.m.2:00 p.m.

Harlequin Series Hour

Mira Lyn Kelly

Once is Never Enough

2:30 p.m.3:30 p.m.

Cosmo Red-Hot Reads

10:00 a.m.11:00 a.m.

Debut Fiction Hour

OFFICIAL BEA AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH SESSIONS

1:00 p.m.2:00 p.m.

The Night is Watching

From the New York Times bestselling author of

AMERICAN WIFE and PREP

The Washington Post

HOUSE HARDCOVER AND eBOOK

ON SALE JUNE 25, 2013

A new middle grade adventure

This might be kind of funny,

Photo JT Thomas Photography

Dark and dangerous, bloody and brilliant.

Holly Black will be signing

Mattel and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announce

See whats happening in Booth 1829!

Photo Kelly Sansom

with Newbery Honor author

Available in hardcover, eBook, and audio

BEA SHOW DAILY DAY 2

FRIDAY, MAY 31 , 2013

Thursdays author breakfast involved time travel, Theodore

and Taft for the past six years based

Breakfast speakers (l. to r.) Wally Lamb,

about her newest book, The Bully

A Bookseller Hat for Jeff Kinney?

Charlie Brownwhen they passed

second floor, and offices above.

Marisha Pessl signed copies of galleys for Night Flying at

As part of a project to develop a

is that a critic be honest about any

since it is important to a critics

ALL PHOTOS STEVE KAGAN.COM

Literary Ethics for Reviewers

Veronica Roth signed posters for her book,

FRIDAY, MAY 31 , 2013

Legendary comedian Tim Conway was on

Lyn Roberts, general manager of Square Books in

ABA CEO Oren Teicher, flanked by

ket in e-books is what consumers

YA Buzz: Books with

The Fight Over Digital Resell

BEA SHOW DAILY DAY 2