BEA, or Book Expo America, is the big trade show for trade publishing in the United States, and was held in New York City a couple weeks ago. I'll do some posts over the next several days either about or inspired by the event. Here are some photos I took (or in some cases, mis-took, because they're blurrier than we would want; I guess I'm not a professional photographer).The first comes from inside the Javits Center, where a nice Sookie Stackhouse display was at the front entrance to the Penguin booth. Very nice views of the current DEAD AND GONE hardcover and the True Blood Season 2 tie-in edition cover for LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS. I am very fond of both. And then there was the big, bold, beautiful True Blood billboard on W. 39th St. at the intake into the Lincoln Tunnel, and isn't that a nice way to start and finish the day heading to and from the Javits Center each day.
The next very blurry picture was taken at the Prometheus Books booth. The wonderful Pyr SF line edited by Lou Anders is part of the Prometheus empire, and they had a big poster up for GEOSYNCHRON, the concluding novel in the Jump 225 trilogy by David Louis Edelman. Prometheus was also giving out copies of the new premium-size mass market edition of CROSSOVER by Joel Shepherd, so the JABberwocky list was well-represented in this corner.
At the Severn House booth, it was nice to see the forthcoming historical mystery ANGEL OF THE GLADE by Scott Mackay on their display shelf. And there on the right, I'll also mention Marcia Talley's new book, because Marcia Talley is a wonderful person whom I've known by way of Charlaine Harris for many many years. It always brings a smile to my face when I see Marcia, and it brings a smile to my face to see her book at BEA as well.
Finally, this was a very special BEA because it's the first time in all my years in the business that I had an author officially at BEA, with an official signing in the official signing area and on a panel and totally getting the full royal BEA treatment. So we have a picture of Brandon Sanderson participating in a panel with
Jonathan Tropper for authors of books that had been mentioned in the Editor's Buzz panel the day before, and then we have a picture of Brandon doing his official signing of copies of new novel WARBREAKER while his editor Moshe Feder is standing up in order to take a picture of Brandon's very long signing line. Brandon also had an ALA autographing and did an interview for BookSpotCentral. He and I met up with the people at Macmillan Audio and recorded some video that will be used to promote the audio release of The Gathering Storm. We discussed possible comic book adaptations of Brandon's work with a couple of comic book publishers.
I should have taken pictures at the JABberwocky dinner, where Brandon joined myself, my JABberwocky associate Eddie Schneider (celebrating his first anni on the JABberwocky team, Peter V. Brett, the publisher of Recorded Books, our man in China, our summer interns, and World's Biggest Bookstore bookseller Jessica Strider and her husband at Rachel's. A good time was had by all. It was my first time going to Rachel's, and I will happily go there again. It's convenient to the theater district and the food generally received high marks.
2 comments:
Sounds like a lot of fun seeing your authors well-represented. I can feel your radiating pride through this post. Congrats to all of them, and you.
I've read on several other agent blogs that this year's BEA was a majorly scaled down event. What is your opinion on that?
Ooooh, awesome to hear Warbreaker is finally out. I'll definitely have to pick that up :). I loved the snippets I got to read, way back when I took the intern test :).
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