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PW Show Daily, Day 3, May 26
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Thursday
May 26, 2011
Publishers Weekly’s Show Daily is produced each day during the 2011 BookExpo in New York.
The Show Daily press office is in room 1C02. PW’s booth is #4234.
A L L T H E B U Z Z O N B O O K E X P O A M E R I C A
Literary Fiction
Makes a Comeback
By Louisa Ermelino about the mass suicide of a est compliment for State of
splinter group of Jews at Wonder by Ann Patchett
If there’s one person you Masada in the first century. (Harper). “It’s totally going to
want to ask about books, it’s “I’m loving it,” she says. blow everyone away.”
Paul Yamazaki, head buyer Julie Stavinsky, events “There are three things
at City Lights bookstore in coordinator for Warwick’s in I’ve read that stick in my
San Francisco. He’s talking La Jolla, Calif., talked up mind,” says Bill Cusumano,
about Jeff Eugenides’s new Ballantine’s The Language of book buyer at Nicola’s Books
novel, The Marriage Plot, but Flowers by Vanessa in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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he is also touting what he Diffenbaugh. “She did a ter- Cusumano adds to the con-
called “a sleeper” on FSG’s rific job of mixing social sensus with Night Circus and
list, The Barbarian Nurseries issues and the language of The Dovekeepers. His third
by L.A. Times columnist flowers.” Stavinsky also likes pick, though, When She
Hector Tobar. While Rules of Civility by Amor Woke by Hillary Jordan,
Yamazaki concedes it’s not Towles (Penguin). “It’s set in which Algonquin has been Library District in Illinois, “is Became Modern by Stephen
really his personal type of 1938 New York City and it’s very hot on, has been a BEA that there are always sur- Greenblatt (Norton), the
book, he’s convinced that very Gatsbyish. The author hit. “It’s a futuristic thing,” prises, like Running the Rift story of a manuscript discov-
“it’s going to work for a lot of did a tremendous job of re- Cusumano says, “with The by Naomi Benaron ered 600 years ago that
readers. It’s a great book creating the era.” Scarlet Letter theme but in (Algonquin),” winner of the fueled the Renaissance.”
about race and class in Matt Norcross, co-owner, the future. It’s powerful.” Bellwether Prize, about a Roberta Rubin, owner of
Southern California. It’s McLean & Eakin, Petoskey, And the cover is a knockout. young Rwandan boy running the Bookstall at Chestnut
exhilarating, moving, and Mich., is also excited about “What I love about BEA,” to save his life. “This is one of Court, in Winnetka, Ill.,
beautifully written.” Ernest Cline’s Ready Player says William McCully, of the my favorites, along with The raved about the latest by
Yamazaki, always the cham- One, but reserves his great- Prospect Heights Public Swerve: How the World Tony Horwitz. His Midnight
pion of good books, brimmed Rising (Holt) is a tale about
with enthusiasm about the John Brown and the raid on
revived state of the book Harper’s Ferry. Horwitz “isn’t
business. “Fiction in hard- a historian, he’s a story-
cover is back!” he says. teller,” she says. “He really
Lanora Haradon, owner of nails the story, and the
Next Chapter Books in research that went into it is
Mequon, Wis., thinks that impeccable. And he has such
Crown’s “geek” novel, Ready a sense of humor.”
Player One by Ernest Cline, Chris Rose, a bookseller at
“is fabulous, especially for Andover Books in Andover,
people who’ve grown up in Mass., is jazzed about The
the ’80s.” As for Night Circus Shooting Salvationist: J.
by Erin Morgenstern Frank Norris and the Murder
(Doubleday), a Buzz Panel Trial That Captivated
book, she is over the moon: America by David R. Stokes
“This novel is going to be big- (Steerforth). He calls it
ger than The Time Traveler’s “enthralling” and a “skillful
Wife. It’s going to be bigger presentation of a shocking
than The Secret Life of Bees!” crime. The story is simply
Roxanne Coady of R.J. Julia incredible and every word of
Booksellers in Madison, it is true.” Readers won’t be
Conn., also calls it a winner, able to put it down, he says.
along with Turn of Mind While the booksellers still
(Atlantic Monthly) by Alice make books and are the
LaPlante, which deals with go-to folks for the next big
dementia and murder. thing, there were books at
Coady says LaPlante’s novel the show that caught our
is “the most endearing story fancy in the mystery and
I’ve seen in a long time.” thriller category, where ice
Coady is almost done read- and snow continue to take
ing Alice Hoffman’s The Learn more at Medallion Press booth #2738 center stage. Minotaur is
Dovekeepers (Scribner), continued on page 4
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Highlights
of the day
MEETINGS AND EVENTS
8–9:30 a.m. Adult Book and Author Breakfast: Roger Ebert, Anne Enright,
Take a journey through the
and Erik Larson, with Jim Lehrer as emcee
“mime’s eye” for a silent but
humorous look at pop culture 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Exhibit Hall
and our world in the unspoken
9 a.m.–3 p.m. International Rights & Business center
words of a mime.
9–11 a.m. Big Ideas at BEA Conference (3 panels): “Seven Years of Google
Book Search: The Next Chapter” (9–10:30 a.m., room 1E15); “From
Writer to Reader” (10–11 a.m., room 1E16); and “How E-Books Will
Save the Book: Putting Storytelling and Creation at the Center of
Publishing” (10–1 a.m., room 1E14)
10 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Insight Stages (six events) beginning with Insight Stage
Signature Event with Jane Lynch (Jane Fonda will also do an Insight
Stage Signature, at 1:30 p.m., both on the Midtown Stage) and ending
with “African-American Books in an E-Book World” (noon, Uptown
Stage). There is also a Middle-Grade Buzz with Fantasy Authors at
noon (Midtown Stage)
Duff McKagan and Alice Hoffman — two of the more than 750 authors
signing, speaking, and engaging BEA conventioneers.
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ANOTHER HILARIOUS
NEW PICTURE BOOK FROM
PETER BROWN
SEPTEMBER 2011
ISBN: 978-0
-316-0 7030-0 • $1
6.99 ($18.50
CAN)
ATTENTION BOOKSELLERS:
Don’t miss your chance to meet Peter Brown and Lucy the Bear on Thursday, May 26th.
They will be making friends in booth 3630 starting at 10:30 am.
American Muslim family by Ayad face when dealing with our beloved From A to Z.”
Akhtar, and The Art of Fielding by but exasperating children.” —Louisa
Chad Harbach, which was a Buzz Ermelino, with reporting by Claire
Panel book and has been talked Kirch and Judith Rosen
THURSDAY, MAY 26 , 2011 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 3 5
was based on an idea by the late gift of second sight. Tracey signed father, reggae musician Bob Marley, American Girl is introducing two
author Siobhan Dowd. books on Tuesday, and according to into a picture book, illus. by Vanessa historical characters whose lives are
Macmillan had several high-pro- Steven Pomije at Flux, galleys ran Brantley-Newton and due in woven together in one six-book
file novels, including The Fox out within 30 minutes. Pomije attri- September. Songstress Lisa Loeb will series set in 1853 New Orleans. The
Inheritance by Mary Pearson (Aug.), butes some of the buzz to the author’s make her picture book debut with two girls come from different class
Gabrielle Zevin’s All These Things online networking: “He’s been on top Lisa Loeb’s Silly Sing-Along: The and racial backgrounds: Cécile Rey
I’ve Done (Sept.), and Jack Gantos’s of that from day one. “ Disappointing Pancake and Other is a girl from a well-to-do family of
Dead End in Norvelt (Sept.). Another book credited with blog Zany Songs (Sterling, Oct.), illus. by color, and Marie-Grace Gardner is
Decemberists frontman Colin buzz is The Unbecoming of Mara Ryan O’Rourke; it comes with a from a white family that has recently
Meloy begins a middle-grade fantasy Dyer, a first novel by Michelle Hodkin recording of Loeb singing the songs. moved to the city. The books and
series with HarperCollins: due from Simon & Schuster in At Charlesbridge, the biggest fall companion dolls go on sale in
Wildwood, illus. by Carson Ellis, with August. “Everyone asks about it, book is from its Imagine! imprint: a September.
an August 30 pub date. And debut more than any other book,” says Paul new Peter Yarrow Books title, When Albert Whitman is starting a YA
author Tahereh Mafi got a boost for Crichton, crediting the curiosity to You Wish upon a Star, performed on imprint this fall, Albert Whitman
her dystopian thriller, Shatter Me, YA blogger coverage. an accompanying CD by Judy Collins Teen, kicking off with two debut nov-
by her appearance at Tuesday’s Justin Heimberg, author and chief and illus. by Eric Puybaret. Imagine’s els—Guantánamo Boy by Anna
speed-dating event; it pubs on creative officer for Seven Footer founder, Charles Nurnberg, says the Perera and The Poisoned House by
November 15. Press, will be launching a new series first printing will exceed 100,000 Michael Ford, both of which arrive in
A sequel to Tom Angleberger’s The that he describes as a mix of “Harry copies. August.
Strange Case of Origami Yoda, Potter with ghost hunters and some It’s the 80th anniversary of Babar, Boyds Mills, celebrating its 20th
called Darth Paper Strikes Back, will 39 Clues thrown in.” The series uses and Abrams has Babar’s Celesteville anniversary, will launch its
have a 300,000-copy first printing for the patented MagicView technology, Games by Laurent de Brunhoff Highlights Press imprint in spring
an August 23 laydown. And two big which enables readers to use a (100,000 first printing; Aug.). 2012, though books will begin arriv-
sequels for Disney-Hyperion are The viewer to reveal clues throughout Lemniscaat USA’s biggest book for ing in the fall. Kingfisher announced
Son of Neptune, book two in the the story. fall is a picture book, Tom the Tamer a partnership with Animal Planet for
Heroes of Olympus series by Rick William Joyce’s Guardians of by Tjibbe Veldkamp, illus. by Philip a line of books, starting with five titles
Riordan (Oct. 4 laydown), and The Childhood series for S&S kicks off Hopman (Oct.); Judy Schachner will in September. Kingfisher is also
Bridge to Never Land by Ridley with the picture book The Man in the be blurbing the book. launching a historical series,
Pearson and Dave Barry, a compan- Moon and a middle-grade novel, Marshall Cavendish announced its All About America, which began
ion to Peter and the Starcatchers Nicholas St. North and the Battle of new Shofar Books imprint, a line of in June.
(Aug. 9 laydown). the Nightmare King, this fall, with Jewish children’s books being done See next week’s Children’s
Flux ventures into sci-fi for teens subsequent books (and a movie) to in partnership with the PJ Library. Bookshelf for news of many more big
with debut author Scott Tracey, follow in 2012. The imprint, edited by editor-at- books of the show. —Diane Roback
whose book Witch Eyes centers on a For Chronicle, Cedella Marley has large Melanie Kroupa, will launch in with reporting by John Sellers,
gay male protagonist with a powerful adapted One Love, a song by her October with three books. Matia Burnett, and Joy Bean
Oprah on
TV!
The Abrams booth at BEA features
a number of forthcoming titles with
proven track records and built-in
audiences—including a new Good
Eats book from bestseller Alton
Brown, a book of Harper’s Bazaar’s:
Greatest Hits, and a new Wimpy Kid
book—but none has proven as popu-
lar as Oprah Winfrey, who chose can make a smart book?” The
Abrams to publish the official look Abrams team won over Harpo with a
back at her show, which ended its sharp proposal from editorial direc-
run yesterday after 25 seasons. tor Deborah Aaronson, an aggres-
Though Winfrey was not on hand, sive marketing plan, and some of
YA author Bill Abrams beamed in the final episode Abrams’s best work (Jacobs points to
Willingham told of having
at 4 p.m. yesterday on a 40-inch TV Vogue: Portraits as an example used
to add a new character
to “Down the Mysterly bought solely for the purpose, and to win over Harpo).
River,” at his agent’s toasted the daytime star’s swan song Aaronson, who spoke by phone
suggestion. He spoke to with champagne. with Show Daily from the Abrams
“Comics Beat” editor-in- “It’s one of the biggest books we’ve offices, says the book is organized by
chief and “PW” reviews ever done,” said Abrams CEO and theme, consisting of eight chapters,
editor Heidi McDonald on
president, Michael Jacobs, speaking each of which “focuses on a different
the Midtown Stage.
with Show Daily from the cushy area of culture where the show has
Abrams booth (3552). “We started really affected the conversation.”
talking about it the first of the year, Some 25 of Oprah’s prominent
and started selling it two months friends and guests will contribute
ago.” The response among booksell- essays to go alongside the narrative
ers, Jacobs reports, has been “really text by Deborah Davis. Images will be
positive,” both with nationwide culled from still photos taken on the
chains and independents. An initial set and behind the scenes, and shots
print run of 500,000 has been from off-site events, such as Winfrey’s
announced, but Jacobs expects that trip to Australia. —Marc Schultz
figure will change before the mid-
October laydown date, once they
CORRECTIONS: We
have a better idea about demand.
Michael Moore at the inadvertently credited Philip
Uptown Stage discussed Titled The Oprah Winfrey Show:
Turner’s ABA/BEA memory
his untitled “anti- Reflections on an American Legacy,
(Show Daily, Day 1, p. 93) to his
memoir,” a collection of the book came to Abrams last
stories from his life, many
brother, Joel, who died almost
August following a publisher hunt by
of them about accidental two years ago.
Oprah’s company, Harpo Inc. Jacobs
encounters with And the Joe Finder interview
says that Abrams was the answer to
celebrities and history (also Day 1, p. 48) was done by
(Grand Central, Sept.). Harpo’s two biggest questions: “Who
Wendy Werris.
can make a beautiful book? And who
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Mindy Kaling, who plays the self- has every one imagin- cussed her love for
centered and predatory Kelly on the able.” In a more serious both her mother and
hit show The Office, served as emcee. vein, Kaling, who father, Jack Hall, and
She announced that she was at BEA attended Dartmouth, how her mother’s
Breakfast lineup: Mindy Kaling, Jeffrey Eugenides, Charlene Harris, and Diane Keaton
“to talk about who will be the next boss spoke about her child- “ordinary life” was
on The Office,” and that her book is hood in Cambridge, Mass., when her as “the pinup girl for bookish sorts of such an inspiration to her. In particu-
“the first in a series of seven that will father would drop her off at the library men who date women,” Diane lar, Keaton spoke of her mother’s
extend over 30 years and end on a cliff- every day with a reading list, pick her Keaton, promoting her memoir Then lifetime of writing, which over the
hanger. Just kidding!” In fact, her up at the end of the day, and ask for a Again (Random House, Nov.), said, years chronicled daily life, then the
book, Is Everyone Hanging Out book report every week. “I’m going to slow it down a little. My death of her husband (“the document
Without Me? (Crown, Nov.), is “a series After being introduced by Kaling book is sad.” Indeed, Keaton was of Dad’s passing was her finest
work”) to her Alzheimer’s stage,
where paragraphs became sen-
tences, then words, then numbers,
“before silence.” Keaton said that
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Jane Fonda
Extols the Benefits of Aging
Oscar-winning actress and author Jane
AT T H E SHOW
Fonda is passionate about living life to the
fullest at any age. In her new book, Prime
Time, due from Random House in early fall,
she writes about “Act III of life” (age 60 and up)
with a gusto and enthusiasm she hopes will be Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory University. She is also a
contagious. “I adored writing it,” Fonda tells member of the Women & Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Council on
Show Daily, adding that she wants people, Foreign Relations. With a new set of fitness DVDs, also called Prime Time, and
women in particular, to be “much more two movies awaiting release, Et si on vivait tous ensemble? (And if We All Lived
hopeful” about aging. Together?) and Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, she remains very busy.
She adds, “Ageism is alive and well and Fonda says she enjoys traveling to bookstores around the country and is
horribly destructive. Yes, I am getting older very excited to be at BEA. “These are people that love books, they love the feel
and my body may be in decline, but my sense of books, and they love authors. It makes me happy to be around booksellers
of well-being, my wisdom, and my ability to and people who write.”
use what I have learned is very much alive Fonda will participate in the Uptown
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and well. This can be an extremely rich time Stage: Insight Stage Signature Event at
of life. I have found it to be so.” 1:30 p.m. today and will be signing
Fashioned as a practical lifestyle manual ARCs afterward. —Karen Jones
rather than a memoir, Prime Time covers everything from exercise, intimacy,
sex, love, friendship, mind-body awareness, and spirituality to giving back,
healthy lifestyle choices, financial planning, and even quantum physics. Erik Larson
Mixing her own life experiences with extensive research and interviewing When History
was a challenge, admits Fonda. “Doing a biography is very different from doing
a book like this. I knew I had to think very hard about all the things I would want Has Yet to Happen
to know about aging—what I have learned and what was meaningful to me— History in Erik Larson’s hands is both
that I would have wanted to know at age 40.” She believes that “growth and immediate and portentous: we are right
wisdom” come from the writing process, and through it she has discovered her there with his characters, wondering
deep interest in “the whole concept of the human spirit evolving.” what is going to happen next. In the
Fonda remains an advocate of environmental issues, human rights, and the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an
empowerment of women and girls. In 1995 she founded the Georgia Campaign American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and in 2002 opened the Jane Fonda (Crown, May) meticulously depicts what
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Authors
Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels. The biggest challenge, Larson says, was making
sure that his source material was accurate. “Martha in her memoir is an
unreliable narrator. Boris, one of her significant suitors, she never even
mentions, though in her papers she does. But then you open a folder from
AT THE S H OW her papers and there is a calling card from Joseph Goebbels, and you realize
she really did know these people.” Dodd’s wife, Mattie, by contrast, plays an
insignificant role in the book. “There’s just not that much on her,” Larson
says. “That’s one of the problems of nonfiction. You have to go with what
life was like for an American family of four living in Germany in 1933, when you’ve got.”
storm troopers began their vicious attacks and Jews were disenfranchised from Larson calls this a complete departure from earlier work—Isaac’s Storm and
their lives. Devil in the White City, among other bestsellers. But they all have the same goal:
“What I set out to do was get a sense of what it would have been like in Berlin to create an experience of a time and a place so people will come away with the
in that very important but overlooked first year of Hitler’s rule,” Larson says. feeling they’ve actually lived there. He describes himself as “as an animator of
“I had read William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and was inspired history.” Major influences include Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember and
by it. I wondered, had I lived there, would I have guessed what was coming? Barbara Tuchman’s Guns of August. “In both cases I still find myself hoping the
I tried for as many details as I could to bring it alive, even down to the color of Titanic won’t sink and that the war won’t happen.”
the cars.” After speaking at this morning’s Book & Author Breakfast, Larson is signing
The book focuses on William Dodd, the ambassador to Berlin, and his books at the Random House booth (4420), 10–11 a.m.
daughter, Martha, among whose intimates were Thornton Wilder and —Suzanne Mantell
Brenda
Warner
From Rags to Riches
Brenda
Warner, the
wife of retired
NFL star
quarterback
Kurt Warner,
wants people
to know
there’s much
more to her
than being a
sports
celebrity’s
wife and
living a life of
privilege. “I went through so much
stuff before Kurt came into my life,”
she discloses. “My early life laid the
foundation of who I am now.” She’s
not kidding: Warner’s memoir, One
Call Away: Facing the Unexpected
with Resilient Faith (Thomas
Nelson, Sept.) reads like a modern-
day fairy tale.
When Brenda Carney Meoni first
met up-and-coming college football
player Kurt Warner at a country
music bar in Iowa in 1993, she was a
25-year-old single mother of two
living on food stamps. Her first
husband had left her while she was
pregnant with their second child,
after he’d blinded and incapacitated
their first child by accidentally
dropping him on his head. Even
after Brenda and Kurt became a
couple, there were more trials and
tribulations for both to overcome:
Kurt was cut from the Green Bay
Packers’ training camp in 1994 and
had to take a job as a grocery store
stock boy working the night shift;
Brenda’s parents were killed when a
tornado swept through their
Arkansas home in 1996.
But fame and fortune followed: a
year after their 1997 marriage,
Kurt’s career took off when he
joined the St. Louis Rams and led
them to victory in 1999’s Super Bowl
XXXIV. As with every other fairy
tale, One Call Away ends with the
couple living happily ever after—in
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Authors
“I’m honest with my story.”
Warner will be signing galley copies of One
Call Away in the autographing area at Table 8,
9:30–10:30 a.m. —Claire Kirch
AT THE S H OW
Jane Lynch
a big house in Scottsdale, Ariz., together with their seven children. “I went Doing What She’s Best At
through all the rough times for a reason,” insists Warner, an evangelical It’s hard to believe her when actress Jane Lynch
Christian. “I never looked at it as a measure of how much God loves me.” She confesses she’s “a little nervous” that audiences
hopes, she says, that by telling her story, she’ll “help others get through stuff.” will laugh at her, not with her, as they read her
While Warner thinks that One Call Away will especially appeal to women, memoir, Happy Accidents (Hyperion Voice, Sept.).
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many of whom will be able to relate to some of her experiences before she After all, Lynch’s fictional alter ego, Sue Sylvester,
married Kurt Warner, she expects that sports fans will also want to read it, to the deliciously wicked cheerleading coach on the
learn more about her husband. Of course, being an NFL player’s wife, Warner hit television musical series, Glee, is famous for
has a unique perspective on Kurt Warner’s career. Brenda Warner describes hurling outrageous insults at anyone who crosses her. “I’m being very honest in
the 13 years Kurt Warner played for three NFL teams as “some interesting this book, so there is the possibility of ridicule,” Lynch admits, describing how,
times.” “My behind-the-scenes side of it... I think it’ll shock people,” she says. during the creative process, she often felt such trepidation while dredging up
certain memories, that she had to stop
and pace about to reassure herself
GABBS
before she could write about them. “I
worried so much about whether to say
this, or to say that,” she recalls, not
going into specifics. She does disclose,
though, that she delves into her
alcohol addiction, her decision 19
years ago to stay sober, and how she
learned to embrace her sexuality as a
lesbian. “You know, you’ll read it,
you’ll think, no big deal,” she says.
Encouraged by her wife of one year,
Dr. Lara Embry, Lynch decided to
In Historic
write down the stories she’s been
BOSTON
telling Embry since they met in 2009.
Happy Accidents focuses on her
professional career, because she says,
at age 50, she has “finally reached a
happy place” in her life. She’s got the
beautiful family, a life in sunny
California, and now, after decades of
supporting roles and guest spots, a
career that’s finally taken off. ”
“It’s a typical hero’s story,” Lynch
jokes, beginning with a childhood
spent in a quiet Chicago suburb. Even
though Lynch always wanted to be a
dramatic actress, she also lacked self-
confidence and thought she was
doomed to mediocrity even if she did
The Plaza Level - Hall B took me a long time to get that, but I
finally [did],” she says. After moving to
Los Angeles in 1993, her career
unfolded in a similar fashion. On
Time to register for GABBS, the Great several occasions, just when she was
Stop by GABBS Booth 4821 at
American Bargain Book Show! An overstock, about to give up, something would
BookExpo America and register for
happen to propel her forward. “I kept
Half Price!
remainder, bargain and value book show where you
waiting for someone to step in and
can save on new books and book related product, show me how to do it,” she says. “In a
additional media venues, and gift items discounted Don’t Forget Remainder Day at BookExpo America,
series of what seemed to me to be
accidents, I’d end up where I was
from 75% to 90% off retail. Also, industry panels Monday May 23 from 12 Noon – 5:00 pm!
supposed to be.”
“Like” Bargain Book News and GABBS Network on
and bookseller seminars to help improve your If there’s one thing Lynch wants
Facebook and be entered into a drawing for a free iPad!
sales. Visit www.gabbs.net for updates. readers to take from Happy Accidents,
it’s the hard-won knowledge that she
wishes she could share with her
For your convenience 18-year-old self. “Live in the moment,
Register Online At deal with what’s in front of you, and do
GABBS has reserved a block of rooms at
www.gabbs.net your best. Do what you’re best at;
The Sheraton Boston Hotel for $219.00 per night.
Pre-registration that’s what’s important.”
Call 1-888-627-7054 and ask for the
$25.00 ($20.00 ea. additional person) Lynch will appear at the Insight
GABBS Room Block. Stage at 10 a.m. and will sign books at
Registration @ The Door Rooms must be secured by July 15, 2011 for this rate.
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the concept with a printer for almost two years, the author found a way—with
the help of digital art created using stock images and a sturdy ribbon—to
transform Oliver the egg into a chick.
Asked why he chose an egg to convey the book’s message of wondrous
AT THE S H OW transformation, Franceschelli explains that he made the decision after some
deliberation. “I was looking for something that seemed to magically
transform itself,” he recalls. “I thought of a bunny coming out of a hat or a
caterpillar becoming a butterfly, but there was something truly satisfying
Christopher about the simplicity and starkness of an egg that allowed the book to be
Franceschelli
entirely in black and white before a chick suddenly appears. The book works
as a metaphor: the egg holds the promise of becoming something else, and
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Melissa Marr wanted to show how Cara, who is expected to be the perfect student, is
under the same pressure from her parents that her brother was. She, like
the other protagonists, is caught up in the drive for perfection that is not an
attainable goal. In my earlier novels, I’ve written about other issues teens
have—abuse, addiction—and though this is a different kind of pressure, it’s
no less important.”
Having landed on bestseller lists, Hopkins’s hard-hitting, sometimes dark
novels—including the trilogy encompassing Crank, Glass, and Fallout—
clearly speak to teens. “I think they appeal to kids on both sides,” reflects
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Your life has changed quite a bit since your last book, as you have
stated, “I got married. I got my own talk show. I started a record label.
I became a CoverGirl.” What can readers look forward to in Seriously...
I’m Kidding?
My life has changed a lot. I’m happier than I’ve ever been and busier
than I’ve ever been. The book has a little something in it for everyone —
adults, kids, teenagers, grandparents. Your pets will love it. I like to say
it’s a combination of Twilight; Harry Potter; Eat, Pray, Love; Lord of the
Rings; and The Joy of Sex.
How is it different from your previous books, and why was now the right
time to write it?
Last year I was working two television jobs, with American Idol, so this
year I had some more free time to sit down and write. It was either write
this book or go on Celebrity Apprentice. I have a new perspective on
things, and I thought I could share it. Plus, in this book I use a different
font. And there’s a different cover.
Is there something you hope readers take away from Seriously... I’m
Kidding?
I hope readers take away the whole book and pay the full cover price.
And just by buying the book you’re gonna feel better, be happier, look
taller, have six-pack abs, silky shiny hair, and find everlasting love. But if
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Inside the Presidential Debates from Kennedy-
Nixon to Obama-McCain, coming from Random
House this September.
“I think readers will be surprised to discover
© don perdue
imprint in October. Written in free verse, as is Perfect, this book inspired Tilt, evolved from a panel of journalists to a single
the YA novel that the author is currently writing. “Triangles is about three moderator. “It’s like walking down the blade of
women having midlife meltdowns, and in the novel I also created teen a sharp knife, and one little false move can
characters, their children, who have great stories of their own. So I am affect the outcome of a presidential election—and the moderator never, ever
writing Tilt, a companion, that’s told from the point of view of these teens, loses sight of that.”
who are dealing with their own issues while their parents are focused on The journalist has written 20 novels, three plays, and two memoirs. He
what’s going on in their own lives.” notes that in fiction writing, “All you have to do is make it up and move on. In
Though she’s a newcomer to BEA, the Nevada resident has attended other this book, I had to work very hard at making sure that every detail of what
large book conferences, and says she’s “looking forward to meeting was said at any particular debate that I was quoting was absolutely correct. I
booksellers, as well as old readers and new readers.” And other authors as had to do due diligence on the facts, and I did.”
well. “We YA writers are a tight-knit community, and I really enjoy their According to Lehrer, the importance of the debates cannot be
company,” remarks Hopkins. “Oh—and I also love New York.” overemphasized. “[The voters] want to know—in addition to what his or her
Hopkins will sign ARCs of Perfect this morning, 10–11 a.m., at Table 10. position may be on Iraq, or using military force, or taxes—do you like this
—Sally Lodge person? How do you feel this person might handle him- or herself in an
Jim Lehrer emergency, because most presidents deal with the unexpected, and it is
dealing with the unexpected that the voter wants to measure, and the only
way they can measure that is by paying very close attention to the way a
Political Balancing Act candidate handles a question.”
Only when PBS NewsHour executive editor and anchor Jim Lehrer thought Lehrer, who hosts this morning’s Breakfast, has been to BEA in New York.
there was no chance he’d be moderating another presidential or vice “This is where the book business becomes collegial, and if you don’t care
presidential debate did he decide to delve into the importance of the debates about books, you’re not going to be at Book Expo. You’re among people with a
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lawsuit brought against the firm by a feeble old man in the midst of a major trial,
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Authors figures out a way to pry the laptop out of my cold, dead hands.”
It looks like things at My Weird School are about to get weirder with the
June release of Miss Child Has Gone Wild! and Mr. Harrison Is Embarrassin’!,
AT THE S H OW the debut titles in Gutman’s My Weirder School series. And the author hopes
there’s no end in sight for these wacky stories that make kids laugh. “I hope
that My Weird School goes on forever, or at least until my daughter Emma’s
college education is paid for,” he says. “Speaking of which, I got the idea for the
Dan Gutman series when Emma [now in high school] was in second grade. She was reading
Junie B. Jones, and I thought there should be something like Junie B. Jones
In a Series Whirlwind told by a boy. So I basically ripped off Barbara Park. Shhhh! Don’t tell her.”
What are your plans for summer vacation? Gutman has not forgotten about the slightly older readers of his Baseball
Chances are they can’t compare to the Card Adventures series, either. He’s currently hard at work on the next one,
breathless (and yes, humorous) adventures of about Boston Red Sox great, and war hero, Ted Williams. —Shannon Maughan
twin brother and sister Coke and Pepsi
McDonald, the stars of The Genius Files:
Mission Unstoppable. Released in January by Anne
HarperCollins, the novel launches a new series
by Dan Gutman. On a cross-country trip with Enright
their parents, Coke and Pepsi uncover a secret Man Booker’s
government plot and must elude some
nefarious pursuers, all while taking in offbeat Impact
roadside attractions. Irish author Anne Enright’s
“I thought it would be cool to write an action/adventure/mystery/travel/ work had been earning quiet
buddy comedy with a plot that involved yo-yos, Pez dispensers, the largest accolades for years, but the
ball of twine in the world—and Spam,” Gutman says. Calling this “a clamor grew far louder when
heartwarming family story,” the author explains that the second installment her novel The Gathering
in the series, due in January 2012, will take Coke and Pep from Wisconsin to nabbed the 2007 Man Booker
“climactic confrontation” in Washington, D.C., with stops along the way at the Prize. Now she returns to BEA
National Mustard Museum and the duct tape capital of the world. as a speaker at today’s Author
The author will sign copies of Mission Unstoppable today, noon–1 p.m., at Breakfast in advance of this
Table 14. At the same autographing session, Gutman will also be signing fall’s release of her latest
copies of Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!, the 12th and final title in the My Weird School novel, The Forgotten Waltz
Daze series from HarperCollins. But fans have nothing to fear: “Wrap things (Norton, Oct.).
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publish a collection of short stories in the meantime, Yesterday’s
Weather. The gap between longer works was actually related to the
prize: “I was kept from the desk.”
While writing this novel, Enright tried to “go toward the reader,” she
AT THE S H OW says. “My modernist/cubist impulses, I kept them firmly in check. This
novel is linear. I wrote it deliberately from A to zed.”
But readers will find parallels to The Gathering, such as a flawed, witty
first-person narrator. “You always think novels are different, and then
buying and selling books, it changed a lot when I won the Man Booker realize they’re the same,” Enright says, laughing. As for her next book,
Prize in 2007,” says Enright. “The wolf was no longer at the door.” she will say only that it will be in third person, a switch she’s eager to
Her previous output had included three critically well-received try. “It’s in the air but too soon to talk about it.” —Gwenda Bond
novels—The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like?, and The Pleasure
The Greening of
of Eliza Lynch—as well as a smattering of nonfiction and short stories.
The Gathering was notably set in Enright’s home country of Ireland,
exploring the secrets of the Hegarty family after the drowning death of
the narrator Veronica’s brother Liam. Enright describes the story as
Inner Traditions
“very dark and sexual.” She also notes the success it met with came as
something of a surprise, purely due to its nature. “It was almost
unfashionable to talk about the dark side of Ireland in 2007, when The
Gathering came out. There was a fantasy hysteria toward the end of the The Vermont-based Inner Traditions, Bear &
boom that was amazing,” says Enright. She began to think of her next Company, which has published bestselling
novel in that context. “I thought, I must soak up some of that in the books in the mind/body/spirit categories for 35
blotting paper for the next novel.” years, is highlighting its latest green initiatives
Enter The Forgotten Waltz. Publisher Norton hopes it will draw in the at BEA. Founder and owner Ehud Sperling
same readers who fell for The Gathering, characterizing it as a invites everyone to come on down to Costa Rica
“haunting novel of desire and infidelity.” The story follows Gina to see how the publisher is helping to reforest
Moynihan, a resident of suburban Dublin, as she begins an affair with a by planting trees there—or just drop by booth
married man. The affair grows increasingly complex as it runs its course 4328 to hear about it.
and the man’s young daughter becomes involved. Sperling says that several people helped him become “seduced” by Costa
“This book is about romance, an affair, infatuation, desire—not Rica, including Robin Williams, who starred in Patch Adams, the film
necessarily about sex,” says Enright. “I was looking for a good boom adaptation of an IT book. The publisher runs two tree farms adjacent to the
subject, the helter-skelter journey from riches to rags.” rain forest. The planting is all done “low tech,” i.e., with oxen moving things.
Although this is Enright’s first novel since winning the Booker, she did Through reforestation the watershed is being preserved there, explains
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because on its way to be used in agriculture, the water helps produce At Inner Traditions, Sperling explains, green really begins at home. He
hydropower. proudly says that grown children of longtime employees are now joining the
“This is our way of doing something to return some of the bounty that we’ve staff. “Nepotism is us,” he says, adding that once they find a great gene pool
been given,” says Sperling. Let’s face it—publishers who print books use they work it.
trees, and Sperling thinks all businesses should explore how they can be “You cannot have a professional life if your private life is not working as
more green and give back. well,” says Sperling. “That’s all part of green for us.”
Inner Traditions uses recycled paper wherever it can, installed solar At Inner Traditions, from its publishing program to its people, they talk the
panels on its building (an old Victorian home) in 2009, encourages employees talk and walk the walk, now down a greener path. —Bridget Kinsella
to walk or bike to work, and recently started a food co-op so employees have
Solid Foundation
new illustrations, was released by
Medallion in 2008 as part of its
Illustrated Masterpiece series. Even
though the title was well-received
in print format, Medallion has long
considered that Passion’s Blood is a
tale that can’t be simply read, but
must be felt and savored.
The 130-page romance is
complemented by 25 interactive
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w w w. o a s i s a u d i o . c o m sales and marketing. For example,
he says, Passion’s Blood includes an
image of a shirtless Fortin lying on a
bed. When the reader brushes her
fingers across his bare chest, he
gives her a sultry glance.
Elsewhere, the reader can be
momentarily infused with the
healing powers of the female
protagonist, Lady Leanna, and
“heal” an injured Prince Emric by
running her hand across his wound.
“Our Masterpiece series isn’t
erotica, so the interactive touching
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The interactivity isn’t just about
touching and seeing either, Ohlson
says. It also involves hearing what
one is reading and viewing. For
instance, when the knight is leading
his horse across the river in the
quest to save his love in one of the
illustrations, the reader actually
hears the water splashing, the
horse whinnying, and flashes of
lightning in the sky. Medallion
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same page as their cats. will be donated to animal Ruffilo—a self-described relative etc.—reading is the core of this
She also writes a weekly charities by both authors. newcomer to book publishing— whole market.”
column as a cat expert on Another major title invites everyone to “Drop Drop Everything and Read takes
www.CatChannel.com from Square One this year Everything and Read,” 2–3 p.m. place just before the book blogger
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