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Thursday’s relative quiet was followed by a much busier Friday, with aisles buzzing, lines snaking too far to find the end. Fairgoers stood patiently, waiting to meet the author and get that coveted signature on the title page of the give-away galley. Over at Random House, mid-morning, I spotted a bookseller; I duti-fully copied the informa-tion from his badge (Harvey Finkel, Clinton Bookshop, Clinton, N.J.), before I asked him: “So what books have you seen that you’re really excited about?”

“I’m just on line for Carl Hiaasen,” he said, and not much else. And sure enough, looking up and down and around, I saw that Hiaasen line. And the author himself, handsome, blue-eyed, beautifully if casually dressed, was standing with Paul Bogaards, Knopf’s publicity director, at the signing table, waiting for the sign-ing (of Hiaasen’s YA debut, Skink—No Surrender) to officially begin.

Bogaards, a reliable source of what’s big, hot, or in demand, told me, “The tension of the show is informed by the quality of the publisher’s list,” and alerted me to Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce, which he called “tender and flinty”; he added that the new James Ellroy, Perfidia, which starts on December 6, 1941, is “the book.”

Back on the floor, Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books in Oxford, Miss., was touting Trinity University

Press’s list and the books from Barbara Rice: “They have a fabu-lous list. They’re publishing Rebecca Solnit (Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness) and Peter Turchi (A Muse and a Maze).

“It looks like it’s going to be an indie fall to me, a diver-sity of books,” said Chuck Robinson, owner of Village Books in Bellingham, Wash. “One big book doesn’t do it for me—unless it’s from Hachette,” he said wryly.

“These are the things we’re most interested in,”

said Paul Yamazaki, buyer for City Light Books in San Francisco, who came to BEA with a half-page sin-gle-spaced-typed list of books after making a first run through publishers’ catalogues. He singled out a couple of titles from the list: The Moor’s Account by

The book industry’s largest event will likely add a fourth day in 2015. In a letter sent to exhibitors,

Brien McDonald, director of strategic accounts for BookExpo America, noti-fied publishers and other exhibitors that starting next year, companies can choose to stay in the “trade” area of BEA, which will run May 28–30, or be in both the trade show and consumer-oriented

BookCon event, which will run May 30–31. By late Friday afternoon, BookCon executives were expecting close to 10,000 readers to attend the new 2014 event that launched today. McDonald said that the change in schedule was due to “enthusiastic con-sumer response” to the launch of BookCon. Although the show has been three days for a num-ber of years (with a one-year exception when it ran for two days), the event had run for four days, usu-ally over the Memorial Day weekend, for a long period.

A BEA spokesperson said while a final determi-nation will be made once it gets feedback from its cus-tomers, “we will begin the planning process with the assumption that we will expand.”

The addition of Sunday to what has been a Thursday–Saturday trade show means that Reed Exhibitions, parent com-pany of BEA and ReedPop, the Reed unit that is orga-nizing BookCon, is speed-ing up the booth selection process, which will take place June 11–12. By June 10, Reed wants exhibitors to determine if they want a BEA-only or BEA/BookCon booth. The selection pro-cess, McDonald wrote, will begin at 9 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 11.

Upon learning that BEA/BookCon will run from Thursday to Sunday, a pub-licist said, “My head is going to explode.”

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Laila Lalami (Knopf) and Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra (Graywolf), who, if you remember, had that huge novel, Sacred Games, from HarperCollins.

Jorge Guttormsen of Books Inc. is touting the novel Painted Horses from Grove by Malcolm Brooks. “Loved the story; the characters stayed with me,” as well as Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, a Knopf Buzz Panel book.

Anymiryan Budner, a buyer for Main Point Books in Bryn Mawr, Pa., is betting on Lila by Marilynne Robinson: “I enjoy Robinson’s char-acters and getting to see this family through different eyes over time. The wife was always enigmatic to me. I always wondered how she got there.” Budner also said that she herself is not a religious person, but that Robinson’s spirituality “infuses what she says. I find it clarifying. It never feels proselytizing or didactic or pedantic.”

Budner is also high on The Bone Clocks—“David Mitchell could write the phone book and I would read it,” she said—and The Miniaturist (Ecco’s Buzz Panel book from Jessie Burton) “looks fabulous.” Another Budner pick: The Accidental Highwayman: Being the Tale of Kit Bristol, His Horse Midnight, a Mysterious Princess, and Sunday Magical Persons Besides by Ben Tripp. “It looks really fun. It’s a fantasy, and there’s a high-wayman in there. There are illus-trations throughout the text, too.”

Terry Labandz of University of Minnesota Bookstores, Minneapolis, is looking forward to Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members (Random House). “It’s an epistolary novel about a Midwestern English professor. It’s so funny; it’s so dry. She’s published a couple of adult and YA books before, and I hope this is her breakout book.” Also on Labandz’s list is Marta Oulie: A Novel of Betrayal by Sigrid Undset. ”I’m really looking forward to this book, as the University of Minnesota doesn’t do a lot of fiction. This is the first book that Undset wrote, when she was 24.”

Another David Mitchell endorse-ment: “I’m really jazzed about The Bone Clocks,” said Catherine Wel-ler, Weller Books, Salt Lake City. “It’s the kind of book that my book-sellers love and love to sell. It’s fan-tastic.”

From A.N. Devers, bookseller, Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y., the pick is Eula Biss’s On Immunity: An Inoculation, Graywolf’s Buzz Panel book. “I loved

her first book and I read an excerpt of this one. She is a remarkable writer. There’s a measles outbreak in New York because too many peo-ple have not been vaccinating their children. This is an important and relevant issue. People are turning against common sense and science, and she investigates why that is.” And this bookseller’s fiction choice is Lin Enger’s The High Divide (Algonquin). “This novel was writ-ten by Leif Enger’s brother, and it takes place in the Midwest. A girl is headed to school in Wisconsin and she disappears. The story is told from multiple perspectives and it sounds great. It sounds fantastic.”

Susan Morton from Byrd’s Books in Bethel, Conn., must have been on that Hiaasen line for Skink: No Surrender. “Amazing,” she says.

John Evans from Diesel Books in Oakland, Calif., is upbeat about Euphoria, the novel by Lily King, and also Tibetan Peach Pie (Ecco), Tom Robbins’s memoir.

The booksellers are a powerful source for sales and buzz, but we couldn’t talk to all of them, so we want to add our picks for the show’s big books. We are excited for We Are Not Ourselves, a debut novel by Matthew Thomas from Simon & Schuster that Marysue Rucci bought for beaucoup bucks at London. And Scribner’s The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs; The Wolf, Lorenzo Carcaterra’s new thriller from Ballantine; Jodi Picoult’s Leaving Time, with a main charac-ter who’s involved with elephants; Marco Malvaldi’s Game for Five, the first in a mystery series about the denizens of a small Tuscan town who hang out in the Bar Lume; A Story Lately Told, from Scribner, Anjelica Huston’s second memoir, in which we hear about Jack; Greg Baxter’s Munich Airport, from Twelve; Those Who Wish Me Dead (Little, Brown) by Michael Koryta; Jessica Treadway’s Lacy Eye from Grand Central; The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis from Little, Brown; The Good Girl (Harlequin) by Mary Kubica; Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the revealing memoir from New York Times columnist Charles Blow; The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec (Other Press), her international bestselling debut novel; Thrown by Kerry Howley (Sarabande), literary nonfiction about two cage fighters.

No doubt, booksellers and librar-ians are packing their bags and boxes with all of the publishing industry’s highest hopes and fond-est dreams. —Louisa Ermelino

For readers of all ages and inter-ests, there were no shortages of titles to grab, snag, and talk about. YA continues to generate long lines and lots of attention. At Simon & Schuster, one of the big teen titles was Scott Westerfeld’s Afterworlds—and not just because BEA factors into the story line (the protagonist makes an appearance at the 2014 BEA in the novel).

Macmillan releases its first Swoon Reads title in August: A Little Something Different by teen librarian Sandy Hall, a contempo-rary romance told from 18 perspec-tives. Trial by Fire launches a new trilogy from Josephine Angelini (Feiwel and Friends, Sept.), a re imagination of Salem and witches. And Caraugh M. O’Brien follows her Birthmarked trilogy with The Vault of Dreamers (Roaring Brook, Sept.).

Endgame by James Frey is HarperCollins’s big YA title of the show; it releases in September with a one-million-copy first printing. A

Google-based game and an in-book puzzle are part of the series’ multi-platform concept, and a film is in the works.

Candlewick’s Tracy Miracle described Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire (Sept.) as “sophis-ticated and rich, with a lot of fairy tale elements.” Also from Candlewick, Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen, first in a YA series that Miracle says is marked by “smart, campy humor” in the vein of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

HMH titles attracting attention included the final book in Robin LaFevers’s His Fair Instruments trilogy, Mortal Heart (Nov.) “That has been the book people have requested more than any other,” said HMH’s Karen Walsh.

New from Little, Brown is The Walled City by Ryan Graudin, a YA Buzz Pick about teenagers surviv-ing in a dangerous, labyrinth-like settlement, inspired by the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong.

Holiday House delves into YA

Harlequin Teen emblazoned a Fiat 500 with the message Let’s Get Lost, a YA novel by Adi Alsaid.

Penguin author Jacqueline Woodson signs her middle-grade novel, Brown Girl Dreaming.

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described songwriter Cynthia Weil’s I’m Glad I Did (Jan.), a mur-der mystery set in the Brill Building, as “a YA Mad Men.” Another big book for the imprint is The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone by Adele Griffin, about a fic-tional art-world superstar who dies under mysterious circumstances. Visitors to Algonquin were asking for Jackaby, a series-launching debut from William Ritter. It pubs September 16, with the second book due in fall 2015.

Penguin’s major YA releases include I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Dial, Sept.) and Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer (Dutton, Sept), a riff on The Bell Jar. “The gal-leys are flying,” said Shanta Newlin.

Ally Condie and Marie Lu are moving on to new projects: Condie has written her first stand-alone, Atlantia (Dutton, Nov.), and Lu signed samplers of The Young Elites (Putnam, Oct.). Rick Yancey’s 5th Wave series is still ramping up; book two, The Infinite Sea, arrives in September. No galleys were on hand, though “everybody was ask-ing.”

Perusing the Picture BooksSeveral high-profile picture books could be found on stands through-out the convention. For Candlewick, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, features “their trademark humor,” according to Tracy Miracle. New York Review Children’s Collection has Alphabetabum by Vladimir Radunsky and Chris Raschka, an October collection of vintage photos that have been turned into an alphabet book. “It’s our first original picture book,” said publicity manager Nicholas During.

Celebrity picture books weren’t hard to find. Actor B.J. Novak of The Office has the pictureless picture book, The Book Without Pictures (Dial, Sept.). In September, Little, Brown will release Gus & Me: My Granddad and My First Guitar by Keith Richards, illustrated by his daughter, Theodora. And Glee’s Jane Lynch had long lines as she promoted her September picture book, Marlene, Marlene, Queen of Mean (Random).

Several fall picture books build on previous successes. Chronicle’s lead is Mix It Up (Sept.) by Press Here’s Hervé Tullet; also on their list is Flora and the Penguin by Molly Idle, creator of the Caldecott Honor–winning Flora and the Flamingo. Kathryn Otoshi’s Two, a sequel to One, the 2008 picture book that has shipped more than 200,000 copies for KO Kids.

Charlesbridge was celebrating its 25th anniversary; on Thursday they hosted a party featuring broth-ers Paul and Peter H. Reynolds, who are launching the Sydney & Simon series with Full STEAM Ahead (Sept.). At S&S, big picture

books include Mem Fox’s Baby Bedtime, Marla Frazee’s The Farmer and the Clown, and Judith Viorst’s Alexander, Who’s Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever.

“Narrative nonfiction is a big thing for us,” said Creative Editions’ Anna Erickson. For August they have Mocha Dick: The Legend and the Fury by Brian Heinz and Randall Enos, about the whale that inspired Moby-Dick. And Eerdmans had hot-off-the-press proofs for The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, a pic-ture book biography. “It’s a project that was years in the making,” said Anita Eerdmans.

Macmillan featured a debut pic-ture book, Little Elliot Big City by Mike Curato (Holt), winner of the SCBWI New Talent Award. And from Roaring Brook, Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads combines the talents of Bob Shea and Lane Smith (Oct.).

Michael Eisenberg at Boyd Mills, fresh out of a sales meeting, said that reps were excited about an in-house favorite, The Problem with Not Being Scared of Monsters by Dan Richards, illustrated by Robert Neubecker (Aug.). “It’s always nice when the reps agree with us,” he said.

Diversity is a watchword at Barefoot. Cailin Chenelle said that September’s My Big Barefoot Book of Wonderful Words by Sophie Fatus, which shows people of vari-ous ethnicities, cultures, and dis-abilities without calling attention to them. “We worked with an inclusiv-ity specialist.”

Sami Grefe at Peachtree gave word of the Stanley the hamster series by Williambee, padded hard-covers with a “vintage-y” look. Stanley the Builder and Stanley’s Garage arrive in August.

At 8:45 a.m. Thursday, while peo-ple were waiting to storm the show floor, 45 Workman staffers donned rabbit ears for The Bunny Rabbit Show! flash mob, choreographed by Sandra Boynton’s daughter Caitlin McEwan.

Middle-Grade HighlightsMajor middle-grade offerings for fall include a mix of the familiar and the new. Jeff Kinney’s Greg Heffley returns in The Long Haul (Abrams/Amulet, Nov.), and Captain Underpants is back in August in his 11th adventure, Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000. Visitors to Scholastic’s booth were grabbing Captain Underpants tote bags, galleys, posters, “pretty much anything that isn’t nailed down,” according to Scholastic’s Tracy van Straaten. And Rick Riordan wraps up the Heroes of Olympus series in October with The Blood of Olympus (Disney).

with The Devil’s Intern (Aug.) by Donna Hosie, about a 17-year-old who interns in Hell’s accounting office.

Releases from Sourcebooks Fire include Night Sky, a collaboration between adult novelist Suzanne Brockmann and her daughter Melanie; and H2O by Virginia Bergin, set in a near future in which rain has become deadly.

In August, Carolrhoda Lab will publish Knockout Games by G. Neri, with a premise based on the real-life phenomenon and, in October, Perfectly Good White Boy, Carrie Mesrobian’s follow-up to Sex & Violence.

Scholastic’s Tracy van Straaten said 200 people lined up on

Thursday for Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater, a companion to the Shiver trilogy. Another eagerly awaited galley was Bombay Blues by Tanuja Desai Hidier, the sequel to Born Confused.

Just outside the Harlequin booth, a Fiat 500 announced Adi Alsaid’s August road-tripping debut, Let’s Get Lost. Talon launches a new series for Julie Kagawa: “bloggers love Julie,” Harlequin Teen’s Jennifer Abbots said. And Robin Talley’s debut, the civil rights–era Lies We Tell Ourselves (Oct.), a YA Editors’ Buzz pick, is a bit of a departure for Harlequin Teen—“more library- and “school-focused,” Abbots said.

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Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell at the signing for his new novel, The Bone Clocks (Random House).

Tina Fey at yester-day afternoon’s panel that kicked off BookCon, where she dis-cussed the making of the film This Is Where I Leave You, based on the novel by Jonathan Trop-per (Plume).

Irish author (and Saturday breakfast speaker) Colm Toibin signs his new novel, Nora Webster, at S&S booth.

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MEETINGS AND EVENTS8–9:30 a.m.: Adult Author Breakfast: Martin Short, Lena Dunham, Colm Tóibín, with Alan Cumming as emcee.

9 a.m.–3 p.m.: BEA Exhibit Hall Open

9 a.m.–3 p.m.: International Rights and Business Center

10–11 a.m.: “Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?” (Uptown Stage)

10:30–11 a.m.: “Literary Writing in Other Languages Being Published Within the English Speaking World” (East Side Stage)

See BookCon schedule for more panels and events.

AUTOGRAPHS9:30 a.m.–4 p.m.: Authors will be signing at appointed hours all day at tables in the Autographing Area or at publishers’ booths. The list includes Bob Raczka, Abdul Safi , Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin, Sylvia Day, Paul Zelinsky, Joseph Berger, Daisy Whitney, Libby Bray, Lynn Brunelle, Paul Durham, Heather Todd, Shelby Billionaire, Wendy Corsi, H.M. Ward, and many more.

Correction: Dick Cavett’s new book, Brief Encounters, is published by Henry Holt. We had the wrong attribution in yesterday’s PW Show Daily, page 51.

Former Secretary of State, one-time First Lady, and perhaps 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton spoke an invitation-only reception on the fourth level ter-race at Javits Friday morning. Her book, Hard Choices, will be published by Simon & Schuster on June 10.

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The power of the imagination was the theme of the Children’s Book and Author Breakfast Friday morning, beginning with the awarding of the WNBA Pannell Awards to this year’s winners: Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers in Framingham, Maine, in the general bookstore category, and 4 Kids Books & Toys in Zionsville, Ind., in the specialty bookstore category.

Young People’s Literature Ambassador Kate DiCamillo set the tone by telling a story about giving away her copy of R.J. Palacio’s mid-dle-grade novel, Wonder, to a stranger she encountered in a hotel elevator after the woman commented on the book DiCamillo was holding in her hand. Expressing delight as only the irrepressible DiCamillo can, she concluded, “People ask me what I want to do as ambassador—I want to stand in an elevator and hand out books.”

Emcee Jason Segel, noting that he felt “right at home in a room full of people who love children’s books,” thanked his coauthor, Kirsten Miller, for her assistance in writing the first novel in a planned trilogy

for middle-grade readers, Nightmares! (Delacorte). “I think books in themselves are collabora-tion,” Segel said. “It’s the collabora-tion between the words of an author and the imagination of the reader.” Segel, who is best known for writing movie scripts, including The Muppets Movie, explained that Nightmares! was inspired by two recurring nightmares he had until age 13.

Carl Hiaasen told the assembled that he “probably should not be allowed to write books for younger readers,” but that, after his teenage son read some of his adult novels and found Skink (first introduced in 1987 in Double Whammy) to be “an entertaining and interesting char-

acter,” Hiaasen decided to let “this character loose on the youth of America.” He has done so, in Skink—No Surrender (Knopf). Hiaasen’s debut YA novel features the eccentric ex-governor of Florida, who now lives in the woods and col-lects road kill—a subject obviously near and dear to Hiaasen’s heart.

Mem Fox, who had flown in from Australia to speak about her latest book, Baby Bedtime (S&S/Beach Lane), related how when she picked up sleeping pills from her pharma-cist before the flight, she’d been offered a senior citizens discount. “Doesn’t she know that baby boomers are never going to be old, never going to be senior citizens. We’re going to be young forever,” she declared, before saying that Baby Bedtime was inspired by the prema-ture birth of her grandson in 2010. During one of her daily visits to the hospital where the baby spent the first two months of his life, she said that she realized that his ears “didn’t stick out” and she was “so happy for him” that she cooed to him about wanting to eat up his body parts, starting with his ears. “I real-ized I’d accidentally composed a

love poem and eventually those verses became the book.”

The morning’s final speaker, Jeff Kinney, said that he was “lucky enough to grow up in a house full of books.” His mother was an educa-tor, he explained, and recalled that she brought home “anything with a silver sticker on it.” His father’s comic book collection inspired him to draw cartoons, and he aspired to be a newspaper cartoonist after col-lege. Recalling that, at the time, he was only reading Harry Potter nov-els, Kinney was inspired to create his first Wimpy Kid novel. “What if there was a kid more like me, a kid with flaws, than a powerful wizard like Harry Potter,” he said he thought at the time. A fortuitous meeting with an editor during a Comic-Con right resulted in the publication of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. “The excite-ment of getting published is the excitement of validation: coming to understand that others value your work.” Kinney’s latest is Diary of a Wimpy Kid 9: The Long Haul (Abrams/Amulet).

Kinney officially announced that he and his wife are opening a book-store in the small town in which they live, Plainfield, Mass. “The rea-son we’re doing this is to get rich,” he joked. —Claire Kirch

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Tackling the profound yet elusive changes in the marketplace that affect the relationship between authors and agents, veteran literary agents dis-cussed the ways in which they now approach their jobs at the Thursday panel “Beyond Authors: Self-Publishing & the ‘New’ Agents.”

Moderated by Christopher Kenneally of the Copyright Clearance Center, panelists Robert Gottlieb, Jason Ashlock, Rachelle Gardner, and Steven Axelrod were asked to describe their perspectives on the current situation, which alternates between formats: digital, self-publishing, and traditional publishing.

Gardner, founder of Books & Such Literary Management, said, “Today I always ask an author, ‘What do you want out of your publishing career?’ I find out what kind of personality type they are, whether they can handle being a small business owner as a self-publisher, or not. I often find that authors still value agents.” Gardner said that, as an agent, she must connect authors not just with publishers but with readers as well.

Gottlieb, who heads Trident Media Group, had a positive attitude about the evolving formats of book publishing. “The changes present new oppor-tunities for traditional publishers,” he said. “In the beginning, most houses were stunned by the changes in the marketplace, but publishers have now pivoted and adjusted. E-books are a viable portion of every author’s career, and for publishers as well.” Trident has a staff of five that works exclusively with e-tailers. These staffers visit Amazon and Apple to discuss their clients, and assist authors in renegotiating their contracts, “including all revenue streams.”

Axelrod has an eponymous literary agency, and represents bestselling author Amanda Hocking, who shot to fame as a self-published novelist before turning to traditional publishing. “In Amanda’s case,” said Axelrod, “she was relieved and happy to turn all the work over to St. Martin’s.”

Speaking of Hocking’s situation as representative of a larger trend, Axelrod said, “There’s been a real shift with writers, who used to want an agent out of fear of not getting published. They take a more active role now, and ask agents, ‘What can you do for me?’” Axelrod believes many authors now want an agent “who can navigate the complexities and get them the best deal.”

Ashlock, who is a content strategist and product designer, doesn’t like the word agent anymore. “I think of myself as more of a ‘radical mediator’ for writers who might be referred to as hybrid authors, weighing the value of both traditional and self-publishing.”

About the current antagonism between Amazon and Hachette, Axelrod said, “Amazon wants to suck up the publishers’ profits. This is a potentially disastrous situation for all concerned. The whole concept is under siege. It forces all of us to really earn our keep.”

But Gottlieb rejected that negativity. “We’re going to survive this,” he said. “The most important thing I’ve learned from all the changes is that you have to reinvent yourself every day, and that applies to authors, publishers, and agents as well.” —Wendy Werris

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The Library as RetailerSix library e-book vendors, one stage, 50 minutes: as you might expect, not exactly the forum to forge a new understanding between libraries and pub-lishers. But toward the end of an informative (if subdued) session, Hoopla v-p Jeff Jankowski, whose company announced just this week that it was entering the library e-book space, delivered a scene-stealing rant that brought a packed room of mostly librarians to spontaneous applause.

The panel, moderated by Library Journal editor-in-chief Rebecca Miller, included CEOs from Baker & Taylor, OverDrive, 3M, Library Ideas, Recorded Books, and Hoopla. For the first 40 minutes, the panelists dis-cussed their businesses, progress in the library e-book market, and the vast potential for libraries to drive book sales beyond the money libraries pay directly to publishers, including efforts to enable retail sales from the library website, or by driving discovery of new titles. But in the 40th minute, after Miller asked about the potential of a streaming model for library e-books, Jankowski, whose model is based on a transactional (or pay-per-lend) model, let loose.

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According to Adams Media, a division of F+W Media, the Avon, Mass., publisher’s mission is to provide “practical and meaningful content” that “inspires, informs, and impacts” lives. While we admit that career and business books like Martin Yate’s Knock ’Em Dead series for job hunters and Stephan Schiffman’s Closing Techniques for home buyers are informative and certainly have an impact, we think that Adams Media’s new line of books for DIY crafters will inspire an even broader audience. How could it not, with a title like DIY Wine Corks by Melissa Averinos (June)? We already feel so inspired, we want to pop open a few bottles just so we can have some DIY fun with corks and a glue gun.

While other F+W Media divisions, like Interweave and KP Craft, are already known for crafting books, Adams Media is filling a niche: Pinterest crafters whose creative impulses might need a little assist. Adams Media published 11 craft books last year and is planning on releasing 15 more this year including DIY Wood Pallet Projects and DIY Statement Necklaces.

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Subscription Model Takes Center Stage“Subscription has arrived in a really big way for media,” noted Len Vlahos, BISG executive director, in his open-ing remarks to the 2014 Making Information Pay conference at BEA. And for those who question whether the subscription model is coming to the publishing business, Ted Hill, president of THA Consulting, had an answer: “It’s here now.”

In his opening talk, Hill shared some insights from a project he recently undertook for BISG on e-books and subscription; the report, “Digital Books and the New Subscription Economy: A BISG Research Study,” publishes June 16. Among the highpoints: 80% of industry stakeholders agree that e-book subscription businesses are inevitable in the digital book envi-ronment; 84% see it having a posi-tive impact on their business in the next five years; 86% of scholarly publishers are now working to get their e-books into aggregated col-lections; 65% of professional publish-ers are currently seeing subscrip-tion revenue; and 33% of textbook publishers say they see significant revenue from subscriptions, com-pared to only 7% of trade publishers.

For trade publishers, however, subscription services are catching on. The tricky part for publishers, of course, is figuring out the financial impact of offering subscription access, Hill acknowledged. “All publishers today know that their readers are getting some of their digital media through subscription platforms, and it is a channel they like,” Hill said.

Nielsen’s Jonathan Stolper pro-vided information from the latest

Nielsen research into what the growth of the music, TV, and other media services means for books. The rise of streaming services has had a number of impacts, he noted. For one, it has had a significant impact on reducing piracy—those who stream media are less likely to download content illegally, Stolper declared. And while households that stream other media spend slightly less on buying or renting content (CDs, DVDS, etc.), those using sub-scription services for books, which Nielsen has been measuring for about four to six months, are spend-ing more.

In one of the most interesting findings, Stolper noted a familiar company dominating among those who have reported subscribing to a digital book service: Amazon. Of the 6,000-plus readers surveyed, 9% reported subscribing to a book service in the past six months, and Amazon, through its Prime offer-ing and the Kindle Owners Lending Library, led the pack at 79%. “It’s a little deceiving,” Stolper said, “because we don’t think of Amazon as a true sub-scription service.” When Amazon was removed, and the same ques-tion asked again, the number of readers who said they had signed up for a subscription book service dropped from 9% to 5%.

“Again, it’s early days,” Stolper cautioned. —Andrew Albanese


A new set of awards with an inter-national focus has arrived on the book trade calendar and at its inau-gural outing earlier this year U.S. companies and initiatives took home a hat-trick of honors.

The London Book Fair International Book Industry Excellence Awards, established in association with the U.K. Publishers Association, were presented at the LBF in April and saw a range of inspirational indi-viduals receive recognition for their work in different parts of the globe. The global lineup of winners included Australia, Belarus, China, Denmark, India, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, and the U.S.

The University of Chicago Press collected the International Academic and Professional Publisher Award; Skybound, the online home of Robert Kirkman’s creator-owned work, including his comic book series the Walking Dead, took home the Crossmedia Award for Best Use of IP; and the Best Translated Book Award, established by Chad Post, in Rochester, N.Y., who runs the Three Percent website and Open Letter Books, received the International Literary Translation Initiative Award—an award for an award.

The prizes represent a significant step for the LBF. The fair has always been an international event—it claims to have the biggest International Rights Centre of any fair, and its Market Focus scheme, which showcases different countries, is now in its 12th year. But director Jacks Thomas has put global even more at its heart and wanted a set of awards that both acknowledges this and acknowledges that publishing

itself—thanks to the Internet and digitiza-tion—is more inter-national than ever. London is arguably the perfect home for an event that recog-nizes achievement in all corners of the globe, Thomas believes, since the city is a global hub that attracts talent from around the world. Many of those working in new content and apps are drawn to its “silicon” round-about in east London.

Crucially, the awards acknowl-edge not just conventional trade publishing but wider areas such as literary translation, crossmedia, and learning initiatives, as well as areas like copyright protection, technol-ogy, and education. There were 15 awards judged by panels of experts in each field, selected by the LBF and Publishing Association for their industry-specific knowledge or international experience.

There were many special moments. The International Publishers Association’s Freedom to Publish Award was accepted by Alexandra Logvinova from the House of Literature in Belarus, on behalf of her father, Ihar Lohvinau, whose publishing work in Belarus has been banned by the Ministry of Information.

Another warmly received award was the Publishers Weekly International Book Industry Technology Supplier Award, which went to Publishing Technology, in China. The Publishers Association Copyright Protection Award went to OUP Pakistan, with Emma House, the PA’s director of pub-lisher relations, praising its work,

often in threatening circum-stances; Armeena Salyid, managing director of OUP Pakistan, said: “It’s been a long journey defending the rights of authors and publish-ers, but this award is a won-derful recognition of our work. It is deeply appreciated and will spur us on to continue with our efforts.”

Motilal Books of India col-lected the Market Focus Achievement Award, for embracing the opportunities presented by the LBF’s Market Focus program, and Tara Books, in Chennai, India, was named International Trade Children’s and Young Adult Publisher of the Year.

Australian initiatives were recog-nized twice, with Penguin Australia picking up the International Education Learning Resources Award, for its easy to navigate resources app for teachers, and the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, in New South Wales, collected the first International Education Initiatives Award for projects around the world that enhance standards of literacy.

In retrospect, the event was also tinged with sadness since it turned out to be the last public appearance by the celebrated British literary agent Deborah Rogers, cofounder of Rogers, Coleridge, and White, who

received the Lifetime Achievement Award and a standing ovation from her many friends in the industry. Rogers died just three weeks after the ceremony.

LBF expects to receive many nominations for next year’s awards when the book industry will once again offer congratulations across the oceans. —Roger Tagholm

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There are a lot of memories, pub-lisher Mitch Rogatz notes, as he reflects on the 25 years since he founded Triumph Books. The Chicago publisher of sports titles, which is especially renowned for the many fully illustrated “instant books” about winning teams in major sports, is savoring the mile-stone. Officially introducing a birthday logo this week, it will be celebrating at BEA by doing what it does best: promoting books at booth 2527 b y and about acclaimed sports figures, including the autobiogra-phy of three-time Stanley Cup win-ner Chris Celios, Made in America. This fall, the party will continue with an event for employees.

Sounding more like a coach than a publisher, Rogatz says that Triumph’s endurance is “all about perseverance and being proactive. It’s about staying in the game through good times and bad. It’s about staying focused and about always challenging each other and our partners to raise the bar with high standards and performance.” It’s also about events like Jeremy Roenick’s 2012 Chicago book tour for J.R.: My Life as the Most Outspoken, Fearless, and

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to adopt the dog he worked with on the set of Beginners—sharing per-sonal recollections about working with the animal stars who stole their hearts on film sets.

“Since the early days of film and moviemaking, animal stars have charmed and entertained us,” Ganzert says. “For the first time,

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golden retriever Hudson, will also be attending BEA. Hudson has been an actor his entire life and co-starred with Paul Rudd in Our Idiot Brother, as well as winning numer-ous AKC agility and rally titles. Hudson will be on a walkabout with his trainers Christina and Taylor Potter at the Javits today before heading to the New World Library booth (1320) to greet fans. He will join Ganzert at 11 a.m., who will sign posters for the book.

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Hardhitting Man in Hockey, when he signed more than 4,000 books in five days. Rogatz recalls that fans waited for hours in line at signings that lasted up to six hours. One fam-ily included sons named Jeremy and Roenick, and a fan sported a “spot-on” tattoo of Roenick’s face on her calf.

It’s even about, Rogatz adds, own-ing up to mistakes, such as, in 2001, just as Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford was about to address the crowd at the book launch for Few and Chosen Yankees: Defining Yankee Greatness Across the Eras at the Heisman Club, Rogatz had to break the news to him that the cover featured a photo of a 1930s-era New York Giants cap. Whoops. —Claire Kirch

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Recently discovered work by two classic children’s authors will appear on bookstore shelves in the coming months. Random House Books for Young Readers will release Richard Scarry’s Best Lowly Worm Book Ever! in August, and the following month will publish Horton and the Kwuggerbug! by Dr. Seuss, a follow-up to 2011’s The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories.

Golden Books began publishing Scarry’s work in the late 1940s, after he arrived in New York City to pursue a career in commercial art. Random House later published a line of his books in the 1970s, and when that com-pany acquired Golden Books in 2001, the Scarry backlists came together under one roof. The author, who died in 1994, wrote more than 100 books, which have been translated into dozens of languages and sold more than 300 million copies worldwide.

Scarry’s son, Richard (Huck) Scarry Jr., discovered the manuscript and sketches for Best Lowly Worm Book Ever in his father’s studio. Huck (who was so nicknamed by his father after Huckleberry Finn, and whose name in turn inspired Huckle the Cat) began working with his father as a teenager on the Busytown books, and has continued to create books in Richard Scarry’s artistic style for years. He completed and colored the illustrations for the new book, which follows Lowly through a typically busy day. True to Richard Scarry tradition, the book introduces early childhood words and concepts, and includes a search-and-find “Where’s Lowly?” section as well as a counting lesson.

Mallory Loehr, v-p and publishing director of Random House and Golden Books for Young Readers, notes that Huck Scarry “has a fun, artistic sensibil-ity, and slips into his father’s world in a very seamless way. He loves creating his art, and clearly gets these characters in the very same way his dad did.”

Random House last year launched a Richard Scarry rebranding program featuring a fresh cover design, which kicked off with a new edition of Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever! to cele-brate its 50th year in print. The rebranding, which entails scanning the books’ original art-work, will run through 2016 and involves rebranding 10 of the author’s “big books,” includ-ing Busy, Busy Town, and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, as well as some board books and out-of-print titles. Due in September is a rebranded edition of Richard Scarry’s The Night Before Christmas!

A Seussian FindThe uncovering of Dr. Seuss’s Horton and the Kwuggerbug! was a different sort of discovery. Unseen for 60 years, these four stories (like those collected in The Bippolo Seed) were among the author’s short fiction published in Redbook mag-azine in the early 1960s, but never released in book form. The new collection features familiar Seussian faces and places—including Horton the Elephant, Marco, Mulberry Street, and a grinch of a different color—as well as a commentary by Seuss scholar Charles D. Cohen.

Cohen tracked down the original magazines in which the stories appeared, and purchased mul-tiple copies for a few dollars each. He eventually posted copies of these magazine for sale online, some of which were bought by Cathy Goldsmith, v-p and associate publish-ing director of Random House/Golden Books Young Readers Group, who served as art director on Geisel’s last books, including Hunches in Bunches, You’re Only Old Once! and Oh, the Places You’ll Go! “Ted had never men-tioned that he wrote for magazines,” Goldsmith recalls. “But I took one look at the stories and the art and there was no question in my mind that they were genuine.”

When Random House decided to collect some of the stories in book form, Goldsmith tackled the task of enhancing Seuss’s nearly 60-year-old draw-ings. This entailed enlarging Seuss’s black line art and adding color to the original images, which appeared in the magazines in two colors. “Cathy did an amazing job enhancing the original art, and it was very special in that she had worked with Ted personally,” says Mallory Loehr. “We had quite a bit of discussion about what color the grinch in this book should be—because he’s a grinch but not the Grinch!” (As it turns out, this grinch is ochre.)

“The magic of Richard Scarry and Dr. Seuss will always appeal to chil-dren,” says Loehr of these books’ longevity. “Regardless of what the digital age has introduced, kids still want to learn about and explore the world through these pages.”

Seuss fans dropping by the Random House booth (2839) can pick up a but-ton promoting Horton and the Kwuggerbug! —Sally Lodge

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Martin Short has done just about everything a star can do: television, movies, the Broadway stage, and lots and lots of talk show appearances. “His funniness,” according to David Kamp in a recent profile in Vanity Fair, “has earned him an exalted place in show business.” Whether singing, dancing, fathering brides, or cultivating characters such the man-child Ed Grimley or the abominable talk show host Jiminy Glick (whom Short refers to as a “moron with power”), he is a consummate entertainer. With the November release of I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend (HarperCollins), Martin Short goes beyond entertaining to reveal a life that has seen tragedy and heartbreak.

With all his talk show appearances, it’s not surprising that Short declares, “I’m a natural type of storyteller.” At first he wasn’t keen on writing a book because he didn’t want to include “that story about that thing,” but then it dawned on him that you don’t have to include everything. And writing is something he does—and believes we all do in a way—in our journals, our computers, our

thoughts. Short, who lost both parents by the time he was 20 and lost his wife of 30

years when he was 60, says that writing is a way of “puncturing something that’s disturbing. When you confront the hard stuff, it’s not as disturbing.” He says, “I made a choice. My natural orientation was to be buoyant and

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celebrate the good things.” One of the motivations to tell his story was to give fans “a greater

knowledge of who I am and what has made me who I am.” He notes that as a “clown boy” with Letterman, Fallon, Conan, and a long list of other talk show hosts, including Carson, he could be reserved about the private aspects of his life. But, he notes, “one upside of getting older is that you gain some wisdom,” and owing to that he believes his book will be “pretty good.”

Short was not an overnight sensation. He describes his trajectory to stardom as “slow and steady wins the race,” which is why he thinks his book will have broad appeal, especially to the average actor. His book is about the journey and the process, about life and loss. While he has become well-known, he points out that he has not achieved the star status of the likes of John Travolta. In fact, as he jokingly told Conan, he imagines

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Paul O. ZelinskyMore Moose ShenanigansIn Moose’s debut outing, Z Is for Moose, written by Kelly Bingham and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, the impatient title character is not pleased when his friend Zebra selects Mouse—rather than the obvious (to him) choice of Moose—to represent the letter “M” in the alphabet. In the collaborators’ companion vol-ume, Circle, Square, Moose (Greenwillow, Sept.), things again go comically awry when Moose infiltrates a book called Circle, Square, Triangle and refuses to obey when the narrator insists he leave.

Zelinsky says that finding the right visual persona for the strong-willed Moose was ini-tially a challenge—but a pleasant one. “Moose has quite a definite personality—that was there in the author’s words,” he says. “But I tried not to look at other cartoon moose—in particular I didn’t want Moose to look like Bullwinkle. Growing up, I loved those cartoons, but I created Moose by mostly avoiding what Bullwinkle—and pictures of actual moose—look like. Though I was inspired by real moose’s massive bodies, funny-looking thin legs, and knobby knees. I really identify with those knobby knees.”

A versatile artist, Zelinsky creates picture book illustration that span the classic, painterly style of his 1998 Caldecott-winning Rapunzel and Caldecott Honor books Rumpelstiltskin and Hansel and Gretel; the folk art feel of Caldecott Honor–winning Swamp Angel; and the whimsical, playful art of his modern classic, The Wheels on the Bus, and Bingham’s Moose stories.

Which style is Zelinsky most comfortable with? “Actually, I don’t even want to know if I favor one over another,” he muses. “I’m not so much in touch with my feelings as I am in touch with each story, and I love to try my hand at differ-ent things—and hope I’m doing the words justice. When I look at Rapunzel now, I think, ‘How did I do that?’ But in the actual doing of illustrations, it feels totally natural.”

Asked if he thinks Moose will make a third picture book appearance, Zelinsky is positive: “I do think Moose will be back, but the question is who will be having a problem with him next time around? First it was Zebra, then it was the book itself—so I’m not sure who will have to cope with him next.”

A longtime Brooklyn resident, Zelinsky is happy to make his way across the East River to be at Javits today. “Every time I’ve gone to BEA, I’ve loved it, and every time I haven’t, I’ve wished I had,” he says, adding, “meeting book-sellers is really the biggest thing about BEA for me.” Moose fans can find Zelinsky signing Circle, Square, Moose today, 10:30–11 a.m., at Table 6 in the Autographing Area. —Sally Lodge

Lynn BrunelleTurning Her Geek OnLynn Brunelle remembers that her “inner geek” first began to show itself in the middle of her fifth and sixth grade “horse phase.” She didn’t just like horses; she wanted to know every sin-gle scientific and beautiful thing about them. “Science and art are really where my heart beats,” says Brunelle, who has written about 45 books, mostly how-to titles for parents like her bestsellers Camp Out! The Ultimate Kids Guide and Pop Bottle Science (both published by Workman, where she once worked as an editor).

Brunelle moved from her native Maine and started her professional career as an editorial assistant at Scientific American Books, where she was given the task of editing some of the best scientific minds to a kid-friendly level. When she moved to Workman, sci-ence continued to be part of her specialty. Always a fan of the television pro-gram Bill Nye the Science Guy, the author got the courage to cold-call Nye’s show in Seattle and ask if they ever used freelance writers. Not even know-ing what a spec script was, Brunelle wrote a dozen and landed a job.

“Nothing was holding me in New York, so I went to Seattle,” she says.

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Brunelle won four Emmys writing for Bill Nye, and now creates videos for NPR’s Science Friday and is often featured on Martha Stewart’s radio net-work—when she is not writing kid-related books or enjoying life on Bainbridge Island, Wash., with her husband and two young sons.

For her memoir, Mama Gone Geek: Calling on My Inner Science Nerd to Help Navigate the Ups and Down of Parenthood (Shambhala/Roost, Oct.), Brunelle knew she did not want to write a how-to and she definitely did not want to sugarcoat things. “I didn’t want to come across as a know-it-all, because I don’t know it all,” she says.

Mama Gone Geek consists of essays about different events in Brunelle’s life—some funny, like when she showed her sons how to make a battery from a lemon and copper pennies during a blackout. But some things were really hard to write about, as when her husband had sepsis and nearly died, and her mother had Alzheimer’s.

“In our culture, we hide the hard things,” says Brunelle. “But I wanted to teach my kids that these things we go through are part of life.” One of the essays explores the juxtaposition of her older son’s letting go of Santa at the same time her mother’s diseased brain had her believing in him again.

Brunelle is signing today, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., at Table 5 in the Autographing Area. —Bridget Kinsella


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Dunham is a speaker at the Adult Book & Author Breakfast this morning.What was your inspiration for writing Not That Kind of Girl and why was now the time to write it?

Prose is my first passion and I’ve always loved essays, in particular—as a reader and a writer. I am inspired by authors from Joan Didion to David Sedaris to Nora Ephron, and the way they explore human experience using this elegant little form. I felt it was important to write a book now, at the relative beginning of my career, for a couple of reasons: because of the creative satisfaction it gives me, and to show people that prose is an important part of what I do.What do you want readers to learn from this book?

I consider the book a mixture of (very) personal history, social commentary and cultural criticism. It’s as much about feminism and growing up in the Internet age as it is about my own history. I hope that all readers will come away with a sense that their most humiliating or confusing experiences have a certain unsung elegance. I want it to make people feel less alone, the way my favorite books have done for me.How does this type of writing compare with your other artistic endeavors, such as creating websites, feature films, and the hit HBO series Girls?

With television and film, you have dozens of collaborators, dozens of voices encouraging and questioning you. With the book, it was just a very private relationship between my editor, Andy Ward, and myself. I had to trust him as my entire audience, and trust myself as a writer in a new way. There’s no “we’ll figure it out when we’re shooting the scene.”What do you think fans of Girls might be surprised to learn in the book?

I think there is a lot of confusion on the part of the audience about what is Hannah and what is me, and this book makes it clear we had different childhoods, different ambitions, and different beliefs. She’s a character and a repository for a lot of my worst instincts and fears. People will also learn a lot about my uterus.You have a very large social media following. Can you offer any thoughts—good or bad—on being instantly accessible to fans?

I love my Twitter pals—they are a tough, funny bunch. Sure, I could do without some of the more aggressive interactions, but I have truly found a community online—and in a way I never expected. Also, I do all my window shopping via Instagram. —Karen Jones

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Colm Tóibín Here, There, and Everywhere“A lot of things interest me,” says Colm Tóibín, the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel-ist, journalist, essayist, playwright, professor of English literature, and librettist who lives in Dublin, in a bold understatement. The image of the writer as contemplative loner tucked away with fingers tapping all day does not fit Tóibín, who says, “Some writers are nourished at home, quietly listening to music. I get nourished by doing things, seeing things.”

His years in Barcelona in the 1970s produced the award-winning novel, The South, and Homage to Barcelona (both published in 1990), while his journalism from Africa and South America was collected in The Trial of the Generals. Brooklyn and The Master, two of his most acclaimed and best-known novels in the United States, are about the expat and emigrant experiences writ large. This summer he is spending time in Boulder, Colo., where The Master will be pro-duced as an opera with a libretto that he has written. But for his newest novel, Nora Webster (Scribner, Oct.), the peripatetic writer has returned to the place of his birth, County Wexford in Ireland.

Tóibín’s seventh novel introduces Nora Webster, a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four. Running short on money and grieving the loss of the love of her life and the man who rescued her from the stifling life to which she was born, Nora is blind to her young sons’ needs as she strug-

gles to overcome sorrow and find hope and solace. Tóibín has an almost uncanny ability to portray women, evidenced in Brooklyn and the collection of stories Mothers and Sons. Tóibín attributes this to being brought up by his mother and surrounded by women. His father died when Tóibín was only 12 and his mother had a sister who didn’t marry until much later in life, so Tóibín lived in a home with “women talking, women watching over me.”

The publisher’s jacket copy for Nora Webster calls Tóibín “a writer at the zenith of his career,” and indeed, with the triumph of The Testament of Mary, a bestselling novel and Broadway play that offers a bold interpretation of the mother of Jesus, Tóibín is attracting ever-increasing rave reviews and multi-tudes of readers. Asked if he himself noticed the uptick in attention, Tóibín is adamant in his response, saying, “If a writer starts thinking about his career rather than the next sentence, he is doomed.” He insists, “Books must be writ-ten in silence, in a sense of modesty.” And he adds that a writer must be able to laugh at himself.

Perhaps this humility allows him to be undaunted by the prospect of partic-ipating in this morning’s Author Breakfast, where he will join the stage, television, and screen stars Alan Cumming, Lena Dunham, and Martin Short (8–9:30 a.m., Special Events Hall). Tóibín believes that the organizers “sensibly wanted to mix it up with voices from there and there and there.” —Liz Hartman

Skylar DorsetA Dream Becomes a RealitySkylar Dorset says a dream compelled her to write her debut YA fantasy novel, The Girl Who Never Was (Sourcebooks, June), the first of a pair of Fairie Court books. Not just a dream, as in a life’s ambition—but literally a dream. “I had a dream a few years ago that a guy I didn’t know walked into his Boston brownstone and found a blonde woman he didn’t know sleeping on his couch,” she says.

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dream, she con-cluded that the man was an ogre and the woman a fairie. In addi-tion, they lived in a supernatural

world in which beings could “fall into other people’s houses and not realize it,” she explains. After unsuccessfully trying to write about the ogre and the fairie, Dorset shifted gears and focused on their child. “If that’s how your par-ents met, how would that shape your life?” she wondered. In the novel, as Selkie Stewart turns 17, the Boston teen realizes that everything she’s ever been told about who she is has been an elaborate lie to conceal the truth about her parentage.

This is the first time Dorset has written fantasy, but definitely not the last, she says, declaring, “It’s the most fun ever.” A newly minted law professor at the University of Mississippi, the author says she set The Girl Who Never Was in Beantown because she lived there when she had the dream. “Everything

that happens in the book actually happened to me,” she insists about the magical underpinnings to the novel’s contemporary setting. For example, Dorset sat on a stalled subway train more than once while riding Boston’s T, and for all she knows, goblins were responsible for the breakdowns.

“So much of everyday life is absolutely crazy,” she points out. “Wouldn’t it be great if all the crazy things that happen in our lives had a supernatural explanation?” Her daily commutes while she wrote her fantasy were “like living in my novel,” Dorset says, adding that many of her observations landed in the story.

For instance, she says, while the scientific explanation for the lavender window panes on some historic Beacon Hill houses is that the 1800s-era glass had been corrupted, in The Girl Who Never Was, the lavender glass signals to supernatural beings that one of their kind lives in the house. “You can do whatever you want with fantasy,” observes the author. “You can have a talk-ing rat. You’re in charge of your world.”

Dorset will be in charge of her world today, 11:30 a.m.–noon, when she signs copies of The Girl Who Never Was at Table 15 in the Autographing Area.

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Wisdom Publication is showcasing two titles that offer advice about life: Brave Parenting: A Buddhist Inspired Guide to Raising Resilient Children by Krissy Pozatek (Mar.) and Don’t Worry, Be Grumpy: Inspiring Stories for Making the Most of Each Moment by Ajahn Brahm (Oct.).

“We’re very excited about Brave Parenting,” says Lydia Anderson, marketing and promotions man-ager. “Krissy writes that parents don’t need to hover and overprotect their children from everything, because that can end up hurting them. She says that letting them

face small struggles allows them to grow more resilient and stronger, so when they face a big obstacle they can face it, overcome it, and continue moving on.”

The book, says Anderson, offers lessons about parenting in gen-eral that apply across the board and to parents of children of all ages. “It’s hard when a parent sees a child struggling; we want to rush in to pick them up, but we need to let them pick themselves up,” she says. “It’s about finding that bal-ance.” Krissy will sign the book today, 10:30–11:30 a.m., at the Wisdom booth (2746).

Wisdom will also give away gal-leys of Don’t Worry, Be Grumpy: Inspiring Stories for Making the Most of Each Moment by Ajahn

Brahm, who is currently living at a Buddhist monastery in Australia. “Brahm is very funny; he provides a lot of lev-ity and a little toilet humor in his writing,” says Anderson. “What Brahm does very well is introduce ideas found in Buddhism, but also found in life in general. These are lessons we should all know and remember, such as being nice to people,” Anderson adds. “Readers don’t need a

background in religious studies, or even know about Buddhism, to appreciate his writing.”

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According to Adams Media, a divi-sion of F+W Media, the Avon, Mass., publisher’s mission is to provide “practical and meaningful content” that “inspires, informs, and impacts” lives. While we admit that career and business books like Martin Yate’s Knock ’Em Dead series for job hunters and Stephan Schiffman’s Closing Techniques for home buyers are informative and certainly have an impact, we think that Adams Media’s new line of books for DIY crafters will inspire an even broader audience. How could it not, with a title like DIY Wine Corks by Melissa Averinos

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(June)? We already feel so inspired, we want to pop open a few bottles just so we can have some DIY fun with corks and a glue gun.

While other F+W Media divisions, like Interweave and KP Craft, are already known for crafting books, Adams Media is filling a niche: Pinterest crafters whose creative impulses might need a little assist. Adams Media published 11 craft books last year and is planning on releasing 15 more this year includ-ing DIY Wood Pallet Projects and DIY Statement Necklaces.

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Mason Jars, and, of course, DIY Wine Corks, will be on display. The projects will be raffled off today; one

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Reading Room UpdatesThe Reading Room, one of the fastest growing social discovery platforms for books, has reached more than one million members and just released a major platform update with a new look and feel, including a responsive design for mobile.

With a database of seven million–plus books and three million authors, TheReadingRoom.com provides an independent experience for readers, enabling people to connect with like-minded readers, participate in online book clubs, browse carefully selected lists, author selections, and member’s choices. It includes the latest reviews and news from such sources as the New York Times and the Guardian, as well as thousands of member reviews and discussions.

“Providing our audience with a seamless experience across devices is key to ensuring readers have every opportunity to discover the latest books, shar-ing and discussing the books they love,” says CEO Kim Anderson. “We’re very excited about this latest release, as it’s not only a major shift in design and technology but in our audience’s ability to access the Reading Room when they are out and about.”

The Reading Room recently relocated its global base to New York. “With more than 70% of our audience in North America, and our print and e-book e-commerce offerings being U.S. driven—the Reading Room has retail part-nerships with retailers outside of the U.S.—it seemed natural to locate our headquarters here,” says Anderson. The Reading Room reports that it has doubled its member base over the past nine months and is seeing significant month-on-month growth. With millions of data points gathering behavioral data, the Reading Room’s aim at BEA is to meet publishers and other busi-ness partners, to try to provide more efficient ways to connect with a highly targeted audience.

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With the introduction of the Common Core, the way students learn is about to change—and publishers are evaluating the impact of the changes on content strategy. At their heart, the Common Core State Standards represent a collab-orative, state-led effort to improve educa-tional outcomes based on a new, shared set of standards. These standards apply to math and language skills, and are designed to encourage the critical think-ing and reasoning skills essential for suc-cess in a globalized economy and society.

You’ve probably read something about the controversy surrounding the imple-mentation of the Common Core—the big-gest issue involves testing. And if you check the BEA program, you’ll note several panels on this hot topic. But the main elements of Common Core are simple, if sweeping:—Standards: Student achievement varies greatly state by state. Estab-lishing a nationwide standard of achievement, with assessments designed to measure its effect, provides a context for improvement. —Readiness: Studies have long shown that U.S. students entering college are underprepared for the rigors of higher education and of work beyond that. Common Core addresses this by pushing curricula that require read-ing materials that challenge students to perform at a higher level.—Authentic Content: It is no longer good enough to assess students on passages created for tests. Students will now be assessed on passages from published works, and those works will enter the classroom as instructional materials. —The Classics: Despite the rumors, Common Core is not removing the so-called classic works of literature from the classrooms, but instead is adding sources that complement and provide context to the classics. For example, when reading The Great Gatsby, students might also read news articles on the Prohibition era or chapters from social histories of the 1920s.

For publishers, the Common Core is a major change, as new curricula now require a vast amount of informational texts on a range of subjects and from a range of media that were previously underused in courses. In grades 3–5, for example, Common Core recommends that 50% of reading be in the form of informational texts. This rises to 60% in the middle school grades and 70% in high school.

As the Common Core Standards are being implemented, the demand for content, both entire works and portions, is rising, and many publishers, including adult trade publishers, university presses, and news and maga-zine publishers, will now be working with a perhaps unfamiliar market sec-tor. This is an opportunity—although one that comes with significant chal-lenges. For example, curriculum decisions are largely made at the local level, and while key decision makers in each district may be experts in education, they are not always experts in content discovery and licensing. How will they discover new content, license it, and make it available to classrooms?

Publishers will need to be proactive, while taking into consideration what content is going to be in demand and how to get the content and rights where they are needed. Their content must be visible and easily available. Effectively managing digital rights and licenses will be critical. And as the overall implementation of the Common Core evolves, licenses must be flexible enough to evolve as well.

Publishers of textbooks and canonical works should consider how to make these works more useful in this new context. What informational materials should supplement an existing work? Should additional content appear in the book or in a separate supplement? Are a publisher’s systems and processes prepared for requests for curriculum use? The more quickly publishers react to market demands, the more likely that their content will be incorporated into curricula and that licenses will be issued.

Schools in the United States are in the beginning stages of adopting the Common Core and college and career readiness standards, and publish-ers should follow the sector and position their content to best take advan-tage of this new academic future. The annual educational market in 2013 for published content was $9 billion, and on its current trajectory, that mar-ket is poised to grow, with greater amounts of content, whether whole works or portions, to be in demand very soon. To seize this opportunity, publishers will need to be agile and innovative.

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ing 70%” in terms of the portion of floor space sold. Though Inspire! has not yet released a list of partici-pants, Penguin Random House Canada, Simon & Schuster Canada, and Scholastic Canada have said they will be present.

Penguin Random House Canada just announced that it will collabo-rate with Indigo on a major booth presence. “It is not that often that a major new initiative focused around books is launched. We feel this is a great opportunity to connect directly with consumers in the leadup to the biggest bookselling season of the year,” says Tracey Turriff, senior v-p and director of corporate commu-nications for Penguin Random

House Canada. Part of publishers’ discontent

with BookExpo Canada had been its expense, particularly because the outlay didn’t have any direct result in terms of book sales. While the venue remains the same, Davies says they are trying to make participation more affordable for smaller publishers.

The Ontario Book Publishers Organization will have a pavilion for indie publishers, which David Caron, ECW’s co-publisher, has been promoting to OBPO members. It will have 10 round spaces divided into quarter sections, which are being offered first to member pub-lishers, then to Ontario publishers, and finally to any Canadian pub-lisher, he tells Show Daily. ECW will be part of the Canadian Manda Group booth, but Caron says it may also take some space in the indie pavilion, alongside other publish-ers such as Dundurn.

Caron acknowledges that beyond the cost of the booth, publishers still have the costs of authors traveling to the event, along with marketing expenses and staffing. It adds up, he says, but he notes that the Ontario Media Development Corporation is providing some funding for travel and marketing for Canadian authors.

Linda Leith, who established her own small press in 2011 after founding and being artistic direc-tor of Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival for more than 12 years, will be part of the new Toronto fair. “I think it’s an event that can be very important to small publishers as well as large publishers, and we need to support it to get it on its feet and on its way,” she says. She points out that the cost of a stand is less than for the Salon du Livre in Quebec. “In com-petitive terms, they are doing their best to keep the costs down for small publishers” she says.

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with tickets for the whole weekend being

sold to the public for $15 each. According to Inspire! cofounder

Rita Davies, the event will include 275 hours of main floor and work-shop programming and more than 400 Canadian and international authors. Indigo Books and Music, Canada’s biggest bookselling retail chain, will be the official bookseller at each of five stages for readings and other author events—although publishers can make separate arrangements with other booksell-ers at their booths or sell books directly themselves, says Davies. She reports that the show “is nudg-

Coming to CanadaCanadians at BEA will have a chance to hear more details about their own new book fair launching November 13–16. Cofounder Steven Levy and other organizers are attending and promoting Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair, which aims to fill a void left when Reed Exhibitions closed BookExpo Canada in 2009.

However, the new fair, which will take place in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, just as BookExpo Canada did, is not following the for-mer’s trade show model. Inspire! is a more consumer-focused event,

At a gala awards ceremony at New York University’s Kimmel Center on Wednesday, the Independent Book Publishers Association named the Gold winners for the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Awards, which recognize “excellence in book editorial and design.” Gold winners were selected from a group of 154 honorees in 52 catego-ries, announced by the IBPA in early May.

Gold winners included The Old Man’s Love Story by Rudolfo Anaya for Popular Fiction (Univ. of Oklahoma Press), Brave the Unknown by Ushi Patel for Poetry/Literary Criticism (Skywriter Books), and Tuesdays with Todd & Brad Reed: A Michigan Tribute by Todd Reed and Brad Reed in the categories of Cover Design and Interior Design (Todd & Brad Reed Photography).

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Awards will feature a new judging system. Previously, winning books were selected via an online voting system, which, despite its “good intentions,” bore a lack of transpar-ency that raised concerns for Lependorf. The new awards will be judged by a panel of writers, editors, booksellers, and agents. Members of the Firecracker Committee include representatives from Tin House, Workman Publishing,

Random House, Byliner, Greenlight Books, and a host of literary agents, in addition to CLMP and the ABA.

The first Firecracker Awards will honor titles published in 2014, with submissions opening to publishers and self-published authors in the fall. The first winners of the new award, like the winners of the Firecracker of old, will be pre-sented at an “unforgettable” party at BEA 2015. —Clare Swanson

self-published authors as well, has been moving from the fringes to the middle,” he notes. “We believe the new Firecracker Awards can signif-icantly increase the profile of excep-tional, independently produced and self-published books. We want read-ers to know about the best from the full world of literary book publishing.”

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The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses has teamed up with the American Booksellers Association to revive the Firecracker Awards, which were last given in 2002. The overhauled awards will be devoted to “cele-brating independent literary pub-lishers and self-published works of high literary merit.”

Founded in 1996 by Koen Book Distribution’s John Davis, the Firecracker Alternative Book Awards, or FABs, were designed to honor books on the “unmapped edges of contemporary culture” that “sharpen the cutting edge.” Winners have included George Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual and Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation. Unlike the first iteration of the awards, the new Firecracker Awards will not focus purely on “alternative” or “underground” works, but rather all literary titles of the “highest quality,” including self-published books.

From the outset, the awards had been orchestrated by a group of vol-unteers, rather than an organization. In 2001, when the task had become unsustainable, the Firecracker group approached Jeffrey Lependorf, executive director of the CLMP, about becoming the steward of the prize. Lependorf had just been hired, and his focus was on getting CLMP ≠on better financial footing, so he passed on having the associa-tion oversee the awards. Thirteen years later, not only is the timing better for CLMP but, according to Lependorf, the climate of the indus-try is ripe for an award that high-lights indie publishing.

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IPBA Reveals 2014 Benjamin Franklin Winnersber of books submitted to this year’s pro-gram,” says IBPA executive director Angela Bole. “The 154 titles selected for Gold and Silver awards create a strong and diverse catalogue of award-winning books to consider for the upcoming buying sea-son.”

In addition, the top prize for the Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book went to Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Kelly Luce for Fiction (A Strange Object), Divine Secrets of the Ta-Ta Sisterhood: Pledging the Pink Sorority by Joanna Chapman for Nonfiction (Cosmic Casserole Press), and Bad Dad by Derek Munson for Children’s/Young Adult (Cannonball Books).

For a full list of the Gold and Silver win-ners, visit www.ibpa-online.org/bf.

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loom she took its punch-card sys-tem to the next level, finding ways to program patterns, colors, and fabrics together to create designs. “She was one of the first to com-bine liberal arts and beauty with science, much as we’ve learned to program how to connect software to hardware.” Isaacson mentioned that his next book might be a biog-raphy of Lovelace, whom he cred-its for being an early digital inno-vator.

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As keynote speaker yesterday morning, Isaacson, interviewed by the Slate Group’s Jacob Weisberg, explains that these teams, having met at the intersection of the Internet and computers, were responsible for the evolution of the digital age. “During the Vietnam War, academics avoided the draft by going to work for the Pentagon,” he says. “They worked on classified computer programs.” During this time, Robert Noyce founded the Intel Corporation and came to be known as “the father of Silicon Valley,” a visionary leader who didn’t believe in hierarchy and lik-ened his team to a group of madri-gal singers, all working in harmony. “Putting together the right team is the key to innovation,” Isaacson says. “Collaborative people are

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HarperCollins’s Virginia Stanley presented several big name authors to kick off the session, leading off with Richard Ford’s new book, Let Me Be Frank with You (Ecco, Dec.), which marks the return of legend-ary protagonist Frank Bascombe, who last appeared in The Lay of the Land (2006). The latest book is

dubbed “a quartet of novellas” and is set in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. However, it was crime writer Sophie Hannah’s The Monogram Murders, a mystery written in the style of Agatha Christie, that Stanley predicted would be “the literary event of the year.”

Technology is an increasingly popular topic in both libraries and society at large. This certainly is

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asts, including The Tab Book of Arduino Projects by Simon Monk, slated for November publication. One title particularly relevant to the library community was What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data—Lifeblood of Big Business—and the End of Privacy as We Know It by Adam Tanner. Tanner offers an insider’s view of the marketing tac-tics used in casinos. Those headed to Vegas next month for the ALA annual conference may want to con-sider picking up this galley before hitting the slots.

When it came time for Hachette’s presentation, marketing directors Melissa Nicholas and Ali Coughlin were met with a round of applause and even a few howls from the crowd, undoubtedly a response to their company’s clash with Amazon. Among titles highlighted was Elin Hilderbrand’s Winter Street, which has already garnered librarian sup-port as one of LibraryRead’s June books. Another book that met with excitement from the crowd was So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air.

Chris Vaccari, director of library marketing for Sterling, who also served as moderator of the group, was in high spirits, promoting his own list, which included books on beer, wine, and bourbon. He seemed particularly fond of Kevin Zraly’s Windows on the World Complete Wine Course (Oct.).

Melville publisher Dennis Johnson presented an array of titles across all genres, including two sports books: a novel about soccer, Red or Dead by David Peace; followed by Steve Almond’s Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto (Sept.). Macmillan’s Anne Spieth was a true crowd pleaser as she high-lighted Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver. This is the debut novel from Weaver, herself a librarian.

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Jordan Brown, a senior editor at HarperCollins/Balzer & Bray, talked up The Zoo at the Edge of the World, which, he said, is “entirely different” from Eric Kahn Gale’s debut novel, The Bully Book. The Zoo at the Edge of the World is set in a fictional South American country during the late 19th cen-tury. “There is an ambitious touch of magical realism,” Brown said, of the story of Marlin, a boy with a debilitating stutter who can only overcome his speech impediment when conversing with animals, until a jaguar gives Marlin the ability to converse freely. “The concept of voice and understand-ing is the foundation of this book,” Brown said, adding that, like The Bully Book, The Zoo at the End of the World “is ultimately about the failures of communication, about the refusal to understand one another.”

M.A. Larson’s novel, Pennyroyal Academy, was originally submitted as Pennyroyal’s Princess Boot Camp, said Putnam v-p and publisher Jen Besser, who described the novel as a fresh take on the concept of fairy prin-cesses. These characters aren’t “damsels in distress,” Besser said, but rather strong young women who are put through their paces at Pennyroyal Academy by fairy drill sergeants. “No one rescues Pennyroyal Academy princesses,” Besser explained. “They rescue themselves.” This is a novel that touches on issues of identity and gender roles, Besser said, adding, “I guarantee, you are in for the very best in middle-grade fiction.”

The Witch’s Boy by Kelly Barnhill, said Elise Howard, editor and publisher of Algonquin’s Young Readers program, is a “richly textured tale that is both classic and fresh,” with feuding kingdoms, a cursed boy, a cunning girl, and an enchanted forest. When Ned’s identical twin brother drowns after their raft capsizes, the villagers consider that the wrong boy survived. But when the Bandit King comes to the village and tries to steal its magic, it’s

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The Truth About Twinkie Pie, said Alvina Ling of Little Brown Books for Young Readers, is more of a modern-day fairy tale than the previous offer-ings, but this “voice-driven book about family, food, and life,” written by Kat Yeh during NaNoWriMo, contains just as much magic. After trailer-trash sisters Gigi and DiDi enter a national cooking contest, they win $1 million and their lives change, beginning with a move to the gold coast of Long Island. “This book is more layered than the Twinkie pie on the cover,” Ling said. “It will make you smile and break your heart at the same time.” Actual recipes are sprinkled throughout the book. Ling disclosed that Little, Brown won the book at auction against four other publishers, including one house that offered Yeh more money after Little, Brown’s bid had already been accepted by her agent. “I found this book irresistible,” Ling said. “It’s every-thing I love most about middle-grade fiction.”

Kate Harrison of Penguin Young Readers Group called Life of Zarf: The Trouble with Weasels her “dream book,” admitting that the book about a troll in middle school in a fairy tale world “with modern touches” made her laugh almost nonstop from page one onwards. Harrison decided that she “had to buy” international syndicated comic strip creator Rob Harrell’s novel when she came to the page featuring his illustration of the middle school social hierarchy. “The humor in this book is absolutely brilliant,” Harrison said, recalling that after she had moved from a small town in Missouri to St. Louis in junior high, she, too, felt like a troll in her new school’s social ranking. “I really needed the Life of Zarf then,” she said. “This book takes you back, and makes you laugh about school hierarchy.” Plus, she said, there’s another theme that middle-school readers will relate to: “it’s got a great message of friendship” between Zarf and his two buddies: an anxious pig and the unfunny son of the court jester. —Claire Kirch


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STAN LEE’S ZODIAC :Comic Book Legend to Children’s Book AuthorIn conversation with USA Today ’s Brian TruittSATURDAY, MAY 31 • 11:30 A.M.– 12:30 P.M. • ROOM: 1E07/08

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PICK UP YOUR EXCLUSIVE AUTOGRAPHED SAMPLER OFSTAN LEE’S NEW SERIES ZODIAC (ON SALE JANUARY 2015) AT THE PANEL!*

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Each year, Book TV brings you interviews and discussions with the most compelling nonfiction authors from various book festivals around the country.

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BOOK FESTIVALS ON BOOK TV

BookExpo America, Printers Row Lit Fest, National Book Festival, Texas Book Festival,

Miami Book Fair International, LA Times Festival of Books,

and many others

*Just some of the festivals covered by Book TV in the past year.

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