We have everything you need for an efficient, informed, galley-packed convention. We have continued to update our handy master BEA single-spreadsheet schedule — including the just-announced Author Hub events. Go to publun.ch/BEAschedPM. For PM members, our Party Planner lists 22 different celebrations across four evenings. Best of all, you can read your way through over 50 big fall and winter books with the substantial excerpts included in our Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter and the instant-hit spinoff, Buzz Books 2014: Young Adult. 16 of the featured adult authors will be appearing at BEA — as will another 16 of the featured […]
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BEA Previews: ABA Membership Nudges Up Again
Membership in the American Booksellers Association rose again in the most recent year though by a smaller amount than in previous years, up by 32 members to 1,664 in all. The organization’s ranks have now grown for five consecutive years, after reaching a low of 1,41o members in 2008. In 2012 the ABA rolls rose by 65 members; in 2011 the gain was 55 members; in 2010, as they prepared to merge with the Association of Booksellers for Children they grew by 102 members; and in 2009, they grew by 9 members. In addition to that merger, effective early 2011 the ABA took additional […]
Fall/Winter BEA Book Buzz Preview: Nonfiction
As usual, our free Buzz Books samplers both open with Sarah Weinman’s broader surveys of over 100 notable books from the forthcoming season. We’ll be running portions of those overviews the next few days to help round out your BEA radar — and you can read the complete previews anytime in the new editions of Buzz Books. In today’s installment, we look at forthcoming nonfiction. Conversation Starters In highly anticipated upcoming books from political figures, former Defense secretary and CIA chief Leon Panetta offers Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace (Penguin Press, October, with Jim Newton) […]
Fall/Winter BEA Book Buzz Preview: YA & Middle Grade
As usual, our free Buzz Books samplers both open with Sarah Weinman’s broader surveys of over 100 notable books from the forthcoming season. We’ll be running portions of those overviews the next few days to help round out your BEA radar — and you can read the complete previews anytime in the new editions of Buzz Books. Young adult fiction has really grown up in the last few years. More than ever before, the sheer volume is matched only by the amazing quality of many of the titles we want to help you discover. Sifting through the many thousands of […]
The Publishers Lunch 2014 BEA Party Planner
In keeping with our tradition, here is an overview of the known BEA after-hours celebrants and events so far. (If your event is not listed, that means you didn’t let us know–send an e-mail and we’ll update as appropriate.) As usual, this is a guide to what’s happening and an acknowledgement of the authors and occasions being celebrated, rather than a crasher’s manual; many of these events require an invitation and RSVP, often in strictly limited numbers, though others are open. Congratulations and best wishes to all for successful gatherings. Also for your BEA plans, you can find our simple, […]
BEA Planning
With Book Expo just a week away, we have updated our comprehensive, all-in-one-spreadsheet master schedule with still more author signings and event details. Use publun.ch/BEAschedPM to view it and simplify your convention planning. A variety of “special events” are marked in bold to help you find some of the more notable sessions. While author Walter Isaacson‘s Friday morning conversation about his forthcoming book THE INNOVATORS with Jacob Weisberg has been on the schedule for some time, earlier this week BEA officials declared him a “keynote speaker.” Breakfast speaker Neil Patrick Harris is covered this morning at E Online for the […]