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BookExpo America: special events
Mar. 8th, 2005 10:45 amThe BookExpo website always promises to post the lists of special events and of author autographs sometime in March, but there are many fewer events than authors, so (at least parts of) the events lists always go up first. This almost always puts me in a rotten mood. They all look boring, I moan. How dull, I say. Then I realize that they ALWAYS look boring, and I NEVER go to more than one or two of them -- and those usually the ones with free food -- and then I feel better.
Highlights on the fun side:
If you feel like paying an extra $25 for breakfast... this year's Children's Book & Author Breakfast features Lemony Snickett. And Jim Dale as moderator.
Future of the Graphic Novel with Frank Miller. And, you know, other people.
ABA's Annual Celebration of Bookselling, which is, as always, combined with the BookSense Book of the Year Awards. And also with free snacks and drinks (usually about six ounces of champagne and unlimited water, but still).
Cruise Around Manhattan La la. Costs money, but whee! Two hour evening cruise along the Hudson! Plus, money is being donated to Good Cause (NY Fund for Public Schools).
Highlights (lowlights? just light-lights?) of the tres boring side, just to show you what I'm talking about:
Capturing the Elusive 18 to 34 Year Old Reader: Editors Sound-off. Okay, it's being moderated by Jessa from Booksluts, but. It features the Viacom editor. Yeeesh.
BEA’s Thursday Editor Spotlight: BEA’s Editor and Bookseller Buzz Forum. Where many editors will tell you what books they're excited about -- funnily enough, many of them will be (gasp) ones they are publishing! There are usually six or seven different Buzz events, all of which are COMPLETELY BORING.
Mind Body Spirit Publishing: What the Editors are Buying Today Yeeesh. Boooooring.
BEA’s Friday Editor Spotlight: Generation Next: The New Hybrid Young Editor And I quote: "Plugging into subcultures and their own marketing department, they discover and foster talent in ways that would astound their predecessors."
Highlights on the fun side:
If you feel like paying an extra $25 for breakfast... this year's Children's Book & Author Breakfast features Lemony Snickett. And Jim Dale as moderator.
Future of the Graphic Novel with Frank Miller. And, you know, other people.
ABA's Annual Celebration of Bookselling, which is, as always, combined with the BookSense Book of the Year Awards. And also with free snacks and drinks (usually about six ounces of champagne and unlimited water, but still).
Cruise Around Manhattan La la. Costs money, but whee! Two hour evening cruise along the Hudson! Plus, money is being donated to Good Cause (NY Fund for Public Schools).
Highlights (lowlights? just light-lights?) of the tres boring side, just to show you what I'm talking about:
Capturing the Elusive 18 to 34 Year Old Reader: Editors Sound-off. Okay, it's being moderated by Jessa from Booksluts, but. It features the Viacom editor. Yeeesh.
BEA’s Thursday Editor Spotlight: BEA’s Editor and Bookseller Buzz Forum. Where many editors will tell you what books they're excited about -- funnily enough, many of them will be (gasp) ones they are publishing! There are usually six or seven different Buzz events, all of which are COMPLETELY BORING.
Mind Body Spirit Publishing: What the Editors are Buying Today Yeeesh. Boooooring.
BEA’s Friday Editor Spotlight: Generation Next: The New Hybrid Young Editor And I quote: "Plugging into subcultures and their own marketing department, they discover and foster talent in ways that would astound their predecessors."
