Day
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Book Industry Crowds Are Upbeat
By Rachel Deahl
With an industry becoming
more comfortable with
e-books, and the recession
no longer such an issue, an
upbeat tenor returned to
the aisles for the kickoff of
BEA 2011. Since many had
already attended panels
and sessions over the past
few days, the lines for
badges were reasonable
and the Javits layout famil-
iar. There were still linger-
ing complaints about air-
conditioning, Wi-Fi, and
construction inside Javits,
but overwhelmingly book
publishing professionals
thought BEA got off to a
great start. The consensus
was that traffic was strong
and that excitement about
e-books buoyed the mood.
Ben White, a sales rep for
Macmillan, said he thought
this year’s show was higher
energy than last year’s and
that the interest in e-books
and new technology has
brought “more buzz around
the industry.” Although
Macmillan’s biggest book of
the fall, Jeffrey Eugenides’s
much anticipated novel,
The Marriage Plot, was not
available—White said gal-
leys are not quite ready—it
didn’t decrease traffic
around the FSG booth in
the Macmillan aisle.
Several publishing folks
commented that the book-
sellers they encountered
were upbeat if “not ebul-
lient,” as Little, Brown pub-
lisher Michael Pietsch put
it, and the booksellers
seemed happy to be in New
York. “I’m surrounded by
just the people I want to be
surrounded by. Everyone
has a sense of connection
with what they do,” said
Valerie Lewis, co-owner of
Hicklebee’s Children’s
Books in San Jose, Calif.
Another bookseller,
Jennifer Seigle, who works
at Borders in York, Pa.,
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noted that although her
trip to BEA will not affect
her buying decisions, she
appreciated the chance to
meet authors, since she can
then pass along “what they
said about their book.”
Karen Walsh at Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, who was
“pleasantly surprised” by
first-day attendance, said
she’s taken more book-
seller appointments about
author events this year
over last year, which she
found encouraging.
Booksellers move “a lot of
books and tie them in with
school visits,” she added.
This was also the first year
she noticed an immediate
effect from the speed dat-
ing panel in terms of galley
requests in the booth.
Pietsch, who had sung
the praises of Chad
A M E R I C A
Harbach’s The Art of
Fielding at Monday after-
noon’s Editors Buzz Panel,
said he was particularly
excited to see how many
women had shown up to get
their galley signed by the
Teicher in Town Hall
By Judith Rosen
American Booksellers
Association CEO Oren
Teicher broke with tradition
at this year’s annual meet-
ing. Rather than report on
association activities during
the past year, he addressed
the elephant in the Javits
Center, e-books and the tur-
moil that bricks-and-mortar
booksellers are feeling. “As I
hardly need to remind
first-time author, given that
the book is, at least on the
surface, about baseball.
Noting that Hachette is
having a particularly good
run on the bestseller lists at
the moment—among oth-
everyone here, these are not
normal times in the book
business. We are living
through a period of unprece-
dented change and stagger-
ing challenges. It can no lon-
ger be business as usual,” he
said.
Teicher noted that the
slide in the number of indie
bookstores has halted, with
more than 400 new stores
opening since 2005, and that
bricks-and-mortar book-
Wednesday
May 25, 2011
ers there is Tina Fey’s
Bossypants, Michael
Connelly’s The Fifth
Witness, and Lawrence
Block’s latest, A Drop of the
Hard Stuff—Pietsch said
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ABA CEO Oren Teicher
stores remain the essential
showroom for ensuring the
sale of a broad spectrum of
books. Although e-books
have reached a tipping point
and outsold other formats
for the first time in February,
“ABA in no way believes that
print books are going away,”
he said. “Nothing can
replace the physical book.”
But things must change,
said Teicher, noting that
industry practices go back
more than half a century,
predating I Love Lucy.
Referring to ongoing discus-
sions with publishers, he said
that the ABA is making prog-
ress in working together to
create a new, sustainable
business model. As a chilling
reminder of what’s at stake,
he cited statistics after digi-
talization in the music indus-
try, which has seen a 64%
drop in sales from its peak
year in 2000, and much of
that loss is due to the closing
of physical stores.
The bookstore’s role as
showroom remains vital,
although the scope has
shifted outside the store’s
physical walls to include staff
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The Book Industry Crowds
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BEA shows that, for everyone at the
houses and in the bookstores, “the
thrill of finding new writers
remains strong.”
Brian Murray, CEO of
HarperCollins, said he felt there
was palpable excitement in the air
from the two recent announce-
ments coming from B&N, first about
Liberty Media’s offer to buy the
company, and then about the new-
est iteration of the Nook. Both
announcements, he thought, were
“positive developments for the
industry.” And John Maxwell, pres-
ident of sales at HC, said he thought
the busy crowds on Tuesday were
thanks in large part to all the pre-
show scheduling. Between the edu-
cational programming at the show
on Monday and IDPF, Maxwell
said that the show felt like it was
well underway instead of just
getting off the ground by midafter-
noon Tuesday.
Autographing draws large crowds
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Teicher in Town Hall
continued from page 1
picks on bookstore Web sites,
Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, school vis-
its, and off-site events. “The simple
fact is that to most consumers, if you
don’t exist online you simply don’t
exist,” Teicher said. And he hinted at
several new initiatives for selling dig-
ital content online beyond Google.
“Simply writing off bookstores as
a relic of an antique era is not only
shortsighted, it is a prescription for
an impoverished publishing com-
munity,” said Teicher. The ABA is
considering a variety of new mod-
els, including consignment,
extended dating, forgoing return-
ability, and co-op. “I’m absolutely
convinced,” he said, “that we will be
able to fashion new business mod-
els. We’re ready to test some of
these new models starting now.”
“We’re still here,” the headline of
an ad campaign produced by
Northern California booksellers,
served as an underlying theme for
Teicher’s talk and was also the mes-
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PUBL I SHERS
Michelle Blankenship at
Bloomsbury was glad to see
“librarians out in such force,”
particularly given all the glum news
lately about library budgets being
slashed. She also added that many of
the independent booksellers she
talked to seemed “hopeful.”
Pulling a statistic that defies any
notion that publishing is dying, or
even floundering, Bob Miller,
president of Workman, said the fact
that one billion books were sold last
year is good news, and that it
speaks to how “there’s room to
connect those books with readers.”
Miller, who called the show “very
busy,” said the irony of BEA is that
the conversation is all about digital
at a show entirely dedicated to
physical books. The effect is
“schizophrenic,” he noted, adding
that technology is now creeping its
way into all conversations. “I think
everyone is looking for ways to use
technology to build their
businesses.”  —Rachel Deahl,
 with reporting by Diane Roback
sage of the outgoing ABA president,
Michael Tucker, co-owner of Books
Inc., headquartered in San Francisco.
“Not only still here,” he said, “but our
membership has continued to
increase for the past two years.”
That change is necessary to
accomplish booksellers’ continued
existence also arose in the Town
Hall. Christin Evans, co-owner of
Booksmith in San Francisco, quoted
Jeff Hammerbacher, “The best
minds of my generation are think-
ing about how to make people click
ads [on Facebook].” She said
emphatically: “We need to change
this equation. I think we can do bet-
ter. It’s been 10 years since the
launch of e-commerce; three years
since the launch of IndieBound; and
six months since Google Books.
None of these could be considered a
success. The ABA today will need to
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reinvent itself to be more nimble,
welcoming, and sustainable.”
 —Judith Rosen
W E E K LY
BookStats Points Up
In a preliminary presentation for fig-
ures that will appear in July, represen-
tatives from the AAP, BISG, and
Bowker explained the new process for
how industry sales are being compiled
and analyzed, at a Tuesday afternoon
panel. The good news is that more than
1,100 publishers have supplied date to
the joint AAP/BISG BookStats project,
more than double the participation
level of any other statistics endeavor.
And in more good news, preliminary
findings from the actual numbers show
that sales, both in units and dollars,
were up in the trade segment between
2008 and 2010. AAP and BISG will pres-
ent estimated overall sales figure for
various parts of the industry in July
after they have a chance to draw on
more information and analysis from
other industry sources.
Based on the actual figures sup-
plied by the 1,100 publishers, most of
whom are in the trade segment, the
strongest sales gains in the three-
year period came from small and
medium-size publishers. Sales at the
largest publishers showed slight
gains. Adult fiction sales had modest
9:15 a.m., Attendee Shipping area: a mere
15 minutes into Day 1, many booksellers were
already boxing up a great haul of galleys for
shipping home.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011
sales gains, while the children’s/
young adult market had substantial
gains in the period. Bowker’s Kelly
Gallagher noted that sales of adult
nonfiction “are struggling a bit.” BISG
chair and Sourcebooks president
Dominique Raccah noted that in
each of the industry tiers—small,
medium, and large—at least 50% of
the reporting companies posted year
over year gains.
Breakdowns by channel and format
showed few surprises. Hardcover and
paperback sales were down while
e-book sales had exponential growth,
Gallagher noted. Retail chain sales
declined, and independent booksell-
ers held their own in a difficult market,
showing only a very small decline.
Gallagher explained that AAP/
BISG had traded accuracy for speed
in developing final numbers for the
industry. Raccah emphasized that
BookStats will enable publishers to
analyze data in numerous ways,
including allowing publishers to
match their growth against publish-
ers of a similar size.
 —Jim Milliot
Bloomsbury’s George
Gibson subbed for the
voluble Neil deGrasse
Tyson of the Hayden
Planetarium, and
acquitted himself in
his own lively fashion
in a talk with his
author Dava Sobel,
whose forthcoming
book is about
Copernicus.
A Tyra Banks fantasy (novel):
the mega-model graced the
Random House booth in
support of Modelland, first in a
trilogy for Delacorte.
At Tuesday’s Insight Stages, “PW”
reviews director Louisa Ermelino talked
to Justin Torres, author of “We the
Animals” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
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SRO at Buzz Panel
Speaking to a standing-room-only
crowd at the 4:30 p.m. Buzz Panel on
Monday, six editors made their
pitches about the books they think,
and hope, will edge out the competi-
tion this fall. While the offerings felt a
little heavy on the women’s fiction
side—Birds of Paradise, Running the
Rift, The Underside of Joy, and The
Night Circus all seemed primed for
that bookclub sweet spot—the edi-
tors proffered new and older writers
as well as a mix of ballyhooed titles.
One of the books that ignited the
crowd the most, and that many
attendees buzzed about afterwards,
was Chad Harbach’s The Art of
Fielding. Michael Pietsch at Little,
Brown, the only male editor on the
panel, sang the praises of the debut
novel, which started something of a
bidding war when he nabbed the title
in February 2010. Harbach is one of
the founders of the literary magazine
N+1 and received an advance
rumored to be more than $600,000.
Apparently people have not stopped
talking about the book—Pietsch
boasted blurbs from authors ranging
from Jonathan Franzen to James
Lane Smith signing his fall
picture book, “Grandpa
Green” (Roaring Brook).
At the Celebration of Bookselling lunch,
E.B. White Award winners Peter Brown (l.)
and Tom Angleberger demonstrated how to
fold your own Yoda.
Coffee House Press
author Kirsten
Kaschock (center)
helped attendees
visualize Sleight,
the imaginary art
form that is at the
heart of her early-
buzz first novel of
the same name.
PUBL I SHERS
Patterson—and Pietsch said the
work, about a baseball prodigy at a
Michigan liberal arts college whose
life and game fall apart after an
errant toss in practice one day, is
about “perfection, striving, youth...
figuring out who you are and who you
might become.” Adding that the book
has it all—“two love stories, a death,
and a championship season”—
Pietsch noted that reading the work
made him think about what John
Updike said of J.D. Salinger’s Glass
family, and how the author had loved
them more than God did; Harbach,
Pietsch said, seemed to have the
same compassion and love for his
characters.
The other big advance book on the
panel, and the last presented, was
Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus.
Acquired by Alison Callahan at
Doubleday for a rumored $1 million,
the book has already brought in
money for Random House, having
sold in more than 20 countries
abroad and with a possible film deal
in the works at Summit
Entertainment (which produced the
Twilight series). The novel, also a
Colson Whitehead leans on a galley
stack of his own upcoming novel
“Zone One” (Doubleday).
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debut, is something Callahan said
she read in one five-hour sitting in
the Random House cafeteria and
decided the work was something “I
had to have.” Set in a magical circus
called Le Cirque des Reves, which
crops up around the world without
warning or advance notice, and con-
sisting of otherworldly attractions,
the book is a sweeping love story: the
two young magicians, Celia and
Marco, whose endless dueling cre-
ates the circus, wind up falling madly
in love. Calling the novel “a feast for
the senses in every way,” Callahan
noted that the book’s imagery is so
powerful and engulfing that reading
it is “like reading in 3-D.”
Elaine Mason at Norton came to
the panel with an author she’s been
editing for nearly 20 years—Diana
Abu-Jabar. Touting Birds of Paradise
as Abu-Jabar’s breakout hit, Mason
said the work, which follows the
inner turmoil of a Miami clan named
the Muirs whose daughter has run
away, cuts at the core of what it
means to be in a family. “It’s a story of
how members of a family who are lost
to another can find each other again,”
she said, adding that the novel hits on
three topics all readers love: family,
food, and real estate.
Denise Roy at Dutton pulled from
personal experience when she dis-
cussed Sere Prince Halverson’s The
Underside of Joy. About a widow who
must grapple with the sudden arrival
of her children’s biological mother,
Roy said the book was rescued from
the slush pile and became a sensa-
tion in Europe. When it landed on her
desk, on the one-year anniversary of
the death of her own husband, it
offered what any great book can—a
Hail, Hail Audio Winners
The Audio Publishers Association
held its 16th annual Audies Gala yes-
terday at New York’s TimesCenter to
celebrate the Audies winners of its
yearly audiobook awards. Referred
to by the APA as the “Oscars of spo-
ken-word entertainment,” the two
biggest Audies this year went to
musician-memoirist Keith Richards
and genre-hopping poet-author
Walter Dean Myers.  narrating her own Nanny
Audiobook of the Year went to
Hachette Audio’s Life by Richards,
narrated by Johnny Depp and Joe
Hurley, with Keith Richards. The
APA recognized the audio-
book’s “multipronged marketing
campaign that capitalized
on Depp’s contributions” and
helped introduce a new audience to
the format. Life also wins in
the Biography/Memoir category.
The Distinguished Achievement
in Production award, given to an
audiobook “that represents the best
the format has to offer in listening
excellence,” went to Here in
Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by
Myers. The audiobook, from Live
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sense of catharsis and escape.
In describing Justin Torres’s debut,
We the Animals, Jenna Johnson at
HMH said the novel is one with both
“scope and brevity.” Told from the
point of view of one of the sons of a
Brooklyn family anchored by the vol-
atile and intense relationship
between Puerto Rican mother and
white father, the semiautobiographi-
cal book shows, Johnson said, how
the “madness in all of us is both
caused, and alleviated, by our fami-
lies.” Noting that the in-house enthu-
siasm for the book is like nothing
she’s ever seen before—Torres’s var-
ied background includes work as a
farmhand, a stint in a mental hospi-
tal, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa
Writers Workshop—Johnson said
that “everyone who reads [this book]
finds some personal reality in its
pages.”
Kathy Pories from Algonquin was
on hand to talk up Naomi Benaron’s
Running the Rift, which won the
Bellwether Prize for Fiction. (The
Bellwether is an award given by
Barbara Kingsolver to an unpub-
lished manuscript that speaks to
issues of social justice.) Benaron
worked with African refugees in
Arizona before she started making
regular trips to Rwanda. After falling
in love with the country, she started
putting together the novel, about a
Tutsi runner with his sights set on the
Olympics, who attempts to remain
apolitical in a country besieged by
genocide. The novel, which Pories
said gets across both the beauty of
Rwanda as well as the way the seeds
of genocide grew there, reminded
her of one of her favorite novels, A
Fine Balance.—Rachel Deahl
Oak Media, features a cast of
13, including Ezra Knight, Robin
Miles, and Charles Turner, as well
as “jazz music and sound effects
[that] add to the sense of time and
place.”
Other winners include Alan
Cumming’s reading of Zorgamazoo
by Robert Paul Weston (Penguin
Audio) and Emma Thompson for
McPhee Returns (Macmillan Audio);
the Fiction award went to Daniel
Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone, narrated
by Emma Galvin (Hachette Audio);
Mystery went to Michael Connelly’s
The Reversal, read by Peter Giles;
Nonfiction went to The Immortal
Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca
Skloot, narrated by Cassandra
Campbell with Bahni Turpin. The
full list of winners, along with sound
clips, can be found at TheAudies.
com. The celebration was hosted by
author Adriana Trigiani (Big Stone
Gap); presenters included film-
maker/author John Waters and
author Thomas Cobb (Crazy Heart).
 —Marc Schultz
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Italy Expands in
online. E-books account for only .1%
of all book sales—which is much less
than the U.S.’s 17% of book sales.

International Trade Italy is seeing a kind of rebirth of

the novel, according to Paolo
Zaninoni, editorial director of
Venice was arguably the world’s cuses on Italy. Rizzoli. This is due, he said, to the
printing capital in the 15th century, Currently, Italy is the smallest “rise of international fiction” gener-

before Italy was a nation. And this
year—the 150th anniversary of
Italy’s unification—Italian publish-
ing appears to be on the rise.
“In the last 10 years, we’ve had
400 publishers attend BEA, promot-
ing Italian language in the U.S.,”
said Pasquale Bova, commissioner
of the Italian Trade Commission, in
his opening remarks at the Global
Market Forum, which this year fo-
domestic market of Europe’s larg-
est publishers. Nearly four million
people read more than 12 books a
year each—but that’s only 7% of the
population (France has the largest
readership). While Marco Polillo,
president of the Italian Publishers
Association, bemoans these num-
bers, he is encouraged that Italian
readership is rising. The number of
new titles published has risen from
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ally as well as the “birth of the local
megaseller”—that is, an increase of
Italian authors selling more than
400,000 copies of their books. To
Marc Polillo, president, Italian Publishers Assn.
help bring Italian authors to the
19,700 in 1980 to 58,829 presently— U.S., Rizzoli has formed an imprint
for a total of 690,279 titles. called Ex Libris, which will publish
Italians still buy their books literary fiction and nonfiction, by
through traditional trade channels: Rizzoli as well as other Italian
40.4% through chains, 37.9% houses.
through bookstores, and only 4.3% Much of the growth in fiction pub-
lishing in Italy is thanks to small to
midsize publishers, according to
Michael Reynolds, editor-in-chief of
Europa Editions. He said he’s wit-

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nessed an unprecedented “hunt in
Italy for young debut authors.”
While this is all exciting news for

INSPIRATIONAL FICTION Italian publishers, Chad Post of

Open Letter Press, the enterprising

FOR FALL
small U.S. house devoted to pub-
lishing literature in translation,
books by foreign writers account
Baker Publishing Group Booth #2238 for only 3% of books published in
the U.S. Such a strong turnout
among the Italian houses here
might do something to change that.
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Francis Chan is adding fuel to the
currently hot debate over hell with
Erasing Hell: What God Said About
Eternity and the Things We Make
Up. The July release from David C.
Cook, with a first printing of 250,000
and a six-figure marketing budget,
was announced last Friday. At BEA,
Oasis Audio (4279) is promoting the
simultaneous audio release with a
download card with a QR code that
links to an online video by Chan,
founding pastor of Cornerstone
Church in Simi Valley, Calif., talk-
ing about the book.
Steve Smith, Oasis director of
sales and marketing, said it has al-
ready begun a so-
cial media cam-
paign. Early re-
sponse from book-
sellers, including
Christian chains
and Barnes &
Noble, has been
House of Secrets “tremendous,”
Smith says. Chan’s
by Tracie Peterson
Crazy Love is
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978-0-7642-0618-4
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AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2011 Don Pape, trade book publisher at
Cook, said Chan came to the house,
which has published two of his
previous titles. Editors worked
around the clock when the
manuscript arrived Friday; it will
go to the printers this week.
 —Marcia Z. Nelson

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 You’re cordially invited
to the wedding of the year…

Theandtreetheis decorated, the cookies are baked,

packages are wrapped, but
the biggest celebration this Christmas
is Gaby Summerhill’s wedding.
Since her husband died three years ago,
Gaby’s four children have drifted apart.
When Gaby announces that
she’s getting married—and that the groom
will remain a secret until
the wedding day—she may finally be able
to bring them home for the holidays.

From bestselling author JAMES PATTERSON

Meet James Patterson,

who will be signing advance copies of THE CHRISMAS WEDDING at

2:00 pm on Wednesday, May 25,

in Booth 3631.
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who will also receive a piece of wedding cake!
LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
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8 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011

The Book’s Universe for Kids

It was a packed house for Tuesday
morning’s Children’s Book &
Author breakfast, with a host of lit-
erary celebrity sightings for the
huge crowd of appreciative book-
sellers, beginning with Katherine
Paterson, National Ambassador for
Young People’s Literature and two-
time Newbery Medalist. Paterson
set the tone for the more than 1,200
book people attending by talking
about the power of books to influ-
ence the future course of young
lives. After reciting a poem she’d
written in second grade, Paterson
joked that she knows her writing
“has improved” since then, ascrib-
ing it to the act of reading. “Reading
turned me into a writer,” she said.
“More importantly, it has enriched
and challenged my life.” She
recalled a friend reading aloud to
her from Cry the Beloved Country
when she was 16, and how, one
night, “the book came alive for her,”
as she related how Alan Paton’s
1948 novel exploring the racial divi-
sions in South Africa made her
realize the “sins of my people” in
the American South during the Jim
Crow era. “I know my life changed
that night—and it was because
of a book,” she declared.
It was a sentiment shared by
master of ceremonies Julianne
Moore, film actor and author of
Freckleface Strawberry: Best
Friends Forever. “I never imag-
ined I’d be a master of ceremo-
nies, or a children’s book
author—or an actor, for that
matter,” she said, recalling
being taught to read at age five Dessen, Kevin Henkes and Julianne Moore.
and spending much of her
youth devouring books. “I read vora-
ciously, indiscriminately,” she said.
“Reading soothed me, encouraged
me, excited me.” Moore praised
booksellers for knowing that “there’s
a universe inside a book.”
Following Moore, Caldecott Medal
winner Brian Selznick, who spent
three years working at Eeyore’s
Books for Children in Manhattan
before publishing his first novel,
declared, “I consider myself a book-
seller first, a writer/illustrator sec-
ond. It’s nice to be speaking to my
people.” Describing his research into
deaf culture as he wove together the
stories of two boys living 50 years
apart in Wonderstruck, Selznick
Breakfast lineup: Katherine Paterson, Brian Selznick, Sarah
called the deaf “the people of the
eye,” as he explained the thought
processes behind his latest book. “I
wanted to tell different stories, one
with words, one with pictures.”
Wonderstruck, with its climactic
scenes taking place at the American
Museum of Natural History, “is filled
with references to the classic novel,
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil
E. Frankweiler. “I hope you find all of
them,” he said.
Sarah Dessen, whose work Moore
praised as “YA fiction at its best,”
recalled how she unexpectedly
“stumbled” into writing for teens
more than a decade ago, when YA
was regarded as less worthy of atten-
tion by serious writers. “There
was no Twilight, there was no
Harry Potter,” the author of
What Happened to Goodbye
explained. “There’s a secret
about YA literature that we all
know: it’s not ‘other,’ it’s bet-
ter,” she insisted. “When writ-
ing for teens, you are connect-
ing with them at the beginning
of their reading lives,” she
added. “They’re not yet jaded.”
Promoting both his picture
book, Little White Rabbit, and
his middle-grade novel,
Junonia, Kevin Henkes
underscored the importance
of reading by defending picture
books as something that “all chil-
dren should experience.” Referring
to the current debate in the media
about the possible decline in the
popularity of picture books, Henkes
declared that he hoped that this
was not the case, because if it was, it
is “foolish and shortsighted, moti-
vated by the trend of putting test
scores above all else.”
After Henkes’s presentation,
Moore succinctly summed up the
morning’s themes, noting, “In life
there are so many things to wonder
about. You don’t have to wonder
about books. We love them, we need
them, and we know it.” —Claire Kirch

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 10 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011

What’s In a Name
mon now are authors with trans- TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
parent pseudonyms—openly using Choose from these pen names to fill
other names to avoid saturating the in the answers below: Charlotte
Publishers Weekly’s review of intrigued by market as themselves. Often it’s a Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Isak
Carmela Ciuraru’s book, Nom de issues of iden- way of showing off your versatility, Dinesen, George Eliot, Romain
Plume: A (Secret) History of tity and  or trying out different genres, such Gary, Henry Green, O. Henry,
Pseudonyms (Harper, June 14) said, pseudonymi- as science fiction or romance. Patricia Highsmith, George Orwell,
“This survey of authors who sought ty, “For some That’s less interesting to me.”   Fernando Pessoa, Sylvia Plath,
anonymity and privacy is well writers, it’s a Ciuraru is not a pseudonym. Her Pauline Réage, George Sand,
researched. Amid informative, illu- hoax, a anthologies include First Loves: Georges Simenon, Mark Twain.
minating profiles, Ciuraru success- prank, a Poets Introduce the Essential Poems
fully ferrets out curious literary stunt. But for others there’s an aw- That Captivated and Inspired Them 1. He was the bestselling French au-
charades.”  And she does, focusing ful lot at stake. Perhaps they’re (Scribner) and Solitude Poems thor of the 20th century.
on the intrigue and turmoil behind fighting for respect, hiding some- (Knopf/Everyman’s Library). She 2. She dressed like a man and
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according to her publisher. rary authors because their stories Today, at 3 p.m., she will be in the au- graphical novel.  
Ciuraru says she has always been are unfinished. “What’s more com- tographing area signing her book. 4. He loved photography and col-
lected books about fairies. 
5. She lived with a married man.
6. He had more than 70 pen names.
7. She came from a family of Danish
aristocrats.
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Your Worst Nightmare 
New York Times bestsell-
ing author Ben H.
Winters has paired the
Dashwood sisters with
giant lobsters and octopi
in Sense and Sensibility
and Sea Monsters and
made several contribu-
tions to the give-you-
nightmares Worst-Case
Scenario Survival Guide
series. But while most of us can
safely assume we’ll never have to
battle gigantic sea creatures or
stop a runaway cable car, all of us
might someday have to confront
the dreaded bedbug.  Exterminators search the property
It’s these insidious creatures that
have crawled their way into
Winters’ new novel, Bedbugs
(Sept.). Quirk associate publisher
Jason Rekulak describes it as “an
understated horror story filled
with loving references to
Rosemary’s Baby and other classic
tales of urban paranoia” and prom-
ises it “will keep your skin crawling
into the wee hours of the night.”  of entomophobia, Quirk is offering
Bedbugs features a nice young cou-
ple named Alex and Susan Wendt,
A Union of Bugs
and Grammar
At the Marin School of the
Arts at Novato High
School in California’s Bay
Area, English teacher Sue
Sommer created a photo-
copied grammar guide
called The Bugaboo
Review, which became a
much-distributed legend
among students and par-
ents. In August, New
World Library will release
an edited version of the original
that anyone or any school can use.
The Bugaboo Review focuses on
the most common pitfalls of the
English language, as well as diffi-
cult-to-recall grammar rules and
confusing words Sommer noticed
students stumbling over. Over the
years, it became a common occur-
rence for the teacher to be contact-
ed by past students to say they still
used the guide or by parents who
wanted copies of their own.
New World Library publisher
Marc Allen discovered the guide
when he visited the school to give a
talk about writing and publishing.
He was impressed by the school it-
self on a tour—a large jazz orches-
tra was rehearsing, as was a small-
er group of classical chamber mu-
sic players. He heard from several
students what a great teacher
Sommer was, and then went to
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who are searching for the
perfect New York City
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find it in Brooklyn Heights,
they’re happy to overlook
the eccentric landlady and
the handyman who drops
cryptic remarks about the
previous tenants. But as
the cliché goes, if it’s too
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Susan soon discovers that their
home is teeming with bedbugs. Or is
it? While she awakens every morn-
ing with fresh bites, neither Alex nor
their daughter has a single welt.
and find nary a bedbug. The landlady
insists the building is clean. It’s not
long before Susan fears she may be
going mad. But there may be a more
sinister explanation—Susan may be
confronting the bedbug problem
from hell. Literally. 
Winters will sign ARCs and post-
ers today, 2–3 p.m., at the Quirk
booth (4428). For those with a touch
tote bags with a witty commentary
on e-readers. —Lucinda Dyer
“funky” guide, made up of
stapled-together 8½×11-
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He brought it back to the New
World Library offices, and every-
one got on board, quickly. “There
was even a bit of a competition to
see who would edit it, because sev-
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work on it.” But very little editing
was needed, something Allen
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changing every year.
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Overlook’s First 40 Years
Despite a inauspicious
start, Overlook Press
has thrived for the past
four decades. Founded
in 1971 by Alfred
(“Fredy”) Mayer, a
retired glove
manufacturer, and his
son, Avon Books head
Peter Mayer,
Overlook’s first office
was an apple shed in
Woodstock, N.Y. Its
inaugural list
contained a single title, in German.
But on the strength of that one book,
Aufbau, Penguin agreed to distribute
Overlook, which it does to this day, and
Fredy was encouraged to ask his son,
“Aren’t there some other books we
could do together?”
Mayer, now 75, who headed
Penguin for two decades before
coming to Overlook full-time in 1996,
acknowledges that it was “a mad
way” to start a publishing house, but
it worked. “If we like a book, we just
do it. We don’t have that many rules.
My dad would be pleased to know in
our 40th year we had our first New
York Times bestseller, and it was #1,”
he says, referring to the press’s
success with the movie tie-in of
Charles Portis’s True Grit. Until last
year, the closest that Overlook came
to the bestseller list was Robert
Littell’s The Company, which
reached #16. That’s not to say that its
books haven’t done well, like
Miyamoto Musashi’s A Book of Five
Rings, which sold more than 700,000
copies with Mayer’s tagline: “Japan’s
answer to the Harvard M.B.A.!”
Early on, says Mayer, “we decided
that the image of small companies
is that they get very narrowly
focused. My background was very
catholic. I think our eclectic list is
the result of that unpredictability.
Nobody ever expected to get the
Warner’s Walkabout
Looking for a hero? At BEA, Warner
Bros. Consumer Products is focus-
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family: the superheroes Green
Lantern, Superman, Batman, and
Wonder Woman. In March, Warner
Bros. Consumer Products became
the licensor for DC Entertainment’s
superheroes, which include those
characters as well as DC Super-Pets.
Dave Rupert, senior v-p of global
publishing for Warner Bros.
Consumer Products, says that while
the company doesn’t have a booth at
BEA, it is a strong presence at the
show, which gives it an opportunity to
meet in person with publishers repre-
senting these and other characters.
“We attend BEA to discuss with
publishers new content coming from
Warner Bros.,” Rupert says, “such as
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011
first sudoku book from
Overlook. We ended up
with nearly two million
books. True Grit was
unpredictable. [But]
what’s most interesting
is we’re a publisher of
authors. When we
revived the Freddy [the
pig] books, we did all 27
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of them. When we buy
one book, we generally
buy the entire backlist.”
In the case of P.G.
Wodehouse, Overlook brought out
nearly 80 titles in hardcover, and
according to Mayer, they outsell the
paperbacks.
In addition, Mayer is proud that
“our percentage of foreign language
books is higher than 10% of our list.”
In 2002, Overlook acquired Ardis, a
leading publisher of Russian
literature, which contributed to the
strength of its Russian list. Earlier
this month, for example, it published
Ludmila Ulitskaya’s novel Daniel
Stein, Interpreter, winner of the
Russian National Literary Prize.
Unlike many small publishers,
Overlook does big visual books. “It’s
no accident that Milton Glaser did
our 40th anniversary poster,” says
Mayer. Or that one of Overlook’s lead
titles for the fall has 250 plates:
William Rubin’s A Curator’s Quest,
about his tenure as head of the
Museum of Modern Art’s
department of painting and
sculpture. And the press recently
expanded its presence overseas by
purchasing Duckworth in England.
At its booth (3439), Overlook is
giving out anniversary posters
and galleys for Alan S. Cowell’s
The Paris Correspondent. YA
novelist Eoin Colfer, author of the
Artemis Fowl series, will sign
ARCs of his crime debut, Plugged,
today, 2–3 p.m.  —Judith Rosen
new theatrical films—including the
latest in the Harry Potter series;
Green Lantern; Happy Feet 2; The
Dark Knight Rises, the latest in the
Batman franchise; and Superman—
and new television shows, including
the Green Lantern animated series,
Thundercats, and The Looney Tunes
Show, as well as reviewing such
publishing successes as Scooby-Doo
and DC Super Friends.”
BEA gives Rupert a chance to see
partners and get feedback on con-
tent. He adds, “It allows us to see
what formats are getting the most
attention, trends in the market
place, how publishers are managing
multiple licensed brands, and how
the industry is responding as digital
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Flowers for
But senior editor Megan wedding,” says Hiller. She notes
Hiller immediately saw the that 100 photos—such as of Lady
potential for a more Diana dancing with John Travolta,

the First Ladies personal approach. “We

Sellers Publishing hopes to get
show attendees buzzing about
Nancy Clarke’s My First Ladies:
Twenty-five Years as the White
House Chief Floral Designer (Oct.).
Written with Christie Matheson,
the book offers a behind-the-scenes
glimpse into White House life, with
a special focus on the personalities
of first ladies from Rosalynn Carter
through Michelle Obama. Clarke’s
position as chief floral designer
allows her to comment on the
discussed shifting the
focus, jettisoning the
varying styles how-to aspect and
and preferences emphasizing the book’s
of different appeal as a lively memoir
administrations, of Nancy Clarke’s years in
as well as to the White House,” says
share humorous Hiller.
and touching That lively side includes
moments that everything from
readers may “witnessing a naked Hillary
never have heard before. Clinton dash from the shower in
When the proposal for the title the White House residence, to her
came in, it initially focused more on description of working intimately
how-to sections for floral design. with Laura Bush on Jenna’s Texas
and President Obama looking at
the flower shop refrigerator—along
with personal letters and
comments about the author from
the first ladies themselves.
The publisher expects the title to
prove its biggest seller to date, and
to further that, it has printed 1,200
advance reader copies. About half
of those will be available to show
attendees, and Clarke is on hand to
sign today, 2:30–4:30 p.m., in the
Sellers booth (3679). The rest of the
ARCs will be sent to the ALA
conference to introduce the title to
the library market.  —Gwenda Bond

Life Is Like a
“Permission Game of Poker
to Change!”
Bookselling is a lot like poker: it’s
all in the luck of the draw. Some
seasons, publishers deal you a
great hand, their books fly out
the door, and you rake in the
At the age of 40 New York Times best-selling cash. Some seasons, you’re stuck
with books that just don’t sell.
author Tosca Reno reinvented herself. She And then there’s the competition
left a destructive marriage, lost her excess from chain stores, mass market
weight, solved her health problems and retailers,
and online
became the woman she’d always wanted retailers,
to be. Now 52, gorgeous and successful, all of them
she helps other women make the changes vying for
that pot of
they want in their own life: “Just like I did, book sales.
many women give their lives over entirely to Speaking
others. One day they realize they’ve become of luck of
the draw,
someone they don’t recognize and don’t Medallion
want to be. In my series of books I give them Press is
permission to change, to become who they going to
deal
want to be … no matter what age!” booksellers
a July
publication that’s certain to be a
royal flush: All In by Jerry Yang.
Tosca Reno will be signing In All In, Yang, the winner of

her latest books an $8.25 million pot in the 2007

World Series of Poker, tells his
incredible life story, from his
childhood in a Thai refugee camp
The Eat-Clean Diet ® Stripped,
after his family fled Laos after the
on Tuesday, May 24 at 1:00 pm Vietnam War, to immigrating to
America and living in poverty, to
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on Wednesday, May 25 at 2:00 pm two years after he learned to play
the game.
at Robert Kennedy Publishing Since winning the $8.25 million
four years ago, Yang has donated
Booth #3616 more than $800,000 to worthy
causes, such as Ronald McDonald
House and Feed the Children.
Since then, he’s continued to
spread the wealth in other ways,
by raising funds for charity.
Yang, who will be appearing in
the autographing area today, 10:30–
11:30 a.m., at Table 7, has some
useful tips for poker players.
Booksellers might want to take
heed: —Claire Kirch
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From
Scrooge to
Weddings
The busy schedule for Shadow
Mountain Publishing this week
highlights a list packed with
everything from Scrooge to
weddings.
“Although we’re known
nationally for Fablehaven and
Leven Thumps, and will be
releasing another children’s
fantasy series this August entitled
Janitors, we also span the breadth
of cookbooks
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inspiration and history,” says Gail
Halladay, director of marketing at
Shadow Mountain.
One of the publisher’s most
anticipated titles is The Wedding
Letters (Sept.), Jason F. Wright’s
follow-up to his New York Times
bestseller The Wednesday Letters,
which focuses on the love story of
the original characters’ grandson.
Wright will sign at 2 p.m. today at
Table 17. Following that signing,
Shadow Mountain will hold a
wedding reception with Wright in
its booth (2942) at 3:30 p.m. today,
complete with free wedding cake.
Coming up on the fall list is R.
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beloved classic A
Christmas Carol.
Attendees can drop
by the booth to meet
the famed literary
character as well as
have an ARC signed
by the author at 10
a.m. today. Also today,
at noon, Academy
Award–winning
director Kieth Merrill
will drop by the booth
to sign his debut
novel, The Evolution of Thomas
Hall, which released this month
and tells the story of an artist
commissioned to paint conflicting
murals.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011
Bestselling author
Obert Skye kicked off
a new series last
month that continues
the adventures of
Geth and his friend
Clover from the
popular Leven
Thumps books. The
author signs the new
book, Beyond Foo:
Geth and the Return
of the Lithens, at 10
a.m. tomorrow at
Table 2 in the autographing area,
and will also sign afterward at 11
a.m. in the publisher’s booth.
And National ForeWord Reviews
Book of the Year winner Lisa
Mangum will be on hand to sign
copies of June’s The Forgotten
Locket, the final volume in the
Hourglass Door trilogy, tomorrow.
Attendees can catch her signing at
10 a.m. at Table 1, or at 11 a.m. in the
publisher’s booth.
Pointing to the titles being featured,
Halladay observes, “The diversity
shows we’re more than just a chil-
dren’s publisher.” —Gwenda Bond
Who’s 40 Now?
Ziggy, the familiar, frumpy, and
much-beloved everyman of comics
is turning 40. And Andrews McMeel
will be honoring the occasion with
the June publication of Ziggy, a
hardcover collection featuring
selected panels spanning all four
decades of the celebrated cartoon.
“We are thrilled to be celebrating
Ziggy’s 40th anniversary,” says
Kirsty Melville, publisher and
president of Andrews McMeel
Publishing’s book division. “A
mainstay in popular culture, Ziggy
has a secure spot in the hearts of
millions of fans and has endeared
himself to us for his optimistic
outlook despite all odds, and for
lending himself to a variety of
charitable endeavors, including
World Food Day, the Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society, and Autism
Speaks.”
Devoted Ziggy fans
will be delighted to
know that one of
BEA’s favorite
collectibles, the
Ziggy lithograph,
will once again be
available. Tom
Wilson Jr. will be
signing a special 40th anniversary
edition lithograph today at Table 5
in the autographing area, 1–2 p.m.
(this is a ticketed event, and tickets
will be distributed beginning at 7
a.m. in the Javits lobby), and he will
be doing an in-booth (3674) signing,
2:30–3:30 p.m. Visitors to the AMP
booth can also pick up one of a
limited number of the popular (and
million-selling) Posh series of
puzzle books.  —Lucinda Dyer
20 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2
40 Is the New
30 for IPG
To mark its 40th anniversary this
year, Independent Publishers Group
is doing what a lot of us do when we
hit middle age and assess both
where we’ve been and where we’re
headed: the book distribution
company is giving itself a little
makeover. IPG is rebranding itself by
officially rolling out a new logo and
revamping its Web site.
Mark Suchomel, IPG’s president,
describing the company’s original
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logo and Web site as “staid” and
“outdated,” explains that the new
logo and new Web site will better
reflect the company’s more complex
personality as it enters its fifth
decade.
“How people regard us has not
caught up with the reality of who we
are,” Suchomel insists. “We’re more
technologically savvy, more hip,
more at the forefront of providing
strong marketing and distribution
services.”
Suchomel says that while IPG was
founded in Chicago in 1971 by David
and Mona White to distribute books
from about a dozen independent
small presses, the company has
become “so much more than print
W E E K LY
books” since being acquired in 1987
by IPG CEO Curt Matthews and his
wife, Linda, then and now the
publishers of Chicago Review Press.
The company, which currently has
165–170 employees, distributes
books and other products, including
audiobooks, DVDs, cards, and
posters, for hundreds of
independent publishers all over the
world through six distribution
programs. “And we’ve been selling
e-books for the past 10 years,”
Suchomel declared, showing that
the company is as hip as Suchomel
claims, because he was among those
paying attention 10 years ago.
Suchomel explains that the role of
a book distribution company has
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011
changed a lot in the past 40 years,
just as the entire industry itself has
changed. “We’re much more of a
marketing company now,” he says,
describing IPG personnel as working
closely with client publishers
throughout the entire process of
positioning their books in the
marketplace.
Of course, every birthday requires
a party with cake and champagne,
and IPG’s big 4-0 is no exception. The
birthday party will be held in booth
2738, at 3:30 p.m. today. No need to
bring presents, because IPG will be
the one handing out gifts to
booksellers helping them celebrate.
—Claire Kirch
Channeling
Helen
Keller
Readers on the hunt for inspirational
reads will want to check out
Swedenborg Foundation Press’s two
big titles this season, Helen Keller’s
How I Would Help the World (Apr.)
and Grant Schnarr’s The Guardian
Angel Diary (May).
The first book by the famed blind
and deaf humanitarian was originally
published as an introduction to one of
Swedenborg’s works, True Christian
Religion. Swedenborg executive
editor Joanna Hill was at a gathering
last summer when a woman said she
had recently had a dream about
angels
clamoring for
Helen Keller’s
writings to help
the world. Hill
contacted Ray
Silverman, who
had edited an
earlier book by
Keller, and he
signed on to the
project and has
contributed an
introduction.
The press’s other major title, The
Guardian Angel Diary, is an unusual
novel, drawing from minister and life
coach Schnarr’s real-life experience
counseling young people. The story
follows 16-year-old Nicole Bealart,
who is diagnosed with brain cancer
and begins writing a journal that
allows her to communicate with her
guardian angel. The book has
already garnered the endorsement
of Dr. Mehmet Oz, bestselling author
and host of The Dr. Oz Show, and
Schnarr recently appeared on Dr.
Oz’s radio show to promote the title.
Silverman will be appearing at
Table 9 in the Religion, Faith, Family
salute area today at 1 p.m. .
Schnarr will be signing at 10 a.m.
tomorrow at Table 4 in thesame area.
Both authors will be available in the
Swedenborg booth (2946) before and
after their appearances.
—Gwenda Bond
 22 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011

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For those navigating the children’s
booths, here’s a preview of new books
on display, authors to greet, and
goodies being given away.
giving away a gatefold announcing
the book’s June publication and is
holding a raffle for a piece of
original art by Dalton. Other

to Costa Rica
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (3438)
welcomes Chris Van Allsburg to its
booth today, 11 a.m.–noon, to sign
Please visit us at limited-edition posters from The
Chronicles of Harris Burdick:
Booth #4152 to enter* Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the
Tales (HM). Also available are ARCs
of this October release, which
compiles stories written by
children’s book luminaries to
accompany Van Allsburg’s
illustrations from his 1984 picture
book, The Mysteries of Harris
Burdick. The publisher is handing
out samples of its mailable Send-a-
Story books (HMH Books),
as well as ARCs of and
chocolate kisses
celebrating Catherine
Gilbert Murdock’s
Wisdom’s Kiss, a YA
fantasy. Other giveaways
giveaways include retail display
cards and buttons promoting Hervé
Tullet’s Press Here; “See the World
Differently” tote bags featuring art
by Julia Rothman; and ARCs of two
fall novels, The Orphan of Awkward
Falls by Keith Graves and Promise
the Night by Michaela MacColl.
At booth 2463, Barefoot Books
staffers are pleased to share news of
the house’s 10 new fall titles.
Heading up the list are The Barefoot
Books World Atlas by Nick Crane,
illus. by David Dean; Monster
Stories, four novels by Fran Parnell,
illus. by Sophie Fatus, launching the
publisher’s first early
reader series; and Anna
Witte’s Lola’s Fandango,
illus. by Micha Archer,
about a Spanish girl who
discovers her own talents,
which includes a music

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2:00 PM
RUFUS BUTLER SEDER,
author of GALLOP!, WADDLE!,
and the forthcoming
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signing a beautiful poster
to celebrate her forthcoming
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Revoir, Crazy European
Chick (Houghton Mifflin)
by Joe Schreiber; Linda
Urban’s Hound Dog True
(Harcourt); Jessica Rules
the Dark Side (Harcourt)
by Beth Fantaskey; Blood
Wounds (Harcourt) by
Susan Beth Pfeffer; In the
Forests of the Night (Clarion), book
two of Kersten Hamilton’s the
Goblin Wars; and The Inquisitor’s
Apprentice (Harcourt) by Chris
Moriarty.
Visitors to DK Publishing’s booth
(3264) will learn about a trio of fall
releases. Highlighted are The LEGO
Ideas Book by Daniel Lipkowitz,
offering advice from LEGO master
builders; LEGO Star Wars
Character Encyclopedia by Simon
Beecroft, which features a Star
Wars minifigure; and The Incredible
Pop-Up Body Book, which includes a
fold-out human body model with
movable limbs.
Today, 9–10 a.m., Chronicle (4452)
hosts Katherine Paterson, two-time
Newbery medalist and the current
National Ambassador for
Children’s Literature. She and cut-
paper artist Pamela Dalton will sign
copies of their collaboration,
Brother Sun, Sister Moon, a
reimagining of a hymn by St.
Francis of Assisi. The publisher is
CD recorded by pan-Latin
ensemble Sol y Canto.
Disney Book Group
(3332–3333) is celebrating
the 10th anniversary of
Eoin Colfer’s Artemis
Fowl series with a raffle
for an iPad and signed
copies of books in the
series. The author will be
at the booth to draw the winning
entry today at 4 p.m. Costumed
characters of Mo Willems’s
Elephant and Piggie are making
their first-ever appearance, on
hand all three days of the fair, and a
costumed likeness of Josh Lewis’s
Super Chicken Nugget Boy will be
at the booth on Thursday.
Giveaways include Elephant and
Piggie kazoos, mustaches
promoting Mustache! by Mac
Barnett, illus. by Kevin Cornell;
posters based on Bob Shea’s
Dinosaur vs. the Library; floating
pens promoting Heroes of Olympus
2: Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan;
and copies of Marvel: The Avengers:
Iron Man Is Born and Marvel: Thor
Junior Novel.
YA fans will find a number of Flux
titles spotlighted at Llewellyn’s booth
(2525). Thursday’s giveaways include
copies of Karen Mahoney’s The Iron
Witch, a debut fantasy novel that
pubbed in January, and samplers of
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January; also, copies of After
Midnight, the inaugural YA novel by
romance author Lynn Viehl, released
this month. Among the featured fall
books are Skyship Academy: The
Pearl Wars by Nick James, a first
novel and Flux’s first science fiction
adventure title; and Scott Tracey’s
Witch Eyes, a debut paranormal
novel.
Walter Wick fans will want to
drop by Scholastic’s booth (2752–
2753), where one of the models
photographed in his Can You
See What I See? Toyland
Express (Cartwheel) is on
display. The publisher is
giving away prints featuring a
scene from this search-and-
find story about a toy train.
Other giveaways include
ARCs and tote bags for Brian
Selznick’s Wonderstruck
(Scholastic Press); posters for
Bailey (Scholastic Press) by
Harry Bliss; ARCs, posters, and
bookmarks for Dav Pilkey’s
Super Diaper Baby 2: The
Invasion of the Potty Snatchers
(Blue Sky); ARCs and key chains
for Wolves of Mercy Falls, book 3:
Forever (Scholastic Press) by
Maggie Stiefvater; posters for
Not Inside This House! (Orchard)
by Kevin Lewis, illus. by David
Ercolini; and
posters and
fly swatters Spotlight
for Tedd on children
Arnold’s Fly
Guy (Cartwheel).
Also available are ARCs of
Stiefvater’s The Scorpio Races
(Scholastic Press); Floors (Scholastic
Press) by Patrick Carman; Flyaway
(Chicken House) by Lucy
Christopher; 13 Gifts (Scholastic
Press) by Wendy Mass; and Pie
(Scholastic Press) by Sarah Weeks.
At booth 4406, Abbeville Kids is
showcasing a pair of spring 2011
books. In Flip-o-storic, a board
book illustrated by Sara Ball that
is a companion to Flip-o-saurus,
kids turn over flaps to create
imaginary prehistoric beasts.
Also on display is Dog Number 1,
Dog Number 10 by Ami Rubinger,
which
encourages
readers to
discover the
missing
number to complete rhymes. The
book is a follow-up to this Israeli
artist’s Big Cat, Small Cat and I
Dream of Elephants.
Visitors to Lerner’s booth (2158)
can pick up ARCs and e-galleys of a
number of fall releases. These
include Brooklyn, Burning
(Carolrhoda Lab), a love story by
Steve Brezenoff; In Trouble
(Carolrhoda Lab), a YA novel by
Ellen Levine set in the 1950s;
Ultraviolet (Carolrhoda Lab), a
paranormal YA novel by R.J.
Anderson; You Will Call Me Drog
(Darby Creek) by Sue Cowing, about
a boy who finds a talking hand
puppet; Agent Amelia #1: Ghost
Diamond! (Darby Creek) by Michael
Broad, launching a series about a
young secret agent; Way-Too-Real
Aliens #1: Escape from Planet Yastrol
(Darby Creek) by Pamela F. Service,
which introduces a young writer
who learns that the alien creatures
from his stories actually exist; and
Tricky Journeys #1: Tricky Coyote
Tales (Graphic Universe), a
collection of Native American
stories by Chris Schweizer, illus. by
Chad Thomas.
Marshall Cavendish (2561) is
celebrating its recent
partnership with the PJ
Library—a nonprofit
organization dedicated to
helping establish family
libraries to encourage reading
to children at bedtime and
building Jewish identity—to
create Shofar Books, a
hardcover imprint launching in
the fall. Debut titles are The
Golem’s Latkes, retold by Eric A.
Kimmel, illus. by Aaron Jasinski;
Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah!, illus. by
Olga and Aleksey Ivanov; and Many
Days, One Shabbat by Fran
Manushkin, illus. by Maria
Monescillo. Booksellers visiting the
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Their new Spotlight
collaboration, on children
Sneeze, Big
Bear, Sneeze! is a featured fall title,
as are 10 Turkeys in the Road by
Brenda Reeves Sturgis, illus. by
In-Booth Signings & Giveaways David Slonim; and My Name Is Not
Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson, the
first release in a teen fiction line
Come visit us at booth 3352! edited by Melanie Kroupa.
Peachtree is spreading word of
two fall titles at booth 2955. The
Wednesday, May 25th Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a
Tale by Carmen Agra Deedy and
Randall Wright, illus. by Barry
Moser, is a middle-grade novel
9:00 am Galley Giveaways: about the alliance between a cat and
mice in Victorian England. And the
Across Many Mountains, publisher is giving out signed
Yangzom Brauen (St. Martin’s Press) galleys of Krista Russell’s debut
Tides of War, Stella Tillyard novel, Chasing the Nightbird,
(A Frances Coady Book/Henry Holt) starring a teen whose plan to join
the crew of a whaling ship is
sabotaged when he’s kidnapped and
10:00 am Galley Giveaways: forced into servitude.
The Emperor of Lies, At booth 4478, WriteGirl, a Los
Steve Sem-Sandberg Angeles nonprofit creative writing
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) organization that pairs professional
Emory’s Gift, W. Bruce Cameron women with at-risk teenagers, is
hosting a book signing this morning
(Forge Books)
at 11 a.m. Keren Taylor, WriteGirl’s
founder, and Kim Purcell will
10:30 am in-Booth siGninG: autograph copies of Pens on Fire:
Mary e. Pearson, Creative Writing Experiments for
Teens from WriteGirl, a roundup of
The Fox Inheritance more than 200 writing projects.
(Henry Holt Books for Young Readers*) Skyhorse (3425) unveils its new
children’s imprint, Sky Pony Press
11:00 am Galley Giveaways: at BEA. The line, which will include
fiction, nonfiction, and classics,
Puppy Diaries, Jill Abramson
(Times Books)
Iron House, John Hart
(Thomas Dunne Books)
Never Knowing, Chevy Stevens
Storey Time for Kids
(St. Martin’s Press) Best known for its adult titles for
DIYers on gardening, crafts,
animal raising, and cooking,
11:30 am in-Booth siGninG: Storey Publishing in North
Bill willingham, Adams, Mass., has begun
introducing project-driven books
Down the Mysterly River in the same categories for kids.
(Starscape)
Rather than create a separate
children’s imprint, Storey’s books
2:00 pm Galley Giveaways: for kids are catalogued and sold
Dead End in Norvelt, Jack Gantos alongside those for their adult
(Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers*) counterparts. “The big premise
for us,” says Storey president Pam
Trick of the Light, Louise Penny Art, “is that we’re not going to
(Minotaur Books)
diverge too far from adult
categories. If we stay in the same
2:30 pm in-Booth siGninG: categories, we can sell them into
tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
the same accounts and keep them
in alignment with our message:
(St. Martin’s Press)
practical information in harmony
with the environment.”
3:00 pm Galley Giveaways: At its booth (4152), Storey is
Glow, Amy Kathleen Ryan showcasing two fall children’s
(St. Martin’s Griffin) books that fit Art’s criteria, one on
farming and the other on horses—
My First Farm Friends: Books in a
*Part of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group Barn, written and illustrated by
Pleasenote: Only a limited quantity of galleys are available for signings and giveaways, and will be Betsy Wallin, is Storey’s first set of
distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. Author signings will last thirty minutes (or until galleys board books, and Pop-Out-and-
run out). The Tom Perrotta signing will last one hour.
Paint Horse Breeds: Create Paper
Models of 10 Different Breeds by
Cindy A. Littlefield. “We’ve seen an
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launches in
the fall with 17
titles. Leading
the list are
Eric Battut’s
The Little Pea, about an
independent-minded pea’s
journey; Classic Fire Trucks and
Fire Fighting Gift Set by Teddy
Slater, illus. by Mones, which
includes a toy truck; The Balloon
Tree by Phoebe Gilman, the tale of
a princess determined to save her
kingdom; and Mark Bergin’s It’s
Fun to Draw Safari Animals.
Scanimation fans can meet
author Rufus Butler Seder at
Workman’s booth (4152) today at 2
p.m., when he’ll be signing copies of
Scanimation: Star Wars, published
last May. Seder’s Scanimation: The
Wizard of Oz is due out in
September. Sophie Blackall,
illustrator of the Ivy and Bean series,
will be at the booth tomorrow, 10–11
a.m., to sign posters promoting
Missed Connections, her fall adult
title. Also spotlighted at the booth is
a November release, How to Feed a
Hungry Giant by Caitlin Friedman,
illus. by Shaw Nielsen, a pop-up
picture book about a boy who finds a
giant in his backyard.
Celebrating its 70th anniversary
this year, Barron’s, at booth 3538,
is featuring Puss in Boots, retold by
Stella Gurney, illus. by Gerald
Kelley. It contains numerous
interactive elements, including a
miniature booklet and a final
pop-up illustration.
—Sally Lodge
interest in our
books from a new
generation, and
some are young
parents,” says
editorial director
Deborah
Balmuth,
explaining the
decision to
expand into publishing for the very
young. With My First Farm Friends,
wannabe farmers can play with the
barn box that holds all four board
books describing a typical day in
the life of a chicken, goat, cow, and
pig. There are also four standup
animals that can be used with the
barn.
Pop-Out-and-Paint Horse Breeds,
which is geared to children ages
8–12, contains templates for body
types of 10 different breeds, which
can then be painted with distinctive
markings and glued together to
create a standup figure. A mane
and tail can be fashioned from
embroidery floss or yarn. Like My
First Farm Friends, it’s part of
Storey’s effort to incorporate an
activity into each of its children’s
books.  —Judith Rosen
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Movie Time for Judy Moody

Judy Moody’s humorous mood
swings and adventures have won
her many fans since her first
appearance in 2000. Published by
Candlewick, Megan McDonald’s
original Judy Moody spawned eight
subsequent novels starring this
character, plus three featuring her
and her spunky brother, Stink (who
is featured in his own series, now
totaling eight books); two activity
books; a coloring book; and a
journal—all illustrated by Peter H.
Reynolds. The series is now
available in 22 languages, has won
more than 30 awards, and has a
worldwide in-print tally of 14
million copies.
On June 10, Judy hits the big
screen with the release of Judy
Moody and the NOT Bummer
Summer, a film produced by
Smokewood Entertainment and
distributed by Relativity Media. The
screenplay was co-written by
McDonald, who is at BEA to help
celebrate the film’s debut and
Candlewick’s six tie-ins. The movie
introduces a brand-new story line
that follows Judy and Stink’s
unexpectedly adventure-filled
step of the way, and the crew
went to painstaking effort to
make sure every detail was
true to the book, which makes
summer with their eccentric aunt. me feel very lucky,” she says.
Acknowledging that writing a The movie’s producer, Sarah
screenplay is “completely Siegel-Magness, read the first
different” from writing a novel, Judy Moody book aloud with her
McDonald says she “watched lots of daughter years ago, after the girl’s
kids’ movies to get into the spirit” school librarian recommended it
before tackling the to her. “I think it’s
project with kind of neat that
co-writer Kathy Sarah wanted to
Waugh. “She is one of make a movie about
my oldest friends the book—and that it
and a brilliant all started with a
screenwriter, and librarian getting the
collaborating with book into her
her has always been daughter’s hand,”
a pipedream of says McDonald.
mine,” says McDonald’s visit to
McDonald. “This BEA is part of her
taught me a whole 10-city tour to
new way of thinking promote the movie
visually, since you and Candlewick’s tie-
have to create each ins, which include
scene with very few words and lots Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer
of action. The best thing I learned to Summer, a novelization released
do was play the movie inside my this week with a 250,000-copy first
head—over and over.” printing; Judy Moody Goes to
Helping to give Judy Moody new Hollywood, a behind-the-scenes
life on-screen was “really a thrill,” look at the film, which has a
notes McDonald, who was on the 150,000-copy first printing; So You
set every day of the movie’s three- Want to Catch Bigfoot? a “field
month filming. “I had input each guide” by Morgan Jackson, illus.
Spotlight
on children
by Mark Fearing; Judy Moody and
the Thrill Points Race and Judy
Moody and the Poop Picnic,
chapter books by Jamie Michalak;
and Judy Moody’s Thrill-a-delic
Hunt for Bigfoot, an activity book
by Jackson.
McDonald will autograph copies
of the novelization today, 10–11
a.m., at a ticketed signing at Table
28. This afternoon at 2 p.m., she’ll
appear on the Midtown Author
Stage with Jordana Beatty, who
plays Judy Moody in the film, and
Parris Mosteller, who plays Stink.
The movie trailer will be shown,
and a discussion among the author
and actors will follow, along with a
q&a with the audience.
After that event, McDonald,
Beatty, and Mosteller will be at
Candlewick’s booth (2452), 2:20–3
p.m., giving out tie-dye cupcakes,
posing for photos, and signing mini
movie posters. Other Judy Moody
giveaways include boas, T-shirts,
pencils, bookmarks, and
sunglasses. The publisher is also
holding a raffle for movie tie-in
goodies.  —Sally Lodge

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32 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY
William
Cut the cost, Joyce Is
and the time, of shipping books
around the world. Back
More than a decade has passed
since William Joyce, author and
illustrator of George Shrinks, Santa
Calls, and other titles, has published
a children’s book. His fans will be
pleased to learn that he is back. The
Guardians of Childhood, a series of
seven picture books and six chapter
books that tell the formative stories
of such childhood icons as Santa
Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the
Sandman, debuts in September
from Atheneum. The inaugural
releases are a picture book, The
Man in the Moon, which
has a 350,000-copy
announced first
printing, and a chapter
book, Nicholas St. North
and the Battle of the
Nightmare King,
coauthored by Joyce
and Laura Geringer
and illustrated by Joyce,
which has a 150,000-
copy initial print run.
Joyce is also
returning to BEA after a
long absence. “I am very
stoked to be here,” he
says. “I’ve been away
too long but for all the
best reasons. I’ve been
Introducing working very hard on
this book project, and
gps Global Print SolutionsSM now I’m ready to show
everyone my stories.” He will be
doing just that today at 3:30 p.m.,
The first truly global book manufacturing network
when he signs copies of The Man in
Edwards Brothers is pleased to announce the formation of a book the Moon at the Simon & Schuster
manufacturing partnership with market leaders in the United booth (3652–3653).
Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore to provide publishers with a one- Joyce originally conceived of the
stop solution for printing around the globe. With gps Global Print Guardians of Childhood in the early
SolutionsSM you’ll submit one order, load one file, and pay one invoice. 1990s, when his children were very
young. “I realized that I had to start
And you’ll be billed in US dollars, regardless of final destination,
sharing the stories of childhood
making budgeting and international transactions easier to manage.
icons with them, and I was excited
Why ship when you can gps? Ask your EB sales representative for about it,” he recalls. “I remember as
details or visit www.edwardsbrothers.com a kid asking my parents how Santa
Claus and the Sandman do what
they do, and I was very perturbed
One order. One invoice. One file. that they didn’t have much to offer.
‘They just do it—no one needs to
know how or why,’ they’d tell me.
But I wanted to have something
more satisfying to tell my kids. I
wanted to find a mythology for these
icons. What if they all knew each
other? What if they all worked
together?”
For years, Joyce mulled over the
idea, while keeping very busy. In
addition to writing and illustrating
his other picture books, he created
the Emmy-winning animated TV
series Rolie Polie Olie, developed
character concepts for Toy Story
and A Bug’s Life, and made
animated films, including Robots
and Meet the Robinsons. He is now
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Spotlight
on children
writing, designing, and producing
The Leaf Men, a Fox Animation
feature film based on his book. And
18 months ago, he cofounded
Moonbot Studios, whose first
animated short film, The Fantastic
Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,
premiered in February. (Starring a
book-loving man, the film was
inspired by—and written for—the
late Bill Morris, a longtime pillar of
HarperCollins and beloved friend
and mentor to Joyce.)
Over time, the concept for the
Guardians of Childhood expanded
and, says Joyce, “the idea got so big
and ungainly in my mind that I
couldn’t find a way to
get started. The longer I
spent on it, the richer it
got—and even more
daunting. I realized that
this was going to take
years.”
Yet the Guardians of
Childhood concept
eventually gelled, and
Joyce decided that the
series would include
chapter books as well
as picture books. “I
realized how much
fun it was to imagine
an entire world for
each of these icons,
and it was hard to get
enough into just a
picture book,” he
explains. “I found the
narratives lending themselves to
something longer.” Though he
had never before penned a novel,
Joyce notes, “I’ve worked in long
form before, with motion
pictures, which have a three-arc
structure.”
Joyce also came to envision
bringing together the characters
featured in the individual
Guardians of Childhood books on
the big screen, and when a number
of major studios expressed interest
in the project, he selected
DreamWorks Animation, which will
release Rise of the Guardians in fall
2012. Directed by Peter Ramsey and
codirected by Joyce, the film
features the voices of Chris Pine,
Hugh Jackman, Jude Law, Alec
Baldwin, and Isla Fisher.
The author is thrilled to be part of
the film project. “Writing and
illustrating is a pretty isolated
endeavor, and collaborating with
really talented people on the film
has been one of the glories of my
creative life,” Joyce says. “I love
filmmaking, and animation has a
sense of craftsmanship and an
esprit de corps that somehow feels
old-school, even with the new
technology. It feels like publishing in
a sense.”  —Sally Lodge
 Visit the Harlequin booth and meet
your favorite authors!
Wednesday May 25 • Booth 4638
IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS
Time Event Author Title
10:00-10:45 am Fresh Fiction Susan Mallery Already Home
Emilie Richards Sunset Bridge
Deborah Cloyed The Summer We Came to Life
Rebecca Coleman The Kingdom of Childhood
Deanna Raybourn The Dark Enquiry
Diane Chamberlain The Midwife’s Confession

11:00-11:45 am Contemporary Romance Lori Foster When You Dare

Kristan Higgins My One and Only
Delilah Marvelle Prelude to a Scandal
Jennifer Blake By His Majesty’s Grace
Victoria Dahl Good Girls Don’t

12:00-12:45 pm Harlequin TEEN Julie Kagawa The Iron Queen

Gena Showalter Twisted
Maria V. Snyder Outside In
Kady Cross The Girl in the Steel Corset

1:00-1:45 pm Thriller/Suspense Andrea Kane The Girl Who Disappeared Twice

Brenda Novak Inside
Rick Mofina In Desperation
Laura Caldwell Claim of Innocence
Joshua Corin Before Cain Strikes
Carla Neggers The Whisper
Marta Perry Vanish in Plain Sight

2:00-2:45 pm Nonfiction Kimberly Snyder The Beauty Detox Solution

Sarah Matheny Peas & Thank You
Ann Blumenthal Jacobs, Love for Grown-Ups
Patricia Ryan Lampl &
Tish Rabe

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Time Table Author Title
11:00-12:00 pm 25 Julie Kagawa The Iron Queen
11:30-12:30 pm 24 Linda Lael Miller Creed’s Honor
11:30-12:30 pm 26 Carla Neggers Saint’s Gate
1:00-2:00 pm 25 Emilie Richards Sunset Bridge
2:00-3:00 pm 25 Rick Mofina In Desperation

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34 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2
A Historical Imprint
This afternoon, if you
see Ben Franklin
partying at the Perseus
booth (4415), don’t be
alarmed—you’re not
dreaming. After all,
who better than a
founding father to help
celebrate the launch of
Regnery History, the
new Regnery
Publishing imprint.
Actually, “Ben” is
author Mark Skousen,
a direct descendant of
Benjamin Franklin, and he compiled
and edited the two-volume The
Compleated Autobiography by
Benjamin Franklin, which Regnery
published in 2007. At 3 p.m. today at
the Uptown Insight Author Stage,
Skousen—in the persona and
costume of Ben Franklin—will
interview Chris De Rose, author of
Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe
and the Election That Created the
Bill of Rights and Changed a Nation,
one of the forthcoming Regnery
History titles.
Regnery History plans to publish
new history, biography, and military
history titles, mostly as hardcovers
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING
The Overlook Press
Visit us at Booth #3439
and enter our drawing for a
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by Milton Glaser
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PUBL I SHERS
and e-books. As Alex
Novak, the imprint’s
newly named associate
publisher, points out,
“Our readers overlap
with Regnery’s readers
of nonfiction current
events. We did the
current events titles on
a rush schedule,
typical of our
nonfiction list. But we
decided that in order
to get the right sell-in
and the right publicity,
we should take more time because
history titles are less current-events
driven.”
Novak described some of the
imprint’s other fall titles: “Omar
Bradley: General at War by Jim
DeFelice—it’s the first objective full-
length biography. Bully! The Life and
Times of Theodore Roosevelt by Rick
Marschall includes over 200 vintage
political cartoons, since the author is
a collector; they’re in full color, and
many are reproduced for the first
time.”
Another fall title is the paperback
edition of Warren Kozak’s LeMay:
The Life and Wars of General Curtis
W E E K LY
LeMay, originally published by
Regnery. “Books like those,” Novak
explains, “fit into the mold of the
controversial. We are looking for
misunderstood historical figures,
mysteries, and controversies. People
come to us with less-than-
conventional history topics, and we
say there’s a market for it.” Novak
didn’t travel far to get his current job;
for 10 years, he was marketing
director at Regnery. “So I’ll still wear
some of my old hats,” he says.
Regnery History, Novak notes,
“will not be historical books for
conservatives; it’s more for
nonpartisan readers, whoever loves
history, and loves a good story.”
 —Diane Patrick
What’s in
Store?
What is the future of book publishing?
If only Dr. Margaret J. Pearson could
predict! Pearson, the author of a new
translation of the I Ching—The
Original I Ching: An Authentic
Translation of the Book of Changes
(Tuttle, Sept.)—is a true believer in the
power of the popular and time-tested
“fortune-telling” book. But when it
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011
comes to outright prediction, she
explains that that is not how it works. “I
Ching readings are a method of
gaining insight,” she says. “I don’t
know the future either. But if someone
wants to know the future of their
publishing house, this process could
help them gain clarity on the timing of
a particular decision. That’s what
kings and queens used it for.”
Pearson, who teaches early
Chinese intellectual history at
Skidmore College, spent 14 years
working on her translation and,
among other
goals, aimed
to eliminate
the
antifemale
stance
rampant in
the standard
Bollingen
version. “Not
in the text but
in the
footnotes. We
know more
now about
what early
China was like. People use the I
Ching when they’re vulnerable, and
some Jungian therapists use it
during therapy. I couldn’t bear the
bias and undertook my own
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011
translation.”
Tuttle, whose specialty is books
that bring the East to the West, is
hosting some guided coin readings
by Pearson today. “I look forward to
dealing with publishing
professionals, people with open
minds,” she says. “I’m not saying it
will solve all your problems—the
world is not like that—but the book
was created for people doing
something worth doing, and facing
good things and bad things. It can be
very encouraging.”
If you’re interested in an I Ching
reading, stop by the Tuttle booth
(2838), 10:30 a.m.–noon. The
publisher will be passing out three
Chinese coins for use in the
readings, along with a limited
number of ARCs, and Pearson will be
conducting readings for groups of 10
to 15 people.
“People can ask questions about
the next thing they are going to do. I
will talk about formulating questions.
All these people are in the midst of
making decisions. I don’t need to
know the question, I’m just helping
people find their own answers, for
instance, if they’re thinking about
hiring a certain person or publishing
a certain book in a certain year.
Should I retire now? is a good
question.”  —Suzanne Mantell
PUBL I SHERS
A Crafty
Business
These days it’s rare for a publisher to
announce a 47% increase in trade
book sales, but thanks to its new Stash
Books imprint, 28-year-old C&T
Publishing can lay claim to that
triumph for 2010.
C&T publisher Amy Marson
attributes the success to finding the
right niche. “Our acquisitions editor,
Susanne Woods, found an opening in
the marketplace and got some really
great designers,” Marson tells Show
Daily. “Stash Books appeals to the
younger, hipper craft sewers who
have a lot of confidence in their
ability but need inspiration. They are
adventurous crafters.”
Books like Socks Appeal, which
came out last June, and Little Birds,
which was published last May, have
sold 20,000 and 15,000 copies,
respectively. “For craft books, that’s
amazing,” claims Marson. “And we
believe that as long as you are doing
something with your hands, you are
doing something good for yourself.”
The company is also looking to
nonbook products to generate
income. In the past year, the press
created four different iPhone apps. It
has already sold more than 10,000
W E E K LY
copies of its first one,
Quick & Easy Block Tool,
which features more than
500 traditional quilting
blocks, in print and e-book
formats. It’s also launching
a new sewing and quilting
pattern Web site soon
called PatternSpot.com.
C&T has more than 300
designers signed up to sell patterns
on this new Internet service in a
revenue-sharing deal with the
company. Marson explains: “The
consumer goes on the site; they
download a pattern, and they can
start making their project right
away. This will help us not only to
generate revenue but will also be a
way for us to watch trends, see what’s
hot, and find new authors.”
With C&T’s wide-ranging success, it’s
no surprise that it was recently cited by
Book Business magazine as one of the
Top 10 Book Publishing Companies to
Work For. “Our employees feel that we
have an environment that allows them
to be really creative, and we reward
them for their efforts,” says Marson. “We
work hard to have a culture that is
positive, has a sense of humor, and
makes people want to come to work
every day.”
Marson, who has been C&T’s
publisher for the past eight years,
BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 35
tells Show Daily that when
the economy started
tanking in 2008, she told
her employees, “Unless we
change the way we do
business, there will be no
business. We need to break
out of the status quo and
figure out ways to do things
differently.” The company
collected 80 ideas and implemented
65 of them, saving more than $100,000
on two ideas alone in color copying
and in-house publishing. “That’s also
how we launched our first blog, and
how we decided to do the apps,” says
Marson. The company continues to
reward such ideas with cash awards
called SQBIs (pronounced SKWEE-
bees). “That stands for Status Quo–
Busting Ideas,” Marson explains.
For BEA, C&T will feature a Stash
Books entry titled Deploy That Fabric
by Jen Eskridge. Her husband is in the
military, and she developed 23
projects to “upcycle” used uniforms so
family members can have a memento
from their service member with them
all year round—from quilts or purses
to Christmas stockings. The author
will be signing finished books today at
the C&T booth (3604). Notes Marson,
“It’s a great way to celebrate your
military service family member.”
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PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY
Riding High
at Skyhorse
Bucking a fast-changing publishing
landscape and an unreliable
economy, Skyhorse Publishing is
expanding its reach. Last year the
Manhattan-based house showed up
at BEA with one imprint; this year,
it brings five: Skyhorse, Arcade,
Sports Publishing, Allworth Press,
and Sky Pony Press, this last a
totally new enterprise dedicated to
children’s books.
The company’s optimism has a
solid basis: Skyhorse netted $11
million in sales last year and was
named by PW in March as America’s
fastest-growing small publisher.
“We’ve had growth in all segments
of the business, even with the
decreased size of Borders,” says
associate publisher Bill
Wolfsthal, who has been
with the company since
its founding in 2006, after
a stint as executive
director of special
markets at Harry
Abrams. “We’ve done
well with the bookstore
chains. Barnes & Noble is
a huge supporter of our
program. We’ve seen
growth from Amazon
every year we’ve been in
business.”
Skyhorse’s mission
from the start was to
publish books for niche
markets that could be
easily defined, and to
keep titles in print for a
long time; the house list is
up to 600 titles, and almost all are
still available, Wolfsthal says. Its
first two books were The Gigantic
Book of Fishing Stories, and Abby
Lee’s Diary of a Sex Fiend. “The
fishing book was for fishermen. Sex
Fiend, which started as a blog about
a woman’s sex life, is for men and
women interested in the sex lives of
others. All of our bestsellers follow
this pattern. Mini Farming is for
people who want to raise their own
food. Shooter’s Bible is for people
who buy and collect guns. The
Baseball Maniac’s Almanac is for
baseball fans.”
Wolfstahl says Skyhorse is happy
with the kind of midlist books that
other publishers aren’t interested
in anymore, books that sell 10,000
or 15,000 copies a year. “Not enough
for Simon & Schuster,” he says.
The company anticipates
continued robust growth with the
new imprints. Arcade, which was
purchased out of bankruptcy last
summer, brought with it the rights
to 600 titles. The Arcade spring list
has 40 books, either new or revised
backlist; the fall/winter catalogue
will have 70 new titles. Lead titles at
BEA include Five Works by Octavio
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Paz, Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Tannenbaume
by John Jacobsen, and Perfume by
Jean-Claude Ellena. A recent
arrangement with Jeanette Seaver,
who founded Arcade with her late
husband, Dick, brings her in as
consulting editor.
Sports Publishing was also
bought out of bankruptcy, and
included the rights to 700 titles, all
regional sports books. The spring
list has 40 new or updated and
revised titles, including books on
the Green Bay Packers, the New
York Yankees, and the Oklahoma
Sooners. Allworth, which
specializes in business books for
artists of all kinds, was a money-
making company when owner Tad
Crawford agreed to a sale.
Crawford will join Skyhorse as
publisher of the Allworth imprint
and oversee an expanded number
of titles, 40 or 50, up from 20.
Featured on the fall list are Brand
Thinking and Other Noble
Pursuits and How to Think
Like a Great Graphic
Designer.
Sky Pony Press is
starting with 15 new titles,
as well as books
previously published by
Skyhorse and Arcade.
Featured on the fall list
are The Little Pea,
about a tiny garden pea
on a mission to embrace
the diversity of the
world, and a princess
fantasy called The
Balloon Tree.
Also on the fall list is
a reissue of Newbery
Medal–winning author
Maia Wojciechowska’s
A Kingdom in a Horse,
which has been out of print.
Founded by Tony Lyons from the
Lyons Press family, Skyhorse took
its name from one of the first
editors, Brando Skyhorse. “We
couldn’t use Tony’s name, since it
was already in use, and Wolfstahl is
almost unpronounceable to
everyone,” Wolfsthal says.
“Brando’s name was great. It
reflected our optimism and the fact
that we do sports books, horse
books, aviation books.” Brando
Skyhorse, who is no longer with the
company, recently won the 2011
PEN/Hemingway Prize for a
distinguished first book of fiction
with The Madonnas of Echo Park, a
collection of interlinked stories
about the lives of Mexican-
Americans in a neighborhood of
Los Angeles.
The company’s sales to the book
trade are handled by W.W. Norton.
“We couldn’t have grown the way
we have without their advice,
support, and hard work,”
Wolfsthal says. To pick up the
catalogues from Skyhorse and its
imprints, pay a visit to the Norton
booth (3424, 3425, 3524).
 —Suzanne Mantell
 THE DEBUT
NOVEL BY: JEREMY WAGNER

“An ancient and evil song written in hieroglyphics is discovered in a long lost pyramid;
when this song is transcribed and performed for the world to hear, it will bring the
Apocalypse upon the Earth, and Kirk Vaisto, a most gifted guitarist, soon
finds himself caught between the forces of divine
good and monumental evil...”
Advance praise for THE ARMAGEDDON CHORD:

“Jeremy Wagner is an up-and-coming voice in the realm of horror fiction. His talent shines
through this debut novel, and I can’t wait to see what his next offering will be. A real page-
turner, THE ARMAGEDDON CHORD strikes just the right note!”
-- Yasmine Galenorn, New York Times/USA Today Bestselling Author (The Otherworld Series)

“THE ARMAGEDDON CHORD is like the DA VINCI CODE with a heavy-metal soundtrack!”
-- Katherine Turman, Journalist (Rolling Stone, LA Times, etc.) and Co-author of Louder
Than Hell—An
He Unflinching Oral History of Heavy Metal

“THE ARMAGEDDON CHORD is a wild phantasmagoric thrill ride that will satisfy lovers of
the darkest fantasy fiction and the heaviest of metal."
-- Peter Blauner, New York Times Bestselling Author (The Intruder, Slipping Into Darkness)

“THE ARMAGEDDON CHORD…think the flat-out nasty fun of Joe Lansdale or a Clive
Barker-ian epic-magical-realism landscape..."
-- Decibel Magazine

“Wagner combines a world of classic adventure and intrigue with a dash of rock'n'roll
mystique for a unique take on the thriller format.”
--Joel McIver, Author of Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica

“Jeremy Wagner is the king of the new breed of horror! THE ARMAGEDDON CHORD
strikes a low chord of death right through the reader’s frontal lobe.”
-- Chris Barnes, Six Feet Under (vocalist)

Author:
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 10:00AM - 11:00AM
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BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2
Lauren will be signing galleys of Liesl & Po,
her first novel for middle grade readers,
and copies of Delirium,
her bestselling teen novel
Available
October 24th
Join Lauren Oliver and
Wildwood creators
Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
For a Moderated Discussion
about Middle Grade Novels
Today from 11:30 — 12:00 PM
at the Uptown Stage
An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
www.harpercollinschildrens.com
PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011
Authors
AT T H E SHOW
Diane Keaton
Mom Was Her Inspiration
As one of the screen’s most respected
actresses, Oscar-winner Diane Keaton has
starred in The Godfather (parts I, II, and III),
Annie Hall, Baby Boom, and Something’s Gotta
Give—with more to come. Always compelling
on screen, she credits her mother, Dorothy
Keaton Hall, with being the most important and
the most influential person in her life. Keaton’s
first memoir, Then Again, due from Random
House in November, is really two stories
intertwined, Keaton’s and her mother’s. This
morning, she will share some of their stories at the Book & Author Breakfast.
Then Again is based on the depth and nuances of the mother-daughter
relationship, and is both a memoir and a tribute as Keaton tells Show Daily.
“I wrote it because in some way I wanted my mother’s voice to be heard.”
After her mother passed away in 2008 following a long battle with
Alzheimer’s disease, Keaton and her siblings started reading her vast
collection of journals, notebooks, and scrapbooks—which included every
clipping of her famous daughter’s work. “My mother documented our family.
That’s why this came to be a story about what it’s like to be a mom.” She adds,
“My mother was insecure and very sensitive, yet strong and powerful as a
mother, and she gave so much. It took me so long to accept the fact that
mother was a separate person, and I didn’t deal with it as much as I should
have. Now I wish I had.”
Keaton credits her mother’s journals with helping her “find a forum” for
the book, and she says she really enjoyed the “writing, rewriting, and
editing” process—particularly the editing. Because both stories are told side
by side, “It was such a learning process to blend in one with another. I had
her words and my words, so I was able to mix and match.”
Keaton says she also did not mind putting in the time required. “I am like
my mother and father. I like to work. I get up early and have a lot of
discipline, and I’ll just work. I am not bored by it.” A busy mother of two
herself, she adds, “I’d take my daughter swimming and work in the car—half
the time my office was the back of the car, which I really enjoyed.”
What does Keaton hope readers take away from the book? “Appreciate
your mother. It’s unbelievable what they do for us.”  —Karen Jones
Harlan Coben
Launching His First
YA Series
Harlan Coben is a household name among
adult mystery readers. The Edgar winner’s
last four novels all debuted in the top slot on
the New York Times bestseller list, and there
are more than 47 million copies of his books in
print worldwide. Coben plans to broaden his
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audience base with Shelter: A Mickey Bolitar
Novel, due from Putnam in September with a
250,000-copy announced first printing.
The novel kicks off a series that has a close
connection to Coben’s Myron Bolitar mystery series. Mickey is Myron’s
nephew and appears in Live Wire, the latest installment of that adult series.
In fact, the final chapters of Live Wire are retold in the YA novel. “But the
events have a completely different meaning in Shelter, since they are told
from Mickey’s perspective,” Coben explains.
“I realized that Mickey had stories to tell that I didn’t want to tell in an
adult fashion,” says Coben about his decision to pen a YA series starring this
teenage character. “I wanted to write about something that Mickey himself
would have to handle, and I think that as a mystery it is as tight as anything
I’ve ever written—but it has a little bit of a mythology to it, which is something
I’ve never really done before. I didn’t want to do supernatural or magic,
vampires or werewolves. In Shelter, after Mickey starts at a new high school,
the only real friend he makes disappears, and he goes in search of her. The
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F rom some of the

mythology in the story surrounds an old lady who lives in a creepy old
house.”
Coben notes that the character of Mickey was “ridiculously easy” for him
to write. “In fact, he came out fully formed, which sometimes happens—but
not always,” says the author. “I am so fired up about this book. It’s a new way
of telling stories for me, which is great because I’m always trying to change
up what I’m doing. And the early response to the novel has been very
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exciting!”
That includes the reaction from readers close to Coben’s heart. His four
children, ages nine to 17, all read Shelter within 24 hours of the final version’s
and children’s fiction
arrival. “That is so cool for me,” says Coben. “I really wanted to write
something that all of them could read, and even my nine-year-old daughter
read it in less than a day. I’m thrilled about that! I think now my kids are a
little more excited about what I do.”
Coben says he’s “happy to get the buzz going at BEA about this book. I can’t
wait to hand it to booksellers and everyone else who loves YA.” The author
will be signing ARCs of Shelter today, 11 a.m.–noon, at Table 19.  —Sally Lodge

Walter Dean
Myers
Teams Up with Son to
Honor America
Frequent father-son collaborators Walter Dean
Myers and Christopher Myers celebrate the
history, people, and spirit of this country in We
Are America: A Tribute from the Heart, released
by Collins earlier this month.
Walter Dean Myers conceived of the book
project in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks. “There was a wave of patriotism after
9/11, and it occurred to me that the definition that surfaced then of what it
meant to be an American largely didn’t include women or people of color,”
he recalls. “I began thinking about people in history who have defended our
country in various ways. It seems that people who are on my side of the
political spectrum, which is vaguely leftist, are expected to be very good at
criticism but aren’t expected to praise our country. I am an American and I
love this country, and I decided I needed to take responsibility for my
country’s history, present, and future.”
In preparation for writing his free-verse tribute to his country, Myers
reread many American historical documents. “As I read writings and
speeches, I realized that these people, living through the drama of their
times, were saying it better than I could,” says the author. “So I decided to
include their words in the text as well.” Among the individuals Myers quotes
Ellen Hopkins (Crank)
are Shawnee chief Tecumseh, lawyer Andrew Hamilton, abolitionist and
orator Frederick Douglass, and poet Emma Lazarus.
will moderate a panel
Though the text of We Are America was mostly completed before Myers about teen bullying
showed it to his son, he explains, “When I began to see what Christopher was
doing in his art, I made some changes to accommodate his work. If you’re
working with a good illustrator, they add to the book in ways that sometimes Wednesday, May 25th at 12:00 pm
require adjusting the language.” Created over a three-year period,
Christopher Myers’s outsize paintings measure 3×10 feet. “When he was a The Uptown Stage
boy, we used to go to Mexico often, and Christopher was really impressed
with the murals he saw there,” says the author. “I could see that connection
in his art for this book. I think it works very well.” Also participating:
Walter Dean Myers has also penned a new YA novel, Carmen, based on the
novella that inspired the celebrated opera. Published in April by Egmont Megan Kelley Hall
USA, this contemporary story centers on a strong-willed chica in Spanish
Harlem. “If I can help young people forge a connection between their lives (Sisters of Misery)
and classical literature, and make a work like Carmen part of the culture of
urban America, then I’ve done something good,” he reflects. Lisa McMann
Father and son sign copies of We Are America today, 10:30–11 a.m., at Table
17. Following that, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Walter Dean Myers will be at Table 5, (Wake)
autographing copies of Carmen.  —Sally Lodge

Maryrose Wood
Charlaine Harris (The Poison Diaries)
Hitting aTriple Play
A decade ago, Charlaine Harris’s first novel featuring Sookie Stackhouse
was released and did well enough to merit more titles in her southern
vampire series. But she never expected that to translate into mega-
bestselling author status, a beloved TV series based on her books with HBO’s
True Blood, or a coveted featured speaker spot at today’s Author Breakfast.
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says Harris, laughing.
This was one overnight success story “many
years in the making.” Harris published her first
novel 30 years ago, a stand-alone mystery with
no fantasy elements whatsoever. She went on
to write many more mysteries, but after they
failed to gain traction with readers, found
herself mulling which direction to take her
career. She decided to tackle paranormal
romance, even though there wasn’t much of it
being published yet.
“At that time, there was almost no one—
estrada
besides Laurell K. Hamilton—writing
paranormal. It was a bold move and I felt like
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that’s what I needed,” says Harris. “I thought it
was time to shake up my career a little.”
And shake it up she did. Adding “a little bit of everything” to the mix,
Harris wrote and sent off the first Sookie Stackhouse novel to her agent...
only to have it rejected over and over. Still, Harris didn’t give up. “I felt like it
had a future. I knew it was the best thing I’d ever written,” she says. She
credits her agent with sticking with the project, until finally it was picked up
by a junior editor at Ace. Once it was published, she realized it was
developing a following through word of mouth, especially when the
publisher quickly came back with an offer for more books.
“It was very exciting to think I’d finally hit the right topic, with the right
publisher, and the right market,” says Harris. “It’s hard to hit all three at the
same time.”
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The series currently has more than 20 million copies in print, and the 11th
book, Dead Reckoning, was published earlier this month. The novel is
notable as another milestone—it’s the first of the series’ final three books.
The decision to end on a high note was Harris’s own. “I appreciate the
success and opportunities, but I feel like I’d be repeating myself if I
continued.”
Dead Reckoning begins with Sookie witnessing the firebombing of her
workplace, Merlotte’s, and becoming determined to find the culprit—while
navigating danger and vampire intrigue, of course. Harris says working
toward the end of the series has proved unexpectedly to be fun. “Now that I
have a goal—satisfying the reader by concluding the many, many story lines
I’ve started over the years—it’s very energizing.”
As for what’s next, there are too many opportunities for Harris to say yet.
Her earlier books now sell well, a “constant delight” to the author.
Meanwhile, True Blood will be back with a fourth season next month, and a
comic book adaptation of the first novel in her Harper Connelly series, Grave
Sight, is due out then too. “So many projects I could do that I’m like a kid on
Christmas morning,” says Harris. “What do I open first?”
For this week, she plans to enjoy her time at BEA. “All those people and
books in one place sounds just great to me,” says Harris. —Gwenda Bond
Michael Moore
Life’s a Box of Chocolates
Michael Moore says before he became famous as a filmmaker and author,
he often felt like a real-life Forrest Gump. “I’m just a guy from Flint,
Michigan,” he explains, “but I’ve always had this uncanny knack for
crossing paths with people or events that I never intended to happen.” For
instance, there’s the time, when he was 11 years old, that he found himself
trapped on a U.S. Senate elevator with Sen. Robert Kennedy. Seven years
later, Moore became the youngest person elected to public office in the U.S.
when he won a seat on Flint’s board of education. While touring a cemetery
in Bitburg, Germany, in 1985, Moore encountered a “dazed and confused”
President Ronald Reagan. Then there’s the time, while changing planes in
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Vienna, when his “star aligned, unfortunately,
with the star” of the Palestinian terrorist
leader Abu Nidal. During a visit to Berlin in
1989, Moore joined up with “some crazies”
who’d begun chiseling on a huge wall dividing
the city in two.
“I’ve not told any of these stories before,”
Moore insists, explaining that the time is right
for him to move in a new direction after filming
10 critically acclaimed documentary movies
and writing seven bestselling books, all of them
highly controversial takes on hot-button
political or cultural issues.
“With the election of Barack Obama, I’m no
longer in the minority,” Moore notes. “The
country has changed direction. It was time to take a break and write the
book I’ve always wanted to write.” Moore’s as-yet-untitled “antimemoir,” will
be published by Grand Central in September as a collection of 20 nonfiction
short stories recounting specific incidents in Moore’s past that he swears are
absolutely true. In fact, Moore explains, with every book he’s written, he’s
hired professional fact-checkers who’ve never worked for him before to
“challenge everything” in the manuscript. “My work, when I turn it in, is
airtight,” he claims, although, he admits, this book reminds him somewhat of
the Japanese film Rashomon, as some memories of his childhood differ from
those of his two sisters.
Not all of the vignettes in Moore’s memoir involve chance encounters with
celebrities or being swept up in historic events, Moore tells Show Daily. One
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of his favorite vignettes is the tale of how a priest at St. Paul’s Seminary in
Saginaw, Mich., taught a teenage Moore how to perform an exorcism.
Laughing as he recalls the incident, Moore declares, “I could write a whole
book of how I trained to be a Roman Catholic priest and why it didn’t work
out.” Moore will talk about his life and times at the Uptown Insight Stage
today, 10 a.m.–11:30 am.  —Claire Kirch
Mindy Kaling
A ‘Beautiful’ Person
Mindy Kaling admits to being “a little nervous”
about following in Jon Stewart’s footsteps as
master of ceremonies for this morning’s (25th)
Book & Author Breakfast. A needless worry.
Kaling not only has the star power for the job
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Not surprisingly, Kaling is a lifelong and passionate reader. She grew up
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AT THE S H OW
so many people in comedy, I wasn’t remotely funny,” she was also an honor
student who entered Dartmouth as a Latin major but graduated with a
degree in playwriting.
Kaling describes Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
as “one-third memoir, one-third revenge fantasy, and one-third comedy
essay,” and turns her formidable wit on everything from her favorite men
(“anyone written by Aaron Sorkin, Sherlock Holmes, 19th-century hunks like
Mr. Darcy, and NBA players”) to life in the writers’ room of The Office (“when
it’s 2:30 in the morning, and you realize you’ve consumed 3,500 calories that
day in nonorganic, preservative-laden food ”) and how much she loves her
mom. In April, Kaling was surprised by a real-life revenge fantasy of her own.
The formerly plump and bookish grade-schooler was named one of People
magazine’s 2011 Most Beautiful People. Sweet.
You can meet Kaling (and pick up an autograph) at 10:30 a.m. in the
Random House booth (4420).  —Lucinda Dyer
Coe Booth
Returns to the World of Tyrell
Tyrell, Coe Booth’s first novel, centers on a teen living in a South Bronx
homeless shelter who faces difficult choices. His father is in jail, and his
mother is pressuring him to become involved with drug dealing to bring in
money. The novel received multiple starred reviews, won a 2007 L.A. Times
Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction, and was named an ALA Best Book for
Young Adults. Booth revisits Tyrell’s gritty world in Bronxwood, due in
September from Scholastic/PUSH.
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The sequel, Booth explains, takes place
seven months after Tyrell concludes. “His father
is out of prison and is reemerging into Tyrell’s
life,” she says. “There’s a tug-of-war between
the two—they have a very complicated
relationship. Tyrell respects his father but
doesn’t want to be controlled by him any longer.
In addition to going through all that, his little
brother is in foster care, and it’s summer and
Tyrell is looking for love.”
Booth had no difficulty retrieving Tyrell’s
voice for Bronxwood. “I don’t really leave a
world when I finish writing a book, and I kept
wondering what Tyrell was doing,” she says. “I
love writing Tyrell’s voice, and I slid right back
into it quite effortlessly. It’s fun to pretend to be a boy and have all that Bronx
slang going on.”
Though she too grew up in the Bronx, Coe didn’t draw upon her own
childhood to create Tyrell’s world, but her postcollege work with families
and teens in crisis did come into play. “I was raised in a stable, normal family,
but I feel very comfortable writing about Tyrell’s experiences,” she notes.
“Having worked with families going through what his family is going
through, I knew what I was talking about. I knew the world, but I had to find
the writing itself, and the characters.”
Booth targets a younger audience with the book she’s currently writing, a
middle-grade novel that is also set in the Bronx and stars a 12-year-old boy. A
student she encountered on a school visit inspired the story. “My muse was
this smart-alecky kid with a sneaky little face,” she explains. “I thought he
was adorable, and something about him triggered a story—I knew
immediately I wanted to write about someone like him.”
At BEA for the first time, Booth is pleased that she is at last a bona fide
attendee. “In the past, I’ve met people for dinner who’d been at BEA that
day—I was the after-party person, kind of pretending I’d been there,” she
quips. “This year, I’m really looking forward to meeting booksellers—and I
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don’t have to pretend anymore!” that they’re a relatively recent breed, dating from the late 1800s. “I was
Booth is signing ARCs of Bronxwood this afternoon, 3:30–4 p.m., at Table 20. flabbergasted that you can trace them back to one dog,” she says. “The
—Sally Lodge German shepherd would have to stand as one of the all-time engineering
feats in the animal world. Once they were developed, they were popular all

Susan Orlean over the world.”

Another strand of the story is orphans. In addition to Duncan, others
connected with the story of the famous German shepherd, like Bert Leonard,
Fascinated with RinTinTin the production manager who worked on the TV series, and Daphne
After discovering that 1950s TV hero Rin Tin Tin Hereford, who founded the first Rin Tin Tin museum, seemed to have a hole
was a real dog, The Orchid Thief author, Susan in their families that the dog filled. “It’s such a story of orphans,” says Orlean,
Orlean, embarked on what turned into a seven- adding that being an orphan was a recurring theme in television.
year project, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend Orlean also found that Rin Tin Tin functions as a Zelig figure or Forrest
(Simon & Schuster). “It was sort of irresistible. Gump. “Every time you turn around, he’s there. That’s what made it so
It’s partly a curiosity about why does something interesting,” she says. “It’s almost a bellwether, seeing how we relate to our
get remembered,” says Orlean. “I feel I have home, our space, our neighbors.”
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opening of the book, “as if it was introduced to
me by osmosis. It became part of my
consciousness, like a nursery lullaby you can
sing without knowing why.”
Orlean credits her Welsh springer spaniel with inspiring her to write more
animal stories—and add more animals to her home. She now has cats,
chickens, ducks, turkeys, and 12 Black Angus cattle. “I think the idea of
writing about animals has always appealed to me,” says Orlean, “because I
love animals and they’re a wonderful foil for writing about people. I’ve
written about people and plants, which to me is a fascinating relationship.
This is one step further; it’s really rich.”
One reason the book took so long to complete was the amount of history
Orlean had to tackle to tell the story of Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd
puppy found in France during World War I by Cpl. Lee Duncan. After the war,
he brought him back to the U.S., where he continued to be a star. “It was a
real education for me,” says Orlean. “I had never thought about WWI that
much, but my favorite books of the last decade were the Pat Barker
[Regeneration] trilogy.” In researching German shepherds, Orlean learned
(3653) today, 2–3 p.m. The book will launch in October with a two-night event
at the New York Film Festival.  —Judith Rosen
Kevin Sorbo
A Herculean Mind Effort
Need some inspiration this morning? Then visit the Perseus booth (4106),
where between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. actor Kevin Sorbo will sign copies of his
memoir, True Strength (Da Capo Press, Oct.), which chronicles a health crisis
that he had to keep secret for the sake of his career.
Sorbo is best known for his leading roles in TV’s Hercules: The Legendary
Journeys, which ran from 1995 through 1999, and Andromeda, which ran
from 2000 through 2005. In 1997, at the height of his career, he suffered a
series of debilitating strokes—but his condition was kept a secret from the
press. “The studio was as afraid as I was to let the public know, until I proved
that I could handle it. It’s now been 14 years, and between Hercules and
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Vatsala and Ehud

Authors Sperling
AT THE S H OW CreatedTheir
Own Ashram
Eleven yearsafter Ten Speed
been a liability.” Press published Vatsala and
True Strength, Sorbo says, is about the Ehud Sperling’s A Marriage
recovery process. “When I had my illness, I Made in Heaven: A Love Story in
realized—after going through it for two and a Letters, which chronicled the
half years—that the doctors saved my life, but if couple’s yearlong courtship
I’d listened to them I wouldn’t have lasted for through written
three months! I have a very strong will, and I correspondence, (Vatsala from
didn’t let their words discourage me. I hope her native India and Ehud from
people take away that the mind can be a very Vermont), they have revised
healing tool, and that they can push themselves and caught the reader up with
beyond what any doctors say they can do. The their relationship and the parenting of a son in For Seven Lifetimes: An East-
message is that we always wallow in self-pity West Journey to a Spiritually Fulfilling and Sustainable Marriage (Inner
when bad things happen to us, but here’s an Traditions, owned by Ehud).
alternative.” Vatsala says she gave up a successful and prestigious career as a
The notes Sorbo took over a 10-year period homeopathic doctor to marry Ehud and join him in his rural life in America
during and after his recovery, formed the basis of the book; the actual with just one purpose in mind: “To sustain a healthy and happy household in
writing of it, he says, began about 18 months ago. One of the challenges of which the spouses feel nurtured and so do the children.” Before they even
writing the book was deciding whether to do it chronologically, or some met, Vatsala had sent Ehud 20 dos and don’ts regarding marriage and made
other way. “In the end, I did it like the Memento movie, moving between time it clear that she wanted traditional vows that included the words “love,
periods. I liked the way the movie was pieced together. It was a beautiful honor, and obey.” Ehud immediately points out, “That gets a lot of women to
jigsaw puzzle. I want to put the reader into different times in my life, but flip out.” That, and the fact that it was an arranged marriage.
without confusing them.” In general, though, “Writing this book has been “If you expect your husband to put you and the family ahead of his own
very therapeutic for me; it’s emptied out all the garbage that’s been in my wishes,” he asks, “so what, actually, are you obeying?” Gender roles, he says,
body all these years.” are important in marriage. Vatsala says women are the trainers of the alpha
True Strength is Sorbo’s first book, but now he’s pumped: “I’ll tell you, it male. “By allowing him to be who he is, he serves the household perfectly,”
showed me that I have more books in me. Now, I want to write about the she explains. “My job as wife and mother is to allow this to happen. I did not
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AT THE S H OW
household, Vatsala writes children’s books and recently sat for the exam to
become a homeopathic doctor in the United States.
The couple says they combined the basic ideas from their cultural
traditions (he’s Jewish and she’s Hindu), along with the central philosophies
of most religious and cultural traditions to create a marriage that fosters
spiritual growth for both parties. They apply a similar ideology to child
rearing. Ehud calls their son a “Hindjew.” He points to how the Hindu
tradition of child rearing is divided into seven-year intervals: the first seven
years, a child is treated as a god (not judged on merits); the next seven years,
as a king or queen (as the ego develops); from 14 to 21, as a slave (learning to
serve others); and from 21 on, as a friend (having grown into a self-knowing
being who cares for others).
The central question in a marriage and in raising children, say the
Sperlings, is: how can we help each other on this journey? “Some people go
to the ashram,” says Ehud. What the authors are trying to do with their book
is share an example of how two people created an ashram in their home.
The Sperlings will be signing today at Table 10, 1–2 p.m., and tomorrow, in
the Inner Traditions booth (4328), 10–11 a.m.  —Bridget Kinsella
Tom Perrotta
Life After ‘Rapture’
Tom Perrotta began writing his postapocalyptic novel The Leftovers (St.
Martin’s, Aug. 30) during the economic crash of 2008, when Americans began
a journey through psychological trauma after losing their jobs and their
homes.
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The premise of Perrotta’s new book is: What
if the Rapture actually happened? “I became
aware at the time that there are moments
when people can’t conceive of a future,”
Perrotta says. “We were experiencing an
epidemic of grief that I’m not sure we’ve
recovered from yet.” He poured this concept of
lingering grief into the narrative of The
Leftovers, which focuses on four members of a
family that survives a world-shattering event in
which people randomly disappear, dividing the
world into Before and After. “I believe that the
basic human condition is to be bystanders of
disaster,” Perrotta comments, adding that what
most people don’t realize is that the biblical
Rapture is followed by seven years of
tribulation.
Perrotta has written about evangelical Christianity before, in The
Abstinence Teacher, but in his new book he treats the Rapture “as more or
less a secular event, rather than a fulfillment of a Christian biblical
prophecy.” In The Leftovers, the Garvey family, the book’s main characters,
aren’t religious at all until the mass disappearances occur. The book charts
the spiritual journeys that two members of the family begin after the
traumatic event. There is humor in the novel that is typical of Perrotta’s
writing, but the author found himself taking a stylistic turn as he progressed
with the book. “I wanted to write a funny postapocalyptic book, but the grief
in the story added a different dimension,” says Perrotta.
The Leftovers is something of a departure for Perrotta, who is also the
author of the highly acclaimed novel Little Children. “I’ve been writing long
enough now that I’ve become a different writer,” he says. “The books are not
so much about me. I’m trying to work on bigger canvases and broaden my
audience in the process.” His hope is that his longtime readers will come
along for the experience of The Leftovers, but that the novel also might
appeal to a different group. “The premise of the book might interest readers
who gravitate toward the intersection of genre fiction and literary fiction—
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Authors
enmeshed in an apocalyptic struggle between the forces of good and evil for
world domination. It is, says freelance journalist Katherine Turman, “like
The Da Vinci Code with a heavy-metal soundtrack.”
Wagner has always been a prolific writer. While playing with Broken

AT THE S H OW
people who liked The Road or The Handmaid’s Tale or Never Let Me Go.”
Perrotta signs ARCs today at 2:30 p.m. in St. Martin’s booth (3352).
 —Wendy Werris
Hope, he would build upon lyrics he’d written, weaving them into short
stories. “The songs I wrote were like little pieces of flash fiction, if you will.
It just came naturally,” he says. His short fiction already has been
published in several magazines and in two anthologies. And at this stage in
his life, Wagner, 40, prefers to write fiction rather than put out albums and
tour; he’s already writing full-time. Like the “extreme heavy metal” song
lyrics he used to write, which were “100% horror based,” Wagner’s writings
tend toward horror. “It’s a realm that’s always fascinated me,” he tells

Jeremy Wagner
From Heavy Metal to Papyrus
Jeremy Wagner does not think it’s such a
stretch for a heavy metal rock star to try to
break into publishing. “There are so many
similarities between the book industry and the
music industry,” the guitarist in the band
Lupara explains. Soon after graduating from
high school, Wagner and his first band, Broken
Hope, recorded a demo tape and shopped it
around, looking for a manager and a record
deal. Writing a query letter, sending out sample
chapters, and trying to find a publisher after
writing his debut novel, The Armageddon
Chord, took him right back to those early days
in his career, he says.
To be published in August by KRP Publishing,
a year-old small press specializing in
paranormal romance and fiction, The Armageddon Chord is a fast-paced
read set in a world Wagner knows very well: a heavy metal guitarist
transcribes an ancient song from hieroglyphics and soon finds himself
Show Daily, describing himself as fascinated by “monsters and anything
creepy or scary.” A voracious reader too, Wagner recalls as a child reading
the mysteries, thrillers, and horror fiction paperbacks he’d find on his
mother’s nightstand. “I can remember when Jaws came out in paperback,”
he says. “The cover blew me away. It was the first adult novel I ever read. I
was six or seven.”
A love of reading isn’t an anomaly at all among those who like to listen to
the dense sounds of the heavy metal music he performs, Wagner explains.
“It’s amazing how many heavy metal fans love fiction or books in general.”
Wagner will sign ARCs of The Armageddon Chord and give away limited-
edition guitar picks today in the authors’ autographing area, 2:30–3:30 p.m.,
at Table 22.  —Claire Kirch
Jeffrey Lyons
A Den Full of Stars
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(4406) today, 2–3 p.m., for a signed copy of movie critic Jeffrey Lyons’s Stories
My Father Told Me: Notes from “The Lyons Den” (June).
Jeffrey Lyons is no stranger to famous people—as the cohost of three
national movie review shows—Sneak Previews, MSNBC’s At the Movies, and
Reel Talk—he’s profiled everyone from Clint Eastwood to Cate Blanchett.

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Jeffrey Lyons reports that in picking which of
his father’s columns to include, he “went by the
biggest names who were mentioned often and
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too heavy and cumbersome.”
But he’s a bit of a piker compared to his father, the late Leonard Lyons, who He began reading his father’s column as a
for 40 years penned a column titled “The Lyons Den” for the New York Post preteen in 1956, when it had already been in
that chronicled the lives of the famous, including artists, athletes, movie existence for 22 years. He was nonplussed at
stars, politicians, musicians, and writers. Leonard Lyons knew everyone. the time by the constant presence of famous
Coauthor of three baseball books and a book on movies for children, faces in their New York home. Lyons recalls,
Jeffrey Lyons is making his first visit to BEA. Stories My Father Told Me “As a small boy it seemed just normal, until Joe
features a selection of the 12,479 columns that the elder Lyons contributed to DiMaggio came to our home for the first of
the paper, chosen by his son. (Leonard turned out an impressive 1,000 words several visits. Then Steinbeck. Then Orson
a day.) Jeffrey has included some of his own work as well, along with a Welles. And then many others.”
foreword by Charles Osgood, anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since As Lyons notes of his father’s time in his introduction to the book, “There
1994. were no faxes, nor e-mails, word processors, Internet, computers, laptops,
cellphones, and until the mid-
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between that era and the present.
Lyons says, “Today there is no
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sadly, in the age of Snooki and that
ilk—just famous-for-being-famous
people of no talent. Also, we have
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Duff
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Catherine Gibson
announces
her latest book
Self-doubt and the normal anxieties of being a teenager are issues
that cause Stefan to second guess his abilities on and off the play-
ing field. Having a mentor who understands and encourages him
is key to nudging Stefan toward a path of success and confidence.
Confined to a wheelchair, Coach Bob is a well-respected football
coach at the local high school. Active and involved, Coach helps
his students grow as athletes and as individuals. Recognizing po-
tential talent mingled with a lack of confidence, Coach Bob
shares his own story with Stefan.
He offers the right amount of encouragement, support and advice
to Stefan who learns that what you want in life is up to you and
achieving your goals depends on how hard you want to work to
accomplish them.
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Catherine Gibson, a local children's book author, was recently hon-
ored in New York City at the Independent Publisher Book Awards
convention, honoring children's book authors for numerous literary
achievements. Cathy received a silver medal for her book, Through
Sophie's Eyes, in the "Interactive—Children" category.
Through Sophie's Eyes is a story about a deaf girl who wants to take
dancing lessons with hearing children. Initially, the girls in Sophie's
class are not accepting of Sophie and the fact that she is different.
As the story progresses, the girls discover what it is like for Sophie
to not be able to hear. Sophie perseveres, learns to dance and the
girls in her class learn to accept her, forging a new and special
friendship. The book has easy to read graphics that show the finger
spell alphabet and how to put examples of these words together in
sign language.
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W E E K LY WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011
Authors
AT THE SH OW
revisiting “dark places,” such as when he
would look in the mirror and think it was all
someone else’s fault. “In my sober life I thought
I had done a thorough job of taking
responsibility for myself, but I hadn’t been as
thorough as I thought.” The book, he says,
should make the reader uncomfortable once
in a while, as it recreates the pain and chaos of
addiction.
Cormac McCarthy stands foremost among
McKagan’s literary influences. “He’s a genius.
My house is pink and fluffy all the time, with
three women [a wife and two young daughters]
and two dogs, and as a guy I need to get some of
my dark stuff out. Cormac helps exorcise some
of that. Also,” McKagan adds, “Hunter S. Thompson.”
BEA, book tours, readings—it’s all new to McKagan. “As a musician, a tour
to me means two years. I had to laugh when my publicist asked, Can you do
two weeks. I look forward to it. This is really fun.” McKagan will be signing a
70-page excerpt from his book at the Simon & Schuster booth (3652 ,3653)
today at 11:30 a.m.  —Suzanne Mantell
Lillian Luterman and
Jennifer Bloom
Books Are Cool for School
Booksellers freely admit it:
sometimes it’s difficult to get
teenagers interested in
reading, when there are so
many high-tech gadgets vying
for their attention. How about if
booksellers start talking up that
extremely well in terms of
college admissions? That’s
what mother-daughter college
admissions consultants Lillian
Luterman and Jennifer Bloom
tell Show Daily. Luterman and
her daughter are the authors of
In! College Admissions and
Beyond: The Experts’ Proven
Strategy for Success (Abbeville),
a handbook that explains their
strategies in the increasingly
competitive world of college admissions.
“It is absolutely more difficult to get into college now,” Luterman declares.
“There are more kids applying, and colleges generally have the same
number of seats for incoming students. It’s also easier to apply, and there’s a
huge inpouring of international students. Everyone want to come to
American schools; we have the best educational system in the world.”
Their advice? College-bound students should take advantage of any
opportunity to improve their odds of getting into the college of their choice.
Reading provides students with an excellent advantage over their peers who
prefer other leisure activities. “Every time I have a student sitting on my
couch, and they tell me they love to read, I know a couple of things: they’re
going to do very well on the verbal sections of the SAT or the ACTs, and
they’re naturally curious,” Bloom says.
Luterman and Bloom explain that success in getting into college boils
down to applying to colleges where applicants are on par with other
applicants. But make sure to stand out from the rest of the applicants in one
area. They work with clients to identify and develop each student’s unique
hobbies or pursuits, and claim a 95% success rate in helping clients get into
their preferred schools.
Luterman and Bloom will sign copies of College Admissions and Beyond
today in Abbeville’s booth (4406), 2–3 p.m. Abbeville is also sponsoring a card
drop/sign-up giveaway for a one-hour free college consulting session with
Luterman and Bloom.    —Claire Kirch
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58 BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 PUBL I SHERS
A Chat with
Eloisa James
T hink fairy tales are only for children? Bosh—not
when bestselling romance writer Eloisa James is
telling the tale. Her latest series for Avon, based on
classic fairy tales, began with A Kiss at Midnight (a
Cinderella story) and continued in January with When
Beauty Tamed the Beast. James has loved fairy tales
since she was a child and spoke with Show Daily
about the unlikely inspiration for the series.
James will be signing When Beauty Tamed the Beast
today, 10–10:30 a.m., atTable 15 in the autographing
area; 2:30–3:30 p.m., she’ll be joining Julia Quinn and
Connie Brockway at the Romance Writers of America booth (3774) to sign The
Lady Most Likely.
You’ve credited your father, Robert Bly, with inspiring your fairy tales series.
Iron John and Cinderella seem a rather unexpected literary pairing.
I wouldn’t say that my inspiration comes as much from Iron John itself as
from the fact that while Dad was working out the ideas behind Iron John,
he talked compulsively about fairy stories. He loved to challenge me and
my siblings to “explain” such stories in cultural terms—to rewrite them in
a way that made them socially relevant.
Can a fairy tale really be reimagined as a story of male empowerment?
Why not? I think of a fairy story as a malleable plot, waiting to be given
meaning by its current author. All the stable boys who triumphantly carry
out difficult tasks in order to marry a princess could be seen as
empowering their gender—but also, depending on the storyteller, their
class or their race. My father was interested in male empowerment; I’m
not. Our stories are very different.
As both your parents are writers, were there high literary standards for fairy
tale reading when you were a child?
We read the Arthur Lang colored fairy tale collections over and over, along
He put his life on the line.
He’d do it again in a heartbeat.
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with classics like Peter Pan. One of my earliest
memories is being terrified by my father’s lively
rendition of Beowulf, so the standards do seem to
have been high.
Growing up, did you prefer the darker versions of
stories like Beauty and the Beast or the “we don’t
want to frighten the children” adaptations?
Darker! Children’s stories are frank about deeply
frightening aspects of life—the people with
shining teeth, lurking in dark parts of the forest
growing at your back door.
The beast of When Beauty Tamed the Beast is Piers
Yelverton, earl of Marchant, a brilliant, lame, and
impossible to get along with doctor. Can we assume
that you’re a fan of Hugh Laurie and House?
I do love Hugh Laurie—and the screenwriters of House. What inspired me,
thinking of the show, was the idea of a doctor unable to carry out hundreds
of tests that House prescribes. I poked around for a doctor with House’s
brilliance and arrogance, found one who published a book in 1812 lauding
his own brilliance, and built a plot around his expertise in scarlet fever.
The story of Dido and Aeneas plays a part in A Kiss at Midnight and When
Beauty Tamed the Beast includes references to T.S. Eliot as well as
Shakespeare. Some would consider this heady stuff for fairy tale novels.
I think we underrate the intellectual curiosity of the American public. In
my novels, I’ve included lines of poetry by Shakespeare, Eliot, and
Catullus, as well as the 17th-century poet Richard Barnfield and the
18th-century poet Christopher Smart. I’ve written books inspired by a 1607
play called The Hog Has Lost His Pearl, and the life of Clara Josephine
Wieck Schumann, probably the foremost female composer of the 19th
century. After every novel I am barraged by readers asking for more
information, more lines, more poetry. “Where does Catullus live? I’d like
to meet him.”
Do you have a short list of must read fairy tales... for adults.
Anything by Neil Gaiman or Michael Chabon.  —Lucinda Dyer
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 , 2011 PUBL I SHERS W E E K LY BEA SHOW DAILY ■ DAY 2 59

Authors
sure,” acknowledges Coleman. “Because this is a story about a sexual affair
between two people who shouldn’t be together, the reader has to understand
why they are together, the lust. It’s one of the places where I felt I pushed the
boundaries.”

AT THE S H OW There are some parallels to another story about two people who shouldn’t be
together, middle-aged Humbert Humbert and 12-year-old Dolores Haze. “Lolita
is one of my favorite books,” says Coleman. “In it one major element that’s
missing, not that it would fit with that story, is you never know what’s going on
Rebecca Coleman from Dolores’s perspective. So when I started this story, I knew I wanted to put
in the point of view of the victim.”
Lust over Romance A mother of four, Coleman has only one concern about the book. “People tend
Despite The Kingdom of Childhood being her to conflate the protagonist with the author. That’s pretty scary with this book.”
third novel, 34-year-old Rebecca Coleman is far Coleman will be signing books twice during the show: today, 11:30 a.m.–12:30
from jaded. She describes everything that’s p.m., and at the Harlequin booth (4638) tomorrow, 10–10:45 p.m.
happened in the past few months as “the  —by Judith Rosen
powerball jackpot of getting a book published.”
After her new novel was named a semifinalist in
the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest, Ruthe Rosen
she found agent Stephany Evans, president of
FinePrint, who sold it to Mira, which is putting a A Journey of Loss and Hope
lot of muscle behind it, including a 50-foot banner When Ruthe Rosen, author of Never Give Up:
in the main hall at the Javits Center. Finding Hope and Purpose in Adversity
As for the plot, it came to her while she was (Cypress House, June) lost her teenage
doing laundry and heard a newscast of what has daughter to brain cancer in 2006, she turned
become an all-too familiar story: a school teacher away from despair and chose instead to use the
seducing a student. “I really wanted to put a different twist on it,” says Coleman, experience to create the Let It Be Foundation,
who researched female teachers who have sex with male students. “A lot of the which assists families facing similar
women were lonely, in their 30s and 40s, and going through a crisis. Many were circumstances of terminal illness in young
victims of childhood sexual abuse.” people.
To keep her main character, 43-year-old Judy McFarland, from being too Rosen first self-published Never Give Up the
sympathetic when she starts an affair with 16-year-old Zach, Coleman built in a year her daughter, Karla, died, but because
different set of childhood traumas. Then she ratcheted the tension by placing she had no professional guidance in the
them in a Waldorf School, which places a premium on nurturing children. venture, that edition of the book eventually fizzled. “It did receive wonderful
Coleman is also careful to tell the sex scenes from Zach’s point of view, never reviews, though, which inspired me to give publishing one more try,” says
Judy’s or that of an omniscient narrator. “There’s a lot of sex in the book, for Rosen, who lives with her husband and two sons in Southern California.

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Authors
AT THE S H OW
Eventually she hired the consulting team of Kent Carroll and Jody
Blanco; they helped facilitate the sale of Never Give Up to Joe Shaw at
Cypress House.
Rosen is a former flight attendant and sales director for a nail-care
company who now devotes her time to sharing her journey of loss and
hope as a public speaker and family advocate. Never Give Up chronicles
Karla’s yearlong battle with cancer and her unflagging optimism and
courage as she faced death. “We’ve transformed the memory of Karla’s
positive attitude into a legacy of service to others,” Rosen explains.
“People ask me why I keep doing it, and I tell them that if I can live
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without my soul mate, I can do something for others in need.” She will be
touring for the book in August and September. Today she will be signing in
the autograph area at Table 4, 4–5 p.m.
The foundation has already provided support to 30 families, and its
fund-raising efforts continue. “When a child becomes ill and is facing death,
the entire family is affected and needs help. Many people don’t realize
this, and it’s been my mission since Karla died to let the families know that
there is hope and meaning even in the most painful times. We try to
give them a sense of normalcy in their lives while their time is consumed
with the child’s illness.” Let It Be, which provides such services to f
amilies as housekeeping, grocery shopping, meal preparation, and
guidance in meeting the needs of siblings, is now active in four California
cities, and Rosen hopes to expand its outreach nationally. “I’m excited
to see how many more lives the foundation will impact once the
book is published. I want people to know that they can and will get
through their loss.”
 —Wendy Werris
Lisa Bloom
Women: Get Your
Smart Back
It’s one thing to report on Supreme
Court cases,
but quite
another to
cover celebrity
sex tapes and
drunken starlet
antics. When
television legal
analyst Lisa
Bloom—who
has worked for
such networks
as Court TV,
LIFE CNN, and CBS
News—saw the changing paradigm of
what news directors thought their
women viewers wanted, she decided it
was time to write a book that would be
a wakeup call for women across the
country. “Most women are pretty
conversant about lip plumpers and
wrinkle fillers, but they’re not
knowledgeable about the things that
most of us would agree are important,”
Bloom tells Show Daily. “So rather
then just throw up my hands and say,
‘Well that’s just the way it is,’ I thought
somebody has to do something about
this. So I decided to write a book.”\
In Think: Straight Talk for Women to
Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World
(Vanguard, June ), Bloom exposes how
the tabloid media pervades women’s
lives and redirects their priorities.
Bloom’s mother, feminist lawyer
Gloria Allred, and other crusading
women like her are also featured in
her book. “We owe them a debt,”
Bloom declares. “They didn’t kick
down doors for us to spend our time
e-mailing pictures of kittens on
Facebook.” Bloom explains how to
make better use of our time. “Become
the CEO of your own life; take charge
of the information you need.”
Bloom makes a big push for reading
books: “Books allow your mind to
unfurl. The more time we spend with
tabloid media, the more we start to
believe that ‘boob jobs’ matter. ”
She will be signing at the Perseus/
Vanguard booth (4106) today at 11 a.m.
—Hilary S. Kayle
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Another GPS Model

These days, when people talk about
digital, they often mean e-books, For
a printer, though, digital is an
integral part of the process of
making a physical book. Edwards
Brothers, masters of the short-to-
medium print run, is announcing a
new global initiative with printing
partners around the world that
allows its book publishing customers
to print books anywhere with one
order, one invoice, and one file.
Just as a GPS can guide you in
your car, EB thinks its GPS, or
Global Print Solutions program,
can help publishers print the right
quantity, at the right time, and in
the right place. With the rising costs
of fuel, EB CEO John Edwards says
the ability to run small print runs
around the world with its partners
in North and South America,
Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia
makes even more sense than when
EB first started building printing
partnerships in other countries 10
years ago. “And it’s
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Edwards.
EB is a 118-year-old family-owned
business headquartered in Ann
Arbor, Mich., with two printing
facilities in North Carolina and 10
digital printing operations in North
America. Edwards says he has seen a
lot of changes in the book business,
but today’s emphasis on cutting costs
by driving down print runs is
unparalleled. “When we help our
customers manage their inventory,
they can use those resources to bring
out more titles,” says Edwards.
EB does all kinds of printing, from
web offset to short run and print-
on-demand, with its average print
run 2,000. Although e-books usually
are synonymous with digital,
Edwards does not think e-books
will ever totally replace printed
books. “I just heard a statistic today
that said that 50% of the revenue in
the music industry is still in
physical CD sales,” he says.
No Edwards is forced into the
family business, but if he thought
tree books were history, Edwards
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A New O’Keeffe Book

The 20 paintings Georgia O’Keeffe
produced while visiting Hawaii in
1939 have been collected in book
form for the first time as Georgia
O’Keeffe’s Hawaii by Patricia
Jennings and Maria Ausherman
would not otherwise have
discovered,” says Ausherman.
Jennings is now 84, a great-
grandmother, and lives on the Big
proud of Island of Hawaii, where she will be
Georgia promoting the book. Ausherman
O’Keeffe’s will sign ARCs today in the
Hawaii autographing area at 4 p.m.
and the  —Wendy Werris
chance to
cofounder of Lantern Media, as well
as the author of two novels.
Their collaboration, fittingly
enough, was born at a previous
BEA, when Rowe had a
conversation with publisher Paul
Dry of Paul Dry Books. Dry
suggested Rowe do a book about
writing, and Rowe countered by
suggesting one about cricket and

(Koa Books, Oct.) in a special
format that includes
remembrances of the artist by
Jennings, who was O’Keeffe’s
Authors Step
showcase the paintings that have baseball. He took the idea to
been unavailable for many years. Lomke, and the rest, as they say, is
“There was a 79-page show history.
catalogue by Jenny Seville Today, at noon, in the Lantern/

12-year-old guide through the
islands and eventually became her
surrogate daughter.
O’Keeffe stayed on a sugar
plantation in rural Hana, Maui,
during part of her three-month visit
to Hawaii; Jennings’s father was the
manager of the estate. Her mother,
a rather cold and distant woman,
was away during this time. It fell
upon young Jennings to be
O’Keeffe’s guide and companion,
taking her to hidden waterfalls,
lush valleys, and overgrown jungles
that would otherwise have been
difficult for O’Keeffe to find. This
unlikely pair overcame initial
difficulties in their relationship to
develop a close bond.
Koa publisher Arnie Kotler is
published by the Honolulu
Academy of the Arts in 1990 for
the Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings of
Hawaii exhibition, but that has
long been out of print,” Kotler
says.
The book also includes vintage
photos of the artist on Maui and her
correspondence about the trip.
Ausherman, a New York City art
historian and teacher,
corresponded with Jennings after
she discovered the Seville
catalogue and the two became
friends, meeting in Hawaii as often
as possible to work on the book. “I
believe O’Keeffe did some of her
best work in Hawaii, and it’s clear
that Patricia provided her with
views of landscapes and flowers she
Up to Bat
Steiner booth (3533) the authors will
be signing copies “to anyone who can
convincingly demonstrate a
Two friends with a long history in knuckleball or a forward-defensive
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Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, promises demonstrations of sports
Literature, and Life (Paul Dry, May), a moves and lengthy praise for their
new book that celebrates the favorite sports
relationship between baseball and heroes. “And
cricket. we’ll even have a
A die-hard Yankees fan, Evander cricket bat and
Lomke worked in the publishing cricket ball and
industry for more than 30 years, baseball and bat
editing some 1,200 titles, and is now with us, so you
the executive director of the can try your
American Mental Health hand at the late
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Reclaiming
Your Outer
Child
John Duffy, a clinical psychologist
from Chicago, didn’t set out to be a
specialist in parent-teenager rela-
tionships, but that’s the turn his
career took, and he is really glad of
it. So glad, he has written a guide-
book for parents, so they will be
able to appreciate their adolescent
offspring and be glad about them,
too. The Available Parent: Radical
Optimism for Raising Teens and
Tweens (Cleis Press/Viva Editions,
May) doesn’t have radical advice,
but it does contain a healthy dose
of optimism and lots of practical
suggestions.
 “The mythology is that teens are
mean and unpredictable and
closed off, but that’s not what I’ve
found,” says Duffy, the father of a
15-year-old. “I’ve found them to be
very empathic, engaged, interest-
ing, really thoughtful, smarter than
people think, and funny. And not so
closed off. And eager to share their
thoughts and ideas.” The week of
Osama bin Laden’s death, for
instance, Duffy got all sorts of ques-
He put his life on the line.
He’d do it again in a heartbeat.
Exalt Press New York
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tions about the event from his
young patients. “It can be surpris-
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surprise with their insight. From Addendum
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care at all.”
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Academia Rossica
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instead of listening. Teens and
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who is always lecturing at you?’
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change their vibe with kids, to be Frankfurt, 60313 Germany HarperCollins
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far less likely to heed your words.”
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At 2 p.m. this afternoon, Duffy 323-469-0436 Hawk’s Nest Publishing, LLC
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Duffy will sign copies of The
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