#bookexpo

[nealshustermanreal]

Throwback to the 2018 Simon & Schuster Book Expo with my son, Jarrod, launching ‘Dry.’ I cherish these milestones with him.

[scrumptiousstuffs]

No seriously…did I miss something? 😂😅

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Khaotung 1st Fansign Chongqing

17/11/2024

[stormyoceans]

THE LAST TWILIGHT ERA IS FINALLY UPON US

[offgundaily]

OffGun signing event at BookExpo

[forewordreviewsmag]

HARPER COLLINS STRIKE

An update on the HarperCollins strike after a tentative agreement between HarperCollins and Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers! They've released separate, identical statements Thursday night. Read more at NPR!

Image Description: Attendees at BookExpo America visit the HarperCollins Publishers booth in New York on May 28, 2015. Mark Lennihan/AP

[literaticat]

I have some idea that sometimes publishers have swanky parties and invite their staff, best sellers and big authors. Is this real? Or did I see this in a movie lol

Oh, it's real. Though I'd say this was more of a thing back in the OLD days, pre-Pandemic, and a couple economic crises ago. :-/

The ones I have been to (and I have been to many) are usually for a reason, they aren't just random parties. Usually it's to promote new books to a specific audience, and they are often held during a conference or something like that so that a bulk of the people they are trying to reach will be there.

So like, for example, they used to do a lot of "Pre-Publication Tours" and take booksellers out to very fancy dinners with an author (and the publicist, and sometimes the editor). Or they might do something like a breakfast or dinner at ALA (for example) where they have several authors and a bunch of librarians, and each author gets to introduce themselves and talk about the book and spend some time at each table, and all the librarians get copies and they all have a chance to chit-chat over a nice meal.

When BookExpo/BEA used to be a thing (and actually even more so before that, when it was called the ABA), publishers would throw really grand parties and invite a number of famous authors with new projects coming, and invite a bunch of booksellers, and the party would be on a rooftop or some gorgeous venue. I went to one at ABC carpet where they took over a floor of the store and there were living flower walls. I went to one at Dylan's Candy Bar one year and there was an open bar where they had candy apple martinis and I got sick off em. I went to one IN the Library of Congress -- like the FANCY part -- and one in the main library in downtown LA at night, that was pretty spectacular.

I went to one on a rooftop in LA I believe and they gave us all t-shirts and we could go around to different tables and get autographs on the shirt from the authors, and Judy Blume was one of the authors, and I had a literal meltdown and cried on her and Libba Bray had to hold me up. (Judy Blume was very nice about it - she gave me a Kleenex and said, "don't worry, women your age always cry when they meet me" -- which was both reassuring and made me feel v basic lol).

I went to one on this like -- observation-area in a swank hotel in downtown NYC, and I was chit-chatting with John Green, and I had to go to the bathroom, so I went to the bathroom, and THE BATHROOM WAS ENTIRELY MADE OF GLASS INCLUDING THE FLOOR -- so to get to the toilet and pee you had to be like *hovering over empty space and anyone could see you???? I absolutely was not OK AT ALL and I think I just had to like, LEAVE to go to a real place with a real bathroom.

I still remember the ones my boss told me about -- one at PRINCE'S HOUSE where PRINCE PERFORMED, and one at the Playboy Mansion! -- I was not invited to those! *cryface*

[monomorphilogical]

— A speech by Ursula K. Le Guin, Presented at the Children’s Literature Breakfast BookExpo America (4 June 2004).

[bookofmirth]

I’ve been going back and watching/listening to SJM’s interviews and podcasts and noticed she doesn’t really talk about her mom like at all. She tells stories about her dad and grandmother and joshes family often but rarely ever mentions her mom lol I just thought that was very strange and was wondering if you know of any instances of her talking about her mom or siblings

You’re right, she doesn’t talk about her mom much from what I remember but thanks to the powers of the group chat @bagelfyre was able to find this: https://www.booktopia.com.au/blog/2018/04/30/sarah-j-maas-interview/

And also this: https://www.tor.com/2019/06/04/dani-and-bryce-are-the-abbi-and-ilana-of-crescent-city-sarah-j-maas-talks-about-her-adult-debut/

[seffora-merryweather]

Modern AU — Seffora Merryweather

GENERAL INFORMATION

NAME: Seffora Merryweather

AGE: Twenty-six (Born December 8th, 1997)

BORN IN: Lübeck, Germany

CURRENT RESIDENCE: Hamburg, Germany

OCCUPATION: Children's and middle-grade book illustrator

ETHNICITY: White (German on her father’s side, Italian on her mother’s side)

BACKGROUND

Seffora is the youngest of three sisters. She was never too close to her oldest sister, Sienna, but grew up having a very close bond with Sofina, the second-born Merryweather sister.

Her mother passed away very little after Seffora's birth due to complications with the pregnancy. Serwyn Merryweather always kept two homes: one in Lübeck, where the girls spent most of their time, looked after by nannies and house staff, and a second house in Hamburg, the city where he worked as a renowned lawyer. Due to the close proximity of the two cities, both Lübeck and Hamburg were home to Seffora growing up.

Seffora had an affinity for literature and artistic expression through drawing since she was little. Her father never thought much of those talents, but her sister Sofina always encouraged her to pursue what brought her happiness. Seffora made a habit of drawing on the title pages of her books after finishing them, creating beautiful pictures inspired by what she read, since she adored the link between images and stories.

At the boarding school, Seffora was known as an artistic and talented person, someone who gradually began to come out of her shell and bloom into the person she is today: sweet, and kind, yet determined and challenging when needed.

Serwyn Merryweather passed away around the time Seffora was going to start college. Always a man who prepared for the future, Serwyn left a significant amount of money to his daughters and Sef used her part to pay for her university studies, going to the California College of the Arts to get her Illustration BFA.

Seffora has been consistently working on illustrating children's and middle-grade books since her graduation in 2020.

Every year she makes it a priority to travel to at least three book fairs across the world to help in the promotion of books she's worked on as well as connect with readers, writers, editors and artists. Her favorite book fairs are The Frankfurt Book Fair (Buchmesse), the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL - Feria Internacional del Libro), and the BookExpo America (BEA).

RELATIONSHIP HISTORY

Seffora dated Benjicot Blackwood for a while. Things began to fall apart since she wanted to keep a low profile and continue to keep their relationship private, while Ben was being encouraged to have a public relationship that aided his celebrity status. The end of their relationship did overlap with the PR relationship Ben had with Zia.

A few months ago, Seffora and her longtime friend, Rhys Arryn, finally admitted they had feelings for each other and began dating. They've been in a relationship for a few months, with them splitting their time between Scotland and Germany.

[acourtofpaperandink]

ALA 2023 recap

So this was my first ALA. I had planned to go in 2020 but we all know what happened there. What is ALA? ALA= American Library Annual conference If you have been to Bookcon or BookExpo, this was very similar but also very different. More similar to BookExpo than Bookcon. You do need to work in the industry to attend. As it is a library conference it is mostly for librarians but teachers and…

[jessryno]

ALA 2023 recap

So this was my first ALA. I had planned to go in 2020 but we all know what happened there. What is ALA? ALA= American Library Annual conference If you have been to Bookcon or BookExpo, this was very similar but also very different. More similar to BookExpo than Bookcon. You do need to work in the industry to attend. As it is a library conference it is mostly for librarians but teachers and…

[scrumptiousstuffs]

My boys!!!!! ☺️🥰

Source: THK Twitter

17/10/2024

[stormyoceans]

js has no luck with managers. earn met js at bday party and disappeared. dew loved the boys, but they were unemployed. while doc was studying, sea could have gotten some solo work with the same makeup, but that didn't happen. it feels like no one knows what to do with them or where to put them. hey hello, you have a dermatologist with education and a clean face and a charming photogenic guy who can sell any product. what is your problem huh?

i apologize for answering these two messages together, i hope that's okay, you guys just both brought up the issue of jimmysea's managers and unfortunately that's not a subject i have much knowledge of ;;;;;; for example, i had no idea they changed four managers already!!!!! i mean i know GMMTV switch those often to better manage the schedules of the artists who are gonna work together in some way, but honestly four different managers in the span of three (?) years kinda seems A LOT to me

it's also kinda interesting to notice that in GMMTV there doesn't seem to be a separation between the roles of managers (usually have only one client, are not regulated, cannot arrange for casting calls, do handle media exposure and public relations) and of agents (have a roster of clients, are regulated, are legally permitted to negotiate contracts for work), which could definitely be an issue when it comes to promotions, but i have no idea how things work in the BL industry in particular so i don't want to say anything without the right informations

tho lbr we all know GMMTV treats jimmysea pretty poorly and criminally underuses them, so even the best manager/agent could only do so much if the production company itself doesn't give them opportunities.......

HOWEVER!!!!!! we have an event on october 4, the fan fest in japan on october 9, and now the bookexpo on october 22 to promote last twilight so at least that's SOMETHING. NOW THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO DO IS MANIFEST JIMMYSEA FOR GMMTV 2024!!!!!!!!!!

[dustandmildew]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix dust jacket

[nealshustermanreal]

Feeling nostalgic. How about a little TBT?

Who got a shot at this during the NYC Book Expo '18? Share them below! 😍

[literaticat]

Do your authors get lots of free books from the agency / their publisher? How common is it to get free ARCs and goodies? :)

They don't get "lots of free books" from the agency -- though if a client is a fan of another client, or just super-wants to read a certain book, and I happen to have an extra ARC or copy, and they ask me, I'm happy to send it to them.

(I usually get just a few physical ARCs, and sometimes none at all; I usually get between 5-10 physical copies of each finished book. I do use those copies for things myself, so while a lot of times I have extra, sometimes I don't.)

This goes for all the agents, too -- we'll often ask for books from one another, or if I have extra of something I think they/their kids will like, I'll send books to one of my colleagues or a client with a new baby or something like that.

Sometimes publishers/an editor will send a new author some books as like a 'welcome gift', or if an editor really thinks that an author might dig a certain book they worked on, they might send it along -- but that's sort of random.

Authors CAN start to get quite a lot of books once they start getting published -- publishers will send things the author might potentially blurb, or if they are a "big mouth" on social media or something they might get on some publicists mailing lists in the hopes that they'll post about the books -- and of course, if they are going to bookseller and librarian conferences, there are usually AMPLE opportunities to pick up piles of books and swag. (Of course, if they don't blurb, aren't on social media, and don't go to conferences -- probably they get much less!)

(Semi-related Sidebar: When I was a young bookseller with zero dollars, I would go to the now-defunct convention BEA/BookExpo -- though it was called ABA back in the day -- and I would get SO GIDDY at the freebies that I'd try and pick up LITERALLY EVERYTHING, pretty much breaking my back in the process -- I'd hide giant tote bags of free books under booths where friends were working and then pick them up at the end and stagger back to whatever hovel I was staying in. At this point in my life, when I go to ALA or something, I make it a point to pick up *as little as humanly possible* -- so I usually end up with just, like, a tote bag and maybe two books. MAYBE. Because my house is so full of books I already don't have time to read, I can't be adding more willy-nilly!)