I attended BookExpo America (BEA) over the weekend representing Baker & Taylor, the company for which I work. It was a great show for the company and a terrific show from a business opportunity standpoint. I’ll leave the business end of the show out of this post since I try to keep that end a little more behind the o’ Stuff curtain. One of the great things about attending conferences like this is connecting the e-mail/phone voice with the face (both for my company and outside the company).
As my “lunch break” on Saturday, I stood in on the Science Fiction and Fantasy panel, which included John Ringo, China Miéville, and Kelly Link. It was an interesting panel – John Ringo wore a kilt and played to the audience while China and Kelly were both a bit more reserved. I stuck around and met Mr. Miéville while he signed a copy of The City and the City for me.
I also snagged a signed ARC-copy of Soulless by Gail Carriger, which sounds like a cool mix of vampires, werewolves, and steampunk.
Over the course of the two days, I met the fine folks at Orbit Books (Alex Lencicki, Devi Pillai, and Tim Holman) and had some good conversation with them; Dot Lin, Tor publicist extraordinaire; Jill Maxick, super-duper Pyr publicist; Vida Engstrom, Overlook Press’s (R. Scott Bakker’s US Publisher) superb publicist, Ellen Datlow, anthologist extraordinaire; Andrew Wheeler, blogger extraordinaire; and last but certainly not least Colleen Lindsay, all-around cool literary agent and genre-PR guru.
What made the event so great is that I was able to mix my work in the publishing industry with the fun I have in it by reading and reviewing in many ways.
As my “lunch break” on Saturday, I stood in on the Science Fiction and Fantasy panel, which included John Ringo, China Miéville, and Kelly Link. It was an interesting panel – John Ringo wore a kilt and played to the audience while China and Kelly were both a bit more reserved. I stuck around and met Mr. Miéville while he signed a copy of The City and the City for me.
I also snagged a signed ARC-copy of Soulless by Gail Carriger, which sounds like a cool mix of vampires, werewolves, and steampunk.
Over the course of the two days, I met the fine folks at Orbit Books (Alex Lencicki, Devi Pillai, and Tim Holman) and had some good conversation with them; Dot Lin, Tor publicist extraordinaire; Jill Maxick, super-duper Pyr publicist; Vida Engstrom, Overlook Press’s (R. Scott Bakker’s US Publisher) superb publicist, Ellen Datlow, anthologist extraordinaire; Andrew Wheeler, blogger extraordinaire; and last but certainly not least Colleen Lindsay, all-around cool literary agent and genre-PR guru.
What made the event so great is that I was able to mix my work in the publishing industry with the fun I have in it by reading and reviewing in many ways.
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