It’s a Big, Bad Book World returns!
This week(-ish) in publishing, we had what some would call the penultimate book-related trade show in the US: BookExpo America (BEA) 2009, which took place this year in Manhattan’s Javits Convention Center. Despite a healthy amount of fears on behalf of publishers, booksellers and authors alike about the economy and the size of BEA, a smaller show apparently did not detract in quality. In fact, many people stated that this year’s show was all about the indie.
Here are a healthy mix of BEA posts and articles from some of our favorite bloggers and news sites:
- BEA at Lit Soup with Jenny Rae Rappaport
- At Publishers’ Convention, Is the Writing On the Wall? at The Washington Post with Bob Thompson
- BEA 2009: A Bit of Déjà vu All Over Again at Booksquare with Kassia Krozser
- Book Fair Buzz Is Not Contained Between 2 Covers at The New York Times with Motoko Rich
- Some BEA Observations at Pubrants with Agent Kristin
- BookExpo America reveals an industry in transition at The Los Angeles Times with David L. Ulin
- #BEA09 at The 26th Story with Debbie
- Book Expo America: What to Read at Paper Cuts with Motoko Rich
- And several posts on BEA by the good people of The Abbeville Manual of Style
Feeling a little too old to start writing? Nonsense, says author Tess Geritsen. She has a wonderful post over at Murderati, AUTHORS CAN DIE WITH THEIR BOOTS ON, exploring those authors who didn’t hit the big time until they were past what many people would consider their “prime.”
J.D. Salinger is still alive. No, that’s not the news. Turns out that the 90-year-old author is coming out of hiding to stop a man writing under the penname J.D. California from supposedly publishing an unauthorized sequel of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. The alleged sequel’s title? 60 YEARS LATER: COMING OUT OF THE RYE. Hmm. That’s all I’ll say about it.
David Eddings, the fantasy writer best known for his Belgariad series and its sequel, the Malloreon series, passed away at age 77.
Even in times of economic turmoil, some dreams are still coming true. For those of you who follow our dear Book Nerd (http://writtennerd.blogspot.com), you probably knew that she was a bookstore worker with dreams of owning her own shop. Now she will. Greenlight Book Store will be opening in Portland in September.
The 2009 Orange Prize for Women in Fiction has been awarded to Marilynne Robinson for her book, HOME.
What do Stephanie Meyers and Guillermo Del Toro have in common? Not much, except for their respective books on vampires. But Del Toro is one for a gruesomely creative brand of horror, and he’s opening up to TIME to discuss STRAIN, his new book.
Whether you like it or not, summer is here. The Washington Post gives us a list of summer reads to fill up those lazy summer days. Not that I have lazy summer days anymore.
It will be a heavily literary-based year at the 12 Annual National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco. Check out their website to see the list of events, which are taking place in several venues across the city.
Celebrity smackdown: Google versus Amazon. What are they fighting over? You might have guessed it. E-books. Apparently Google doesn’t think Amazon should have an e-book monopoly. Now, don’t be snarky about it…
Tags: book news, literary news, publishing news
