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Events

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Photos from The Strand 80th Birthday Party

Here are some pix from the party. Enjoy!

Our MC for the evening: former Mayor Ed Koch. Interesting tidbit: I overheard him say that he was considering doing the ABC show “The Bachelor”

Gay Talese, author of the recent A Writer’s Life. Best suit of the evening.
 
Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Price winning author of Maus.He deisgned the graphics […]

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Where the Books Are: Is the Long Tail just a Strand Theory?

FREE! food and an open bar lent a new meaning to “social media” a few weeks ago. Sponsored by Publisher’s Weekly and the AARP (more on those odd bedfellows another time), the event drew lots of folks from the worlds of books, magazines, newspapers, and even a few TV stations to the Strand Bookstore in lower Manhattan.  The […]

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Set your DVRs for Stun

Just saw that CSPAN2 (aka www.BookTV.org) is airing a few BookExpo America 2007 seminars and panels.  Go to the website and Search for “2007 Bookexpo America” to see what’s playing when.
The popular Breakfast Panel with Stephen Colbert, Khaled Hossini, and Lisa See will air on June 16th at 11:30 PM and again on Sunday, June 17th […]

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

I seriously wanted to clone myself last weekend.

It was Book Expo America (BEA) 2007 and there were just so many good seminars to attend AND so much booth traffic AND so many meetings that I needed another “me” to do everything.  As you’d expect at a trade show, seminars were the first to get the axe.  But lucky for me (and now you), BEA […]

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Back from BEA 2007

BEA 2007 was both overwhelming and wonderful. As with any large trade show, its massive size makes it too much to take in during three hectic days. But if you can filter the show content down to the things that you really want to focus on, you can greatly accelerate your business.  BEA offered a new website […]

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Book Expo America 2007

We’ll be at BEA in booth #2302 under the sponsorship of our distributor, BluSky Media Group.  If you’re at the show, please stop by and see us.
Brunonia Barry will be autographing copies of her new book, The Lace Reader, on Friday, June 1st at 11AM in the special BEA author signing area. She will also be signing […]