Book Expo America!
It’s hard to believe that it’s almost here: Book Expo America, also known simply as BEA, the largest and most important of all the annual book shows in the States — and on the world stage, second only to the Frankfort Book Festival (where most foreign rights get sold). This year BEA is in NYC (how’s that for symmetry?) and looks to be exciting from a number of points of view.
The first and most important is, of course, Booth 3148 — DreamTime Publishing’s booth! I know that Meg and Shelby will be staffing it, but I expect to spend some time there as well, talking to whomever will listen about our absolutely terrific series that present the “why-to” of our various activities and hobbies. Can’t wait to see the cool t-shirts!
It’s an amazing expo, filled with publishers giving out freebies (some people bring boxes and ship all the “stuff” that they gather up directly home), lectures, seminars, meetings, and party after party after party. I have more invitations to parties than I’ll *ever* have time to attend! Networking, selling, and learning, all clustered together into three very busy days.
I’m actually leaving on Sunday, so I won’t be there for all of BEA, as my flight out of Boston is that evening — I’m heading to Bucharest, Romania, for *another* book show/festival there, so I’ll be doing a lot of the same sort of thing for at least a week, along with some author appearances (both at the Bucharest Book Fair and on Romanian television). Pretty amazing week, all in all.
But back to Book Expo America … DreamTime’s been given a wonderfully *different* gift to raffle off — a weekend at a clothing-optional resort in Land O’Lakes, Florida. Ha! Take that, Simon & Schuster! Dream on, St. Martin’s! Don’t you wish *you* had that, HarperCollins? Okay, so I’m kidding, but seriously it’s always a good way to attract people to one’s booth and one’s books, by giving away something that no one else is giving away. And the more people who know about DreamTime Publishing, the better!
Book Expo America runs from June 1 - June 3, with some seminars and other activities in the week leading up to it — which is *next* week. I’ll be sure to post pictures here so you can all see our booth, our publisher and marketing director, and the eager attendees flocking to buy our books!
— Jeannette
Posted in Publicity, Books, Publishing, Publishers, The Writing Life on May 25th, 2007