from Veronica Roth’s keynote speech at this year’s BookExpo America convention.
Check out the transcript here, or video here (1:09:00 mark for Veronica)
If you’re going to be at BEA this week make sure you check out the Penguin Truck, which will be conveniently located in the Crystal Palace area of the Javits Center (before you enter the main exhibit floor). And click through to check out a map of where the truck will be going through the summer (more locations to come).
The Penguin Pushcart is going to be making a few stops this summer as well, including one rather Shakespearean stop in NYC (hint hint).
Another Wednesday, another Road Trip! To answer this week’s, respond to this post or answer on your own blog and leave the link in comments at our post. Then you can see how everyone else answered!
This week we want to know: Conference season is here! We are getting all excited for BEA and ALA (check out the get-together we have planned with Stacked for ALA!), and we want to know: What authors would be on your dream author panel?
Speaking at BEA’s Children’s Book & Author Breakfast!
This just in! Author @veronicaroth will speak at #BookExpo’s Children’s Book & Author Breakfast Fri. 5/31! bit.ly/WjBh9l
My BEA haul, about half the size of last year’s #bea12 #arcs #books (Taken with Instagram)
The Javits Center is like an airport with no scheduled departures and much more carpeting. It is hot and cold, somehow, at the same time, and it smells like the sad turkey wraps you’ll see hungry souls clutching as they crouch in the corners of the main convention floor eating hurriedly between…
Hey BEA folks, check out this cool poster I designed. It reminds you to donate your leftover books to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, where we will sell them and used the funds to fight to end AIDS and homelessness! Come on, donate!
(via rachelfershleiser)
What do YA fans think? Do you follow authors on blog tours? Do you tune out those posts as noise? What catches your attention?
So it’s Book Expo America this week, and many people are writing in with reports about various panels and what the “buzz” is. And someone just said something I enjoyed a lot:
YA marketing panel: “do blog tours & cover reveals!” My question: since EVERYONE…
