BEA 2014: Revamped UpublishU Debuts

Amid the excitement of BookCon, self-publishing took center stage at the Javits Center in New York City on Saturday, as uPublishU offered up a day packed with programming targeted to indie authors. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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BEA 2014: Thrilling Thriller: Chris Pavone

After finishing his first novel, The Expats, Chris Pavone decided he wanted to place his next thriller, The Accident (Crown, Mar.), in the publishing industry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Gregory Maguire Delivers Another Wicked Fairy Tale

It’s been seven years since Gregory Maguire has been to BEA, he thinks, but he’s looking forward to it, comparing the show to the most festive New Year’s Eve celebration. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Neil Patrick Harris, Anjelica Huston Speak at Author Breakfast

Neil Patrick Harris, Anjelica Huston, Tavis Smiley, and Lisa Scottoline all spoke at the opening breakfast at BookExpo America 2014. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Measuring the E-book Market

When ebooks first began to make meaningful inroads in publishing in 2009–2010, a number of executives predicted they would become another format within the industry. In 2013 ebooks had become part of the “normal” book market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: At Home with Science

Black Dog & Leventhal, whose mission is to publish original nonfiction that brings complex subjects to a mass audience via experts in their fields, has two books on its fall list that the editors are particularly enthusiastic about. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Say No to Stress

When New Zealander Paul Huljich, author of Stress Pandemic: Nine Natural Steps to Break the Cycle of Stress and Thrive (Midpoint Trade, June), struck it rich in 1993 after selling his successful organic food company, Best Corporation, to Dannon for $100 million, he had every reason to be a... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: A Borders Heir Launches a Feminist Press

As the daughter of Louis Borders, who cofounded Borders Books with his brother Tom in Ann Arbor, Mich., Christine Borders Bronstein always knew she had books in her blood. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Little Rock Thriller

The name, “Webb Hubbell,” conjures up the Clinton era in politics—starting in Little Rock, Arkansas and then on to our nation’s capital. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Celebrating Life’s Adventures

Life is one adventure after another, and at booth 1313, Abbeville Press is celebrating some of the things that make it so: Italian cuisine, the seven seas, and Jane Austen. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be

Douglas Preston and John Scalzi have a lot in common: their work, of course—they both write speculative and near-future fiction about, as Douglas Preston says, “things we are quite sure will happen.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Headline’s Headliners

For the past eight years, in an annual demonstration of generosity, Headline Books has hosted not only its own authors at BEA but also an array of Next Generation Indie Book Award winners or finalists who are independently published authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Shambhala Boosts Its Roost Line

While Shambhala Publications’ giveaways at BEA this year include Writing from the Senses by Laura Deutsch, The Authentic Life by Ezra Bayda, and other titles reflecting the heart and soul of the company’s spiritual origins more than 40 years ago, the company is also spotlighting Roost, its... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Hollywood Comes to North Atlantic

As North Atlantic Books enters its 40th year, the Berkeley Calif., company founded by writers Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough, finds itself with one of its bestselling books, When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football’s Longest Winning Streak by Neil Hayes,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Authors Will Want to Be ‘Binked’

The terminology is fresh because the concept is fresh: “curated, additional content” on an ebook. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Wondering On: R.J. Palacio

Wonder, R.J. Palacio’s 2012 debut novel about Auggie, a fifth-grade boy born with a facial deformity who’s attending mainstream school for the first time, made a critical and commercial splash. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Bricks-and-Mortar Rebounding

Wednesday’s BookExpo panel on the future of bricks-and-mortar retailing couldn’t have been scheduled at a more auspicious time for indies: the day after the American Booksellers Association announced a resurgence in the number of independent bookstores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: The Trail of Lady Liberty: Elizabeth Mitchell

Most folks believe the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States, but Elizabeth Mitchell, in pursuit of researching another topic, came across some diaries of sculptor Frédéric August Bartholdi and learned the true story behind the statue’s creation. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Why Tor Dumped DRM

At the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) at BEA, Tor Books founder Tom Doherty discussed the publisher’s decision to dump DRM. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Successful Longevity

In November of 2012 Herman Wouk, at age 97, spoke to Brooks Barnes of the New York Times about his newest book, The Law Giver, which had just been published by Simon & Schuster. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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