This year's trade show was a celebration of books, community, and camaraderie for 310 Midwest Independent Booksellers Association booksellers and 98 Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association members. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Riverdale Avenue Books has named Joseph Pittman editorial director of Dagger, Riverdale’s new mystery and thriller imprint. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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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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Crystal’s 'Still Foolin’ ‘Em' won the award for Audiobook of the Year and Pete Seeger’s 'Pete Seeger: The Storm King' took home the prize for Distinguished Achievement in Production. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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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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Coming to BEA with her first novel, Flying Shoes (Bloomsbury, June), Square Books co-owner Lisa Howorth is excited to return to the show and see it through an author perspective. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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After years of trying to write a memoir, Michael Coffey, the outgoing co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly, realized that fiction was the best way to extend ruminations about what it meant for him to be adopted. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Five years ago, writer Eula Biss, pregnant for the first time, decided to research the controversial topic of vaccinations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Having its start in the financial typesetting segment has given RS TechnoMedia, called Zenhancer Technologies in the U.S., plenty of experience in projects with very short turnaround time and zero-error margin. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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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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Watching the charismatic actor, Alan Cumming, on the CBS television show, The Good Wife, or PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery, seeing him in films or on the stage, where he’s currently getting raves on Broadway as the emcee in Cabaret, you’d be looking at the picture of success. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The view from the 14th floor of Kim Weiss’s South Florida high-rise is spectacular. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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As book lovers gather at Book Expo, the American Library Association invites attendees to visit the Booklist booth (1043) to preview the books on display that are shortlisted for this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of five internationally bestselling novels, including The Husband’s Secret. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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As at shows past, BEA 2014 is an occasion for children’s publishers’ to mark memorable milestones. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Jeff Hobbs went to Yale. So did Robert Peace. Jeff Hobbs went on to write a novel, The Tourists, that became a national bestseller. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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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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In Tavis Smiley’s personal assessment, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the greatest American this country has ever produced. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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It has been more than a decade since Australian author Garth Nix published Abhorsen, the third volume (after Sabriel and Lirael) in his Old Kingdom fantasy series. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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A small newspaper item about a murderous family in Florida sparked Tracy Letts’s distinguished playwriting career when he was only 26. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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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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