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BookExpo 2019: Indie Bookstores Grow in Number, Profits
American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher addressed members at the organization's town hall and annual meeting at BookExpo, noting the ABA added 99 members last year and members increased profitability.
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BookExpo 2019: Bookstores Central to Publishing, Industry Powerhouses Say
Publishing industry leaders made a strong declaration about the centrality of bricks-and-mortar retail to the publishing industry during a Thursday session at BookExpo 2019.
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NYRF 2019: Film Scouts Talk Trends
Leading film scouts and agents spoke on New York Rights Fair panel, explaining how they make a piece of content come alive for a producer or studio executive.
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Live From BookExpo 2019, 'But That's Another Story'
Podcaster/moderator Will Schwalbe recorded his panel with authors Stephen Chbosky, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and Aarti Shahani and turned the live on-site BookExpo event into the next episode of his podcast.
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BookExpo 2019: Literary Fiction Gets the Buzz
Indie booksellers raved about both fall/winter fiction and nonfiction offerings at BookExpo, but literary fiction with plots inspired by today's news headlines is what they were most excited about.
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BookExpo 2019: Adult Breakfast Authors Say Crime Pays in Literary World
Thursday morning's Adult Book & Author Breakfast featured Rachel Maddow, Malcolm Gladwell, Karin Slaughter, Marjorie Liu, and Ta-Nehisi Coates introducing their newest books, with presentations emphasizing the true crimes that inspired each to write.
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NYRF 2019: Reese Is the Word
The New York Rights Fair opened with a conversation about the evolution of actor Reese Witherspoon's production company, Hello Sunshine, and her wildly popular Instagram book club, an engine for bestsellers.
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BookExpo 2019: Slow Start to a Buzzy Show
Hundreds lined up to crash the doors as BookExpo opened on Wednesday, as booksellers, publishers and authors convened for another three-day stint of networking and deal-making.
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BookExpo 2019: What’s the Buzz on the YA Front?
For this preview of today’s YA Editors’ Buzz Panel, moderated by Sara Grochowski of McLean and Eakin Booksellers in Petoskey, Mich., we asked each participant what it was about the book that first caught her attention and clued her in that it was special.
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BookExpo 2019: Raina Telgemeier's 'Guts' and Graphics
Raina Telgemeier spills her guts—quite literally—in her latest graphic novel, appropriately entitled 'Guts' (Scholastic Graphix, Sept.), the third in a series inspired by Telgemeier’s memorable childhood experiences.
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BookExpo 2019: Julie Murphy Makes Her Middle Grade Debut
Murphy says that she was inspired to write for a younger age group because of the reception she received for 'Dumplin' ', which is about what it’s like to exist in a fatter body.
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BookExpo 2019: Mac Barnett’s Creative Hat Trick
Mac Barnett reflects on a trio of new projects, which, he says, “represent three different approaches to writing—and three different strains of my personality.”
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BookExpo 2019: Sarah J. Maas's Whole New World
“It was all about the story. The story I couldn’t stop thinking about, the one I was the most excited to write,” says Sarah J. Maas, best known for her two YA series Throne of Glass and Court of Thorns and Roses, of her decision to create her first epic fantasy series for adults.
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BookExpo 2019: A Season of Firsts for Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell says that she is happiest and most productive when writing in different genres for varied audiences.
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BookExpo 2019: Joshilyn Jackson Asks if Redemption Is Possible
As a self-described “devout but very progressive Christian woman,” Joshilyn Jackson is interested in the act of redemption. “How far can you go into the black before you see the lights to call you home?” She pursues that theme in her latest novel, 'Never Have I Ever' (Morrow, July).
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BookExpo 2019: Andrea Bobotis on the Roots of Murder, Southern-Style
A woman untangles the dark legacy of her family’s possessions in a hard-luck South Carolina cotton town in Andrea Bobotis’s first novel, 'The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt' (Sourcebooks, July).
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BookExpo 2019: Adam Rippon From Ice to Page
For 20-some years, Adam Rippon’s life was dominated by figure skating. Then, after snagging a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics as part of the team, he announced his retirement from the professional sphere. To transition between that fierce, competition-fueled era and the next uncertain one, he decided to write a memoir.
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BookExpo 2019: Catherine Ryan Howard Fast Forwards to ‘Rewind’
Catherine Ryan Howard found the perfect writing prompt to inspire her latest thriller, 'Rewind' (Blackstone, Sept.): an image from Frank Warren’s PostSecret project.
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BookExpo 2019: Eric Nuzum's Podcast Primer
NPR and Audible veteran Eric Nuzum, who has produced 130 podcasts, has created a book on podcasting basics, Make Noise (Workman, Dec.). Here he talks about what distinguishes the best podcasts.
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BookExpo 2019: Megan Goldin Lays a Trap for Wall Street Wizards
Goldin's novel 'The Escape Room' keys into the cutthroat world of Wall Street hedge fund megawealth and workplace sexism.
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