BEA attendees can’t miss the oversize shocking-pink Sock Monster at the C&T Publishing booth (3758), thanks to the handiwork of Stash Books author Brenna Maloney, who will be signing copies of Sock It to Me: 16 Projects Sewn from Socks—Creepy, Crazy & Strangely Appealing (Aug.), the third release in her Socks series (Socks Appeal and Sockology), on Wednesday, 2–3 p.m. An oversize grasshopper—also completely made of socks—accompanies Sock Monster, “for people that want a more insect feel to their horror,” laughingly explains Amy Marson, publisher for C&T. Sock Monster is here all three days of Book Expo, “unless he decides to go crazy and run off,” adds Marson.
Another Stash Books writer, Elizabeth Hartman, author of The Practical Guide to Patchwork, which won a 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award and sold 180,000 copies, is out with a new book, called Modern Patchwork: 12 Quilts to Take You Beyond the Basics (May), which she will be signing at the booth today, 11 a.m.–noon. Marson tells Show Daily that the modern quilter is a growing demographic.
C&T is also following the embroidery trend. Says Marson, “Little Stitches is coming out in August. If I were to guess another book in our fall season that was going to be hot, that one would be it.”
Stash Books, an imprint of C&T in its third year, will have published 15 books in 2012, almost doubling its debut with eight books.
