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Horror Convention Questions Horror's Conventions
Times are a-changing at the annual World Horror Convention. Genres are blurring and blending, small presses are popping up like dandelions, and the convention is drawing new attendees.
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Pygmalion Literary Festival Kicks Off This Fall
Ninth Letter, an interdisciplinary literary journal headquartered at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and Pgymalion Music Festival are joining forces to launch the Pgymalion Literary Festival, which will feature literary events alternating with musical performances.
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COMIC Con Culture on the Rise
If you can’t join ’em, build your own.
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ALA 2013: Authors at the Show
In addition to the scheduled programs, hundreds of authors will sign books and greet librarians at booths in the exhibit hall.
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ALA 2013: All Our Coverage
Our complete coverage of ALA 2013, including a survey of the main events; the speakers; the readings, discussions, and presentations; the panels, and more.
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ALA 2013: 11 Rules for a Great ALA Experience
PW contributing editor Brian Kenney gives his tips for a successful, lifelong relationship with ALA.
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ALA 2013: Cut to the Core
PW's new Common Core columnists, Margaux DelGuidice and Rose Luna, preview Common Core programming at ALA.
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ALA 2013: Sweet Home Chicago!
The 2013 American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition will be held in tChicago, where the ALA is based, from June 27–July 2.
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ABFFE Auction Deadline
The last chance to bid in the ABFFE's annual children's book art online auction is the morning of May 25. A preview of the art can be found here.
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YA Readers in the Age of Social Networking: A CBC Forum
One glance at the stage during a Children's Book Council discussion called Engaging Relationships: How Kids & Teens Discover, Connect With, and Share Their Passions, made it clear that this wasn't your run-of-the-mill panel.
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Online Auction for ABFFE Starts Saturday
For the first time, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the American Booksellers Association will hold an week-long online public auction leading up to BookExpo America.
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In Pictures: The 2013 Children's Choice Book Awards
After tallying 1,138,675 votes from kids all over the country, the Children's Book Council and Every Child a Reader announced the winners of the sixth annual Children's Choice Book Awards at a gala benefit in New York City on May 13.
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Indie Booksellers Meet Indie Publishing: NECBA at Charlesbridge
Last week's New England Children's Booksellers Association spring gathering, held in the offices of Charlesbridge Publishing, focused on how independent presses work.
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Gladwell, Otis Chandler To Speak at IDPF Digital Book 2013
The theme at this year's IDPF Digital Book 2013 conference, held May 29-30 at the Javits Center, is Advancing Publishing in a Digital World and features speakers Otis Chandler, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Aiken, Allen Lau, Sylvia Day, Jennifer Armentrout, and more.
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The Great Books Summer Program Expands to England
In its twelfth year, the summer educational program, The Great Books Summer Program will expand to England with a program at The University of Oxford.
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World Book Night U.S. Brings 32% Jump In Sales
The numbers are in from World Book Night U.S., which took place on April 23 and aims to promote reading across the country.
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PW Event: Trends in Consumer Book-Buying
As part of PW's ongiong Breakfast Series, the magazine's co-editorial director Jim Milliot and Bowker’s U.S. director of market research, Carl Kulo, will be presenting data from the soon-to-be released 2013 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics & Buying Behaviors Annual Review at an event on Wednesday, May 8.
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World Book Night 2013 Stats: More College Student Involvement
World Book Night announced preliminary statistics on where WBN book givers went on April 23, reporting a third each in school, health and service, and general ‘around town’ categories.
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2013 L.A. Times Festival of Books: An Abundance of Children's Events
The 18th L.A. Times Festival of Books, held April 20-21, on the University of Southern California campus, had scores of bestselling authors in attendance, and offered dozens of kid-centric book signings, panels and interviews.
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Book Tour Held on Historic Chancellorsville Battlefield
Skip Tucker to hold press conference on the site of Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s final battle, at Chancellorsville Battlefield in Spotsylvania, Va., to officially announce the paperback release of his novel, Pale Blue Light.
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