MEMORY’S LAST BREATH smiling for it’s close-up at BEA (BookExpo America) in NYC
This morning Paul Whitlatch, my editor at Hachette Books, sent me this photo of my book’s poster in the Hachette booth at the BookExpo America (BEA): Michelle Aielli, Associate Publisher (sitting) and Joanna Pinsker, Publicity Director (standing).
Peter and I are continuously astonished and grateful at the enormous work Hachette Books is doing to make my book known to bookstores, libraries, and other book pushers in the trade. And now BEA—the largest annual book trade fair in the US, usually held in a big American city over four days spanning end of May/beginning of June. Nearly all significant book publishers in the United States, and many from abroad—600+—have booths and exhibits at BEA, and use the fair as an opportunity to showcase upcoming titles, sell current books, socialize with colleagues from other publishing houses, and sell and buy subsidiary rights and international rights (although not on the scale of the rights negotiation that occurs at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October). Authors, librarians, and buyers for book retailers also attend the event.
At a different event: “Michelle Aielli (mysterious smile, left) and Paul Whitlatch (boyish grin, right)—luminaries of Hachette Books.” Photo and title credit: Warby Parker
Thanks, Hachette, for believing in my book from the start!
June 2, 2017 @ 7:21 am
Ag, hoe wonderlik!
June 2, 2017 @ 4:45 pm
Dankie weer, Rene. ‘N oorweldegende plesier dat jy my vruegde deel. xoxox
June 4, 2017 @ 12:52 am
Baie geluk Gerda. Ek is so trots op my Affie vriendin! Mag Dõna Qiuxote vir lank in die skaduwees weg bly….xxx
June 5, 2017 @ 8:47 am
Liewe Jeannine, so lekker om van jou te hoor! Ja, Dõna Qiuxote pop in en uit. Vanoggend kyk ek na Maria Shriver se “Memory Loss Tapes” waar mense met Alzheimer’s self praat oor hulle toestand. Verstommend hoe baie mense uiterlik lyk of hulle funksioneer maar eintlik baie beskadig is. En hulle bestuur nog steeds! Maar ek vertel jou sekerlik niks wat jy nie reeds self ervaar het nie. Baie liefde aan jou en al jou mense. xoxox
June 4, 2017 @ 3:26 am
So bly dat jou boek so goed bemark word. Miskien kan n SA boekhandelaar die regte koop om die boek hierdie te versprei?
June 5, 2017 @ 8:39 am
Dankie vir jou ondersteuning, Mariette–altyd. Ek hoop dat my boek deur publikasie in Engeland of op enige ander manier in SA sal beskikbaar wees–as jy enige boekhandelaar in gedagte het, laat my weet en ek sal my agent laat weet. Mooibly, en baie liefde aan jou en al jou mense.