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Booths at BEA10

These are some of the more visually interesting booths I saw at BEA 2010.

More BEA 2010 Photos

The Image Comics booth.Osprey Books! I used many titles from their "Men-at-Arms" series for World War One research. I, umm, visited them twice. A sales and marketing person found me (and my uses for their books) quite amusing, I think. Since their main audience is usually wargamers and historical reenactors.Upcoming books from Small Beer Press. The Kathe Koja historical is out in October.

Final BEA 2010 Report

Today I had the happiness of introducing people to each other because they ought to have known one another already but didn't. (I think I got those tenses right...I'm really tired!) I first met up with erotica writer Sacchi Green, whom I met many years ago at a reading for Best Lesbian Erotica, in which we both had stories. We wandered the floor and I got to see things from a different

BEA 2010 Pictures, Thursday

Sculpture of a typewriter. I think it was the Abrams booth.Poster for Lucienne Diver's new book Revamped.Delia Sherman and publisher Gavin Grant of Small Beer Press, signing copies of Interfictions 2 in the autograph area. The chutes are less scary when friends are at the end of them!Cecilia Tan with some of her upcoming books from Red Wheel.

BEA 2010 Photos

Megan Frampton and Kwana Jackson near the exhibition halls. Alas, they cannot tell you what the story is on Google Books.Sarah Beth Durst and Laura Anne Gilman in the Harlequin booth. (Isn't that the perfect slogan to headline a picture? What aren't they telling us? Heh.)The unobscured poster:The autographing area.Checked bags full of free books.

More Live from BEA 2010!

My feet are starting to hurt. I planned to stop by the autographing session with Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier, except when I saw the cattle-chute arrangement and the vast hordes of people signing and waiting for signatures, I retreated in terror.I continue to have good luck finding people I know. On my way from visiting Laura Anne Gilman and Christine Merrill at their Harlequin signing,

Live from BEA 2010!

I'll post photos later - just a quick report.I was a bit overwhelmed for a few moments when I first stepped into the Javits, but soon realized that Book People were all around me. I keep thinking I recognize people whom I've never seen before, because they have that aura of Book about them!I visited the RWA booth and also Harlequin's booth, delivered some free chocolate I'd brought for the booth

My Crosstown Constitutional

I made it into New York last night only a little late. Amid the rush hour of people leaving work, I checked in to my hotel and took a leisurely crosstown stroll to meet friends for dinner.Here are some of the photos I took on my walk. I tried to choose things I'd seen many times, but rarely or never photographed. For example, the Empire State Building.Old architecture is my favorite.I love

BEA 2010

I am at BookExpo America today and tomorrow, so if you're there, feel free to say hi! That is, if you can find me in the surging maelstrom of publishing and bookselling folks.My publisher, Harlequin, will be in booths 3922, 3923, and 4023. Romance Writers of America are in booth 3484. Cleis Press and Viva Editions are at 4324b. You actually do have a realistic chance of catching me at one of

Top Three Things to Do At BEA

I leave for BookExpo America 2010 this afternoon, so thought it would a good day to post my top three things to do at BEA. This is my first trip to BEA, so these are sort of theoretical, but from my experiences at other conferences, I am pretty sure they're all Really Good Things.1. Make sure I have the cell phone number of everyone I want to see while I'm wandering the vast wilderness of