Lessons from BEA 2014

This weekend was a whirlwind as I attended my first ever Book Expo conference–otherwise known as BEA. It’s a booklover’s paradise, basically: authors, readers, publishers, and booksellers all coming together to celebrate books and each other. I’ve long dreamed of going, and I finally got to do so this year, so I checked that off the bucket list :).

I went primarily for aspecial conference-within-a-conference calleduPublishU,which focuses on helping self-publishers get to success with their boo...