Archive | May, 2008

Bmally Teaches The 10 Commandments to the Youngest Lambs

The Story of a Marriage Vivica KeyesVivica Keyes is the Founder and President of Prazup, Inc. As a former Nursery, Pre-K and Kindergarten Ministry Director, she developed and wrote the curriculum for several years before she began to write her own children’s series and created her first character, Bmally.

Bmally (pronounced Baa-lee) is the main character in The 10 Commandments, is the first book to be published in this series. Bmally explores Bible stories and applies biblical practices to the challenges our youngest children are facing in today’s society.

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Music, Books and Business: The Name Says It All!

Music, Books and Business LogoMusic, Books and Business is a wholesale distributor of music and book products. They provide the music and book industry with innovations that increase sales while maintaining efficient cost controls. Booksellers all over the world depend on MB&B to supply them with fast selling products. Their fulfillment service is among the nation’s best and their customer service is rated #1.

Publishers and music companies also rely on MB&B to sell their products fast and to consistently increase their customer base…worldwide. When doing business with MB&B your products will be listed on every major database, plus your sales and title information will be emailed to all booksellers worldwide that make decisions.

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Andrew Sean Greer Discusses The Story of a Marriage

The Story of a Marriage Andrew Sean GreerAndrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, the story collection How It Was for Me, and the novel The Path of Minor Planets.

His new book, The Story of a Marriage, is a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco.

In this podcast episode, Greer discusses the process he went through the write The Story of a Marriage, his reaction to praise he’s received, and the valuable piece of advice that other authors have given him.

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The “Most Funniest” Way to Explore Life’s Lessons!

Life's Building BlocksLife’s Building Blocks designs, creates, markets and sells an extensive line of unique products and programs dedicated to helping parents develop morals and character in children in a fun and interactive environment.

The smartly packaged products include books, board games, toys and DVD’s that are distributed through proven direct marketing techniques that build upon historical data while taking advantage of the current trends in the market place.

Life’s Building Blocks products are based upon a group of kids called the Spruce Street Six: Honest Jake, Jessica the Brave, Calm Carlos, Lauren Never Quits, Jarrett the Just, and Kind Shawnie. Children will also be introduced to Zaki the Character Chameleon who helps the Spruce Street Six recognize morally charged situations and helps them make good decisions. This makes the learning experience fun, easy to relate to, and positive.

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Jon Scieszka’s Mission: Foster A New Generation of Readers

Jon ScieszkaBeloved author of children’s books Jon Scieszka was recently appointed the first National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress. The position was created to raise national awareness of the importance of young people’s literature as it relates to lifelong literacy, education, and the development and betterment of the lives of young people.

In this podcast episode, Scieszka outlines the issues our industry and country face in the quest to put more books in the hands of more children.

Scieszka will provide Introductory Remarks at this year’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast (Friday, May 30, 8:00AM – 9:30AM in the Concourse Hall). This opening-day breakfast will feature Sherman Alexie, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Judy Blume, author of Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One, and Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book. Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox will be the Master of Ceremonies.

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Robert Stikmanz Leads Readers Into The Hidden Lands of Nod

Prelude to a Change of MindRobert StikmanzRobert Stikmanz is the creative identity of Austin, Texas, author and artist Rob Lewis.

Prelude to a Change of Mind, Stikmanz’s first book in The Hidden Lands of Nod series, was released in February 2007. Blending fantasy, folklore, speculative science and social critique, this beautifully crafted novel introduces the world of the Dvarsh and their interactions with our shared reality.

Stikmanz’s new novel is entitled Nod’s Way. Nod’s Way, the oracle of the Dvarsh, does not fit handily into familiar categories. It can be read as an authority or guide, like the Tao Te Ching, or it can be consulted as a fortunetelling tool, like the I Ching. Fleshing out the fictional world of the Dvarsh, a non-human people who have developed in tandem with homo sapiens, this central artifact of their culture represents the ancient wisdom and distilled values of the Dvarsh way of life.

This fully interactive work comes as a boxed set including a wisdom book, a journal, and three custom dice that allow readers to divine deeper meaning from the book than what is solely printed on the pages.

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John Hodgman Offers Up More Information Than We Require

More Information Than You RequireJohn HodgmanJohn Hodgman is a contributing writer for publications including The New York Times Magazine. He wrote an advice column for McSweeney’s for over a year entitled “Ask a Former Professional Literary Agent,” and currently curates and hosts the Little Gray Book Lectures—a monthly series that has been broadcast on This American Life. He now appears regularly on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show and is well-known for his role as a PC in Apple’s “Get a Mac” advertising campaign.

Hodgman’s new book, More Information Than Your Require, like his debut work The Area of My Expertise, is a book of useful world knowledge and facts, completely made up by Hodgman.

John Hodgman will be at BEA 2008, serving as The Master of Ceremonies at the Sunday Book and Author Breakfast (8:00AM – 9:30AM in the Concourse Hall). This event will feature Ted Turner, author (with Bill Burke) of Call Me Ted, Azar Nafisi, author of Things I’ve Been Silent About: A Memoir of Family, and Dennis Lehane, author of The Given Day.

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LibreDigital: Providing Your Internet Digital Warehouse

LibreDigital LogoLike a traditional warehouse in the physical world, LibreDigital’s LDW serves as a secure, high-performance hub for book publishers as they move into the digital age. Using the “SaaS” (Software as a Service) model, LibreDigital has created sophisticated and internet-facing repository and digitization services that are especially configured for the requirements of publishers.

In this episode, we speak with Craig Miller, LibreDigital Vice President and General Manager. Miller discusses the company’s innovation in the digital publishing space and the impressive growth of LibreDigital, which now works with numerous publishers including HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group USA, Harlequin, and Microsoft Press.

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Christopher Buckley Hosts Saturday Book and Author Luncheon

Supreme CourtshipChristopher BuckleyAfter a classical education at the Portsmouth Abbey School, Christopher Buckley graduated from Yale University. He became managing editor of Esquire Magazine and later worked as the chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush. This experience led to his novel The White House Mess, a satire on White House office politics and political memoirs.

Buckly has gone on to write such books as Thank You for Smoking, Florence of Arabia, and Steaming To Bamboola.

In his new satire, Supreme Courtship, The President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America’s most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court.

Buckley will serve as the Master of Ceremonies for this year’s Saturday Book and Author Luncheon (12:00PM – 2:00PM in the Concourse Hall). This year’s lunch will, once again, focus on political and social issues and will feature Richard Engel, author of War Journal, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, author of Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era, Jon Krakauer, author of The Hero, and Michael Moore.

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Joe O’Connell On Evacuation Plan: A Novel from the Hospice

Evacuation Plan: A Novel from the HospiceJoe O'ConnellJoe O’Connell is an author and journalist who writes film columns for both the Dallas Morning News and The Austin Chronicle.

In O’Connell’s new book, Evacuation Plan: A Novel from the Hospice, Matt, a fledgling screenwriter, volunteers to work with the terminally ill in exchange for a good plot for his next script. He meets the people who work, die, and mourn in this world of last moments.

In the novel-in-stories style of Tim O’Brien’s July July and Charles Baxter’s The Feast of Love, O’Connell’s characters in Evacuation Plan reveal themselves in poignantly unfolding stories: the gambler who played a risky game involving his wife and his ex-con father; the mortician who was an unwed father-to-be; the daughter whose dying father has no clue about the night her world spun out of control; the nurse who lived among aging neighbors and struggled to hold her own family in place; the drunk who magically encountered himself as a boy. Forgiveness, joy, making the final leap. Evacuation Plan is the story of a world in which the clock ticks off the final moments for all of us and makes of those moments a lifetime.

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BEA Saturday Night Benefit to Feature Comedian Lewis Black

Me of Little FaithLewis BlackLewis Black is a hugely popular New York Times bestselling author, stand-up comedian, playwright, and actor. Besides appearing on The Daily Show since its inception, he has written and starred in a string of successful specials on HBO and Comedy Central. In 2001, he won the American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic, and in 2007 he won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album.

Black will appear at BEA’s Saturday night benefit on behalf of his new book, Me of Little Faith. Me of Little Faith is a ferociously funny exploration of religion and faith in which he examines how the rules and constraints of religion have affected his life and the lives of us all.

Proceeds from Lewis Black’s performance at BEA will go to help support the Book Industry Foundation which is comprised of the American Booksellers Foundation For Free Expression (ABFFE) and the Association of American Publishers’ Get Caught Reading Campaign.

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Groundbreaking Diet Returns with South Beach Supercharged

The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for LifeArthur Agatston, M.D.Five years after publication of the #1 international blockbuster bestseller, The South Beach Diet, renowned cardiologist, Arthur Agatston, M.D. releases The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life.

In the original South Beach Diet book, Dr. Agatston changed the way America eats, with his right carbs, right fats approach. Now his mission is to change the way America lives, not only by helping people lose weight and eat healthfully but also by becoming more fit.

In this episode, Agatston discusses the evolution of the program over five years time, the new diet and exercise programs this new book offers, and what the future hold for The South Beach Diet.

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You CAN Tell a Book By Looking At Its Cover

Lifetouch Product SamplesDoug BillupsDoug Billups of Lifetouch Commercial Printing and Book Manufacturing says what every publisher’s Production Manager knows: You can tell a lot about the capabilities of a book manufacturer by examining their samples. Not only by looking over the covers, but at the binding and the print quality.

Doug also tells why Lifetouch’s expertise in photography and yearbooks has made them a viable commercial book manufacturing resource.

He’s hoping that not just a few Production Managers will check out their samples on display at booth #4229.

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IBS Bookmaster: The Publishing Industry Supply Chain Solution

International Business Systems LogoInternational Business Systems is one of the leading international suppliers of business application software and professional consulting services for supply chain execution.

In the publishing industry, they are most widely known for their IBS Bookmaster product. IBS Bookmaster software caters to the special requirements of academic, trade, specialized, niche and subscriptions based publishers and distributors. It incorporates a variety of specialized modules and features required by many publishers, such as royalties, returns management, subscriptions, editorial and book production, direct mail, academic sales, title management, title restrictions, dealing with buying groups and much more.

In this episode, we speak with April Berryman, IBS Marketing Communications Specialist, about Bookmaster and the other products IBS offers to the publishing industry.

IBS can be found at BEA 2008 at Booth #3133. For more information about IBS Bookmaster, please click here.

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