BookExpoCast

Vivica 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.

For more information about Prazup and Bmally, please click here.

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Music, 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 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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Life’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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Robert 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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Like 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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Joe 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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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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Doug 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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International 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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Dr. Taylor Hartman is the critically acclaimed author of The Color Code: A New Way to See Yourself, Your Relationships, and Life (and creator of The Color Code Personality Profile).

With a Ph.D. in Human Behavior and Leadership, Dr. Hartman has been teaching the world for over thirty years one basic truth: All life is about relationships. Dr. Hartman is currently a full-time business consultant and CEO of Hartman Communications. He leads the company and his consulting practice with the single purpose of educating people from all walks of life about themselves and how they can most effectively enhance their personal relationships and professional performance.

Dr. Hartman has written a new book, Playing Life to Win. Playing Life to Win teaches the four things you must do to live a legitimate life, making your life more meaningful to you and those around you.

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In this episode, we speak with David Saracco, Vice President of e-Publishing at Impelsys.

Impelsys helps its clients manage technology and electronic content delivery in a cost effective and resource efficient manner. This is done by leveraging global locations and publishing technology experts, as well as by using Impelsys’ software products that help in delivering electronic content into multiple electronic mediums.

At BEA 2008, Impelsys will be building on its already impressive offerings, which features products such as iPlatform and Virtual Pages. Their new platform solution, iNspire, offers publishers an easy and economical way to bring content online.

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Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Book Designers, a full-scale design studio, specialize in the development of innovative solutions to your book design challenges: from concept to completion.

In this episode, we talk to The Book Designers co-founder and Art Director Ian Shimkoviak. Shimkoviak discusses the creative process that goes into book design, which encompasses much more that just jacket artwork.

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