{"id":1844,"date":"2012-06-06T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T14:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T14:13:04","slug":"bookexpo-america-2012-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/bookexpo-america-2012-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"BookExpo America 2012. Nice."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen Colbert at BEA Breakfast<\/p><\/div>\n

My first delight of BEA yesterday was being in the same room with Stephen Colbert.\u00a0 I felt this inner gasp of Wow! There he is!<\/em>\u00a0 He was small, silly and far away at the podium, but fortunately, there were two big projection screens on either side of the platform, so I could see him in his normal TV-esque headshot, too.\u00a0 He took the success of 50 Shades of Grey<\/em> as an excuse to make random references to his throbbing member throughout his talk. \u00a0Hysterical.<\/p>\n

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BookExpo America 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

At lunch, a trustworthy bookseller told me that 200,000+ self-published titles were produced last year.\u00a0 Wow again!\u00a0 That\u2019s a huge number.\u00a0 I hardly care what this means in terms of each writer trying to get noticed in the throng.\u00a0 What gladdens me is the idea of all these people writing.\u00a0 We are writers!\u00a0 I imagine this pent up longing to have our books out there, and now that there\u2019s finally a convenient way to do it, tons of people are.\u00a0 For me, writing adds such a richness to my life, and I love knowing so many other people have a similar process in their lives, too.<\/p>\n

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25 authors at a time sign books, and readers line up for their turn<\/p><\/div>\n

Next wow: an hour\u2019s worth of kids, librarians, bloggers, teachers, writer friends, and booksellers came through my signing line, some from as far away as Australia.\u00a0 Some of them had the kindest words to say about the Birthmarked<\/em> series, and others were encountering it for the first time.\u00a0 It made me happy to introduce them to my editor and chat for a minute.<\/p>\n

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Behind the curtain of the Autograph Area, my editor Nancy Mercado and I pose with the boxes of books<\/p><\/div>\n

I woke at 3 a.m. with my head buzzing, playing over conversations with my editor, my agent, and the folks from Roaring Brook at dinner last night.\u00a0 My day in New York gave me a chance to see in a new way where my book fits in Roaring Brook, within Macmillan, within a stream of publishing houses, within a world of readers and writers.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of like the old lady who swallowed the fly, then the spider and onward, with me being the fly.\u00a0 Many thanks to Jon Yaged, Simon Boughton, and the team at Macmillan for bringing me in and making me feel so welcome.<\/p>\n

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BookExpo<\/a> continues today and tomorrow at the Javits Center in New York City.<\/p>\n

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Readers bring and check empty luggage so they can stash free review copies to haul home at the end of the day<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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