The second Philadelphia Book Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday. The schedule of events includes appearances by Jorie Graham, Jennifer Weiner, and Bernadette Peters, whose children's book, Broadway Barks, is published by Blue Apple Books.
The festival, held at the Parkway Central Library, 19th, and Vine streets also includes a street fair and music and storytelling performances.
Philadelphia Book Festival
Peter Bowerman, author of The Well-Fed Writer and The Well-Fed Self-Publisher was interviewed last week in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a feature called "Why I Love My Job."
"'My quality of life is really good . I don't have to ask permission to take a day off or go on a vacation,'" Bowerman told the paper.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ForeWord and the New York Center for Independent Publishing have confirmed the experts who will be leading Q&A sessions at the Independent Publishers Lounge during BookExpo America. BEA attendees are invited to these free, informal sessions with industry leaders in booth 5639. Space is limited; RSVP by emailing smallpress@aol.com.
Friday, May 30th
• 9:00 How to Get the Most Out of Book Expo: A Book Fair Briefing with Dan Poynter, Consultant, Publisher and Author of The Self Publishing Manual.
• 11:00 How to Make Real Money Selling Books with Brian Jud, Book Marketing Works, Author of Beyond the Bookstore and How to Make Real Money Selling Books
Saturday, May 31st
• 11:00 How Publishers Can Maximize Sales Through Bookstores with Marcella Smith, Director of Small Press and Vendor Relations, Barnes and Noble.
• 12:00 How to Structure a Deal: Flat fees vs Royalties vs Profit Share with Deirdre Smerillo, Consutltant, Smerillo Associates, former Contracts Director of Hyperion and Random House.
• 1:00 Your Book Is Your Hook: How to Increase Your Sales with Jennifer S. Wilkov, book consultant, marketing platform strategist and author of Dating Your Money and co-author of The Green Guide Girls: Guide to Book Publishing.
• 2:00 Publishing Law 101: Copyright & Contract Myths Busted & Sneaky Lawyer Tricks Revealed with Lloyd Jassin, Specialist in Copyright, Trademark & Publishing Law and Author of The Copyright Permission and Libel Handbook.
Sunday June 1
• 11:00 The Seven Keys to Marketing Books This Year with John Kremer, Consultant and Author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books.
Updated: 5/15/2008
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Red Dust
Mysticism, myth, and magic swirl, swagger, and stampede through Sunga's haunting and frequently harrowing tale set in war-torn South Africa during the waning years of apartheid. Mating cobras are the talismans, and shrunken heads the touchstones that guide Koko, a fatherless Indian girl, on an emotionally arduous campaign to discover the identity of the father she never knew.
A student activist at the heart of the anti-apartheid struggle, Koko's father died violently at the hands of police investigators. Since his murder, Koko's mother, brothers, and uncles live in fear of reprisal, and yet Koko remains frustratingly unaware of the underlying source of this constant danger.....
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