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...felt that the book was ready. Acting on the advice of poet and publisher Kwame Alexander—whom Carter met at a musical retreat—the aspiring author and her father traveled to Los Angeles to attend BookExpo America, the largest annual book trade fair in the United States...
...YORK, N.Y. — BookExpo America didn’t seem like the dregs of a dying industry. BEA, North America’s largest convention of publishers, authors, and printers, looked like the biggest book fair I’d ever seen: miles of aisles, spanning 22 acres, spread over 16 hours...
...John Grisham is throwing his full personal support behind this, his first nonfiction book, even showing up at Doubleday's BookExpo luncheon. The book is the story of a man who is exonerated of raping and killing a waitress by DNA evidence, only five days before his 1999 execution. His confident publisher simply put a huge picture of the mega-bestselling author in its catalog, with the tag line, "Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction...
...former TIME writer was mobbed at BookExpo when he signed copies of his forthcoming new book, "Thunderstruck." Larson is not one to rest on his laurels, even though his last smash hit, "The Devil in the White City," is still on the New York Times paperback list after 118 weeks. His latest nonfiction thriller is set in the Edwardian Age, and includes Marconi, the young inventor of radio. According to Larson's publisher, "A mild-mannered doctor known as 'the kindest of men' kills his wife in horrific fashion and buries her remains in the cellar of their London home...
...well-attended BookExpo buzz panel, Vikram Chandra's massive debut novel (1,000-plus pages) was championed by HarperCollins' publisher, who promised that the book will "do for Indian literature what 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' did for South American literature." Amazon.co.uk gives a preview of the tome: "This epic novel draws the reader deep into the life of detective Sartaj Singh and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India...