As Children's Book Week wraps up, the Children's Choice Book Award winners were announced. Two independent publishers took home prizes for their winning books. More than 55,000 votes were received from children across the country. The awards program was sponsored by the Children's Book Council.
Children's Book Council
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
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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The Lost
There's no doubt that Ellen Shaw is at the heart of it all. But who is she? Is she simply the stylish, comfortable wife of an older gentleman who dotes on her? Or might she also be the grown-up incarnation of a little girl who disappeared twenty years earlier, setting off a wave of lurid tabloid headlines? The Lost is set in contemporary London just before Christmas. Hard-bitten newspaper reporter Len Curzon first encounters the woman he will come to know as Ellen Shaw while visiting a prison inmate. Noticing a resemblance between the woman and the mother of the missing child, Curzon follows her back to her apartment and begins his surveillance. If she turns out to be who he thinks she is, he'll have a big story, one he desperately needs if he is to save his plummeting career.....
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