BookExpo America is like heaven for book lovers and I’ll be there for three days next week helping out with Aubey LLC’s, my publisher’s, booth. Fortunately, my boss is understanding. She’ll let me leave the booth during the day to listen to panels, walk around the hall and see my favorite authors, as long as I don’t go crazy. I already downloaded the BEA app so I know what I’ll be doing.
Last year, I collected a ton of swag and books.
On top of that, I got some great feedback for the cover of The Sciell. Between BEA last year and ALA earlier this year, I discovered that a lot of people are interested in my book. I hope that continues this year.
I’ll be doing a book signing on Saturday May 31 from 10:30am -11:30am. Before that, I’ll be passing out flyers and some cool Sciell swag.
I’ll be there to work as well so I’ll be tweeting, taking pictures, talking to people about Aubey and helping out with book signings. Because the office is located in DC and I live in Brooklyn, my apartment has become a storage facility.
This isn’t everything. Still waiting for one more box. The business owner, my mom, is bring books, pens and flyers with her.
Living in Brooklyn has helped the business out. Instead of having to stay in hotels, people just stay with me. My mom doesn’t have to pay to have our books and swag shipped to the conference center. She ships them to me and we’ll take a cab on Wednesday to the conference center to setup.
Hopefully, this year, BEA will help out the business a lot. As you can image, the conference is expensive, like eye-watering expensive and it’s exhausting. Three straight days of manning a booth wipes you out. BEA is what you make it. I keep saying I’m not good at talking to people. Now, that just sounds like an excuse. I’m good at it when I need to be. I’m gonna suck it up and get my network on.
All our book signings are on Saturday May 31
Deborah Johnson– A Poor Child – 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm
Deborah Johnson and Mark Wallace- We Are Not The Enemy– 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Last year, out of fear, I didn’t go to Networking Happy Hour because I’ve never been good at networking. I regretted it then. People in the publishing industry are super nice and easy to talk to. Since I’m in NYU’s publishing program, I’ll probably know some people there. I’ll be going this year.
Stop by booth #3128 May 29-31 to say hello!
