BOOK: The Sequel
BookExpo — Schedule of B:TS Events
Perseus is designating a section of their BEA booth (#4237) to the creation of BOOK: The Sequel. This work station will include all the necessary tools for live editing, cover design, layout, and promotion. Throughout Friday and Saturday, BEA attendees are encouraged to stop by the booth to watch the various teams in action—and in some cases participate as well. Below is the hour-by-hour production timeline:
| Friday, May 29th | |
|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Editorial Meeting |
| 10:00 AM | Jacket Discussion/Interior Book Design |
| 11:00 AM | First Pass Pages Arrive |
| 1:00 PM | Marketing/Publicity Strategy Meeting |
| 3:30PM | Foreign Rights/Sales Discussion |
| 5:00 PM | E-galleys available | Saturday, May 30th |
| 9:00 AM | Book Website Creation |
| 9:30 AM | Reading Group Guide Creation |
| 1:00 PM | First Print Run Meeting |
| 3:30 PM | Q&A with Participants |
| 4:00 PM | Book Launch Party in booth. Come see the finished book in its many forms, and celebrate! |
Featured Submissions
We were somewhere around Barstow when the cleansing effects of the high desert's unpolluted air began to take hold. —From Love and Inner Tranquility in Las Vegas: A Healing Spiritual Return to the Heart of the American Dream (sequel to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson) Submitted by Norman Szabo, Taiwan ROC
He is what he isn't but he's everything I've ever wanted and didn't know I needed, despite my initial reaction to his profile picture (good god, no WAY!), which, quite frankly, does him no justice at all, doesn't reveal his storybook eyes or that way about his face that is just so beautiful to look at, it's all I do sometimes, just look, and wonder how i got so lucky. —From How to fall in love online (sequel to The Year of Yes by Maria Dahvana Headley) Submitted by Cindy Capitani, Newspaper Editor, Northern New Jersey
Mr. Bilbo Baggins would soon celebrate his eleventy-eleventh birthday, and he was suffering from an excrutiating boredom of endless, special magnificence. —From The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Diminished (sequel to The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien) Submitted by Anonymous
As the child was born kicking and screaming, her father said, "Let her be, she's showing a combination of you and me - can you imagine the strength and fight in her?" —From Taming? Not Happening (sequel to Taming of the Shrew by Shakespear) Submitted by Monica Lehmann
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