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
"My oh my" thought Molly waking up naked and happy the following morning. "Eventually, some really good sex!" —From the sequel to Ulysses by James Joyce Submitted by Alessandra Bava, Rome
In the Second Beginning, which was not so much a Second Beginning as a Not-So-Very-Final Ending, which may or may not result in another Beginning, God decided that everything he had previously created was his worst idea of all eternity, and decided that even re-creating a better world might perhaps be pointless. —From The New New Testament That Is Not Quite So Old As the Old New Testament and Is Nowhere Near As Old As the Old Old Testament (sequel to The Bible by Various authors) Submitted by Anonymous
He's just freakishly way too into you if he's watching you read this through binoculars. —From He's Just Freakishly Way Too Into You (sequel to He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo) Submitted by Barbara Teszler, Publicist, New York City
It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw Sweden, he fell madly in love with it. —From They'll Never Catch Me: 22 Years in Scandanavia (sequel to Catch 22 by Joseph Heller) Submitted by Bill Michtom, Portland, OR
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