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
While competition is at the core of the success of firms, it takes creativity to achieve true and memorable failure. —From Competitive Disadvantage (sequel to Competitive Advantage by Michael Porter) Submitted by Andrew Marrus
As I lay squeezed between a tiger, an elephant, a polar bear, a velociraptor, a mound of flesh-eating bacteria and a black mamba, I couldn't help but wonder why the hell I got on another boat full of random zoo animals crossing the Pacific. —From Life of Pi, Part Two: An Even Smaller Lifeboat with a Larger Surety of Death (sequel to Life of Pi by Yann Martel) Submitted by Scott Michonski
Things had been going seriously downhill since Darcy was diagnosed with Aspergers and the liquored-up Elizabeth took up mud-wrestling, but the Drug Squad raid on the Pemberley Ball was truly the final indignity. —From Disillusion and Rancour (sequel to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen) Submitted by Candida Gower, Publisher, Kent, Great Britain
Call me, Ishmael! —From Moby Dick's Guide to Dating at Sea (sequel to Moby Dick by Herman Melville) Submitted by Anonymous
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