News covering author appearances, book signings, book tours, events and awards. en-us http://www.publishersweekly.com/community/Events/47148.html?nid=3325 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its http://www.publishersweekly.com/info/337409.html Terms of Use. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:33:40 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705985.html?nid=3325 Cookbook editor and food blogger Luisa Weiss recently sold a memoir, My Berlin Kitchen, to Viking. On her blog, The Wednesday Chef, Weiss explained, “I'm moving back to Berlin and I'm writing a book, about Berlin, about my life, about cooking and home and family and love.” She talked to PW from her office at Stewart, Tabori and Chang, where she’s wrapping things up before departing for Berlin in December. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:31:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6706056.html?nid=3325 An interview with Mary Karr, whose new memoir, Lit, was published November 3 by Harper. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:22:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6706055.html?nid=3325 The 2010 IDPF conference will be held in conjunction with BEA. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:55:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6706045.html?nid=3325 Skylight Books of Los Angeles held a wine and cheese reception that brought together many of the areas independent bookseller who shared stories of the art of bookselling. Diesel Books said National Bookstore Day turned into National Reader Appreciation Day. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:39:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6705666.html?nid=3325 To the fantastically successful family in Jonathan Dee's The Privileges, failure is foreign, and money is not money. Is this perilous? Perhaps. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704285.html?nid=3325 Leila Meacham makes a grand return after a 20-year absence with Roses, a compelling East Texas saga with echoes of Gone with the Wind. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704610.html?nid=3325 More than 100 bookstores across the country are planning to participate in the PW-sponsored event National Bookstore Day this Saturday, November 7. Event organizers are hoping promotions tied to the day will attract local and national media coverage—and, in turn, draw new customers into bookstores. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704611.html?nid=3325 This week, Pace University celebrates the 25th anniversary of its master of science in publishing program. Since its 1984 inception, the program has seen vast changes in the book business, from corporate conglomeration to the rise of e-publishing, financial cutbacks to declining book sales. And even as a similar program, the Stanford Publishing Course for Professionals, shut down earlier this f... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704295.html?nid=3325 When the Boston Globe Children's Book Festival announced earlier this year that it was canceling its seventh book fair, the inaugural Boston Book Festival, which was held last Saturday, upped its children's programming. Even with short notice the BBF was able to fit in a number of activities just for kids, from a tea with Catie Copley, the Labrador that inspired Catie Copley's Great Escape... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:15:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704288.html?nid=3325 Kristen McLean, executive director of the Association of Booksellers for Children, presented a detailed outline of the technological challenges facing the teen book market at the fall meeting of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association on October 24. After commenting on the proliferation of teen Web sites, blogs, and social networks and how they are transforming the way books are read... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:10:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704171.html?nid=3325 Q: What were you hearing from your readers that gave you the idea for this book? A: I'm always around high school and college-age girls, and they all ask me the same questions: How do I get an internship? What should I study in college? Should I go to design school? What kind of education do I need for different jobs? I thought, We need a book that encapsulates advice about how to break in, how to stand out... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704293.html?nid=3325 The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has launched a new banner ad campaign under which the associaiton will coordinate the promotion of one title across participating stores Web sites. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:55:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703972.html?nid=3325 The largest bookseller attendance in several years put a charge into this weekend's Southern California Independent Booksellers Assocation meeting, the last of the fall regionals. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:37:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703586.html?nid=3325 Former Viking assistant editor Ann Mah left New York for Beijing, took a job as the dining editor for the English-language magazine That’s Beijing, and wrote a novel about a young Chinese-American woman who moves to Beijing in the midst of an identity crisis. Mah spoke to PW from Paris, where she now lives, about Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family, and Finding Yourself, which Avon will publish as a paperback original in February. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703715.html?nid=3325 With National Bookstore Day coming closer, another 30 stores have signed on for the event in the last week, bringing the total number of stores to 80. Among the new stores to join National Bookstore Day, set for November 7, are Broadway Book Mall, Denver; Jabberwocky Books, Music & Video, Eagle River, Wis. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6703286.html?nid=3325 Q: What was the actual event that inspired this book? A: In 1955, my parents moved our family from New York City to Stamford, Connecticut, and on our property was a lake that was a source of all kinds of pleasure for us throughout the seasons. The first winter we lived there, my siblings and I wanted to go ice-skating and my mother said we could - as long as my father tested the ice first to make sure it was safe. He agreed to do that - with reluctance. You see, he couldn't swim. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702685.html?nid=3325 This past weekend's Bouchercon World Mystery Convention drew almost 1,700 fans to Indianapolis where Michael Connelly was the Guest of Honor. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:39:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702621.html?nid=3325 The 2009 edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair concluded with a slight dip in overall attendance, tough the number of visitors to the rights center was up. There was lots of discussion about all things digital, though the Europeans and Americans seemed to differ on where things are headed. A few rights also were sold. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:23:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702263.html?nid=3325 In an e-mail sent to publishers in an undisclosed number of European countries right before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Trident chairman Robert Gottlieb charged that publishers have been colluding to keep advances down. European executives dismissed the charging, saying Gottlieb has "gone mad." Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:51:00 EST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702374.html?nid=3325 There’s been a simmering anti-Google sentiment at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, no doubt connected to European objections to the Google Book Search Settlement. And on Friday that simmer reached a boil, as the deal faced harsh—at times, puzzling—criticism at a registration-required panel on “European and American Positions Towards the Google Settlement.” Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:03:00 EST