All right, so: This isn't really
Book Expo America. But I like the photograph, so I place it here, and while I'm at it, I invite you to join me at the real and actual BEA, Javits Center, New York City, on Wednesday, May 25th, where I'm privileged to be appearing at two events:
YOU ARE MY ONLY Book Signing: 10 AM (author autographing area)
AUTHOR TEA: 3 PM
Perhaps our paths will cross? I can't promise you a Googer's Cake or Thing. But I can promise you conversation, and maybe the Famous Elizabeth Law will walk by and sing a tune in your direction, or maybe Egmont USA's Katie Halata or Greg Ferguson or Mary Albi or Doug Pocock or Rob Guzman will lay down some ink for you. Or maybe Nico Medina will at last wear a costume on my behalf.
A girl can dream.
Big thanks to Florinda. She knows what for.
I could tell the story of this day, but I won't. I will only say that after a journey up the road and back, and up the road again and back, and then onto the train and into the city and back, I came home to two boxes of books. Those books. My books. My twelfth:
Dangerous Neighbors.
You tire, perhaps, of me singing the praises of Egmont USA. Let me do it one more time, at least.
Dangerous Neighbors is an unusual historical novel, with crossover possibilities and 1876 Philadelphia at its heart. It is a book—perhaps I should start here—that Laura Geringer and Egmont USA chose to believe in. They
chose. Subsequently they delivered unto it (the book) and me (its maker) the most gorgeous cover a writer could ever hope for. They secured a copy editor who cared about Philadelphia and history and who asked me spot-on questions in an attempt to get the story right. They sent me on my way not just to the BEA, but to ALA (treating me like part of their family at each venue), and they have now secured for me a wonderful spot on an upcoming ALAN panel. They sent library copies of the book my way; in twelve books, I've never seen a library copy. People are talking about
Dangerous Neighbors because of Egmont USA (and Winsome Media's Amy Riley and Nicole Bonia). Not only that, but Egmont's publicists talk to me:
They pick up the phone and they talk to me.A writer cannot know the next next. A writer dreams; some dreams are answered. The journey that
Dangerous Neighbors has taken with Laura Geringer and Egmont USA represents a pressing, percolating dream, answered. No matter what happens from here on out, I am a lucky one.
Thank you, Doug Pocock, Elizabeth Law, Greg Ferguson, Mary Albi, Rob Guzman, Alison Weiss, Nico Medina, Katie Halata, Beth Garcia (by way of Goodman Media), Neil Swaab (cover designer), Kathryn Hinds (freelance copy editor) and, of course Laura Geringer, where this book's published life began. I remain in awe of all you have done. One hears so much about what is wrong with publishing. Egmont USA represents the right.
I will be at BEA and I am determined to meet you in person this year after just missing you last year.
It's a date!! And look at how much time I have between things. :)
Some day I will go to BEA. And I will bring a HUGE handbag.
Oh to be there...sigh.
Someday, I hope.
Someday, Q, you will be on my team for real, and someday, Becca. Someday.
Wish I could be there!!!
Have a wonderful time, Beth! It sounds amazing! Lucky, lucky folks who will be there and get to meet you! (Love the photo, too.)
I am SO glad the rumors were true, and I don't intend to miss meeting you! (Can I bring a couple of your other books and ask you to sign them too?)
I wish I could be there.
oh well, that the day I won't be at BEA.
Have a great time! (Wonderful photo)
I will be there and I hope to see you! What's an author tea? I want tea.
Yay - I'm so glad you will be there and shining in person!
Wish I could be there to cheer for you in person, but I have to work lunch rush at Googer's, dangit.
I'll be there in spirit - have a fabulous time!!
XO
A.