BEA GALLEY 2013 & Signing Guide BY BARBARA HOFFERT PrepubAlert LIBRARYJOURNAL Another BookExpo America, another galley guide. This is LJ’s Digital Galleys fourth iteration, and it’s starting Via NetGalley (www.netgalley.com), to feel like a real tradition. This professional readers year’s guide ranges widely, touching can access digital galleys, and publishers can choose on small presses that haven’t been how to provide access. We’ve noted here if a title is available for request represented before while including or if the title is private. all the big galley giveaways and The galley is available in-booth signings at major 4 for request. publishers. For this show, publishers Readers can ask publicists seem to be taking a less-is-more 1 for a NetGalley widget, which attitude, providing a select number of key giveaways. can be emailed to grant approved What’s here is choice, then, and gives a good sense of access for that particular title. what titles will be most discussed in the months to come. NOTE If you’re an ALA member, add So follow the numbers to your favorite publishers. your member number to your NetGalley Profile to make it easier for publishers Once again, for the digitally inclined, I’ve embedded icons to approve your requests! Questions? that will guide you straight to NetGalley. Email [email protected]. 278 Red Hen Press Galley giveaways: Poetry lovers will rush over to Red Hen’s booth for Tess Taylor’s The Forage House, a forthright and deeply personal examination of Thomas Jefferson’s African American family, and will stay to pick up Ron Koertge’s witty, pop-cultural The Ogre’s Wife. Fiction lovers get treats, too: John Van Kirk’s lovely, melancholic Song for Chance, about a fading piano man and his seminal rock opera, and Melody Mansfield’s short story collection, A Bug Collection. For nonfiction fans: Mary Greene’s When Rain Hurts: An Adoptive Mother’s Journey with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and Steve Bassett’s Golden Ghetto: How the French & Americans Fell In & Out of Love During the Cold War, eye-openers from this small-but-tough literary standby. 1 Just for Fun: Pluck up the guitar picks for Song for Chance, edible chocolate bugs for A Bug Collection, and little army men for Golden Ghetto, and you’ll be happy. 829 Sourcebooks Galley giveaways: On Thursday, May 30, at 12:00 p.m., especially recommended (with 500 galleys): Charles Belfoure’s The Paris Architect 4 , whose protagonist comes to understand the horrific fate of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris after being asked to construct various hiding places. On Friday, May 31, at 9:00 a.m., James Whitfield Thomson’s affecting trade paperback debut, Lies You Wanted To Hear 4 , and Julie Ann Walker’s mass-market romance paperback, Born Wild: Black Knights Inc., a continuation of the New York Times best-selling series, with 500 galleys and 250 galleys, respectively. In-booth signings: On Thursday, May 30, at 1:00 p.m., Dianne Dixon, The Book of Someday 4 , a mesmerizing tale of three women sure to be an audience favorite; note that the 1,000 galleys will have French flaps and a reading group guide. On Friday, May 31, at 1:00 p.m., Cathie Pelletier, The One-Way Bridge 4 (finished books). 839, 939 Workman Galley giveaways: Just one galley giveaway to highlight, but it will be of special interest to parents and educators: Michael Parker’s Talk with Your Kids: 109 Conversations About Ethics and Things That Really Matter—Honesty, Friendship, Tolerance, Sportsmanship, Competition, Bullying, Plagiarism. A nice number of galleys, nicely staggered throughout the show. In-booth signings: On Thursday, May 30, at 10:00 a.m., the ever-magical Alice Hoffman, giving us Survival Lesson 4 (and already causing a stir) with her first nonfiction; at 11:30, Nicole Smith, Skirt-a-Day Sewing 4 (I couldn’t); at 1:30 p.m., Lauren Grodstein, boasting best book credentials and causing her own stir with The Explanation for Everything 4 ; at 2:00 p.m., Marina Marchese, signing 100 finished copies ofThe Honey Connoisseur: Selecting, Tasting, and Pairing Honey, with a Guide to More Than 30 Varietals 4 (yum); at 2:30 p.m., Ellen Zachos, Backyard Foraging (yum?). On Friday, May 31, at 10:30 a.m., award-winning author Lee Smith, whose Guests on Earth 1 focuses on a 1930s sanatorium (Zelda’s there) and shows us the dark side of the sunny South. Just for Fun: Pick up the Black Dog & Leventhal tote bag featuring jacket art from Arielle Eckstut & Joann Eckstut’s The Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Color, Beauty & Joy of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue & Violet so that you can carry away the following: a Fall 2013 Algonquin Reader; blads (just 200 each) for The Secret Language of Color, Anja Grebe & Ross King’s The Vatican: All the Paintings, Philippe Margotin & others’ All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release, Judith Dupre’s Skyscrapers: A History of the World’s Most Extraordinary Buildings (rev. ed.), and The New York Times Complete World War II 1939–1945, ed. by Richard Overy; blads and notecards for Teri Dunn Chace & Robert Llewellyn’s Seeing Flowers: Discover the Hidden Life of Flowers, and blads and notepads for Marta McDowell’s Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children’s Tales. 2 3 1102, 1111 Consortium Akashic: A big push behind two debut novels—Laurie Loewenstein’s Unmentionables and Eric Charles May’s Bedrock Faith—not to mention the latest in the famed Akashic Noir series (Manila Noir, edited by Jessica Hagedorn, and USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series, edited by Johnny Temple). But the real giveaways are galleys (not a lot) for T Cooper & Allison Glock’s Changers Book One: Drew, and C.J. Farley’s Game World, during an authors’ signing on Friday, May 31, at 3:00 p.m., plus samplers. All promoting the new YA imprint Black Sheep. Bellevue Literary Press: This stellar literary press shows its colors with Melissa Pritchard’s Palmerino (loved her Odditorium), which has been chosen as part of a new series of stage events, “BEA Selects,” on May 30. Then there’s Magdaléna Platzová’s Aaron’s Leap, translated from the the Czech and reflecting a new commitment to fiction in translation, and an updated trade paperback edition of Lynne Jones’s Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become. Central Recovery Press: Signings to chase down include Joe Putignano, Acrobaddict, Thursday, May 30, at 10:30 a.m.; Sylvester “Skip” Sviokla III, MD, From Harvard to Hell…And Back, Thursday, May 30, at 1:00 p.m.; Debbie Danowski, Why Can’t My Child Stop Eating, Friday, May 31, at 10:30 a.m.; and Dan Mager, Some Assembly Required, Friday, May 31, at 1:00 p.m. All galley quantities are 200, though former Cirque du Soleil acrobat Putignano’s memoir is getting special love. City Lights Publishers: Three rollicking events celebrate books inspired by the queer, feminist, let’s-talk-tough Sister Spit literary roadshow. On Thursday, May 30, at 2:00 p.m., Ali Liebegott will sign her Brooklyn-in-the- Nineties novel Cha-Ching! On Friday, May 31, at 2:00 p.m., series editor Michelle Tea will sign the first book in the series, Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road. On Saturday, June 1, at 2:00 p.m., New York Times bestselling–author Beth Lisick signs Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames. Coffee House Press: Get there early for poet Dan Beachy-Quick’s fable-like foray into fiction, An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky, the publisher’s lead title, as well as Christopher Merkner’s The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic: Stories and a combined galley of Valeria Luiselli’s Faces in the Crowd (a novel) and Sidewalks (essays). Just 100 galleys each. Blads for Andy Sturdevant’s Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow: Essays and National Book Award finalist Karen Tei Yamashita’s entirely original Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance. Haymarket Books: Big posters will direct you to galley giveaways for Gary Younge’s The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream, Ben Davis’s 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, and Jen Marlowe & others’ I Am Troy Davis, each with about 100 galleys. Also look for postcards promoting Kari Lydersen’s Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s 99%. Ig Publishing: Jessica Stilling will appear at the Live Stage on Thursday, May 30, at 2:00 p.m., and will be in the booth immediately afterward to sign galleys of Betwixt and Between, a debut novel billed as Peter Pan meets The Lovely Bones. 4 1230 Trinity University Press Giveaways: No galley giveaways, but consider stopping by to grab the bag for Home Ground: Guide for an American Landscape, edited by Debra Gwartney & Barry Lopez, a big book on how we talk about landscape that initially appeared in 2006 and is now being reissued in a new design that could fit your pocket. The publisher also hopes to reintroduce American readers to significant mid-century naturalist Donald Culross Peattie by bringing nine of his books back into print. A sample chapter omnibus should whet the appetite. 1231A Cleis Press & Viva Editions Galley giveaways: An unexpected range from wise to wild, including Pam Withers & Cynthia Gill’s Jump Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life, which YA novelist Withers wrote with her teacher sister after she found her adventure novels for boys prompting speaking invitations from educators and librarians; Kuwana Haulsey’s Everything I Needed To Know I Learned from My Six-Month Old: Awakening to Unconditional Self-Love in Motherhood; erotic writer Alison Tyler’s Dark Secret Love: A Story of Submission, culled from her memoirs; and James Lear’s The Hardest Thing: A Dan Stagg Mystery, an action-packed novel about a military man who found trouble when he forgot the admonition “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and finds even more once he returns to civilian life.