BEA 2006 Going On in Washington DC I'm kicking myself that there was a major, justifiable book event an hour away from the Preakness Stakes (a mostly crappy betting race, btw; I'd probably find an exacta pairing with some value based on how the local betting changed the odds today), but the news seems pretty quiet from the event itself. There's something nice and entirely appropriate about this becoming a working weekend instead of a "Gosh, wow! We're in the real Book Expo" experience over the last few years. It also seems like some of the companies are taking the opportunity to stress one or two books as particularly appropriate for the book and library trade (there are a lot of librarians there, as I recall), and not so much choosing to work the "Hey, we do comics!" angle. The book at right could cement Brian K. Vaughan's place in the first ranks of American mainstream comic book writers, at which point I hope to be able to spell his name correctly the first time I post.
I'm kicking myself that there was a major, justifiable book event an hour away from the Preakness Stakes (a mostly crappy betting race, btw; I'd probably find an exacta pairing with some value based on how the local betting changed the odds today), but the news seems pretty quiet from the event itself. There's something nice and entirely appropriate about this becoming a working weekend instead of a "Gosh, wow! We're in the real Book Expo" experience over the last few years. It also seems like some of the companies are taking the opportunity to stress one or two books as particularly appropriate for the book and library trade (there are a lot of librarians there, as I recall), and not so much choosing to work the "Hey, we do comics!" angle. The book at right could cement Brian K. Vaughan's place in the first ranks of American mainstream comic book writers, at which point I hope to be able to spell his name correctly the first time I post.
