photos, and pimping someone else...

[lauraanne_gilman]

The Harlequin booth, in a quiet moment on Friday morning. Imagine that space filled to capacity, then multiply it to cover the entirety of the Javits Center, and you'll have an idea what BookExpo is like...


I'm signing as fast as I can!


Cleaned up and taken out, but very very tired, fellow Nocturne author Caridad Pineiro and I hit the bar.

and another one here, courtesy of Caridad's cell phone and on-the-spot blogging skilz

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Some of the less mainstream, less-talked-about books I saw at BEA that you might find of interest...

CHARMED KNITS: PROJECTS FOR FANS OF HARRY POTTER.
Wiley, $14.95
www.charmedknits.blogspot.com

UNTRAIN YOUR PARROT and Other No-Nonsense Instructions on the Path of Zen
Elizabeth Hamilton
Shambhala Publications/Random House September 2007, $14
(I'm reading the ARC for this now, and other than some rather amazing typos, it's quite good and thought-provoking, at least for someone at my level of investigation and study.)

ANTICRAFT; KNITTING BEADING AND STITCHING FOR THE SLIGHTLY SINISTER
Renee Rigdon and Zabet Stewart.
Duct tape corsets. Need I say more? The authors were a delight to speak with, and I hope this book does very well, because it made me stop and laugh at the end of a very long and tiring day.
North Light Books, $22.99
www.theanticraft.com

A HEDONIST'S GUIDE TO....
Exactly what it sounds like. Fashionable guidebooks for the well-heeled hipster and the armchair dreamer. I can't see myself using them, but they were great fun to browse.


And not seen at BookExpo but worth noting nontheless:

HebrewPunk by Lavie Tidhar

"Here we have stories of Tzaddik, The Rat, the Rabbi… Lavie is mining ancient traditions and recent history to write stories of modern despair and a weird sort of redemptive compassion, messing with our expectations and always, always, leading with our humanity, even when those heroes are, by some standards, monsters."

(from the Introduction by, well, moi)

Good shit, man.