I love this headline. It just came across in the PW e-newsletter as their subject line and for a moment I had the vision of Lance having lost his actual head!
Turns out Lance got promoted and BookExpoAmerica is on the hunt for a new director. He has in my estimation done a stellar job with BEA. He is the most approachable person and is always up and positive at BEA. I hope they find someone to fill his shoes that has the same enthusiasm and love for books!
TODAY’S NEWS
Fensterman Promoted, Search on For Successor
“Lance Fensterman has been promoted to group v-p of Reed Exhibitions and will devote his time exclusively to running the company’s pop culture business. He will retain oversight of BookExpo America until a replacement is found. A spokesperson said Reed expects to have a successor in place before the 2010 convention set for New York City. Fensterman. who joined Reed in April, 2006, will now manage New York Comic Con, Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo as well as a number of other shows. ”
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Very cool project that Perseus Books Group is helming this year at BookExpoAmerica in NY. (I will be there next week!)
The project is titled, BOOK: The Sequel and I just got my shiny new widget for it to put on my blog. I’m entering today.
Perseus Books Group is spearheading this collaborative effort to publish a book – during the span of BEA – to highlight all the new ways to publish. The book will be created by all of you and published into as many formats as possible in 48 hours.
Submissions are ongoing and readers are invited to write the first sentence of a sequel to a book they love (and the title if they are feeling espescially creative.) The website will display contributions as they are accepted.
Submissions close on Thursday May 28th, at 4pm – first day of BEA.
Samples from the press announcement include:
“You see; I was right.” (From Das Kapital (revised edition) by Karl Marx
“Call Me, Ishmael!” (From Moby Dick’s Guide to Dating at Sea)
The book party launch will take place in the Perseus Books Group booth (#4237) at 4pm on Saturday, May 30th. All royalties from BOOK: The Sequel will go to the National Book Foundation.
Perseus Books Group ROCKS! Go and enter today.
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