BEA event highlights - Guide to Book Expo America - Brief Article

Black Issues Book Review, May-June, 2002

BEA America at a glance

What:
BookExpo America 2002

Where:
Jacob K. Javits
Convention Center
New York City

When:
African-American
Booksellers Conference
Thursday, May 2, 2002

Educational Programs and
International Rights Center
May 1 through May 5

Exhibition Halls
May 3 through May 5

For more information
about BEA registration
and fees, contact
the following:

(800) 840-5614
within the U.S.
(203) 840-5614
outside the U.S.
www.bookexpoamerica.com
INDUSTRY-ONLY EVENTS OPEN TO ALL BEA ATTENDEES

Wednesday, May 1:

8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Mystery Writers of America
Full Day Symposium *
Grand Hyatt Hotel.

African American
Booksellers
Conference Events

Thursday, May 2:
11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Luncheon and Opening
Session

1 p.m.
Keynote Speaker:
Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.
(AABC sponsored)

2 p.m.
African-American Bookstores
and University
Presses: What to Sell and
How to Make Money Selling
Them (AABC sponsored)

3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
We Are the Survivors:
Strategies for Successful
Booksellers (AABC
sponsored)

5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Reception Showcasing
Ten Authors
(AABC sponsored)

Audio Publishers
Association Convention
Grand Hyatt Hotel. (BEA)

6 p.m.
Mystery Writers
of America Edgar Awards
Banquet *

Friday, May 3:

9 a.m. - noon
American Booksellers
Association workshop:
Fundamentals of
Independent Bookselling

9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Association of Authors'
Representatives, Inc.
National Conference

10 a.m.
Salute to Romance
Book Signing

11 a.m.
Salute to First-Time
Authors Book Signing

11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
9/11 Civil Liberties
in a Time of Crisis

1 p.m.
Salute to Mystery
Writers Book Signing

3 p.m.
Salute to Children's
Book Signing

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
The Heard Word: BEA's
Audiobook and Author Tea
featuring Walter Mosley,
Janet Evanovich and Brad
Meltzer (additional fee)

7:30 p.m.
Lambda Literary
Foundation Awards *

Saturday, May 4:

8 a.m. - 9 a.m.
Book and Author Breakfast
featuring Stephen Carter,
Queen Noor and Reynolds
Price (additional fee)

9 a.m.- 11 a.m.
Literary Walking Tour
of Harlem sponsored by
Atlantic Independent
Booksellers Association
and hosted by Glenderlyn
Johnson of Black Books
Plus (pre-registration and
additional fee)

10 a.m.- 11 a.m.
Specialty Bookseller-to-Bookseller
Roundtable on
African-American Books

11 a.m.
Salute to African-American
Authors Book Signing

1 p.m.
Salute to Nonfiction and
Business Book Signing

2 p.m.
Salute to Science Fiction
and Fantasy Book Signing

3 p.m.
Salute to Latino and Latin
American Authors Book
Signing

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Marketing Your Book
to Reading Groups

Sunday, May 5:

8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Sunday Book and Author Breakfast featuring Al and
Tipper Gore, Jean Auel and Pat Conroy (additional fee)

* not a BEA event