By Erin L. Cox Last year was my first year to attend The Frankfurt Book Fair. Being cocky (read: stupid) about my ability to communicate in a foreign country despite not knowing the language, I waited until the day I was leaving to run to the bookstore and pick up a German phrasebook. If you, like me, forgot to pick …
Erin’s Must-Brings for Frankfurt Sanity
By Erin L. Cox I’m leaving for The Frankfurt Book Fair on Saturday. With my multiple hats on (literary agent, Biz Dev/writer for PP, and publicist), I am juggling a few things on site and at home while I’m there. Because I’ll be busier than a one-armed paper hanger, it is important for this week to be very organized to …
What Makes a Game Changer?
By Erin L. Cox Today in the Huffington Post, author Jason Pinter published a piece called the “12 Game Changers in Publishing.” While I appreciated Pinter’s attempt to celebrate those innovative people in publishing that the Huffington Post “100 Game Changers” neglected to list, I didn’t find his list all that comprehensive or, well, game-changing. Other than two of the …
Proof that Brooklyn Rocks the Literary World!
By Erin L. Cox With this week’s release of the authors slated for The Brooklyn Book Festival, it seems clear that Brooklyn is the center of the literary universe. As has been noted in an earlier story from our BEA coverage, Edward Nawotka, Publishing Perspectives‘ Editor in Chief, and I often diverge on the debate of Brooklyn’s literary presence and prowess. …
Oxford’s AIA Guide to New York City Makes Me Glad to Be a New Yorker
By Erin L. Cox Last night, I attended a delightful event at The Queens Museum of Art in honor of Oxford University Press’ new edition of the AIA Guide to New York City. If you have never seen an AIA guide, they are a truly impressive record of all of New York City’s architectural offerings….and I mean ALL. In all …
Invite Recap: Will I See You On the Party Circuit at BEA?
By Erin L. Cox On May 5th, I wrote a blog post shamelessly asking for Book Expo America party invites. I have been asked for some follow-up, so I wanted to let you know that two weeks later, I have a few real party invites and a few reminders to come to big events/soirees. With just a few days left until BEA, …
The Best Kinds of Authors are the Ones Who Get You Drunk
By Erin L. Cox Let me start by writing a disclaimer. Please drink responsibly…and preferably with a mixologist on-hand! That’s what I did Sunday night at The Manhattan Cocktail Classic Event, “Chasing the White Dog in Manhattan: The History of Moonshine with the Legendary Junior Johnson and the Craft Distilling of Today.” My friends and mixologists Paul Zablocki and Steve …
Mister Splashypants Goes to Washington
By Erin L. Cox Okay, this story has nothing to do with Mister Splashypants directly, but it brings up a lot of questions that arose in an earlier post I wrote about Alexis Ohanian’s speech at TED about Greenpeace’s “Name the Whale” campaign and how, once you let things out online, it is near-impossible to try to control them…and sometimes that’s okay. …
Shameless BEA Party Invite Request…
By Erin L. Cox When I worked at The New Yorker, our Book Expo party (or better known as “The Spring Books Party”) was the hottest ticket in town. People would sneak in, beg/borrow/steal, use personal connections with New Yorker writers to get invites, or pester me into putting their names on the guest list. Those were heady, fun days being one of …
Brad Meltzer’s Tribute to His Mother and a Book for His Son
By Erin L. Cox I admit that I’m an emotional gal–I cry at movies, when babies are born, when a friend tells me a sweet story. But, I sobbed at this video entitled “Call Your Mother,” which Brad Meltzer created as part of the promotion for his book, HEROES FOR MY SON, which comes out next week. A sweet tribute …