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So I am attending my fourth BEA this year. I get so excited around this time of year because I know that I will be NYC bound (and away from kids, hubby, dog, house, etc) for a glorious 5 days.  Of course those 5 days are jam-packed filled with meeting publicists, other bloggers, editors, agents, etc.  It's a great place to interact with people in the publishing industry.

One of my favorite people in the world, Elizabeth Law, publisher with Egmont is always a hoot and a half. And she really loves her bloggers. She is very hands on when it comes to meeting with us and talking to us and letting us know what is in the pipeline.

BEA is crazy town.  There are usually so many people that lines seem to go on for miles.  I waited on Megan McDonald's (JUDY MOODY) line for over an hour. Because my 8 year old told me I was not allowed home until I brought home the latest book.

But the fun part is the parties and celebrations that we as bloggers get invited to. The first year, we were invited to the Geektastic launch party where I got to meet and talk to for quite a while: Holly Black, Libba Bray, Barry Goldberg, Scott Westerfeld, Barry Lyga, Elizabeth Scott, Sara Zarr, Justine Larbalestier, Cassandra Clare.  I'm probably missing a few, but we all had a great night.  If it was a bit rowdy.

There are some bad aspects to the BEA.  People grabbing for books, taking more than one *sigh*, even when the publishing representatives ask you to take only one. That gets a bit frustrating. I can understand if you grabbed another one by mistake (I did that with BUNHEADS, not realizing I'd already had it). I grabbed it on a different day.

I'm going to be reporting on my experience at BEA and hope that you come to the blog to see what goodies I've gotten for giveaways. If any other bloggers are attending BEA let me know so we can 'meet' up on line or something.

Oh and if this is your first time going wear comfortable shoes. The Javits Center is killer on the feet.

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My dearest Carrie Frye joins The Awl as managing editor. Carrie is better known in these parts as CAAF, coiner of “Nicht Kunts” and bringer of guilt whenever I’m not writing. She’s pounding out her own book on a Galaxie typewriter.

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The Forts series has found a new home!

More than likely you’re silently saying to yourself, “Oh that’s too bad. It must not have sold well. That poor, poor man.”

Let me assure you, that’s not the case – far from it in fact. The choice to continue the series with someone else was actually mine and mine alone. I never signed a contract for the series as a whole and after my experience with the first book there was no way that was going to happen. It wouldn’t have been the right choice.

I don’t see any reason to go into the details of the “breakup” (for now), but I will say that Forts is moving to greener, less frustrating, and far more professional pastures.

So what does this all mean to you?

Well, it means that the copy of “Fathers and Sons” you no doubt have sitting in a place of prominence on your bookshelf – or next to the crapper, either way. That copy of Forts will very soon be an out of print collectors edition!

That’s right, I said collectors edition and I meant it!

Will you be able to sell it on ebay to pay the rent? Eh, I wouldn’t count on that.

Will you be able to trade it for a pack of gum and maybe a Butterfinger bar? Yep, I think you might be able to pull that off.

Still, your copy is special now. It’s unique. If you sent it to me to get autographed it’s even more unique. You own it, some other people own it, but no one else is ever going to own it – ever. That’s pretty cool, no?

For those of you that haven’t got your hands on a copy yet, a second edition print version of the book will be arriving with a brand new cover before you know it. (Probably within the next few months in fact.) Along with the print version, the book will FINALLY make its way to e-readers everywhere! (This is long overdue.)

Oh, all those editing flubs the original publisher left in – you know, the ones that caused the sentence “This could have been a fantastic book if it had a good editor” to appear in nearly every review. Thankfully those are going to be fixed up for the second edition.

For those of you waiting patiently for “Liars and Thieves,” right around the time the second edition arrives book two is going to hit the shelves! It’s a heck of a lot later than was originally planned, but I’m hoping it’ll be worth the wait.

The nonsense of the past is in the past and hopefully that’s where it’s going to stay. Writing has officially picked up again on the final book in the series and I’m probably only 40,000 words or so from finishing it up.

Forts has a new home, and this is a good thing.

Scratch that and revise: Forts has a new home, and it’s a giggity-great thing.

It’s better than a steaming hot pizza and a tub of ice cream served to you by Rosario Dawson in a French maid’s outfit.

Okay, maybe it’s not that good…

It’s still pretty fantastic though.

Steven

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