Visit us at Book Expo America

Next week, we'll make our annual trek down to BookExpo America (BEA), the largest publishing event in North America. Publishers, booksellers, authors, librarians, and more will gather in New York City to celebrate publishing, books, and all things related.

We'll be featuring our newest books in the exhibit hall and many of our noted authors will be on hand for autographing sessions, including Binnie Klein, Barbara Chepaitis, Anthony V. Riccio and Silvio Suppa, and Dan Rattiner. BEA will take place from May 25-27 at the Javits Center in New York City. Passes are available to the public, so be sure to stop by and check us out!

Book signing for Blows to the Head

Binnie Klein read from and signed copies of her book, Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind, this past Saturday at Barnes & Noble in North Haven, Connecticut. Binnie and her boxing coach, John Spehar, struck a pose at the event. As Binnie says: "In mid-life, I picked up the unusual stone of boxing that appeared on my path and boxer/coach John Spehar helped me realize a dream."

Binnie, signing copies.

Book signing pics

L to R: James Peltz (SUNY), Harvey Flad, Laurie Searl (SUNY), and Clyde Griffen.

We've been away for a while, but we're back and ready to share some photos from a book signing for Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie, by Harvey K. Flad and Clyde Griffen. The signing and reception took place in late July at The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, New York. Interested individuals from the around the region and as far away as Nicaragua (yes, that Nicaragua!) traveled to town to celebrate the authors and their book.

Go, Tell Michelle on Book TV this Memorial Day

Back in March, C-SPAN2's Book TV filmed Go, Tell Michelle coeditors' Barbara Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram's talk and book signing at Bus Boys & Poets Book Store in Washington, DC. The program is scheduled to air on Book TV on Monday, May 25 (Memorial Day) at 8:30 am and will repeat later that day at 8:30 pm. The reading also featured several of the book's contributors reading from their submissions: Betty Falato, Regan Botts Ruiz, Donna Aza Smith, Lori Polin Jones, and Miriam Guichard.

So tune in on May 25 or set your TiVo because you won't want to miss this.

Book Expo America

We're busy with the final stages of prep work before we attend Book Expo America at the Javits Center in NYC, "the premier publishing event for the North American publishing industry." Throughout the month of May we're featuring select titles on our website so you can see what we'll have at our booth (# 4840).

Book Expo runs from May 28–May 31, so stop by and visit us while making your way through the labyrinth in the Javits Center. On Sunday May 31 we're hosting book signings for Go, Tell Michelle from 9:30–10:30 and for A Family Place from 11:00–noon. We hope to see you early and often during those four days.

Authors mingling, signing, and smiling

We recently attended the American Educational Research Association's annual conference in sunny San Diego. We hosted three celebrations for the following authors and their books: Patrick Finn, Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition; Alan Singer, New York and Slavery; and Janet Bixby and Judith Pace, Educating Democratic Citizens in Troubled Times.

The celebrations were well attended, with authors signing copies, meeting and greeting people, and, as you can see from the pictures, having an all around good time. Alan Singer and Judith Pace even sent along their thoughts on the signings, so we're including those below. Thanks to all who made these events happen and to those who attended, plus a special thanks to our authors for participating.

The book signing at AERA was a delightful experience. It was well advertised; in fact a few colleagues told me as soon as I arrived at the conference that they'd learned I had a new book published. The wonderful book cover was made into a poster hanging up in the SUNY booth. During the signing I had the opportunity to inscribe copies, catch up with friends who came by, and eat chocolates. Fran Keneston and Anne Valentine, from SUNY Press, were very considerate and took great photos. All in all the event was great publicity and a lot of fun!

— Judith Pace

What is unique, for me, about this book is the way it blends history and approaches to teaching. As a high school teacher and teacher educator I always grapple with understanding the past and finding ways to make it meaningful to my students. At the AERA I gave two papers based on work included in the book New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth. One focused on high school students who organized a walking tour of lower Manhattan were they teach elementary and middle school students about the history of slavery in New York. The other paper focused on student responses to learning about the history of slavery in New York. Since publishing the book I have changed my focus a bit and I am now concentrating on Black abolitionists from New York. At the NY State History conference in June I will present research on their pivotal role in the years leading up to the Civil war.

— Alan Singer