Comments on: One more about BEA (Kind of) http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/06/one-more-about-bea-kind-of/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Cynthia Hartwig http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/06/one-more-about-bea-kind-of/comment-page-1/#comment-34419 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:47:58 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7617#comment-34419 Rachel, can you compare or contrast the AWP experience vs. BEA? I went to AWP in chicago this year and loved it for the same reason (had a close, hugging! encounter with Rebecca Skloot). Is there are reason to go to one over the other?

Also, enquiring minds want to know: how come Jane D signed up for Twitter but never tweets? Lots of agents are using Twitter so tell Jane she can’t use the excuse of being too busy.

]]> By: Petrea Burchard http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/06/one-more-about-bea-kind-of/comment-page-1/#comment-34367 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:49:29 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7617#comment-34367 I stood in line at the LA Times Festival of Books last year to get books signed by Patti Smith. Although I was interested in her book these books weren’t mine, I was doing a favor for a friend. The line was long. I waited a while. She was pleasant enough.

She shared a signing table with Dave Eggers. No one, and I mean NO ONE, waited in line for him. It was embarrassing and he looked angry. I wished I had one of his books. I wonder what kind of conversation I might have had with him.

As it was, I didn’t go out and buy Smith’s book but I did by Eggers’.

]]> By: Kristin Laughtin http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/06/one-more-about-bea-kind-of/comment-page-1/#comment-34280 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:14:47 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7617#comment-34280 I love book signings, and was fortunate enough to go to a bunch at BEA once! The coolest story I have is that while waiting in line for Neal Stephenson, I was behind another major fantasy author who had recently taken over a series and was talking about it in detail to a colleague. I got a total inside scoop because there was no way to avoid eavesdropping.

There was also the time I went to a George R.R. Martin signing with a bunch of friends. One friend has a background in graphic design and had made us really creative t-shirts, which ended up plastered all over the Internet. We got to hang out with GRRM and a bunch of the HBO execs for a while. It was awesome.

]]> By: Tamara http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/06/one-more-about-bea-kind-of/comment-page-1/#comment-34279 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:12:57 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7617#comment-34279 The only time I wish I smoked is when I hear those great stories about running into great authors out the back door lighting up!

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