This is my first post for the Insights blog and I am really excited to be joining Frank in contributing publishing news and other fun tidbits about Hampton Roads Publishing. It has been a busy couple of months around here, from finalizing the Fall 2008 list to printing the catalog and sales kits to preparing for the Book Expo in Los Angeles at the end of the month. But in the end, we have some great new books coming up and our sales materials are out the door. It will be an adventure to present these new books at BEA and see what kind of response we get.
Hampton Roads will have book signings in the autographing area with Marla Martenson, author of Excuse Me, Your Soul Mate Is Waiting, Dr. Lisa Love, author of Beyond the Secret, Lee Jampolsky, author of Smile for No Good Reason, and Russell Targ, author of Do You See What I See?. In addition, we will have authors dropping by our booth (#747–come see us!) and plenty of give-aways. Our books are on the way to L.A. as I type and soon enough, our staff will be flying across the country to bring the latest Hampton Roads titles to the rest of the publishing world. I can’t wait!
May 16th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Ah, Rachel, BEA (formerly ABA) and INATS, and once or twice others like the ALA — how well and how fondly I remember doing trade shows! When Hampton Roads was not quite one year into this business, in spring 1990, Bob Friedman and I did the ABA show in Las Vegas, because we had published Tapping into the Force, by Ann Miller. Bob was already an old hand at the business, but for me, stepping out into that sea of booths, hearing the noise and seeing the crowds, it was a whole new world. And over the years the International New Age Trade Show (INATS) in Denver became my favorite. Unlike BEA where we were a very small frog in an ocean, at INATS we were a fairly large frog in a pond.
Anyway, fun. Enjoy! I don’t know any better way to realize how large the industry is, and how we are a part of it.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:44 am
When will Hampton Roads be at this book expo exactly? Where is this expo?
May 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
On Friday Midnights With The Mystic “took off” on Amazon and rose to #7. Sadhguru and Cheryl Simoni are touring the country introducing this well known Indian Mystic to American audiences and obviously getting a very positive response.
We are excited when authors create this kind of response which in this case quickly used up our existing inventory. However Technology and print on demand will enable Amazon to fill every order within days, something which is works for us all, the customer, the author, the publisher and Amazon.
Now I’m looking forward to meeting this remarkable man at the forthcoming BEA.