Posted by JayK on April 23, 2008 at 12:54:51:
Lots and lots of interesting stuff at the LAT Festival of Books this year. I was looking over the booth list. An amazing variety:
- Lots and lots of bookstores
- ABE is doing a book-making program for kids
- Angry little girls comics
- Authors' Coalition - Where authors come together
- Autographbooks.com - Online book tour for your autograph book
- Book Publicists of So. Calif
- California Writers Club
- The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
- Lots of vanity press publishers
- Lots of people selling their own self-published books
- Falling Star Magazine (Poetry magazine)
- Final Draft Screenwriting Software
- Flipworkz (flipbooks)
- Frijolitos Inc. (Children's bilingual books & toys)
- Mariner Software (Creativity software for writers)
- Poets & Writers ervice organization
- Readingware.com Online book club for pre-school reading
- Sisters in Crime Mystery writers non-profit organization
- Small Publishers, Artists & Writers Network
Plus lots of small publishers like Bear Star Press (Poetry & short fiction), BOOM! Studios (Comic & graphic novel publisher), Children's Book Press, Ex Machina Press LLC (Publishers of quality fiction), Figueroa Press (Scholarly works of lasting merit), Red Engine Press (Publishing the traditional but small way), & Don't Eat Any Bugs Productions (humor adventure comic books).
More info at:
http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/exhibitorslist.html