Today was the first day of the Book Expo and it was great. Too bad I’m not going for the rest of the weekend.
Meg Cabot signed her new teen novel How to Be Popular for me.
I also met Chris Kimball from America’s Test Kitchen. He was really nice and friendly despite the absence of a smile in the picture.
On the other side of the spectrum I met the man behind the Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman and his Troma Team pitching the Toxic Avenger: The Novel.
Google was out in force pushing Google books, wooing publishers, authors and everyone else. They really are doing what libraries should be doing with searchable content. They have a huge booth, a couple of Google Books Shuttles ferrying attendees around. They also have a psuedo ice-cream cart.
