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A Heads Up for You All: BookCon Tickets On Sale Now!
BOOKCON 2019 TICKETS ON SALE NOW — HEADLINERS INCLUDE CASSANDRA CLARE, RAINBOW ROWELL, MARIE LU, EVA CHEN AND OTHERS Two-Day Convention Where Storytelling is Celebrated in all its Forms Returns to the Javits June 1 and 2, 2019 … Continue reading
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Quirky Mysteries
Renowned fictional comic book artist Mike Mason and alternate universe former Vice-President Joe Biden have very little in common. The commonalty is listlessness and set into a life which needs a bit of excitement. That very little exists though and … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew shaffer, book review, books, comic con, fred van lente, hope never dies, quirk, quirk books, the con artist
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Book Expo Collage Previews
BookExpo 2018 runs Wednesday (5/30/2018)-Friday (6/1/2018) followed by The Book Con on June 2nd and 3rd. In advance of excitement I have made two “collages” of books being featured at the shows in some fashion. This is not everything I … Continue reading
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2017: A Look Ahead
2016 is near its end or it’s over based on when you read this. It was a rough year in many respects, but it gave us a ton of excellent pop-culture. 2017 as of now promises to do the same. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Comics, Music, TV and Movies, Video Games
Tagged 2017, bones, books, degrassi, double fine, double fine games, dunkirk, excitement, flaming lips, fox television, george saunders, lego batman, michael critchton, Music, netflix, night in the woods, random house, steven universe, thimbleweed park, video games
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BEA 2016: What I’d Get If I Was There
I won’t be able to attend BEA this year. I could not expense for airfare to Chicago as well as hotel near convention center + expenses for 3-5 days, not to mention whatever the costs even with book rate to … Continue reading
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Post BEA via Video
Posted in Book Expo America, Books
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The Secrets of the Empire are Now YOURS to have (Star Wars Empire that is)
From a galaxy far, far away, Lucasfilm announces discovery of the IMPERIAL HANDBOOK, filled with secret intelligence for the Commanders of the Imperial Military New York, NY: October 6, 2014: This fall, just in time for the holiday season, Lucasfilm™ announces … Continue reading
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Tagged beckin&meyer, books, collectible, lucasbooks, lucasfilm, star wars
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Get Lost with Adi Alsaid (You’ll be glad you did)
At the end of July 2014, Adi Alsaid‘s first mass market novel for teens, LET’S GET LOST, hit shelves. I was first introduced to Adi at Book Expo America a few years ago when randomly at a panel he sat … Continue reading
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Tagged adi alsaid, books, harlequinteen, interview, let's get lost, travel, writing, ya
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Photos from BEA/Book Con
A few weeks ago the 2014 Book Expo America happened and as every year I had an amazing time and scored many books and took not enough photographs. Being a pop-culture blog I will READ most anything but when it … Continue reading
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