Heartland Fall Forum 2013 is coming!

The second annual Heartland Fall Forum – the joint trade show put on by both the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association – is coming to Chicago this fall! It will be happening from October 3 through 6 at the Crowne Plaza O'Hare Chicago.

We're going to be exhibiting in force again this year in Chicago – Stu, Roy, Ted, and I will all be there! We've got books and friends from some of our publishers coming in from all over the country, and our booth promises to be a hot spot for authors!

Roy will be taking part in the Rep Around Luncheon on Saturday, sharing his take on the top picks from our publishers.

I'll be hosting the Reading Room on Friday evening again, introducing three authors who will each read from their new novels. That happens just before the Authors Feast.

  • Daniel Alarcon, At Night We Walk in Circles, Riverhead
  • Gina Frangello, A Life in Men, Algonquin
  • Brigid Pasulka, The Sun and Other Stars, Simon & Schuster 

 

SHOW SPECIALS

Many of our publishers have special offers that will be active for the show. You can download the list here.

 

AUTHOR SIGNINGS

On Saturday, during the show floor exhibits, we'll have many authors in the booth with us, including Charlie Quimby, author of Monument Road, one of ABA's featured Indies Introduce Debut Authors for Fall, and Jeff Korhan, author of Built-in Social from Wiley, who'll be helping anchor an educational panel on social media for booksellers on Friday afternoon.

10 AM to 11 AM

 11 AM to 12 PM

2 PM to 3 PM

3 PM to 4 PM

  • Laurie Loewenstein, author of Unmentionables (Akashic Books / Consortium)
  • author TBA (Curbside Splendor / Consortium)

4 PM to 5 PM

  • Charlie Quimby, author of Monument Road (Torrey House Press / Consortium)
    Here's a video from the ABA, introducing Charlie Quimby:

 

 

Breaking: Jane Austen, Game Theorist starts to gather some serious momentum

A splashy & very complimentary review in the New York Times on Monday has drawn a lot of attention to Michael Chwe's new book from Princeton University Press: Jane Austen, Game Theorist:

It’s not every day that someone stumbles upon a major new strategic thinker during family movie night. But that’s what happened to Michael Chwe, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, when he sat down with his children some eight years ago to watch “Clueless,” the 1995 romantic comedy based on Jane Austen’s “Emma.”

...

Mr. Chwe set to doing his English homework, and now his assignment is in. “Jane Austen, Game Theorist,” just published by Princeton University Press, is more than the larky scholarly equivalent of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” In 230 diagram-heavy pages, Mr. Chwe argues that Austen isn’t merely fodder for game-theoretical analysis, but an unacknowledged founderof the discipline itself: a kind of Empire-waisted version of the mathematician and cold war thinker John von Neumann, ruthlessly breaking down the stratagems of 18th-century social warfare.

Recent tweets about the book:

 

Jane Austen, Game Theorist
Michael Chwe
Princeton University Press | 9780691155760 | $35.00 | April 2013

 

More, elsewhere:

Michael Chwe: book page | twitter

Princeton University Press: book page | web | twitter

 

(Cross-posted at www.my3books.com – 04/24/13)

Publisher Update: Continuum is now part of Bloomsbury Academic and we continue to represent them.

After Bloomsbury Publishing Plc bought Continuum in 2011, the new parent company has merged Continuum into their Bloomsbury Academic imprint for the Fall 2012 season. We continue to represent Continuum as well as taking on responsibility for the larger Bloomsbury Academic imprint - now distributed fully by Macmillan Publishing Services here in the US. (Information on ordering through MPS can be found here.)

UPDATE: More changes at Bloomsbury Academic: last month, they also announced the purchase of Applied Visual Arts Publishing - to be integrated into Bloomsbury Academic closer to the end of 2012.