Share Your BEA Tips and Tricks!

Surviving BookExpo can be tough, trust me, I of all people know this! I'm in Louisville this weekend at the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute and this afternoon I'm doing a panel on how to survive and even thrive at BEA, which I promise will be entertaining and maybe even informative.

More on the Winter Institute later, but you can check out the ABA blog about the event here.

This reminds me though that we are working with the publisher, Hundreds of Heads who is creating a How To Survive BEA book that we will get into attendees hand in some way before the show. We need help filling it with good tips! So if you've got any ideas, please send them along to me via email or by posting comments here on the blog. Here's an overview of what we are looking for....

Since our little "How to Survive BEA" booklet was such a hit at last year's BEA, we're doing it again at BEA '08. The BEA organizers themselves loved it so much, in fact, that they'll be distributing it this year.

Which means that your words of wisdom will have a much larger audience. So - please send us your short pieces of advice - about what you do to "survive" BEA. One or two lines is plenty. Bonus points for any Los Angeles-specific advice. The more input we have from veterans of the trade - the better this will be.

Here are the content areas - but feel free to write about anything (See some "prompting" questions below.):

1. What to Bring
2. What to Wear
3. Food & Drink
4. On the Convention Floor
5. Do's and Don’ts
6. Going Places (travel, follow-up)

Also - pls give your name, city, and affiliation as you would like them to appear in the "ID tag" in the booklet.


-L