Big news! We’ll be blogging all weekend long from this year’s Book Expo America at the Washington Convention Center. We’ll have videos, photos and interviews coming all weekend long from some of the biggest names in writing: E.D. Baker, Michael Buckley, Kirsten Miller, David McPhail, James Patterson, Erica Perl, Joshua Prince, Rob Scotton, and more.

If you won’t be attending BEA yourself this year, then keep checking back here as we’ll be posting new content as fast as we can get it up. It should be an exciting weekend!

We began setup for our booth today. I was blown away at how large the the exhibition hall was - and this was just for children’s literature! Our own booth is modest in size but that doesn’t mean we don’t put forth our best into setting it up. You’ll notice Gerard at right doing what I would call a fairly good Superman impression.

One of the most important parts to making any booth successful, of course, is proper picture placement. Here we see four First Bookers discussing quite intensely regarding the proper smiling child placement (they really are some great photos we have up.)

What really caught my eye was this:

The Toy Industry Association is in the booth right next to us! I honestly have no idea who the Toy Industry Association is nor who they represent, but I figure the odds are in my favor that I’ll at least get to play with something fun (if childish) this weekend :D. I just hope they don’t bring anything too noisy and loud.

We took bets on how fast we’d get the booth up, (we didn’t actually keep track of who won.) It all went up surprisingly fast, however. All and all, a job well done. I’m looking forward to this weekend.

Stay tuned…