Here’s Donna’s eye-view of the floor at BookExpo America this morning, where she was at the beginning of a great day. Click “Read more…” below for more Day One BEA Pix.
Show-goers were welcomed by monumental book posters and music from a band of pirates.
Inside, Countryman Press gives Donna’s new book, Great Escapes: Southern California, nice play. Here’s a picture of editor Kermit Hummel and publicist Courtney Andree at the Countryman booth.
Scott McAuley and Paddy Calistro of Angel City Press display their new titles. ACP is the co-publisher with CaliforniaAuthors.com of My California, Journeys by Great Writers.
Donna rubs elbows with the famous Julius at the Chronicle Books booth.
La Audacia de la Esperanza: audacious in any language.
Audacia del Surrealismo: Jackie Collins signed her latest sizzler in front of her big yellow tour bus.
Barbara Walters signs Audition, her new memoir.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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