Lucky duck that I am, this week I attended Book Expo America with three of my fine ECW colleagues. To the uninitiated, BEA is an annual book industry trade show in NYC, where publishers go to hobnob with booksellers, librarians, agents, trade media, and each other. Here’s where I spent most of my three days:
But I also got some time to wander the floor now and again, which led to some great things. At the top of the list: An encounter with Tyra Banks herself when I eagerly got in line to get a signed sample chapter of the first book in her upcoming YA series, Modelland. Here’s the photo evidence:
Modelland presents a dystopian future with a modelling bent (as if the modelling industry wasn’t dystopian enough) and is sheer ridiculousness from start to finish, so naturally, I had a great time reading it. For those without this masterpiece in their hot little hands, a few examples of the aforementioned sheer ridiculousness:
The characters are named things like Tookie De la Creme (our Forgetta-Girl [TyTy's term] protagonist cursed with those slightly unusual looks that have proven such a challenge on ANTM again and again . . . [...]
