June 5, 2014 • randomness •

My Personal #BEA14 Highlight Reel

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Photos, tweets, and updates from BEA Week 2014
  1. No book hauls or long lines this year for me–and definitely no BookCon! The highlights of my 2014 trip to Book Expo America were subway rides (seriously!), dinners and drinks, and terrific conversations about books, blogging, and all the other stuff of life with the good friends I only get to see when I make this pilgrimage to New York City (or, in 2016, to Chicago). (Thanks to Swapna for the link to her Flickr album as the source for some of these pictures.)
  2. FlightTrack screencap
    Tracking my flight, and @kimthedork‘s, en route to NYC. Excited to be meeting up soon for #BEA2014! pic.twitter.com/ae0TSq9xxi
    FLORINDA PVASQUEZ@FLORINDA_3RS
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    8 DAYS AGO

  3. Here’s the view from the 15th floor of the Hampton Inn in Chelsea. This turned out to be a surprisingly good location within a block of the 23rd St. subway stop, and a pretty short walk to the BEA shuttle stop at Penn Station. (Or an even shorter subway ride to Penn Station…but we didn’t figure that part out until Friday night.) It’s not as convenient to the Javits as some other “official” conference hotels, but it’s much quieter than Times Square!
  4. Chelsea rooftops May 2014
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    16 HOURS AGO

  5. My roommate Kim and I took the train into the city after meeting up at JFK, and then took the train back out to Queens, where Leslie introduced us to some amazing Shanghai-style Chinese food at Nan Xiang Xiap Long Bao. 
  6. Kim and Florinda and soup dumplings by LeslieF
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    16 HOURS AGO

(Kim’s three-part recap of BEA week starts here on her blog, Sophisticated Dorkiness)
  1. sassymonkey

    Karen Ballum@sassymonkey
    @florinda_3rs have a great panel today and have fun.

    7 DAYS AGO

  2. The BEA Bloggers Conference continues to have its ups and downs (just Google the reviews), but the panel on Ad Networks that I moderated seemed to be pretty well-received. (It also spurred me to action; The 3 R’s Blog is now a LitBreaker publisher.)
  3. BEA Bloggers Ad Networks panel collage
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    AN HOUR AGO

  4. Leah_BSV

    Leah Mosher@Leah_BSV
    Ad Networks session at #BEABloggers was great! Very informative and well balanced.

    7 DAYS AGO

  5. Later the same day at BEA Bloggers…
  6. Engaging Your Readers BEA Bloggers panel
    “Engaging Your Readers–Next Level” @beabloggers panel @bookjourney@NicoleBo @MandyBBoles #BEABloggers pic.twitter.com/zIYORIhQBR
    FLORINDA PVASQUEZ@FLORINDA_3RS

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    7 DAYS AGO

  7. The view of 8th Avenue from the BEA shuttle on Thursday morning. #I<3NY
  8. Eighth Ave. traffic en route to Javits
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    16 HOURS AGO

  9. BEA-goers will gripe about the autograph area, but at least the lines are somewhat organized there–it’s the in-booth signings congesting the Expo floor that drive me crazy. Thursday morning, straight off the shuttle bus, Kim and I beelined it to the signing area for copies of this galley.
  10. signed galley of Gail Sheehy memoir by KimUkura
    First book of #BEA14: DARING: MY PASSAGES by Gail Sheehy.
    KIM UKURA
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    6 DAYS AGO

  11. EvilWylie

    Evil Wylie@EvilWylie
    Amazon must be withholding them. RT @AnnKingman: No lanyards at #BEA14? Really?

    7 DAYS AGO


  13. nprmonkeysee

    Linda Holmes@nprmonkeysee
    Sitting reading BEA excerpts, and now I have to get all these books, and THIS IS WHY I SHOULDN’T READ.

    7 DAYS AGO

    1. BEA Banners photo collage
      Thought @ArmchairBEA might like seeing books hang from the rafters at#BEA2014 🙂 pic.twitter.com/8obwrTGPMQ
      FLORINDA PVASQUEZ@FLORINDA_3RS

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      6 DAYS AGO

    2. florinda_3rs

      Florinda PVasquez@florinda_3rs
      The “Journey of a Book” session is always so enlightening.@AlgonquinBooks #BEA2014

      5 DAYS AGO

    3. I don’t write for Book Riot, but some of my friends do, and it felt like I spent a good chunk of my time BR-adjacent last week.
  15. BookRiot team via Swapna on Flickr
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    3 DAYS AGO

  17. Via Princeton University Press, my favorite book cover of the week. Guess why?
  18. Standee for a movie tie-in book about a physicist
    Princeton University Press meets Benedict Cumberbatch! #bea2014#ArmchairBEA #Cumberbatch
    FLORINDA VASQUEZ
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    5 DAYS AGO

    1. BEA Expo attraction via @Quirkbooks
      CORGIS! RT @quirkbooks: Best. @BookExpoAmerica. Ever. Thanks@HarlequinBooks! #BEA14 pic.twitter.com/cg4pb5cFej
      FLORINDA PVASQUEZ@FLORINDA_3RS
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      5 DAYS AGO

  20. @kimthedork and @jennsbookshelves by @cassandraneace
    Look! I ran into @kimthedork and @jennbookshelves at #BEA14.pic.twitter.com/IgFRWQFP1X
    CASSANDRA NEACE@CASSANDRANEACE
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    6 DAYS AGO

    1. florinda_3rs

      Florinda PVasquez@florinda_3rs
      I think @TheBloggess would disagree. RT @MissLiberty: No no no no.  http://twitter.com/MissLiberty//status/472464655466905600/photo/1 …

      5 DAYS AGO

    2. CrapTaxidermy book via @MissLiberty
      No no no no. t.co/aPkGbQXXLm
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      5 DAYS AGO

    3. (BTW, the above retweet roped in The Bloggess as a Twitter follower, which I consider almost as much of a BEA-week #TinyTriumph as Kim’s and my successful navigation of the subway system.)
    4. At least for me, it wasn’t a big week of big parties, and that’s really how I like it. The ladies of Bloggers Recommend (another site for which I do not write, but have friends who do) hosted a cozy and chatty Book Blogger Happy Hour in the West Village.
  22. florinda_3rs

    Florinda PVasquez@florinda_3rs
    @jennbookshelves @BloggersRec @BethFishReads @skrishnaI’ll say it again–my favorite party of the week. No swag, just great company!

    A DAY AGO

  23. BloggersRec Happy Hour by Swapna
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    3 DAYS AGO

  24. Bloggers Rec Happy Hour(2) by Swapna
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    3 DAYS AGO

  25. You’ll have to wait for her post to know what Kim was ranting about, but it made for one of the best conversations in a week full of great ones.
  26. kimthedork

    Kim Ukura@kimthedork
    Props to my roomie @florinda_3rs for her smart additions to my rants tonight. She is the reason I appear patient and reasonable in public.

    6 DAYS AGO

  27. skrishna

    Swapna@skrishna
    @kimthedork Your rants are awesome. @florinda_3rs

    5 DAYS AGO

  28. sassymonkey

    Karen Ballum@sassymonkey
    @kimthedork @florinda_3rs hahahaha. I’m glad to know someone is ranting at her. I’m looking forward to doing that in July.

    5 DAYS AGO

  29. kimthedork

    Kim Ukura@kimthedork
    @skrishna @florinda_3rs @sassymonkey You ladies are too nice. Apparently I should rant more 🙂

    5 DAYS AGO

  30. The ranting is just part of the fun when you’re with blogging BFFs.
  31. @kimthedork & @lulu_bella by @florinda_3rs
    GREAT week at #BEA14, seeing so many blogger friends, & sharing awesome NYC food w/ these 2! @kimthedork @lulu_bellapic.twitter.com/4ePYtws1GQ
    FLORINDA PVASQUEZ@FLORINDA_3RS
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    4 DAYS AGO

  32. And on my last morning in the city, after shipping a box of galleys and catalogs–just ONE box!–I went shopping and bought a few more.
  33. Housing Works interior by KimUkura
    Real book nerds end a trip to a book conference with a trip to a bookstore (Housing Works).
    KIM UKURA
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    4 DAYS AGO

  34. It was a good week to be a real book nerd.

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