Trillium Book Award Celebration at Harbourfront June 4

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www.bookshorts.com -- Trillium Turns Twenty - Join the party! Monday June 4, 7:00pm, Enwave Theatre, Toronto Harbourfront

Toasting two decades of literary excellence! For the first time in its 20-year history, the Trillium Book Award/ Prix litteraire Trillium, Ontario's leading award for literature, invites members of the public to the industry celebration of prize-winners past and present. It's also the first-ever commemoration in video -- the event marks the premiere of the just-produced screen tribute to the authors honoured over its illustrious history. Rub shoulders with dozens of authors including Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Nino Ricci, Jane Urquhart and Richard B. Wright. This is a licensed extravaganza, featuring entertainment by Paul Quarrington and his band The PorkBelly Futures.

Presented by the Ontario Media Development Corporation in association with Luminato; For Tickets visit http://www.readings.org

Shoot and you will be shot - CTV News Clip about BookShorts

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www.bookshorts.com -- We felt just like the movie stars! Ya ya I know, without the magic of hair and make-up its not even close. But still pretty interesting to be the *subject* of coverage rather than the usual role *producing* coverage. We're back to being shooters at the duo of BookExpo gigs - New York then Toronto -- check out the BookShorts video programs at http://www.bookshorts.com/bookexpo - the next "star" could be you!

New York May 31 - June 3, 2007 / Toronto June 9 - June 11 2007

The L-Team - Inspiration for BookShorts at BookExpo

If you have a research question, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... the L-Team!

This from Nick on YouTube -- yup, it's been around already, but its just such an inspiring entry for BookShorts as we head down to BookExpo America to do our OWN librarian-stalking (any of you out there, just send us an inside tip, we'll find you!) -- http://www.bookshorts.com/bookexpo

S&S to Launch Video Channel

www.bookshorts.com -- This is the second major multinational to make a big committment to the filmic medium for author support (the other that I know of being Random House and their online book club BookLounge.ca) - we're *very* excited to see the industry stepping up and using the power of moving pictures -- a committment BookShorts has held since 1994!

By Lynn Andriani for Publisher's Weekly

Simon & Schuster has teamed with the Internet video company TurnHere Inc. to launch a "book-centric video channel" that will promote S&S authors and their new books. Bookvideos.tv will begin in early June, and the videos will also be available at SimonSays.com, YouTube and the authors' own Web sites. Though S&S has produced videos to promote its authors in the past, the venture with TurnHere represents a stronger and more formal commitment to using video to market authors. S&S will create videos for at least 40 authors, including Mary Higgins Clark, Kathy Reichs, Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, Jennifer Weiner and Zane.

Sue Fleming, v-p of online and consumer marketing for S&S's adult publishing group, said the company is drawing more heavily on video to promote authors, based on reader feedback. She noted video's ability to "replicate, for the digital age, the critical and time tested word-of-mouth excitement that comes from talking about a good read." S&S has previously used videos to promote its books—recent examples include last year's Joy of Cooking, Jodi Picoult's Nineteen Minutes and the Newbery-winning Higher Power of Lucky—but the partnership with TurnHere embodies its move "from a one-off to a more concerted or systematic attempt through the use of video to raise consciousness about our authors on the Web," said Adam Rothberg, of S&S's corporate communications department. One of the key ways people will find the videos will be via search engines; S&S is working on tagging all the videos so that they turn up when people search for an author on Google and other sites.

Script to Screen is Producing New BookShorts at BookExpo Canada

BookExpo Canada and BookShorts offer the new SCRIPT TO SCREEN video program June 10 – 11, for authors and publishers this year, right on-site at the trade show. It’s a turn-key program that includes two integrated services: 1) SHOOT in the mini-studio at Metro Convention Centre - camera, lights, host and set; PLUS soundtracks, graphics and your call to action added in post-production; and 2) BROADCAST guaranteed through the BookShorts’ Distribution Network at the book’s pub date. Lots of lead time before the busy fall promotion season, and a great way to ensure that authors get the media attention they deserve at BEC.

Cheap Rate Booking Deadline is MAY 15. Author Interviews take place Saturday June 9 and Sunday June 10, 9am to 5pm.

Details at www.BookShorts.com/bec2007 or contact Judith@BookShorts.com

Video News To Be Produced at BEA 2007 - BookShorts

BookShorts returns to BookExpo America May 31 through June 3 for its second year, and this time we're doing it 'shootin' style.' For the New York gig we'll be shooting covering events with our trusty lens on and off the trade show floor. Edited video reports will be broadcast via BEA's BookExpoCast following the show, as well as the regular extensive BookShorts Distribution Network.

TIP US A PRESS RELEASE If you have an event or author attending that makes a good news story, check out our coverage priorities then email judith@bookshorts.com, details BookShorts.com/bea