David Wroblewski with Lynn Rosen (BEA) on The Story of Edgar Sawtell

http://www.movingstories.tv/ -- the first in our series of interviews from BookExpo America 2008, our BEA host LYNN ROSEN speaks with this summer's hot find, DAVID WROBLEWSKI about his first novel, ten years in the making -- THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELL. This an excerpt from Lynn's blog ... about the pivot from private to *way* public ...

"how arbitrary such boundaries are, between the work-in-progress and the work that is "done." It's never done. You could always do more. But nevertheless, you're finished with it, and it becomes this beautiful, foreign artifact that looks nothing like the stack of laser printer paper you've lived with for so long. Just when it becomes perfectly real to everyone else, it looks least like what you've known it to be as the writer.

Shot live at BookExpo America 2008, courtesy Michael McKenzie at Ecco/HarperCollins; published in Canada by Bond Street Books /Random House of Canada.

(c) 2008 BookShorts MovingStories.TV; for more information about our editorial and commissioned Author Interviews, contact judith@bookshorts.com

3-Year Old Amanda inspires Chris Lin to teach Chinese to Kids

http://www.movingstories.tv/ -- They say "write from what you know," especially as a new author. CHRIS LIN is taking that literally, but in more ways than one. First, he has created his series of children's books, MANDY AND PANDY, from the first-hand experience of fathering his adopted Chinese daughter, Amanda. Second, he is writing in his adopted language, Chinese, because he loves the language, and sincerely wants his daughter to know her heritage in a way that can only come from speaking its tongue. And last, he has so much fun with Mandy, the character and the real thing, that he can't help but infuse the page with the same spirit of adventure his child shows him every day. It's a lovely back story, and we wish Chris and Mandy, and Mandy and Pandy, all the very best!

10% of all the Internet book sales of the Mandy and Pandy series will be donated to the orphanage where Chris first met and adopted his daughter. For more information (and some adorable pictures of the live Mandy!) please visit http://www.mandyandpandy.com/.

(c) 2007 BookShorts Literacy Program. Shot live at Book Expo America, with thanks to Lance Festerman and his team. For more BookShorts, visit http://www.bookshorts.com/blog

Anne Stone's DELIBLE is a seductive and spooky tome

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bookshorts.com -- Reading the new novel DELIBLE by Anne Stone counts as one of the amazing perks of this job -- it was haunting, and mezmerizing, and immediately conjured all kinds of visual images that would make for a really fantastic short film adaptation. Anne herself is featured in our video profile here, and tells the equally poignant story of how she came to write about the fictional Lora Sprague, a fifteen year old whose sister Mel has gone missing, inspired by real life tragedy. In the book, through Lora's eyes, we come to witness one family's experience of sustained uncertainty and how our identities also exist in the traces we leave behind. "...a seductive meditation on the ways young women mythologize, cling to, enrapture, and lose one another." Heather O'Neill

Jessica Rhaye's song Crazy Jayne provides a rich subtext to the profile, and we are super-lucky to have the support of one of the most forward-thinking music publishers, Pangaea Music House. Thanks Tony! The track is from her most recent recording "Jessica Rhaye-Short Stories" more of which viewers can find at http://www.jessicarhaye.com/ .

The novel is now available from Insomniac Press; CoProduced with BookExpo Canada at Script to Screen (c) BookShorts 2007; Visit MovingStories.TV for more tales behind the stories!

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

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