What it takes to get in the picture: Motorcycle gang hits BEC 2008

www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com -- what it takes to get into the picture -- 8 bikers, a Harley ride on the exhibit floor, a sense of humour, and a trade show full of people willing to be "convinced."

Moving Stories Film Preview June 15 @ BookExpo Canada

BookShorts, the seminal producer / distributor of media inspired by books, is excited to announce Moving Stories Film Festival, a 90-minute curated program of short films celebrating the written word. The films are being selected by Festival Founder Judith Keenan and Programmer Paul Quarrington in consultation with prestigious Film Advisors, and have been submitted by artists around the world. From September to December 2008, Moving Stories will screen at public events hosted by film and literature festivals across North America.

A preview of Moving Stories will take place in the BookShorts Lounge at BookExpo Canada on Sunday, June 15 at 2:00pm. The event will include authors and directors whose work is represented in the program. Programmers from host venues will be in attendance. Moving Stories will announce the final selection of films in July 2008.

For more information about the Preview event, contact Sherry Naylor at Meisner de Groot & Associates, sherry@mdgassociates.com (416) 368-8253.

To submit films before the Film Submission deadline July 10 -- http://www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com

Book Expo Generates Over Thirty Hours of Prime Author Video

www.BookShorts.com -- From BEA in New York to BEC in Toronto we got a whole lotta footage (and I mean miles on foot too!) -- almost a week's worth of excellent interviews, news and event coverage at the two Book Expo's this year. A big shout out to our partners Reed Expo in the "Script to Screen" Video Production and Distribution Program. Here are just a few of the many writers, books and organizations that will be tagged - watch the BookShorts Blog for postings starting in mid-July.

Fiction Titles By ...
Barry Callaghan; Ray Robertson; Anne Stone; Stephen Henighan; Richard B. Wright; Zoe Whitall; Pete Hamill; J.T. Ellison; Michelle Gagnon; Brett Alexander Savory.

Non-Fiction Titles By ...
Madeleine Marentette; Ray Zahab; Chris Elliott; David Gilmour; Elizabeth Hay; Rona Maynard; Hal Niedzviecki; Lesley Choyce; Dr. Bob Hoffman; Dave Sheilds; Jan Newman; Jonthan Culp; Dan Boudreau; Lyndon Andrew; Rose Howshowski; Russ L. Bruce, Dr. Munawar Sabir.

Children's Titles By ...
Christopher Paul Curtis; Harry Bliss and Doreen Cronin; Libba Bray; Delia Ephron; Jack Gantos; Shannon Hale; Ellen Kushner; Carolyn Mackler; Peter McCarty; Charise Mericle Harper; Jim Murphy; Christopher Myers; Sara Pennypacker; Frank Portman; Jordon Sonnenblick; Sara Varon; Howard Whitehouse; Chris Lin; Ruth Ohi; Linda Granfield; Evan Solomon; Susan Juby; Deborah Ellis; Martha Brooks; Brian Doyle.

News & Events With ...
Yann Martel, Susan Swan, Deborah Windsor, The Writer's Union of Canada & LongPen; Devices & Desires; Market Research with Dan Aronchick; Understanding Reading Habits with Environics Research; Corporate Social Media Platforms and Using Social Networking to Build Author Brands; and Best Practices in Digital Marketing and on the floor show coverage.

Distribution
If you are an author, publisher, or media outlet and are interesting in broadcasting BookShorts media, feel free to contact me directly for details on post-production schedule, or feel free to keep us up-to-date on news about youse!

Media coming on the BiblioBlog - meantime check out News on BookShorts.com

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.