| BOOK EXPO SPECIAL June 6, 2007 |
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- OpenBook, Confessions in the Lounge
- Script to Screen Authors Getting Shot All Over
- Speed-Dating at BookExpo America Preview Blog
- InsideToronto.com Call Out to Moving Stories Fans
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BookShorts
Lounge Hosts Book-to-Screen Success Story
 The
mega-multi-disciplined and inspiring SUE KENNEY
is a paradigm of the modern artist - storyteller, performer,
author, producer, director - accomplishing all these roles,
and within an extraordinarily short period of time, by combining
the drive of corporate life with the discipline of a pilgrim
and inner creative flair.
Her story of perseverance with
integrity will be brought to BookExpo Canada 11:30am on June
11, 2007, when she makes a return visit to BOOKSHORTS
LOUNGE at Metro Toronto Convention Centre to celebrate
her most recent success - the book-to-film deal for CONFESSIONS
OF A PILGRIM, optioned for feature film development
by Oscar-nominated CIRRUS PRODUCTIONS (C.R.A.Z.Y.).
Sue launched Confessions of
a Pilgrim with BookShorts at BEC last year in advance
of the finished book; she is now the second BookShorts author
to have her book optioned for a feature -- both authors used
their BookShort in the pitch!
She will be making a presentation
for fellow authors that aspire to have their written work migrate
to the screen, stage and podcasts everywhere. For details about
this and more of Sue's events, audio CDs, book, and film projects,
visit http://www.suekenney.ca
OpenBook Toronto
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"OPENBOOK TORONTO" IN THE BOOKSHORTS
LOUNGE **
Authors Getting Shot in
Script to Screen Studio
We're thrilled to report that
a full roster of authors will be immortalized on camera in
the BookExpo supported "Script to Screen" Video
Production and Distribution Program, a new addition to the
show roster. Here are just a few of the many writers, books
and organizations to be covered:
 Barry
Callaghan interviewed by Ray Robertson;
Anne Stone interviewed by OpenBook Toronto's
Amy Logan Holmes; Madeleine Marentette
interviewed by BookShorts Director Irene Duma;
extreme marathon athlete Ray Zahab interviewed
by BookShorts screenwriter Michael McGarry and
Christopher Paul Curtis, a wonderful
children's author that BookShorts "met" at the
Speed Dating session at BEA; plus The Writer's
Union's newly ensconced Chair Susan Swan on
the LongPen petition to Stephen Harper; and coverage of
the Libris Awards, Devices and Desires, Booked!, and much
more.
For more about the ongoing
program, or to suggest your book / author / event for editorial
coverage, check out deets at
BookShorts.com/bookexpo
BEA Speed Dating Preview
Now on Blog
Those folks at CBC - no, not *that*
CBC, the Children's Book Council CBC in New York. They really
hit on a great formula, our first speed dating encounter.
20 children's authors and illustrators, 20 tables and 200
booksellers! Definately a dynamic event, and a heck of a lot
of fun. We've posted a clip even though our editor says were
going to jazz it up even more.
Have a peek at the BiblioBlog
.... http://www.bookshorts.com/blog
InsideToronto Asks Fans to
Name Their Fav
What novel would you turn into a BookShort? InsideToronto
wants to know (and we're darncurious too!) Just for naming
their fav, a quick write up of 150 words telling judges what
book they would turn into a BookShort and why, visitors to
our illustrious sponsoring partner will have a chance to win
lot'o'books and films too.
The prize packs include a copy of Douglas Coupland's JPod,
set at a Vancouver game design company; Craig Davidson's The
Fighter, which is the story of two men locked in
poignant battles, the son of a Niagara winery owner and a
genius boxer; along with Susan Swan's What Casanova
Told Me BookShorts DVD.
Check it all out at the newly re-designed InsideToronto.com
Coming Up in the Next Issue:
Complete reports on Script
to Screen in Toronto; Blog posts
from the Book Expo America trade show floor;
more on OBPO's OpenBook program....
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About
BookShorts
BookShorts are short films adapted from books, including exclusive
behind-the-scenes features. They have screened nationally on television
specialty channels, in film and literary festivals from Vancouver
to St. John's, New York and Washington. BookShorts Literacy Program
is supported by Canadian
Heritage Book Publishing Industry Development Fund and our partners
in the Canadian publishing community .For media catalogue, visit
www.bookshorts.com.
Judith Keenan, BookShorts Literacy
Program / BookShorts Inc.
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