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Penguin! Preview!

March 4, 2012 By 5 Comments

pyrg summer12 Penguin! Preview! Another day, another preview.

(Did I mention my deep and abiding love of previews? How fun is it  to dress up and eat food and socialize with other librarians WHILE HEARING ABOUT GREAT BOOKS? It brings out all my geek.)

So really, when I say another day, another preview, recognize that actually I’m dancing around singing “preview! preview!”

(Except it’s metaphorical singing. I don’t really do the actual singing so much. Or at all.)

Anyway.

Last Wednesday morning, in the rainy miserable, weather that initially wasn’t, Sarah and I sloshed our way over to Penguin’s offices on Hudson St. And oh was the journey worth it!

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Picnic at Random

February 28, 2012 By 7 Comments
randompicnic 150x150 Picnic at Random

What a cheerful set up!

If you’ve never been to a preview before: it’s a chance for the editors to tell people about upcoming, exciting titles. Editors give quick descriptions and show cover art — not quite a booktalk, but almost. Publishers are also often generous enough to pass on ARCs of some of the titles they talk about.

Karyn and I were lucky enough to see the Random House preview. They’ve got a lot of great stuff coming out this spring. When any of us are able to make it to a preview, we promise to summarize what we hear about with an eye to the Printz.

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