Books, Libraries, Weblogs

The HarperCollins Library Marketing Team has jumped on the blogging bandwagon!

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We’re excited to bring the very latest news to you about our books and authors. Among other things, we’ll bring authors (and quite possibly ourselves) to you via video, tell you about the latest books we’re reading and invite you to take advantage of our weekly book giveaways. If there’s late-breaking news about a Pulitzer winner (please let it be a Harper book!) or an Oprah appearance (please let it be a Harper author!) you’ll know it when we know it.

We know there’s not enough time to read everything that’s out there.  We promise to keep this fun, light and informative.

To celebrate the launch of our blog, LibraryLoveFest, we’re going to give away the thing we love most:  BOOKS! During our inaugural week (March 9th-13th) we will give away 25 copies of a different title each day.  Check back every day to enter for your chance to win!

Today’s featured title is Michael Chabon’s Maps and Legends, a collection of 16 sparkling essays—the perfect book for any aspiring writer.  Maps and Legends is a celebration of literature as entertainment. 

We will randomly select 25 winners from the entries received. No purchase necessary. The last entry will be accepted 2 days after this posting. Approximate retail value of each prize: $14.99. Estimated total prize value: $374.75. View rules here: Download Librarylovefest-blog-sweepstakes.  Leave a comment below for your chance to win!

We hope you enjoy our musings and we’d love to hear your feedback!

All the best,

Virginia, Bobby and Kayleigh

Books, Libraries, Web/Tech

What’s the Buzz?

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Check out Library Journal’s Spring Book Buzz Webcast on TUESDAY, MARCH 9TH.

Virginia Stanley, Director of Library Marketing at HarperCollins Publishers will be one of four speakers who will talk about upcoming titles from the Spring 2009 list.

Sign up for LJ's Spring Book Buzz webcast TODAY!

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Who We Are

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Virginia Stanley

Virginia Stanley is the Director of Library Marketing at HarperCollins. She was included in Library Journal’s inaugural Movers & Shakers edition, being called a ‘Bridge Builder’ because of her outreach to libraries across the country and including libraries on author tours as often as possible.  

She enjoys coming-of-age books, Broadway shows, and any song sung by Cher.

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Lainey Mays

Lainey Mays is the Marketing Associate of the Library Marketing team at HarperCollins. She grew up in Mississippi. Her hobbies include visiting museums in the city, listening to podcasts, and watching way too many TV shows. Her favorite book is Anne of Green Gables, and it’s all because of a librarian.

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Grace Caternolo

Grace Caternolo (she/they) is the Marketing Assistant of the Library Marketing team at HarperCollins. When she’s not tying up odds and ends for the Library Love Fest team, you can find her reading coming-of-age novels next to her cat or watching TikToks for “work purposes.” Grace is always ready to gab about their current TV obsession or Taylor Swift.
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Buzzing about Out of Captivity

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On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American civilian contractors—Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes—crash-landed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they emerged from the plane bloodied and injured as gunfire rained down around them. As of that moment they were prisoners of the FARC, a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization. In an instant they had become American captives in Colombia's volatile and ongoing conflict, which has lasted for almost fifty years.

Now, for the first time, these men are sharing their story with the world.  Browse inside the book, check out their feature on Good Morning America, or read this fabulous story from the Associated Press about the book. 

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Eli Gottlieb’s Speech to Librarians

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Last month we brought Eli Gottlieb to ALA Midwinter and we were infinitely glad to have him- he was a fantastic speaker and signed hundreds of books during the conference.  Along with Carrie Kania of Harper Perennial, our library marketing team was promoting the paperback edition of Eli's critically-lauded novel, Now You See Him. 

Eli spoke at the AAP Breakfast with the Authors on Sunday January 25th, and here are a few choice quotes.

On film vs. books: "Through the miracle of the inner monologue, books can take readers inside our emotional lives in a way movies can’t.   A book can telescope time, or like Proust, turn a kiss into a twenty page opera.  For that reason, and no matter how big their budgets grow, films will never be able to show human relationships with the subtlety and nuanced depth of novels."

On his love of libraries: I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about libraries.   I was fortunate enough to be born to two bibliophiles.  My mother was a frustrated writer and my father was a rare book collector, a papermaker and a bookbinder.  Book worship in our house went well beyond the normal Jewish imperatives towards learning and study.   I grew with my father’s vast scientific and literary library and it was there, rather than at school, that I received my realest education.

The full text for the speech is here, just click on the link: Download Eli library speech

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