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SEPTEMBER 2009: News from HooksBookEvents
Tuesday September 15, 2009

Our fall book season is off to a roaring start with lots of great new titles, and some incredible private and public events. 
 
We kicked off the month with the September 8th event at the Avalon Theater in D.C. with NurtureShock authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. New York Times’ bestselling author, Dan Pink, led them in a lively Q&A, and more than 100 area parents were captivated by their conversation.
 
Po and Ashley’s argument: when it comes to children, we’ve mistaken good intentions for good ideas. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis they demonstrate that many of modern society’s strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring because key twists in the science have been overlooked.
 
As luck would have it, the authors were the cover story of Newsweek on the same day as our event.  They wrote, “We have this image that friendships in schools today are all High School Musical ─ effortless racial harmony.  But the cross-race friendships seen in HSM are just about as true to life as teens bursting into choreographed song during hoops practice.”  Read the entire article here:  www.newsweek.com.
 
It’s fascinating stuff, and just another example of the high caliber of authors we are privileged to bring to our public and private events. You won’t believe the other high-profile authors we’ve booked! Please keep checking our site for updates and ticket sales (www.hooksbookevents.com). We’ll look forward to seeing you soon!


Perry Pidgeon Hooks, co-founder, president, perry@hooksbookevents.com
Loretta Yenson, co-founder, CFO, loretta@hooksbookevents.com




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Hooks Book Events is Expanding to Boston
 

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Look out Bean Town – Hooks Book Events is expanding to Boston! On September 1st, we started working with long-time literary publicist, Mary Kate Maco, formerly of Harvard University Press. She’ll be bringing some of the most thought provoking authors directly to corporations, government agencies and other groups/organizations in the Boston area.
 
If you are in Boston and are interested in learning more, please contact Mary Kate at marykate@hooksbookevents.com.



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Hooks Book Events Featured in Publisher’s Weekly

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Talk about great book karma! On August 31st, Hooks Book Events was featured in an article in Publisher’s Weekly entitled, “Thinking Outside The Bookstore Box,” by reporter Judith Rosen.
 
She wrote: “A new breed of booksellers, many of whom got their start in the B2B world, are finding success by altering the traditional independent bookselling model. They retain a commitment to independent bookselling-and they influence the bestsellers by reporting their sales to the New York Times.
 
Perry Pidgeon Hooks of Hooks Book Events in Bethesda, Md., has a bookstore affiliation, with sales going through the registers of nearby Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. A former marketing director at Davis-Kidd in Nashville, Hooks was hired to work on corporate sales at Politics and Prose more than a decade ago. Soon she found that she was spending so much time organizing events for government agencies like the Department of the Interior that she flopped her work and became an independent contractor, taking a commission from the store.”
 
Read the entire article here: www.publishersweekly.com 

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Don’t Miss These Great Public Book Events

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Sure, we host dozens of private book events each month – but this fall we are thrilled to be bringing some of the best-known authors on the scene for events open to the public. Ticket prices are affordable, and the experience will be priceless.
 
Deepak Chopra will be at the GW Lisner Auditorium in D.C. on October 16th to discuss his new book, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul.  Tickets are $35 and will include a copy of the book. Buy your ticket here: www.ticketmaster.com
 
 
Judith Jones, better known as Julia Child’s editor, will be at our first “Food for thoughts” event at Zola Wine and Kitchen on October 21st. Tickets will include wine, hors d’oeuvres, and a copy of her new book, The Pleasures of Cooking for One. Buy your tickets here: http://hooksbookeventsjudithjones.eventbrite.com.  And, don’t miss Judith’s memoir, The Tenth Muse; copies will be available at the event.
 
On October 22nd, well-known author and journalist, Kati Marton, will be the guest celebrity at a women’s networking event hosted by Amplify Public Relations (919 18th Street, NW, Washington D.C., 10th floor).  Kati will talk about her new book on the Holocaust, Enemies of the People, and will be interviewed by the publisher of the popular blog, Disruptive Women in HealthCare: www.disruptivewomen.net. (Did you know that Kati Marton is the wife of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke ?) Buy your tickets here: http://www.meetkatimarton.eventbrite.com
 
Don’t miss an evening with authors, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.  Four years ago they brought us Freakonomics, and on October 26th, they will talk about SuperFreakonomics when we bring them to the Washington Post Conference Center. This is a new partnership and author series with the WPCC. Tickets will go on sale soon.
 
And on October 28th, David Baldacci will be joining us at the Washington Post Conference Center to talk about his new book novel, True Blue, with all new characters including the woman Police Chief in DC! This event will be a fundraiser for the Washington DC Police Foundation.  Tickets will go on sale on October 1st. 

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phone: 301-229-1128
perry@hooksbookevents.com
www.hooksbookevents.com

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