Last week was our (now annual) Official Book Smuggler Get Together in which Ana travelled to NY to hang out with Thea. In between visits to The Strand and Barnes & Noble (SO.Many.Books), late night marathons of Parks and Recreation, going to parties and eating awesome NY food, we also got to attend Book Expo America and the BEA Bloggers Conference (formerly Book Blogger Convention) for the fourth time. Although we are still recovering from the BEA-induced exhaustion, here are some of our thoughts about this year’s BEA and BBC. BEA Bloggers Convention This was the BBC’s fourth year and the second year that it has been officially organised by BEA. We had serious misgivings after last year’s con and its strong focus on how bloggers can serve the industry. We felt that last year’s BBC environment was exploitative and condescending and completely out of touch with book blogging. We know that we were not the only ones who voiced that opinion though and we are happy to say that BEA not only listened to our concerns but actively sought to address them by creating an advisory board of bloggers to help organise this year’s con. The conference opened with […]