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We are SO EXCITED for BookExpo and BookCon! Drop by booth 1239 to say hi. We would love to meet you and talk books!

This year during BookCon (June 1–2), there's a new way to get swag, and it comes in the form of a gumball machine that's filled with prizes ranging from discounts to ARCs to items from other vendors we love. Are you ready to roll the dice (or, we guess, turn the gumball machine crank) on some great bookish prizes?

Keep reading for giveaways and author signing deets at BookExpo and BookCon:

Wednesday, May 29:

Noon
Tote bag giveaway

1:00pm
Author Signing: Tres Dean
For Your Consideration: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
(on sale: 11/5/19)

3:00pm
Author Signing: Clay McLeod Chapman
The Remaking
(on sale: 10/8/19)

Thursday, May 30:

11:00am
Author Signing: M.L. Webb
The GayBCs
(on sale: 10/8/19)

1:00pm
Tote bag giveaway

3:00pm
Author Signing: Michelle Gish
We Are Here Forever
(on sale: July 30, 2019)

Friday, May 31:

9:00am
Tote bag giveaway

10:00am
Author Signing: Andrew Shaffer
Hope Rides Again
(on sale: 7/9/19)

1:00pm
Author Signing: Ian Doescher & Jacopo Della Quercia
MacTrump
(on sale: October 1, 2019)

Saturday, June 1:

11:00am
FREE Preview Signing: Ian Doescher & Jacopo Della Quercia
MacTrump

Noon
Tote bag giveaway

2:00pm
Book Con Exclusive
Signing with Purchase: Andrew Shaffer
Hope Rides Again and Hope Never Dies

Sunday, June 2:

10:00am
Tote bag giveaway

11:00am
Signing with Purchase: Ashley Poston
The Princess and the Fangirl and Geekerella

2:00pm
FREE ARC Signing: M.L. Webb
The GayBCs

Pokémon Detective Pikachu comes out on May 10, 2019, which got us thinking. What would Pikachu look like on book covers? 

To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday, deathday, and the release of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls and Get Thee Back to the Future, author Ian Doescher Shakespeare-ized these memes. Want to share? Right click to save!

Big news! There's a musical component to the graphic novel Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made: a soundtrack for the book!

While the album will not officially come out until about a month after Giraffes on Horseback Salad goes on sale, author Josh Frank wanted to share the musical book experience earlier by offering three songs you can listen to online starting March 19, 2019. And here's the coolest part: these songs are "sung" in Giraffes on Horseback Salad, so you can pair these up while reading the graphic novel. Ready for things to get surreal?

Photo by Monserrat Soldú from Pexels

Celebrities from Amanda Seyfried to Matt Bomer have started their careers on the covers of books, but did you know that the greatest celebrity of all time was also a book cover model? Yes, that’s right. The world-record-breaking Instagram Egg also had humble beginnings modeling for books, and we’ve rounded up some of our favorite moments from The Egg’s illustrious career.

It's National Dress Up Your Pet Day, and we couldn't be more excited about all the adorable costumes gracing our social media feeds. If you're like us, you know dressing up your pet can be the cutest, funniest, and most precious thing in this world. But what about in another world, like the one where Steve Catson and his pet man Manfried live? In Manfried the Man, the roles of cats and humans are reversed, putting humanoid felines in charge of tiny, dim-witted little man-pets. In honor of Dress Up Your Pet Day, we're giving a how-to lesson on dressing up your man.

Have you read Manfried the Man? Read it before the second book, Manfried Saves the Day, hits bookshelves this May.