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If you were in any way involved with BEA this past weekend, or are just curious about the wild world of publishing and this annual convention, you must read this hilarious article on how to be inappropriate at BEA...so good:
Here are some select parts I'd like to share:
Selected Factor Loadings of Specific Inappropriate Behaviors of Four Inviolable Proscriptive Norms at BookExpo America
Comments, Sexual and/or Non-Predatory
Q65 “Creepy” brush of hand atop young publicist’s buttocks: skirt.
Q66 “Hug-and-Tug” atop the oblique depression above young publicist’s buttocks.
Intrusive Interpersonal Behavior
Q77 “Close talking” with coffee breath.
Q78 “Close talking” without coffee breath.
Q79 “Close talking” on microphone at plenary discussion; see Q81 Plosives.
Q101 Use “Colonel Klink accent” exclusively in International Rights Center.
Q129 Leave freebies from publisher A on publisher B’s table.
Regarding Learned Helplessness at BEA
We know from the literature that mice, when placed in a Zero Maze, experience an increase in thigmotactic and locomotive anxiety levels. Recent research indicates that manipulating the D2R and D2L dopamine receptors play a prominent role in mediating emotional response to novelty and inescapable stress.
In a similar way, conventioneers wend their way through the Javits Center or are placed in eight-by-ten-foot booths experience a “learned helplessness”—a kind behavior that can be broken down into the categories of “desperate looks” and “grooming deterioration.”
Public and Private Flatulence
Q11 “Crop dusting” Left Behind Books/or Tyndale House Publishers booths.
Comments, Sexual and/or Non-Predatory
Q65 “Creepy” brush of hand atop young publicist’s buttocks: skirt.
Q66 “Hug-and-Tug” atop the oblique depression above young publicist’s buttocks.
Intrusive Interpersonal Behavior
Q77 “Close talking” with coffee breath.
Q78 “Close talking” without coffee breath.
Q79 “Close talking” on microphone at plenary discussion; see Q81 Plosives.
Q101 Use “Colonel Klink accent” exclusively in International Rights Center.
Q129 Leave freebies from publisher A on publisher B’s table.
Regarding Learned Helplessness at BEA
We know from the literature that mice, when placed in a Zero Maze, experience an increase in thigmotactic and locomotive anxiety levels. Recent research indicates that manipulating the D2R and D2L dopamine receptors play a prominent role in mediating emotional response to novelty and inescapable stress.
In a similar way, conventioneers wend their way through the Javits Center or are placed in eight-by-ten-foot booths experience a “learned helplessness”—a kind behavior that can be broken down into the categories of “desperate looks” and “grooming deterioration.”
Public and Private Flatulence
Q11 “Crop dusting” Left Behind Books/or Tyndale House Publishers booths.
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More another day, just wanted to share that!
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