June 4th, 2009 by admin

We met a lot of people at Book Expo, but one of our favorite encounters was with music industry veteran Mike Ragogna, who writes two weekly columns for the Huffington Post. His latest is about the books that he found most interesting at Book Expo and we’re psyched to see that The 27s was one of them. Read the article about The 27s at Book Expo here.

June 2nd, 2009 by admin

The 27s won the 2009 IPPY award for popular culture

We just came back from New York City and Book Expo, which is the largest book trade show in the country. Long lines for our official author signing and we even ran out of books. Thanks to everybody who showed up!

Friday night we headed down to The Providence, a former church and recording studio where Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and even Guns N Roses have all laid down tracks. It’s a really cool club and definitely worth checking out if you’re ever on the west side.

The Independent Publisher Book Awards is a broad-based awards program to laud the best in independent publishing and we were up against the best of the best produced in small, medium, and university presses across the country.

The show, which you probably understood by now, was held at The Providence and The 27s won silver in the popular culture category. David Byrne of the Talking Heads won this last year for one of his books, so we’re psyched for the recognition.