A big thank you to Heidi MacDonald for her preshow coverage of SPX. She's got something like ten posts on the Publisher Weekly blog already on the show, and it doesn't even start till tomorrow.
Here's the post I like the most, though you gotta scroll a bit:
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/03/spx-debuts-2/ One thing I noticed on this list that I missed on the debut ballot (maybe it's not on there) but there's a new Bill Roundy book!
Other debut books of note are two new books by friend of Plastic Farm, Matt Dembicki. This year marks the first time I can recall that the two of us were at the same show, but not next to each other. Make sure that when you're at SPX, you make it to the opposite wall to see Matt.
Also, I have an army.