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Amazon Will Be the Fifth LEADING U.S. GENERAL BOOKSTORE CHAINS, BY OUTLETS
Largest Bookstore Chain 2011 2017
By Jim Milliot Barnes & Noble 705 Barnes & Noble 634
Family Christian Stores 283 Books-A-Million 260
A combination of bookstore attrition and its own startup efforts will make
Books-A-Million 232 Half Price Books 121
Amazon Books the fifth largest general bookstore chain in the U.S. based
on the number of outlets. As BookExpo began, Amazon Books had Hastings Entertainment 146 Book World 48
opened seven outlets with confirmed plans to open six more before the Half Price Books 113 Amazon Books 13*
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3,000. In 2017, the five chains on our list had 1,076 outlets. Just since 2011
Total1,578
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the store count has fallen by 32%.
Among the chains that closed between 1991 and 2011 were Borders,
Crown Books, Bookland Stores, Encore Books, Lauriats, Krochs & Brentanos,
and Tower Books. The most recent round of closings featured two Christian Audiobooks Evolve in the
chains, Family Christian and Cokesbury, plus Hastings Entertainment, a
multimedia chain with books as its largest segment.
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represent the second largest addition of outlets between 2011 and 2017, expanding, but as the landscape becomes more saturated, audiobooks face
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navigate the ever-changing retail
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During the 20112017 period,
industry leader Barnes & Noble
had a net reduction of 71 outlets,
although its store-closing pace
has slowed in recent years. Now
with 634 outlets, B&N has opened
up several test stores since last
fall and will evaluate results from
the outlets before deciding what
elements it may include in other
stores.
Amazons plans for its bricks-
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the event to the American publishing community. The fair, set for May 30 Author Signing: Grady Hendrix
June 1, 2018, is being developed by Publishers Weekly, Combined Book Paperbacks from Hell (on sale: 9/19/17)
Exhibit, and BolognaFiere, the organizers of the Bologna Childrens Book 1:00 pm
Fair. In from Italy to kick off the event were Marco Momoli, commercial direc-
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tor Italy, BolognaFiere; Elena Pasoli, director, Bologna Childrens Book Fair;
and Giorgio Contini, international director, BolognaFiere. 2:00 pm
The inaugural fair, which will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Man- Author Signing: Jaya Saxena and
hattan, will be the first trade and licensing show in the U.S. dedicated exclu- Jess Zimmerman
sively to the buying and selling of international rights, as well as the distribu- Basic Witches (on sale: 8/29/17)
tion and licensing of content. The show will cover both adult and childrens
content. 4:00 pm
According to the organizers, the fair will offer a unique venue for U.S. pub- Stop by the booth for Quirk-themed
lishers and agents to network with their global counterparts in the publish- cookies and learn about Book Pop!,
ing capital of the world. There is no more essential content marketplace our celebration of 15 years of strikingly
than New York. The U.S. market can be extremely challenging for interna- unconventional publishing.
tional publishers to navigate. A trade show dedicated to both adult and chil-
drens rights and licensing, in an intimate setting, will enhance the current
landscape of fairs focused on the global rights market, said George Slowik, FRIDAY, JUNE 2
Jr., CEO, Publishers Weekly. We anticipate that the New York Rights Fair
will draw a broad international crowd to the U.S. and believe it is the perfect
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synergistic fair with BookExpo for people in the rights business. The event is Tote Bag Giveaway
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BolognaFiere has had a long and fruitful experience in the organization of Author Signing: David Stabler
numerous international trade shows in many different countries, said
Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from
Franco Boni, president of BolognaFiere. This new venture is the natural pro-
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gression of our 54-year-long history with the Bologna Childrens Book Fair
and the meaningful global network that we have established throughout 1:00 pm
these five decades. We are very proud to launch this new show, bringing the Tote Bag Giveaway
flair of Bologna to New York and thereby creating a premium rights market-
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place for adult and kids content today.
Fair organizers said that following the announcement of the event in April, Author Signing: Fred Van Lente
they have received expressions of interest by exhibitors from Catalonia, Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery
China, Italy, and Sharjah in the U.A.E. (on sale: 7/11/17)
The New York Rights Fair will also launch a number of cultural events to *While supplies last

help promote international titles in the U.S. market. The events, the organiz-
ers said, will celebrate the artistry, creativity, and innovation of the worlds
publishing community.
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at newyorkrightsfair.com. For more information on registration, please con-
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and-mortar business are murky, but the company has ramped up its store
openings since it launched the first one in November 2015. Though Amazon
took 10 months between opening its first store in Seattle and its second in
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San Diego, Calif., the pace of openings and announced openings has quick-
ened. The e-commerce giant opened two outlets in 2016 and four so far in
2017the most recent being its Columbus Circle location in New York City. It
has announced plans for stores in Bellevue, Wash.; Walnut Creek, Calif., San
Jose, Calif., Los Angeles; Paramus, N.J.; and for a second in New York City. If
all goes according to plan, Amazon will open 10 stores in 2017.
Its aggressive store-opening plans notwithstanding, Amazon has a way to
go to jump ahead of third place Half Price Books. The Dallas-based retailer,
which sells a mix of used and new titles, has had a net increase of eight
stores since 2011. It closed three locations earlier this year, but has plans to
open two new outlets (in St. Charles, Mo., and Tyler, Tex.) later in 2017.
Standing between Half Price and Amazon is Book World, the family-owned Yaa Gyasis Homecoming was winner
chain based in Appleton, Wis., that has stores in much of the Upper Midwest. At the luncheon, ABA CEO Oren Teicher called the state of the Indies Choice Adult Debut of
of indie bookselling strong. the Year.

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ers, 67 million people have listened to at least one audiobook in the past year.
Of these, 18% were labeled as frequent listeners, having listened to four or
more audiobooks during that time period; 56% were men and 44% were
women. Eighty percent of these listeners had paid for their most recent
audiobook, rather than streaming from YouTube or downloading for free.
They are also discerning customers, with 74% saying it is important to listen
to a sample of the audiobook before committing to it and another 59%
saying it was important for them to get ancillary material with the audiobook,
like author interviews or sample chapters of forthcoming titles.
Webster underscored one growing trend: the use of voice enabled wireless
speakers, like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, to listen to spoken-word
content. Among audiobook listeners, 25% own such a speaker. But this
poses its own set of challenges, as the user must call out a specific piece of Author Adam Gidwitz, whose The Inquisitors Tale was
content to the speaker, he said. Still, the use of speakers is likely to grow, an Indies Choice Book Awards honoree in the E. B. Ruta Sepetys was the winner of the
Webster predicted. White Read-Aloud Middle Grade Reader category, Indies Choice Young Adult Book of
addressed the lunch crowd. the Year for Salt to the Sea.
When it comes to content, audiobook listeners favor mysteries, thrillers,
suspense titles, and popular fiction titles. Health and fitness, as well as busi-
ness titles, were the least favored genres. Among frequent listeners, 47%
said they enjoyed listening to a specific narrator, so there is considerable
narrator loyalty, said Webster.
New BISG Report
The growth in the popularity of audiobooks has been accelerated by the
popularity of podcasts, which serve as a gateway drug to audiobooks, said Calls Rights an Untapped
Webster. Not only do podcast listeners generally listen to twice as many
audiobooks per year as those who dont listen to podcasts but though they Opportunity
listen to a lot of free content, [they] are among [audiobook publishers] best
customers, he added.  Ed Nawotka A new report written by the Book Industry Study Groups rights committee
reveals a dichotomy in the rights world between the increasing importance of

PW 2017 Award Winners rights transactions and the ability of publishers to take advantage of the
demand for American content in the international marketplace. Indeed, the
name of the report is Publishing Rights: An Untapped Opportunity.
Among the findings was that over 53% of survey respondents said that
their organization is currently missing out on meaningful rights revenue.
The survey found a host of issues that have made the failure to collect more
rights revenue an ongoing problem. Those issues include ineffective, costly
paper-based work flows that are characterized by disconnected systems and
a lack of standard approaches. Publishers also said that confusion about
who controls which rights has grown worse, particularly for backlist, acquired,
and divested works and imprints.
While a solid majority of publishers believe that sales of digital rights will
grow both in the U.S. and abroad, many expressed caution about moving
ahead to take advantage of the opportunity. As one publisher noted, Clearing
Collette Morgan (l.), owner of Minneapoliss Wild Rumpus, this years
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PW Bookstore of the Year Award winner, fist bumps the 2017 PW Sales
Rep of the Year, Anne DeCourcey (r.), with HarperCollins.
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appropriate rights to third-party material is massively time-consuming and a
cost burden. Its very difficult to obtain rights that are sufficient to exploit
content and sell on to translating publishers.
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Dealing with Data
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At a Wednesday morning panel on industry data, NPD Books Kristen
McLean pointed to the solid growth in childrens book sales. Print unit sales
rose at a 5% annual rate in the 2013-2016 period. E-book sales, mean-
while, have remained a small part of the childrens book business, account-
ing for 9% of juvenile fiction sales and just 1% of juvenile nonfiction.
Most respondents agreed that fully
exploiting the rights opportunities
would require further investment by
the organizations they work for, but
only 40% said that their organization
was prepared to make such invest-
ments. A major stumbling block for
those companies not considering investments in rights-management sys-
tems was an uncertain return on investment. If there were a clear way to iden-
tify how much money was being lost to uncollected rights, half of respon-
dents said that their company would be more likely to make an effort to
improve rights collection.
The survey found six areas that respondents said should be made priorities
in terms of allocating investment funds: creating a rights licensing database
and tracking rights income; upgrading their royalties database; consolidat-
ing systems; creating new online systems to capture rights; investing in ERP,
or enterprise resource planning, to capture all revenue streams; and digitiz-
ing older contracts.
The research confirms that selling and collecting rights revenue presents
both opportunities and challenges, said BISG executive director Brian
OLeary in a statement. A global marketplace and more granular rights
sales demand more effective rights management. This report provides a
baseline for developing the business case for investing in rights management
solutions.
To help find answers to these issues, BISG has put together another survey
of vendors, asking them what services they can provide to address publisher
concerns. The results of the survey are scheduled to be released this
summer.
In the meantime, members of the rights committee, including Ted Hill, who
drafted the survey on which the white paper is based, will discuss the results
in conversation at the BISGs BookExpo booth. Copies of the report will be
available. Jim Milliot
Today, 2. p.m. Rights Committee members discuss survey results at the
BISG booth (843).
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Adult Editors Buzz Panel
Thrills Booksellers
In a room packed with hundreds of booksellers, the editors at this years
Adult Editors Buzz Panel were so persuasive in talking up the six forthcoming
releases that the galley giveaway following the presentation turned into a
scrum. Audience members eagerly snatched up novels that shared one thing
in common, flawed protagonists battling obstacles that were too often of
their own making.
Noting that she has always been fascinated by handsome, sophisticated,
erudite sociopaths, Jackie Cantor, senior editor at Simon & Schuster/Scout
Press, described Liz Nugents Unraveling Oliver (Aug.) as a thriller with a
protagonist seemingly without a conscience, who commits an act of violence
against his wife. Oliver is the ultimate con man, Cantor said. But Nugent
manages to make [him] someone you will care about.
Knopf senior editor Jennifer Jackson compared Stay with Me (Aug.) by
Ayobami Adebayo to The Handmaids Tale. She described it as the story of a
Nigerian woman whose fertility comes to be the most important thing in her
life, so essential that she will risk everything to become pregnant. The
female spirit in this book is vibrant, it is alive, it is white hot, Jackson said.
Turtle, the 14-year-old daughter of a survivalist in My Absolute Darling
(Sept.) by Gabriel Tallent, is going to be held in readers hearts for genera-
tions, Riverhead Books editor-in-chief Sarah McGrath predicted. She
described the novel as a tale of suspense that will consume, challenge, and
change readers.
Calling The World of Tomorrow (Sept.) by Brendan Mathews an Irish Kava-
lier and Klay, Little, Brown senior editor Ben George said the novel is both a
love letter to pre-WWII New York City and a testament to the idea that
everybody has a story; everybody matters. And, he added, despite it clock-
ing in at 552 pages, it reads like a book half its length, with an ending that
has made early readers cry.
Im a sucker for sibling stories, Putnam editorial editor Sally Kim said,
especially stories about adult siblings who are renegotiating their relation-
ships. The Immortalists (Jan. 2018) by Chloe Benjamin, about four children
who are told by a fortune-teller of the dates of their deaths, tells the story of
each over the next five decades.
The Woman in the Window (Jan. 2018) by A.J. Flynn is a taut, pristine
Hitchcockian thriller, Morrow executive editor Jennifer Brehl said, about a
woman who spends her time drinking and spying on her neighbors. The
twists and turns of this story will take your breath away, she said. A real-
world twist to the story: Flynn is a pseudonym for her colleague, executive
editor Daniel Mallory. It surprised the hell out of all of us, Brehl said.
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The Future of Book

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12:00 1:00 PM Michael Ruhlman The Future of Book Publishing panel (l. to r.): David Ewalt,
Rene Mauborgne, Peter Hildick-Smith, David Culley,
author of Grocery, signing finished copies Dominique Raccah, and panel moderator Jon Fine.

The most useful takeaway from The Future of Book Publishing panel, held
yesterday at the Javits Center, was that the future of the industry isnt some
faraway possibility. Its actually taking place all around us, right now.
Panelists touched on recent industry data citing the continuing strength of
the physical book (both its sales and its social character) as well as the grow-
ing importance (and continued neglect) of backlist titles, and the maturation
of self-publishing from a disruptive, maverick effort into a legitimate profes-
sional publishing category. Much of this information has been previously
offered at digital and/or publishing conventions over the past five years or
so, but it doesnt hurt to remind the industry (again) that examples of its
1:00 2:00 PM Diana Harmon Asher future are among us.
author of Sidetracked, signing ARCs Baker & Taylor president David Culley outlined changes in the library mar-
ket and Folletts long-term role in everything from running college book-
stores (more than 1,200 currently) to creating learning software for colleges
and developing software for libraries that can recommend popular titles.
Sourcebooks publisher Dominique Raccah highlighted the durability of
print books. Books are not like music or magazines or anything else. Theyre
different, she said. Raccah noted the growing sales of print books (61% of
INCLUDES
Sourcebooks sales are print backlist) and the unique capabilities of the for-
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mat for sharing, whether as a gift or a conversation starter. Reading is grow-
POSTER! ing, she said, and teens and millennials prefer print to e-books. On top of
that, she added, theres been an explosion of writing and the unprece-
2:00 3:00 PM Grant Snider dented growth of self-publishing that offers new ways to connect books and
author of The Shape of Ideas, signing finished copies writers to readers.
Although virtual and augmented reality (AR) applications for the book
industry remain in their infancy, tech writer and author Dave Ewalt joked
that the technologies will destroy books completely! But he also explained
that AR platforms like the New York Times 360 video journalism and the
Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will offer authors and publishers a whole
new way to process information and tell stories. Technology platforms like
AltspaceVR, he added, have the ability to bring groups of people together in
virtual space and may signal the future of reading and even digital sales.
The panel stressed the importance of innovation, of turning competitive
threats into opportunities to create new markets and new customers.
Indeed, the presentation by Rene Mauborgne, author of the bestselling
3:00 4:00 PM Action Bronson business title Blue Ocean Strategy, reinforced that concept with a personal
author of F*ck Thats Delicious, signing posters anecdote. When Mauborgne met her copanelist Dominique Raccah at the
show, Raccah immediately thanked her and outlined how Blue Ocean Strat-
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Person of the Year, had distributed the book to staffers at Sourcebooks and
used it as a model for her own innovative strategies at the company. The
abramsbooks.com/BookExpo future of book publishing is going on right now at Sourcebooks, and through-
out much of the industry. Calvin Reid
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Catch Early Buzz from
Middle Grade Editors
Tomorrow, at the Middle Grade Editors Buzz Panel, five editors will share
their enthusiasm for debut novels that they are most eager to introduce to
booksellers.
Amy Fitzgerald, editor, Carolrhoda Books, on Aumas Long Run by Euca-
beth Odhiambo
Auma is a 13-year-old girl who loves school and runninga combination
that could be her ticket out of her small Kenyan village. But when AIDS
begins to ravage her community, she has to figure out how to help her
family while still fighting for her own future. Aumas struggle resonated
with me. While her struggle is singular, much of her experience in Kenya
echoes the experiences of kids in the U.S. Society as a whole doesnt encour-
age kidsespecially girlsto think critically, question authority, or forge
unexpected paths for themselves in the face of hardship.
Amanda Maciel, executive editor, Scholastic Press and Paperbacks, on
Molly Ostertags The Witch Boy (Graphix)
In 13-year-old Asters family, girls are witches and boys are shape-shifters.
But Aster cant seem to shiftand he cant stop spying on the witchery les-
sons his sisters and female cousins are learning. When one of the other boys
shifts into something monstrous, Aster wants to use his skills as a witch to
help, even if that means defying everything his family believes. The Witch
Boy is a beautifully rendered story about identity and belonging, both per-
fectly modern and as timeless as magic itself.
Liz Szabla, associate publisher, Feiwel & Friends, on Greetings from
Witness Protection! by Jake Burt
This is a funny and heartfelt debut novel about a foster-care girl who is placed
with a family in the witness protection program. What she finds, besides the
kind of family shes never had, is that hiding in plain sight is complicatedand
dangerous. Jake Burts talent is all his own. He knows his audience wellhe
teaches fifth gradeand his protagonist, Nicki, is one of the most satisfying
and fully imagined characters Ive ever read.
Nancy Siscoe, senior executive editor, Knopf Books for Young Readers,
on The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
Its Christmas Eve in Harlem, and 12-year-old Lolly and his mom are still
reeling from his older brothers death in a gang-related shooting a few
months earlier. Then Lollys mothers girlfriend brings him a challenging
gift: two enormous bags filled with Legos. Faced with a pile of blocks and no
instructions, he must find his own way forward.
David Barclay Moore paints a powerful portrait of a boy teetering on the
edgeof adolescence, of grief, of violence. Lollys voice is so distinctits a
remarkable blend of innocence, bravado, grief, and anger. Moore also paints
Katherine Locke 2 p.m. a picture of present-day Harlem that is nuanced and lived-in.
Sarah Shumway, senior editor, Bloomsbury Childrens Books, on Kamilla
Benkos The Unicorn Quest: The Whisper in the Stone
This is the first story in the Unicorn Hunt, a middle grade fantasy series
featuring two sisters who find their way into a richly magical but troubled
world. Separated, they each undertake a quest and discover magic,
long-buried secrets, friendships, and their own courage. The allure of uni-
corns is pretty universal, so this novel has that appeal, but I especially love
that Kamilla is telling such a touching and thoughtful story of sisterhood
and its complicated bonds.  Sally Lodge
Today, 1111:50 a.m. The Middle Grade Buzz Panel takes place in Room
1E12/1E13/1E14.
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Pete Souza YELLOW JACKET
Grade Imprint
Presidential Chronicler to Buzz onto the
YELLOW
Pete Souza, chief official White
House photographer during the JACKET Scene in 2018
Obama presidency, culled more
than 300 images from the Three years after the launch of its childrens imprint, Little Bee Books, Bon-
nearly two million that he took nier Publishing USA will pull a buzzy new imprint from its bonnet next year.
of President Obama alone, with Yellow Jacket, a middle grade imprint slated to launch in summer 2018, will
his family, and with world lead- be helmed by current Little Bee and Sizzle Press publisher Sonali Fry and
ers and members of Congress publish novels across genres.
over the course of his two terms Yellow Jacket will launch with four original titles, most written by debut
in office to create Obama: An authors, and plans continuous releases of new titles in subsequent seasons.
Intimate Portrait: The Historic Three of those titles will open the imprint next May: two standalones, Stu
Presidency in Photographs (Little, Brown, Nov.). Truly and Fadeaway, with authors to be announced, and Ask Emily: The
Souza will speak at this mornings Adult Book & Author Breakfast about Advice Blog, the first entry in a new series from Sheryl and Carrie Berk, the
his visual biography. My job was to not disturb the moment, and yet to try mother and daughter team behind the Cupcake Club series. A sequel to the
to capture visually what was taking place, Souza says. I tried to show latter is due next July.
President Obama not just as a president but as a human being. Among Middle grade books are critical to the creation of lifelong readers, Fry
the photos featured in the book is one of the president and his advisers in says in a statement. Middle graders need access to books that they can
the Situation Room as the bin Laden mission unfolded.  Judith Rosen relate to and escape in, which is crucial during this period of development in
their lives. Were so proud to be doing our part to create stories that will cap-
Today, 89:30 a.m. Pete Souza will appear at the Adult Book & Author ture their imagination and further their love of reading.
Breakfast in the Special Events Hall.
Sales and distribution will be handled by Simon & Schuster, as they are for
Today, 1011 a.m. Souza will sign postcards at the ABA Members Lounge
booth (721). Bonnier USA and its current imprints. John Maher

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Fox Chapel Publishing

Celebrates Its Silver
Anniversary
Twenty-five years ago, Alan Giagno-
cavo founded Fox Chapel Publishing
at his kitchen table, focusing on
books about the arts of woodcarving
and creating with a scroll saw. Since
then, the press has specialized in
illustrated nonfiction with a focus on
artisan and high-quality craft books,
and has further expanded with the
publishing and distribution of cook-
books, childrens titles, and quilt
books. Fox Chapel recently acquired the
book division of Lumina Media, which
includes more than 700 lifestyle
titles, and is being further developed
under a new imprint called Compan-
ion House Press. The publisher currently
boasts a list of more than 1,500 titles in
print.
To accommodate the rapid growth, Fox
Chapel is moving to a seven-acre campus
in the hills of Lancaster County, Pa. The
70,000-square-foot multibuilding com-
plex includes office and conference
space, a separate studio for retail and
community events, and an impressive
warehouse space that will support the
companys distribution for B2B and B2C
initiatives.
We have a lot of cause for celebration
at Fox Chapel Publishing in our 25th year, says Giagnocavo. Our growth
would not be possible without the people who make up our companyour
authors who continue to inspire, our team members who are passionately
creative, the people we continue to do business with, and of course our won-
derful readers. Together, we have a bright future ahead.
Fox Chapel credits much of its recent success to its continued dedication to
adult coloring books. During the coloring book boom, Fox Chapel sold over
10 million units and held 10% of the U.S. market and 25% of the Canadian
market. It also released DO Magazine, a publication for coloring book hob-
byists. The company has a history of producing consumer-focused maga-
zines, currently publishing Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts Magazine,
Pyrography Magazine, and Woodcarving Illustrated Magazine.
The company is excited about its upcoming list, including Joanne Finks
When You Lose Someone You Love (Oct.), the Vera Bradley Pattern Portfolio
books, and faith-based craft books such as Complete Guide to Bible Journal-
ing: Creative Techniques to Express Your Faith (Oct.), also by Joanne Fink.
Fox Chapel Publishing is committed to humanitarian outreach as well. It
has made a $250,000 cash donation to several Guatemalan charities
including the Hands of Hope Medical Clinic, the House of Joy-filled Ones for
the Developmentally Handicapped, and other community-based charities.
Since its founding, Fox Chapel Publishing has always emphasized the impor-
tance of giving to charities, with a special emphasis on education, children,
and health, even when first-year profits reached only $96.  Beth Levine

Tomorrow, 2:30 p.m. Fox Chapel Publishing is celebrating with a cham-

pagne and sparkling cider toast at its booth (339).

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Claire Messud
An Angle on Adolescent Angst
The trauma of being a teen was brought home to Claire Messud when her
teenaged daughters best friend summarily dumped her during the first
week of high school. That experience plus a teen suicide in the authors own
childhood circle of friends sparked her new novel, The Burning Girl (Norton,
Aug.), a coming-of-age story about two friends whose relationship implodes
during adolescence.
I was always haunted by that suicide, Messud says, and watching my
daughter traverse the perilous ground of adolescence brought back to me so
vividly that time in my own life. The experiences that they had is part of what
made me want to write about it now.
A keen observer of how our culture affects our lives in books like The Emperors
Children and The Woman Upstairs, among others, Messud is stunned by how
the media portrays teenagers. The fictional narratives that television, film,
and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling,she says. The
moments when they are at the center of attention are when they are disem-
bodied, slaughtered, or kidnapped. I wanted to write against that in part, too.
This is Messuds sixth work of fiction, and while she never repeats herself,
certain themes recur throughout her writing. This sense in which so much
of who we are doesnt break the surfaceour knowability to one another is
always something I like to explore, Messud says. What is the truth? Is it what
you experience; is it what I experience; or is there some objective truth in
between? Another thing that I profoundly believe is that we are made up as
ulf
much of the stories that we
take in and internalize as we
are of the experiences that
we live through. I have said it somewhereour literary lived lives are as
important as our literally lived lives.
Its been a while since Messud last appeared at BookExpo. She laughs as
she explains: I know it was many years ago because Julia Child was there.
This years Adult Book and Author breakfast seems like a Caryl Churchill
play. Im going to be meeting these amazing people, some of whom are writ-
ers, others of whom primarily have different careers and happen to have
written books. Im excited and daunted in equal measure.  Hilary S. Kayle
Today, 89:30 a.m. Claire Messud will appear at the Adult Book and
Author Breakfast, Special Events Hall.
Today, 1011 a.m. Messud will sign at the ABA Members Lounge booth
(721).
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AUTHORS
Scott Kelly
A Space Hero
Fittingly, retired astronaut Scott Kellys memoir, Endurance: A Year in Space, his studies, he woke up every morn-
A Lifetime of Discvery (Knopf, Oct.), written with Margaret Lazarus Dean, ing and struggled to think of a reason
began with another book: Tom Wolfes classic saga of the early days of to go to class. But Wolfes story of
Americas space program, The Right Stuff. Americas space pioneers provided
Kelly, who set the record for the total accumulated number of days spent in Kelly not only direction but lifelong
space by an American astronaut, admits he was a directionless college fresh- inspiration.
man with terrible grades before he read that book. Unable to concentrate on Of the early astronauts, Kelly says
the man
he knew best was John Glenn. But, he adds, The
astronaut that other astronauts, myself included,
use as a role model is John Youngmoon walker,
although he would say moon worker, and first
JOIN RODALE BOOKS commander of the space shuttle.
A veteran of four space flights, Kelly describes
AT BOOTH #3002 in Endurance his yearlong mission, 2015 into
2016, on board the International Space Station.

for Author Signings & Giveaways! He also details the difficulties, including isolation
from loved ones and the comforts of Earth, as
well as the risks of depressurization and the
debilitating effects of his weightless environment.
To help him overcome them, Kelly says, he turned
THURSDAY, JUNE 1 to examples like famed explorer Ernest Shackle-
ton, whose voyages to the Antarctic Kelly read
9am Rodale tote giveaway about late at night.
Any time I thought [being in space for a year]
was hard, Kelly says, I thought what the crew of
10am Rise Up galley giveaway [Shackletons ship] Endurance had to endure,
and it put things right back into perspective.
11am Performance & signing by Kira Willey, A passionate advocate for space exploration,
author of Breathe Like a Bear Kelly also uses the pages of Endurance to lay out
the benefits of his mission. He points out that
weightlessness mimics the symptoms of aging.
2pm King of Too Many Things giveaway Theres also the same type of practical experience
necessary for undertaking even longer expeditions,
3:30pm Team Taekwondo swag bag giveaway including NASAs long-awaited voyage to Mars.
Although Kelly will be speaking about his adult
book at this mornings breakfast, he is also work-
ing on a childrens account of his recent space
mission. This fall, Crown will publish a picture
book adaptation of his memoir, My Journey to
the Stars (Oct.), and Kelly is also planning to write
further books for young readers. I want to show
kids that you can accomplish your goals, regardless
of where you start from, he adds. D.A. Stern

Today, 89:30 a.m. Scott Kelly will appear at

the Adult Book and Author Breakfast, Special
Events Hall.
Today, 1011 a.m. Kelly will sign samplers of
Endurance in the ABA Members Lounge
booth (721).
Today, 23 p.m. Kelly will sign samplers of
Endurance in the Penguin Random House
booth (1921), at Table 3.
Today, 3:304:30 p.m. Kelly will sign collectible
WWW.RODALEBOOKS.COM prints of My Journey to the Stars, in the
Penguin Random House booth (1921),
at Table 2.

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AUTHORS
Whitney Cummings
venti, why not call it a large? I can lose
three hours over that. When I read that
book, it made me feel less crazy, more
Shes Not Fine at Alland Proud of It understood. Actually, maybe, somewhat
fine?  Beth Levine
When did people start saying they were fine when they were the opposite of
Today, 89:30 a.m. Whitney
fine? Actress and comedian Whitney Cummings wants to know why she cant
Cummings will emcee the Adult Book
say, Im really not fine at all, and in fact, I may stab you in the eye with my fork and Author Breakfast, Special Events
if you dont shut up. In her debut book, Im Fine... and Other Lies (Putnam, Hall.
Oct.), the creator and star of Whitney, and co-creator and co-writer of 2 Today, 1011 a.m. Cummings will sign
in the ABA Members Lounge booth
Broke Girls, wants to make it fine to be not fine at all.
(721).
I feel like women and men arent allowed to show their insecurities and
fears, she says. I wanted to write a book that is
about removing the shame from being human
and making mistakes. Its okay to say, Im not
doing so well.
Those who follow Cummingss Twitter feed know
that she has no problem going there. Every other
post seems to come with the warning: This media
may contain sensitive material. She says, Ive
always been obsessed with the taboo, whats off
limits, because thats where we find who we are.
I have dark thoughts, but when I started sharing
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them, people laughed. So I thought, Im not alone.
Cummings got the idea for the book after going
through a traumatic period when she was strug-
gling with anxiety over things she couldnt control.
I was in lots of draining relationships, taking on
more work than I could handle. I couldnt say no to
people. I got very sick as a result, but I had learned
that when someone asks you how you are, you
arent allowed to say not okay, Cummings notes.
I found myself always saying, Im fine, Im fine,
when really I was on the edge of a mental
breakdown.
A therapist diagnosed Cummings with co-de-
pendence. I didnt even know what she was
talking about. I thought it meant you spent too
much time with your boyfriend. She explained
that its when you cant tolerate the discomfort
of others. You are reactive to others rather than
proactive. I was unable to stand up for myself and
ask for what I needed, she says.
Cummingss therapist said that fine is actually an
acronym for F*cked-Up Insecure Neurotic Emo-
tional. After writing about it in Lena Dunham and
Jennie Konners newsletter, The Lenny Letter,
people began stopping Cummings in the street
to tell her how they also struggle with this. So she
decided to expand the essay into a book.
In Im Fine And Other Lies, Cummings says that
she wrote about things that some of her friends
dont even know about her. She broke her shoulder
trying to make a guy like her, and another time she
almost got sent to a Guatemalan prison.
Cummings says that her journey to comedy and
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Paul Reisers Couplehood at a yard sale. He was
complaining about mundane things, and I thought,
this is how I think. This is what comedians do, they
obsess over justice. Why does Starbucks call it a
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Matthew Weiner
BookExpo 2017 Beyond Mad Men

jeff vespa
Visit the Italian Pavilion
After seven seasons (92 episodes)
of Mad Men, friends advised
writer Matthew Weiner, the series
at Booth 621 creator, to take a break. They
said, You know you should just
stop and refill your tank and take

June 1st June 2nd things in. That turned out to be

really scary because as a writer,
youre always worried if youre

Javits Center New York, NY ever going to write again. At the

same time, it was transformative,
Weiner says.
At a friends suggestion Weiner,
who also worked on The Sopranos,
went to Yaddo, the artists retreat
in upstate New York, to figure out
what he wanted to work on next.
I had a play that I could rewrite
[and] a movie idea, and then I
started working on what I thought was a short
story. It was inspired by something I had seen a
few weeks beforehand and had written down,
WHAT IF
Weiner says. I walked past this beautiful
schoolgirl going into a building under con-
struction, and I saw a man working there stare
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at her with threatening intensity. I dont have
any daughters, but what I wrote down was, SAW THAT?
What if her father saw that? I thought Ill just see if I can write a little bit on
this, and then it took off. I came back from Yaddo, and I was on fire with it. It
was a chance to tell a story in a way that I had never told it before.
ATLANTYCA The result is Weiners debut novel, Heather, the Totality (Little, Brown, Oct.),
BOLOGNA CHILDRENS BOOK FAIR and his enthusiasm about it is palpable. This is my childhood dream come
true, he says. I dont want to diminish my experience in film and TV, but
CARTIERE DEL GARDA writing fictionprose reallyis what I perceived as writing when I was a kid.
And writing this novel and actually finishing it, I was in a very different
C.L. ZANARDI expressive environment than my previous work.
FIND OUT TEAM While Weiners work on The Sopranos as well as on Mad Men was a collab-
orative effort, writing a novel is very different. When I write for the screen,
GIUNTI EDITORE he explains, I work off an outline done in a group. After I finish a script, it
GRUPPO ALBATROS IL FILO goes back into the writers room. The writers give notes without me there, and
they can be brutal. Then the writers assistant brings back the script for a
KIMERIK rewrite. It always makes things better. But with this novel, everything was
done alone, including sitting down at the computer for the first time in years.
LEONE EDITORE The writing became linguistically more intimate and internal.
O.G.M. Theres also no budgetary constraint on where you go in the story: location,
casting, sets, Weiner adds. Another difference: you may not have distribu-
WHITE STAR tion when youre done with a novel, but the thing youre working on is the
final product. A script is a blueprint for a product, and a great script will
Visit www.italbooks.com for updates. frequently result in a good productbut its not the end result.
A first-time attendee at BookExpo, Weiner is delighted to be here. This is
all new to me, he says. And because Ive been a professional writer with
some kind of success, everyones kind of laughing at how excited I am about
this. This is my first book, my first time in this world. Im very excited for
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people to see it and read it.  Hilary S. Kayle
TEL: (312) 670-4360 FAX: (312) 670-5147 info@italbooks.com
Today, 34 p.m. Matthew Weiner will sign at the Hachette booth (2502).

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Visit us in booth #2502

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9:00 AM
JIMMY Patterson Totes (Jimmy)
The Dark Lake Sarah Bailey
Photo: Barack Obama

Photo: Ani Berberian

Photo: Andrew Holtz

(Grand Central)
The Hawkweed Legacy
Irena Brignull (Weinstein Books)
We Were Strangers Once
8:009:30 AM Betsy Carter (Grand Central)
9:3010:00 AM 10:0010:30 AM
Pete Souza Liza Jessie Val Emmich Blue Ocean Shift W. Chan Kim and
Adult Author Renee Mauborgne (Hachette Books)
Peterson HBG Booth #2502
Breakfast AA Signing, Table 4 Signing The World of Tomorrow
Special Events Hall Brendan Mathews (Little, Brown)
Code Girls Liza Mundy (Hachette Books)
The Walls Hollie Overton (Redhook)
Laugh Out Loud James Patterson and
Chris Grabenstein (Jimmy)

10:00 AM
Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap &
Hip-Hop History Expo Playlist &
Photo: Maureen Cavanagh

Collectible Button Chuck D

Photo: Brigitte Lacombe

Photo: Celeste Sloman

(Black Dog & Leventhal)

A Moonless, Starless Sky
Alexis Okeowo (Hachette Books)
Playing Hurt John Saunders (Da Capo)

10:0011:00 AM 10:3011:30 AM 1:002:00 PM 10:30 AM

David Friend Betsy Carter Gretchen Carlson
Righteous & IQ Joe Ide (Mulholland)
HBG Booth #2502 AA Signing, Table 4 HBG Booth #2502
Signing Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke
Signing
(Mulholland)
Moon: New York Walks Sampler (Moon)

11:00 AM
What Its Like to Be a Dog
Gregory Berns (Basic)
Death in the Air Kate Winkler Dawson
(Hachette Books)
Photo: Jeremy Lawson Photography

A Secret History of Witches

Louisa Morgan (Redhook)
Photo: Vincent Remini

Expelled James Patterson and

Photo: Melly Lee

Emily Raymond (Jimmy)

12:00 PM
2:003:00 PM 2:003:00 PM 3:004:00 PM Im Dying Up Here
Malachy McCourt Zoe Quinn William Knoedelseder (PublicAffairs)
Scott Turow
HBG Booth #2502 HBG Booth #2502 HBG Booth #2502
1:00 PM
Signing Signing Signing
Island of the Blue Foxes
Stephen R. Bown (Da Capo)
Code Girls Liza Mundy (Hachette Books)

2:00 PM
The Undertakers Daughter
Sara Blaedel (Grand Central)
Gunslinger Girl Lyndsay Ely (Jimmy)
The Second World Wars
Victor Davis Hanson (Basic)
Photo: Rex Bonomelli

Supernormal Meg Jay (Twelve)

Photo: Jeff Vespa

Mrs. Caitlin Macy

3:003:45 PM (Lee Boudreaux Books)
The Monks of Hunting Prince Dracula
New Skete & 5:006:00 PM Kerri Maniscalco (Jimmy)
Photo: Grigorita Ko/Shutterstock

3:004:00 PM
Marc Goldberg Matthew Weiner Tim Federle A Moonless, Starless Sky
Authors of HBG Booth #2502 Alexis Okeowo (Hachette Books)
HBG Booth #2502
Let Dogs Be Dogs Signing Tequila Mockingbird The Walls Hollie Overton (Redhook)
Author Market Stage Happy Hour
Live demonstration 3:30 PM
Jade City Fonda Lee (Orbit)
Jacky Ha-Ha: My Life is a Joke
James Patterson and
Chris Grabenstein (Jimmy)

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Malachy McCourt
The Blaguard Lives On... for Now
vincent remini
Ask raconteur Malachy
McCourt how he is, and he
responds simply, Im stay-
ing above ground. At the age of 85, he feels this is an accomplishment of
some merit. I am very much aware of my own demise, which could come at
any moment. My doctor says if I dont drink, dont smoke, if I eat properly,
take care of myself, I really should live until midnight.
The Irish-American actor, bestselling author, and winner of the Eugene
ONeill Lifetime Achievement Award once toured with his late brother, Frank
(Angelas Ashes), in the two-man show, A Couple of
Blaguards. An unrepentant storyteller, he is back
with a book on what is clearly on his mind these MOURN THE
MARRIAGE,
days, Death Need Not Be Fatal (with Brian McDon-
ald; Center Street). Like yourself, I am a member
of a species that has a 100% mortality rate, he
begins, and then takes the reader on a poignant
meditation on his encounters and unavoidable CELEBRATE
relationship with the Grim Reaper.
In comparing the Irish and American ways of
death, he notes that the former dies and the latter
THE DEATH.
seems to do everything but die. People here pass on, pass away, they are no
longer with us, reposing, at peace, gone home, in the arms of the Lord, with
the angels in heaven tonight. And everyone sits on the right hand of God. You
sit there, gazing at his right earlobe, and is that happiness? he asks. He
adds that American funeral workers will do anything but say the word dead.
Its always in your hour of need. If I went up to a mortician and said, Could
you lend me $100, its my hour of need, he would not give it to me. Because
what they think of need is dead, but I dont need it when Im dead!
The Irish, in comparison, he says, mourn the marriage, but celebrate the
death. As an example, he talks about the death of his mother, Angela. Frank
and he were broke at the time, but their brother Alfie had a Mexican restau-
rant called Los Panchos, and they put her in the coffin there. We sang a
bunch of songs we knew that she disliked thoroughly because if there were
some life in her, shed get up and smite us. Then we sang all the songs she
did like. People were coming in and we were dancing away like we were danc-
ing at Lughnasa. That was the best wake that I can recall, McCourt says.
As McCourt writes in his book, Some say the Irish hold wakes to reassure
themselves that they are still alive. So far, the last of the seven siblings is
at least until midnight. Beth Levine
Today, 23 p.m. Malachy McCourt will sign Death Need Not Be Fatal in
the Hachette booth (2502).
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Join TURNER Publishing for... John Hodgman
A Comedian Confronts Middle Age
BOOK SIGNINGS

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TH U RS DAY J U N E 1ST:
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Dr. Ruth: 2:00 PM

F R I DAY J U N E 2N D :
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GALLEYS
TO You catch me in my frailty and my weakness as an increasingly older dude,
actor and comedian John Hodgman says. The former Daily Show with Jon
Stewart contributor, who now hosts the Judge John Hodgman podcast and

GRAB: contributes a weekly column under the same name for the New York Times
Magazine, where he arbitrates real-life problems, has dropped the clean-
shaven, brainy persona he used to deliver fake news, to write about his life in
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches (Viking, Oct.). I had written
a thousand pages of fake facts that contained every joke and story I needed to
tell. And now I was out of material, Hodgman says, referring to his Complete
World Knowledge trilogy (Dutton): The Areas of My Expertise (2005), More
Information Than You Require (2008), and That Is All Maine (2011).
Two years ago, Hodgman found new inspiration in the basement performance
space below Union Hall, a popular bar in Brooklyn, N.Y. There he held court
once a week while he developed a one-man show called Vacationland. None
of it was written down, except in very broad strokes as a series of notes,
Hodgman says. Over time, I would talk it out on stage until it filled the shape
that I wanted it to.
Hodgman spent nearly a year adapting the show into a book of the same
name. Instead of fake facts, Vacationland taps into his genuine memories of
his 20s and 30s in western Massachusetts and his middle-aged move to a
family vacation home in Maine. Maine is called Vacationland, which is some-
thing of a cruel joke because the beaches are so painful and the water wants
to kill you, Hodgman says. But if you are someone who naturally believes they
dont deserve happiness in the first place, then Maine is a great place to vaca-
tion. It definitely promotes contemplation of mortality in a very amusing way.
Mortality and family legacy are major themes of the book, which also cap-
tures the bruising effect middle age has had on the authors comedy mojo.
Hodgman recalls how one of his jokes recently fell flat at his local coffee shop.
Nice dad joke, the barista had scoffed.
At that moment, Hodgman realized he had crossed the invisible borderland
of cultural relevancy that separates the young and the old. I had never heard that
term before, he says, laughing. But I heard it loud and clear in that moment.
Thats how I died. In that moment. I died. Now you are talking to a ghost.

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Today, 9:4510:45 a.m. John Hodgman will appear on a panel,

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Today, 45 p.m. Hodgman will sign galleys at the Viking booth (1921).

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AUTHORS idea of having a killer on the ship.
With 37 suspense novels, three

Mary Higgins short story collections, a historical

novel, two childrens books, and a

Clark memoir, plus the books Clark has

penned with her daughter Carol

Sea Worthy Higgins Clark, as well as her Under

At 89, mystery doyenne Mary Higgins Clark is
still going strong. Her first book, a biography
of George Washington, was published in 1968;
her latest suspense novel, All by Myself,
Alone (Simon & Schuster), is a bestseller.
Over the intervening years, Clark has
maintained her approach to writing. The
way I tell a story has really not changed very much over the years, from the
first [1975 suspense], Where Are the Children? to the new kid on the block,
Clark says. You have to go in there as if its your first book every time. I abso-
lutely believe thats true; its the way Ive lived what I do.
The idea for the cruise ship setting of Clarks new book came from her editor,
Michael Korda. Clark adds how much she enjoys cruises. Years ago I was
asked to speak on cruise ships. Since I was a widow, I always brought a girl-
friend with me, and two other friends shared in my freebie. We called ourselves
The Sail Aways!
For this book I decided this is going to be the master of all cruise ships,
Clark continues. All the material about the Titanic, which still remains the
most luxurious ship ever built, gave me the background for my novel. Thered
be a squash court and things like that. She laughs and adds, And I love the
Suspicion series with Alafair Burke,
Clark still manages to keep her
writing fresh.
I follow the newspapers for an
interesting case, Clark says. For
this book, the main characters fianc has just been arrested the
night before the wedding, because God knows theres enough in the
news about these hedge fund guys ending up in prison.
You also want to tell the best story. Its as though when youre pregnant,
you do all the exercises, eat the right foodyouve done the best you can
and hope the baby is in great condition. Its the same when youre writing a
book. You put your all into it, change things to make it better, so when its
turned in and printed, you wait for the responses, and hope it comes out the
best it can be.
Clark is a BookExpo veteran. Its always a great experience to see all
these people looking at books and to see how many books are printed every
year, she says. You realize how blessed you are to have a book that has not
only been reviewed kindly, but has also sold well.  Hilary S. Kayle
Today, 23 p.m. Mary Higgins Clark will sign in the Autographing Area, at
Table 2; this is a ticketed signing.

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Michael Korda
A 360-Degree Dive into Dunkirk
lars lonninge
After he finished writing Clouds of
Glory: The Life and Legend of
Robert E. Lee, prolific author
Michael Korda, who spent
decades as the distinguished edi-
tor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster,
immediately began contemplat-
ing his next immersive book proj-
ect. hoping it would be as weighty.
His late wife, Margaret, sug-
gested he chronicle WWIIs dra-
matic Dunkirk evacuation. Korda
took her advice and for the next
three years he dived deep into the
saga, an endeavor that in fact,
turned out to be more work than the last subject, he says, and culminated
in Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory (Liveright,
Sept.).
This oft-misunderstood event, which lasted from May 26 to June 4, 1940,
was a stark turning point in the war. Trapped by the Germans on a northern
French beach, the fate of the British Expeditionary Force seemed grim, cap-
ture imminent. Then, on the cusp of calamity, Hitler made the perplexing
decision to halt his troops, giving the British time to hatch an escape plan.
Dubbed Operation Dynamo, some 350,000 Allied soldiers crossed the
Channel to safety in England. amid a barrage of bombs and shelling. Buoying
confidence and hope, Dunkirk became a fierce symbol of British resilience,
fortifying the wavering faith that Britain could indeed bring Germany to its
knees. There was a great change in public and personal opinion, Korda
points out. While Alone illuminates the
IF WE DONT TALK 10-day ordeal in vivid detail,Korda also
places Dunkirk in context. You think
ABOUT WHAT LED you know a lot about something, but as
I began to delve into this, I realized there
was a lot I didnt know. If we dont talk
UP TO DUNKIRK, about what led up to Dunkirk, then its
a truncated history, he explains. For
THEN ITS A TRUN- Korda, it was imperative to begin at the
inception of WWII.
Korda endeavored to look at how the
CATED HISTORY. war came about, examining the mis-
takes, desires, ambitions, and inner-
most thoughts of everyone involved including the Germans, he says. One
of the problems of the history of our time is that we tend to see the war
through Churchills eyes, and thats not a 360-degree way of viewing the out-
break. Many people get short shrift. In Alone, Churchills controversial pre-
decessor, Neville Chamberlain, gets the limelight, as do a slew of govern-
ment and armed forces brass, and Hitler, whose skepticism of naval power
helped cost him the war.
Korda, who grew up in Englandadmittedly in the midst of great privilege
was just seven at the time of the Dunkirk evacuation. But he brings a bit of
levity to Alone by peppering it with lighthearted memories of how his own
celebrated moviemaking family was affected by WWII. Showing how people
kept going on under the threat of Germany, he says. I could only do that by
injecting myself into the story. Alia Akkam
Today, 22:30 p.m. Michael Korda signs Alone in the Liveright booth (1620).
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STERLING PUBLISHING AUTHORS
BOOTH #420 Nathan Englander
Left His Heart in Jerusalem
Meet Our Authors

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11:00AM
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Insignificant Events
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3:00PM
Summer Rayne
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Thanks to a junior year abroad in Jerusalem, Nathan Englanders latest

novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth (Knopf, Sept.), has been brewing for
a long time. It was truly my first sense of place, says Englander, who grew
up on Long Island. I fell in love with Jerusalem, he says, and I had so much
SugarDetoxMe hope and optimism for this city. I kept going back, and I moved there [a few
COOKBOOK years later] for what I thought was for good in 96.
But the intifada of 2000 quashed Englanders hopes; he returned to the
United States in 2001. I always call that the two bad Septembers in a row,

Stop by BOOTH #420 he says. September 2000, intifada in Jerusalem, then I came back and
moved to New York [for 9/11].
for author signings, giveaways*, and more! Englanders despair and frustration about the prospect for peace between
the Israelis and the Palestinians is palpable. I was just so heartbroken by
what I saw then as the end of the peace process. I still held out hope, and I
still do hold that hope, he says. But Ive just been obsessed with that period
and dreaming of that time. So this is a book Ive wanted to write for two
decades.
A political thriller centered around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Dinner
at the Center of the Earth takes place mainly in 2002 and 2014. You spend
so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories. For this book, I
wanted to relax into my brain. I think in circles, I speak in circles. I unravel my
thoughts that way, Englander says. This book for me was the first time
where I wanted to address that circularity and not be afraid to weave time, to
weave threads, to explore this question of Palestine and Israeli peace, of
occupation, of greater Israel. I wanted to find a story that could contain it
*while supplies last and look at it head-on.
This is also the Pulitzer Prize finalists first time at BookExpo, and he is
super-excited. Because of this afternoons signing, he calls this the cross-
over day, when his novel goes out into the world and the book becomes real.
www.SterlingPublishing.com  Hilary S. Kayle
@SterlingBooks @SterlingKids
Today, 4:305:30 p.m. Nathan Englander will sign at the Penguin Random
House booth (1921).

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BLACKSTONE AUTHORS

ME E T & GRE E T
HELL DIVERS II: GHOSTS
Thursday, 10:00 10:30 a.m.
Table 7, Autographing Area
Your chance to meet USA Today bestselling author
Nicholas Sansbury Smith! The author will sign copies of
Hell Divers II: Ghosts (Hell Divers Trilogy, Book 2).

An exciting new take on the end of the world and Nicholas Sansbury Smith
a thrilling race to survive...Sure to delight fans of
survival and postapocalyptic thrillers.
A. G. Riddle, bestselling author
of The Atlantis Gene, on Hell Divers

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FALSE FLAG
Thursday, 1:00 1:30 p.m.
Table 4, Autographing Area
Meet John Altman, the author of the acclaimed novels
Disposable Asset and A Game of Spies. Altman will sign a
copy of his daring new political thriller False Flag.

Altmans captivating thriller masterfully examines

morality in a time of upheaval, joining the ranks of
Vince Flynn and David Baldacci with his engrossing and
John Altman contemplative spy thriller.
Foreword Reviews
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LOVED
Friday, 2:30 3:30 p.m.
Table 1, Autographing Area
Ticketed Signing
Meet #1 New York Times bestselling and
#1 USA Today bestselling authors P. C. Cast and Kristin
Cast! They will sign exclusive, beautifully crafted,
collectible teaser samplers of LOVED (not a full ARC).

Smart, sassy, and seductive.

P. C. Cast &
Zoey Redbird is back! Kristin Cast
C. C. Hunter, New York Times bestselling author
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AUTHORS
Alice Hoffman
The Method Behind the Magic
For the past two decades, fans have wanted to know what happened to the
characters in Alice Hoffmans 1995 novel, Practical Magic, which was
turned into a film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.
[Practical Magic] is a lot of peoples favorite book, and many also loved
the movie. I thought it would be great to go backward in time with it, not for-
ward, Hoffman says. She wanted to look at the aunts to find out how they
came to be who they were.
In order to write the prequel, The Rules of Magic (Simon & Schuster, Oct.),

Hoffman had to
Carole P Roman research New
Critically Acclaimed and Award-winning Childrens Book Author York City in the
BRINGS YOU CHILDRENS LITERATURE FOR ALL AGES! 1960s. I felt
like I was time
traveling. It was
Captain No BeardAn Imaginary Tale of a Pirates Life
fun to be back
Captain No Beard and his crew mates travel the open waters on his in New York
pirate ship The Flying Dragon while learning valuable life lessons.
[then], Hoffman
Once on board, their world is transformed into a magical vessel sailing
the seven seas on dangerous and exciting adventures! says. I did a lot
of research
The first in the series of ten Captain No Beard books! about Greenwich
Captain No Beard: An Imaginary Tale of a Pirates Life, Pepper Parrots Problem with Patience,
Stuck in the Doldrums, Strangers at the High Seas, The Treasure of Snake Island, The Crew Village, and I feel
Goes Coconuts, Captain No Beard and the Aurora Borealis, Fribbet The Frog and the Tadpoles,
A Flag for the Flying Dragon, and Being A Captain Is Hard Work I could now lead
Kirkus Reviews tours around Washington Square Park. Everything
Best of 2012!
was so new and uniquefashion youd never
Roman charms with an imaginative, seen before, music youd never heard before. It
whimsical picture book that will entertain
even the oldest pirates. was also a time when people were into looking at
KIRKUS REVIEW different philosophies and cultures, different
WINNER OF THE ERIK AND ways of thinking, looking at spirituality, astrology.
NABE PINNACLE AWARDS
People used drugs to expand their minds and
thoughts about what reality was, so for me it
Also available by Carole P. Roman seemed like the perfect setting for magic.
If You Were me and Lived In... Oh Susannah: Its in the Bag,
A new nonfiction series for children One To Ten: Squirrels Bad Day and As Hoffman explored the 60s, she saw parallels
about countries, culture, and Can A Princess Be a Firefighter? with whats happening in the world today. There
civilizations around the world.
This series is an expanding series were a lot of people back then feeling like outsiders,
with 4 new books released every year. New kid on the chapter being different and disapproved of, just like today,
Places featured include: bookshelf, and you simply
India, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, France, must get to know her in she says. Theres a similar kind of realization and
Australia, Kenya, Egypt, Norway, Italy, this charming story!
China, Scotland, Russia, Hungary,
worry about what would happen if there were a
THE CHILDRENS
Portugal, Greece, Mali, Turkey, and Mars!
BOOK REVIEW war. Back then, and now, there were fears about
Civilizations featured include: the government, and young people similarly are
Colonial America, Ancient Greece, Renaissance
Italy, and Elizabethan England, Vikings, Old really nervous that theres not a future for them.
American West, Medieval Times, and Mayans!
The Boston-based writer has appeared at
BookExpo several times, and looks forward to
returning. Its a great experience because I
get to see so many people, many of whom I know
from Facebook, but have never met in person,
ABOUT CAROLE P. ROMAN
Award-winning author Carole P. Roman started writing as a dare from one of her sons. Using an imaginary game she played with her she says, adding, BookExpo is such a great way
grandson as a base, Captain No Beard was born. She is currently working on the groundbreaking new nonfiction series about culture around to get your book out there and connect with
the world. If You Were Me and Lived in... combines her teaching past with her love of exploration and interest in the world around us.
readers and bloggers and people you wouldnt
Find out more at CarolePRoman.com ordinarily meet. Hilary S. Kayle
ALL TITLES AVAILABLE NOW ON
Today, 1212:45 p.m. Alice Hoffman will sign
at the Simon & Schuster booth (1420, 1421).

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 THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017

Stephen King & Owen King Do Breakfast,

Plus a Special Excerpt
For the first time, Stephen King will be a featured speaker at
BookExpo. Together with his son Owen King, with whom he
coauthored his latest novel, Sleeping Beauties (Scribner, Sept.),
King will appear in a Prologue to todays Adult Book and oner would give no last name) visited Truman Mayweathers trailer, most of
Author Breakfast.
The book, about a world in which the women go to sleep and
become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze, is set in a small town in
Appalachia where the primary employer is a womens prison. If
the gauze is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and
violent. One woman, Evie, is immune to the disease. Is she a
medical anomaly to be studied or a
demon who must be slain?
but there was a bright side: most of those under fifty had all their fingers, and it
had been ten years since anyone had died in a mine cave-in.
On the morning Evie Doe (so recorded by Lila Norcross because her pris-
the fourteen thousand or so females in Dooling County awoke as usual and
started their day. Many of them saw the television reports about the spread-
ing contagion that was first called Australian Sleeping Sickness, then the
Female Sleeping Flu, and then the Aurora Flu, named for the princess in the
Walt Disney retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Few of the Tri-County
women who saw the reports were frightened by them; Australia, Hawaii, and

FLATIRON BOOKS
Here is a sneak peek from chapter four
of Kings first father/son collaboration:

The total population of McDowell, Bridget, and

T O M O R R O W S BE S T S E L L E R S T O DAY
Dooling counties amounted to roughly seven-
ty-two thousand souls, fifty-five percent male, for-
ty-five percent female. This was down five thousand
from the last full US census, officially making the IN-BOOTH EVENTS
Tri-Counties an out-migration area. There were BO O T H # 3008- 3009
two hospitals, one in McDowell County (Great gift
shop! read the only post in the comment section 9:30 AM T OT E B A G G I V E AWAY

of the McDowell Hospitals website) and a much

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bigger one in Dooling County, where the largest A NOV
EL

Grant Ginder
GRANT GINDER

populationthirty-two thousandresided.
There were a total of ten walk-in clinics in the three
counties, plus two dozen so-called pain clinics
11:30 AM A R C G I V E AWAY
out in the piney woods, where various opioid
drugs could be obtained with prescriptions writ- Girls Made of Snow and Glass
ten on the spot. Once, before most of the mines Melissa Bashardoust
had played out, the Tri-Counties had been known
as the Republic of Fingerless Men. These days it
had become the Republic of Unemployed Men, 3:15 PM A R C G I V E AWAY

Waiting for the Punch Marc Maron

3:45 PM A R C G I V E AWAY

Good Me Bad Me Ali Land

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Los Angeles were faraway

shane leonard
places, after all, and
although Michaela Morgans

GOT
report from that old folks
home in Georgetown was
mildly alarming, and
Washington, DC, was
geographically close
not even a days drive
DC was still a city, and for

GAME
most people in the
Tri-Counties, that put it in
an entirely different cate-
gory. Besides, not many
people in the area watched
NewsAmerica, preferring
Good Day Wheeling or
Ellen DeGeneres.
The first sign that some-
thing might be wrong even
out here in Gods country
Stephen King came shortly after eight
oclock AM. It arrived at
the doors of St. Theresas

danielle lurie
in the person of Yvette
Quinn, who parked her
elderly Jeep Cherokee
askew at the curb and
came charging into the
ER with her infant twin girls
crooked in her arms. A
tiny, cocoon-swaddled face
rested against each of her
breasts. She was scream-
ing like a fire siren, bring-
ing doctors and nurses
running.
Someone help my
babies! They wont wake
up! They wont wake up
for anything!
Tiffany Jones, much older
but similarly swaddled,
They Call Me Pudge arrived soon thereafter,
Owen King and by three oclock that
My Life Playing the Game I Love Ivan Rodriguez
afternoon, the ER was full.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 2017
And still they came: fathers and mothers carrying daughters, girls carrying
little sisters, uncles carrying nieces, husbands carrying wives. There was no
Judge Judy, no Dr. Phil, and no game shows on the waiting room TV that
afternoon. Only news, and all of it was about the mysterious sleeping sick-
ness, the one that affected only those with XX chromosomes.
The exact minute, half-minute, or second when sleeping female Homo sapi-
ens stopped waking up and began to form their coverings was never conclu-
sively determined. Based on the cumulative data, however, scientists were
eventually able to narrow the window to a point between 7:37 AM EST and
@TriumphBooks 7:57 AM EST.
We can only wait for them to wake up, said George Alderson on
NewsAmerica. And so far, at least, none of them have. Heres Michaela
Morgan with more.

BOOTH #1703 Excerpted from Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King.
Copyright 2017 by Stephen King and Owen King. Reprinted with per-
mission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.
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We know how you feel. BookExpo can be an exciting whirlwind couple of days in the
lives of librarians, a test of endurance and an unrelenting blitz of meetings, panels,
and programs, often completed with 30-pound bags of advance reader copies slung
over each shoulder. Sometimes, you need a break. And in the Librarians Lounge (booth
875), youll get just that.
Thanks to our sponsorsBaker & Taylor; DK; Center Street; Harlequin; Little,
Brown Books for Young Readers; Penguin Random House; Recorded Books; Rowman
& Littlefield; and Sourcebooksthis years lounge figures to be our best yet. On both
days of the show, 12:302 p.m., lunch is served, courtesy of Rowman & Littlefield. And
check out PW Show Daily each day for a lineup of exclusive author appearances and
giveaways. Whether you need a place to get off your feet and recharge (yourself, or
your phone), meet old and new friends and compare notes, or hear from a popular
author or two and take home some signed copies, we hope to see you in the Librari-
ans Lounge.

Go Behind the Mic with Recorded Books

Today, 910:30 a.m.
Start your day at BookExpo in the Librarians Lounge by having coffee with some popular
audiobook narrators.
Numbers dont lieprint may be bouncing back and e-books may be tanking, but audio-
books are the hottest format in publishing today. And that trend, which youve no doubt
seen in your library, is poised to continue. Theres an overwhelming amount of content
being published today, says PW audio reviews editor Annie Coreno of the boom in audio.
Unlike movies, television series, or traditional books, you can listen to audiobooks while
you drive or exercise, or even at work. Thats why more and more readers are dabbling in
audio. They are still reading books in their spare time, but also listening to them through-
out the day.
Have youor, perhaps more importantly, have your patronsever wondered about
what goes into making an audiobook? Heres your chance to
CHIA MESDSINA
learn a little more about the publishing industrys hottest
trendjoin a lineup of Recorded Bookss award-winning
voiceover artists in the Librarians Lounge. You can ask
questions about the recording process, get autographs
and free audiobook samples, or just chat with the person-
alities behind your favorite titles. Here are four of them.

Therese Plummer, an actor and prolific audiobook

narrator, has recorded more than 200 audiobooks.
Her most recent work is We Are Water by Wally Lamb. Therese
Plummer
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CHIA MESDSINA

MICHAEL WINSLOW
Jonathan
Todd
Ross

Tim
Johnny Gerard
Heller Reynolds

Johnny Heller has narrated a whopping 600 titles for adults, young adults, and children,
hitting almost every genre. Heller has won numerous awards for his work, including a
Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award, and his best-known works include the Baseball Card
Adventures series by Dan Gutman and Marley & Me by John Grogan.

Jonathan Todd Ross is the voice of Luthor, the Doberman, from the popular Swindle
series, and he can also be seen and heard in numerous commercials and audiobooks,
including Jonathan Safran Foers Eating Animals and Gary Shteyngarts Little Failure.

Tim Gerard Reynolds was trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre for Theatre and
Drama Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Among his works, he is the voice of the epic Age
of Myth series by Michael J. Sullivan, widely considered one of the finest next-genera-
tion storytellers.

Meet YA Superstars Holly Black and Ryan Graudin

Today, 11 a.m.12:30 p.m.
Join us in the Librarians Lounge for an author discussion of speculative fiction and a
sneak peek at two of the upcoming seasons most buzzed about YA novels, Holly Blacks
The Cruel Prince and Ryan Graudins Invictus. Sponsored by Little, Brown Books for
Young Readers, Black and Graudin will be on hand to talk with librarians about their
work.
Black is famous for her tales of urban faerie, notes Victoria Stapleton, executive drector,
Little, Browns school and library marketing, and Ryan Graudin is rapidly building a repu-
tation for her books spinning what if stories.
In The Cruel Prince (Jan. 2018), Black (author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Six of
Crows) delivers a work that Stapleton says will appeal to fans of the authors previous faerie
novels, and also to new fans, who will connect with the books fantasy elements.
In Invictus (Sept.), Graudin, author of The Walled City, Wolf by Wolf, and Blood for Blood,
tells the heart-pound-
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DAVID STRAUSS

ing story of a 17-year-

old time traveler who
must find a way to
keep the universe
from unraveling.
Expect a fascinating
talk. Both authors
are adventurous
in exploring YA
psychology and
morality, Stapleton
says. Holly Ryan
Black Graudin
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PUBLISHING

Take a Maker Break

Today, 2:304 p.m.
Here it is, your moment of Zen: drop in to the Librarians
Lounge for a Maker Break, courtesy of DK Publishing. As
the fair buzzes around you, take home some new crafting
ideasand learn how to make a tube owl from Jemma
Westings Out of the Box, a collection of 25 cardboard
model projects that engage kids creativity and thinking
skills through hands-on learning and the application of sci-
ence-based principles.
The maker movement is one of the hottest trends in
libraries today, and you dont need a 3-D printer. Westing,
an award-winning U.K. book designer and paper engineer, has developed a number of
activities to encourage kids to create amazing things with recycled cardboardand to
learn about science in the process.

Laugh at Death with Malachy McCourt

Today, 4:306 p.m.
There will be many promises made
at this years show, but this one is solid: Librarians Lounge
will feature the best craic (enjoyable conversation) at
BookExpo. Malachy McCourt will stop by to visit with
librarians, answer questions, share stories, and talk about
his new book, Death Need Not Be Fatal (Center Street).
The book is a humorous look at death, the absurdity of
it, and the abolition of the fear of it, I hope, McCourt told
the New York Daily News recently, in a video interview in
which he also hinted at what hed like to see in the afterlife.
My idea of heaven, he says, from his Upper West Side
home library, is to be surrounded by books. (For more on McCourt, see p. 22)
Andrew Richard Albanese
THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017

Why I Never Miss

BookExpo
By Brian Kenney
Years back, for a librarian to attend BEA
(then known as ABA, or the Annual
Convention and Trade Exhibit of the
American Booksellers Association), it
was practically a political act. Librarians
whose buying power has always been
obscured because we purchase through
distributorswere eager to flex their
significant economic muscle and get
some respect in the publisher-to-reader
relationship. Im a Librarian and I Buy
Books! the buttons read. Or, if respect
was too tall an order, we at least wanted
to feel welcome at ABA, where the
admonishment no galleys for librarians!
was for years all too common.
It took a few years of librarian advocacy
and a changing bookselling landscape, but today librarians arent just welcome
at BookExpo, we are even occasionally feted. Which is great because it allows
us to focus on what BookExpo is all about: books and their potential readers.
Lets face it, between refilling the filament on the 3-D printer and trying to find
a sub for this afternoons guided meditation session, sometimes we librarians
lose sight of the fact that many of our most devoted users are there for the books,
and theyre looking to us for help. While the show floor at the ALA Annual
Conference includes many of the same publishersand the wonderful library
marketing teamsthe ALA conference is one huge distraction as we all juggle
competing agendas, committees, and programs.
BookExpo, on the other hand helps librarians hone in on the hot booksfrom
bestsellers to reading group selections. Between PWs Librarians Lounge, editor
buzz panels, librarian buzz panels, and author breakfasts, lunches, and dinners,
you return home with more than just a few cartons full of readers copies, and
you return smarter. Despite how huge an event BookExpo is, librarians can
quickly fall in with other book-centric librarians through any number of social
opportunities, which is terrific for information sharing, peer-to-peer learning,
and good old gossip. If you buy books for a public library, or develop author
events or discussions, or you specialize in readers advisory, BookExpo is the
place to be.
And if youre a publisher, please, give the librarians some love. It always
amazes me to watch how librarians return home from BookExpo and spend the
rest of the summer reading, blogging, extolling, and arguing about the falls
forthcoming books. Its not about borrowing versus buying. Its about reading,
and serving readers. And thats a passion that cant be bought.

Brian Kenney is director of the White Plains (N.Y.) Public Library. He is the
former editorial director of Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, and
currently a PW contributing editor.

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CHILDRENS
AUTHORS
Kwame Alexander
Paying Tribute to Rock and Roll
and Ghana
portia wiggins portraiture
Despite our differences and our individ-
ual struggles and successes in life, music
is the universal language, says Kwame
Alexander. It can be the thread that con-
nects us all. Music is the catalyst for
Alexanders new YA novel-in-verse, Solo
(Harper/Blink, Aug.), cowritten with
his close friend, collaborator, and poet,
Mary Rand Hess. Its a love letter to
rock and roll music, he explains. Its a
tribute, an ode to my teenage years and
how music was the thing that sort of
ITS AN ODE TO
helped me stay sane and really got me
on a journey to understanding myself a
little better.
MY TEENAGE
Blade, the teenage protagonist of Solo,
is on a path to self-acceptance, too. Hes
YEARS AND HOW
a talented musician in his own right, but
is living in the shadow of his famous rock MUSIC... HELPED
ME STAY SANE.
star dad, who is battling addiction. The
other curve balls in Blades life include
the loss of his mother several years earlier,
a recent romantic heartbreak, and a newly revealed family secret. Hes in an
uphill battle trying to find himself, says Alexander, and the journey hes on
takes him from Hollywood across the world to Ghana, to a whole other culture
where hes able to begin to understand his place in the world.
Alexander says he wanted to include Ghana in Solo because the country is
near to his heart. He has been traveling there for the past five years to work on
a literacy initiative he cofounded to help students and teachers, and to build
a library in the village of Konko, in the eastern region of the country. I have
spent so much time there, I wanted to write about that experience, he adds.
Alexander shares his passion for Blades story with Hess. The pair had pre-
viously teamed up for a picture book (Animal Ark, National Geographic) and
are in the same writing group. We are both hopeful romantics who are in
love with love, and we consider ourselves to be huge poetry enthusiasts,
says Alexander.
Alexander and Hess recently finished a first draft of their second YA novel,
Swing, which will also be published by Blink. We pay homage to jazz and
baseballtwo of the greatest things ever created by Americans, says Alex-
ander. Swing is a hybrid of verse, poems, epistolary, and some proseand it
moves between a contemporary setting and the 1930s. Alexander has also
completed Rebound, a prequel novel-in-verse to his Newbery-winning The
Crossover (HMH, April 2018.
Alexander and his writing group colleagues are headed to Ghana for a
summer retreat. Its interesting that during the last week of July, well be in
Ghana cutting the ribbon on the new library and brainstorming ideas for our
future projects, and when we return from doing all that, Solo will be published,
Alexander says. Its a wonderful time for the book and for us. And the author
is in the process of building a writing studio, which, he explains, Ive built to
the specifications that will allow all of us to be able to be in there, have our
space, and enjoy our writing group in the truest sense of the word.
 Shannon Maughan
Today, 11 a.m.noon. Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess will sign
ARCs of Solo in the Autographing Area, at Table 3.
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Mo Willems
Summer is
Welcoming New Babies

Heating Up

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ITS NOT EVEN
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ITS JUST THE
MOMENT OF
BEING WITH
THE CHILD.
Mo Willems, the award-winning author-illustrator of the Elephant and Piggie
and Pigeon series, wants to make babies feel welcome in his newly released
picture book, Welcome: A Mo Willems Guide for New Arrivals (Disney-
Hyperion). Organized like an instruction manual with bright road-sign illus-
trations and Mylar mirrors throughout, the book is designed to hold babies
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welcoming to the adults in young childrens lives.
Without question, reading to children is important. But Willems also
emphasizes the time spent with the child. Sometimes, he notes, its not
even important what you say, its just
the moment of being with the child.
To that end, Welcome was created to
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and adults to enjoy together.
For each of his books, Willems con-
siders the interplay between words
and pictures as a dance between the
physical object, the book, and the
text. He begins each new project by
asking, What are the aesthetics of
the piece and how does that inform
the language? Early on in writing Welcome, Willems says he knew that signs
would be a major theme. Next he had to decide, How big are these signs
going to be? And whats the color story of the book? Answering those ques-
tions helped him find the storys rhythm, a process he describes as organic.
He compares it to growing a plant, where you have to be there and ready
and open for unexpectedness, because thats part of it.
The signs welcome the reader or readee, as Willems describes the baby
or small child, without making reference to race or gender. The concepts, for
Willems, are fundamental universals that are being discussed, and the idea
of being inclusive plays a big role in this. The last page, which ends with You
are loved/ right here,/ right now..., drives the point home for the reader as
much as the readee. Hopefully, says Willems, [love] is not something you
need to earn. There are other things you need to earn, but the love should be
there. Jordan Foster

Today, 11noon. Mo Willems will sign finished copies of Welcome in the

Autographing Area, at Table 1.

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list when Aladdin released it in
November 2016. A year later,
Aladdin will publish a companion, Through Your Eyes: My Childs Gift to Me,
featuring art by Jihyuk Kim (no relation to Jaime Kim, who illustrated the first
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her father. My mother, who was a teacher, had to be up and out of the house
early, so my father was always in charge of breakfast, she explains. My sib-
lings and I would come down to the kitchen to find notes that he had written
to each of uspassages from scripture, poems, or sayings he loved.
When Earhardt began thinking about writing a childrens book and what
its focus might be, she remembered those breakfast notes and decided to
use them as inspiration. To write the book, I took lessons my dad had taught
me that I wanted to pass on to my child, and wrote them in lyrical form, she
says. He is an amazing dad, and writing Take Heartand seeing it on book-
shelvesmade me appreciate the weight of that, and what a huge difference
fathers can make in their childrens lives.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 1 Earhardt was moved to write a follow-up book as she came to appreciate
the small but momentous interludes in her daughters life, and to value her
fresh perspective on the everyday world. The very first time Hayden saw
11:00 AM rain, she recalls, I was holding her as we stood under construction scaffold-
ing, watching rain fall on the street, and she was totally transfixed. And

LINWOOD
though as adults we usually hate rainy days, for the first time I got to experi-
ence rain through my daughters eyesand I realized there is nothing better
than that.

BARCLAY
Thankful for her lifes gifts and committed to giving back, the author (as
she did with Take Heart) will donate a portion of her proceeds from Through
Your Eyes to Folds of Honor, an organization that provides scholarships and
assistance to the spouses and children of fallen soldiers in service to
America.
Thrilled to be attending BookExpo for the first time, Earhardt is eager to
meet booksellers and thank them for selling Take Heart, and helping so
many people to hear my dads words. She is eager to introduce them to her
new book and its simple message: Slow down each moment, take time to
watch your child take in all the small things, and enjoy every change.
 Sally Lodge

Today, 1 p.m. Ainsley Earhardt will sign copies of Take Heart, My Child,
in the S&S booth (1420, 1421).

Jack Gantos Packs

Writing Radar with Life
Storiesand Personality

anne lower
Jack Gantos has never shied
from sharing his own life in
booksvery effectively. He
won the 2012 Newbery for his
autobiographical Dead End in
Norvelt, and Hole in My Life,
his YA memoir, received
Michael L. Printz and Robert F.
Sibert honors. In Writing
Radar: Using Your Journal to
Snoop Out and Craft Great
Stories (Farrar, Straus and Gir-
oux, Aug.), Gantos again
mines his past, sharing his own
experiences as a developing
writer and his passion for his
craft to encourage aspiring
authors to build confidence

SIGNING AT
and establish good writing
habits.
Based on the key role that his boyhood journal played in igniting his own

OUR BOOTH writing career, Gantos urges kids to keep journals and to use them to find
story ideas in their own lives. He began writing as a sixth grader, after he
surreptitiously read his older sisters diary and was less than impressed. I
always thought my sister was twice as clever as I, so I was sure that her diary
Visit our booth for would contain world-shaking news. But when I snuck into it, I was disap-

exciting daily giveaways! pointed that what she had written was so vacuous and saccharine, and that
shed written nothing about me! he tells Show Daily. Certain that he could
do a better job, Gantos persuaded his mother to buy him a journal, but when
he first sat down with it, nothing blossomed but the word loser, he says.
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 B . A . PA RIS
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JENNY ROGNEBY IS
THE NEW QUEEN OF NORDIC NOIR.
Her heroine is like no one else.
And the way she writes! She grabs you
and you just cant stop reading.
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O K O F T H E L E O N A T R IL O G
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Id open my journal, stare at the pages, and close itover and over again. It
was a soul-crushing moment when I realized I was a blank slate!
But not for long. It occurred to him that maybe my dads off-color, dinner
table stories might be interesting to write down, and he also came across a
copy of Harriet the Spy while shelving books at the library. I saw on the
cover that Harriet had a journal, he notes. As I read the novel, a lightning
bolt hit me in the pen. I realized that all you have to do is snoop around and
write down everything you see. So I put a pad of paper into my bike basket,
and rode around the neighborhood,
drawing pictures of the houses and
writing down everything I saw. It was
kind of like walking into a darkroom
and watching a photo come to life.
Though that was Gantoss jump-
ing-off point, he realized he still
had no clue how to organize the
material. I knew that a story has a
beginning, a middle, and an end, but
I had to learn what happens at each
stage, and how to find the action and
the emotion. It would not have hurt
me if Id had more creative writing
instruction in school.
He recalls that he did pick up
some good creative writing tips, in
high school, but it wasnt until his
college years that, says Gantos, I
really started to understand the
essential tasks of writing and refine
my process. Thats when I began to
get traction. And a considerable
amount of it: Gantos published his
debut book, Rotten Ralph, illus-
trated by his friend Nicole Rubel, in
1976, when he was a college
sophomore.
A true teaching author, Gantos
has taught writing on the college and
graduate levels and has, over more
than three decades, visited 1,000-
plus schools, working with children
and helping educators shape their
writing programs. He took a years
hiatus from fiction writing to distill his teaching and writing experiences into
Writing Radar, which, he says, represents a good part of my lifes work.
Fans will be pleased to learn that the guide is chock-full of Gantosian
add-ons in the form of humor and personal stories. If a book about writing
is strictly mechanical, its not going to engage kids, Gantos says, so he set
out to write a purposeful book, but one that had my personality in it. I think
Writing Radar is a handshake between the two. I hope that kids like me, who
think they are totally clueless about writing, will say, Really? All I have to do
is eavesdrop and learn other peoples business? I can do that!
As he has done so successfully in his own career, Gantos advises young

MEET THE AUTHOR writers to reach inside themselves for inspiration. I try to empower kids by
telling them to write about themselves, in the first person, which will help
ARC signing & giveaway them get both action and emotion, he says. At the end of my school visits, I
always tell kids, One of these days, Im going to walk into a library and see a
Thursday, June 1, 10:30 AM book with your name on the cover, and Im going to read it. And their faces
Other Press booth, #2012 always brighten, realizing that this is, in fact, a real possibility.  Sally Lodge

Today, 1011 a.m. Jack Gantos will sign ARCs of Writing Radar, and
give away custom Writing Radar journals in the Autographing Area,
at Table 3.

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puzzle. For Cashore, whose Graceling Realm
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and been translated into 33 languages, that
meant writing her first standalone novel,
Jane, Unlimited (Penguin/Dawson, Sept.).
Its still fantasy in the sense that impossible things happen, but not a high-
quest fantasy, she explains. Its full of umbrellas and adventure and a big,
weird, mysterious house. Its a little bit of an homage to du Mauriers
Rebecca, and other orphan visits a house of mystery books. Mostly, Im
hoping its a puzzle, but a puzzle thats full of heart.
Cashore got the idea for the novel driving to a Christmas party with her
sister. I had this thought: What if I were to do something like the Choose
Your Own Adventure books I read growing up? What if I wrote someones
adventure, and they had choices that each led to a story line in a different
genre? Those genres, Cashore reveals, are mystery, spy, horror, sci-fi, and
fantasy, all tied together. It was, she admits, really challenging figuring out
how to get all that on the page.
After Bitterblue, the last book in her Graceling Realm series, was published
in 2012, Cashore decided she needed a break from fantasies. Writing it was
an emotionally exhausting journey, and it also felt like the book was the nat-
ural end of that cycle. I realized that all along Jane, Unlimited was what I had
been writing toward. Cashores hope for her new novel is that readers will care
about Jane, and the book will give them a feeling of magic and possibility.
The author has been writing full-time over the past five years. When not
writing, Cashore has embarked on a few adventures of her own: Every month
over the past year, my partner and I have done something neither of us had
ever done before, like indoor skydiving or building a gingerbread house. In
April, Cashore moved into her first office outside of her home. Its really
changed the way I work, she says. I have fewer distractions availablelike
convincing myself it would be better to clean the floors instead of writingso
Im more focused. She still handwrites her novels in a ruled notebook, using
a needle-point pen with blue ink, but, she adds, Once I have enough written
that I begin to worry about what would happen if the house burned down, I
use voice recognition software to put it on the computer.  Lucinda Dyer

See us at Booth #339 Today, 23 p.m. Kristin Cashore will sign galleys of Jane, Unlimited in the
Penguin Random House booth (1921).

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AUTHORS
Roz Chast
Loves the Grid
When Roz Chasts daughter was about to leave the bucolic
Connecticut suburb where she was raised to attend col-
lege in New York City, she asked her mother: Whats a
block? The New Yorker cartoonist and author of the
acclaimed and multiple awardwinning book Cant We Talk
About Something More Pleasant? answered that ques-
tion, and more, in a 16-page guide to New York, chock-full
of essential information delivered with her signature wit.
Four years later, the well-worn booklet was returned to
Mom, and Chasts newest book, Going into Town: A Love
Letter to New York (Bloomsbury, Oct.), was born.
A lot of guidebooks show you places to go and things to
see, says Chast, but they dont tell you basic architecture
about the city. Knowing a handful of important basics
such as Fifth Avenue divides the East Side from the West
Side, and that a cross street is simply the number (or name) of the street love the grid, referring to most of Man-
that intersects the avenue youre on, can make the city much less intimidat- hattan above 14th Street that is neatly
ing to a newcomer, she adds. laid out in numbered streets and ave-
Born and raised in Brooklyn and a resident of the Upper West Side before nues. Within that zone, I dont usually go
departing to the country to accommodate her growing family, Chast still eas- more than a block before I know Ive gone
ily gets lost in her native city because, she says, I have no sense of direction. wrong, she says, but off the gridI
Whatever a sense of direction is, I have the opposite. Thus, she proclaims, I could wind up in Albany. The only thing

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that would Like many who put pen to paper, Chast starts and abandons her work over
stop me and over again. Ninety percent of my cartoons get thrown away, she says
is the river. without exaggeration, but notes that theres far less time invested in a car-
Chast isnt toon than a book. I cant think of a cartoon that I worked on for six months
new to the and then had to throw it all in the garbage. However, she is undaunted by
book form per seshe has had several collections of her cartoons pub- the process; shes already at work on her next book, a guide to Brooklyn.
lished but Going into Town is only her sophomore adventure in the narra-  Liz Hartman
tive graphic form. The main difference is that the collections are comprised
of separate little entities, she says, while a book such as this demands an Today, 1:302:30 p.m. Roz Chast will sign a limited-run poster from
Going into Town in the Bloomsbury booth (3003).
arc, a story that ties together and not in an arbitrary way.

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 BOOKEXPO SHOW DAILY
Harlequin Branches Out
with New Imprints
If you think Harlequin publishes only mass market romance novels, its time
to get in your DeLorean and flash forward. With three new imprintsGray-
don House Books, Hanover Square Press, and Park Row Booksit now has
seven different lines.
This is an immensely exciting time at Harlequin, says Craig Swinwood,
publisher and CEO. With three new imprints, we are publishing a range of
books in general fiction and narrative nonfiction categories. Our goal is to
ensure that these books reach as many readers as possible through our
robust global footprint.
Graydon House Books features commercial womens
fiction, ranging in tone from lighthearted humor to emo-
tional tearjerkers and edgier drama. It is led by Dianne
Moggy, vice president, editorial, and Susan Swinwood,
executive editor. One of two launch titles for the new
Graydon House Books imprint, Something Like Happy
(Sept.) by Eva Woods (see tomorrows Show Daily for a
profile of the author), was pre-empted in North America in a two-book, six-fig-
ure deal. The second Graydon House launch title, Best Day Ever (Sept.) by
Kaira Rouda, is a suspenseful tale of deception and betrayal.
Hanover Square Press, led by editorial director Peter Joseph, will publish
original general fiction and narrative history, journalism, and memoir, begin-
ning in January 2018. Inaugural authors include Dan Abrams, chief legal
analyst for ABC News and host of 60 Days In and Live PD on the A&E net-
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work, with bestselling author David Fisher. Another notable early acquisition
is agent-cum-writer Neil Olsons The Black Painting (Jan. 2018), a literary
mystery involving a stolen work by the artist Francisco de Goya.
Park Row Books, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises Mira Books, is a
line of thought-provoking and voice-driven novels, led by Margaret Marbury,
vice president, general fiction editorial, and Erika Imranyi, executive editor.
It launched last month with the debut novel The Improbable
Flight of Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig, acquired in a sig-
nificant pre-emptive deal.
We are energized by the growth of our trade publishing
program, says Loriana Sacilotto, executive vice president,
global publishing. We are able to offer expansive publishing
opportunities to authors, as well as an individualized
author-centric publishing experience that is second to none. Our early wins
in 2017, such as the instant New York Times bestseller The Orphans Tale
(Mira) and Ginny Moon, the highly lauded first title from Park Row Books, tell
us were moving in the right direction as a home for both celebrated authors
and rising stars.
The Harlequin booth will be jam-packed with activities, giveaways, and
signings throughout the day today and tomorrow. Below are a few highlights
of whats available at the booth.  Beth Levine
Today, 10:4511:45 a.m. Eva Woods signs AREs of Something Like Happy
at the Harlequin booth 2921).
Today, 12:301:30 p.m. Neil Olson signs ARCs of The Black Painting.
Tomorrow, 10:4511:45 a.m. J.T. Ellison signs ARCs of Lie to Me, and
Kaira Rouda signs AREs of Best Day Ever at the booth (2921).
Tomorrow, 12:301:30 p.m. Eva Woods and Neil Olson again sign
advance copies of their respective books.
 Chronicle Books is Celebrating
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GREAT Q&A
GIVEAWAYS J.T. Ellison Changes It Up
at the IVP BOOTH!

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Book of the Day ARC of the Day

the
White

road White
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to SElf-DiScovEry An honest look at what it means to be white

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After nearly two decades of success, J.T. Ellison, the New York Times bestsell-
ian Morgan Cron ing author of more than 15 books and coauthor of the popular A Brit in the
Author of Chasing Francis

S u z a n n e S ta b i l e
Also a book signing with
Todd E. Outcalt, author
of Seven Deadly Virtues,
at 9 a.m.
DANIEL HILL FBI series with Catherine Coulter, decided she needed a change of scenery.
Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeil
Ellison steps away for now from her series characters Lt. Taylor Jackson of
Nashville Homicide and medical examiner Dr. Samantha Owens to take a
look at the interior lives of ordinary people in Lie to Me (Mira, Sept.). Call it a
domestic noir, if you will, as she chronicles the disintegration of an outwardly
perfect marriage.

What made you leave your beloved cops behind?

I felt like there would be a bigger canvas to work with. I love writing about
the police, but the idea of taking an ordinary person and putting them into
FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017 extraordinary situations and seeing how they react intrigued me. There are
some expectations when its a cop, but what if its your next-door neighbors?
Book of the Day ARC of the Day
With Lie to Me, I hope readers will be drawn into that first chapter and not
be able to put it down. The first line is You are not going to like me very much.
The MyTh of equaliTy

ken wytsma
DA N I E L L E S T R I C K L A N D It is a big departure for me.

Will this become a series?

No, its a standalone, and its a very big book and big shift for me. I am so
appreciative of all the publishing people and booksellers who are going
along with it and helping. Big thank you!
STRICKLAND

Will you be revisiting your Samantha Owens and Taylor Jackson series
Wytsma

any time soon?

Uncovering the Roots
of Injustice and Privilege Absolutely. I am definitely not done with them, but just for now, I am stepping
U NAU T H O R I Z E D
away. Things change; it will be a challenge to go back to them, but a fun one.

How did you get into writing?

Also giving away copies
Ive always been a writer. I got my first rejection letter when I was 10 years-
of Movies Are Prayers
by Josh Larsen. old. I wrote a poem on slavery for a school assignment, and my grandmother
sent it to True Confessions magazine. This prepared me for rejection later.

What is it about mysteries and thrillers that led you to those genres?
Ive always drifted toward them. I really like how people react to things. I like
to put people in awkward situations and see what they do. Why do people
ivpress.com choose to do bad things? What drives people to make decisions like rob a
bank or kill someone? The psychology fascinates me. Where is a persons
moral compass?  Beth Levine

Today, 10:4511:45 a.m. J.T. Ellison signs ARCs of Lie to Me at the

Harlequin booth (2921).

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10:00 AM
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Michael Dahl signs
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11:30 AM
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Grab an ARC!

2:00 PM
Get a signed copy of
Pedro, First Grade Hero
by Fran Manushkin

3:30 PM
Dont miss two of
this seasons best
middle-grade novels.
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Visit Booth NEW BESTSELLERS FROM
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BAKER PUBLISHING Q&A
GROUP Neil Olson:
From Both Sides Now
Between Heaven and It all started where most literary

jill schwatzman
the Real World deals are made: lunch. Over a
by Steven Curtis Chapman with Ken Abraham
nosh with Neil Olson, legendary
Five Grammy Awards, 58 Dove Awards, 48 career #1 Donadio & Olson agent to such
radio singles, 11 million records soldbut the music
is only part of his story. luminaries as Mario Puzo and
Robert Stone, the new editorial
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director of Hanover Square Press,
Peter Joseph, asked Olson what
he was working on. Olson took a
deep breath and told Joseph
Taking My Life Back about his own novel he was writ-
by Rebekah Gregory with Anthony Flacco ing, the first in more than a
A spectator at the 2013 Boston Marathon finish line decade. Long story short: on Janu-
shares her moving and inspiring story of how an act of
terrorism changed her life forever.
ary 9, 2018, Hanover Press will
debut The Black Painting, a mys-
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tery concerning the theft of a
priceless paintingone of Goyas
deeply disturbing and dark Black
Paintings. Show Daily spoke with
Neil Olson about how he came to be on the other side of the fence.
Play the Man
by Mark Batterson You surprised Peter Joseph with this book. What was his reaction?
New York Times bestselling author and pastor issues We were talking about our tastes in mysteries and thrillers. We also talked
a biblically based challenge to men, redefining man-
about a book that we loved in which the supernatural is not required to solve
hood and starting a movement of men who put God
first, family second, and career third. the story, but had that kind of mist overlaying it. I thought hed be perfect for
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this book I just wrote. I was going to bring it up at another time, but when he
asked me point-blank at the end of lunch what I was working on, I thought,
okay, this is karma. I sent it, and a week later he said he wanted to buy it.

Did you expect things to move so quickly after that?

Grace Is Greater No, I didnt expect anything at all. This is a business where you have to work
by Kyle Idleman
very hard and make a lot of submissions to make one sale. To show it casually
Pastor and bestselling author Kyle Idleman uses
moving stories to showthat grace is best understood to one editor and make a sale is extraordinary.
when it is experienced instead of explained.

ISBN 9780801019418 $15.99 February 2017 Your last novel was the well-received The Icon. What drew you back to
writing fiction?
I havent published a novel in 12 years, but I have never stopped writing.
Because I have an unending day job, championing other peoples work, I
dont have a lot of extra time for my own writing. I hadnt given up on the
The Perfect You idea, but its something that is in my bones.
by Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf combines scientific research with What inspired you about Goyas Black Paintings series?
biblical teaching to help readers discover and harness Most of my work seems to involve art history and paintings, because they
their unique thinking pattern that shapes the way they
think, feel, and make choices. lend themselves to the mysterious. I came up with this idea of a painting
that was so terrifying that it would cause death or madness upon viewing.
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Then I thought, who would be the artist who could produce such a painting,
and I remembered Goyas paintings, which I had seen in the Prado in Madrid.
They had a profound effect on me.

XY How is it to be an author again?

Peter Joseph is a joy to work with, and it is really exciting to be on the ground
floor of a new imprint. I am pleased and honored to be in that position.
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Brother Christopher, who has been training dogs since 1982, thinks that
many modern training methods fail because they are too rigid. We can get
so stuck in our particular training approach that the method trumps real life.
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Graphic Novels Heat Up at Javits

A wide variety of comics artists with new and debut graphic novels will be and spirituality. Priyankas mother, Chanani says, tries to protect her from
featured on several panels here. her past, but she is too curious. She needs to understand who she is. So
First up is this years Hot Graphic Novels panel, moderated by PW senior much of that story draws upon my own relationship with my mother, and
news editor Calvin Reid, today at 11 a.m. The panel features five artists, through the course of making [the book] I had my own daughter.
including Nidhi Chanani, author of Pashmina (First Second Books, Oct.); Gene Leun Yangs acclaimed graphic novel American Born Chinesethe
Iasmin Omar Ata, author of Mi(s)hadra (Gallery 13, Oct.); Liniers, author first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Awardwas the
of Good Night, Planet (Toon Books, Sept.); Katie ONeill, author of reason Chanani wanted to be published
The Tea Dragon Society (Oni Press, Nov.); and Pratap Chatterjee by First Second Books, she says. For
and Khalil Bendib, coauthors of Verax (Metropolitan, Oct.). me, the book changed my view on com-
These authors present a wide range of storytelling and social ics, and what comics could be, she says.
issues, taking on cultural conflicts and family values, as well as the First Second isnt afraid to take risks,
growth of electronic surveillance and theyre committed to books that
(Verax) and even epilepsy (Mi(s)hadra). address a gap in the kind of content
Pashmina is Nidhi Chananis debut available to readers.
graphic novel. The story revolves Over at the kids graphic novel house
around an Indian-American girl, Toon Books, publisher Franoise Mouly
Priyanka, and a magical shawl that is working to introduce American readers
transports her to a world she could to the work of the acclaimed and bestsell-
only imaginethat of her mothers ing Argentine cartoonist Liniers. Mouly
past and her familys heritage. was instrumental in publishing a new
Chanani lives in the Bay Area and generation of alternative comics artists
through her studio, Everyday Love, with her husband, the famed cartoonist
also does commercial illustration. In Art Spiegelman, in Raw, their acclaimed
creating Pashmina, Chanani says she comics line, in the 1980s. In addition to
wanted to explore mother-daughter running Toon Books, she is also the long-
relationships and depict Indian culture standing art director of the New Yorker.

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Wildly popular in Argentina, Liniers has pro-

duced numerous comics and a long-running
daily strip in Spanish. Mouly recalls she first
became acquainted with Linierss work in a
comic-strip collection published in France, her
home country. Linierss new
Above and right,
work, Good Night, Planet, will
from Iasmin
Omar Atas be his third title published by
Mi(s)hadra Toon and will be released in
English and Spanish. Aimed at
young readers, Good Night,
Planet is the story of a young
girls stuffed animal that comes
alive while most people sleep.
Its also an ode
to the New England landscape, Mouly says,
where Liniers and his wife and three daughters
recently moved after he was named a fellow at
the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.
What better way to celebrate moving to a new
country than by drawing it? Mouly says. It has
the makings of a book that you want to read over
and over. It has the structure of home, away from
home.
Like Liniers, New Zealand native Katie ONeill
will be far from home when she attends Book-
Expo. Oni Press is publishing a print edition of
ONeills serial webcomic The Tea Dragon Society,
which will be released in a hardcover edition that
will be a larger trim size than a standard trade
paperback.
The book tells the story of a young blacksmith
named Greta and her dragons. ONeill says it will
deal with keeping old traditions, old ways of life,
old philosophies, different ways of viewing the
world, and seeing how that can grow in young
people.
This year graphic novel authors are featured on
other panels alongside prose authors. Tillie
Walden,
author of the
graphic mem-
oir Spinning
(First Second
Books), is fea-
tured on the
Young Adult
Editors Buzz
Panel today
(see p. 66),
while Molly
Ostertag, cre-
ator of the
graphic novel
The Witch Boy (Graphix), will join the Middle
Grade Editors Buzz Panel tomorrow (see tomor-
rows Show Daily).
 Rich Shivener

Today, 1111:45 a.m. Hot Graphics Novels of

Fall 2017 panel takes place on the Uptown
Stage.

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Girls Crack Coding in New Projects from

Penguin and Disney-Hyperion
Coding is essential in todays world, but the U.S. educational system has only come together, its a feeling of euphoria like
40% of K12 schools teaching computer programming. Though technology no other. And frankly, its addicting.
is one of the countrys fastest-growing employment sectors, fewer than 20% of  Shannon Maughan
college graduates in computer science are women. Girls Who Code, a new line
of books from Penguin Young Readers, takes a step toward changing that. Today, 23 p.m. Tamara Ireland Stone will sign galleys of Clickd in the
Disney booth (1709).
First out are Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World (Viking
Tomorrow, 23 p.m. Reshma Saujani will autograph Girls Who Code
Books for Young Readers, Aug.) by Reshma Saujani and a novel, The Friend- galleys in the Penguin Random House booth (1921), at Table 1.
ship Code (Penguin Workshop, Aug.) by Stacia Deutsch. The Girls Who Code Tomorrow, 3:304:30 p.m. Saujani will take part in the Creative Minds
line encompasses 14 planned titles, including a coding-themed journal, Discuss the Creative Process panel, on the Downtown Stage.
activity book, and board books, releasing through
summer 2018.
Girls Who Code grew out of the nonprofit orga-
nization of the same name that Saujani founded
in 2012, aiming to close the gender gap in tech-
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
nology. Saujani got the idea during her 2010
campaign for U.S. Congress. I would visit schools
and see armies of boys learning to code, training
to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs,
she recalls. But in those rooms, girls were missing.
And I thought, Where are all the girls?
Author Signings
The Friendship Code kicks off a middle grade
series featuring five characters who are using
computer science to make a difference. The series,
which Saujani describes as The Baby-Sitters Club
meets coding, will add a second title, Hackathons,
Robots, and BFFs, in December.

Disney Gets Clickd

Bestselling YA author Tamara Ireland Stone grew
up in Silicon Valley and worked in the tech industry
as an executive for many years. For a long time,
Ive been passionate about getting girls excited
about STEM, she says. Her experiences
helped inspire her middle grade novel, Clickd
(Disney-Hyperion, Sept.), the first in a series.
The idea for the book came from my sixth-grade
daughter, says Stone. Wed been talking about
her worries around starting middle school, most
of which centered around tricky things like making
new friends. Separately, and unrelated, she was
interested in attending coding camp that summer,
so I began researching camps designed specifically
for girls. One day, the two ideas merged in my head,
and Clickd was born.
In the novel, protagonist Allie creates a popular
app that she thinks will bolster her friendships, but
then discovers a glitch that could ruin everything.
Writing this series gave me a chance to go back
to my tech roots with a fun friendship story that
I hope will also get young women excited about
coding, Stone says.
Stone believes her current career path shares
June 2, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
many similarities with the tech field. Both are all
about trial and error, she says, and both are like
puzzles. You know what you want to create, but
getting there is filled with small victories and
defeats along the way. But when you see your
game or your app or your story or your novel
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Dashka Slater wrote for the New York Times Martin Luther King Jr.except now hes not
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werent for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard about what it means to be an African-Ameri- Nic Stone
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ited different worlds. Sasha lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a am a sucker for voice, and I thought how Nic captured Justyces voice was
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Catherynne M. Valente
Transporting the Bronts to a
Mythical World
Catherynne Valente, author of the bestselling Fairyland series (The Girl Who
Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and its sequels),
features one of literatures most famous familiesthe Brontsin her new
middle grade fantasy. In The Glass Town Game (S&S/McElderry, Sept.), Char-
lotte and Emily Bront must enter a world they invented to escape the reality century, but not be steam-
of their lives and, as it turns out, rescue their kidnapped siblings, Anne and punk, she says. My mind
Branwell. It is, says Valente, like taking the Bronts to Narnia. immediately went to the gothics and the Bronts. I wrote the short story, and
I grew up with the Bronts, recalls the author, and as the oldest of four, I knew from the minute I put pen to paper that it would be a novel. While the
really overidentified with Charlotte. When she began reading more about Bront children could control the world they created, they arrive in Valentes
Charlotte, she discovered that, as children, all four Bront siblings had writ- imagined Glass Town to find a world thats run in ways they could never have
ten a virtual treasure trove of juveniliahundreds of thousands of words imagined sitting in their playroom. Napoleon now rides a fire-breathing
and had imagined a world for themselves called Glass Town. porcelain rooster instead of a horse, soldiers can die, wars are fought over a
It was after their father bought Branwell a set of toy soldiers, and the children potion that raises the dead, and Anne and Branwell are kidnapped.
began to create stories about the toys battling Napoleon, that the world of Valente hopes that her young readers will get to know Charlotte, Emily,
Glass Town emerged. The siblings even made themselves characters in Branwell, and Anne like theyd know any other kid. Then, when they grow
their new world. Valente notes that Charlotte wrote about Wellington in much up a little bit and dip into Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, theyll find they
the way a teenage girl today would talk about Justin Bieber, but with better have a real attachment to the Bronts.  Lucinda Dyer
grammar. Some 12 years after her discovery of the Bronts Glass Town,
Valente was asked to write a short story for Queen Victorias Book of Spells: Today, 11:30noon. Valente will sign ARCs of The Glass Town Game in the
Autographing Area, at Table 4.
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AUTHORS
Katherine Paterson
A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to Cuba
A funny thing happened on Katherine Patersons way to a speaking engage-
ment in Cuba in 2015: she found inspiration for a new historical novel. In My
Brigadista Year (Candlewick, Oct.), the Newbery-winning author and former
National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature reveals a little-known bit of
history through the experiences of 13-year-old Lora, a Cuban girl who volun-
teers for Fidel Castros 1961 national literacy campaign in a dangerous polit-
ical climate. The first steps of Loras journey began stateside, however, in Ver-
mont, where Paterson lives.
Paterson had been invited to present a talk at an International Board on
Books for Young Peoples conference held in Havana that year. Before her
trip, Paterson ran into her longtime friend Mary Leahy, sister of U.S. Sen.
Patrick Leahy, who told her how she had modeled her work in adult basic
education in Vermont after the 1961 literacy campaign in Cuba. Shortly after
Fidel Castro came to power, he announced to the U.N. General Assembly that
within a years time, Cuba was going to become a literate nation.
More than 250,000 Cubans volunteered for the new literacy effort, becom-
ing known as brigadistas, or members of the volunteer teaching brigade. The
volunteers lived with the people and learned from the students, just as the
students were learning from them. I was intrigued by that says Paterson.
More than half of those brigadistas were
female, she adds, and about 108,000 were
between the ages of 12 and 18. These volun-
teers went into rural areas to teach the campesinos to read and write. In
2015, as she prepared to visit Cuba to address the issue of literacy, Paterson
notes, I made this campaign the heart of what I was going to say in my speech.
For so many of the women I read about, says Paterson, the campaign they
had been part of as teenagers has been a pivotal experience of their lives.
Theres a favorite quote from one of them that I use in the book: I taught the
campesinos how to read and write, and they taught me how to be a person.
Patersons research on this topic and her travel to the country clearly kicked
her creativity into high gear after not having worked on a book in several
years. I had really not written anything since my husband had died [in 2013].
Id had a good run, and I thought Id retired, but then I got excited about
this,she says. Its one of those books I truly loved writing. Some books are
sort of agony, but this was a pure delight.  Shannon Maughan
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Margarita Engle, the Cuban-American author of many books in verse,
including the Newbery Honorwinning The Surrender Tree and other books
inspired by historical figures, takes a different tack in All the Way to Havana
(Holt/Godwin, Aug.), a contemporary story that follows a Cuban familys car
journey across rural Cuba to the city. The picture book also marks a departure
for illustrator Mike Curato, creator of the Little Elliot series, who for the first
time worked in mixed media that integrated acrylic paintings, pencil drawings,
digital coloring, and photos he took on a weeklong research trip to Cuba in
September 2015.
Curato (who, like Engle, credits editor Laura Godwin for proposing the books
concept) traveled to Cuba with a Spanish-speaking friend who served as
interpreter, and stayed with Engles cousins, who supplement their meager
income as doctors with a bed-and-breakfast business in Havana. The illustra-
tor hired a car and driver to traverse the country, mimicking the journey of
the family featured in the story (but in reverse).
The car was a 1953 Chevythe very car that I featured in the bookand
it had been in the drivers family for years, says Curato. It was important for
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me to have the same experience as the storys characters, and as we drove
through the countryside, we stopped at farms and talked to folks, and I
took lots of photographs. It was so helpful to get the feel of the countryside,
which is so lovely. It was hot and humid, there was no air-conditioning in
the car, and the air was filled with diesel fumesbut the authenticity of the
experience and my excitement about this project far outweighed any
inconveniences.
Engle was amazed and thrilled to see Curatos art and its accurate por-
trayal of Cuba and its residents, whose extreme poverty she has witnessed
over the decades on her frequent trips to the country. It was so important
to me that the poverty was not masked in the book, she notes. Fronts of
Cuban buildings are painted bright colors to please tourists, while the backs
of the structures, and balconies, are crumbling. And the vintage cars are

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AUTHORS
the countrys people
to figure out how to Katherine Applegate
make do and keep
things going, even if it Novel Offers Wishes for a
means using a boat
engine in a car. Theres
Neighborhoodand the World
a remarkable spirit of
perseverancewhich Newbery medalist Katherine Applegates dedication to Wishtree (Feiwel &
is seen in the poor Friends, Sept.) captures the essence of her new middle grade novel: For
everywhere in the newcomers and for welcomers.
worldthat is really The story is narrated by Red, a red oak tree that has welcomed families to
about hope and about never giving up. an immigrant neighborhood for more than two centuries. As the local wish-
The author hopes that All the Way to Havana will engage kids of many ages. tree, to which residents attach wishes theyve written on scraps of cloth, Red
Younger children can read the book as a simple story about a family going has witnessed both the good and bad behavior of many generations. And yet,
on a road trip and reaching out to neighbors, she says, while I hope the he says, two hundred and sixteen rings, and I still havent figured them out.
book gives older children a true sense of Cuba today. Though President When a Muslim family moves in nearby, it becomes evident that not all of
Obama re-established diplomatic relationships with Cuba, which to me was the neighbors are welcomers. Reds role as a wishtree becomes more import-
an amazing symbolic gesture of friendship and hope, there is a very long way ant than ever, and he and his crow friend set out to help residents embrace
to go. The financial embargo hasnt been lifted, and Cubans still cope with their differences.
dire food and fuel shortages. My hope is that this book will help readers feel So many people are filled with frustration about the way things are going
empathy for the people of one of the United States closest neighbors, and in our country, and I wanted to make a small plea for civility, Applegate says
help children believe, as I do, that neighbors should be friends. Sally Lodge about the genesis of the book. I wanted to keep it simple, and came up with
the premise that the word LEAVE would be carved into a beloved community
Today, 9:3010:30 a.m. Mike Curato will sign All the Way to Havana and
tree, and that sentiment would be targeting a newly arrived Muslim family.
prints from his upcoming Little Elliot, Fall Friends in the Autographing
Area, at Table 14. As she was making the final tweaks to her manuscript, Applegate says that
she spotted a newspaper headline directed at a Muslim family in Iowa, with

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the words, You Can All Go Home. It occurred to me that this is a very frus-
trating case of life imitating art imitating life, she recalls. I want kids to ask,
Why is this happening? Why do people treat others this way? But that is not
an easy question to answer. I know that I am hardly alone feeling so frustrated.
Writing a book is exactly how authors ventilate.
Applegate, who wrote her Newbery Awardwinning The One and Only Ivan
from the perspective of a gorilla, chose to write Wishtree from a trees point
of view because she wanted an outsiders, rather than a humans, perspective.
Theres a tree in my courtyard that I often watch while Im typing on my lap-
top. I see it drop its leaves, and sometimes I notice that it looks tiredand its
become quite a person to me, she says. I think of trees as witnesses, and wise.
Applegate chose a common tree because I wanted kids to be able to say,
Hey, we have one of those trees in their yards or at school, she explains.
Red oaks live for a very long time and are very resilientand that is a char-
acteristic of newcomers. And Ive been thinking lately that we can say the
same thing about our country and democracy. So many of us are relying on
the hope that our country will be resilient.

I wanted to
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plea for
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Macmillan is supporting
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empathy in young readers by
declaring September 28 Nation-
wide Wishing Day. In the spirit of
the nationwide food drive the
publisher launched in fall 2015 in
conjunction with the release of
Crenshaw, and Applegates ongo-
ing campaign to inspire kids to
help fight hunger, this initiative
encourages booksellers, teach-
ers, and librarians to participate
by hosting events to benefit a
local charity devoted to helping
underserved children in their
communities.
Visitors to Macmillans booth
will find more information about
Nationwide Wishing Day and can write a wish of their own on a leaf-shaped
piece of paper to insert into a blowup of the book cover. For every wish col-
lected, the publisher will donate one book to a child through First Book, a
nonprofit that supplies books to low-income children.  Sally Lodge

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Today, 1010:30 a.m. Katherine Applegate will sign ARCs in the Macmillan
booth (3008).

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Gretchen Carlson
Stop Harassment Now
I decided early on that I was not going to sit down and
shut up, says former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson.
Last July she filed a lawsuit against her former boss, the
late Roger Ailes, for firing her because she complained
about sexual harassment at the network. After that Ailes
was ousted from Fox, but when she left, Carlson says that
she felt like she was jumping off a cliff without knowing
what lies below. She also began receiving thousands of emails from women
who had been harassed.
I have stacks of them in my office, and I responded to every one, Carlson
says. Most had never told their husbands about what had happened to them,
and many had ruined their careers when they spoke up. In Be Fierce: Stop
Harassment and Take Your Power Back (Center Street, Sept.) Carlson shares
those stories along with her own experiences and insights from experts work-
ing to confront the problem of sexual harassment. We need to start talking
about it, she says. We cant expect things will change simply because there
are a couple of high profile cases.
When Carlson began to ask some of the women whod written to her if theyd
be willing to have their stories included in the book, she was unsure how they
would react. But 98% of them said yes. I think because I would be doing
the interviews myself, there was a level of trust. They didnt have to worry
about how they were depicted, Carlson says. The book also includes a chapter
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on men, enlightened men who are working to empower
women in the workplace. As long as 95% of Fortune 500
companies are run by men, we need them, Carlson
notes. She provides a playbook that shows women how
to develop a plan if they do step forward to complain
about sexual harassment. Often women take it and take
it, she says. When they finally do something about it,
theres really no going back for them. They need a plan.
Carlsons also passionate about addressing what she
sees as the dangers inherent in arbitration clauses now
commonly found in employment contracts. Theyre sold
as a benefit to employees, but theyre not, she says.
Theyre fooling us into thinking weve come so far when
it comes to sexual harassment. But its really that were not hearing about
these cases anymore, because theyre shrouded in secrecy. In most cases
when women go to arbitration, the perpetrators stay in the workplace.
Carlson isnt just writing about the issues faced by women in the work-
place; shes taking practical steps to confront them. She recently created the
Gift of Courage Fund. Its primary goal is to help girls and young women rec-
ognize their full potential, as well as to help women gain a safe and nurturing
place in the workforce.
After the books publication, therell be a national book signing tour, and
Carlson plans to host events at universities and high schools across the coun-
try to address the growing problem of campus sexual abuse. If this book helps
one person to come forward, she says, it will all be worth it. Lucinda Dyer
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The Oliver of the title is a handsome, charismatic childrens book author.
He lives a privileged life in a Dublin suburb until the evening he beats his wife
so viciously that shes left in a coma. In the aftermath, as everyone tries to
make sense of the attack, Oliver begins to tell his story, as do those hes come
in contact with over the past five decades.
Nugent admits to being fascinated by very flawed men. She finds her inspi-
ration for these bad figures in the obituary sections of the Irish Times, Daily
Telegraph, and New York Times. Obituaries are incredibly useful, she says.
The whole Nazi element in the book, as well as a pivotal character, came
about after I read the obituary of the man whod been prefect general of
Color By Number Vichy France.
978-1-5270-0096-4 Novelist is Nugents third career. In her first, as stage manager for the
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Fair City. In writing for soaps, says Nugent, you need to make sure people
will tune in the next day, so you have to leave each episode on a knife edge.
And thats what Ive tried to do with each chapter in Unraveling Oliver.
Nugent took a two-year leave of absence to write the novel. Even after its
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write. Thats why Im such a slow writer and why my novels are short. It costs
me physically to write. But its certainly not right to complain considering all
the writers like Shakespeare and Jane Austen who wrote with one hand and
a feather, she says.
Nugent may be used to spending her life behind the scenes. But shell be in
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Lying in Wait, which was also a #1 bestseller in Ireland, in May 2018.
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AUTHORS
Brendan Mathews
Making Life Better Through Industry
I wanted to write a richly populated novel, Brendan Mathews says of his
debut, The World of Tomorrow (Little, Brown, Sept.), which includes many
characters: three Irish brothers, a Bronx politician, an heiress, a mob boss,
and a young Jewish photographer facing deportation to Czechoslovakia.
Each takes center stage in this complex story.
Set primarily in New York in 1939, the books name comes from the motto
of that years Worlds Fair and its promise that industry would make life bet-
ter after a long economic slump. It was an important year, Mathews says.
It was the end of one era and the beginning of another.
The optimism of the faith that the future would be bright and beautiful and
that everything would work out sets the tone of the novel. Everyone in the
book is chasing one kind of dream or another, or working to make themselves
new, Mathews says. The book explores whether its possible to ever leave
your past behind. There are different answers for each character. The large
cast of characters allowed me to have different answers.
The inspiration for the book came from works by Edward P. Jones, E.L.
Doctorow, and Zadie Smith. The Known World was the star I was shooting
for, a star I knew I would never reach. That book is such a masterpiece. Its
structure is endlessly fascinating. It moves from time to time and character to
character. It has moral reach, Mathews says. Ragtimeits so completely
steeped in a certain era. And White Teeth, you feel London on every single
page of the book. No one makes a walk-on. Everyone has their own time.
The starting point for The World of Tomorrow was Mathewss paternal grand-
father, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland as a young man in 1929. He
wanted to become a big-band leader,
but became an upstate carpet dealer
instead. I started thinking,
Mathews says, what if he had stuck
around New York? What if music had
worked out? My grandmother says
he gave it up because he couldnt
make any money at it. But later she
admitted he made money. What if he
hadnt become respectable? In my
novel I gave him brothersand the
scope of the book kept expanding.
The biggest challenge Mathews, a
professor of literature and creative
writing at Bard College at Simons
Rock, faced was finding time to write.
I have four kids, a wife who works,
and a full-time job, he says. But I
couldnt have written it without being a
father. Believing I could do it was also a
big thing. Im 48 years old, and this is my
first novel. Im a slow writer. That stopped
me from starting.
Mathews hopes readers will take away
from his book the realization that peoples
lives are filled with stories. Everyone is a
protagonist, he says.  Suzanne Mantell

Today, 1010:45 a.m. Brendan

Mathews will participate in the Adult
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Today, 3:304 p.m. Mathews will be
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Chloe Benjamin
Living with Uncertainty
For her sophomore effort, Chloe Benjamin (The Anatomy
of Dreams, 2014) ponders how knowing when you will die
would alter the way you live. In The Immortalists (Putnam,
Jan. 2018), she examines what happens when four sib-
lings receive prophesies about the date of their deaths.
Ive always been interested in the tension between
knowledge and mystery, between science and religion,
and the various ways we cope with the unknown, says
Benjamin. Some of those are productive, some can be attempts to pin down
things that are by nature impossible to know.
The book follows the lives of the siblings over five decades. The youngest,
Simon, is gay. He is a dancer in San Francisco in the 1980s at the height of
the AIDS crisis. Klara, closest to him in age, is a magician. Next oldest is
Daniel, a military doctor, and the oldest, Varya, is a longevity researcher.
To give her characters lives veracity, Benjamin read texts, watched docu-
mentaries, and interviewed experts in relevant fields. It was important to be
as responsible as possible in portraying cultures, professions, and time peri-
ods that I didnt live through or dont have a background in, she says. To for a cable TV series.
write about Klara, Benjamin talked to magicians and asked them about the
role of women in magic. They are still vastly underrepresented, Benjamin
says. I also went down the rabbit hole to message boards where magicians
talk to each other. I watched videos online and read texts about how to do
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various tricks.
Daniel went through several iterations before Benjamin
decided to have him serve in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
I felt this was what he needed to be doing to drive various
themes forward, she explains. A major in the Air Force
was a huge help in nailing the language. It was important
to capture how people speak in the military and to know
the acronyms, like MEPS [Military Entrance Processing
Station] or UCMJ [Uniform Code of Military Justice].
Benjamin knew from the beginning that Varya would be
a longevity researcher, and she asked experts how they
are hoping to extend healthy lives. I visited a primate
lab and spoke with scientists who are doing various kinds
of longevity research, not just as it pertains to primates. I
also read a lot, which was challenging because much of the material gets
really technical, and I am not a scientist, Benjamin says.
For anyone with qualms about the future, Benjamin hopes her novel will help
quash anxiety about the unknown. Its a book that explores how to live with
uncertainty. That has been one of my demons, she says. Its an unbelievable,
absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day
without knowing which one will be our last.
How to deal with mortality has definitely struck a chord. The Jackal Group
bought television rights, and The Immortalists is currently under development
Hilary S. Kayle
Today, 1010:45 a.m. Chloe Benjamin appears on the Adult Authors Buzz
Panel on the Uptown Stage.
Today, 12 p.m. Benjamin will sign galleys at Table 1, in the Penguin
Random House booth (1921).
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Thursday, June 1, at 11:00
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signing copies of her memoir
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(August 2017)
Thursday, June 1, at 3:00
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AUTHORS where he specialized in crime fiction. He was brought into Morrow

in 2012 to work on crime fiction and thrillers.

A.J. Finn Like many writers, Mallory says he was a bookish kid. He aban-
doned the idea of being a writer as a teenager and became a

A Publisher Turns reader instead. I loved Patricia Highsmith, he says. As a gradu-

ate student at Oxford I anointed her for the subject of my disserta-

Pseudonymous Author
There are a number of surprising twists to first-time
novelist A.J. Finns psychological thriller, The Woman
in the Window (Morrow, Jan. 2018), which chronicles
several weeks in the life of a female psychologist iso-
lated in a Manhattan townhouse with a serious case
of agoraphobia. Not least of those is the identity of
Finnthe pen name for Dan Mallory, v-p and executive
editor at William Morrow.
In the novel, Anna drinks a lot, spies on her neighbors,
and is certain she has witnessed a murder. Parallels to
Alfred Hitchcocks Rear Window are hard to ignore,
but the protagonist here is no James Stewart: shes a
middle-aged woman traumatized by recent events in
her life. Rights to the book have so far sold in 37 terri-
tories, and a major film is in development at Fox.
Mallory says that he chose a pseudonym in order to
keep his writing separate from his other work. At his
day job, he is well positioned to understand his chosen
genre; he has edited and published a range of mystery and thriller writers.
He began his editorial career at Ballantine, then moved to Little, Brown UK,
tion. He discovered that detective fiction has manifested itself in
all sorts of stories, from Bleak House through The Ambassadors to
The Talented Mr. Ripley. We dont think of these books as sus-
penseful, but they are. Many, many novels can be said to travel in
the tropes of detective novels even if the writers didnt say that that
was what they were doing, Mallory says. What excites him is see-
ing how thrillers, like Gone Girl, can attract readers to the genre.
As for writing a thriller, he learned that it could be hard. I
thought plotting would prove the tricky part, but that flowed, Mal-
lory says. The actual writing, getting those words on the page, I
had not appreciated the effort it takes, and I came to appreciate
how effortless many writers make it seem.
On the other hand, writing in first person from Annas point of
view came easily. Contemporary psychological suspense novels
are usually told from the point of view of a woman, he says. I
thought, if thats what readers want, thats what Id like to do. Im
savvy enough as a publisher not to go against the grain.
 Suzanne Mantell
Today, 1010:45 a.m. A.J. Finn will appear at the Adult Author
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AUTHORS
Emily Culliton
A Real Steal
Debut novelist Emily Culliton originally planned to write a book about a
disaffected young adult whose mother wasnt in her life. But when she
was creating a plausible backstory for the absentee mom, tales of embez-
zlement flooded the media and her focus changed. In a boxed and starred
review, PW called the resulting book, The Misfortune of Marion Palm
(Knopf, Aug.), a wonderful and sharp novel... [that] signals the arrival of
an exciting talent.
[As] I started thinking about why a mother would leave her daughter, I
didnt want this to be about grief, Culliton says. At the same time, I was
interested in the ways that women commit crimes or transgress. There
were a lot of stories in the news about people who seemed unexceptional Its something shes just good at, too. She adds, Im also interested in the
and were embezzling money from institutions like schools and Little subtlety of embezzlement. It seems to be passive-aggressive.
Leagues. The more I thought about this adult character, I realized this is A Ph.D. candidate in fiction at the University of Denver, Culliton enjoyed
way more interesting than the book I was going to write. And I thought, collaborating with Jenny Jackson, her editor at Knopf. After writing in an
what if the mother embezzled and was caught? Where would she move academic setting, where shes used to hearing criticism from both teachers
from there? and classmates and then has to decide which edits to make, Culliton found
Culliton says that she enjoyed getting into the head of an embezzler and it refreshing to work with a single editor. To have that relationship with one
exploring the motivations of a mom who steals from her daughters private person, where they really know the book, are invested in it, and excited for it,
school, where she helps out part-time in the fund-raising department. was fantastic, she says. Hilary S. Kayle
Marion wants to prove herself, that she is more intelligent and more com-
Today, 1:302:30 p.m. Emily Culliton will sign at the Penguin Random
petent than the people that she works with, Culliton notes. Shes been
House booth (1921).
embezzling this money to save her family, and she takes some pride in that.

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BACK
PAPER VER
& HAR
DCO Attica Locke
Empire Writer Returns
to Her Texas Roots
Attica Lockewriter and producer of the Fox hit show Empireis also the
author of four acclaimed novels. Her debut, Black Water Rising, was nomi-
nated for a 2010 Edgar Award and NAACP Image Award, and shortlisted for
the U.K.s Orange Prize.
Lockes latest, the thriller Bluebird, Bluebird (Mullholland, Sept.), stars a
black Texas Ranger named Darren Mathews, who has mixed feelings about
growing up black in East Texas. He left the state until work called him back to
investigate two murders: a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman.
Locke, who lives in Los Angeles, was in the middle of writing season 2 of
Empire when she realized she wanted to return to writing novels about her
home state. She was born and raised in Houston, and her family going all
the way back to slavery on both sides, she notes, come from towns along
Highway 59 in East Texas. With Bluebird, Bluebird, her goal was to write a
rural noir deeply steeped in the area.
The character Mathews is based on Lockes own ambivalence about being
a black Texan. Though I dont want to live there, she says, I cannot hate what
made me. I cannot hate where I fundamentally come from. At the same time,
Locke adds, there are things about the state that break my heart, politically,
racially.
Bluebird, Bluebird is the first in the Highway 59 series; all will star Mathews
and be set along the Texas highway. While the series has a Texas Ranger as
its protagonist, Locke remembers saying that she would never write a book
about cops. Yet she also realizes that writing about a black police officer in
the 21st century is naturally a seat from which to look at ambivalence about
that kind of job.
Locke also sees her book as a love letter to my grandparents generation, a
love letter to people who set down roots in Texas and have a deep love for it.
Ever Wonder what She hopes the series will get readers to reflect on questions like what is the
law for black folks in America? Is the law the thing that will protect black life?
angels do all day? Or is the law something that black life needs to be protected from? I think that
the character Darren Mathews sits inside that question and is propelled by
that contradiction. Anisse Gross
If youre wondering what Angels do all
Today, 10:3011 a.m. Attica Locke will be signing in the Autograph Area,
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AUTHORS
Pamela Paul
List Maker

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Pamela Paul, editor of the
New York Times Book
Review and author of five
books, is quick to admit
shes a list maker. Ive
got both a notebook that
lists the things I need to
do, with empty boxes
that get checked off when
those tasks are com-
pleted, and a paper cal-
endar that lists all my
meetings, each one of
which get circled after-
wards, she says. Every
day I wake up believing in
the possibility that if I
could check everything
off on those lists, Id be
done forever. But its a
fools errand.
One list that is not
likely to approach done-
ness is the one that fills the pages of her
Book of Books, or Bob. Her nearly
three-decade relationship with Bob, a
journal of sorts, is the subject of her
newly released memoir, My Life with
Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of
Books, Plot Ensues (Holt). What seemed
a utilitarian record of every book Paul
has read since she was 17 was fodder
for complaint from a variety of Pauls old
boyfriends. One of them said, Wait,
youre just writing the title and the
author? Where are the synopses, the
book reviews, the explanation of what it
all meant? she says.
These were all in Pauls head, along
with what she considers more important
informationwhere she was when she read the book and what the experi-
ence meant to her. Looking over the list I can remember [that] I got that
book in Bangkok on my way to Thailand, and it was so expensive, but then I
left it on the bus, Paul says. I can place it in the time line of my life, and
remember the emotions I felt, even if I dont always remember exactly what
was in that book.
Equally important to Paul is the more transient opportunity each book has
afforded her, allowing her as she reads to try out experiences she might
never otherwise have: coal mining, surviving a tsunami, exploring the Ama-
zon rainforest as Teddy Roosevelt. So her book about Bob becomes an
exploration of why we read. Paul fully expects her readers will come with
their own opinions about this. Fundamentally, she says, [My Life with Bob]
is about the reading experience and the relationship between book and
reader. Lela Nargi

Today, 1:302 p.m. Pamela Paul will sign at the Macmillan booth (3008,
3009).

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susan johann

whitney may
TCG Books Takes a Bow Our philosophy
is to publish the
writer, not the play.
Theatre Communications Group, in New York, is dedicated to strengthen- We commit to the
ing and nurturing professional nonprofit theater in the U.S. Its publishing writer over their
arm, TCG Books, aids that mission by publishing (and keeping in print) a career, says Terry
range of contemporary playwrights, anthologies of culturally diverse Nemeth, TCG
plays, and resource materials for theater professionals. It has published Books publisher.
more than 235 playwrights and other theater professionals, and sold Well publish
more than three million books since its debut in 1984. Its list features anthologies and
winners of Pulitzer Prizes and Tony Awards, and one Nobel Prize for Liter- new ones as they
ature, in addition to countless Obies, Drama Desk Awards, and other come along. No
national and international prizes. Lynn Nottage Steven Levenson book has ever gone
out of print because we want these plays preserved.
TCG Books differs from Samuel French, another
New York publisher of drama, because its books
are trade editions, printed on good quality paper,
featuring top-quality cover design, and, according
to Nemeth, edited a lot more closely with the
writer. Each book looks different, and the authors
have complete control over that look. Its all indi-
vidualized, Nemeth adds. Our model is what
Grove and New Directions were doing in the 60s;
28 Years of they were author-based publishing companies.
In contrast, Samuel French sells production rights
Popular References and produces pamphletlike versions for actors.
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They include Lynn Not-
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the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The first female
playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Come meet Bonnie Grubman twice, she was called a justly acclaimed drama-
tist of ambitious scope and fierce focus by the
and get a copy of her new picture book New York Times.

about recognizing your special talent Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul
sign their musical, Dear Evan Hansen, which has
been nominated for nine Tony Awards. The arm
Friday, June 2: cast worn by Ben Platt and signed by the shows
9:30 AM at Autographing Table 8 cast will be raffled to booksellers. J.T. Rogers signs
copies of the hit Broadway play Oslo, nominated
11:30 AM at Clavis Booth
for seven Tonys. Oslo will be adapted into a film,
#2550c from one of the producers of La La Land. And
Annie Baker, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for
COME VISIT US Drama for her play The Flick, is here to sign copies
at the Clavis Booth of her latest published play, John.  Beth Levine
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you can meet our Today, 11:3012:30 p.m. Lynn Nottage will sign
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newest friends! Today, 12 p.m. Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek,
and Justin Paul will sign Dear Evan Hansen at
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AUTHORS At BookExpo, Gladstone will moderate a panel centering on the tension

that can arise between a publisher standing for particular values, and serv

Brooke Gladstone ing as a more neutral enabler of an open marketplace where all views are
aired, according to Suzanne Nossel, executive director at PEN America. Pan

Why Reality Broke? elists include Zo Quinn, a video game developer and a central figure in
2014s Gamergate controversy; Patrisse Cullors, a cofounder of Black Lives
When Brooke Gladstone, the cohost (with Bob Garfield) of the popular pod Matter; John Podhoretz, a conservative columnist at the New York Post and
cast On the Media, began working on her new book, The Trouble with Real- the editor of Commentary; and Scott Turow, an author and lawyer.
ity (Workman), her brief was to provide a consolation to readers troubled  Daniel Lefferts
by the recent presidential election. I dont think I did, Gladstone says. But
I did provide an explanation, of sorts, and I think thats kind of consoling. Today, 11:30noon. Brooke Gladstone will sign The Trouble with Reality at
the Workman booth (2807).
In the book, Gladstone discusses the ways each of us shapes our own real
Today, 12:301:30 p.m. Gladstone will moderate the panel, PEN America
ity, or allows our reality to be shaped by others, and how we massage facts Presents the First Amendment Resistance, in Room 1E 12/13/14.
or ignore them altogetherin an effort to keep that skewed reality intact.
Touching on the psychology of stereotyping and
the phenomenon of demagoguery, Gladstone
offers a guide to understanding why, during and
after the election, our reality broke: why half of VISIT THE @BOOTH #1628
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themes by citing a range of writers and thinkers, THURSDAY,
among them Arthur Schopenhauer, Neil Post Paris JUNE 1 @ 1:00 PM
man, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Gladstone says she in the
was surprised by the relevancy of older writings in the Paris Present Tense
to our situation today. Particularly Walter Lipp Present
mann in the 20s and Hannah Arendt in the 50s by mark Helprin
showed me that weve been here before, that this tense
was not unprecedented, and that the republic a novel
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Helprin takes the long
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Nicole Krauss
Tackles a New Form
When I write, says Nicole Krauss, Im simply trying to make something I
hope at some point will be whole enough to meet readers. That point has
finally arrived for Krausss fourth novel, Forest Dark (HarperCollins, Sept.)
her first offering since 2010s acclaimed Great Housewhich she says
shes excited to introduce at BookExpo today. After years of trying to craft
something that seems right to me, now the idea of the reader becomes
very real, she says. I want to see what will happen when it goes out into
the world. Thats a great thing, when its not mine anymore.
The light of publication comes after the long tunnel of what Krauss calls the projects all start in much the same
rough, intense, and extreme weeks and months of crafting a work that way: When something gets under my
doesnt follow a linear narrative. Forest Dark follows the separate but paral- skin, she says, if it bothers me enough, it feels like it needs to be attended to
lel lives of a retiree named Jules Epsteinwritten in the third personand a and becomes more and more urgent to write.
character who bears the name of, and some resemblance to, the author her- For Forest Dark, what clearly got under Krausss skin was the concept of
self and is written in the first person. This structure came together without any what, if any, form a novel should follow. Its an idea that plays out in her char-
advance planning; its a method of working that Krauss describes as both acters as well. What form should a life take? she asks. The answer her book
spontaneous but also nerve-wracking. There were many moments when I felt provides, she says, has very much to do with what happens when you break
the book would fail or crumble, she says. with the old and turn toward the unknown.
Not surprisingly, she adds, I feel a tremendous amount of self-inflicted How will readers, old and new, respond? Krauss is eager to find out.
pressure about my own expectations of my work. Adding to this pressure is  Lela Nargi
her keen desire to do something different with each work she writes. In fact,
Today, 2:303:30 p.m. Nicole Krauss is signing in the Autographing Area,
shes currently at work on a collection of short stories, a form she relishes
at Table 1.
because its unfamiliar to her, as well as being a challenge. Still, her disparate

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Riveting. Soulful. Inspiring.
A Hellride with the Devil himself

Barbra Lynn Reifelauthor of The Body Snatchers Wife Memoirs:

Charmed to the Bone and Cuts Like a Knifehas appeared on several
shows including Oprah, Who the Bleep Did I Marry, The Devil You Know,
Nancy Grace, Tabloid, My Life is a Lifetime Movie.

A raw account that has never been laid

bare. Barbras story is one of a woman
holding onto herself for dear life. For her
children. Her dream life gone. A warrior
still. Facing devastation, desperation and
destitution at his hands, with more faith and
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Through all his darkness until the end.
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AUTHORS thought were normal. My motherwho is a doctor,

and teaches at a medical schooldidnt have those atti-

Ayobami Adebayo tudes about marriage, Adebayo says, and that

made it possible to write the book.

Questioning Nigerian Traditions Adebayo is the only first-time novelist

to be shortlisted for this years Baileys
Nigerian society has changed quite a bit [over the past 30 years], and more Womens Prize for Fiction, the U.K.s
and more people are having conversations about being a woman in Nigeria, most prestigious annual book award for
says Ayobami Adebayo, who explores the subject in her debut novel, Stay fiction written by a woman. Coinciden-
with Me (Knopf, Aug.). tally, she was up against one of her
The novel, set in 1980s Nigeria, where Adebayo was born and where she creative writing teachers from the
lives, focuses on Yejide and Akin, a young married couple who decide against University of East Anglia in England,
polygamy in a culture where it is common. But when Yejide fails to get preg-
nant, pressures from the family and the culture lead the couple to take des-
perate measures.
Over the course of the novel, Adebayo says, [Yejide] comes to a point
I AM INTERESTED
where she realizes that while it would be lovely to have someone you love and
children, if you dont have any of those it doesnt make your existence any
IN THE IDEA
less valid.
Adebayo has said that she disagrees with the view in Nigeria, as in many THAT PEOPLE
SHOULD BE ABLE
other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I didnt have
children, wasnt married, and still am not, she says. In the book, I wanted
to ask whether it is possible in this cultural context for a couple to be happy
with one another, without having children. I am interested in the idea that
people should be able to define their own happiness.
TO DEFINE THEIR
OWN HAPPINESS.

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The novel grew out of a short story that Adebayo wrote when she was 21.
She credits growing up in a liberal environment on the campus of Obafemi
Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, with enabling her to question things that others

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Margaret Atwood, who was longlisted for At 19, Adebayo attended a writers workshop in Lagos led by Chimamanda
Hag-Seed. The prize winner will be Ngozi Adichie, which exposed her to new Nigerian authors. There is so
announced next week at an awards cere- much more diversity in Nigerian publishing now than there was in the
mony in London. 1960s, she says. So many more voices are being heard.
In March, Stay with Me was published by At BookExpo, Adebayo says that shes looking forward to seeing how much
Canongate in the U.K.; Ouida Books pub- African fiction is available. Lots has been published on the Continent, and
lished the Nigerian edition in April. The Im interested in seeing the number of African publishers and what they have,
book will also appear in Germany, Italy, Adebayo says. Currently, Adebayo is a senior editor for Saraba, an online lit-
Kenya, Poland, and Sweden. Its amazing erary magazine focused on the work of new African writers. Diane Patrick
to talk to people whove actually read it,
Adebayo says. It got lots of attention. I Today, 1010:45 a.m. Ayobami Adebayo will appear at the Adult Authors
Buzz Panel on the Uptown Stage.
didnt expect this. Its a little bit
Today, 45 p.m. Adebayo will sign in the Penguin Random House booth
overwhelming. (1921), at Table 1.

AUTHORS
Ben Blum
Would-be Army Ranger
Gone Wrong

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The furthest thing from Ben Blums mind in

August 2006 was that his 19-year-old cousin
Alex Blum, whom Ben was very close to and
admired for his loyalty, his intelligence, and
respectful nature, would become an armed bank
robber in Tacoma, Wash. In order to make sense
of this shattering event, Ben spent the following
Lynn Nottage photo by Susan Johann. Steven Levenson photo by Whitney May.
years researching and writing Ranger Games:
A Story of Soldiers, Family, and an Inexplicable
Crime (Sept.).
Unlike Ben, a mathematics prodigy and
With a SPECIAL research scientist in the private sector, Alex had
RAFFLE for the
shows iconic
one goal in life: to become a U.S. Army Ranger,
arm cast, worn the elite, special operations branch of the Army
by Ben Platt tasked with complex, direct-action raids against
and signed by the
enemy combatants. Alex achieved his goal,
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but on the day before his deployment to Iraq,
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he inexplicably decided to rob a bank along with two other Army Rangers He also interviewed Alex. I had no journalistic experience back then, and
and two men known only to the ringleader, all of them armed. Ben and the was terribly nave about nonfiction, Ben says. I thought Alex would simply
extended Blum clan of successful, educated people were shocked, suddenly tell me what had happened to him, and I would render it into nice sentences.
caught up in what seemed to be a classic American tragedy. But as I began to encounter conflicting information and facts, working
Theres no more American crime than bank robbery, with its antiestablishment together became untenable. He almost abandoned the project, but
spirit and history of flamboyant outlaws, says Ben. Though the ringleader Jonathan Lethem, his writing teacher at NYU, recommended Ben to editor
of this crime was a charismatic Canadian, everyone involved were living out Bill Thomas at Doubleday. This led to a book deal. Ive emerged from [the
American fantasies and encountering the consequences when those fantasies project] with a new appreciation for the power of reckoning honestly with a
came up against reality. Alex accepted a plea deal and told the judge that story, for both the journalist and the subject. Alex and I have learned a lot
he thought the bank robbery was a game, a kind of initiation training exercise from each other and remain good friends.  Wendy Werris
to become a U.S. Ranger. Everyone believed him, and Alex served only 16
months in prison. Ben worked to clear his cousins name and planned to Today, 34 p.m. Ben Blum will sign Ranger Games galleys at the Penguin
write Ranger Games with Alexuntil he finally confessed to lying to the Random House booth (1921).
family, Ben learned. Alex had willingly agreed to
rob the bank after becoming enthralled by a senior
Ranger, Specialist Luke Sommer, with dual U.S.-
Canadian citizenship, a dynamic cultlike figure who What Would Happen If George W. Bush
Were Prosecuted for War Crimes?
conceived of, planned, and carried out the crime.
We were all deceived by Alex.
Shocking events tend to look more predictable
in retrospect, Ben adds, and Alexs involvement
in the bank robbery is no exception. After spending MEET AUTHOR
years thinking about his story, I can see faint
threads of causality going back not just to
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The cousins grandfather served in WWII and
witnessed the devastation at Normandy. The
AT HIS
image of war that filtered down to Alex included
a dangerous edge of romantic lawlessness to it,
BOOK SIGNING
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Still, I think the most important factor is that
he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,
Ben says. He might well have become a great
soldier rather than a felon if he had never come
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into contact with Specialist Sommer. While 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
writing the book, Ben interviewed Sommer in at Table #6
prison, where he remains. In addition, Ben talked
to some of the bank employees on duty that day,
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Robert Kiyosaki Is Even
Richer 20 Years Later
At age nine, after being taught how to play Monopoly, Robert Kiyosaki knew
he was going to be wealthy. Author of the Rich Dad Poor Dad books and
founder of the financial education company Rich Dad, Kiyosaki, as a young
adult, attended seminars led by the visionary Buckminster Fuller. Fullers
1983 posthumously published book, The Grunch of Giants, altered the
course of Kiyosakis life. This was one of his first books on the economy, he
says, that was in my strike zone, which I understood. When he wrote about
GRUNCH, an acronym that stands for Gross Universal Cash Heisthow the
ultra rich were ripping off the world through our monetary systemI could
see the economic crisis coming, so I decided that Id better say something
about it. Thats why in 1996, I created the Cash Flow board game, and in
1997 wrote a brochure to help sell the game.
That brochure became his first book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Kiyosaki shopped
it around to different publishers, but no one was interested, he says. The book
was so radical because I said savers are losers; your house is not an asset;
and the rich dont work for money. Those three comments are what kicked us
out of the publishing industry. They said, You dont have any idea what youre
talking about.
So he self-published it in 1997, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list
in 2000, which caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey, who wanted him on her
show. That invitation gave the final push to a handshake deal with Rick Wolff,
at Warner Books at the time. Warner printed 400,000 copies of Rich Dad,
Poor Dad in the few weeks before his Oprah appearance. Kiyosaki says, I
was the only guest for an hour, and, as they say, my life changed. An over-
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night success! As I walked off the stage, Oprah
looked at me and said, Hey, rich dad, I just sold a
billion copies of your book! So I said, Thank
you!
Six years later, he collaborated with Donald
Trump on Why We Want You to Be Rich, and in
2011, Midas Touch. Were both real estate
guys, and we got together as teachers who
encourage financial education outside the school
system, says Kiyosaki. The first book was about
the demise of the middle class, the second about
entrepreneurship. A third book with Trump was
quashed by his presidential campaign. Asked if that book will happen,
Kiyosaki chuckles and says, It depends on how many years hes president.
What began as a self-published book with a first printing of 1,000 has
grown into an empire. The Rich Dad, Poor Dad series of books, now pub-
lished by Plata Publishing, has global sales of more than 35 million (see
sidebar). Mona Gambetta, director of Global Publishing for Plata, cites three
reasons for his continuing success. Its the right message, to take control of
your life. Robert is a fearless advocate of financial literacy and financial edu-
cation. And its the right time. Twenty years ago, it was a fertile field for this
message, and today the need is greater. The world is moving faster; every-
thing about what used to be job security is changing. Its becoming more and
more important to have some personal sovereignty tied to your finances.
Kiyosaki is at BookExpo to promote a 20th anniversary edition of Rich Dad
Poor Dad, with an update and study guides, as well as a new book just out in
May called Why the Rich Are Getting Richer. The publishing world has been
very good to me, considering Im not an author, Im a real estate investor. For
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a kid who flunked out of high school and was told

he couldnt write, to be in BookExpo is either
going to heaven or nirvana! He adds, I can hear
my English teacher saying, What the hell is he
doing there?  Hilary S. Kayle
Today and tomorrow, 1011 a.m. Robert
Kiyosaki will sign Rich Dad Poor Dad at the
Plata booth (2562).
Today and tomorrow, 23 p.m. Kiyosaki signs
ARCs of Why the Rich Are Getting Richer at
the Plata booth (2562).
Making the Case for
Casemate
In 1996, David Farnsworth came to the U.S. from
the U.K. to head the sales department of the fami-
ly-owned Combined Publishing. Five years later,
his life changed when Combined was sold to Da
Capo Press, part of the Perseus Books Group. At
the time, they didnt want to have anything to do
with our distribution clients because that wasnt
something in which they were interested, says
Farnsworth. I was left with the opportunity to

RICH STATS return to the U.K., having come to America to live

Rich Dad Poor Dad is the #1 personal finance book of all time.
The books in the Rich Dad series have sold more than 35 million
copies worldwide.
The Rich Dad series has been translated into 43 languages.
Rich Dad Poor Dad had a nearly seven-year run on the New York
Times bestseller list.
Rich Dad Poor Dad is one of the first self-published books to appear
on the New York Times bestseller list.
Rich Dad Poor Dad continues to make bestseller lists around the
world, most recently in Germany, the Philippines, and lists across
Asia, where the book is called The Purple Storm. H.S.K.
the American dreamwhich had failedor to be
entrepreneurial. He chose the latter option and
stayed. With financial help from the original family
owners, he took over what had been the distribu-
tion arm of Combined Publishing, forming what is
today Casemate Group, a thriving, respected pub-
lishing and distribution company with resources
across the globe. The company specializes in mili-
tary history, archeology, high-end art books, aca-
demic books, classic fiction, and general trade
publishing, and also has expertise with digital
marketing.
Farnsworth, now president of Casemate Group, believes his company is
unique in its approach. Theres a very definite and serious interest in build-

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ing relationships with the clients we have. We work with the clients team on
multiple levels, CEO to CEO, marketing to marketing, sales to sales, and get
AUTHORS
a strong hands-on dynamic going between them and usthats really part of
the success. Jesmyn Ward
Simone Drinkwater, vice president of business development, based in the
Oxford, U.K., offices of Casemate, concurs: Were independent and a rea-
Coming of Age in Mississippi
sonably sized company, so clients wont get lost. We have our own customer Jesmyn Ward is a BookExpo veteran, who has attended the show multiple
service teamsanyone whos phoning up, whether its a trade account or a times, in connection with her bestselling titles Salvage the Bones (Blooms-
private customer, will be talking to the same people, the people who know bury), which won the 2011 National Book Award, and her memoir, Men We
and understand their books. Reaped (Bloomsbury, 2013), which was a finalist for the National Book
Casemate takes special care to reach out to new audiences. We just signed Critics Circle Award. Last year, she
Spink books, a leading numismatic publisher, says Drinkwater, So we are edited a collection of poems and essays,
talking with numismatic societies around the world to see if they would be The Fire This Time: A New Generation
interested in those books. We also recently signed Fernhurst Books, a suc- Speaks About Race (Scribner, 2016).
cessful British publisher doing a number of books on sailing, yachting, div- She is returning for Sing, Unburied,
ing, swimming. There are a number of nontraditional opportunities we see Sing (Scribner, Sept.), her third novel,
out front of the standard bookshops, key wholesalers, such as a company and this morning will speak at the
called Paradise Key, that works with a number of yachting and boating out- Adult Book & Author Breakfast.
lets. Were trying to see whether they would want to sell their books there. Ward describes Sing, Unburied,
Here at BookExpo, Casemate Group (booth 1821) hopes to expand its Sing as a cross between a road trip
business. Were always looking for new opportunities for companies that and a ghost story. It follows 19-year-
are reviewing their distribution arrangements and want to see whos offering old Jojo, his toddler sister, Kayla,
what. We can give potential clients a fairly unique offering because when along with their drug-addicted
somebodys working with us, they know up front what its going to cost. We mother, Leonie, as they travel by car
dont charge them to put books in the catalogue, we dont charge them for from their farm on the Gulf Coast of
returns, the kind of things that nearly all of the others do. We find thats a Mississippi across the state to pick
good way to have a straightforward simple relationship. The American up their white father on his release
dream, indeed.  Hilary S. Kayle from prison. Theyre heading north,

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beowulf sheehan
Ward explains, but to the reader its almost as if theyre traveling back in
time. Jojo and Kayla live with their grandparents, Pap and Mam. Pap is
trying to teach Jojo to be a man while running the household and caring for
Mam, who is terminally ill.
For Ward, who was born and raised in rural DeLisle, Miss., her birthplace
is always an essential character in her writing. With Sing, Unburied, Sing, she
says, One question Im trying to answer is, what does it mean to live in the
New South, this place where history bears so strongly on the present, but
where we may not be so conscious of that? How does Jojo navigate that, in a
place where that history is weighted so much? Also, Leonie is failing her
childrenher father is raising her kids because she cant. What does it mean
to be a mother? How, once we age, do we forgive ourselves for what we did
in our youth?
As with Salvage the Bones, Ward says, the Jojo character visited her.
As a writer, I discover character first. These characters pop into my head.
With Salvage, a 15-year-old girl started talking to me. Here, this 13-year-old
boy popped into my head and started talking. I could see himhe had curly
black hair, and was at that stage, growing out of his childhood body, feeling
awkward. I wanted to write about Jojo because I was curious what it was like
for a preteen to come of age in the contemporary South.
Ward, who since 2014 has been a tenured associate professor of writing at
Tulane University in New Orleans, is also the mother of two young children.
I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my under-
standing of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work,
she says. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties
that come along with it.
As for todays breakfast, Ward admits to being the most in awe of Stephen
King, because hes had such a long career and his writing runs across many
genres, she says. But if I could chat with anyone, it would be Claire Messud,
because I think she could tell me how to get better as a writer as I age.
 Diane Patrick
Today, 89:30 a.m. Jesmyn Ward will appear at the Adult Book & Author
Breakfast, in the Special Events Hall.
Today, 1011 a.m. Ward will sign at the ABA Members Lounge booth
(721).
Today, 22:45 p.m., Ward will sign at the Simon & Schuster booth
(2620, 2621).

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Waldorf Publishing moments in his life, he connects those moments to crucial life principles that
he believes can have a huge impact on ones life.
Waldorf Publishing refuses to accept such terms as Tomorrow, 23 p.m. Have dessert with Carey at the Waldorf Booth
(1632). Beth Levine
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for the company. Begun three years ago with a handful
of authors, it now boasts a roster of more than 100. This

year alone, Waldorf will publish 52 titles. Now that the
company has its legs, it has decided to go big or go
home at BookExpo. You know, Texas style, which is
where Waldorf Publishing is located, says Danielle A.
Vann, Waldorf marketing specialist.This year were
bringing more to the show than just ARCs and book-
marks. We are bringing some major talent and fun
events, she adds. Heres whats happening.
Today, 2-3 p.m. Have wine with actor/producer
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memoir, Trying to Walk Like a Man (Oct.). In 2008, Wiehl
had a one-month-old baby and a marriage on the rocks
when he learned he had an aggressive brain tumor. In
this gripping tale, he tells how he fought his way back.
Tomorrow, 1111:30 a.m. Wiehl signs in the Auto-
graphing Area, at Table 13.
Tomorrow, 1011 a.m., in the Autographing Area,
at Table 13. NFL Detroit Lion Don Carey signs copies
A Web-Savvier Edition
of the Chicago Manual of
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Good-bye, ibid.; hello, tweet. 3-D or 3D? Fewer or less? Hi Mom or
Hi, Mom? If youre a writer, editor, or simply an unreconstructed grammar
nerd, theres a good chance that at some point youve sought an answer to
such questions in The Chicago Manual of Style. First published in 1906, the
Manual has, over its 100-plus-year history, become one of the most widely
referenced arbiters of language and style usage. According to its website,
it has sold more than a million copies across its editions, and its online
component has had more than 200,000 recurring visitors since 2010. Now,
this fall, the University of Chicago Press will release its 17th edition of the
Manualthe first since the 16th came out in 2010.
Whats different about this edition? Carol Fisher Saller, whos been part
of the Manual team for more than 20 years, in both editorial and marketing
roles, says several of the updates reflect changes in how we talk about the

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hyphen in the word e-mail has been nixed. the issue of when its appropriate or inappropriate to use the pronoun they
Such decisions arent arrived at easily. Mem- with a singular verb. Thats a good example of the kind of thing we address
bers of the Manual team quibble at length more fully this time around, Saller says.
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boils down to there being one person on the two spaces after a period, Saller says. That ship has sailed. Daniel Lefferts
team who cares the most, or who has the most
authority. Today and tomorrow, all day. Carol Saller will be at the University of
Chicago Press booth (863) to answer your most pressing grammar and
Being ahead of the curve when it comes to internet culture is crucial, given
language questions. Media kits and swag will also be available.
that each new edition must remain current for several years. The Manual
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Technological change has even affected the niche world of academic writing.
For example, the Manual is now cautioning against the term ibid., which is
used in footnotes when the source being cited is referenced in the preceding
footnote. Its a centuries-old convention for scholars in print publications,
Saller says. But in e-books, each note appears all by itself when you click on
the note number. If all the note says is ibid., without showing the previous
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PWs New Title Showcase
Welcome to PWs 2017 BookExpo Title Showcase, a new feature launched earlier this year. On the next few pages, you
will find a diverse list of titles, embodying a wide range of categories within the industry. This
section was created to give publishers the opportunity to promote individual titles, open up rights
opportunities, and generate brand awareness within the international marketplace.

Space Explorers I Have A Purpose The Last Faith:

A Book by an Atheist Believer

Giulia de Amicis Carmen Ashe Karmak Bagisbayev, PhD

White Star R.A.W. Consulting, LLC CreateSpace
ISBN 978-8854411449 ISBN 978-0-69283-605-7 ISBN 978-1-5372-7122-4

The reader is informed through In this uplifting narrative, An entertaining and thought-
infographics about some of the Carmen and Tony face provoking dialogue with God
most important achievements betrayal, loss, and hardship. I written by a scientist from the
of mankind in the conquest of Have a Purpose celebrates the former Soviet Union. Prepare
space and the greatest myster- lessons pain can teach us and to turn the last page with a
ies it holds. the joy that true love can bring truly inspiring and liberating
to our lives, no matter what the perspective on life.
circumstances may be. Unique and intriguing -
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rights@whitestar.it alanbek.yussupov@thelastfaith.com
www.whitestar.it www.Ihaveapurpose.com www.thelastfaith.com

Dont Date Baptists and Other Warnings Topsy-Turvy Monsters Tower 18

from My Alabama Mother

Terry Barr Agnese Baruzzi Tony Bathey

Third Lung Press White Star Elevate Publishing
ISBN 978-0-692-87344-1 ISBN 978-8854410404 ISBN 978-1-945449-07-9

Barrs essay collection explores Every page has a spinning Embroiled in political drama
his childhood in 1960s-70s figure that puts the world on its surrounding an upcoming of-
Bessemer, AL, struggling head when turned, changing ficer appointment, members of
to make sense of the divides harmless and lifeless objects the San Diego Department of
of race, class, religion, and into funny, colorful monsters. Coastal Safety are shocked to
neighborhood anxiety. He discover a lifeguards body on
navigates these rites of passage the ocean floor.
with humor, insight, and ap-
preciation.

newthirdlungpress@gmail.com, gtbarr@presby.edu rights@whitestar.it courtney.link@elevatepub.com , (208) 985-7831

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Cotton Candy Sally Finds a Home Judahs Scepter and the Sacred Stone A Journey Back in Time Through Maps

D. A. Brittain Kevin J. Brown

Karen Belove First Edition Design White Star
ISBN 978-0-692-67888-6 ISBN 978-1506-902-30-2 ISBN 978-8854412026

In Council Bluffs, Iowa, she 2017 Illumination Award Silver This book explores changing
was a beloved quarter horse, Medalist for Best Inspirational/ perceptions of the world map
but when Cotton Candy Sally Romance Fiction. Against the through the centuries and
arrived in New York City they backdrop of daring escapes across vastly different cultures.
started calling her a sour nag. on land and sea, raging sword
Could the love of troubled battles, and deadly sorcerers,
12-year old Kara save her? an emotional journey ensues
Beloves attention to detail...is across multiple continents for a
superb. - Kirkus Reviews prince and princess.

Belove.Karen@gmail.com , 917-558-3818 dab@dabrittain.com rights@whitestar.it

cottoncandysally.com www.dabrittain.com www.whitestar.it
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IL SOLE FRA LE DITA In Cima al Mondo, in Fondo al Cuore The Black Guard: Least Favorite Child

Gabriele Clima Mario Coppola C. R. Daems

Edizioni San Paolo Giunti Editore Talon Novels
ISBN 978-8821598760 ISBN 978-8809834514 ISBN 978-0-9911060-1-1

Difficult sixteen-year-old Dario Michelangelo is a student in As the least favored child,

is assigned to assist Andy, a Naples whose dream is to Rivka is selected at age six by
disabled boy in a wheelchair become a famous architect. He her father to comply with the
unable to communicate with loves his city, his girlfriend, and countrys conscript law. Sent
the outside world. The two his family - and yet hes willing away to the military she strug-
of them could not be more to sacrifice. He lands a job gles from falling into an abyss
different, but an extraordinary with Zaha Hadid in London, of despair. Thus, Rivka begins
adventure on the road will but will success bring him a journey that will change her
reverse their paths. happiness? and the Black Guard forever.

rights@findout-team.com intdiv@giunti.it Clem Daems

www.findout-team.com http://internationaldivision.giunti.it/ www.crdaems.com and www.talonnovels.com

Chinamen A Dream-Guided Meditation Model What is Alcoholics Anonymous?

A Path from Addiction to Recovery

Ciaj Rocchi & Matteo Demonte Evelyn M. Duesbury Marc Galanter, M.D.
Becco Giallo Routledge Oxford University Press
ISBN 978-8899016630 ISBN 978-1-138-69333-3 ISBN 978-0-19-027656-0

Second volume of the graphic Dreams are interpreted with The most in-depth overview
novel series about the origins the Personalized Method for of this established, yet poorly
of the Chinese migration to Interpreting Dreams (PMID), understood, recovery move-
Italy. Chinamen reconstructs product of an award-winning ment written by an award-win-
the history of the ancient Chi- thesis. Aimed to be useful for ning psychiatrist for anyone
nese lines who rooted in Italy. all people whatever gender, concerned about the disease of
race, national origin, religion, addiction. Includes the latest
age, or marital status. research with a range of first-
person experiences.

rights@findout-team.com JohnEv1958@gmail.com marcgalanter@nyu.edu

www.findout-team.com www.YourGuidingDreams.com www.facebook.com/WhatisAlcoholicsAnonymous

Sense of Touch: Love and Duty The Place where the Giant Fell When Brothers Meet
at Anne of Brittanys Court

Rozsa Gaston John Henry Hardy John Henry Hardy

Renaissance Editions Amazon Amazon
ISBN 978-0-98479-062-3 ISBN 978-1-5239-7315-6 ISBN 978-1-5413-8434-7

A romance and an interest- Carrie Ann Benton and Rod- In the interest of world peace...
ing novel about a little-known ney Buchard, a Mexican, are That is the pretense for a
French queen. A striking story in love. Her father, a powerful meeting between America and
of heartache and forbidden and evil Arizona judge hates a coalition of China, Russia,
love, of women in the 15th cen- Mexicans and plans Rodneys India, and Saudi Arabia. But
tury French court, who fought demise. Will U.S. Marshal Max their secret Operation Dragon
with passion and determina- Greystone unravel the corrupt is a threat to the liberty of
tion for what they wanted. plot against them in time to every man, woman, and child
-Historical Novel Society save Rodneys life? in America.

rgaston@optonline.net John Weisneck 480-332-3690 John Weisneck 480-830-7303

www.renaissanceeditions.com www.amazon.com/John-Henry-Hardy/e/B00JQQI6EQ/ www.amazon.com/John-Henry-Hardy/e/B00JQQI6EQ

The 7 Principles of Stress: The Last Director of Shoreditch Smith

Extend Life, Stay Fit, and Ward Off Fat

Ori Hofmekler Timothy J. Lockhart

North Atlantic Books Huw Jones Stark House
ISBN 978-1-62317-181-0 ISBN 978-0-9935108-0-9 ISBN 978-1-944520-23-6

Supported by cutting-edge In 1950s Shoreditch, London, There are sequences of edgy

research, this book presents Frank is fixer-in-chief for the suspense and artfully done
new concepts that challenge Posties mob. Fast-forward to violence. And generous help-
conventional approaches to the present where Nick inves- ings of sex. A chilling story
diet, fitness, and anti-aging and tigates a friends husband with that knows what lurks beneath
shows people how to use stress a history. In The Last Director those superspy romances.
to extend life, stay fit, and ward of Shoreditch the two worlds -Don Crinklaw, Booklsit
off fat. collide among bearded hipsters
and tech start-ups.

huwelfedjones@gmail.com , @Shoreditchnovel griffinskye3@sbcglobal.net

www.northatlanticbooks.com http://amzn.to/2pUjWpW starkhousepress.com
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The Curse of The Werck Family: Reflections: Home and Abroad Uninvincibile Estate
The Battle between Love and Hate

Valria Lopes Gary E. Miller Filippo Nicosia

Piu Book Outskirts Press Giunti Editore
ISBN 978-1944737-09-2 ISBN 978-1-4787-5458-9 ISBN 978-8809840416

France, 1510. A forged accusa- Gary E. Miller has spent a May 23, 1992: Diego Scarcella
tion of witchcraft made by the lifetime exploring the world is born in Messina just as Judge
wealthy family Werck leads a and indulging in his curiosity Giovanni Falcone is assassinat-
beautiful and humble woman of it. Reflections is a stunning ed on the Sicilian coast. When
to be sentenced and burned at new collection of his poetry Diegos father suddenly dies,
the stake by the Inquisition. reflections of his wide-ranging his estranged brother Giovanni
Her immortal spirit unravels, travels, observations, and reappears and the two must
starting a supernatural battle general musings. find a way to coexist.
between love and hate.

pb@piubook.com TanyaSalgado@outskirtspress.com intdiv@giunti.it

www.piubook.com www.OutskirtsPress.com http://internationaldivision.giunti.it/

Witness to Greatness A Mans World: A Quarter Million Steps

Portraits

Obi Nwasokwa Steve Oney Anthony Paustian, Ph.D.

Xlibris Mercer University Press BookPress Publishing
ISBN 978-1-5144-5271-4 ISBN 978-0-88146-618-8 ISBN 978-0-9964428-9-3

This book evaluates the presi- A collection of 20 profiles of Drawing inspiration from the
dency of Barack Obama, the fascinating men (Robert Penn epic Apollo Moon Program,
first non-white in history elect- Warren, Harrison Ford, Gregg this book outlines the small
ed leader of an overwhelmingly Allman, Herschel Walker, etc.) steps it takes to create success
white nation. Seismic and epic, written over a 40-year period in everyday life. With the
it is a tale of the trials, travails for Esquire, GQ, Los Angeles, practical tools described, Dr.
and triumphs of the rejected Time, and more. Paustian teaches the principles
stone that became cornerstone Every sketch is a literary of creativity, leadership, focus,
- of Moses as Pharaoh. pearl. Foreword Reviews work ethic, and so much more.

onwasokwa@aol.com , 516-984-5557 mupressorders@mercer.edu www.QuarterMillionSteps.com

www.amazon.com/Obi-Nwasokwa/e/B01FLME6GA/ www.mupress.org www.BookPressPublishing.com

SKYWARD BOUND: Hyperversum Once upon a Poodle

HOT-AIR BALLOONING

Alese & Morton Pechter Cecilia Randall Chrysa Smith

Best Publishing Company Giunti Editore The Well Bred Book
ISBN 978-1-930536-99-9 ISBN 978-8809831353 ISBN 978-1-5375-4112-9

Skyward Bound captures With her passion for medieval When miniature poodle
the imagination of both the history and archeology, author Woody goes on a hunt for a
child and adult yearning to Cecilia Randall describes his- new brother, all sorts of adven-
fly. Enjoy magnificent photos torical eras with three-dimen- tures are in store. Feathers fly,
of breathtaking, colorful bal- sional precision. Hyperversum gardens are harvested, and nuts
loons as they explore from is the videogame by which are cracked in this endear-
the clouds. Rainbows of color Alexandra Freeland enters the ing tale that embraces fun,
splash the pages inviting read- past, but she cannot escape. problem-solving, and learning
ers to share the excitement. what family is all about.

Phone: 561-776-6066 intdiv@giunti.it chrysa@wellbredbook.net

www.bestpub.com http://internationaldivision.giunti.it/ www.wellbredbook.net

ChangeSeekers: Mentor Me: Instruction and Advice for When Good Samaritans Get Mugged
Finding Your Path To Impact Aspiring Writers

Joanne Sonenshine Heidi Stock David R. Stokes

Elevate Publishing Blurb Critical Mass Books
ISBN 978-1-945449-17-8 ISBN 978-0-9958990-2-5 ISBN 978-0-9969892-9-9

Walking us through her Acclaimed writers, mentors, Best-selling author David R.

complicated journey toward and industry experts give ad- Stokes shares practical strate-
personal and professional vice and instruction on creative gies for overcoming depres-
fulfillment, Joanne Sonenshine coaching, poetry, songwriting, sion, frustration, anger, and
illustrates how embracing screenwriting, and musical fear when we feel the pain of
change can lead to creating theater. This collection of criticism, rejection, and per-
more meaningful impact. interviews and essays includes sonal attack, even though were
an inside view of one-on-one trying to do the right thing.
mentoring sessions.

courtney.link@elevatepub.com , (208) 985-7831 heidi@aspiringpoetscontest.org criticalmassbooks@gmail.com

https://elevatepub.com/product/change-seekers/ www.aspiringcanadianwriters.org/writers-guide www.criticalmassbooks.com
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Severed Its My Pleasure: The Impact of Extraor- Building Smarter Organizations

dinary Talent and a Compelling Culture

V. L. Towler Dee Ann Turner Gordon Vala-Webb

Inimitable Press Elevate Publishing Elevate Publishing
ISBN 978-0-9968772-1-3 ISBN 978-1-937498-88-7 ISBN 978-1-945449-19-2

Severed fingers appear in a Drawing from Chick-fil-As Utilizing the latest industry
small Louisiana town. Dr. Lula revolutionary business model research, Building Smarter
Logan, a Black forensic anthro- and over 30 years of experi- Organizations offers an action-
pologist is asked to help in the ence, Dee Ann Turner shares able survival guide for forming
investigation and must tread her secret sauce for developing and revitalizing companies in
carefully through the racial and extraordinary talent and build- our complex, uncertain, and
social divides of the townsfolk ing a compelling company digital world.
to find the killer. culture.

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The World Turns to War
Jay Wertz
Monroe Publications
ISBN 978-0-9988893-0-6
This powerful collection
presents a perspective on the
military campaigns and actions
of World War II anchored
on the stories as told by the sol-
diers, sailors, airmen, marines
and other military personnel
and civilian eyewitnesses who
experienced the conflict.
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THE RED SCARF
Senn Woo
Sironi Editore
ISBN 978-8851802417
A wonderful story about
friendship and the global
warming affecting our planet.
The books unique design
attracts childrens imagination
and creativity and conveys
both an emotional and an
educational message.
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