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It’s BookExpo, and the aisles and tote bags
are full. What are booksellers excited
about? One of the most talked-about gal-
leys wasn’t even present: Michelle Obama’s
memoir, Becoming (Crown). The publisher
has postcards of the book’s cover, but no
galleys to distribute of the hotly antici-
pated title.
“I think Michelle Obama is one of the
most respected women in the world, so
classy, such integrity. This book is going to
be big,” says Gail Brilling of T’was Brilling
Books in Kirkland, Wash.
On the other side of the country, at
[words] Bookstore in Maplewood, N.J.,
Jonah Zimiles agrees: “Maplewood is
the heart of Obama country, so
we can’t wait!” Zimiles is also
touting Gary Shteyngart’s new
novel, Lake Success (Random
House), as is David Enyeart of
Common Good Books, St. Paul,
Minn. “It feels like a breakout
novel for him,” says Enyeart.
“Contemporary, funny, smart, a
rollicking good story for tough
times.”
Mike Fusco-Straub of Books
Are Magic in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
grew up in Florida and says
Lauren Groff’s story collection
Florida (Riverhead) “describes
feelings I’ve never read before:
the beautiful, sticky, angry
unease of living in one of the
country’s weirdest places.”
Jonathan Lethem’s new novel,
The Feral Detective (Ecco), is one
that Anne Holman of the King’s
English in Salt Lake City “can’t
wait to read.”
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after years of dire predictions for book publishing in the digital age, Pallante
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A novel that keeps turning up is Tommy Orange’s debut, There, There

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Big Kids’ Books of the Show
As children’s and YA booksellers gathered from across the country, we spoke
with a number of them about their impressions of the show and the titles
they’re most looking forward to getting their hands on.
In terms of the big picture books, several booksellers shared their excite-
ment for We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins (Disney-Hyperion).
Ellie Temple, children’s book buyer at Excelsior Bay Books in Excelsior, Minn.,
says, “I used to buy back-to-school books, but they don’t sell. But this one is
so funny, and the illustrations are so cute, I think children are going to love it.”
Philipp Goedicke, children’s book buyer at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn,
eagerly awaits Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Peña, illus. by Christian
Robinson (Putnam), the duo’s first collaboration since Last Stop on Market
Street. “It’s really about hope,” he says. “I’m looking forward to hope.”
On the graphic novel front, Heather Hebert of Children’s Book World in
Haverford, Pa., plans to “race to the booth” to snag a copy of Jarrett Krosoczka’s
Hey Kiddo (Graphix). Hebert calls the graphic memoir, which addresses the
opioid epidemic, “a real breakthrough.”
Another illustrated title that is stirring up interest is Jacqueline Woodson’s
picture book, The Day You Begin, illus. by Rafael López (Penguin/Paulsen).
Angie Tally, children’s buyer at the Country Bookshop in Southern Pines,
N.C., is looking forward to both it and Woodson’s middle grade novel, Har-
bor Me, also Penguin/Paulsen. “She’s such a force in the industry,” Tally says.
She is also excited about Alan Gratz’s Grenade (Scholastic Press). “His books
are across the board ones I can hand to boys,” she says. His novel Refugee is
a store bestseller.
Making the leap from picture books to middle grade fiction is Andrea Beaty’s
heroine Rosie Revere. Holland Saltsman, owner of Novel Neighbor in Web-
At PEN Panel, Free Speech and Race Go Hand in Hand
Last year’s BookExpo Ambassador Award winner, PEN America, returned
yesterday for a panel called “Can Free Speech Be Saved?” focused as much
on the meaning of free speech in an era of “fake news” and deep racial tensions
as on the practice of saving it.
Asked for a general take on free speech today by moderator Katy Glenn Bass,
director of PEN America’s Free Expression Policy and Research, DeRay
Mckesson, a civil rights activist and author of the upcoming On the Other
Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (Viking), stressed that, in conversations
about free speech today, it is imperative that the imbalance of power in society
is also mentioned. “When brown bodies and black bodies start to think about
speech as free, enforcement is a real challenge,” he said. Citing his activist
work in Ferguson, Mo., following the killing of Michael Brown in 2014 and the
rhetoric that surrounded the protests in its wake, Mckesson said, “I don’t
know how to talk about the idea of free speech without talking about the
practice of enforcement.”
Veteran Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times and
author of the upcoming The Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and
the Future of News (S&S), focused not on the loss of speech, but on the deg-
radation of it. “In some ways, we’re literally drowning in speech, especially
when you talk about social media,” she said. “I’m not worried that we’re losing
speech. I’m worried that quality discourse is being drowned out.” Another
concern, she added, is the cultural panic over fake news—and what that will
mean once lawmakers take action: “I’m scared that in the rush to reform and
regulate Russian bots and... false news outlets and media manipulation,
we’re going to see calls from Washington and overseers in Europe to regulate.”
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the
upcoming Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (Dey Street), who
does not have American citizenship and is thus unable to leave the country,
spoke about the importance of discourse as something that can cross borders.
“I can’t physically leave this country. But this book that I’ve been working on
is probably the closest I’ve been to being free—it can go to my mom in the
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ster Groves, Mo.,
is eager to hand-
sell Rosie Revere
and the Raucous
Riveters (Amulet),
which she says
marks “the chap-
ter book debut of
one of our favorite
picture books characters!”
Temple of Excelsior Bay has high praise for Louisiana’s Way Home (Candle-
wick), companion to Kate DiCamillo’s middle grade novel Raymie Nightingale.
“I thought it was really good and has a very satisfying ending,” she says.
Buzzworthy novels for teens continue to draw long lines at autographings.
Brittany Lockhart, a YA bookseller at Barnes & Noble in Hackensack, N.J.,
was ready to claim her galley of Bridge of Clay (Knopf), Marcus Zusak’s highly
anticipated follow-up to The Book Thief. Fellow N.J. bookseller Jamie Kurtz,
general manager at Books-A-Million in Paramus, was queued up to get a
signed copy of Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel (Poppy), and is eager to see what
all the buzz is about for the stage-to-page adaptation.
For Sara Grochowski, children’s book buyer at McLean & Eakin Booksellers
in Petoskey, Mich., “One of my most anticipated fall releases is Courtney
Summers’s Sadie. I’ve loved every book Summers has written, and this one is
sure to be a page-turner.”
—Emma Kantor, with reporting by Amanda Bruns, Matia Burnett, Claire Kirch, and
Diane Roback
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(l. to r.) Katy Glenn Bass (moderator), DeRay Mckesson, Jill Abramson, Jose Antonio Vargas.
Philippines,” he said. “Words, and our freedom to use speech, is in itself a
kind of citizenship.”
Framing was an important focus of the conversation, especially as it moved
to digital platforms and, in particular, Twitter, where, Abramson quipped,
President Donald Trump as the “Tweeter-in-Chief” has effectively become the
country’s “Framer-in-Chief” as well, and has in many ways set expectations
for how cultural conversation around political issues will be held. “Of course
the press has to cover what the president says or tweets,” Abramson contin-
ued. “But so much of the news coverage has become reactive to Donald
Trump’s tweets.... As long as that’s true, it’s difficult to get into the deeper
layers of information.”
Mckesson noted how many media outlets have been hesitant to call out
the president as a liar. “Trump does things that, his intent notwithstanding,
the impact is so disparate that our unwillingness not to call it out every time,
even though it sounds like a broken record, is a choice,” Mckesson said. “I
don’t think we should compromise on that.”
He later added: “When I think about this question of free speech, it is a
question of, well, ‘free for who?’ ”  —John Maher
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Authors Tell Booksellers:

It’s the Best of Times, It’s the Worst of Times
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historian provided a lot of laughs for an appreciative audience
of about 600 booksellers at yesterday morning’s Adult Book
& Author Breakfast, while also discussing how the state of
the world fuels their writing.
Comedians Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and
Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), the morning’s emcees, kicked
off the proceedings by introducing The Greatest Love Story
Ever Told (Dutton, Oct.), an exploration of their marriage that
they described in alternating, revealing sentences
(listeners learned, for instance, of the importance of lubrica-
tion to relationships). The book, they explained, featured
transcripts of conversations, essays, and photos. “Even if you
don’t care for the writing,” Offerman said, “the photos are
well worth the price of admission.” And Mullally noted that
reading their conversations is “like reading a play.”
Trevor Noah, the host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show,
explained the genesis of The Donald J. Trump Presidential
Twitter Library (Spiegel & Grau, Aug.), a collection of presi-
dential tweets with analysis and commentary. “For me, [Trump]
is an emotional paradox,” Noah said. “It’s like an asteroid (l. to r.) Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Nicholas Sparks, Barbara Kingsolver, Trevor Noah, Jill Lepore.
headed toward Earth that’s shaped like a penis. I know I’m
going to die, but I am also going to laugh.” are going to know—two people fall in love; and it’s going to be set in North
Noah said that the book gives an unvarnished view of the president’s mind- Carolina.” Describing Every Breath (Grand Central, Oct.) as a “midlife book,”
set. “One can understand [Trump] through his tweets,” Noah said. “When Sparks said the premise is that the novel opens in Zimbabwe before moving
you read Presidential Twitter Library, you will come to understand why he to North Carolina, and features two people falling in love, but “it’s not meant
should not be president. While he is wildly entertaining, he should not be to be at that time.”
leading anything.” Finishing up the morning, historian Jill Lepore explained that she wrote
Barbara Kingsolver, appearing at her third author breakfast, pointed out These Truths: A History of the United States (Norton, Sept.) “pretty much on
that “literature saves lives.” Unsheltered (Harper, Oct.) came about because a dare” that she could not succinctly write a comprehensive history of “our
when something scares her so much she can’t stop thinking about it, she divided nation” from 1492 to the present. Promising that she was going to
writes a novel. She added that she tries to “make it fun to read.” What fright- provide a history lesson in “seven minutes and 20 slides,” Lepore did just
ens her now, Kingsolver said, is that the “rules” of the past no longer apply. that, concluding: “Like art, history can help us see how it can be both the
Unsheltered tells the story of two sets of families living in the same house, best of times and the worst of times.”
one in the present, the other in 1870, “when this country was more polar- In response to Lepore’s erudite yet entertaining presentation, Offerman
ized than it is now.” perhaps said it best: “Our Harvard history professor, showbiz-wise, just
“If you know anything about the novels I write,” Nicholas Sparks said, “you handed all of us our asses.”  —Claire Kirch

Comedian and actress Ellie Kemper (The Office, The

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) expresses surprise while
signing her upcoming collection of humorous essays, My
Squirrel Days (Scribner, Oct.).
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poster-sized photos of authors with quotes from their books. Neal Shusterman’s says,
“In the end I had to do something big to make my point,” from his novel Thunderhead.
Cassandra Clare’s reads, “One must always be careful of books and what is inside them,
for words have the power to change us,” from Clockwork Angel, Book 1 in her BookExpo concierges enthusiastically directing traffic on the
Infernal Devices series. show floor.

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9:30–10:00 AM 9:30–10:30 AM 11:00 AM–12:00 PM

Isa Chandra Moskowitz
author of the upcoming cookbook
I Can Cook Vegan, on the
What’s Cooking Panel
DOWNTOWN STAGE
#1 New York Times bestselling author
Andrea Beaty
signing an exclusive teaser of
her upcoming chapter book
Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters
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New York Times bestselling author
Thi Bui
signing finished copies of her
award-winning graphic novel
The Best We Could Do
ABRAMS BOOTH #2207

9:30–10:00 AM 10:00 AM 10:30–11:00 AM 11:30 AM–12:00 PM

Lena Coakley ARC GIVEAWAY Kate Hosford Ellen Potter
author of Wicked Nix, signing finished copies author of Big Foot and
Sizzling new YA reads
signing ARCs ABRAMS BOOTH #2207 of her picture book Little Foot: The Monster
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1:30–2:30 PM 3:00–3:30 PM
The creative team Cocreators
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Afua Richardson Mariko Tamaki & Brooklyn Allen
behind the upcoming graphic novel of the Lumberjanes series, signing finished copies of
RUN, signing samplers Lumberjanes: The Moon Is Up
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NEWS
Streaming Services
Widen the Media
Landscape
At the New York Rights Fair, the “The Rise of the Streaming Giants” panel
drew audience questions for 15 minutes as authors and publishing profes-
sionals sought to learn more about a book-to-film marketplace that’s been
disrupted by a proliferation of streaming services.
Throughout the conversation, panelists highlighted how backlist authors
and diverse voices benefit from a bidding environment that now includes
streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu alongside technology
companies or platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Apple.
“Yes, the streamers are still looking for traditional big blockbuster books,”
said John Delaney, founder of John Delaney Literary Consulting, who scouts
material for HBO. “They are also looking for stuff deemed less conventional.
It’s a widening, not an exclusion.”
Panelist Sean Daily, a film rights associate at Hotchkiss & Associates,
summed up the promise of adapting content in this landscape. Daily spent
years trying to get Josh Karp’s history of National Lampoon magazine, A
Futile and Stupid Gesture, adapted. The script had been written nine years
ago, and the film almost got made four times. But it wasn’t until Netflix had
a series of hits with director David Wain’s episodic follow-ups to Wet Hot
American Summer that the streaming service came knocking for Wain’s
other pet project, A Futile and Stupid Gesture.
Netflix picked up the project based on its internal audience data, and the
service also leveraged data to market the final product. “When they put the
film on Netflix, they can send an email to everyone who watched Wet, Hot
American Summer and say, ‘Look we’ve got this movie now!’” Daily said. “And
they can put it at the top of that person’s banner when they log on to Netflix.”
The Audiobook Market Grows Globally
The audiobook boom is most prominent in North America, and it is spread-
ing across the world, as discussed in a panel on Wednesday at the New York
Rights Fair entitled “The Audiobook Heard ‘Round the World.”
The panel was loosely divided into two camps. One, represented by Helena
Gustafsson, head of global publishing at Sweden’s Storytel, was in favor of
streaming services. The other camp works on a pay-as-you-go à-la-carte
model and included Nathan Maharaj, senior director of merchandising at
Rakuten Kobo, and Jemma Wolfe, marketing communications manager at
Audiobooks.com, both Toronto-based.
Gustafsson, whose company is market leader Audible’s main competition
in Europe, noted that streaming services are particularly attractive in coun-
tries that have relatively “immature” audiobook markets. The all-you-can-
listen model is effective at getting listeners to try the services and sample
books on topics or in genres they might be unwilling to purchase.
That said, Gustafson lamented the lack of selection in some of the 12
markets where the company operates. “In Sweden, there were just 1,000
audiobooks produced last year and in some countries, that number was just
100.” This compares with nearly 80,000 produced in the U.S. last year.
Wolfe attributed the recent acceleration in demand for digital audiobooks
to the prevalence of on demand entertainment. “People want instant access,
and in a busy culture you often need to multitask to get what you want done
in a day,” she said. The company‘a slogan—“Turn a waste of time into read-
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Mac Hawkins (l.) and John Delaney on the Rise of the Streaming Giants panel at New York Rights
Fair.
Panelist Mac Hawkins, a literary consultant at Pragmatic, sees the new
streaming landscape as a boon for backlist books like Karp’s. “There are only
so many books published every year, so eventually you have to look at the
backlist,” he said.
All the panelists agreed that these new entertainment industry buyers
have started telling more diverse stories. “Diversity is huge,” said Delaney.
“Both for characters and geography as well—not just telling stories about
New York or Los Angeles. Also, there’s been a huge push for women at the
center of movies.”
Despite the success of dark stories like A Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu or 13
Reasons Why on Netflix, Conner Literary founder Emily Conner saw huge
potential for family-oriented stories as well. “There have been so many very
serious, sobering, and wonderful pieces of content,” she said. “There is an
interest in not just sincere, pop-y material, but also warm, affective, affirming
content.”
“There are so many places for things to go now,” said consultant Hawkins.
“It opens up the field to all sorts of books that publishers, book buyers,
authors, and editors are thinking, ‘This could never be a movie. This could
never be a TV show.’ But we are living in a place where it might be a movie or
TV show. And that’s exciting.”  —Jason Boog
ing time”—highlights the utility of audiobooks in a busy age. Audiobooks.
com  has also partnered with several car companies to have its app installed
in the vehicles’ entertainment systems. 
Kobo, the e-bookseller owned by the Japanese company Rakuten,
launched its audiobook service in September 2017 in the U.S., Canada, the
U.K., and Australia, and added France this year.  “Part of our mission as a
company is to help turn leisure time into reading time, and we asked our-
selves, ‘If you can’t use your eyes or your hands were busy, how would you
read?’ ” said Maharaj. One of the main questions for Kobo, which produces
its own e-readers, was whether to implement a hardware solution. “Would
we take an e-reader that would last a month on a charge, and reduce the bat-
tery life by adding audiobooks? How would you add a headphone jack to an
existing device, especially if that device was waterproof?,” Maharaj added.
Looking ahead, each panelist was confident that the market for audiobooks
will remain vital, in particular as more titles become available. “Right now, our
biggest genres are fiction in general, and mystery and thrillers and ‘feel good’
books, in particular,” said Gustafson. At audiobooks.com, where the audience
tends to be clustered in the 25–44 age-range, Wolfe said, “They are higher
earning and educated and divided along the lines of 75% fiction, 25% non-
fiction, and read genre and political memoirs and stuff, and more recently
self-help.” And at Kobo, Maharaja noted that he is witnessing the consump-
tion of more and more middle grade books, which is nice to see. —Ed Nawotka
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Views of the Inaugural New York Rights Fair

Jane Startz (l.),
Madeleine Milburn,
producer, Jane
of the Madeleine
Startz Production
Milburn agency,
Inc., and Pouya
discussing the
Shahbazian of
success of
New Leaf Agency,
Eleanor Oliphant Is
at the “Global Kids
Completely Fine on
Connect” panel.
the “International
Blockbusters”
panel.

Andrew Rosen (l.), Even Råkil, from

executive producer, Oslo Literary
Aircraft Pictures, and Agency, discusses
Surian Fletcher- the success of
Jones, head of The History of Bees
­development, on the
­Working Title Films, “International
on the “Adaptations Blockbusters”
Around the World” panel.
panel.

Simon &
Schuster
Children’s JESSIE SIMA &
CHRISTIAN TRIMMER
CHARLAINE
HARRIS

at BEA
Illustrator & Author of Author of An Easy Death
Snow Pony and the Seven Miniature Ponies 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Autographing at S&S Booth
FRIDAY, Autograph Area Table 11

JUNE 1
EVENTS

BOOTH
#1738/1739 SHARON M. DRAPER
Author of Out of My Mind
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Autographing at S&S Booth
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
The African-American
Children’s Book Project
Uptown Stage
PATTI KIM
Author of I’m Ok
BRANDON
MULL
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Author of Time Jumpers
Middle Grade Author Buzz Panel 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Room 1E12 Autograph Area Table 14
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Autograph Area Table 11

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BookExpo 2018
Visit us in Booth #1938

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9:00 AM
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The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons
Tote Bag (Black Dog & Leventhal)

Photo: Paola Kudacki /

This Land Dan Barry (Black Dog & Leventhal)

Trunk Archive
The Martin Chronicles John Fried (Grand Central)
Maid Stephanie Land (Hachette Books)
The Winter Soldier Daniel Mason (Little, Brown)
10:00–11:00 AM 10:00–11:00 AM 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
From Here to You Jamie McGuire (Forever)
David Baldacci Natasha Ngan Sally Field
96 Words for Love
HBG Booth #1938 Young Adult Author HBG Booth #1938
Rachel Roy and Ava Dash (Jimmy)
Signing Buzz Panel Signing
10:00 AM
Uptown Stage
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams (Hachette Books)
10:30 AM
Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope Kerry Kennedy
(Center Street)
Matters of Vital Interest Eric Lerner (Da Capo)
The Man Who Walked Backward Ben Montgomery
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11:00 AM
ArtPeople A/S

Sell It Like Serhant Ryan Serhant (Hachette Books)

11:30 AM
11:00 AM–12:00 PM 11:00 AM–12:00 PM 12:00–1:00 PM No Ashes in the Fire Darnell L. Moore (Nation Books)
Kerri Maniscalco Sara Blaedel Sandra Brown An Orchestra of Minorities Chigozie Obioma
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HBG Booth #1938
Signing Signing Give a Sh*t Tote Bag Ashlee Piper (Running Press)
12:30 PM
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margarita Drink Koozie
Tim Federle (Running Press)
1:00 PM
We Are the Nerds Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
(Hachette Books)
The Sisters of the Winter Wood Rena Rossner
(Redhook)
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Rosewater Tade Thompson (Orbit)

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2:00 PM
Know Your Value Mika Brzezinski (Hachette Books)
2:30 PM
We All Love the Beautiful Girls Joanne Proulx
1:00–2:00 PM 1:00–1:45 PM 2:00–2:45 PM (Grand Central)
Jenna Gavigan Janet Napolitano Abbi Jacobson 3:00 PM
HBG Booth #1938 Showcase Panel In Conversation with
Maid Stephanie Land (Hachette Books)
Signing Downtown Stage Chris Gethard
3:30 PM
Downtown Stage
3:00–4:00 PM Adrift Brian Murphy and Toula Vlahou (Da Capo)
AA Signing, Table 2 Best of Enemies Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall (Twelve)

James Patterson
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Robb Pearlman Brad Meltzer Elin Hilderbrand
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Meet Albert Whitman &

Company Authors at BookExpo! PW Star Watch Enters
BOOTH #1521
Its Fourth Year
Calling all mavericks, visionaries,
thinkers, and dreamers!
Over the past four years the PW Star Watch
program, launched in association with the Frank-
furter Buchmesse, has become a September
ritual. The program, which identifies rising
stars in the book industry, selects 40 honorees
and five finalists from among the more than
250 nominees in all areas of publishing and book
retail. The goal of the program is to cele-
brate those throughout the industry who
JANET LAWLER are making an impact today and in the
10:00am future.
The first superstar selected was Helen
Yentus, art director at Riverhead Books.
“It was nice to be selected [to go to
Frankfurt],” Yentus says. “The art depart-
ment is rarely considered in the same
thought as the Book Fair, which people
see traditionally as a rights fair. It made a
difference to everyone in the art depart-
ment that I was highlighted in that way.” Gabriella Page-Fort
Representatives from PW, the
American Booksellers Association,

KATHERINE LOCKE* MAURA MILAN*

the Association of American
Publishers, and Frankfurter
I love the
Buchmesse select one of the final-
11:00am 2:00pm
ists as a “superstar,” who wins an
all-expenses-paid trip to the
emphasis is
Frankfurt Book Fair. The winner
is announced at the annual Star
Watch party held in New York to
on inspiring
celebrate all the honorees.
Winner of the second year’s
award, Andrew Eliopulos
young people.
(né Harwell), executive editor, HarperCollins, says of the trip to the book fair,
“Meeting with international publishers and hearing their thoughts on why a
book that succeeded in our market did not succeed in theirs, or vice versa,
immediately expanded the way I view potential acquisitions.”
The 40 honorees go far beyond their daily duties and responsibilities,
ANNE GREENWOOD BROWN push boundaries, and demonstrate a passion for books with fresh ideas,
3:00pm boundless energy, and optimism for the future of the industry.
Gabriella Page-Fort, last year’s winner, says of the program, “I love the
And don’t miss a special emphasis on inspiring young people in publishing. It’s even harder to envi-
cookie delivery from sion a career path today than it was when I got started, so I find it’s extremely
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show opening today at 9am Last year’s other finalists were Suzanna Hermans, co-owner of Oblong
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Indent Literary Agency; and Colleen AF Venable, an art director then at
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AUTHORS
Sally Field
Putting It VISIT US AT BOOTH #1639
Together SIGNINGS TODAY
FRIDAY 6/1

Gary Urda
10:00 - 10:30 AM 

Award-winning actress and director Sally Field has kept personal journals
for decades and always intended to keep her writing private. But when her
mother died in 2011 on the actress’s 65th birthday, Field began to write a
memoir, In Pieces (Grand Central, Sept.).
“After she was gone, I couldn’t settle. I felt like there was some gangrenous
wound growing on me that I couldn’t find. I didn’t know what needed resolv- Sheryl Berk & Carrie Berk
ing, so I just started writing,” says Field. “It all culminated into this urgency to
put all the pieces down in front of me and see if could put them together into
3:00 - 3:45 PM
a picture that I didn’t know I knew. And that’s what I did.”
For inspiration, Field looked to writers she’s admired over the years—Eliz-
abeth Strout, Jane Smiley, and Frank McCourt—and researched their
agents. “They all happened to be represented by the same person: Molly
Friedrich. I wrote her a letter over the transom on her agency website, and
said, ‘Hello, my name is Sally Field, I’ve been an actor for 53 years.’ And she
wrote back saying, ‘Thank you so much. I know who you are, but I don’t think
we’re a fit.’ ”
Field mentioned her 2012 Women & Power Conference keynote address
at the Omega Institute, and Friedrich offered to look at her speech. “Molly
read it and said all those many years ago, ‘There’s a little bit of a voice, but I
don’t know if you know what it is. I want you to go away and write 80 pages,
100 pages, and I’ll represent that, and not you.’ And that’s what struck me,”
says Field. “It meant she thought I had something to say and that the work
was worth her expertise.”
The first-time author is adamant that her memoir is not a “kiss- and-tell”

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found at the age of 12—the beginning of something inside of me the first
time I was on stage. It was the only place I could hear myself.” Viss us for a chance win bbks, prize
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AUTHORS

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the people who extended their
hands to make us feel welcome,

Yuyi Morales especially the public librarians in

the Bay Area,” she says. “When I

Shares Her Inspiring first saw picture books in the library,

Immigration Story
A Caldecott Honor artist and five-time recipi-
ent of the Pura Belpré Award for Illustration,
Yuyi Morales arrives at BookExpo from her
hometown of Yelapa, Mexico, to introduce
booksellers to her most personal book to
date. Dreamers (Holiday House/Neal Porter )
is a picture-book memoir following Morales’s
1994 journey from Mexico to the San Francisco Bay Area with her infant son,
and their adjustment to a new life.
Morales’s inspiration for Dreamers had several sources, including what she
identified as a need for personal story sharing. On author visits to libraries,
she encountered many Latino families eager to hear her immigration story.
“From their questions, I knew they were interested in what had happened to
me, but I also sensed their need to tell their own stories,” she says. “It made
me realize how important it is to have a variety of voices explaining how and
why they came to the U.S. And though everyone’s story is different, what we
all have in common is the struggle to adjust to a new home—and figure out
how we belong here.”
Dreamers underscores the pivotal role that books played in easing that
process for Morales and her son. “I want this book to celebrate and honor all
I was amazed—I couldn’t believe
that such a thing existed! The art
was so colorful and the text so sim-
ple. If I put the two together, I could
understand the stories—even
though I didn’t know much English.”
Library books also unleashed
Morales’s creativity. She checked out armful after armful of how-to
books on such topics as painting, making handmade paper, and
bookbinding. “These books opened doors for me by letting me realize
that I was an artistic person,” she recalls. “They taught me so very much, and
helped me integrate so many skills into my life, and to transform myself.”
There’s another key message that Morales hopes Dreamers imparts,
especially in today’s tumultuous political climate. “One of the things immi-
grants struggle with is this notion that we come to new places because we
lack things,” she observes. “But if we sometimes arrive with needs, we also
come bearing an abundance of gifts. I hope that Dreamers helps people
realize that by opening our eyes and putting our gifts together, we can
transform our world and create a brighter future.” —Sally Lodge
Today, 8–9:30 a.m. Yuyi Morales will speak at the Children’s Book &
Author Breakfast.
Today, 11 a.m.–noon. Morales will sign at Table 2.

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CHILDREN’S
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thinking about that, I again

Jacqueline Woodson asked questions: ‘What does

that mean?’ and ‘What do

Two New Books and a you do with that?’ ”

Valuable Equation
This has been a whirlwind year for Jacqueline Woodson, who
was appointed National Ambassador for Young People’s
Literature in January and named the 2018 Astrid Lindgren
Memorial Award laureate in March. She also has two new
books coming in August from Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books:
Harbor Me, her first middle grade book since her 2014
National Book Award–winning Brown Girl Dreaming; and The Day You
Begin, a picture book illustrated by Rafael López, which will be released
simultaneously in a Spanish-language edition, El día en que descubres
quién eres.
In Harbor Me, six kids who meet for a weekly chat at school feel braver
after discovering they can share the feelings and fears they must hide from
the rest of the world. “I think a lot of times I write because I have questions,
not answers,” says Woodson. “And so here I’m asking, ‘How do we move
forward, around obstacles that we continue to see and hear?’ I feel hopeful
writing for young people and looking at life through their eyes.”
The Day You Begin, about finding the courage to connect with others,
was inspired by a poem in Brown Girl Dreaming that drew on Woodson’s
great-grandfather’s childhood experience as the only black student in an
all-white school. “There was no one else in the room who looked like him—he
Woodson praises López’s
illustrations for the book.
“As a writer, I think it’s always
hard to let go of one’s work
and see it through an illus-
trator’s interpretation,” she
notes. “But Rafael added
such an amazing depth to
the story, as well as a light-
ness that complements it. He is phenomenally smart, and a great illustrator.”
Visitors to Penguin’s booth (2121) will find a standee wall where they can
jot their own spins on Woodson’s platform as National Ambassador for
Young People’s Literature: Reading=Hope x Change. “I like the idea of
creating what seems to be a mathematical equation to represent reading,”
says Woodson.
“By this, I am saying that we read to feel hopeful, and reading gives us
that hope,” she continues. “When we have hope, it makes us stronger,
braver, more directed. With that direction, we are different and we can cre-
ate difference in the world. We are changed and can create change.”
 —Sally Lodge
Today, 8–9:30 a.m. Jacqueline Woodson will speak at the Children’s Book
& Author Breakfast, on the Main Stage.
Today, 10–11 a.m. Woodson will sign in the ABA Lounge.

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ENG AG ING S TO RI ES Middle Grade Editors
YOUR NEXT READ IS A BLINK AWAY! Buzz About Their Picks
Solo The books spotlighted on today’s Middle Grade Editors’ Buzz Panel, moder-
Kwame ated by Summer Laurie from Books Inc. in San Francisco, span a space-sta-
Alexander with tion friendship, a frantic chase across Europe, and life in a Filipino cemetery
Mary Rand Hess shantytown.
Hardcover $18.99
9780310761839
Diana M. Pho, editor, Tor/Starscape
Everlasting Nora by Marie Cruz (Oct.)
Swing This authentic and

© kathy metz
Kwame
uplifting debut novel
Alexander with
Mary Rand Hess about Nora, a girl who
Hardcover, lives in a shantytown
jacketed $18.99 inside a Manila ceme-
9780310761914 tery, is meticulously
October 2, 2018
researched by a Filipi-
no-American author
who grew up in the
Philippines. Nora’s
A Touch of Gold story and the unique
Annie Sullivan setting totally blew me away. I was so impressed by [Cruz’s] skill, insight,
Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
and heart.
9780310766353
August 14, 2018 Sharing different worldviews is increasingly important in children’s litera-
ture, during a time when we sorely need stories that expand children’s
visions of themselves and of each other. More so for people of color, the
struggle to have their stories seen, heard, and supported is very real in
light of the overwhelming whiteness of our industry. One of the ways that I
can reach out, as a children’s book editor of color, is to be visible and loud in
Meet the Sky support of their stories, and this panel provides the perfect opportunity.
McCall Hoyle
Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
Russ Busse, associate editor, Little, Brown BFYR
9780310765707
September 4, 2018 Short and Skinny by Mark Tatulli (Sept.)
In this graphic mem-
oir, Mark is having a
hard time with bul-
lies, girls, and his
The Color of Lies self-image, until his
CJ Lyons obsession with the
Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
new, original Star
9780310765356
November 6, 2018 Wars movie helps
him figure out
that purpose and
self-confidence can
come from a lot of different sources.
Spotlighting this graphic memoir is great, both because it gives a plat-
Pretty in Punxsutawney
Laurie Boyle Crompton form for comics as a medium, and because the book itself is really special. I
Hardcover, jacketed $17.99 was initially drawn to the project because the worries and problems that
9780310762164 Mark describes are so relatable, so humanly told, and he’s able to infuse
January 15, 2019 really great visual storytelling with his accessible sense of humor. As the
book was coming together, we kept getting feedback about how real it feels,
and I think being able to be retrospective but also keep the voice of yourself
as a kid is a special talent that Mark brings to the table in spades.

Reka Simonsen, executive editor, Atheneum BFYR

I’m Ok by Patti Kim (Oct.)
/BlinkYABooks @BlinkYABooks
I’m Ok is the heartbreaking yet hilarious story of Ok Lee, a kid with more
than enough personality to get him through the hard times. He is definitely
/BlinkYABooks /BlinkYABooks facing some hard times and knows he has to come up with an exit strategy,
and fast.
I haven’t been able to stop talking about this book since the moment I read
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a very early draft
and fell in love with
the main character.
He’s funny, he’s
ingenious, he’s
smart—and he’s a
bit of a smarty-
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neath it all he’s
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heartbreak that he
tries so hard to hide, and to hide from. As an own-voice story of a boy who
immigrated here from Korea, and as an honest portrayal of what it’s like to
live in poverty, I think I’m Ok will speak to a lot of kids who don’t often get to
see themselves in books.

Rotem Moscovich, executive editor, Disney-Hyperion

Sanity & Tallulah, Book 1 by Molly Brooks (Oct.)
Sanity & Tallulah is
Roller Girl meets Star
Trek meets Silly Putty.
It’s a funny mystery- Margaret Reed & Joan Lownds Martin Gitlin & Joe Wos
adventure featuring 11:00am Book Signing 11:00am Book Signing
978-1-4930-3161-0 • May 2018 978-1-63076-278-0 • March 2018
two girls in space. The
novel has it all: best
friends, hilarious dia-
logue, characters you
fall in love with and
who have agency,
STEM-inspired themes that save the day, a diverse cast with cool space-sta-
tion style, and a three-headed kitten named Princess Sparkle, Destroyer of
Worlds. I mean, need I say more? But truly, Molly Brooks is a huge talent,
and a wonderful collaborator. I am proud of every inch of this book, and can’t
wait for everyone to read it.

Alex Ulyett, associate editor, Viking Children’s Books

Monstrous Devices by Damien Love (Nov.)
This Raiders of
David Pietrusza 978-1-4930-2887-0
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2:00pm Book Signing September 2018

the Lost Ark–type 978-1-4930-0944-2 • September 2016
adventure with a
sinister Toy Story
twist is a gripping
tale that makes the
big questions—
about life, death,
truth, and the sto-
ries we tell—feel Flex your green thumb this summer
magical. I adore the with our great gardening and Homesteading Books!
way its racing plot
continually surprises. Damien relishes upending tropes, and just when you
think you’ve got the mysteries figured out, he pulls the rug from under your
feet, leaving you scratching your head all over again.
But this book is by no means just chases and ever-mounting questions.
There are moments of sweet levity, heartwarming intergenerational bonds,
and always time for a spot of tea and a snack, even in the face of global
catastrophe. Most importantly, there is an ever-present sense of wonder
about the hidden mysteries of our world, a feeling deep rooted in every
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generation of children. In this way, the book is reminiscent of enduring, August, 2018 April, 2018 April, 2019
beloved middle grade classics. —Sally Lodge

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Colleen Hoover
A Very Busy Bookworm
You’d think being a perennial New York Times bestselling author (It Ends with
Us, Confess, and Without Merit) who’s about to set off on a 16-city tour for
her new novel, All Your Perfects (Atria, July), wouldn’t leave Colleen Hoover
time for anything else, but you would be wrong. She makes the time to over-
see a subscription box program and specialty bookstore that together have
raised more than a million dollars for charity.
It began in 2015 with the Bookworm Box, a monthly subscription box con-
taining one or two donated books autographed by the authors. “We made up
400 boxes,” Hoover remembers, “announced it on Facebook, and sold out in
four minutes.” She suddenly found herself “running a charity out of our living
room. Subscriptions were multiplying, and we were packing around 1,000
boxes a month.” It wasn’t long before she began searching for warehouse
space in her hometown of Sulphur Springs, Tex. What she found instead was
a vacant building on the quaint downtown square. “It was in a great location
and had room in the back to house supplies, but there was a storefront that
needed filling. So I decided, in that moment, to make it an extension of the
subscription boxes and turn it into a specialty bookstore.” Every book in the
3,000-square-foot store, also called the Bookworm Box, is autographed by
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We made up 400 boxes.. and
sold out in four minutes.
one of the several hundred authors represented on the shelves. Most of the
stock is romance, and the store has become a destination for romance read-
ers who travel from as far away as Australia and England. Profits from both
the subscription program and the store go to a variety of charities.
One book certain to be on the shelves is All Your Perfects, which chronicles
a troubled marriage. “It’s the first book I’ve written that deals with a couple
who’ve been married for years,” Hoover says. “I started dating my husband
at 16, married at 20, and have been with him for 22 years. Our marriage is
great, but there are moments and days when it’s not. How we deal with the
not-so-easy days was a huge resource for me, and writing this book, in a way,
was therapeutic, because it made me take a step back and evaluate every-
thing from a character standpoint. When I finished writing it, I loved my hus-
band even more than when I started.”  —Lucinda Dyer
Today, 2:30 p.m. Colleen Hoover will be signing ARCs of All Your Perfects
in the Simon & Schuster booth (1738).
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the secret history of the house. “The novel
is definitely fed with obsessions that I

Kate Morton have about time,” Morton says, “how we

measure it, how we think about it, and

Timekeeper what a difference it makes to us—

whether it’s the clockmaker actually mea-
It’s no wonder that Kate Morton (The Clock- suring the minutes, or decisions like
maker’s Daughter, Atria, Oct.), who travels Greenwich Mean Time and the prime
with aplomb to vastly different time zones meridian, or whether it’s archaeological
between her current London residence and time. My book is set in an area where
her homeland of Australia, is fascinated by there are Neolithic remains, as well as
different aspects of time. “There’s something Roman roads, and I just love that.”
about that transit tunnel,” she says. “It’s quite How the present and the past tie
surreal to step inside one set of airport doors and then in 24 hours emerge together is a theme in her five previous
on the other side of the world. I never quite get my head around how unbe- novels as well, but with The Clockmaker’s
lievable that is. We take it for granted, but that’s pretty amazing.” Daughter, she says, “I took it a step fur-
Told by multiple voices across time, her latest book, set in 1862 and then the ther, by creating a house on a quiet bend
present day, is equal parts love story and murder mystery. In the summer of of the upper Thames in Oxfordshire. We have people in the present with the
1862, a group of young artists descends upon Birchwood Manor in rural idea that something happened in the Victorian era. We meet a number of dif-
Oxfordshire. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspi- ferent residents within the one house throughout the course of the book. I
ration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been just love that idea of the overlaying of time within the one place. I wanted to
shot dead while another has disappeared, and a priceless heirloom is miss- express that sense I get, whenever I visit an old house, of the many different
ing. More than 150 years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, lives that were led within those walls.”  —Hilary S. Kayle
uncovers a photograph and a sketch that are hauntingly familiar to her.
Throughout the tale, a clockmaker’s daughter offers her perspective from a Today, 11:30–noon. Kate Morton will be interviewed by Carol Fitzgerald,
founder and president of the Book Report Network, at the Uptown Stage.
unique vantage point, which is interwoven with third-person accounts reveal-
Today, 12:30–1:30 p.m. Morton will sign ARCs of The Clockmaker’s
ing the truth behind the mysterious events that occurred one summer and Daughter at the Simon & Schuster booth (1738).

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Audio, Bigger and Better:

No Apology Necessary
For the 18th year in a row, BookExpo will host the APA’s Annual Author
Tea. This year’s event, featuring authors Gayle Forman (If I Stay, Dutton),
Jason Fry (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Del Rey), Kathryn Hahn (My Wish for
You, Scholastic/Orchard), and Laini Taylor (Strange the Dreamer, Little,
Brown), will be hosted by Robin Whitten, founder and editor of Audiofile
magazine, now in its 26th year of publication.
For Whitten, who has been around since the infancy of audiobooks, this is
one of the most exciting times in the industry’s history. “Suddenly the format
is something you don’t have to explain to people,” she says. “At one time,
when you asked someone if they had read a book, they made an apology:
‘Oh, I listened to it.’ That doesn’t happen anymore. It’s all part of the experi-
ence of the book. We’re talked about in late-night shows. The format is now
on everybody’s radar.”
What is particularly exciting for her, Whitten adds, is that most of these
new listeners are younger. “When you look at the research, the big growth is
[listeners] under 35. We don’t have to convince this generation that this is an
exciting format. It’s made its way into popular culture.”
This year’s panel reflects the interests of that new generation of listeners,
with award-winning YA authors Forman and Taylor, first-time children’s book
author/actress Hahn, and bestselling pop culture writer Fry.
While the listening audience continues to expand, the number of titles
released is growing exponentially as well.

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Kathryn
Hahn “In 2016, the industry reported about
51,000 books produced,” says Michelle
Cobb, executive director of the APA.
“Everyone is publishing a lot more, and
being very efficient about it.
“We’re seeing some original works, some
taking of an existing work and melding it to
the format, and more and more high-pro-
duction-value titles,” Cobb adds. She sin-
gles out the multireader adaptation of
George Sanders’s Lincoln in the Bardo, an
Audiobook of the Year nominee, featuring
such celebrities as Nick Offerman, Susan
Sarandon, and Julianne Moore.
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Laini High-profile productions such as Lincoln

Taylor
in the Bardo have not only drawn in new lis-
teners but also new celebrity readers. “It’s
been an interesting cycle,” Cobb says. “They
[celebrities] started off by narrating their
own autobiographies, but are now actively
participating in the format.” She points to
Reese Witherspoon’s narration of Harper
Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and Claire
Danes’s performance of The Handmaid’s
Tale, another Audiobook of the Year
nominee.
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Robin
Whitten
“After all those years of believing in the
format, of trying to help people understand
the listening experience, it’s a particularly
gratifying time in the industry. Audiobooks
are everywhere,” Whitten says. “It’s exciting
for me to host this year.” —D.A. Stern

Today, 3–4 p.m. The Audio Publishers

Association Author Tea takes place in
Room 1E07/1E08. Tickets are required.

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Join your fellow librarians for author talks, giveaways, food and drink, and a delicious
lunch, 12:30–1:30 p.m., courtesy of publisher Rowman & Littlefield.

Meet SourceBooks Fire Author (and Librarian) Claire Legrand

Start the day with a (second or third) cup of coffee. Meet
author Claire Legrand, 9:30–10:30 a.m., and take home
a signed copy of her just published Furyborn. A musician
and librarian, Legrand is an accomplished writer, and her
latest is setting up to be one of the big books of 2018 in
the ever-popular fantasy genre.
Furyborn has generated nearly 900 reviews averaging
more than four stars on Goodreads, and the book was the
#1 pick on the LibraryReads list for May. “Fierce, indepen-
dent women full of rage, determination, and fire,” writes Claire Legrand
Kristin Friberg, Princeton Library, Princeton, N.J., on the
LibraryReads list. “The first novel in the Empirium trilogy holds appeal for both young
adult and adult readers. For fans of Game of Thrones, Once Upon a Time, and The
Hunger Games.”

It’s Bruce the Bear! Get a Signed Copy from Author Ryan T. Higgins,
Courtesy of Disney
Ryan T. Higgins will be signing copies of the third book in
his popular Bruce the Bear series, Bruce’s Big Move, 11
a.m.–noon. Get there early; a limited number of copies will
be available.
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It’s both a hilarious sequel for fans of the previous Bruce
books, as well as a great standalone discovery for new
readers. The series will continue this fall with Santa Bruce, Ryan T. Higgins
which is set for a September release.

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Meet Suzanne Stabile, Courtesy of InterVarsity Press

After lunch, hang out and meet author Suzanne Stabile,
2:30–3:30 p.m. She will be signing copies of her just released
The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy
Relationships, thanks to InterVarsity Press. Stabile is a highly
sought after speaker and teacher and an internationally rec-
ognized Enneagram master. She has conducted more than
500 Enneagram workshops over the past 25 years. In her lat-
est book, Stabile examines the nine Enneagram types and
how they behave and experience relationships. She guides
readers into deeper insights about themselves and others so
Suzanne Stabile
that they can have life-giving relationships.

Read Gwen Carr’s Book About the Death of Her Son, Eric Garner,
Courtesy of Rowman & Littlefield
After the video of the death four years ago of Eric Garner at
the hands of New York City police officers on Staten Island
went viral, Gwen Carr’s life changed dramatically. Garner’s
haunting plea—“I can’t breathe”—became a rallying cry for a
generation of activists. It also marked the dawn of a “new nor-
mal,” Carr writes in her book, This Stops Today: Eric Garner’s
Mother Seeks Justice After Losing Her Son, which is set for fall
publication. Now young black men and women automatically
document police interactions with their cellphones for fear of
brutality, and even death. Since the loss of her son, Carr, a
retired transit train operator, dedicates her time to fighting
for racial equality. Take home a free copy of Carr’s book from the Librarians’ Lounge
thanks to sponsor Rowman & Littlefield.

How Libraries Can Be ‘The Great Equalizer’ and How Baker & Taylor
Can Help
The numbers tell the story: according to a recent study, roughly 75% of the Americans
who receive food stamps perform at the lowest two levels of literacy. And some 90% of
high school dropouts require government assistance and are on welfare. The connection
between poverty and literacy is starkly evident—and so, too, is the solution.
“The only public institution with the greatest impact on delivering literate communi-
ties that has stood the test of time other than schools are libraries,” says Amandeep
Kochar, executive v-p of public library sales and technology at Baker & Taylor. “Libraries
have stood the test of time as a great equalizer by serving as a place where all families
can access relevant, engaging content [and find] professionals acting as a support sys-
tem and a counterbalance to parental education levels that encourage lifelong
learning.”
To support communities across the nation, Baker & Taylor chartered its Axis 360
Community Sharing Program, which links public libraries and schools
with an efficient e-book and audiobook sharing platform. The program is
having an impact in a number of communities by linking students to a
wider variety of content from their public libraries right in their schools
and classrooms—and multiplying the return on investment of public tax
dollars.
Does this sound like something your community might benefit from? If
so, representatives from hosts Baker & Taylor will be on hand in the
Librarians’ Lounge throughout BookExpo to answer questions about the Axis 360 Com-
munity Sharing Program and other B&T programs.

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A Can’t-Miss ALA
Michelle Obama, Viola Davis
Among the Highlights of
Star-Studded 2018 Conference
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PUBLISHING

Michelle Obama

Doris Kearns Goodwin

For librarians, the hit
parade of great authors
doesn’t end with Book-
Expo—next up is the
2018 American Library
Association’s annual con-
ference set for June
21–26 in New Orleans. A
strong lineup of speakers
awaits attendees at this
year’s ALA, including a highly anticipated key-
note from former first lady Michelle Obama,
whose memoir, Becoming, will drop this fall from
Crown. Sponsored by Penguin Random House,
Obama will speak at the opening general ses-
sion, on Friday, June 22, 4–5:30 p.m.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, the world-renowned
presidential historian, public speaker, and Pulit-
zer Prize–winning author, is also set to appear,
part of the ALA’s Auditorium Speaker series.
Goodwin’s most recent book, The Bully Pulpit:
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and
the Golden Age of Journalism, is currently in
development with Steven Spielberg’s Dream-
Works Studios—her second time working with
Spielberg, whose movie Lincoln was based in
part on Goodwin’s award-winning Team of Rivals:
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Good-

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win’s appearance is sponsored by
Simon & Schuster, who will pub-
lish her new book, Leadership in
Turbulent Times, this fall. She will
speak on Saturday, June 23,
8:30–9:30 a.m.
This year’s ALA program also
features a couple of Academy
Award–winning actors-turned-au-
thors speaking from the Main
Stage. Sally Field, with two Acad-
emy Awards and three Emmys, is
set to address librarians, spon-
sored by the Hachette Book
Group, which will publish Field’s
memoir, In Pieces, this fall. In the
book, Field writes about her “chal-
lenging and lonely childhood” and
how her love of acting helped her
find her voice. The book brings
Sally Field readers behind the scenes for the
highs and lows of her career in
Hollywood, as well as offering an intimate look at her life offscreen. Field’s talk is set for
Saturday, June 23, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Viola Davis will keynote the Closing General Session, where she will discuss her addi-
tion to the classic children’s series featuring Corduroy, the teddy bear now celebrating a
half-century of starring in these popular books. In Corduroy Takes a Bow, illus. by Jody
Wheeler, Davis uses her
own experiences as a
Tony Award–winning
Broadway actress to tell
the tale of Corduroy and
Lisa’s first trip to the the-
ater, which is sure to
spark an interest in the-
ater in children of any
Viola Davis age. Her appearance is
sponsored by Viking
Young Readers, who will
publish the book this fall. Davis is sched-
uled to speak on Tuesday, June 26,
10–11:30 a.m.
If you haven’t yet made your plans to
get to New Orleans for the 2018 ALA
Annual Conference, there’s still time to
register. Go to 2018.alaannual.org/ to
register and for more information, not
only on the main program speakers but
on the hundreds of publishers and
authors set to attend. We’ll see you in the
Big Easy in June.  —Andrew Albanese

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Middle Grade Buzz Authors Share the Stories

Behind Their Books
Five middle grade authors, whose books were selected for the Buzz Panel, what if the hair braider were a boy? Onto the benign scene of one kid braid-
talk about their inspiration. ing another’s hair, I painted a backdrop of struggling with poverty, coping
with death, searching for belonging, and being an immigrant. Immigrant sto-
Marie Miranda Cruz ries never cease to inspire me. It’s my own family’s story. They are stories of
Everlasting Nora (Tor/Star- obstacles being transformed

scape, Oct.)
“My novel is about a girl who lives
among the squatters in a Manila
cemetery, longing to have a real
home again and go back to
school. When her mother, who
has a gambling addiction, goes
missing, Nora’s friends and
neighbors rally around her, and
she discovers the strength to
find her mother.
“My inspiration came from an
article I read about a missionary
who met a girl in the Philippines
whose mother had abandoned
her in the cemetery. I was so
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into opportunities.”
Molly Brooks
Sanity & Tallulah, Book 1
(Disney-Hyperion, Oct.)
“Sanity and Tallulah live on a space
station and are constantly getting
into weird trouble. In this book,
Sanity’s latest science project (a
three-headed kitten) escapes
from the laboratory and causes
mayhem. The characters origi-
Marie Cruz Patti Kim
nated in a zine I made with my
friend Andrea Tsurumi a few years
ago. I envisioned Sanity and Tal-
lulah as a kind of Nancy Drew/Star

moved by her plight, and thought
a lot about her and so many like
her. I live in California, but I grew
up in the Philippines, and it wasn’t
until I had children of my own
that I realized there are so few
children’s books that mirror the
lives of Filipino-American chil-
dren. I wanted to change that.”
Mark Tatulli
Short and Skinny (Little,
Brown, Oct.)
“This is my graphic novel memoir
of the summer of 1977, when I was going into eighth
© amy luo
Trek/buddy-cop mashup: close
friends who banter and bicker
and work together to find clever
solutions to problems—some of
which they’ve caused themselves.
“I love telling stories. Nothing
gives me joy like designing the
puzzle of a plot and the careful
trail of imagery that will guide
readers through it. Creating my
first graphic novel was a lot of
work and at times super frustrat-
Mark Tatulli Molly Brooks ing, and I hope I get to keep
doing it forever.”
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grade. I was tired of being bullied, and so, determined
to bulk up and get taller, I used mail-order gimmicks
from my comic books. But then Star Wars came out
and changed my life in a way I never saw coming. I was
inspired to create my own version of the movie on paper,
and in doing so found my confidence.
“I hope my struggle for confidence resonates with
readers who feel like they, too, are coming up short, and
shows them that clarity and purpose can arrive when
they least expect it. What surprised me most about
examining my middle grade years was my cathartic
reaction to things I hadn’t thought about in a very,
very long time.”
Damien Love
Patti Kim
I’m Ok (Atheneum, Oct.)
“Ok Lee is one stressed-out boy. After he loses his father to a freak accident,
his mother must take on multiple jobs. Ok tries to help out by starting a
hair-braiding business. Then Ok’s mother starts dating a man with a shady
reputation, and life gets way more complicated than Ok can handle.
“In middle school, I braided hair, and it gave me a sense of identity, purpose,
and belonging. Those memories, I realized, held rich fiction potential. And
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Damien Love
Monstrous Devices (Viking, Nov.)
“In this old-school adventure tinged with magic and the
macabre, Alex, a 12-year-old in a humdrum British
town, receives an old tin robot from his globe-trotting
grandfather. He quickly realizes there’s something dif-
ferent about this toy. And possibly deadly. Soon, he
and his grandfather are on a breakneck chase through
a snowy Europe, pursued by assassins of various kinds.
“There were two key inspirations. I got thinking about
the books, comics, TV shows, [and] movies I loved as a
kid. And I remember trying to write stories something
like this story at the kitchen table when I was eight, but
I got distracted for 30-odd years. Monstrous Devices
traveled a long road before finding a publisher, but it
found absolutely the perfect publisher in the end. I’m from Glasgow, and we
have a saying in Scotland: ‘Whit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye,’ which roughly trans-
lates as que sera sera.”  —Sally Lodge
Today, 2–2:30 p.m. Marie Cruz, Mark Tatulli, Patti Kim, Molly Brooks,
and Damien Love will appear on the “Meet BookExpo Middle Grade Buzz
Authors” panel, on the Uptown Stage.
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AUTHORS ing her when it would
be published. She

Ngozi Ukazu hoped to raise

The Puck Stops Here
Texas native Ngozi Ukazu, author of the YA Check,
Please!: #Hockey (First Second, Sept.), first wrote
about hockey in a screenplay-writing seminar
during her senior year at Yale. Later she used her
research on the sport for a webcomic project at the
Savannah College of Art and Design. Her online
graphic novel about hockey, Check, Please!, went
on to become the most funded webcomics Kickstarter ever, when fans urged
her to publish in print.
What drew Ukazu to hockey in the first place? She explains, “Being a black
woman from the South, seeing this really Canadian northern sport with all of
its idiosyncrasies and traditions seemed exotic to me. And I was really inter-
ested in writing a story that subverted white male frat culture. Yale even won
the NCAA hockey championship my senior year, so it was meant to be.”
The webcomic features former figure skater Eric Bittle, who likes to bake
and who joins a college hockey team. Because he’s small, Eric is afraid of
getting “checked” during the game. The story also has a romantic element;
Eric has a crush on the captain of the hockey team. “I wanted to show how
Eric navigates the world of college men’s ice hockey and finds love at the
same time,” says Ukazu.
She initially turned to Kickstarter because fans of the webcomic kept ask-
$15,000 to print the
first volume, but
ended up raising
nearly five times
that, or $74,000.
For the second vol-
ume, Ukazu raised a
whopping
$398,000.
This fall, First Sec-
ond is reformatting the first two volumes into one publi-
cation. The self-published versions of the book continue to be available
online and at conventions. Ukazu says, “It was an honor to have people reach
out and say, ‘We want to print your book.’ Just three or four years ago, this
was just something I was drawing at my coffee table at home.
“The reason Check, Please! is so big,” she continues, “is because the fans
are really enthusiastic. People become ambassadors for the comic and
won’t stop talking about it. The other thing that’s crazy is that the comic is
free to read online in its entirety, yet people want to buy the book. It’s
awesome to see the impact that this story has had and how people respond
to it.” —Hilary S. Kayle
Today, 11 a.m.–noon. Ngozi Ukazu will sign galleys at Table 9.
Today, 12:15–1:45 p.m. Ukazu will participate in the ABC/CBC Speed
Dating Lunch with Authors, Room 1E07/1E08.

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Beschloss, Dyson, and
Goodwin on Leadership
Political books have been a particularly
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hot category in 2018, starting with the
publication of Michael Wolff’s Fire and
Fury at the beginning of January and
continuing with James Comey’s A Higher
Loyalty. In today’s divisive climate, pub-
lishers on both the left and the right are
looking to political pundits to help peo-
ple better understand where the country
is heading under President Trump, and
the nature of presidential leadership.
In Leadership in Turbulent Times (S&S,
Sept.) historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
argues that “more than ever before”
there is a vacuum of leadership in the
© nina subin
White House. “We were able to get Michael
through the Civil War and the Depression,” Eric Dyson
she says, because both Abraham Lincoln
and Franklin Roosevelt were leaders
who each rose to the occasion.
In the future, says Goodwin, if we want
to continue to live in a democracy, we
should examine the past histories of
candidates to gauge their potential for
successfully guiding the country. For her,
keeping one’s word and controlling one’s
temper are much more important than
promises made on the campaign trail.
By contrast, historian Michael Beschloss, author of Presidents of War
(Crown, Oct.), says that expecting one individual to provide leadership might
not be reasonable. When the founding fathers drafted the Constitution, they
wanted to make it virtually impossible for one person to take the nation into war.
While the president is commander-in-chief, only Congress can declare war.
Of course, the founders never considered that one day, missile strikes
against enemy nations could occur within minutes of the president pushing
the red button in the Oval Office. “There’s no time for a vote in Congress,”
says Beschloss, noting that the last time Congress declared war was in 1941,
to enter WWII. “The president has unbelievable power that the founders did
not intend him [or her] to have.”
Sociologist Michael Eric Dyson, whose latest book, What Truth Sounds
Like (St. Martin’s, June), was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the assassi-
nation of Robert F. Kennedy, advocates a more populist approach to leader-
ship, especially to eradicate racism. Dyson notes that when RFK met with a
group of black intellectuals and artists in 1963 to discuss racism in America,
he was at first put off by their dismissal of public policy. But Kennedy realized
that more had to be done than simply enacting laws: hearts and minds had
to be changed. He used his privilege to advocate for African-Americans for
the rest of his life.
A half-century later, Dyson castigates the Trump administration for “giving
people permission to be bigots.” Dyson urges white people to acknowledge
their privilege and join the struggle against racism, which he regards as “the
rot at the heart of the American empire.”  —Claire Kirch
Today, 1–1:50 p.m. Beschloss, Dyson, and Goodwin will appear with Arne
Duncan and Janet Napolitano in the panel “Politics 2018: An Insider’s
Perspective,” on the Downtown Stage.
Today, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Goodwin will sign galleys in the S&S booth
(1738).
Today, 2:30–3 p.m. Dyson will sign at the Macmillan booth (2445).
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CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS BOOTH #2038
Dave Eggers
Calling All Kid Citizens
Small act by small act, a diverse cast of children transforms a lonely island
into a community in What Can a Citizen Do? (Chronicle, Sept.), the latest
picture book collaboration from Dave Eggers and artist and musician Shawn
Harris. The book’s theme is in step with Eggers’s efforts to improve the lives
of others through initiatives like Voice of Witness, an oral history series
focused on human rights; 826 National, a network of writing and tutoring
centers; and ScholarMatch, which connects donors and under-resourced
students to make college possible.
“I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of civics, and it has become
increasingly evident in our democracy that we could use more learning in
this area,” says Eggers. “What does it mean to be a citizen? What are the
powers and responsibilities of citizenship? These are ideas that even the
youngest readers can and should be thinking about.”
Visit booth #2038 for
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Eggers hopes that What Can a Citizen Do? with its rhymed text and pic-
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tures of kids pitching in will encourage kids not just to think about what (on sale: 10/2/18)
they can do for others—but to act. “You might be only six or eight, but you
can help a librarian who needs a plant watered, or do small tasks for your 1:00pm
parents or teacher,” he says. “Being entrusted with responsibility gives Tote bag giveaway
kids a sense of purpose and self-fulfillment, and that is integral to being part
of a society.” 2:30pm
Eggers credits Harris with infusing the book with humor and energy. Author Signing:
“Shawn is a brilliant and versatile artist, and he enhanced the text by provid- David Stabler
ing a parallel narrative in his art,” says Eggers. “He depicts kids doing things Kid Scientists
that they’re capable of doing in real life, and his pictures clearly show that
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kids want responsibility—and thrive on it.”
For Eggers, helping kids to be mindful and proactive is crucial. “In the last
4:00pm
few months, we’ve all been thinking a lot about democracy, and we have had
an important education handed to us by the Parkland students and teens
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AUTHORS random thoughts. “I have a hard

time not creating projects out of

Abbi Jacobson everything, so even my attempt

to try and get away from work for

Getting Real with Comedian a moment turned into work,” she

says. “I’d been wanting to try my
Chris Gethard hand at longer-form writing for a

© comedy central
“Feeling cool, calm, and collected about this,” tweets Abbi
Jacobson, about her upcoming book. However, the title, I
Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other
Stuff (Grand Central, Oct.) hints at the opposite. Whatever it is,
Jacobson (who with her partner in biting comedy, Ilana Glazer, is
a cocreator, executive producer, and star of Comedy Central’s
critically acclaimed hit Broad City) will parse it out in conversa-
tion with comedian Chris Gethard this afternoon.
Jacobson is thrilled to meet up again with her mentor. “Gethard was one of
my most influential teachers when I was coming up in comedy,” she says. “He
taught me improv. He’s a really talented and special guy, and I have no idea
what we’re going to talk about. I imagine we’ll talk about solo road trips and
anxiety and comedy, and trying to make your own work as best you can.”
I Might Regret This was born during a solo drive she made from New York
City to L.A. “I was feeling really overwhelmed with work,” she explains. “My
life was feeling really unbalanced, and I needed a shift. I found myself with a
few weeks in between the end of editing Broad City and when I had to be in
L.A. for a new project. I made a plan to skip town for a beat, and try and find
some space.”
Ironically, instead of calm and silence, she found her head crowded with
while, and this felt like a perfect
opportunity to dive into that and
illustrate things along the way.
“I’m always looking for ways to
combine the different mediums I like working in,”
she adds. “The resulting collection is ultimately
about me exploring me and my surroundings, and
sharing it—which is most of what I tend to try and
do these days. This goes a bit deeper, though, more personal. It crosses
between memoir, travel essays, and sketchbook.”
Jacobson has created two coloring books, Color This Book: New York City
and Color This Book: San Francisco, for Chronicle, and wrote and illustrated
Carry This Book (2016), which looks at the world through the contents of
what people, both real and imagined, carry in purses, pockets, and other
holders of stuff.
And no, she did not stop off at any Phish or other jam bands along her
route. Thanks for asking. —Beth Levine
Today, 2–2:45 p.m. Abbi Jacobson will engage in conversation with Chris
Gethard, on the Downtown Stage.
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The Frontier Millennial Christians was because many people—women, peo-
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The last time Tamblyn was in the Javits Center was on election night 2016
with Hillary Clinton and her family. “I’d been a surrogate for Hillary for the
entire election, and in 2008, I cochaired her youth outreach program. It was
the most depressing night—heartbreaking is not the word. To be in that
room and see the faces, it was brutal.” She is very much looking forward to
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Deborah Harkness
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From Campus to the Macabre
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ness, history professor at the Uni-
voices versity of Southern California, was
perusing books at an airport shop.
A display of fantastical werewolf
and vampire novels, including the
recently released fourth installment
of the Twilight series, caught her
eye. Harkness had recently com-
pleted writing a dense academic
tome, spending three years holed
up in libraries, so she was particu-
larly riveted by this alternate world,
a free-spirited departure from the
16th-century Elizabethan era that
was her specialty.
“What if these creatures lived side
by side with humans, but no one knew,”
she mused. “They would have to function
just like everyone else, holding jobs and
going on dates. They would always be
one car accident away from discovery.”
Contemplating this secretive duality led
Harkness to write A Discovery of Witches,
the first title in her bestselling All Souls
trilogy—currently being adapted into a
television series—that revolves around
a reluctant witch, Diana Bishop, and a
dynamic vampire geneticist, Matthew
Clairmont. Having investigated such top-
ics as female medical practice in early
London and Queen Elizabeth I’s astrolo-
ger before her fiction debut, Harkness
says that delving into such newfound macabre territory is “a natural exten-
sion of my life as a historian and scholar.”
Her most recent effort, which debuted this month, illuminates the intrica-
cies woven throughout her trilogy. World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to
a Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and the Book of Life (Viking) is a
detailed whimsical compendium, peppered with personal anecdotes, that
Harkness says was born out of a passion for her readers and their questions.
Featuring character bios, synopses, and maps, as well as recipes, architec-
tural descriptions, and rich illustrations, the book offers an immersion into
the alchemy and culture that shape the All Souls trilogy.
In her classroom, Harkness encourages active reading, and that’s exactly
what World of Souls aims to do. Embracing a collaborative approach, she
called upon a team “to help pull this project together. We wanted it to be
playful and engaging, not a dry encyclopedic treatment. We included ele-
ments that aren’t in the books, [and] shared historic details and processes so
readers could go on a voyage of discovery.”
Such nuanced exploration is also on display in the forthcoming Time’s Con-
vert (Viking, Sept.), in which Harkness chronicles the life of Marcus Whit-
more, the scientist, vampire, and son of Matthew Clairmont first introduced
Booth #1421 in the trilogy. “I started imagining the backstories of the other characters,”
Harkness says, “and I had another book.” —Alia Akkam
Today, 11 a.m.–noon. Deborah Harkness will sign Time’s Convert at
Table 6.
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The book looks at the forces of white supremacy, which were using the civil
rights movement’s tactics against the movement. Following the Voting Rights
Act, Aydin notes, “The Klan led the largest hooded march in decades. We’ll
see that challenges to the act began days after it was signed into law. We can
draw a line from then to the challenges [to voting rights] that we see today.
When Your Kid “The Vietnam War will be a huge part [of Run] and there’s a shift in the civil
rights movement’s focus,” he adds. “[It] became, how do you use the right to
Is Hurting
vote, how do we secure political power.”
Dr. Kevin Leman
Run recounts a number of historic political campaigns and also examines
978-0-8007-2306-4 • $19.99c the events surrounding Alabama’s Lowndes County Freedom Organization
September 2018 (which may have been the first African-American group to call itself the Black
Popular parenting expert and New Panther Party) and its efforts to become an independent political party and
York Times bestselling author equips run black candidates for office.
parents with tools to help their children At the time, the county had a black population majority, but not a single
cope with the serious challenges and
black citizen was registered to vote. The party used the Black Panther as a
anxieties kids face today.
symbol of its efforts toward “black power.” Huey Newton requested to use
the emblem for the organization he launched in Oakland in 1966.
As to the impact of working with Lewis on both March and Run on his own
life, Aydin says that his mother, who raised him alone, died shortly after
March won the NBA.
“The night we won the NBA,” he continues, “I asked her, ‘In your wildest
dreams, did you ever have a fantasy that I’d grow up and win a National Book
Award?’ ” She said, ‘Sweetheart, I love you with all my heart, but, no!’ I sur-
passed my mother’s wildest dreams for me, and she was able to see it while
www.bakerpublishinggroup.com she was still alive.” —Calvin Reid

Today, 1:30–2:30 p.m. Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Afua
Richardson will sign Run at Table 14.

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April Genevieve Tucholke
Visits New Fictional Terrain
YA author April Genevieve Tucholke has written two gothic horror romances,
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Between the Spark and the Burn,
and a mystery, Wink Poppy Midnight. With The Boneless Mercies (FSG,
Oct.), a reimagining of the Beowulf legend in which four mercenary girls set
out to defeat a marauding monster, she is making her first foray into fantasy.
What led you to base a fantasy on Beowulf?
Beowulf has everything an epic story needs: a hero, a monster, brutal battles,
blood, glory, tragedy, poetry. It begins and ends with a death. I tried to weave
all these elements into The Boneless Mercies. What interests me most about
Beowulf isn’t necessarily the tale itself, but that it is one of the oldest known
stories. Any story that has existed this long, and been present in people’s
minds this long, has power.
What was your inspiration for crafting a feminist retelling?
I wrote The Boneless Mercies for every unsung person who longs for a chance
to be remembered. [I wanted] to depict the closeness of a group of young,
stoic, female mercenaries. I’ve read fantasies about female warriors, and these
books often feature a lone hero, or some sort of contest between opposing
women. This is great, but I was curious to see what would happen if, instead,
there was friendship and love between the female characters, and they fought
together to accomplish something brave and noble.
Was writing fantasy a different challenge for you? Is it something you
want to explore further?
I like writing short books. So, yes, fantasy is more challenging, simply because
CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS
Meg Medina
Revisiting Middle Grade
Cuban-American writer Meg Medina received the 2014
Pura Belpré Award for her young adult novel Yaqui
Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass. Two years later she
picked up Pura Belpré Honors for her picture book
Mango, Abuela and Me. In Merci Suárez Switches
Gears (Candlewick, Sept.), Medina targets readers
who fall between both age groups with her first middle
grade novel since her 2008 debut children’s book, Milagros: Girl from Away.
Merci Suárez is a strong-willed sixth-grade scholarship student at a posh
private school. She’s navigating tricky changes at home (where no one will
tell her why her grandfather is becoming increasingly forgetful) and at school
(where she becomes the target of a bossy girl’s jealousy).
Merci Suárez Switches Gears grew out of a short story that appeared in
Flying Lessons & Other Stories (2017), edited by Ellen Oh. “The story was
about a girl coming to terms with her socioeconomic class, and the fact that
how she sees herself and her family clashes with how others see them,”
says Medina. “Since the character seemed to resonate with readers, I began
imagining bigger things for Merci. I love it when a story line moves into another
reality and a fuller world—and I realize the only thing to do is write a novel.”
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it’s longer. But I love the genre. Fantasy
allows me to sink into a world that is more
heroic, more majestic. I’ve read several books
that have changed my life, and a good por-
tion of them are fantasy, from The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe to A Game of Thrones,
Sabriel to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
Yeah, I could stay in this realm awhile.
Are there any other genres you hope to mine?
I didn’t set out to write in various genres. I initially wrote a YA gothic horror
because this is what I liked to read as a teen: Poe, the Brontës. Is Wink Poppy
Midnight a mystery? When I think mystery, I think Poirot, Easy Rawlins,
Brother Cadfael, and Flavia de Luce—a murder and clues and a detective.
But I guess Wink does have a murder, clues, and a detective, in a way. I’ve
always admired the way Neil Gaiman moves through genres. I might stay a
fictional wanderer, as he has. —Sally Lodge
Today, 2–2:30 p.m. April Genevieve Tucholke will sign in the Macmillan
booth (2444).
“The middle school age,
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when kids are detaching
from childhood and trying to
figure so much out, really
intrigues me,” says Medina.
“It can be so exciting one
moment and so scary the
next.”
But Medina is equally
comfortable on YA, middle
grade, and picture book
terrain. “In all of my books,
I always write on three
levels—about girls, family,
and culture,” she says. “And I love exploring how the three
intersect at different points in characters’ lives. This passion
has opened endless fictional doors for me.”
The power of memory, which she calls “the pillar of the whole process,”
sparks all of Medina’s fiction. “What I enjoy most,” she says, “is being able to
remember myself and inhabit myself at various ages. I relive memories and
put them into my work, and that’s what resonates with readers. I’m willing
to be fuzzy with the facts, but I stay true to the feeling of the child in the
moment. That’s what you most have to respect.” —Sally Lodge
Today, 8–9:30 a.m. Meg Medina will speak at the Children’s Book & Au-
thor Breakfast, on the Main Stage.
Today, 10–11 a.m. Medina will sign in the ABA Lounge.
Today, 1:30–2:30 p.m. Medina will sign at the Candlewick booth (2021).
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woman in the same position who behaves the same way, and she often gets

Kristi Charish labeled as unlikable,” Charish says. “There’s still a stigma when you’re not
that nurturing, caring feminine character, but one that breaks the mold.”

Strong Women and the Dead
“This is probably the biggest reading event I’ve ever attended,” says Kristi
Charish, who’s coming from Canada to attend her first BookExpo. “I’m a little
nervous and hugely excited,” she adds. Best known as the author of the Owl
series, about an ex-archaeology grad student turned international antiquities
thief who has a rule about not taking on supernatural
The other side of that coin, Charish continues, “is [that] people want a strong
female protagonist, but she has to be nice, perfect, and vulnerable, but not
too vulnerable. You end up with this character who’s not relatable to any-
one—she doesn’t exist. It’s a very fine tightrope to walk as a writer.”
Before she began writing SFF, Charish studied science. She holds a BSc
and MSc in molecular biology and biochemistry and has a PhD in zoology.
“My specialties are genetics, cell biology, and molecular

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jobs, Charish will be debuting the first book in her biology, all of which I draw upon in my books,” says Charish.
urban fantasy series, Voodoo Killings (Vintage Canada, “Writing a book,” she adds, “really is a scientist’s dream.
June). You get to do experi-
Set in the Seattle underworld, the new series fea- ments with characters
tures Kincaid Strange, a 27-year-old voodoo practi- and plots, and figure
tioner who lives with the ghost of a Seattle grunge out what their actions
rocker and has an addiction to contacting the dead. or reactions would be,
The books blend a strong female protagonist with but when you’re writing,
zombies, ghosts, and a bit of magic. all the elements cooper-
Charish finds science fiction and fantasy particularly ate and you can make
welcoming to strong female characters like Kincaid up the results you
Strange and Owl. “Because you’re not writing about want.”
the woman who lives down the road, readers are able  —Lucinda Dyer
to think differently about them. People don’t think
about a woman being more aggressive when she has Today, 11 a.m.–noon.
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a laser gun,” she says.
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Buzzing Back: YA Buzz Authors Share Their Stories
This afternoon, the 2018 YA Buzz authors—all BookExpo first-timers, hailing
from Ontario, Paris, Northern California, and Kansas City, Mo.—take to the
stage to talk about their forthcoming novels. Here’s an advance clip of what
event attendees are likely to hear, beginning with each novelist’s capsule
description of his or her book.
Adib Khorram
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Dial, Aug.)
Darius, a nerdy, depressed, 15-year-old Irani-
an-American, visits his mother’s hometown of
Yazd, Iran, for the first time, and has his sense of
self transformed through discovering his heri-
tage and connecting with a true friend for the
first time.
I was inspired to write the novel when I was
visiting my own family in Vancouver for Nowruz
[the Persian New Year]. Since I was raised in the
U.S. and most of them were raised in Iran, I’ve
always felt a certain disconnect with my family,
but also deep, deep love. I wanted to explore those conflicting emotions. I
think I was 13 when I first got the writing bug, but I’ve been doing it more
seriously since 2013. Of everything I’ve ever written, Darius was the easiest,
most joyous writing experience. It poured out of me in a way I doubt I’ll ever
experience again.
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Mimi Yu
The Girl King (Bloomsbury, Jan. 2019)
The Girl King is an Asian-inspired high fantasy
about imperialism, sisterhood, and magic.
I actually first started thinking about this
book when I was a teenager. It was just a pen-
cil-sketch of a scene: two enemies, a girl and a
boy, meet in the deep of a forest and emerge as
allies. But it stayed with me, and the characters
grew over time.
When I seriously revisited the idea, I was very
influenced by campaigns like We Need Diverse
Books. The world in this book embodies a lot of
contradictions that are inherent to who I am as the author: I’m writing an
East and North Asian–inspired world, but from the point of view of a U.S.-
born, Korean-American millennial, with all the specific baggage and igno-
rances of that particular epistemic gap. There was a lot to be mindful of at
every step.
Courtney Summers
Sadie (St. Martin’s/Wednesday, Sept.)
Sadie is a gritty thriller about a girl on the hunt for her sister’s killer and the
investigative journalism podcast that’s following the clues left behind.
I’m fascinated by how we consume true crime as a form of entertainment.
What is the potential personal cost of telling these stories? How well are we
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serving the narratives of subjects who are often
no longer around to tell us what happened?
When I realized Sadie could explore both of
these questions in the way it was told—via pod-
cast transcripts and a traditional first-person
narrative—I had to write it. Sadie marks my first
time exploring two different points of view. Hav-
ing them work together to propel the story while
maintaining as much tension as possible was
more challenging than I expected. It was a real
balancing act, but it was incredibly rewarding
when it came together.
Natasha Ngan
Girls of Paper and Fire (Little, Brown/Jimmy
Patterson, Nov.)
Set in an Asian-inspired fantasy world where a
Demon King takes human girls for concubines,
this is the story of the forbidden love between
two of the girls and how far they are willing to
fight for their freedom—and each other.
It’s a novel about love and friendship, about
trauma and despair, about finding hope in the
most hopeless of times. More than anything, it’s
a story about female oppression and empower-
ment. I wanted to write a novel which explored
CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS
Ibi Zoboi
Pride Grows in Brooklyn
Imagine Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy’s relation-
ship—the heart of Jane Austen’s Pride and Preju-
dice—blossoming in contemporary Brooklyn. That
idea was one of the sparks for author Ibi Zoboi’s new
YA novel, Pride (HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray, Sept.).
Zoboi calls her book a “remix” of Austen’s work, set in
the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Bushwick in
Brooklyn. “It features two black teens falling in love,”
she says. “But I also examine class, and what it
means to be home, and what it means to be part of a
community.” I want to give
Pride arrives fast on the heels of Zoboi’s 2017
debut, American Street, about a Haitian girl who’s
thrust into the rough Detroit neighborhood where
readers a moment
her relatives live, while she tries to free her mother,
who is being detained by U.S. immigration. “Ameri- to breathe.. to
can Street was just so hard to write,” she says. “I
wanted to go a little bit lighter after that and write
about kids not dealing with violence or trauma, but
shut out the
still making some sort of political statement. I just
didn’t know how to structure it.”
It was Zoboi’s editor, Alessandra Balzer, who sug-
world and fall
gested looking at the structure of classic works for
inspiration. “Pride and Prejudice came up because I
into a sweet
said I wanted to deal with political issues between
two kids falling in love and the conflict between story.
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real-life issues women face, things that I have personally experienced, but
set in a fantasy context. And I wanted that fantasy world to be familiar to me
as a mixed-race, British-Chinese girl who grew up between the U.K. and
Malaysia. I’m so glad we’re seeing more and more diverse YA fantasies, and
that my book adds to the growing list.
Rebecca Hanover
The Similars (Sourcebooks Fire, 2019)
The Similars tells the story of Emma, who
arrives at boarding school freshly grieving the
death of her best friend, only to come face-to-
face with his clone—one of a breed of clones
called Similars. As she’s pulled deep into his and
the other Similars’ orbit, she uncovers dark,
unsettling truths about their secrets.
A few years ago, the idea of clones arriving at
a high school came to me in a flash, and I knew
right away it was a story I wanted to read, so
therefore, had to write. I’ve wanted to write a YA
novel for ages, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that I committed to writing
The Similars full-time. Getting this story onto the page has been all-consum-
ing at times, and thrilling—like keeping my own exciting secret—and I can’t
wait to share it with readers. —Sally Lodge
Today, 10–10:30 a.m. “Meet the Young Adult Buzz Authors” takes place
on the Uptown Stage.
them,” explains
Zoboi. Austen’s world
helped her realize she
wanted to address
class and socioeco-
nomic status in her
book.
“I have teens, too,
and it’s something I’m
dealing with person-
ally living in Brook-
lyn,” she notes. But in
the end, Zoboi hopes
readers will consider
her book a bright spot in often dark times: “As a
writer, I needed something to take my mind off the
heavy politics of the day, and I wanted readers to be
able to do the same. I want to give them a moment
to breathe—especially teens of color—and some
moments to be able to dream, to shut out the world
and fall into a sweet story.”
Zoboi is currently immersed in her first middle
grade novel, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, due
from Dutton in summer 2019. “It’s set in 1984 Har-
lem and is about a black girl who comes from Ala-
bama,” says the author. “She is a Star Trek and Star
Wars fanatic who desperately wants to be the first
kid in space. I’m really excited about this book,
because it’s all joy.”
 —Shannon Maughan
Today, 10–10:30 a.m. Ibi Zoboi signs ARCs at
Table 8.
Today, 3:30–4:30 p.m. Zoboi participates in the
“Rise Up!” panel, on the Uptown Stage
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CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS project to her long-
time editor, Christy

Laurie Keller Ottaviano.

The publication of

The Clothes Make the Potato Potato Pants! marks

the 20th anniversary
When Potato—the star of Potato Pants! (Holt/Ottaviano, Oct.), of the duo working
Laurie Keller’s first standalone picture book in eight years— together. “We’ve got-
hears about a one-day sale on potato pants (pants made out of ten really close over
potatoes, of course!) at Lance Vance’s Fancy Pants Store, he is the years,” Ottaviano
so excited, he starts doing the robot. And that’s the same dance says. “I think that my
move that Keller broke into when she finally solved the puzzle job with Laurie, who
of how Potato’s story would play out. “I don’t even really know is an idea machine, is
how to do the robot, but I was just that excited,” she recalls. to help her winnow
Keller had taken a bit of a detour from the picture-book path through those ideas to try to find the most market-via-
to work on a variety of projects, including a series of chapter ble idea, but also an idea where she can bring her sense
books featuring one of her other characters, Arnie the Donut. of humor to the subject matter with her inventive eye.”
Then, in 2016, she wrote and illustrated We Are Growing! Keller has equally kind words about their partnership:
(Disney-Hyperion), a beginning reader in Mo Willems’s Ele- “I’m always amazed at how open-minded Christy is. She
phant & Piggie Like Reading line, which won the 2017 Theo- encourages me to just go with it and do my thing, and
dor Seuss Geisel Award. “That kind of got me back into working with color she never minds when I make changes along the way. We share a sense of
again,” Keller explains. “I hadn’t done it in a while, and I thought, ‘Oh, my humor—we both like zany things that have some heart. It’s a great working
gosh! I really miss doing picture books.’ ” relationship.”
The idea for a story like Potato Pants!—and a mental image of a snooty Cue the robot dance music. —Shannon Maughan
shop owner having an animated conversation with another kind of vegeta-
Today, 10:30–11 a.m. Laurie Keller will sign in the Macmillan booth
ble—came to Keller years ago, but she shelved it when she thought it needed (2444, 2445).
more development. After finally settling on the perfect pants-shopping pro- Today, 12:15–1:45 p.m. Keller will take part in the ABC/CBC Speed Dat-
tagonist and a misunderstanding he has with an eggplant, Keller brought the ing Lunch with Authors, in Room 1E07/1E08.

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AUTHORS novel in 2003. He soon became even

more of an indie favorite with The Rent

Camron Wright Collecter, The Orphan Keeper, and he

recently published The Other Side of

Owes It All to Indie Booksellers the Bridge.

Warning: Other authors may not want to read this story because it will make
them want to tear their hair out.
Camron Wright, author of Christmas by Accident (Shadow Mountain, Sept.),
has one of the unlikeliest publishing success stories, and he credits booksell-
ers. “I have to say, the booksellers who read books and fall in love with them
are so critical in sharing the word. They are just gold. I love and appreciate
them,” says Wright.
Flash back a few years: as a midlife crisis set in, the former business major
decided to go back to school and get his MBA. “I applied [and was accepted]
a few times and it would come time to start and I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t
explain why,” he recalls. At the same time, he started reading the books
assigned in his wife, Alicyn’s, book club. Like many a dreamer before him, he
thought, “I can write this.” And thus he sat down and banged out a first man-
uscript—a bold move, he admits, since he had never written fiction before. It
was never published. “Before I could sell it, I had the idea for another novel,
Letters for Emily, and I thought it would be a better first book,” he says.
Upon finishing the second manuscript, he realized the odds were against
him in getting an agent, so he chose to self-publish to prove to established
publishers that his work would sell. With the help of independent booksellers’
word of mouth and dedicated hand-selling, that novel sold 10,000 copies
out of his garage. Shout-outs also to librarians and book clubs, he adds.
Indeed, he caught the eye of Simon & Schuster, which republished the
Set in a New England independent
bookstore (“Is there anywhere better to
be?” he asks), Christmas by Accident
developed when Wright realized how
many Christmas novels there are. “Put
out any set of nouns and add Christmas
to it and it’s been a book,” he says. In
this latest novel, his protagonist is sick
of the holiday frenzy, but decides, cyni-
cally, to cash in on the Christmas-novel glut
by writing one himself. However, when he gets
into a traffic accident with Abby, who works for
her uncle at the ReadMore Café, he finds his
snarky attitude under siege.
Like this one, most of Wright’s novels are
uplifting. “Happy endings are underrated.
Many authors think it’s not realistic, and I
contend that it is. If life is unhappy, then
maybe we are ending the story too soon.”
 —Beth Levine
Today, 1–1:30 p.m. Camron Wright will sign
books at Table 6.

M E E T O U R A U T H O R S AT B O O K E X P O

T H U R S DAY F R I DAY

Leif Enger Lisa Eileen Myles Walter Mosley

author of Brennan-Jobs author of author of
Virgil Wander author of Small Fry Evolution John Woman
(a novel) (a memoir) (poetry) (a novel)
October 2018 September 2018 September 2018 September 2018
Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Press Grove Press Atlantic Monthly Press

Thursday, 10:30am Thursday, 12:00pm Thursday, 3:30pm Friday, 11:00am

Autographing Area, Table 5 Booth #2921 Booth #2921 Autographing Area, Table 15

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AUTHORS I hope the book gives them

Sean Spicer
Road to Renown
What was it like for Sean Spicer to be Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s press secretary? How
did he feel conducting his first press confer-
ence, and what was his reaction to seeing
Melissa McCarthy impersonate him on Satur-
day Night Live? In his first book, The Briefing:
Politics, the Press, and the President (Regn-
ery, July), Spicer addresses all this and much
more. Notes Spicer, “I’ve been traveling the
country doing speaking engagements for six
months, and the book will answer a lot of the
questions that people have been asking me.
It’s an inside look at who I am as a person, how I got where I am, and how a
lot of those big defining moments really felt.”
The Washington insider didn’t know how difficult it would be to write a
book, particularly since he was writing about himself. “A lot of folks who’d
done books before said, ‘This is a lot of work,’ and they were right. Even
though it’s your life, you need to go back and look at accounts of what hap-
pened, interview people and ask, ‘Do you recall this situation occurring this
way? What was your understanding of how this went down?’ I went back
and read my own transcripts of briefings and stories that had come out to
try to accurately represent what was being said at certain instances and
a much more three-dimen-
sional image of who I am.
what had actually happened.”
Asked how the president might react to his book, Spicer says, “I
think he’ll like it. I’ve talked to him about it, [and] he’s been very
supportive.”
The former press secretary notes about his writing routine: “Some
days I’m in the groove for hours on end; other days I can procrasti-
nate with the best of them, and I have to fight to stay focused.”
As to how he thinks his book will be received, Spicer says, “I think
most people probably have a very one-dimensional image of who I
am from the podium or from some of the Saturday Night Live skits. I hope
the book gives them a much more three-dimensional image of who I am as a
person. I also hope readers will get a little bit of understanding as to why I
made some of the decisions that I did and how I’ve grown as a person. Writ-
ing this was an unbelievable opportunity to reflect on my life and some of the
milestones that occurred, what they meant, and what lessons I learned from
them.” —Hilary S. Kayle
Today, 10:10–10:50 a.m. Sean Spicer will talk about his book in “Spot-
light on Sean Spicer,” on the Downtown Stage.

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4:30pm – 5:00pm
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AUTHORS
Jonathan Lethem
I wrote it
Trumped No More
faster than
I’ve ever

© daid shankbone
When Jonathan Lethem (the
author of Motherless Brooklyn
and many other books), who
written a
works at his craft every day, is so
upset he doesn’t want to write,
book before.
something is very, very wrong.
And that’s exactly what hap-
pened when Donald Trump was
It was like
elected president. “Everything
seemed horrible, and I felt like I
a magic
couldn’t write, and that no
novel—or any idea of a novel—
the-grid enclave in the California
desert, where the young woman is
carpet ride.
was going to be adequate to caught between warring tribes of outcasts who have lived for years off the
the way reality suddenly felt.” grid.
Luckily for us, he figured out a The subject matter is one Lethem fans will recognize. “If you think about
way to channel his anger and the way I grew up in Brooklyn and my book, The Fortress of Solitude, an
despair about what was hap- urban feral child is a motif in my writing. I was always attracted to the feral
pening in Washington. “I sud- child as a literary emblem—from Tarzan to Mowgli to Werner Herzog’s
denly realized that if I told this movie, Kaspar Hauser.”
story [that was already in the The author has been a BookExpo attendee for years; his first experience,
works] from the point of view of in the 1990s, was as a bookseller from Moe’s Books in Berkeley, though he’d
a woman who was pissed off, that I could put these feelings into the book,” just published his first novel. “I worked in bookstores all through my 20s,
he says. “It would become not just a way of coping, but it would drive the when I was writing but not yet published, and I was knocking on the doors of
story. So, I created a female narrator, Phoebe, who was even angrier about agents and editors. I still feel like a bookseller, so when I get to BEA and see
Trump than I was because she was a woman. So, I wrote The Feral Detective this clan of people devoted to the thing that I care about most, I’m actually
story [Ecco, Nov.], but I also used it as this container to pour in all of my angst pretty moved. I like partying with booksellers, and I like still pretending that I
about the brave terrible new world we were looking at, and then I wrote it am one.” —Hilary S. Kayle
faster than I’ve ever written a book before. It was like a magic carpet ride.”
The story is set in the 10 days leading up to Trump’s inauguration and the Today, 11–11:30 a.m. Jonathan Lethem will be signing galleys of
The Feral
10 days following. During this time, Phoebe, who quits her job as a New York
Detective at the HarperCollins booth (2339).hh
Times op-ed editor to help find a friend’s missing daughter, ends up in an off-

DK Relaunches
Eyewitness
Travel Guides
In its first major rede-
sign since the series was
launched in 1993, DK’s
Eyewitness Travel
Guides are being
revamped for the digital
age. Ten guides with new photography and con-
tent, as well as layouts and itineraries, will be
published on October 2; another 34 will be
rolled out in 2019.
DK is announcing the relaunch at BookExpo,
where visitors to the booth (2238) can preview
the new guides for Paris and Italy. Travel bro-
chures and custom luggage tags will be available,
while supplies last, as will a limited number of
tote bags.
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 A perfect professional-development opportunity for rising rights staff to attend
a high-content conference and participate in networking opportunities.

NEW YORK RIGHTS FAIR

The International Adult & Children’s Content & Licensing Marketplace

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY AT

NEW YORK RIGHTS FAIR?
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Intellectual Property Group, William Morris Endeavor, Writers
House and more will take you around the world and inside the auction for a close-up look at the
pillars of rights! Plus, major players in audio rights will guide you through this booming market.

9:00-9:45 AM Making Books Travel: The World of Foreign Rights and Book Scouts
For authors and publishers, foreign rights are one of the most important aspects of a book
sale. But who makes these decisions? And how are books sold to publishers in other
countries? Learn about how rights are assessed and sold from the people doing it every
day: foreign rights managers and literary scouts.

10:15-11:00 AM The NY and LA Literati: Meet the Film Scouts and Co-Agents
Although there is a perception that how a book becomes a movie is based on chance, the
reality is that film scouts and co-agents are the driving force behind book options. Hear
how these essential players do their jobs, and how content wends its way from New York
publishing houses to the desks of producers, big and small.

12:45-1:30 PM Inside the Auction: How the Biggest Books Get Sold
Books that land huge advances—seven figures, high six figures—are often bought at auction.
But how do auctions actually work? We will talk to agents and editors who’ve been a part of
big auctions to find out what these behind-the-scenes literary sales actually involve.

2:00-3:00 PM Can You Hear Me Now? Finding Opportunity in the Booming Audio Rights Market
With more and more titles being produced in audio, now is the time to get all your questions
answered. How can you join in the success and growth of audiobooks? What are the
options for ensuring a title is available in audio? Where will the future take audiobooks?

Complimentary shuttle buses running between Javits and the Metropolitan Pavilion make it easy to navigate between
the two shows. BookExpo Agent, Exhibitor and Media badge holders receive complimentary entrance.

View the entire program in detail online at www.newyorkrightsfair.com

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The Eyewitness relaunch follows a year

of intensive consumer research by the
U.K.-and-Delhi-based unit of DK, a divi-
sion of Penguin Random House. “We
wanted to look at reimagining our entire
strategy,” says DK Travel publisher
Georgina Dee, who began the effort by
convening an in-house team dedicated
to the redesign. A market research firm
was brought in to survey readers.
Based on the firm’s review, Dee and her
team decided which parts of the series to
change or keep. Some elements of the
earlier editions were preserved, including
the use of hand drawings of monuments
and important sites.
Among the changes was making the
guides more portable. They will now be available in paperback with French
flaps and printed on lighter-weight paper. Recommendations for restaurants encounter on the internet.
and hotels have been moved from the back into the sections about places to As part of the process, all of the photography was updated. “We didn’t
visit, and the opening passages have been reconceptualized. need to necessarily show what everything looked like anymore,” says Dee,
In part, the changes are a response to the way people find information in a “but we wanted to make sure we captured what [a place] feels like.”
digital era. With certain brass-tacks elements of travel now firmly covered Capturing the feeling of a trip in the guides is something that Dee hopes
on the internet, the redesign focused on “giving [readers] insider information will make them stand out before and after people travel. In a digital world,
they wouldn’t have found out in the first place,” says Dee. she says, “you don’t really get a physical manifestation of your trip. Some-
Along with specific destinations, that means providing short historical times a guide is the first thing you can touch that says you are going there. I
time lines and cutaways that readers can use during their travels in ways that really think that is an important part [of the relaunch]. It needs to be worthy
are more convenient than the deluge of information they might otherwise of that.” —Alex Green

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What’s Cooking?
No book industry gathering would be complete without food—or books
about food—for both adults and kids who want to learn how to cook or
get new techniques for doing it faster, with healthy ingredients and bigger
flavors.
At BookExpo, America’s Test Kitchen, the Boston publisher and multime-
dia company, will introduce its inaugural line of children’s food books,
America’s Test Kitchen Kids, which are being published in collaboration
with Sourcebooks. Blads for The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs (Oct.),
for ages 8–13, will be available at the Sourcebooks booth (2039). Two
board books, A Is for Artichoke: A Foodie Alphabet from Artichoke to Zest!
and 1, 2, 3 the Farm and Me, are also due out this fall.
“We think of ourselves first and foremost as an educational company, and
it’s weird we’ve never done anything for kids before,” says Jack Bishop, chief
creative officer of ATK, who is excited about remedying that gap. As a result its 25th anniversary. Cook’s Illustrated Revolutionary Recipes (Oct.) brings
of focus groups with kids and surveys with kids and parents, he says that together original recipes dating to 1993 that Bishop views as “landmark
he was surprised by how sophisticated kids are in their food taste and [because] they changed the way we cook at home.” These range from hard-
aspirations, but not with some basic skills. When they were cooking in the boiled eggs that aren’t actually boiled to perfectly grilled steaks that start
company’s test kitchen, he says, “We needed to tell kids when to turn off in the oven.
the stove.” Also because many parents are so protective of their children, In addition, ATK is launching another new partnership, with National
it was the first time that they had ever used a knife or touched a protein like Geographic. Both houses are distributed by PRH, and they began talking
raw chicken. about working together when they met up at PRH Client Services summits.
The press will do about 20 kids’ books over the next four or five years. “We felt there were some nice synergies,” says Bishop, who says that ATK “is
But ATK has no intention of neglecting its adult roots, particularly this year looking for new horizons, ways to do what we do and engage new audiences.”
when one of its leading products, Cook’s Illustrated magazine, is celebrating That’s the driving force behind the two companies’ first collaboration, Tast-

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she says. “I never thought about making a career of that.” But

ing Italy, which combines photography and writing for the armchair traveler
with 100 regional Italian recipes and an introduction by Bishop, who sees
the book as destined for both the living room and the kitchen.
Rossella Rago channels Italian cooking via the wisdom of Italian grand-
mothers in both Cooking with Nonna: Celebrate Food and Family (2017)
and her follow-up, Cooking with Nonna: The Holiday Cookbook (Quarto/
Race Point, Oct.). The idea for the books grew out of the web series of the
same name that Rago has hosted for the past decade.
When the series began in 2009, Rago was in college and living with her
nonna. Her father saw that Rago wasn’t passionate about her studies and
asked her what she’d like to do. “Our lives are all about eating together,”
that is indeed what she did. Rago’s father bought a website and
built a set, and she began cooking with her own nonna and others.
The books came about largely because of Rago’s Facebook friend
Jeannine Dillon, editorial director of Race Point Publishing. She
offered Rago a book deal via Facebook Messenger. Although the
show is popular now, Rago likes to say, “It takes 10 years to
become an overnight success.”
For chef and cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz it’s all
about vegan. She owns two Modern Love vegan restaurants,
one in Brooklyn, where she grew up, and the other in Omaha,
Nebr., and she’s written 10 cookbooks, including I Can Cook
Vegan (Abrams, Jan. 2019). In this latest, she wants to show home
cooks how to get big flavors from minimal ingredients that are easy
to source and treated simply. The book includes how-to’s to make
the cooking go more quickly, like a way to trim broccoli so that the
florets just fall off.
Moskowitz says that her inspiration for the new book comes from Modern
Love. She likes to see what her patrons like to eat, particularly in Omaha,
where her customers are looking for basic dishes. After being a vegan for 30
years, Moskowitz is pleased that “ ‘vegan’ is not a word people are afraid of
anymore.” —Judith Rosen
Today, 9:30–10 a.m. Jack Bishop, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, and Martina
McBride will appear in the panel “What’s Cooking,” on the Downtown
Stage.
Today, 11 a.m.–noon. Bishop will sign blads for The Complete Cookbook
for Young Chefs at the Sourcebooks booth (2039).

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AUTHORS
Porochista Khakpour
Booth Illness as Metaphor
#3057 “My goal is no longer a perfect
body or hair. My goal is to live
to be an old woman,” says
Iranian-American novelist
Porochista Khakpour. On the
surface, this may seem like a
benign desire. But Khakpour
has lived with chronic illness,
which was only recently diag-
nosed as late-stage Lyme dis-
Get an ARC of the
long-awaited sequel 9:00 ease, for almost her entire life.

to Paperboy, Copyboy AM In her first book-length work of

nonfiction, she chronicles the
years of misdiagnosis, over-
medication, depression, and
drug addiction in Sick: A Mem-

10:00 oir (Harper Perennial, June).

Born in Tehran in 1978, at
AM the beginning of the Iran-Iraq
war, Khakpour was five when
her family settled in Los Ange-
Bake the hurt away with a les. She remembers being constantly
signed copy of Sweet Revenge ill while growing up, but no one knew
by Heather Kim why. As a young woman, she says,
“[Doctors were] quick to assume it
was psychological, and I went along
with it. It was terrifying.
“[The] disease has defined my life,”
Grab an out-of-
this-world ARC,
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Earth to Dad PM Perhaps in Iran as a child. And just as
unlikely I’ll ever be entirely rid of it.”
The author of two acclaimed novels,
Sons and Other Flammable Objects
(2007) and The Last Illusion (2014),
Khakpour says she had no intention
1:00 of writing an illness and addiction
PM memoir. “I’ve never been someone
who imagined nonfiction as a calling.”
she adds.
Meet 2018 Caldecott Honoree But after Khakpour began posting about her illness on Facebook, the
Thi Bui and get a signed copy response was overwhelming. “So I wrote the book I thought would have
of the award winning, helped me,” she says, “something raw, intense, honest, but not humorless.
A Different Pond The madness of illness and addiction and PTSD, all in a broken medical sys-
tem, seemed rather urgent to capture—and of course, every day it feels only
more and more so.”
Not surprisingly, Khakpour’s battle with Lyme disease has affected her life

3:15 as a writer. “I go in and out of relapse and remission, and I’m almost always
afraid of something: getting worse or staying the same. I’ve learned to not be
PM too much of a perfectionist about it, but it is challenging,” she says. “At times
I can’t read and write. At times I need so much rest. At times I’m in so much
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Quirk Gets Graphic

With a catalogue that includes Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Quirk Books
fits solidly in the nerd/pop culture niche. Expanding into graphic
novels for kids and adults was a logical move, according to Quirk
president and publisher Brett Cohen.
“We view our audience as the bookish subset of Comic Con,”
says Cohen. “We attend a lot of Comic Cons and sell books there.
So we feel that audience is already part of our audience.”
Quirk has begun publishing graphic novels with the May
release of Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow’s Manfried the Man,
about humanoid cats that keep little men as pets. “It’s a familiar story turned Woods and Knights Club: The Bands of Bravery, French imports that allow
upside down,” says Cohen, who compares it to a reverse Garfield. the reader to make choices that guide the story. “Kids’ graphic novels are
This fall the press will publish a second graphic novel for adults, Giraffes on big, and video games and RPGs [role playing games] are big, and seeing that
Horseback Salad (Nov.), based on a screenplay by Salvador Dalí for a surre- combination in that comic quest format excited me,” says Cohen.
alist Marx Brothers movie. The script was rejected by MGM and disappeared Going forward, Cohen expects that Quirk’s graphic novels will be like the
until it was found among Dalí’s papers in 1996. rest of the line, with some ideas generated in-house and others coming from
Screenwriter Josh Frank and Spanish artist Manuela Pertega adapted it outside. Next year Quirk will publish four graphic novels, although there
into a graphic novel. “It’s this strangely beautiful surrealist yet comedic art could be more since the press is still acquiring for 2019.
project,” says Cohen. “While it’s very commercial and accessible and fun, it’s “The goal is for our list to be made up of approximately 25% graphic
obviously a little bit more niche because it’s a historical artifact.” novels,” adds Nicole De Jackmo, v-p, director of publicity and marketing.
Nor is Quirk neglecting children’s graphic novels, which Cohen sees as a “However, with a mission to publish 25 books a year, Quirk has never been
natural extension of the press’s kids’ list. “Many of our books are tagged as a publisher that fills slots.” —Brigid Alverson
great for reluctant readers, and this format feels like the same kind of thing,”
he says. Both days, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Quirk will be giving away tote bags at the
booth (2038).
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Warning: A Criminal

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Element Is Lurking
If you are a crime, thriller, or mystery fan and you haven’t checked out
criminalelement.com, stop everything and go right now. We’ll wait...
You’re back? Amazing, right? Criminal Element is a crime-fiction-community
website owned and operated by Macmillan. “You can’t claim to be an
authoritative voice on a genre if you refuse to acknowledge a significant
portion of it,” says Joe Brosnan, marketing manager at St. Martin’s Press/
Minotaur Books and the site manager for Criminal Element. “[But] we’re
firmly publisher agnostic and discuss all books, whether they’re from a Big
Five house or self-published.” Created in 2011, Criminal Element features
reviews, excerpts, original author essays, cover reveals, shopping lists, film
and television reviews, conference and awards coverage, and everything in
between. Brosnan adds, “Criminal Element aims to offer crime fiction lovers
a home where they can read about their favorite series, discover new
authors, and interact with like-minded armchair detectives. There are so
many authors out there waiting to be discovered. All you have to do is look
for the clues.”
The website is bringing mayhem to BookExpo at a panel titled “Criminal
Element Presents Two Truths & a Lie Featuring Macmillan Authors.” Modera-
tor Brosnan will be joined by Peter Blauner (Sunrise Highway, Minotaur,
Sept.), Hank Phillippi Ryan (Trust Me, Forge, Aug.), and debut author Zoje
Stage (Baby Teeth, St. Martin’s, July). The authors have shared truths and
lies about their books and their lives on the website already and will share
© gabrianna dacko
Phillippi Ryan Peter Blauner Zoje Stage
even more—about their writing habits, reading preferences, and even some
personal quirks—on the panel. They will discuss with Brosnan the question
of “truth” and the increased use of unreliable narrators in thriller fiction. The
authors will also interrogate each other to sniff out truths and lies. The idea
is to keep it light and fun, explains Brosnan. Meanwhile, the audience will be
divided up into three teams, with each assigned to an author. The author who
correctly identifies the most truths and lies wins free books for his or her team.
Brosnan believes crime fiction not only offers readers a perfect escape from
the real world but can be an instructive look into our society. “We’re in the
age of the unreliable narrator, and that’s no accident,” he says. “All you have
to do is scroll through your Facebook feed or turn on the news, and you’re
greeted by unreliable information disseminated through unreliable sources.”
Then again, he could be lying. —Beth Levine
Today, 12:15–1 p.m. Joe Brosnan hosts Peter Blauner, Hank Phillippi
Ryan, and Zoje Stage on the Uptown Stage.

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Hoopla Turns Five

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This summer Hoopla, the digital arm of Midwest Tape, which provides digital
video. media lending services for more than 1,600 U.S. and Canadian public libraries,
is marking its fifth year since startup. As the company continues to evolve as
a digital retail channel, publishers are seeing the benefits of connecting with
public library patrons, says owner and cofounder Jeff Jankowski.
One piece that works well for many publishers is Hoopla’s “lend-first” model,
which gives libraries immediate access to a catalogue of digital content (which
includes e-books, audiobooks, comics, movies, TV titles, and music albums).
Hoopla charges libraries for each loan requested by the library’s patrons.
As on the retail side, audiobooks have grown increasingly popular for
Hoopla’s library borrowers, with 92% of the entire audiobook catalogue gen-
erating sales. Of those, 82% were backlist. Year-over-year audiobook loans
rose 79%, while e-book loans increased 129% in 2017. Over 70% of Hoopla
users borrow multiple formats.
For HarperCollins Publishing, which signed with Hoopla last year, the part-
nership has worked out well. “Hoopla digital has established itself as a highly
valued distributor of HarperCollins audiobooks and e-books to the library
channel. Hoopla’s platform and its pay-per-use model have proven effective
at driving discovery and engagement of our backlist,” says Adam Silverman,
senior director of new business development at HarperCollins Publishing.
“We remain thrilled to offer public library patrons easy access to our award-win-
ning authors via the Hoopla digital platform.”
Make those static pop signs dynamic. Hoopla is sharing a booth (2539) with Midwest Tape. —Judith Rosen

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Children’s Booth Highlights

Lerner Publishing Group (2657) is celebrating its recent partnerships with
the Disney, Crayola, and Garfield brands. On exhibit are some of the series’
launch titles, including Crayola Wild World of Animal Colors by Laura Purdie
Salas and The Magic of Our World: From the Night Sky to the Pacific Islands
with Favorite Disney Characters by Paul Dichter and Larry Helman.
Also at the Lerner booth, Kar-Ben Publishing will showcase its inaugural
middle grade chapter books, all Junior Library Guild selections: Anna Ciddor’s
The Family with Two Front Doors, Esty Schachter’s Pickled Watermelon (Aug.),
and Judy Press’s Pinky Bloom and the Case of the Missing Kiddush Cup (Aug.),
illus. by Erica Jane Waters. Visitors can pick up a vintage Moe Berg baseball
card; he is featured in the picture book The Spy Who Played Baseball by
Carrie Jones, illus. by Gary Cherrington.
At the Macmillan booth (2444, 2445) Tor Teen is celebrating its 15th
anniversary. As part of the festivities at 4 p.m. Jennifer L. Armentrout will
sign ARCs of The Darkest Star (Oct.), set in the world of Lux.
Harlequin Teen (2339) welcomes YA fantasy author Laurie Forest to the
booth. At 1:45–2:45 p.m., she’ll sign The Iron Flower (Sept.), book two in
the Black Witch Chronicles. Also featured at the booth is Julie Kagawa’s
Shadow of the Fox (Oct.).
Young adult fiction is the toast of Algonquin Young Readers (2007), which
is hosting a trio of YA authors at its booth. Two-time National Book Award–
finalist Adele Griffin will sign Tell Me No Lies (June), 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.;
Nova Ren Suma will sign A Room Away from the Wolves (Sept.), 1–2 p.m.;
and Sara Farizan will sign Here to Stay (Sept.), 2–3 p.m.
At the Fox Chapel Publishing booth (2938), 2–3 p.m., the furry mascot
of Happy Fox’s BigFoot series will appear with author D.L. Miller, who will
sign BigFoot Goes on Vacation and BigFoot Visits the Big Cities of the World.
—Sally Lodge

Book Expo Title Showcase

Welcome to PW’s 2017 BookExpo Title Showcase, a new feature launched earlier this year. Here, 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.

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Invoicing Overhaul, Gentrification, and Sean Spicer
among ABA’s Town Hall Topics
Batch for the Bottom Line
With more than 150 booksellers attending
the Town Hall and Annual Meeting, American
Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher
urged booksellers to push American publish-
ers to debut the centralized web-based
invoicing program Batch. The use of Batch,
Teicher said, would create an opportunity for
indie booksellers to radically streamline
invoicing, payments, and returns.
“I can’t overstate what a game-changing
event Batch could be for the bottom line of
indie bookstores of all sizes,” Teicher said.
“The enormous gains in efficiency would be
extraordinary boons to both bookstores and
our publishing partners.”
The ABA worked with a handful of indepen-
dent bookstores to pilot the online invoice
payment program over the past year. The
pilot was done in partnership with the U.K.’s
Robert Sindelar
Batch organization, which launched in 2000
and already works with many U.S. publishing
houses to service bookstores in the U.K. and Ireland. Formal conversations
between the ABA and Batch began over a decade ago.
“We have made substantial progress in bringing Batch to the U.S.,” said
Teicher, “but we continue to need your help in convincing all our vendors that
their participation is critical. ABA, working together with the BA [the U.K.
Booksellers Association], is committed to putting the resources to bear that
will be necessary to launch Batch. There are vendors already poised to join
us, but more must join their ranks.”
To support their efforts, Teicher said that the board voted earlier in the
week to make a “serious financial commitment” to bringing Batch to the
United States in January 2019.
Earlier in the session, Sarah Bagby, owner of Watermark Books & Café in
Wichita, Kans., praised the ABA’s efforts to applause from the audience.
“Thank you for your work on Batch because we still write so many checks,”
said Bagby. “This [development] speaks to the efficiency that a business can
manage.... We need to move into the future in our operations.”
Get Political
Josh Cook of Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass., made a forceful dec-
laration for booksellers to be more politically engaged and took aim specifi-
cally at former White House communications director Sean Spicer, who is
slated to appear on the Downtown Stage on this morning.
“There are people, groups, and individuals who do not care about free
expression and the free and open exchange of ideas that make up the dis-
course in this country,” he said. Calling on booksellers to be “stewards of that
discourse,” Cook assailed BookExpo for hosting Spicer. “BookExpo has given
their platform to someone who, in an official capacity, and on our payroll,
told lies about obvious, objectively verifiable facts.”
Cook asked booksellers to speak with him after the Town Hall if they
wished to join him to “take action” on Spicer’s event. On Facebook, he asked
that they RSVP to the event and then commit to doing something else
instead, whether calling a representative or attending another workshop.
“The best response to this embarrassment is an empty audience,” he said.
Beware Gentrification
Veronica Santiago Liu, founder and general coordinator of Word Up Commu-
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nity Bookshop in New York City, challenged
her fellow booksellers to take seriously the
idea that bookstores are part of gentrifica-
tion in sometimes negative ways in the com-
munities where they open.
“Hard as it may seem to many of us in this
particular room, but the opening of a book-
store can be perceived as an act of aggres-
sion in a neighborhood, especially one that
is at any state of gentrification, no matter
who is opening it,” said Liu, “because the
store now exists where something else no
longer does or can.”
Limited Progress on Diversity
Former ABA board member John Bennett
of Fieldstone Books challenged diversity
issues on the board. “I originally resigned
in 2003 to get more diversity on the
board,” he said. While he praised the orga-
nization for increased gender diversity, he
called for more diversity in terms of people
of color. Presently, board member Angela Maria Spring is the only person of
color on the board. “Over 15 years later it seems like limited progress,”
Bennett said.
“Your observation that it is going slower than we would like is correct,”
said ABA board president Robert Sindelar, while also noting that the
group has been actively recruiting in recent years. To that end, Annie Phil-
brick, owner of Savoy and Bank Square Bookstores, will head the ABA’s
board nominating committee and called on members to nominate people
of color. “Help us out to really try to take care of this,” said Philbrick.
Too PC?
Lucy Cogler of Talking Leaves Books in Buffalo, N.Y., took issue with the
organization’s recently issued code of conduct. “We now have a new code
of conduct and it seems to have been generated pretty quickly and it has
things in it like obscene jokes,” Cogler said. “I have someone who I flirt with
at these events, we have our parameters. If someone overheard our con-
versation, they would think it was outrageous... when in fact it wouldn’t be
the case. We need to keep [the code] more ethical and less politically
correct.”
Sindelar replied, agreeing that the code was created “quickly with the
knowledge that it was imperfect,” but he said it was essential to have some-
thing published. “There’s not unanimity amongst this group, but there’s una-
nimity in the importance of putting something out.”
Indies’ Impact on Pre-Sales
In his own remarks, Sindelar addressed the past year’s challenges for inde-
pendent booksellers in receiving early copies of major titles, from Fire and
Fury to A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo. Sindelar said that booksellers
must develop ways to convince publishers to work with them to generate
advance publicity for important titles. “We need to look at what we’re doing
and not doing,” said Sindelar. “Publishers are skeptical about indies’ ability
to capture pre-sales. And both publishers and indies have let this business
go elsewhere,” he added, pointing to Amazon though not by name. He advo-
cated greater effort at capturing and disseminating pre-sale data, and work-
ing with publishers on signed book releases and other promotional work.
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