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In April, the American Booksellers Association and because they have been “subsidized” by the gov-
Civic Economics released “Prime Numbers,” a report ernment. “Yes, everyone is entitled to their own
that looks at the long-term impact of Amazon.com business model,” he says, “but it is unconsciona-
on local retail stores of all kinds in the United ble that government at any level picks favorites
States. “It’s a continuation of analysis we have among retailers.”
been doing for many years,” says ABA CEO Oren Though the news out of the ABA about the health
Teicher. “The data that we have been collecting of independent bookstores has been largely posi-
makes the case pretty starkly that contrary to tive in recent years, Teicher thought it would be
what is perceived, the rise of Amazon and online “disingenuous to ignore that Amazon’s continued
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lion in total sales, including those
and the must-read novel of the year. Len Riggio said, and society is
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Cary Goldstein, S&S executive director of publicity, touted Ohio (Aug.), a

debut novel by Stephen Markley, set in a decaying Rust Belt town. Describ-
ing Ohio as both a murder mystery and social critique about postindustrial
society, Goldstein described Ohio’s four characters as much like the author
himself: people who grew up in a world “rocked by so many
transformative events,” beginning with 9/11. Ohio is, Gold-
stein said, a “timely, yet timeless story” that “reads like a
Springsteen song.”
Fiona McCrae, Graywolf Press publisher, talked up She
Would Be King (Sept.) by Wayétu Moore, a debut
novel reimagining the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years
through the eyes of three characters. She Would Be King is
“a thoroughly satisfying read,” with magical elements,
McCrae said, noting that Graywolf will publish the Liberi-
an-born, U.S.-raised Moore’s memoir, The Dragons, the
Giant, the Women, in 2019.
Becky Saletan, Riverhead Books’ editorial director,
described Casey Gerald’s memoir, There Will Be No Mira-
cles Here (Sept.), as “breaking the mold for what a memoir
should be.” Written by “one of the most charismatic human
beings” she has ever met, Saletan said, “the book is a rags-
to-riches narrative, but is “not the story you think it is.” Ger-
ald examines race, class, religion, power, and what it means
to be true to oneself when one has achieved the pinnacle of
success. “This book is fire,” she said.
Krishan Trotman, a Hachette senior editor, described
Stephanie Land’s memoir, Maid (Dec.), about a single moth-
er’s life below the poverty line, cleaning people’s homes, eking out an exis-
tence for her and her young daughter, as “Hillbilly Elegy meets Nickel and
Dimed.” Revealing that she herself is a single mother, Trotman called Maid
“raw,” and noted that parents, no matter their background, will relate to
Land’s tale of wanting “everything in the world for [her] child, but sometimes
[she] can’t.” Land, Trotman said, “puts a human face” on poverty in America
from the perspective of a servant worker.
Zachary Wagman, executive editor of Ecco, discussed The Real Lolita: The
Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World (Nov.)
by Sarah Weinman, about the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner,
which inspired the novel by Nabokov. Weaving together the true crime narra-
tive with cultural and social history, Weinman relates Horner’s two years on
the road with a pedophile. “Without Sally’s story, Lolita would be a quite dif-
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Blockbuster Secrets
The New York Rights Fair opened with a panel discussion that shattered the
old publishing myth that American publishers ignore foreign books.
The four panelists on the “International Blockbusters: Behind the Success
of Four Global Bestsellers” discussion dissected their campaigns that made
these foreign books successful in the United States. The panel was moder-
ated by Grove Atlantic senior editor Peter Blackstock, who will publish the
in-translation title Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata in June.
Panelist Madeleine Milburn illustrated how her eponymous literary, TV,
and film agency helped make U.K. author Gail Honeyman’s novel, Eleanor
Oliphant Is Completely Fine, a breakout hit. “I saw Eleanor as a fantastic
character,” said Milburn. “Like Jack Reacher, Harry Potter, or Romeo and
Juliet, you always remember the character. If you can start with that, you can
start a trend.”
HarperCollins won the eight-way U.K. auction for the book, and the pub-
lisher printed over 3,000 review copies to build attention over an 18-month
prepublication campaign. “We had entire publishing teams championing the
book, determined to make it the biggest book of 2017,” she said. It all paid
off around the world: the novel sold in 38 additional territories worldwide,
with U.S. readers buying nearly a quarter-million copies across all formats.
The book had one final important booster: “Reese Witherspoon cried buck-
ets when she read it,” said Milburn. The actress optioned the novel and
added it to her influential Reese’s Book Club in June 2017.
In contrast to that major publicity push, Oslo Literary Agency rights director
Even Råkil spoke of the strategy for the release of The History of Bees by Maja
Lunde, a 2017 book that sold 100,000 copies its first year in Norway and
quickly spread around the world. “Social media buzz was the ground for our
success,” he said. “No ads, no commercials. But [the publisher] was constantly
feeding journalists early and generous material. They gave readers informa-
tion about the book through channels the readers trusted.” Touchstone pub-
lished the novel in hardcover last summer, and the paperback hits in June.
Curtis Brown Australia agent Clare Forster described the success of The
Dry by Jane Harper. Published by Flatiron in January 2017, the novel was a
bestseller in the States. Forster thought Harper’s book tour really helped the
book take off in America. “This made a huge difference. People could see
what a charming person she was,” she said. The book was also optioned by
Reese Witherspoon, as the actress’s influence surfaced once again during
the panel discussion.
MalaTesta Literary Agency foreign rights agent Monica Calignano concluded
with an invitation: “U.S. publishers should come to the foreign book fairs more
often,” she said. “It’s a great way to get to know the market.”
Monica Calignano (l.), from the MalaTesta Literary Agency, and Clare Foster (r.), from Curtis
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“A lot of American editors don’t get to go to the international book fairs,”
said moderator Blackstock. “Foreign relationships bring you these different
kinds of opportunities—that’s a big part of the history of publishing.” 
 —Jason Boog
Elina Ahlback (l.) of the Elina Ahlback Agency, Agnes Ahlander Turner of Maria Campbell Asso-
ciates, and Anna Frankl (r.) of the Nordin Agency on the “Scandinavian Smell of Success” panel
at the New York Rights Fair.
Exporting Scandinavian
Storytelling
At the New York Rights Fair, publishing professionals joined Nordic literary
agents in a panel called “The Scandinavian Smell of Success: Why, and How,
Their Crime Fiction Has Become a Global Export.” Throughout the discus-
sion, the panelists reminded the audience that Scandinavian crime fiction is
a proud tradition and far from a passing trend.
Moderator Jessica Case, Pegasus Books deputy publisher, has published
seven books by Swedish crime writer Camilla Läckberg. “I acquired her first
book just before Stieg Larsson came out—and it was a different time,” she
said. Before the wave of Scandinavian crime fiction broke, Läckberg’s agent
struggled to find an English-language publisher. “Us American publishers,
we are always so short-sighted,” said Case.
Maria Campbell Associates senior scout Agnes Ahlander has been work-
ing with Scandinavian agents, publishers, and rights departments for many
years. “Ten years ago I responded to perhaps three to four agencies. Today, it
is upwards of 20,” she said. She described the boom in Scandinavian crime
fiction that followed in the wake of the blockbuster success of Larsson’s Mil-
lennium Trilogy.
Nordic crime has spread to Hollywood too, changing the way crime
imports are sold and marketed. Books by Larsson and Norway’s Jo Nesbø
have already earned big screen adaptations, and The Killing and The Bridge
are popular Scandinavian television shows that became hits in the United
States. Elina Ahlback Literary Agency founder Elina Ahlback has opened a
Los Angeles office to meet the new demand. “Film helps keep Scandinavian
literature at the top of mind,” she said. “We have three titles that are already
optioned. That global business is very important.”
Most recently, her agency represented The Guardian Angel, a gritty crime
novel written by Arto Halonen and Kevin Frazier, alongside a film production
of the same name—both based on a famous set of murders that involved
hypnosis. “A film option in the U.S. will change everything,” said Tor Jonas-
son of Salomonsson Agency. “Sometimes we pitch films before we go out to
publishers.”
But Scandinavia is much more than crime fiction. Literary fiction now
makes up half the list at Salomonsson Agency and some publishers are start-
ing to look to romance as well. “There is a Scandinavian way of writing, a sto-
rytelling tradition,” added Anna Frankl, agent and partner of the Nordin
Agency. “It’s the core of the storytelling that’s most important, whether it’s
literary, crime, or romance fiction. There is a way we like to tell our stories
that people seem to enjoy. And that’s what we are selling.”  —Jason Boog
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“I don’t see the independent bookstores in mortal competition with B&N” and “the more book-
stores the better,” Len Riggio assured booksellers at the opening keynote yesterday.

the long-term interest of the general public for both B&N and the indepen-
dent bookselling community to thrive in tandem.
“I don’t see the independent bookstores in mortal competition with B&N”
and “the more bookstores the better,” said Riggio, noting that demand for
books rises the more stores you have in a given community. “There could
never be too many bookstores of any type in America.”
Riggio pointed out that after the Borders bookstore chain closed in 2011,
of the hundreds of communities where B&N and Borders were running
stores in proximity, B&N picked up only 30%–40% of the Borders business.
“The rest of it just went poof,” he said. Today, in communities where a new
independent bookstore opens in proximity to a B&N store, there may be a
small loss in business for the chain, he said, but there appears to be an
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Underscoring the “I come in peace” tone of his speech, Riggio added, “we
need to open more stores than we close” and “opening stores is a good
thing,” before joking that he still would not want to see an independent
bookstore operating in the parking lot of every Barnes & Noble. “Enlighten-
ment has its limits,” he said.
Reflecting on his more than half a century of experience as a bookseller,
Riggio also returned to topics that have obsessed him over several decades:
the need for stores to cater to the mass market by offering the widest selec-
tion possible and the rising price of books as an impediment to increasing
the number of readers. “Today, the average paperback costs two and a half
times the minimum wage,” he said. “When I started it was one-half the mini-
mum wage.” He added that booksellers are in a unique position to “serve the
aspirants of the world, instead of just those who have arrived.”
As for the various threats to the industry, Riggio was sanguine, an opti-
mism perhaps born out of having weathered waves of threats to the industry,
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The publishing industry may be chafing over a number of
Trump administration policies, but at a BookExpo panel yes-
terday, a trio of “copyright heavyweights” agreed that when it
comes to copyright policy, the publishing industry stands with
the president.
“The Obama administration was not kind to copyright,” said
Keith Kupferschmid, CEO of the Copyright Alliance, responding
a question from AP reporter Hillel Italie, who moderated the
45-minute session. “The Obama administration, and President
Obama himself, was somewhat enamored with Silicon Valley,
and in particular one company in there: Google,” he said, char-
acterizing Google as “enemy number one when it comes to
copyright.”
But that’s now changed with the Trump administration, the
panelists agreed. Although Kupferschmid conceded it was still
“wait and see” and that there have not yet been any concrete
changes to copyright law under Trump, he said, “The whole
environment has changed,” in Washington. “I think we now
have an even playing field.”
Maria Pallante, president and CEO of the Association of
American Publishers agreed. “I would say that so far we are
very pleased with the access, and the interest we have with the
Trump administration,” she said. “We’ve been very pleased with
(l. to r.) Mary Rasenberger, Authors Guild executive director; Keith Kupferschmid, Copyright Alliance CEO;
the meetings, the process, and the kind of acceptance of the Maria A. Pallante, Association of American Publishers president and CEO.
issues at face value.” She adding that in some ways “the pen-
dulum is swinging back” toward publishers and away from the tech sector. climate in Washington, rather than a more detailed look at current lawsuits
“The general public and lawmakers are now sort of worried about the things or legislative efforts. Though the panelists cited reform of the copyright office
that authors and publishers are all worried about,” Pallante said, including as a priority, bemoaned the growing intrusion of courts into policy-making,
that there is “too much control” in the hands of a few large tech companies. and offered their strong support for a recently introduced bill that would
Rounding out the panel, Authors Guild executive director Mary Rasenberger create a copyright small claims court, they mostly focused on the overall
said it feels to her like “there’s a reset” in Washington when it comes to copy- environment.
right policy, and doubled down on Kupferschmid’s characterization of the “Good copyright policy is good public policy,” Pallante stressed in her
Obama administration. “I think the Obama administration was an unusual opening remarks, “which recognizes that authors make the world a more
time, because they were so enamored with Google. There were 250 people in thoughtful, informed and interesting place.” But copyright law is also good
the administration that came straight from Google,” she said, holding that economic policy, she added. “The question today,” she said, is whether copy-
Google’s alleged sway in the Obama administration was “very anti-copyright.” right law will remain “flexible enough to encourage innovation and new
The remarks came in a panel entitled “State of the Industry: Publishing actors” yet “strong enough to protect the works of authorship central to its
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Diversity’s Bottom Line AUTHORS
A panel of editors and agents took on the finances behind publishing’s
diversity problems in a discussion hosted by the Independent Book Publish-
Lesa Cline-Ransome
ers Association yesterday. Jason Low, publisher and co-owner of Lee & Low
Books, cited a three-fold rise in the number of diverse children’s books pub-
Celebrating the Power of Libraries
lished in recent years. But, Low said, the numbers hide the fact that many For her debut middle grade

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books are still written by white, able-bodied, authors. historical novel, Finding
“There are real consequences,” said Low, who created the Diversity Baseline Langston (Holiday House,
Survey, which polled the industry and produced a 2016 report that showed Aug.), acclaimed pic-
publishing is overwhelmingly white and has widespread diversity issues. “I ture-book author Lesa
don’t think we have the luxury of ignoring diversity, because it is a growth Cline-Ransome was inspired
market.” by Isabel Wilkerson’s The
Fellow panelists Ayesha Pande of Ayesha Pande Literary and Chris Jackson, Warmth of Other Suns: The
v-p, editor-in-chief, and publisher of One World Random House, said that Epic Story of American’s
their work with authors from diverse backgrounds shows that there is an Great Migration (2010). In it,
audience and a financial incentive for publishing more diverse books. But, he Wilkerson charts the stories
added, the industry has to look harder at the core problems of diversity and of three African-Americans—
the potential solutions. Ida Mae Gladney, George
In particular, Pande said that the problem of diversity isn’t just that indus- Starling, and Robert Foster—
try professionals are white but that they come from the same backgrounds. and the challenges they faced
“The gatekeepers, the people who are making the decisions, still are almost making their way out of the
entirely white. But they’re not only white, they’re a particular kind of white. South during the Great
So they’re looking for authors that reflect their experiences,” Pande said. “I Migration.
find myself having to work very, very hard to convince them that there are “I was so moved by their
these other stories that are worth putting out there in the world.” stories. And being Afri-
Jackson pointed to the pop culture success of films like Black Panther, as can-American, I realized it
well as sold-out literary events in New York with authors like Ta-Nehisi Coates, was also the story of my family,” says
Trevor Noah, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as proof that the way to cement Cline-Ransome. “I started thinking
the industry’s recognition of the financial power in diverse publishing has to be about a way in which I could tell one
more proactive. “One of the important things is to think about diversity and of those kinds of narratives and
multiculturalism and things like that not as necessarily solutions to someone weave it into one of my own personal
else’s problem, but as being generative, creative things that are actually help- stories. That’s how I came to the story
ing to build something that is new and exciting,” Jackson said. —Alex Green of Langston.”
In Cline-Ransome’s novel, 11-year-
ABA CEO continued from p.1 old Langston leaves Alabama with his
growth is a problem.” In particular, retail store closures tied to the rise of father in 1946, following the death of
Amazon is worrisome to independent booksellers, as it ultimately changes his mother. They move to Chicago,
the face of retail districts. When those areas lose anchors and destination where the boy doesn’t fit in. He wears
stores that draw customers, an independent bookstore finds itself with fewer overalls and has a Southern accent,
and fewer neighbors, and the commensurate loss in foot traffic can lead to a and the other children in his all-black
decline in business, Teicher explains. school bully him. But then he finds
To wit: the decline of Barnes & Noble. “I continue to believe it would be a refuge in a place he’d never been
disaster for the U.S. book industry if that company went away,” says Teicher. before: a library. There he also discov-
“They operate 650 stores, and so much of the ecosystem our publisher part- ers the work of the poet for whom his
ners have created is there, not just for us, but to support B&N. It wouldn’t be mother named him.
good for readers, writers, and publishers. There is data that I have seen that “I’m halfway through the book doing research, looking at libraries in Ala-
when Borders went away, some of that business got spread around, but bama in the 1940s, when all of a sudden it hits me,” says Cline-Ransome.
some of it evaporated. When you reduce that pie, it is not good for the “ ‘Oh, my God, in rural Alabama at that time, blacks didn’t have access to
business.” libraries.’ There were two or three libraries that blacks were allowed to use in
Asked if he is encouraged by the rumblings in Washington, D.C., and else- all of Alabama. Here I’d been thinking maybe my character didn’t live near a
where of the possibility of the government bringing an antitrust case against library. Well, there was no library for him to go to.”
Amazon, Teicher responded as he has for several years. “The antitrust laws As to how Cline-Ransome hopes her readers will respond to her first histori-
really need to be applied to address the competition issue,” he says. “The cal novel, she replies, “I would like them to take away an appreciation for the
same law today is the same one that was on the books when the government transformative power of books and words. I grew up with a mom who really
broke up Standard Oil.” loved to read, and we spent a lot of time in the public library. So for me,
He says the ABA is going to continue to spend the “lion’s share of our time being in a library and reading books gave me a view into another world and
and effort being better bookstores and doing what we do best,” but, he adds, gave me a certain level of strength.
“We continue to believe that it is critically important for our members to have “Simply by reading, [Langston] not only finds an escape but he finds a way
access to economic data that shows what kind of overall impact Amazon has to tap into an inner strength and reserve that he didn’t know he had,”
on the national economy and to share that with the public and policy makers. Cline-Ransome adds. —Hilary S. Kayle
Bookselling “does not exist in a vacuum,” he says, “Ultimately, we are just a
piece of the retail economy.” Today, 1:30–2:30 p.m. Lesa Cline-Ransome will sign at Table 12.
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 THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018

Highly Anticipated Editors’ Hours Are Here!

Publishers and booksellers alike have expressed enthusiasm for the new
Editors’ Hours program at BookExpo, designed to take bookseller and edi-
tor interaction to a new level. Dedicated periods have been assigned for spe-
cific editors to be available at their booths or meeting rooms to chat up—
one-on-one—the titles they are most excited about, and to arm booksellers
with key information to hand-sell to customers. The program quietly
launched yesterday with only one publisher (Behrman House) scheduled
for the first session, but sessions 2 to 4 are packed. Here is a schedule of
who is where and when. BookExpo is providing concierges in each aisle to
direct booksellers to where they want to go.

Session 2: Today, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Session 3: Today, 1–2 p.m.
Session 4: Tomorrow, 1–2 p.m. ß

SESSION PUBLISHER BOOTH GENRE EDITOR(S) TITLE(S)

1 Behrman House 2607 Nonfiction and educational materials about Jewish history Dena Neusner Various
2 Abrams 2207 Gift Karrie Witkin Start with a Dot: A Journal for
Making Your Mark by Peter H. Reynolds
2 Abrams 2207 Nonfiction Jamison Stolz The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of
Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
2 Abrams 2207 Board books Meredith Mundy Llamaphones by Janik Coat
2 Apples & Honey Press 2607 Picture books, Jewish themes Dena Neusner, Ann Koffsky Various
2 Bloomsbury 2439 Adult fiction Liese Mayer Various
2 Bloomsbury 2439 Adult nonfiction Nancy Miller One Person, No Vote: How Voter
Sup­pression Is Destroying Our Democracy
by Carol Anderson
2 Bloomsbury 2439 Children’s Sarah Shumway, Various
Kate Castellani
2 Calington Castle Series 1559 Fiction Richard A. Feller Calington Castle series
2 Charlesbridge 2006 Children’s Alyssa Mito Pusey Various
2 Dekel Press 1565 Cross-genre art Chaim Bezalel, Various
Yonnah Ben Levy
2 Faolan’s Pen Publishing 1813 Space opera, military science, fiction, sci-fi, fantasy Jack Gieson Exile
2 Hachette 1938 Narrative nonfiction and memoir Krishan Trotman Maid by Stephanie Laird
2 Hachette 1938 Narrative nonfiction and memoir Amanda Murray Know Your Value by Mika Brzezinski
2 Hachette 1938 Narrative nonfiction and memoir Paul Whitlach The Dinosaur Artist by Paige Williams
2 HarperCollins MR2175 Adult nonfiction Matt Harper, Lisa Sharkey Various (11 a.m.–noon)
2 HarperCollins/Custom House MR2175 Adult literary fiction Geoff Shandler Various (noon–1 p.m.)
2 Harper/Ecco MR2175 Adult fiction and nonfiction Zack Wagman Various (noon–1 p.m.)
2 HarperWave MR2175 Health, wellness, lifestyle Julie Hill Various (noon–1 p.m.)
2 Harper/William Morrow MR2175 Adult fiction and nonfiction David Highfill, Kate Nintzel Various (11 a.m.–noon)
2 Harper/William Morrow MR2175 Adult fiction and nonfiction Jessica Williams Various (noon–1 p.m.)
2 HarperCollins Children’s Group MR2175 Children’s Group 1 editors Various (11 a.m.–noon)
2 HarperCollins Children’s Group MR2175 Children’s Group 2 editors Various (noon–1 p.m.)
2 Macmillan/Celadon 2444/2445 Mystery/thriller Ryan Doherty The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
2 Macmillan/Minotaur 2444/2445 Mystery/thriller Kelly Ragland The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
2 Macmillan/Tor Teen 2444/2445 Young adult fiction Melissa Frain The Darkest Hour by
Jennifer L. Armentrout
2 Macmillan/Henry Holt 2444/2445 Literary fiction, biography, memoir Gillian Blake Various
2 National Geographic Books 2303 Nonfiction Lisa Thomas, Hilary Black Various
2 National Geographic Books/ 2303 Middle grade fiction Becky Baines Explorer Academy: The Nebula Secret
Under the Stars
2 Phoenix International 1902/1903 Juvenile fiction and nonfiction, early childhood education Susan Rich Brooke, Various
Publications Kathy Broderick
2 Quirk Books 2038 YA, graphic novels, feminism, horror, mystery, Rick Chillot Various
fiction, nonfiction, picture books
2 Scholastic/Scholastic Press/ 1538 Leveled readers, picture books Ken Geist Various
Orchard/Cartwheel
2 Scholastic/Scholastic Press 1538 Narrative nonfiction picture books, middle grade fiction Tracy Mack Tigers & Tea with Toppy by Barbara Kerley
and Rhonda Knight Kalt
2 Workman 2007 Adult nonfiction Margot Herrera 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by
James Mustich
2 Workman/Algonquin 2008 Adult fiction and nonfiction Betsy Gleick The Current by Tim Johnston, Burning
Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution,
and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
3 Abrams/Image 2207 Smartly designed books with a focus on pop culture, humor, Samantha Weiner Muslims of the World: Portraits and Stories
and lifestyle of Hope, Survival, Loss, and Love by Sajjad
Shah and Iman Mahoui, photography by
Ala Hamdan
3 Abrams/Amulet 2207 Picture books and illustrated nonfiction for YA and middle grade Maggie Lehman The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas
3 Abrams Books for Young 2207 Picture books and illustrated nonfiction for preschool Tamar Brazis The Dress and the Girl by Camille Andros
Readers through middle grade
3 Appalachian Trail Conservancy 2683 Official guidebooks, maps, and interpretive books for the Brian B. King Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers’ Companion
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
3 Chronicle 1702 Art, food, lifestyle Christina Amini Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
by Jane Mount
3 Chronicle 1702 Art, food, lifestyle Camaren Subhiyah A Sloth’s Guide to Mindfulness

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THURSDAY, MAY 31 YA Buzz of the Day
Unusual settings and diverse casts of characters spring to life in the five

Misa Saburi
novels showcased at this morning’s Young Adult Editors’ Buzz Panel, mod-
erated by Len Vlahos, from the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver. Here’s a
preview of all five selections.

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Dana Chidiac, associate editor, Dial Books for Young Readers
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram (Aug.)
Darius is the story of

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a Persian-American
boy who goes to Iran
to visit his grandpar-
ents and meets a boy
next door who changes
his life. The first thing
that made me fall in
love with this novel
was Darius’s authentic,
wryly funny voice. And
Signing in the then, miraculously,
Adib Khorram man-
autographing aged to mix that pitch-perfect voice with so many huge themes. It’s a novel
area at Table 5 about finding a comfortable cultural identity; it’s an almost-coming-out story
about a relationship that walks the line between friendship and romance; it’s
a rare contemporary YA book about life—not politics—in the Middle East;
TUNDRA BOOKS and it’s a story about being a teen living with depression.
I think Adib is one of the most exciting new voices writing for teens. His novel
feels completely true, and I can’t wait for readers to get their hands on it.

THURSDAY, MAY 31 Hali Baumstein, associate editor, Blooms-

bury Children’s Books
The Girl King by Mimi Yu (Jan. 2019)
When I first started reading Mimi’s Asian-in-

Michael Redhill spired fantasy about two sisters who become

unwitting rivals for the title of Emperor, I felt
immediately grounded in this empire full of

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ancient magic and shape-shifters—the attention

to detail in the worldbuilding struck me as so
effortless and rich. Mimi’s immensely complex,
flawed characters and relationships elevated
this read for me even further. The protagonists
feel so distinct from one another, and Mimi isn’t afraid to let them make mor-
ally gray decisions with real and not always favorable consequences.
We editors advocate for each title within our publishing houses, but a plat-
form like this panel gives us the chance to share our passion on a larger and
more public scale. So I couldn’t be more grateful and excited to talk about
The Girl King in such a well-known forum as this!

Sara Goodman, editorial director, Wednesday Books

Sadie by Courtney Summers (Sept.)
IN-BOOTH SIGNING After Sadie goes on the run
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to find her sister’s killer, a

DOUBLEDAY CANADA podcast host hears about
her and can’t get her out of
his mind. The clues Sadie
leaves behind on her jour-

Visit our booth for ney become the subject of

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exciting daily giveaways! trail, hoping to find her
before [the killer does].
Courtney is one of the most
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brilliant YA writers working today, and Sadie is the most ambitious book
of her career, with its gorgeous writing and meticulous plotting. This novel AUTHORS
deserves all the spotlights!
It’s a thrill to get to stand up today and tell an eager audience of book Kate DiCamillo and
Harry Bliss
lovers why I love this novel. The success of a book still depends so much on
word of mouth, and this panel is a wonderful way to start that buzz machine
going.
It’s a Dog’s World
Jenny Bak, editorial director, Little, Brown/Jimmy Patterson Books
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (Nov.) Two-time Newbery medalist
Lei is of the Paper © callum macbeth - seath Kate DiCamillo and illustrator
caste, the lowest and and New Yorker cover artist
most scorned people Harry Bliss are proof that the
in Ikhara. One day, bonds between dog people run
she is seized by the deep. The two met over “Snow,
king’s men and Aldo,” a poem DiCamillo wrote
becomes beholden to for the Thanks and Giving: All
the king’s every Year Long anthology, edited
whim. Dreaming of by Marlo Thomas and others.
escape, Lei does the When DiCamillo saw the illus-
unthinkable: she falls tration that Bliss had created
in love with another for her poem about an old man
concubine, which walking a dog in Central Park
sets off a series of events that threatens the entire kingdom. as snow falls, she knew she’d
Two things make Girls of Paper and Fire really stand out. The first is its made a new friend.
extraordinary intersectionality because it’s so many stories in one—a por- A few years later, the pair
trait of an oppressed girl finding her strength, a beautiful LGBTQ romance, a collaborated on a picture book,
much-needed representation of diversity in YA, a sensitively handled depic- Louise, the Adventures of a
tion of sexual assault and its aftermath, and a lush homage to the author’s Chicken (2008), but they had
multicultural upbringing. The second thing is Natasha’s exquisite voice. With long wanted to do a dog book. “When we
her lyrical prose and epic imagination, she brilliantly weaves together these saw each other at a conference in South
different threads into a single literary work of art. Her talent with words is Dakota a few years ago,” says DiCamillo,
truly magical. “we both said, ‘Let’s do that dog book!’ ”
The result is Good Rosie! (Candlewick, Sept.),
Annette Pollert-Morgan, editorial director, Sourcebooks Fire a graphic storybook about a puppy who has
The Similars by Rebecca Hanover (Jan. 2019) no canine companions except for the reflec-
When six clones, tion in her water bowl. When her owner takes
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including one of her her to the dog park, Rosie has to figure out
dead best friend, join how to make friends with the other dogs.
Emmaline’s boarding As Peanuts fans, DiCamillo and Bliss set-
school, she must not tled on the graphic storybook format. They
only confront her loss wanted to capture that same kind of
but also secrets that “heart-broken hopefulness,” says DiCamillo.
threaten everything Bliss views comics as a launchpad for reading books. “Comics can help a
and everyone she young reader get over the intimidation of words,” he says. “Also, in comic
holds dear. The story panels, I can slow down the timing of the narrative, take rests in the rhythm
asks big questions of the story, or leave some of the action out, allowing readers to use their
about nature versus imagination to fill in the story.”
nurture and what Creating Good Rosie! was an organic process, with Bliss sending DiCamillo
makes you who you are. Rebecca’s approach and vivid writing make the sketches of dogs to inspire her storytelling. “I looked at them and arranged
novel seem immediate and familiar, as if this could happen now. I was also them, and rearranged them, and rearranged them again, and then I felt a
swept away by the novel’s setting, complicated friendships, heartfelt family story coming on,” DiCamillo says. As for Bliss, he says, “It’s all about breaking
dynamics, swoony romance, suspenseful plotting, and compelling down Kate’s words into visuals. How do I pull apart these words and visually
characters. construct a picture book? It’s not easy. Kate and I went through many pads
This is a book that we’ve been buzzing about in-house, and we’re eager to of paper.”
get others excited about it. I’ve always walked away from buzz panels feel- Asked if the two intend to collaborate on any other projects, Bliss responds
ing reinvigorated about the work we all do to send meaningful books into that he would like to work with DiCamillo on sequels to Good Rosie!—and even
the market for readers. This year I hope to be able to do the same. suggests some possible titles: “Rosie Wins the Stanley Cup; Rosie’s Feet Smell
 —Sally Lodge Like Corn Chips; Rosie at the Sorbonne; or Rosie Meets Tintin.” Woof!
 —Claire Kirch
Today, 10–10:50 a.m. The YA Editors’ Buzz Panel takes place in Room
1E12/1E13/1E14.
Today, 11 a.m.–noon. Kate DiCamillo and Harry Bliss will sign books at
Table 3.

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The Best Book Signings Are at
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9:30 a.m. Eoin Colfer, Illegal

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12:00 p.m. Jen Calonita, Misfits

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2:30 p.m. Marie Benedict,

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ADVENTURES
FROM BAEN BOOKS Manifestos for Children’s
Literacy

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While BookExpo spotlights literary celebrities
THE NO-HOLDS-BARRED
and blockbusters, at its very essence this annual
FINAL ENTRY IN THE
gathering is a manifesto for literacy. For chil-
MONSTER HUNTER dren’s publishing, that means hooking readers
MEMOIRS SERIES early on and reeling them in for a lifetime.
Below are several panels that do just that.
JULY 2018 In Ready, Set, Read! (today, 1–1:50 p.m.,
9781481483070
$25.00 US/$34.00 CAN Room 1E11) and Making Books Come Alive
(tomorrow 2–2:50 p.m., Room 1E11), repre-
Rick Riordan
sentatives from the publishing arms of Sesame
Workshop, Disney Baby, and Phoenix Interna-
tional will explore how integrating technology
with print books can engage young readers by
providing a multisensory experience that
encourages active participation in the story.
At the Rick Riordan Presents Imprint Launch
(today, 2:45–3:30 p.m., Midtown Stage),
Riordan talks about diversity in his new epony-
mous imprint at Disney-Hyperion for middle
grade readers. “Plenty of young readers grew Tahereh Mafi
up with Indian or Meso-American or Korean

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THE GHOSTS OF THE mythologies, yet have never seen those stories
FREEWAY ARE RISING spotlighted in a way that lets them see them-
selves reflected in mainstream culture. Such
AUGUST 2018 books will hopefully appeal to all young readers,
9781481483407 whether they are learning about a different cul-
$25.00 US/$34.00 CAN
ture, or finally seeing their own culture valued in
the stories and the authors we promote.”
Joining Riordan are two authors: Roshani
Chokshi (Aru Shah and the End of Time) and J.C.
Cervantes (The Storm Runner). Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati

On the YA front, some of the biggest names in fiction will discuss common
themes in their works. At You Trust Me... Right? (today, 3:45–4:30 p.m.,
Downtown Stage), Lauren Oliver (Broken Things), Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen
series), Kendare Blake (Three Dark Crowns series), and Anna Godbersen
(When We Caught Fire) will talk about budding romances, unlikely alliances,
and betrayals. At Rise Up! (tomorrow, 3:30–4:30 p.m., Uptown Stage),
Tahereh Mafi (A Very Large Expanse of Sea), Ibi Zoboi (Pride), and Adam
Silvera and Becky Albertalli (What If It’s Us), discuss resilience. Veronica Cham-
bers, author of Resist, which profiles prominent activists, moderates.
HARD-HITTING STORIES At Social Media Stars as Authors (today, 4:45–5:15 p.m., Downtown
Stage), three social media luminaries who are now published authors will
FROM THE CREATOR OF
discuss switching between platforms. Zach King, a magician, will discuss the
MONSTER HUNTER second volume in his trilogy, Zach King: The Magical Mix-Up. Elizabeth
INTERNATIONAL Pipko, a model who used social media to launch the #PerfectlyImperfect
campaign advocating a positive body image, will talk about her second col-
SEPTEMBER 2018 lection of poems, About You. And Stacy Hinojosa, better known as Stacy-
9781481483445 Plays, the creator of the YouTube series Dogcraft, will introduce her middle
$25.00 US/$34.00 CAN grade series, Wild Rescuers: Guardians of the Taiga, Book 1.
Spotlight on African American Children’s Books (tomorrow, 2:45–
3:30 p.m., Uptown Stage) fills a need, says moderator Vanesse Lloyd-Sgam-
bati, director of the African American Children’s Book Project. “You have
people of color on the covers of picture books, and you have people of color
on the covers of YA novels. There’s such a demand for the same in middle
grade.” Authors Sharon M. Draper, Varian Johnson, and T.R. Simon, as well
as publishers Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson of Just Us Books, will
For free sample chapters and more visit www.baen.com
Distributed by Simon & Schuster discuss middle grade reads with diverse characters.
 —Sally Lodge
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A Buzz
Panel
selection

Thursday, May 31 Thursday, May 31 Friday, June 1

10:30 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. — 1:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. — 12:30 p.m.
Susan Stephen Doris Kearns
Orlean Markley Goodwin
The Library Book Ohio Leadership in
SIGNING IN THE BOOTH SIGNING IN THE BOOTH
Turbulent Times
SIGNING IN THE BOOTH

S E E OU R AU TH OR S S PEAK AT BEA
Thursday, May 31 Thursday, May 31 Friday, June 1 Friday, June 1
11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

Stephen Jill Abramson John Kerry Doris Kearns

Markley Can Free Speech Be Saved? panel John Kerry, author of Every Goodwin &
Adult Author Buzz Panel
discussion featuring Jill Abramson,
author of Merchants Of Truth
Day Is Extra, speaking with
moderator Rick Stengel Arne Duncan
Stephen Markley speaking
ROOMS 1E12/1E13/1E14 DOWNTOWN STAGE Politics 2018 Panel: an Insider’s
ROOM 1E12
Perspective featuring Doris Kearns
Goodwin, author of Leadership in
Turbulent Times, and Arne Duncan,
author of How Schools Work
SimonandSchuster.com DOWNTOWN STAGE
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Children’s Booth
Visit Lion Forge Booth #1802a to meet award-winning
Highlights
and up-and-coming authors, grab a copy of limited Find the rubber duckies, spin the wheel for prizes,
ARCs, find new titles, and more! and meet the editor and the authors.
To get your ducks in a row, head to the IPG
booth (1521), where the American Academy of
S h e e ts Pediatrics has brought its rubber duckies with
I N S T O R E S A U G U S T 2 8 978-1-941302-67-5
Written and Illustrated by Brenna Thummler a mission to celebrate the success of Tanya
Remer Altmann’s Baby and Toddler Basics:
Find out what all the buzz Expert Answers to Parents’ Top 150 Ques-
is about by meeting the
up-and-coming middle
tions. AAP is giving away 600 safety ducks,
grade author! Today from which change color in water over 100 degrees
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM! to alert parents to scald risks.
Spin the Giveaway Wheel at Bonnier Pub-
lishing USA’s booth (1639) for a chance to
win finished books and other prizes. And look
for these Little Bee autographings at the
booth. Today, 10–10:30 a.m., author Debo-
rah Blumenthal and illustrator Masha
U p gr a de So u l D’yans will sign Polka Dot Parade: A Book
I N S T O R E S S E P T E M B E R 1 8 978-1-5493-0292-3
Written and Illustrated by Ezra Claytan Daniels About Bill Cunningham (Aug.); 2–2:45
p.m., Daniel Haack will sign Prince &
Meet the winner of the 2017 Knight. Tomorrow, 10–10:30 a.m., Gary
Dwayne McDuffie Award for
Urda will autograph Love You More, from
Diversity in Comics! Today
from 2:30 – 3:30 PM! the Little Bee imprint; 3–3:45 p.m., the
Cupcake Club creators Sheryl Berk and
Carrie Berk will sign Ask Emma, the debut
book in their new series from Yellow Jacket.
Fans of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
will want to drop by the Penguin Random
House booth (2121) today for “Kid’s Edi-
tor Hour,” 11 a.m.–noon. Knopf senior
(l. to r.) Sheryl and Carrie Berk
Th i s I s a Ta c o ! executive editor Erin Clarke will discuss
I N S T O R E S N O W ! 978-1-941302-72-9 Zusak’s new novel for the fall, Bridge of
Written by Andrew Cangelose and Clay (Nov).
Illustrated by Josh Shipley Muggle devotees of J.K. Rowling’s cele-
brated wizard should visit the Insight Editions
Laugh with the
squirrel-loving, booth (1648) for a 3-D look at his student
taco-eating duo! digs, Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hog-
Today from warts (Oct.), featuring art by Kevin Wilson and
12:45 – 1:45 PM! paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart.
Today, 2–3 p.m., Reinhart will be at the
booth signing pop-up blads. While you’re
S u m m i t Vo l . 1 : there, be sure to take a look at another fall
Th e L ong Wa y Ho m e title: Harry Potter: Creatures: A Paper Scene
I N S T O R E S N O W ! 978-1-941302-68-2
Book (Sept.), a laser die-cut book presented
Written by Amy Chu and
Illustrated by Jan Duursema as a multilayered diorama featuring scenes
from the Harry Potter movies.—Sally Lodge
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Ask Amy all about STEMinist

astronaut Val! Signing tomorrow
from 4:00 – 5:00 PM!

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AUTHORS
Jill Abramson
Advocate for Free Speech
“It’s a juicy narrative about four news organizations—the New York Times,
the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and Vice—over the last decade of turmoil,”
says Jill Abramson of her latest book, Merchants of Truth: The Business of
Facts and the Future of News (S&S, Jan. 2019). A political columnist for the
Guardian and senior lecturer at Harvard University, the former New York
Times executive editor investigates how digital media almost led to the demise
of two legendary American newspapers while creating two new media super­
stars for millennials.
In a media landscape overflowing with news outlets, Abramson says that
she decided to focus on just four because she was inspired by David Halber­
stam’s The Powers That Be. “He wrote about a different moment in history, man. BuzzFeed built a very formidable news organization on the back of
the time after Watergate, and looked at the rise of four organizations—Time Facebook and speaks to a younger digital-savvy audience.”
Inc., the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and CBS—that were then This new media landscape is difficult for anyone attempting to publish for
at the zenith of their power. I loved going back and forth between them and today’s very polarized audience, notes Abramson. “Americans on both the
wanted to use that structure for my book.” right and left are fearful and anxious. We who inhabit the two coasts don’t appre­
Abramson says that she selected the New York Times and the Washington ciate that. But it’s true. And we have a new president who is not a believer in
Post because “they’ve both struggled over the last decade to become digital the First Amendment, and [that amendment] is the first for a very important
first. Vice because they did the pivot to video earlier than almost anyone else reason. The founders were deathly afraid of centralized power and depended
and their cofounder, Shane Smith, boldly proclaimed that he’d be shoving on authors and journalists to hold power accountable.”  —Lucinda Dyer
CNN off the stage.” She chose BuzzFeed because its CEO, Jonah Peretti, “is
the foremost expert in how information spreads virally and the first to recog­ Today, 12:30–1:30 p.m. Jill Abramson will participate in the panel “PEN
nize the potential of Facebook to be the most powerful publisher known to America Presents: Can Free Speech Be Saved?” in Rooms 1E12/1E13/1E14.

Simon &
Schuster
Children’s
at BEA ANGELA
DiTERLIZZI
LEAH
TINARI
THE FAN
BROTHERS
THURSDAY, Author of
Just Add Glitter
Author of
Limitless
Creators of
Ocean Meets Sky
MAY 31 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
EVENTS Autograph Area Table 11 Autograph Area Table 9 Autographing at S&S Booth

DEB MATTHEW TONY NEAL & JARROD

CALETTI
Author of
A Heart in a Body in the World
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Autograph Area Table 12
VAN FLEET DiTERLIZZI SHUSTERMAN
Creator of Creator of Authors of
Chomp Goes the Alligator The Broken Ornament Dry
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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AUTHORS
Barbara Kingsolver
The Sky Is Falling: Then and Now
Tackling a new book always begins in

© annie griffiths
the same way for Barbara King-
solver: “a burning question that I
can’t not write about.” The question

PUBLISHERS
that spawned her forthcoming
Unsheltered (HarperCollins, Oct.)
was one Kingsolver contemplated for

CONFERENCE
some five years. “I saw what looked
to me like a world falling apart in
terms of civil discourse, economic
security, and the environment. The

29th – 30th
things we always trusted in were
crumbling away,” she says. “Of course
a novel has to be about people, so
the question is, what do we do when

Oct 2017 it looks like we are facing the end of

the world?”
To explore such a response to
uncertainty, Kingsolver mines past
and present, alternating chapters
If you make
between two centuries united by one
location, the corner of Sixth and
up a place,
Plum in Vineland, N.J. “How do we
behave? Are there principles? And if
so, wouldn’t it be interesting to look
it’s a lie on
at earlier times and people’s best
efforts to cope in the world around
the page.
them?” she asks. History is rife with examples of a sky-is-falling mentality,
and Kingsolver wanted to examine one of these moments up close.
In Kingsolver’s story, a former magazine editor, Willa Knox finds herself at
middle age without a job, with an equally unemployed husband, a stack of
unpaid bills, a wayward son and his unplanned baby, and a cantankerous
father-in-law, all under the roof of a dilapidated house that is literally falling
apart. Desperate, Willa begins to explore the history of the house, hoping
that the historical preservation society will take an interest and help with
repairs.
Her research uncovers a kindred spirit from the 1880s, Thatcher Green-
wood, who lived in the house when it was elegant, new, but structurally
unsound. Greenwood is a science teacher who is under siege by school offi-
cials and the community for wanting to teach Darwin’s new theories and is
forbidden to do so. By mingling modern-day anxieties and fears with those
of the Darwin-upended 19th century, Kingsolver illuminates life amid cul-
tural upheaval.
Beyond the structural challenge of weaving together two disparate time
periods, there was also the matter of maintaining separate voices through-
out the book. For half of it “the language, tone, and sound had to be authen-
tically 19th century,” Kingsolver notes, so she immersed herself in fiction of
the age, in particular George Eliot’s Middlemarch, which sat on her desk as a
reference manual during the two years it took her to research and write the
book.
Like Kingsolver’s other works, including The Poisonwood Bible and Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle, community propels the narrative of Unsheltered. “It’s
just my worldview, I suppose. Sense of place is deliberate, and that’s my duty
as a good writer. If you make up a place, it’s a lie on the page.”  —Alia Akkam

Today, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Barbara Kingsolver will sign galleys of

Unsheltered in the HarperCollins booth (2339).

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We know how it goes—BookExpo is a whirlwind in the lives of librarians, a test of endur-

ance, an unrelenting blitz of meetings, panels, and author programs usually completed
with a 30-pound bag of advance reading copies slung over each shoulder. You need a
break. And in the Librarians’ Lounge, you’ll get just that.
Thanks to our host, Baker & Taylor, and to our sponsors—Disney, InterVarsity Press,
Harlequin, Penguin Random House Library Marketing, Random House Children’s
Books, Rowman & Littlefield, Sourcebooks, and Vesuvian Books—this year’s lounge is
once again the place to be for librarians at BookExpo. Throughout the show, the lounge
offers a welcoming space to get off your feet, get something to eat, chat with old friends
and make new ones, and recharge—yourself or your device.
Today and tomorrow,12:30–1:30 p.m., lunch will be served, courtesy of Rowman &
Littlefield. Thanks to our sponsors, there will be a steady stream of authors in the lounge
to meet or even take a selfie with. They’ll be signing and giving away copies of their
books and ARCs, too. Throughout the show, Baker & Taylor reps will be on hand, too, to
talk about their latest offerings.

Start Your Day with Vesuvian Books

Kick off today’s show with Vesuvian Books in the
Librarians’ Lounge. From 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., you
can grab a cup of coffee, a little breakfast, and meet
some of Vesuvian’s top authors—and maybe get your
first signed copies of the day.
Authors to meet include Dan Elish, who will sign
his action-packed fantasy
Pantone Blue 072 novel,
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an Eighth-Grade B:148 Case, which received an
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International Reading Association Students’ Choice Award, and 13: A Novel, cowritten
with Jason Robert Brown, which is based on the Broadway musical 13 and is now slated
to be a movie from CBS Films. His novel The Worldwide Dessert Contest was recently
optioned for TV by Lisa Kudrow.

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Mary Ting Alexandrea Weis Gareth Worthington

Mary Ting will sign copies of the newly released ISAN—International Sensory Assas-
sin Network, a YA dystopian novel now in development for a TV series. A former teacher,
the bestselling author understands the power of books and reading. She has toured
with the Magic Johnson Foundation to promote literacy and her children’s chapter
book, No Bullies Allowed.
Alexandrea Weis will sign Blackwell, cowritten with Lucas Astor, the award-winning
prequel to her suspenseful, gothic Magnus Blackwell series. Weis, who was born and
raised in the French Quarter of New Orleans, has one of the most unusual résumés of
any author at BookExpo. Not only has she written 25 novels spanning a range of
genres, but she’s also a screenwriter, ICU nurse, historian, and a certified wildlife rehab-
ber who rescues orphaned and injured animals.
Gareth Worthington will sign his newly released It Takes Death to Reach a Star, Book
One, written with Stu Jones. It is the first volume in a sci-fi dystopian duology. A member
of the British Science Fiction Association, Worthington also brings a pretty remarkable
résumé to BookExpo: he is a trained marine biologist, with a doctorate in comparative
endocrinology. His debut novel, Children of the Fifth Sun, won in the science fiction cate-
gory at the 2017 London Book Festival.

Meet Bestselling Author Brandon Sanderson, Courtesy of Random

House Children’s Books
From 11 a.m. to noon, don’t miss your chance to meet Brandon
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Sanderson, author of the bestselling Reckoners trilogy of

superhero novels—Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity—while
he signs. Sanderson will publish the first book in a new series,
Skyward (Nov.), which he announced on his blog last winter.
“The official pitch is this,” Sanderson wrote in December.
“Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the rem-
nants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is con-
stantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a
Brandon Sanderson
teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she
discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—
assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly)
persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have
a soul.”

Relax with a Trio of Harlequin Authors

What better way to follow up a nice lunch in the Librarians’ Lounge than
with more authors and books? From 2 to 3 p.m., you’re invited to mingle
with Harlequin authors, and take home some signed copies.
Authors scheduled to appear include Robyn Carr, who will sign her most
recent book for Mira, The Summer That Made Us. With more than 40 novels under her
belt, including several popular romance series, it’s no wonder that Carr was the 2016

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Robyn Carr Helen Cullen Annie Ward
SKYHORSE
PUBLISHING Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Helen Cullen will sign ARCs of her debut novel for Graydon House, The Lost Letters of
William Woolf (Oct.), which she completed during her time in the Guardian/UEA novel
writing program. Before becoming a full-time writer, the Irish-born Cullen worked in
journalism and broadcasting. She lives in London.
Annie Ward will sign Beautiful Bad (Mar. 2019), her debut novel for Park Row. An
award-winning screenwriter, the Kansas author is garnering big hype for her first foray
into books. Her publisher is billing it as “the most explosive and twisted psychological
thriller since The Woman in the Window.”

Recharge with #RefreshingReads, Courtesy of Penguin Random

House Library Marketing
Take a break in the Librarians’ Lounge, 3:30–4:30 p.m., and enjoy some lemonade and
other refreshments thanks to PRH Library Marketing’s #RefreshingReads Meet &
Greet. Quench your literary thirst as well with these four authors, who will be giving
away signed ARCs of their forthcoming books.
Sam Anderson will sign copies of his forthcoming
© jeff bark

Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City,

Its Chaotic Founding, Its Purloined Basketball Team,
and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
(Crown, Aug.). A staff writer at the New York
Times Magazine, Anderson tells the story of this city,
and a tale of civics, basketball, and destiny.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras will sign her debut novel,
Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, July). Set against
Sam Anderson the backdrop of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s reign of
terror, the Colombian-born Rojas Contreras shares two
different but inextricable coming-of-age stories—and
sheds light on the impossible choices women are often
© susan aurinko

forced to make in the face of violence.

Grady Hendrix will sign his forthcoming novel We
Sold Our Souls (Quirk, Sept.). The New York writer’s
previous novels include Horrorstör, which was named
one of the best books of 2014 by NPR; My Best
Friend’s Exorcism, for which the Wall Street Journal
dubbed him “a national treasure”; and the Bram
Stoker Award–winning Paperbacks from Hell, a survey
Rebecca Makkai of outrageous horror novels of the 1970s and ’80s.
Rebecca Makkai will sign her latest novel, The Great
Believers (June). In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it “a striking, emotional
journey.... [that] will undoubtedly touch the hearts and minds of readers.” 
 —Andrew Albanese

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How to Book Expo

A Leader in the Library World on
Finessing the Floor
By Sari Feldman

I clearly remember my first BookExpo: it was back

in 2002, and I remember feeling overwhelmed
by the setting (the Javits Center in New York City)
and the endless exhibit space. At the time, I was
in charge of scheduling authors for the Cleveland
Public Library’s “Sunday Afternoons for Writers
and Readers” series, and I thought BookExpo
would be a great opportunity to hear new voices
and get the buzz about titles and writers directly
from the publishers. I was with my book pal and
colleague Ike Pulver, a BookExpo regular, who
kindly showed me the ropes for collecting auto-
graphs and ARCs (and pro tip—where to store them in the mailroom).
Over the years, my personal BookExpo highlights have included riding the elevator
with Barbara Kingsolver and a quick conversation with Nick Hornby. I also had a
great moment with Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner, who were together signing
prints from their Brundibar picture book. I met Ian McEwan right after On Chesil
Beach was released, to mixed reviews. When I told him the Cleveland Plain Dealer
had praised the book, he promised to accept a speaking invitation in appreciation
of “good literary taste.” I’m still waiting for him to say yes.
During my ALA presidency in 2016, I was proud to bring the “Libraries Trans-
form” campaign to BookExpo in Chicago, with sponsorship provided by Overdrive.
These experiences have helped highlight the many ways that the public/private
partnership between libraries and publishers connects books to readers, and
increasingly connects readers to authors. As I traveled internationally for ALA, I
came to recognize that these powerful collaborations are unique to the United
States—we are fortunate that libraries and publishers in the U.S. work beyond the
traditional business relationship, to jointly build readership and enthusiasm for
books and reading.
Sure, for the uninitiated, BookExpo can be a daunting experience—it’s like a candy
store for book enthusiasts. But worry not—a little advance planning can help man-
age and even enhance the experience.
Be sure to wear your most comfortable walking shoes. And don’t be mesmerized
by the big names—be open to new authors and small events. Don’t put all your
time into showcase breakfasts and lunches. And be choosy about ARCs.
Keep your eyes open and know what your favorite writers look like—you just
might have an elevator encounter that can score you a prized selfie. Be on the look-
out for innovative marketing tips.
And make sure to connect not only with writers but with publicists.
My last tip: plan a few days of vacation when you return home. You most certainly
will need the rest, recovery, and time to read!
PW columnist Sari Feldman is executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public
Library in Cleveland, Ohio—one of the nation’s largest and highest- rated public
library systems—and a former president of both the Public Library Association
(2009–2010) and the American Library Association (2015–2016).

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© nbc universal
Al Roker
Flood Watch
Following the success of The Storm
of the Century (2015), a New York
Times bestseller about the Great
Gulf Hurricane of 1900, weather
expert Al Roker, host of NBC’s
Today, examines the country’s
deadliest flood, Ruthless Tide: The
Heroes and Villains of the Johns­
town Flood, America’s Astonish­
ing Gilded Age Disaster (Morrow).
“It was a big deal,” says Roker, noting that
there have been songs about the Great
Johnstown Flood, and even a couple of
movies. “The more [I] looked into it and
learned it was a matter of class, environ-
Visit booth #2038 for author signings, mental issues, and a lot of things that hold
giveaways, and pick up a tote bag*! true today, I thought it would be an inter-
esting topic to explore.”
The substandard rebuilding of a local dam
in central Pennsylvania to provide the South
9:00am Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, whose mem-
Tote bag giveaway bers included Andrew Mellon and Henry
Clay Frick, with a lake caused the disaster.
10:00am After a foot of rain fell in less than 24 hours
on May 31, 1889, the dam gave way and
Author Signing: released 20 million tons of water.
Fred Van Lente
The Con Artist
The Great Flood, as it became
known, killed more than 2,200 peo- When people in
ple and caused $17 million dollars
(on sale: 7/10/18) in damage (more than $470 million
today).
power can
1:00pm
Tote bag giveaway
“When people in power can ignore
or redact or relax the rules and ignore or redact
you’ve got the potential for extreme

2:00pm
environmental conditions, disaster
can ensue,” Roker says. “Today we
or relax the
Author Signing:
Grady Hendrix
have a relaxation of rules about how
people can build and how high. rules,. . disaster
Given population density, relaxation
We Sold Our Souls of wetland restrictions, and our
changing environment, I think it’s a
can ensue.
(on sale: 9/18/18) recipe for potential disaster.”
It was the Johnstown flood that also put the Red Cross on the map, Roker
4:00pm explains. “When [the flood] happened,” he says, “they were just getting their
Author Signing: act together. People underestimated Clara Barton, which worked to her
advantage. She was able to work her way in from the outside and blew every-
Gabrielle Moss body away with the organization and its discipline. They were like an army,
Paperback Crush and established housing, bedding, hospitals, morgues—creating a second
city to care for the folks displaced and injured by this horrendous environ-
(on sale: 10/30/18)
mental disaster.”
*While supplies last Roker is excited to be at BookExpo. “I hold authors in such high esteem,” he
says, adding, “I just wish my mom could be here. One of the things that gave
me great pleasure while she was still alive is that she came to a couple of my
book parties, and she said, ‘That’s my boy, he wrote this.’ ” —Hilary S. Kayle
quirkbooks.com | /quirkbooks
Today, 10–11 a.m. Al Roker will sign finished books at Table 6. This is a
ticketed event.
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Graphic Authors, in Their Own Words

Yesterday, Calvin Reid, PW senior news editor who oversees comics coverage, moderated a graphic novels buzz panel, “The Graphic Novels You Can’t Miss.”
We asked the authors of his favorites—Blue Delliquanti, David Small, Ngozi Ukazu, and Tim Fielder—about their upcoming books.

Tim Fielder

Tell me about your new graphic novel. What was your inspiration
© gordon trice

for it?
BQ: Meal is a romance about a young woman moving to a new town,
falling in love, and getting her dream job at a restaurant that serves
insect cuisine. Eating insects is a topic that my cowriter, Soleil Ho, and I
both kindled a passion for, and it’s a very exciting time to watch more
cooks and restaurateurs in North America experiment with insect dishes
and pay homage to the food cultures where insects are beloved tradi-
tional ingredients. Similarly, comics have become a vibrant medium to
discuss food, lovingly render your favorite dishes, and educate your
readers about the preparation of a meal or the origin of a cooking tech-
nique. I wanted Meal to be a love letter to the art of insect cuisine.
DS: I’ll quote from Roz Chast’s sensitive comment on my book: “Home
After Dark is the story of Russell, a teenage boy abandoned first by his
David Small
mother and then by his father. It’s about Russell’s adolescence but also
everyone’s: learning who you can and can’t trust, the complexities of rela- ment—and he loves to bake. There’s quite a bit of romance as Bitty falls for
tionships with your peers, and figuring out who you are and the kind of his brooding Canadian captain. I got the inspiration for Check, Please! while
person you want to be. [It’s about] Russell’s struggle to survive and not be writing a screenplay about hockey my senior year of college.
crushed by the indifference or cruelty of the world.” TF: My graphic novel, Infinitum, is the Afrofuturism epic I’ve always aspired
I was inspired at first by the stories a friend told me about his growing up to do. I was compelled to do a book that was wide in scope, with all of the
in rural Marin County in the 1950s. That was also my era, though we had narrative tropes inherent in the best of hard and psychedelic science fiction.
vastly different experiences. I thought I had a solid narrative until I realized As a practitioner of the form, I also wanted to pay homage to the great sci-
I was trying to tell my friend’s story in his voice. When I finally found my own ence fiction writers and filmmakers who formed my view of the world.
voice and put myself into the book, it morphed into a radically different kind
of tale, one darker in tone and more honest. How do you work? Do you start with an image, or images, or a narrative
NU: Check, Please! is the story of Eric “Bitty” Bittle, a former figure skater that needs to be told?
from Georgia who joins a college hockey team in Massachusetts. Bitty is this BQ: Because eating insects is an experience unfamiliar to many of my read-
small gay Southern kid in a big new, hypermasculine, East Coast environ- ers, I put a lot of thought into how I would present the story we wanted to
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Blue Delliquanti
tell. It was important to Soleil and me that we present the details of cooking
these dishes accurately, and that we put our characters through a journey of
understanding where their food comes from and how something on our plate
goes from being a traditional dish to a hot local trend.
But as the artist, I also put a lot of thought into how to convey taste and
flavor in a purely visual medium, especially for readers with no concept of
how curried mealworms or honeybee larvae might taste. So I found myself
coming up with signifiers to convey the idea of a warm comfort food, or a
fragrant dessert, or a smoky fishy flavor. And that led to some very fun visuals.
NU: I wrote Check, Please! like it’s a TV show. We have the overarching nar-
ratives of Bitty’s four years at Samwell University, and I broke those years
into semesters, and then finally episodes. I write my scripts before and
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Ngozi Ukazu
during thumbnailing, and work on fine-tuning my dialogue while doing
pencils, inks, and colors.
DS: My work often grows out of a single image or group of images, some-
times a single word or phrase, or all of these. I am definitely a visual thinker
more than a verbal one.
TF: Infinitum began as an attempt to codify the field of Afrofuturism for the
New York Times. After that project was aborted, I continued the work in full
graphic novel form. A story fluctuates between visuals first or words first
from project to project. The story determines how it wants to be told. I am
completely digital in the story creation. As a result, my working process
takes on characteristics similar to nonlinear editing. I remake the story as
needed.  —Liz Hartman
 Blackstone Authors MEET & GREET

Thursday, May 31
10:00 - 10:30AM
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In-booth signing with Shelley Shepard
Gray and a galley giveaway
of Take a Chance, the first book in her
new romance series The Bridgeport
Social Club
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In-booth signing with M. C. Beaton and
a giveaway of Lady Fortescue Steps Out,
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Visit us at BlackstonePublishing.com
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Company Authors at BookExpo! The Thrill of the Library
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In Susan Orlean’s upcoming book, The Library Book (S&S, Oct.), the
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10:00am LOCKE* never long enough for me. The
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QA
Megan Mullally & Nick Offe rm
Couple, Reveal the Greatest Lo
Megan Mullally is best known for her comedic turn as Ka
Grace; Nick Offerman is famed for his stoic, bureaucracy
ation. He is also the bestselling author of the books Good
Offerman Woodshop; Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America
form an epic, sizzling couple whose idiosyncratic marriage
zles—has enthralled fans and followers all over the world
Now they reveal all in their latest collaboration, The Gre
(Dutton, Oct.), which they describe to Show Daily as “a m
modernist deconstruction of the greatest love story ever
readers young and old, male and female, as well as LGBTQ
creed, every political leaning will find something to learn
Well, how could we resist that? Show Daily interviewed
umm, tick.
Megan Mullally ◗
So, the first time you saw Nick, you said to yourself...
Looks like a capable sort.
What finally convinced you he was the one?
He was the first guy that I had ever encountered in a romantic setting who
wasn’t completely out of his mind.
What do you think he would say about what attracted him to you?
My puss? What did he say?
Your shoes.
Ummmmm, okay. Let’s go with the family friendly version.
You’ve lasted 18 years in Hollywood, a place where most marriages don’t
make it past the cutting of the cake. What is your secret?
I come from Oklahoma and he comes from Illinois, but I think we have a simi-
lar middle-of-the-country sensibility. We’re both homebodies and introverts
who like being introverted at home together.
You two are also known for your rather robust sex life. How do you man-
age to keep that going?
Well, first thing, we genuinely like each other. That seems like it would be
obvious for a successful couple, but it’s not always the case. We both realize
the importance of spending time together, and we have a two-week rule—
we’ve never been apart for more than two weeks. That applies to our boudoir
as well, an important component to keeping a relationship alive and thriving.
Nick has written several books. What inspired you to get in the publish-
ing game?
I got on social media relatively late, but when I did, it immediately became
apparent to me that people enjoy our relationship. Every time I would post a
photo of us, people would go haywire. It dawned on me that we could write
a book together. We picked certain topics, and we just taped while we talked
with each other. It evoked a lot of thoughts and memories in both of us that
we wouldn’t have ordinarily had.
We hear you were the book designer?
That was really a thrill. I conceptualized all of the illustrations and photos,
including the cover. It will be not only fun to read but nice to look at.
 —Beth Levine
 THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018

Visit us
fe rman, Hollywood ‘It’
st Love Story Ever Told
at BEA!
Signings Today!
dic turn as Karen Walker on the recently revived Will and
bureaucracy-hating Ron Swanson on Parks and Recre-
e books Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Booth #1827, 1829
noe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living; and
with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers. Together, they
ratic marriage—especially their devotion to jigsaw puz-
over the world.
ation, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History
Daily as “a multigenerational, multigenderational, post-
ve story ever told. Meaning, our relationship. It’s for
well as LGBTQ and AI. And also every race, religion, every
hing to learn about the body’s ability to lubricate itself.”
y interviewed the two to see what makes them lubricate...

Nick Offerman ◗
So, the first time you saw Megan, what impressed you the most?
Her fancy fashion shoes. I was living in a basement in Silver Lake [a neighbor- Bob Eckstein Lisa Iannucci
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worked with an actor who wore shoes as fashionable as hers were.

What finally convinced you she was the one?

A lot of things, but mainly her sense of humor. Not only was she so perverse
but that she appreciated that in me.

What do you think she would say about what attracted her to you?
My dancing. In this case, breakdancing that I was called upon to perform in a
play we were in together.

She is 11 years older than you. Does that work in your favor?
We don’t really notice our age difference in most instances. There has always
been a little bit of a feeling of she’s a senior and I’m a freshman. She’d been over
a lot of life’s hurdles before I arrived at the track. The guidance she has lent me is
where our age difference comes in the most, but otherwise, we are like peers.

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many channels by which people can demand your attention, we found that
puzzles are a great way to shut off the rest of the world and give our brains
some respite. It’s not just puzzles; it’s puzzles combined with an audiobook
or a true crime podcast. We find combining those two recreations really
cranks up the dopamine. To shut your phone off so no one can ask you for
anything for a few hours is a delicious vacation indeed.

What advice would you give other couples on how to keep a marriage
from going stale?
First and foremost, the key is just diligence and work. We’re very lucky that we
found in each other a person that we are thrilled with and to whom we are still
very attracted 18 years in. But we’re human, so it’s not a Disney movie. We annoy
Jeff Pert; David Jacobson;
each other, we have disagreements, we occasionally have fights. My advice to
Bill Woodman; Mike Lynch and John Klossner
anyone in a relationship is to maintain it, pay attention to it. Make it a priority. 12:00pm Book Signing
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What do you hope people will get out of this book?
I want people to laugh and have a good time and a healthy dose of escapism,
while at the same time, we’re sneaking a bunch of broccoli under the pizza.

Today, 8–9:30 a.m. Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman will cohost the
Adult Book and Author Breakfast, on the Main Stage.
Tomorrow, 3–3:45 p.m. The authors will be on the Downtown Stage.

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AUTHORS
Jill Lepore
Join TURNER PUBLISHING at
Big Truths in the Age of
‘Alternative Facts’
  BOOTH #2829

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BOOK SIGNINGS
Wednesday May 30th 4pm

The
Rabbi’s
Brain In her latest book, These Truths: A History of the United States (Norton,
Sept.), Jill Lepore delivers a comprehensive history of America for general
readers. While the book is replete with stories throughout American history,
the biggest truth Lepore wants to share comes from reflecting on the kinds
of books historians write.
“It used to be that historians, when they reached a certain point in their
career, would produce a kind of epic American history that was a piece of
public work,” says the Harvard University historian. Then they stopped.
Sommelier In recent decades, a new generation broke down barriers and began tell-
of Deformity ing histories that had previously been forgotten or ignored. “They offered
a corrective to what had been a very narrow account of the American past,”
says Lepore. For good reasons and bad, she says, historians—herself
Thursday May 31st 2pm included—moved away from writing big histories.
After spending time chronicling Tea Party activists in 2009, Lepore won-
dered if historians had gotten too specific. In the absence of an authoritative,
wide-angle view, she says, the public’s ideas about American history have
become a “picture book version of the American past.”
GALLEY GIVEAWAYS “What I hear from a lot of people,” Lepore continues, “is that they are actu-
ally kind of hungry for a kind of deeper, longer explanation of the present.”
For her, that begins with history.
Lepore credits the very scholarship that turned away from larger histories
with providing the detailed, raw material that allows These Truths to say
something new. For instance, technology is a common touchstone through-
out the book, and often overlooked in older histories of the United States.
Individual figures like William Jennings Bryan are also given a second look
that goes beyond his portrayal in the 1960 classic film Inherit the Wind.
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly is given much more credit for the
modern conservative movement than William Buckley. Lepore takes no
small amount of pleasure in the idea that people may disagree with some
Mammoth - Wednesday May 30th 11am of her assertions. That, too, she says, is part of the tradition of writing an
Cherry Blossoms - Thursday May 31st 11am epic history. “They weren’t swallowed whole,” she says of books like
Goat Yoga - Friday June 1st 11am Woodrow Wilson’s multivolume A History of the American People.
PLUS MORE GALLEYS AND FALL CATALOGS “People argued about them.” —Alex Green

Today, 8–9:30 a.m. Jill Lepore will appear at the Adult Book and Author
Breakfast, on the Main Stage.
Today, 11:30 a.m.–noon. Lepore will sign These Truths at the Norton
booth (1720).

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ABA Lounge Signing Adult Author Buzz
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and Andrew Bourelle (Little, Brown)
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10:30 AM
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Mika Brzezinski Don Diamont Natasha Ngan
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Signing Signing 1:30 PM
The Martin Chronicles John Fried
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2:00 PM
Know Your Value Mika Brzezinski
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Rosewater Tade Thompson (Orbit)
2:30 PM
This Land Dan Barry
(Black Dog & Leventhal)
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How Are You Going to Save Yourself

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JM Holmes (Little, Brown)

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Not So Normal Norbert

James Patterson with Joey Green
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4:45–5:15 PM Science Fiction and Fantasy 3:30 PM
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Matters of Vital Interest Eric Lerner
Appeal of Fairy Tales (Da Capo)
and Myths
Best of Enemies Gus Russo and
Eric Dezenhall (Twelve)
4:00 PM
Maid Stephanie Land (Hachette Books)
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QA AD: Illegal is a very different book to anything we’ve done before. Out of all
the books I’ve written, this story took the most careful research. We read, we

Team Behind Artemis researched, we went to conferences, and we listened to and spoke to survi-
vors of journeys like [the one] we were portraying.

Fowl Gets Real in Illegal How does your collaborative process work?
EC: Andrew and I have been friends for 20 years, so our process is very com-
fortable. We generally meet in Dublin or London half a dozen times to thrash
out the story, and then communicate most days by email. After we’re happy
with the pages, Gio gets them and sends back roughs for our comments, and
then proceeds to the finished art.
AD: Meetings, emails, texts... in the last decade we’ve created over 1,000
pages of comics together, so we’ve evolved a pretty effective shorthand. It’s a
very happy team who love working together. —Sally Lodge

Today, 9:30–10:30 a.m. Eoin Colfer will sign ARCs in the Sourcebooks
booth (2039).
Tomorrow, 10:30–11 a.m. Colfer will sign Artemis Fowl at Table 4.

Paper Magic Brings

The Nutcracker to Life
Jumping Jack Press, an imprint
of Up with Paper, is taking a fresh
(l. to r.) Andrew Donkin, Eoin Colfer, Giovanni Rigano. approach to the classic holiday
tale, The Nutcracker, with a
The creative team behind the graphic novel adaptations of Eoin Colfer’s pop-up book featuring illustra-
Artemis Fowl series—authors Colfer and Andrew Donkin, and illustrator tions by Neiko Ng, pop-ups from
Giovanni Rigano—make a dramatic departure from fantasy in Illegal award-winning paper engineer
(Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, Aug.), a graphic novel that explores the current Yevgeniya Yeretskaya, and a story
plight of undocumented immigrants through the story of Ebo, a boy who by Jessica Southwick. In an inter-
embarks on a perilous journey from Ghana to Europe in search of his family view with the YouTube channel
and a new life. Best Pop-Up Books, Yeretskaya
shared her enthusiasm about The
What inspired you to tackle this gripping, real-life topic? Nutcracker: “I’m very excited
Andrew Donkin: Illegal was born from a newspaper report about the size of about this subject, because it
a postage stamp, from four years ago. It was a report of a boat sinking in the
Mediterranean, saying that 215 people were believed to have been on
board. Eoin and I talked about it and waited for the follow-up report with the
names of the people lost, but no report ever came. No one knew who these
lost people were. There was no paperwork. No passenger list. No list of lost
souls. That was the starting point for us.
Eoin Colfer: We had always intended to carry on working together post–
Artemis Fowl, and once Andrew put this topic on the table, I knew immedi-
ately and instinctively that this was the way forward.

Why does the graphic novel format best serve this story?
EC: Giovanni, the artist, is a virtuoso with landscape, and we have made
good use of this talent to create various worlds. We were confident that he
could enchant readers with his beautiful imagery and draw people who
might not read the newspapers or watch CNN into the tragic yet uplifting combines my love of strange fairy tales with a lifelong appreciation of
story of our hero, Ebo. theater and ballet.”
AD: I think this was an ideal medium for Ebo’s story because, thanks to Gio’s Each of the seven brightly illustrated pop-up spreads showcases an
fantastic artwork, we don’t have to tell you what Ebo is going through with elaborate scene with intricate details. Among the spreads are a sump-
pages of prose—we can show you. tuously decorated Christmas tree and a full 360-degree pop-up of a
swan-shaped boat, as well as pull-tab interactive components that
Was telling this story a different challenge than writing fantasy? move characters back and forth in a battle scene. —Liz Hartman
EC: Telling a story is always a challenge, but usually for us, real-world factual
accuracy doesn’t apply. In this case, we were careful to try extra hard not to Tomorrow, 1–2 p.m.Yevgeniya Yeretskaya will sign blads for
The Nutcracker at Table 15.
distort Ebo’s story in any fantastical way, which is a real challenge for me. But
I can confidently say that everything in this book is true to life.
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CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS
Nic Stone
CHRONICLE
A Second Novel in Three Parts

© nifel livingstone
At last year’s BookExpo,

BOOKS
Nic Stone found herself in
the spotlight when her
editor, Crown’s Phoebe Yeh,
chose her debut novel, Dear
Martin, as a YA Editors’ Buzz
pick. The book, which cen-
ters around a black teen
who writes a journal of let-
ters to the late Martin Luther
King Jr. after a racial profil-
ing incident lands him in jail,
went on to become a New
York Times bestseller and
was named a William C.
Morris Award finalist. It
now has 100,000 copies in
print.
Stone is returning to the
show to promote her
sophomore effort, Odd One Out
(Crown, Sept.). In it she introduces three
teens, one boy and two girls, who, she
says, “are navigating the intersection
between friendship and romance—
and figuring out who it’s okay to love.”
Although it’s a departure from Dear
Martin in some ways, Stone notes that
it also deals with identity and discov-
ering your true self. “It approaches
[them] from a very different angle,”
she says.
What Can a Citizen Do? Three angles, in fact, since the novel
is structured as three novellas, each
Friday, June 1st narrated by a different protagonist.
“I wrote the first novella in the boy’s
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM voice, because I wanted to get that
chunk out of the way first,” says Stone.
“But, as it turned out, his voice was the easiest to write, while one of the
girls was the most difficult character I’d ever written. Still, I was a bit
shocked when I got my notes from my editor, who wrote, ‘The boy’s voice is
very strong, but the girls need work.’ ”
Stone isn’t entirely surprised that she most identified with her male char-
acter. “As a reader,” she says, “I tend to be drawn to boy characters. And
Pick up your free I’m surrounded by men. I live with my husband and two young sons, my
father is one of our neighbors, and I have a lot of guy friends. In fact, some
2018 Chronicle Books of them have complained to me that they couldn’t find anything that they
tote bag! really wanted to read, so I decided I wanted to write stories they would
want to read.
Giveaways at 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM “A number of teenage boys have told me that Dear Martin was the first
book they’ve read all the way through,” Stone continues. “To me, the idea of
each day, while supplies last!
writing a book that starts a reader is pretty powerful, and I’m very humbled
by it.” —Sally Lodge

Today, 2:30–3:30 p.m. Nic Stone will sign at Table 13.

Tomorrow, 12:15–1:45 p.m. Stone will participate in the ABC/CBC Speed
Dating Lunch with Authors, Room 1E07/1E08.

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motion to encourage booksellers to sell more books in translation. A special area
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“Literature in translation is a reading experience more Americans should have,”
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One was the National Book Foundation’s January announcement that it will add
a fifth National Book Award to honor a work of fiction or nonfiction that has been
translated into English and published in the U.S. The other was the addition of
Europa Editions to PGW’s client line in February. The press, with offices in New
York and Italy, has brought attention to books in translation in the U.S. through its
success with works like Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, trans. from
the French by Alison Anderson, and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, trans. from
the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
All five IPS distribution brands represent publishers of books in translation and
are participating in the “Be Worldly” campaign: Consortium, PGW, IPS, Ingram Aca-
demic Services, and Two Rivers. “The message we hope to get across is that Ingram
is home to some of the best literature in translation publishers across the country,”
says Swihart.
To call attention to the “Be Worldly” message, Ingram
is giving away tote bags filled with five “lit in translation”
books, while supplies last, with “Be Worldly” on one side
and “Read” in multiple languages on the other. Attend-
ees who guess the origin country of a book on display
will be eligible to win additional prizes.
Chad Post, publisher/editor of Open Letter, a press
dedicated to publishing books in translation from around
the world, says, “It’s impressive that Ingram’s doing some-
thing to promote literature in translation. It could be a
huge boon for presses like Open Letter.”
“Ingram is a big corporation. The fact that they’re doing
this is really encouraging,” adds Michael Reynolds, edito-
rial director of Europa. “A number of new publishers, like
Deep Vellum, are publishing works in translation.
Maybe publishers feel it’s time to be part of the world, Above is a selection of books in translation that will be featured at the Ingram booth.
which we’re not getting through politics and the current
administration.” In addition, Reynolds notes that more and more booksellers are
eager to promote and sell books in translation. He points to the

Literature in trans- increase in the number of bookseller applicants for the Bookselling
Without Borders scholarship program, which enables U.S. booksell-
ers to attend international book fairs. Last year the group received

lation is a reading 90 applications; this year they received more than five times that
number, 475 applications. Another sign he cites of stores’ interest in
international literature is that 165 stores recently signed up to do a

experience more Europa backlist promotion.

Reynolds is particularly excited about one piece of the Ingram cam-
paign that is specifically for bookstores to hand out, a book club guide
to literature in translation. The guide, which is on display at the

Americans should Ingram booth, features 20 books, arranged by country, and includes
blurbs from prominent booksellers about the importance of literature
in translation. The idea, says Swihart, is to make international litera-

have. —Jennifer Swihart ture less intimidating to read in a group. “One way to get a flavor and
taste of other cultures,” she notes, “is to read a great book.”
 —Judith Rosen

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* FALL BOOKS
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James Mustich
Man on a Mission
It was, appropriately enough, a series of conversations more than a decade
of the World Economy ago between author Jim Mustich, currently v-p of digital product at Barnes
and Noble, and his longtime friend Peter Workman (the late founder and
publisher of Workman Publishing) that started Mustich on a 14-year journey
(“the longest homework assignment in history,” he says) to complete 1,000
The global Books to Read Before You Die (Workman, Oct.).
Mustich was founder of A

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web of
Common Reader, a mail-order
trade and book catalogue, focusing on
commerce in eclectic and little-known liter-
ary classics, and Peter was a
99 bold and big fan. “We talked about
fascinating books all the time,” says
Mustich. After the success of
infographics Workman’s 1,000 Places to
See Before You Die, the two
men decided to publish a simi-
lar volume on books. Mustich
knew narrowing down his
*101/4 × 133/4" choices would be a struggle.
“I joked with Workman [that]
maybe we should call it ‘1,000
Introducing Wimmelbooks! Books to Argue About Before
You Die,’ ” Mustich says, noting
Packed with look-and-find fun, the an experience he had shortly
these oversize board books invite kids worldwide
after signing his contract. “I
bestselling genre
ages 2 to 5 to be the storyteller arrives in was meeting the writer Pete
the US Hamill for lunch. And we’re
standing outside the restaurant,
and Peter Workman happened
Maybe we
by.” Mustich introduced
Workman as his publisher, and
Hamill said, “ ‘I didn’t know you
should call it,
were writing a book. What is
it?’ I told him, and that night,
about 11:30, I got an e-mail
‘1,000 Books to
from Pete Hamill listing 20
books, saying, ‘I hope these are
going to be in there.’ ”
Argue About
Mustich’s 1,000 titles are
arranged alphabetically, with
Before You Die’
extensive endnotes for each
entry that lead readers to other, similar books they may find interesting. “It’s
really meant to be a browser’s paradise so that people just come upon things
that they may remember in the back of their mind, things that they’ve always
wanted to read,” Mustich says.
There is, however, another dimension to the book: “Having been a book-
*87/8 × 113/4" seller for most of my adult life, there’s a larger sense in which this is import-
ant,” he adds. “For me, this is a tool for bookstores and booksellers, a way
Grab your My Big Wimmelbookstore for them to embrace their vocation, to be recommenders and conversation
poster while supplies last! starters among their clientele, and to really bring to the fore the things that
books can do that so often in our culture are lost—thoughtfulness, and
nuance.” Things, Mustich concludes, that are often forgotten in the great
PREVIEW THE FULL BOOKS amnesia of our in-the-moment newsfeeds. —D.A. Stern

AT W O R K M A N B O O T H 2007 Today, 4:45–5:30 p.m. Jim Mustich will be in conversation with the
Strand bookstore’s Nancy Bass Wyden, on the Uptown Stage.

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Giveaways, AUTHORS
Signings, Robin Green
and More California Dreaming
Even with all of her accomplishments, Robin Green—who served as execu-

AT BEA
tive producer and writer for The Sopranos on HBO and is cocreator with her
husband, Mitchell Burgess, of the CBS drama Blue Bloods—admits to being
“very anxious” about the reception of her first book.
Visit us at The Only Girl: My Life and

6 Author Signings, B O OT H Times on the Masthead of Roll-

ing Stone (Little, Brown, Aug.) every girl in that
Including: 2657 details what it was like as the
first female journalist on Roll- office did what
ing Stone’s staff at the height of
its popularity in the early ’70s. we wanted to
At the same time, Green adds,
“I’m really proud of this book.
do. It was a macho
Author signing
It’s the best thing I’ve ever
done.”
atmosphere,
6/1, 9:30 a.m.
Table 6
Claiming that she and other
young women in her constella-
but it was a free
tion back then never felt a
#MeToo moment, Green recalls
atmosphere.
how they worked, played, and
even slept with colleagues—
and anyone else who caught
their eye. “Girls,” as she likes to
refer to her younger self and
other young women she knew
during that era, felt “empow-
ered,” she says. “Every girl in
that office did what we wanted
to do. It was a macho atmo-
Author and sphere, but it was a free atmo-
illustrator sphere: no one got heavy.”
signing In 1970, when Green was
5/31, 11 a.m. hired at the age of 25, Rolling
Table 6 Stone was headquartered in
Berkeley, Calif. Her assign-
ments ranged from interview-
ing Hunter S. Thompson, who
at the time was working on
Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas, and then–teen idol
David Cassidy to visiting Den-
nis Hopper at his house in New
Mexico.
Green’s career at Rolling Stone ended in 1973 not because of something
Meet the Editors!
she wrote but something she didn’t write. Publisher Jann Wenner had
Amy Fitzgerald—5/31, 1-2 p.m.
assigned her to do an exposé on the younger members of the Kennedy clan.
Jill Braithwaite—6/1, 1-2 p.m.
Green interviewed Robert Kennedy Jr., who at the time was a Harvard fresh-
man. But the story foundered because she ended up having sex with him.
Green says that she wrote The Only Girl after attending a 40th anniversary
reunion of 1970s-era Rolling Stone employees. Seeing so many of her former
colleagues, she says, brought back a rush of memories. “It was one of the
best times in my life,” she says. Noting that others have written about Rolling
Stone during its heyday, Green dismisses them, saying, “They’re outsiders;
they don’t get it right. I got it right. I was there.” After all, she says, The Only
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lernerbooks.com Girl isn’t just a memoir about her: “it’s all of the girls’ stories.” —Claire Kirch

Today, 3–3:30 p.m. Robin Green will sign at Table 9.

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 THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018

AUTHORS
Roy Scranton
Reflecting on Climate Change

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Roy Scranton is perhaps best known for an essay he published in the New York
Times in 2013, “Learning to Die in the Anthropocene,” which was later
included in an essay collection of the same name.
In it, Scranton argues that, in terms of climate change, humanity has passed
the point of no return. “The question is no longer whether global warming
exists or how we might stop it, but how we are going to deal with it,” he writes.
To put it in Kübler-Ross’s stages of grief, while many of us are still in Denial,
Scranton has moved on to Acceptance.
In his new essay collection, We’re Doomed. Now What? (Soho, July), Scran-
ton, who teaches in the English department at the University of Notre Dame
and is also the author of the novel War Porn, expands on his earlier concerns.
Here he writes about the state of the Arctic, storm preparation in Houston,
and his experience serving in Iraq.
In the past few years, Scranton says, he has seen some of the predictions he
made in Learning to Die in the Anthropocene come true. He feared that cli-
mate change and its follow-on effects would “provoke a kind of existential
fear, which would take form in a kind of scapegoating and virulent nationalism.”
He notes, “That’s all happened.”
Scranton acknowledges that such developments have led to a greater sense
of urgency among progressives. But urgency, he suggests, can sometimes
devolve into outrage. The point, for him, is to not fight the unfortunate facts—
about climate change, about the decline of
our “capitalist, petroleum-fueled civiliza-
tion”—but to understand and reflect on them.
“We live this kind of sped-up, distracted,
constantly alarmed, constantly afraid exis-
Visit us at Booth 2657
tence,” he says. “We need to do something,
but we’re so freaked out that we’re not in a
good place to know what to do.”
As he wrote in his essay “Learning to Die in Learn more at
the Anthropocene”: “The sooner we realize lernerbooks.com/go/Disney
there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves,
the sooner we can get down to the hard work
of adapting, with mortal humility, to our new
reality.”
For Scranton, the way forward involves “detaching from that need to do
something now and reflecting on our situation in a deeper way, with the hope
that new possibilities might emerge, and that we might be able to decide,
with more wisdom, what the one thing to do is.” —Daniel Lefferts
©Disney
Today, 2–3 p.m. Roy Scranton will sign galleys in the Soho booth (2433).

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VISIT CHURCH
AUTHORS
PUBLISHING AT Jeanne McCulloch
BOOTH #3060 Beyond White Privilege
This may be Jeanne

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McCulloch’s first
time at BookExpo as
an author, but she’s
been a familiar pres-
ence since her days
as managing editor
of the Paris Review,
senior editor of Tin
Phyllis Tickle House magazine,
A Life and founding edito-
Jon M. Sweeney rial director of Tin
9780819232991 | $26.95 House Books. All
Happy Families
(Harper Wave, Aug.),
a family memoir spanning 20 years, begins
in East Hampton, N.Y., in the summer of
This loving biography impressively captures the grace 1983 as final preparations are being made
Tickle demonstrated during a long, dedicated life. for McCulloch’s wedding. But those carefully
laid plans are torn apart when her father
— Publisher’s Weekly
suffers a massive stroke from alcohol with-
Author signing books on drawal. Although he’s in a coma at the local
hospital, McCulloch’s mother decrees the
Thursday, May 31, 1:00 to 2:00 wedding must go on as planned. That week-
end—and the decisions that were made—
Jesus would have major repercussions in the lives
God Among Us of McCulloch, her family, and her in-laws.
Roger Hutchison
Foreword by The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry
McCulloch knew there were some inherent
Roger Hutchison, popular author, illustrator, speaker, and dangers in a memoir that could “stink of
presenter, shares the life of Christ in word and image, from white privilege. I knew it would be all too
biblical times as well as today.
easy for people to make that judgment. But family dysfunction is family
9781640650015 | $19.95
dysfunction.” McCulloch continues: “It’s an equal opportunity condition. I
The Adventures of Cancer Girl and God believe there are universal themes—alcoholism, motherhood, strong women
A Journey of Faith, Health, and Healing and how they deal with men who on some level always let them down—and
Anna Fitch Courie truths that apply no matter what the setting.”
Foreword by Ben Emanuel, MD
After signing a contract for
“[A] piercingly honest, encouraging, real, and
straightforward book. . . . Highly recommended.”
– Mary C. Earle, author of Days of Grace: Meditations
the book in 2007, she read-
ily admits to “dithering for a
Family dysfunc-
9781640650107 | $19.95

Beyond a Binary God

and Practices for Living with Illness long time trying to figure out
how to tackle it.” When it did
come time to finally begin
tion is family
A Theology for Trans* Allies
Tara K. Soughers
Tara Soughers explores theology from the position of a trans
pulling the manuscript
together, she fell back on a
dysfunction. It’s
ally—a parent of a trans young adult as well as priest.
9780898690057 | $14.95
habit from her days at the
Paris Review. “We’d take
Xerox copies of pieces, lay
an equal oppor-
them out on the pool table in
George Plimpton’s town-
tunity condition.
house, and start cutting and pasting them back together. So, in the ancient
ways of my people”—McCulloch laughs—“I’d lay everything out on the rug in
my office and crawl around on my hands and knees with scissors and Scotch
tape. If I had to do it all on the computer and couldn’t see it on pages in front
of me, it would read as less ‘worked’ and more flat. The mess, the physicality,
connects the brain and the hand—and the story truly only then begins to
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take shape for me.” —Lucinda Dyer

Follow us on Today, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Jeanne McCulloch signs All Happy Families at Table 13.
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Market Reactive Publishing For SF&F
WHERE: WHEN:
BookExpo’s Midtown Stage Friday, June 1
Javits Center, New York City 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

WHAT:

Hard Sales Numbers Insight Into How short timelines

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WHY:
Booksellers live and die based on sales data, but publishers and press often rely solely on traditional tallies outside of the
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through keeping one eye on Amazon bestseller lists to stay ahead of trends, and how to gauge which Amazon “bestsellers”
have achieved genuine success.

WHO:
Glynn Stewart, CPA (CGA) Jack Giesen
VP Finance & Author President/CEO

Glynn Stewart is the author of Starship’s Mage, a bestselling
science fiction and fantasy series where faster-than-light
travel is possible–but only because of magic. Writing managed
to liberate Glynn from a bleak future as an accountant. With
his personality and hope for a high-tech future intact, he
lives in Kitchener, Ontario with his wife, their cats, and an
unstoppable writing habit.
CEO of science fiction and fantasy press Faolan’s Pen
Publishing, which publishes and promotes the work of
the author Glynn Stewart. With a background in digital
marketing and design, she is an advocate for authors who
want to control their intellectual property and publishing
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JONATHAN CAIN AUTHORS

Ruth Ware
THERE'S LIFE'S Psychic Reading

JOURNEY.
Other than the fortune-teller

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booths she encountered on
bracing walks along the Brigh-
ton seafront, British author

--- Then ---

Ruth Ware knew little about
psychic readings when she
began work on her latest
thriller, The Death of Mrs. West-

THE BAND
away (Gallery/Scout), which
published this week.
That didn’t dissuade Ware
from giving the protagonist,
Hal, a job as a tarot reader.
After researching the world of

JOURNEY.
clairvoyance, including faux
mediums, Ware says that you
don’t have to believe the cards
are imbued with occult power to
embrace tarot as an opportu-
nity for self-reflection.

THIS BOOK HAS BOTH. In fact, it’s the same kind of

MEET JONATHAN THURSDAY, MAY 31ST
1:30 PM HALL E SIGNING AREA: LOCATION 9
2:30 PM HARPERCOLLINS BOOTH 2339 / FLOOR 3
soul-searching that led Ware to pur-
sue a writing career after working as
a waitress, a bookseller, and a teacher
of English as a second language.
“I scribbled stories as soon as I could
write,” says Ware, who remembers
telling her mother at the age of five
that she wanted to write books when
she grew up. Her practical-minded
mother told her that writing can be a
difficult way to make a living. To which
the precocious Ware replied that she
would write book jacket copy instead.
Years later, as a publicity assistant
at a book publishing company, Ware
says that it was “especially hard to go
home and look at your own writing
efforts.” But once she became a
mother, she reached a turning point. She knew she would stop writing unless
she had a reason to justify carving out the time.
Five years ago, Ware began publishing YA fantasy novels under the pseud-
onym Ruth Warburton, beginning with the Winter trilogy and followed by
two Witch Finder titles. But it wasn’t until 2015, when she published her first
crime thriller for adults under her own name, In a Dark, Dark Wood, that
Ware’s writing career took off. That was quickly followed by two more dark
whodunits, The Woman in Cabin 10 and The Lying Game.
In all three bestsellers, danger is thrust into the laps of her protagonists.
But Ware chose a bolder approach for The Death of Mrs. Westaway. “I
wanted to create a character who precipitates a nightmare upon herself.
She’s the one who sets the story in motion by embarking on deception,” she
says. “What psychological thrillers do so well is combine an emotionally
charged personal journey with a clever puzzle. If you can do both, it’s such a
satisfying book to write.” —Alia Akkam

Today, 9:30–10:30 a.m. Ruth Ware will sign at the Simon & Schuster
booth (1738).

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CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Sharing His Life in Words and Pictures

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“ ‘It’s like Smile but with heroin.’ That’s the pull quote I’m hoping to get
from a review,” jokes Jarrett Krosoczka about his latest project, Hey, Kiddo
(Graphix, Oct.).
“I dug deep into my personal history to write a graphic memoir told from
the perspective of my 17-year-old self,” he says. “The book tackles my
unconventional upbringing with my alcoholic grandparents, and dives into
my relationship with my heroin-addicted mother that grew even more com-
plicated when I was contacted by my birth father for the first time.”
Widely known for his picture books and Lunch Lady graphic novel series,
Krosoczka says he pondered writing about his childhood for nearly 20 years.
“Many of those years were just spent thinking and wondering and imagining
and building up the courage to actually write this book,” he says.
Krosoczka exhibited a good deal of courage
during a 2012 TED Talk about how his imagi-
nation and passion for drawing and writing
helped him survive the difficult circumstances of
his home life. After it went viral, Krosoczka
says he made connections with many people
who recognized what he had gone through.
“That realization—that I was so far from alone—
empowered me to be more open about my
experiences,” Krosoczka says. “I realized that
the only way to truly write memoir was to be
brave and uninhibited.”
Sadly, Krosoczka’s mother died of a heroin
overdose when the manuscript for Hey, Kiddo was undergoing revisions.
“While the events surrounding her passing came as no surprise, the weight
of the timing was not something that I could ignore,” he says. “As much as I
always knew that I was writing this book for kids like me—kids who grew up
surrounded by addiction—I was also writing this book for my mother. She
never wanted to live with addiction and always wanted to help others coping
with the illness.”
Though Hey, Kiddo covers difficult subject matter, Krosoczka’s account of
his coming-of-age doesn’t just focus on the dark times. “I gave the book a
rhythm that balances heavy moments and many real-life events filled with
levity,” he says. As a test case, he adds, “I made my editor, David Levithan,
laugh out loud and cry out loud. I am so eager for people to read this story.”
 —Shannon Maughan

Today, 1–2 p.m. Jarrett Krosoczka will sign at Table 13.

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CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS
Matthew Cordell
A New Caldecott, a New Picture Book
“It’s still so incredibly exciting and oftentimes so unbe-
lievable,” says Matthew Cordell about receiving the
2018 Caldecott Medal for his wordless picture book,
Wolf in the Snow. His next book, King Alice (Feiwel &
Friends, Sept.), which he finished several months before
the announcement, stars a take-charge girl who is any-
thing but wordless.
The story, about a book-loving girl who is housebound
on a snowy day, but snaps out of her boredom when her
father suggests she make her own book, is based on an
experience Cordell shared with his own daughter.
“King Alice is directly inspired by my very precocious,
headstrong, and creative daughter, Romy, who is now
nine,” he says. “One day, years ago, we were playing, and we ended up making
a book together—really just a retelling of The Wizard of Oz. We both wrote
parts of it and we both drew parts of it. It was a lot of fun, and we really enjoyed
the journey of making something together, as well as the end product.
“The book’s title,” he continues, “says a lot about the character of Alice—
and Romy.” Cordell describes his protagonist as “a girl who wants to be
the boss and leader and king of everything. She does not care and will not
accept that a king is, even by name alone, a male presence. She refuses to be
anything less. I love how young children often have little interest
in gender and gender stereotypes, and I wanted to make that a
big part of this book.”
Cordell is currently working on another picture book, Expedi-
tion. It captures a visit by a boy and his family to a natural his-
tory museum where, Cordell says, “very different families and
individuals come together by learning and connecting intellec-
tually and socially.”
Like Wolf in the Snow, this is also a wordless tale. “It will be a bit more like
Wolf was in respect to the way the art is rendered, as well as the more seri-
ous tone of the story,” he says. “King Alice is certainly a lot sillier. I do enjoy
making both sincere and funny books—so I imagine I’ll always go back and
forth.” —Sally Lodge
Today, 3–4 p.m. Matthew Cordell will sign Wolf in the Snow and art prints
from King Alice at Table 12.

It’s time to bring books back to the center of our cultural conversation.
So stop by booth #2007 at 9:30 a.m. on Friday and talk to
James Mustich, author of 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die.
Actually, stop by on Thursday, too, so we can tell you about Artisan’s
bid for cookbook of the year, The Noma Guide to Fermentation.
PENDENT
New Algonquin novels from bestselling thriller writer
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Celebrating B. A. Shapiro (The Collector’s Apprentice). Plus the latest from

50 years!
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ORKMAN
World’s Most Adventurous Kid. And our 50th anniversary!*
A few other highlights from our author schedule . . .
THURSDAY, MAY 31 FRIDAY, JUNE 1
10:00 a.m. Meet coauthors Dylan Thuras and Rosemary Mosco, who will 10:30 a.m. Photographer Jordan Matter will be on
be signing galleys of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the hand with some guest dancers to sign galleys
World’s Most Adventurous Kid (Workman). of Born to Dance (Workman).
11:00 a.m. Say hello to Grace Bonney, New York Times bestselling author of 1:00 p.m. Stop by to meet Nova Ren Suma, who will
In the Company of Women, who will be signing copies of her new be in the booth signing galleys of her
magazine, Good Company (Artisan). new novel, A Room Away from the Wolves
12:00 p.m. Visiting all the way from Amsterdam are Flow magazine (Algonquin Young Readers).
cofounders Irene Smit and Astrid van der Hulst, who will 2:00 p.m. And stick around to say hello to author
be signing finished copies of 50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Sara Farizan, signing galleys of Here to Stay
Ordinary Life (Workman). (Algonquin Young Readers).
1:30 p.m. Artful master of the mystery B. A. Shapiro will be in the booth,
signing galleys for The Collector’s Apprentice (Algonquin). *Lift a glass to toast Workman’s 50th!
All book and galley signings and giveaways end when we run out of copies! Thursday at 5:00 p.m.

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AUTHORS
Beatriz Williams
Island Intrigue
In Beatriz Williams’s latest solo novel, Summer Wives (Morrow, July), a
young woman enters elite 1950s society on a secretive island. The bestsell-
ing author channels her experience as an outsider when her husband’s fam-
ily first brought her to an exclusive members-only beach club.
“I was an anthropology major in college, so I’m fascinated by these little
micro-cultures, where different people who are brought together have to
find a way to get along,” says Williams.
She remembers sipping rum Southsides on the boardwalk with her mother-
in-law, when an older man stopped to chat. “They talked about kids and
lacrosse and Paine Webber. He walked away and my mother-in-law said, ‘I
never liked him.’ And I thought, ‘Gosh, you could have fooled me!’ So, you
have all these unspoken thoughts—90% is going on underneath the surface.
It’s a very tight-knit culture, and I found this whole WASPy, East Coast cul-
ture fascinating.”
Williams’s fictional Winthrop Island
is based on Fisher Island on Long
Island Sound, which is visible from
her Connecticut home. “It was hard
to research,” says Williams, “because
there’s such a code of silence and
privacy there. What struck me is
this relationship between the locals
and the summer families that is
symbiotic—they both obviously
need each other—but there’s also
this sense that, ‘We protect our
own,’ whichever side of that divide
you are on.”
As with her previous novels,
Summer Wives showcases life in a
different era. “What I like to do in all
my books is say, ‘Hey, here’s a slice
of who we were 30, 40, 50 years
ago.’ I’m also trying to tell this larger
story of the whole cultural transforma-
tion that took place in the first two-thirds
of the 20th century, where we go from
1900 to just a completely different world
in the 1960s,” says Williams. “For this
book, I contrast the summer of 1951 to
the summer of 1969, because you’ve
got the moon landing, the civil rights
movement, feminism is taking hold, and
you have a society that’s starting to value
science and technology more than the
liberal arts.” Williams is excited to
attend her first BookExpo, which will
involve promoting not just her latest
historical fiction but her upcoming his-
torical mystery, The Glass Ocean
(Morrow, Sept.), cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White, about three
women with ties to the doomed RMS Lusitania. The three teamed up pre-
viously on The Forgotten Room.  —Hilary S. Kayle

Today, 10:30–11 a.m. Beatriz Williams will sign ARCs of The Glass Ocean
with coauthor Lauren Willig at Table 13.
Today, 1–1:30 p.m. Williams will sign ARCs of The Summer Wives at Table 2.

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AUTHORS

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Helen Schulman
A Luddite Takes on Silicon Valley
“I’m a Luddite who wrote about tech. I can’t even turn on my own TV,” jokes
Helen Schulman, the New York Times bestselling author of This Beautiful
Life, about her new novel, Come with Me (HarperCollins, Nov.).
Set in Silicon Valley, the new novel is told from multiple points of view. There’s
that of Amy, who works for a 19-year-old genius who created an algorithm
that may allow people access to their multiverses (infinite parallel universes
in which we exist) and wants to use her as his guinea pig. Then there’s her
husband, Dan, an unemployed journalist, who travels to Fukushima, the
Japanese city devastated by a tsunami and the meltdown of its reactor.
“A friend invited me to see the Google campus,” says Schulman, “and I was
so taken by how crazy it was. I thought I might want to write about someone
like Sheryl Sandberg, who’s a mom working with all these baby geniuses. The a year, but I need to write to stay
idea of the multiverse theory in physics was wild and new to me, but then my sane. I learned when I had kids
11-year-old son informed me, ‘Everyone knows that, Mom.’ ” that I didn’t have time to pour a special kind of tea or listen to the right music
As for adding Fukushima to the story, Schulman says that she wanted to if I wanted to have time to write. I squirreled away little pieces of the day in
include it because of “the secrecy and the fact that the rest of the world didn’t which to write, and whenever I could, I dived right in.”
care about all the radiation that’s still coming into the oceans from the melt- While the novel may be set in the center of the tech world, Schulman sees
ed-down reactors. I felt as if it just disappeared from the news, and things like it as being about attachment. “I have a quote in the front of the book from a
that bother me,” she says. poem by Brenda Shaughnessy: ‘I’ll go anywhere to leave you, but come with
Given Schulman’s day job as the fiction chair of the Creative Writing Program me,’ ” she says. “It seemed so perfect for the multiverse.” —Lucinda Dyer
at the New School, it can be a challenge for her to find time to write. “It’s impos-
sible, but I’ve always done it,” says Schulman. “Sometimes I teach 12 months Today, 11–11:30 a.m. Helen Schulman will sign galleys at Table 13.

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FICTION WITHOUT
FRONTIERS
AUTHORS
Author Signings FLAME TREE PRESS
ARCs | Thursday May 31st
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London & New York
Eloisa James
Autographing Area Hall 3E | Table 15
John Everson 1:00 - 2:00 pm award- Shows Her Wilde Side
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With her latest romance series, the Wildes of Lindow Castle, which she began
last fall with Wilde in Love, the romance doyenne and Shakespeare professor
Eloisa James explores the roots of celebrity culture and today’s obsession
with fame.
“The series,” James notes, “is set in the Georgian period, which is when
they figured out how to reproduce etchings and prints very cheaply. So all of
a sudden, these reproductions started going all over England on peddlers’
carts. That enabled people to collect prints of their favorite people and that
led to celebrity culture.”
In the just released second book in the series, Too Wilde to Wed (Avon),
James juxtaposes what the public thinks is going on between Lord North
and his former fiancée, who jilted him in the first book, and the truth of their
situation. Now a governess installed in his castle, she is taking care of some-
one’s baby.
“He’s being portrayed as a rapist,” says James. “The public believes she’s
caring for his child and is being forced to work in menial labor in the nursery
in his own castle. And the consequences of this fascination with the Wilde
family really interested me.”
With an eye to the #MeToo controversy, James also delves into the idea of
consent. In a book featuring a governess, James is especially sensitive to
employment hierarchy and the power a boss has over his or her workers.
“My first book,” she says, “which came out in 1999, was much more histori-
cally accurate in terms of relations between men and women, because the
man could absolutely call his wife a whore if he thought she spoke to some-
one. If she got pregnant while he was away, he could kill her and get off.
“But now that’s just not going to fly,” she continues. “My books have to deal
with the present, even if they take place in the past. You have to feel comfort-
able in the world I create, so it’s a delicate balancing act to have her be a gov-
erness and to have her give consent.”
James has participated in BookExpo throughout her career. “For me it’s a
very joyful occasion,” she says. “I can [remember] back to having no one at
Reader promotions Booth #1421 my signing, to having three people coming to the booth, to making it into the
Author Events FLAME TREE PRESS chutes for the first time, to having a line where people are actually sitting
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Today, 10–10:30 a.m. Eloisa James will sign at Table 13.

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AUTHORS
Tommy Orange
The Urban Native American
Tommy Orange, a member of the The 49th Mystic

© elena seibert
Beyond the Circle #1
Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of
978-0-8007-2978-3 • $24.99c
Oklahoma, hopes his debut novel, May 2018
There There (Knopf, June), will alter
Some say the great myster y of
readers’ perceptions of contempo- how one can live in two realities
rary Native American life. “People at once is only the stuff of dreams.
equate the native experience with They are wrong. The New York
this idea of living off the land, but Times bestselling master of sus-
pense takes you on a mind-bend-
70% of native people live in cities
ing, epic journey where every-
now. We need an update in the thing you think you know is about
way we think about native people to change.
and the native experience. Litera-
ture can change the way we think
collectively. This is one way that I
hope will help serve as an update.”
A major motivation for Orange
to write a novel was that he saw a Rise of the Mystics
Beyond the Circle #2
gap in literature about what rang true to 978-0-8007-2979-0 • $24.99c
his own experience of growing up in Oak- October 2018
land, Calif. “It had to do with telling a
Master of suspense Ted Dekker
story that I couldn’t find about the urban returns with Rise of the Mystics,
Indian experience and about the Oak- the powerhouse conclusion to
land experience,” he says. “I was searching the sweeping, two-novel quest
for it—we try to find ourselves reflected that began with The 49th Mystic.
Humanity is days from falling into
in literature. One of the functions of liter-
darkness forever and only one girl
ature is to help us not feel lonely.” can bring it back from the brink.
The road to publication started with a But first she must find the Five
reading the author did several months Seals of Truth, a quest she was
after graduating from an MFA program born to undertake, or die tr ying.
at the Institute for American Indian Arts,
in Santa Fe, N.Mex. Writer Claire Vaye
Watkins was there and asked if she could
send his manuscript to her agent, Nicole
Aragi. Orange waited for a few months and heard nothing. But then Donald
Trump was elected president. “Nicole Aragi was up until four in the morning
with anxiety over the whole election, and she said my manuscript brought Hidden Peril
her hope,” says Orange. “She called me and offered to represent me the fol- Code of Honor #2
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lowing day.” Shortly thereafter, he met with 10 interested publishers, and 978-0-8007-2769-7 • $15.99p
Knopf won the bidding war this past February. October 2018
There There focuses on 12 Native Americans who have various personal
All is well in Kristin Dane’s life until,
reasons to attend the Big Oakland Powwow, where native culture and tradi- one by one, people connected to her
tions, including drumming and dancing, are celebrated. Jacquie Red Feather local fair trade shop begin to die.
is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. It’s up to Detective Luke Carter to
Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and find and stop the ruthless master-
mind behind the killings before it’s
has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Through Jacqui
too late.
and Dene and the other 10 characters, Orange grapples with a complex and
painful history.
Orange hopes readers will connect with his book: “I want readers to fall
into the world that is the novel and love the experience there. It’s not all easy
or enjoyable, but I love the experience of becoming enraptured with a novel
and with the world that is built within it—going through the experience from
beginning to end and just being enthralled by it. If there are things along the
way that I think people should probably know about, that’s a bonus, but I really
want it to be enjoyed as a book and as a reading experience.” —Hilary S. Kayle
www.bakerpublishinggroup.com
Today, 3:30–4:30 p.m. Tommy Orange will be signing finished copies of
his novel at Table 4.

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NOTAB LE AU TH O RS A N D
ENG AG I NG S TO RI E S AUTHORS
YOUR NEXT READ IS A BLINK AWAY! Gary Shteyngart
Grateful for Greyhound
Solo Gary Shteyngart thanks the Greyhound

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Kwame
Alexander with bus company at the end of his forth-
Mary Rand Hess coming novel. The novelist and Columbia
Hardcover $18.99 University creative writing professor
9780310761839 drafted Lake Success (Random House,
Sept.) during an epic 2016 bus trip,
Swing traveling from New York City to El Paso,
Kwame Tex., tapping out descriptions on his
Alexander with iPhone from a bus seat.
Mary Rand Hess
Hardcover, “I knew from the beginning that this
jacketed $18.99 was going to be a kind of monumental,
9780310761914 almost life-changing journey for me,” he
October 2, 2018 says. “Those of us who live on the coasts
are not that familiar with the interior of
the country, and nothing beats taking
a journey by Greyhound. That’s where
A Touch of Gold you really see the country up close.”
Annie Sullivan The book tells the story of
Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
9780310766353
August 14, 2018
Barry, a millionaire hedge fund
founder who also escapes his New
York City life on a cross-country
Oh, crap! Am I
bus trip. Barry flees problems
with his wife, an inability to cope
with his autistic son, and legal
unable to do
Meet the Sky
McCall Hoyle
complications at his hedge fund.
Back in New York, Barry’s
unhappy wife must cope with his
this?
Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
absence and make some momentous life decisions, alone.
9780310765707
September 4, 2018 Throughout his journey, Barry chases memories of his undergraduate life
at Princeton, trying to escape into a more carefree time in his life. Shteyngart
once taught at the Ivy League university and gained a measure of sympathy
for his hero. “Princeton is one of those schools where everyone ends up on
Wall Street,” he says. “You have these superintelligent people, but also they
The Color of Lies have their whole lives already planned out—and they almost know that
CJ Lyons
they’re not going to be happy.”
Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
9780310765356 Barry follows the same route that Shteyngart took during his days-long
November 6, 2018 Greyhound trip. “To be honest, a lot of this is kind of reportage,” says Shteyn-
gart. “A lot of the stuff you read in the book happens. Not all of it, obviously,
but a great deal of it.”
Shteyngart started the book during a tumultuous election year and an
anxious moment in his personal life as well. He’d gotten stuck after writing
Pretty in Punxsutawney more than 100 pages of a new novel, a globe-trotting thriller about a woman
Laurie Boyle Crompton who works as an intelligence agent for a hedge fund. For the first time in his
Hardcover, jacketed $17.99 writing career, Shteyngart abandoned a novel before it was finished.
9780310762164
“It was scary,” he says, recalling the moment he stopped writing the thriller
January 15, 2019
and started writing Lake Success, a departure from his earlier work. “The
previous novels I’d written were all about the Russian-American experience,
and this book has almost nothing to do with that. So for a second, I kind of
froze and thought, ‘Oh, crap! Am I unable to do this? Am I unable to write
things other than my own biography?’ ”
Those fears were unfounded, as Shteyngart drafted Lake Success between
/BlinkYABooks @BlinkYABooks June and December of 2016—a personal writing record for the novelist. As
for the abandoned manuscript, Shteyngart says, “Nobody will ever see it.
Maybe I’ll donate it to a university someday. Or maybe I’ll just burn it.” 
/BlinkYABooks /BlinkYABooks
 —Jason Boog

Today, 2:30–3 p.m. Gary Shteyngart signs Lake Success at Table 5.

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AUTHORS
Bryan Reardon
Terror at Penn Station
Following the success of Bryan Reardon’s debut novel, Finding Jake
(2015), which became a New York Times bestseller, friends warned
him about the sophomore slump. “I didn’t believe any of it,” says
47-year-old Reardon.
But he did encounter one hurdle. The protagonist of his follow-up
thriller, The Real Michael Swann (Dutton, June), is a woman, Michael
Swann’s wife, Julia. “I was really committed to writing a strong, relat-
able female character,” says Reardon, who drew on his own life for
Finding Jake.
The new novel opens with Michael going missing after a bombing at New retirement pensions increasingly going to the wayside. Julia and Michael, he
York City’s Penn Station. As Julia searches for her husband—and tries to says, belong to a generation of middle-aged people who “built a life they
determine whether he’s alive—she thinks back on their marriage and won- expected they would have based on how they grew up. They thought it was
ders if he’s really the man she thought she knew. untouchable. All of a sudden, they’re finding out that all this stuff they bought,
Though the novel involves a high degree of fictionalization, it was inspired all these mortgages they have, all these car payments—they’ve become like
by an experience Reardon and his wife had. After a fire shut down service on Marley’s chains.”
one of the train lines, Penn Station became overcrowded and hot. How all of this links together is the stuff of spoilers. But, for Reardon, the
Reardon says that he was “amazed at how quickly the place filled up [with novel is more than its thrilling premise. “We’re so afraid of this concept of ter-
people],” adding, “My brain went immediately to all the awful things that could rorist attacks and foreign terrorists. But no one’s talking about the far more
happen.” However unnerving the incident, Reardon had an idea: “What if likely scenario that, all of a sudden, the person supporting your family is
someone did that on purpose? What if someone set the fire?” going to lose his job.” —Daniel Lefferts
Reardon also uses The Real Michael Swann to explore questions about how
careers and lifestyles have changed, with sureties like company loyalty and Today, 1:30–2 p.m. Bryan Reardon will sign at Table 4.

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In Carmela Full of Wishes (Putnam, Oct.), their first collaboration since win-
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interpretation?
MdlP: I was visiting a California school, and a Mexican boy pointed toward
the sky, where the wind was carrying hundreds of dandelion spores, and said
to his teacher, “Look, Miss! The sky is full of wishes!” I’ve always loved when
young people stumble into poetry, but this one was special—because the
speaker was a Dreamer. I started to sketch out a story around that dandelion
line, but I couldn’t get any traction until I started to see the story through the
eyes of a little girl named Carmela. She made it all real for me.
CR: I wanted to visually tell a story that reflected the everyday beauty of
everyday people. It was important for me to tell Carmela’s story in a way that
celebrated her Mexican culture and paid homage to the vitality of migrant
communities. While illustrating the book, I was moving from San Francisco to
Sacramento. In the process of driving back and forth and exploring the Cen-
tral Valley, the farming communities in the area became a major source of
inspiration.

In what way is the story’s message important to you personally—and to

young readers today?
MdlP: I grew up in a border town in California, in a neighborhood that was
predominantly Mexican and Mexican-American, and though there was a lot
of poverty, there was even more beauty and color and love.
nIn a time when our leaders speak about building walls, and so many
mixed-status families are living in limbo, there’s no story I’d rather put into
the world. For one thing, I believe representation is a game changer. But I
also hope this book finds its way into white suburban households. Diverse
literature for the very young is a vital part of creating a more empathetic

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and tolerant future.
CR: I think the most impactful message this story has to offer is for children
years
who might not get to see themselves or their experiences reflected in books.
TUTTLE The message is that their story matters and so do they. Carmela’s story is
Books to Span the East and West also a reminder that there are more things that connect us than divide us.

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 THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018

THINK
LIKE A
stian Robinson CHAMPION.
© john kwiatkowski

Was it gratifying to collaborate on a second picture book?

CR: Absolutely! Every book I have the opportunity to illustrate feels like a
gift. Last Stop on Market Street was a book that reflected elements of my
own childhood. In some ways, Carmela highlights Matt’s own background.
MdlP: Christian is one of my favorite illustrators working today. He always
does his research and comes at a project through some kind of personal
connection. But he also has this brilliant way of undercutting my more seri-
ous tendencies. His art, while just as thoughtful, always adds a bit of
whimsy that makes the book more accessible.
When I first saw the art for Carmela, I was almost moved to tears. He
just got it. The spreads where he used the traditional Mexican folk art
style of papel picado were especially moving. I consider myself incredi-
bly fortunate to be working with Christian again. —Sally Lodge

Today, 10–11 a.m. Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson will sign at
Table 4.

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how the Old Dominion’s central role in the current beer craze is no accident,
given that America’s beer tradition began in Virginia with the settlers at
Jamestown, who brought the first beer to the American continent in 1607.
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that will point you in the right direction for a statewide beer crawl. 
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Today, 4 p.m. Univ. of Virginia Press will serve bottles of Virginia beer
at its booths (2765, 2767).

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Brian Selznick Honors Harry Potter’s 20th Anniversary

Sidw by side, Brian Selznick’s new covers for the seven Harry Potter novels create a single panorama chronicling the young wizard’s life.

In September 1998, Harry Potter landed on these shores, where his storied
trajectory to superstardom took flight when Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine
released Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone with a 50,000-copy first
print run. Two decades later, the series’s U.S. sales have soared to more than
180 million copies, and worldwide sales (in 200-plus territories and 80 lan-
guages) have topped 500 million.
To commemorate the milestone, Scholastic/Levine is publishing 20th anni-
versary paperback editions of J.K. Rowling’s seven-book series, featuring
new cover art by Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick. Depicting standalone
scenes, the covers, when lined up side by side, create a single, detail-rich
panorama chronicling the young wizard’s life. Visitors to Scholastic’s booth
(1538) will be treated to an early peek at the cover art for the books, due out
in June; a boxed set will follow in September.
Did Selznick find the prospect of creating a fresh look for the beloved
series daunting? “It was terrifying,” he acknowledges. “Mary GrandPré’s
original American covers are so recognizable, and Kazu Kibuishi’s editions
reimagined the world completely and beautifully, while in between those two
we had all of the brilliantly designed Harry Potter movies.”
Selznick’s affection for Rowling’s series came to his rescue. “Luckily, I was a
fan of the books and loved the characters deeply,” he says. “Once I realized I
just needed to offer my own personal vision, I calmed down a bit. All of us
who are fans have our individual relationships to the Harry Potter world, and
[these images] just happen to represent mine.”
Selznick is pleased to introduce his cover art to booksellers, with whom he
feels a personal connection: “I started my career as a bookseller here in New
York, at Eeyore’s Books for Children, and I know how much the Harry Potter
books mean to independent bookstores everywhere. I love going to Book-
Expo, because it always feels like going home, and I’m happy to be going
home this time with Harry Potter as my date.”
Also eagerly celebrating the new anniversary editions is editor Levine, who
was given a set of galleys for Rowling’s debut novel by Bloomsbury U.K.
rights director Ruth Logan at the 1997 Bologna Book Fair, the first he’d
attended since launching his imprint the previous fall.
Not yet published in the U.K., the book was unknown to Levine, who read it
on the plane ride home and knew immediately that it aligned perfectly with
his editorial wish list: “It had the sense of being a book of enduring quality, a
book for the ages, not just for now. It was the work of a writer with an
extremely rare combination of gifts for humor, pathos, plotting, a deep
understanding of friendship and love and the things that make us vulnera-
ble—and of course, an imagination as broad and full and generous as is
humanly possible. Maybe more so.”
Years later, Levine had a similarly intuitive hunch that Selznick was the
ideal artist to put a face on Harry Potter’s new incarnation. “I have always
thought Brian was a genius—that overused word, which in this case is not
hyperbole,” he says. “What Brian has, along with his incredible technical tal-
ent and deep emotional connection to his subjects, is a truly grand, cine-
matic, and theatrical vision. Sound like a match for a certain Edin-
burgh-based author?” —Sally Lodge
Today, 9:30–10:30 a.m. Brian Selznick will sign at a ticketed event at
Table 3.
Today, 11:30 a.m.–noon, Selznick will autograph at Scholastic’s booth
(1538), where anniversary posters and tote bags are available.

Fervor for Frosty

Bob Eckstein’s hilarious cartoon for the New
Yorker merely scratches the surface of this
award-winning illustrator’s obsession with
everything snowman. For The Illustrated
History of the Snowman (Lyons Press, Sept.),
Eckstein, who is also the author of Footnotes
from the Greatest Bookstores,chased Frosty
around the world and deep into history, div-
ing into museums and libraries to shed light
eckst ein

on the snowman’s enigmatic past. 

illus tratio n by bob

 —Liz Hartman

Today, 11 a.m.–noon. Bob Eckstein will

sign the New Yorker cartoon pictured to
the right at the Globe Pequot/Lyons booth
(1827).

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CHILDREN’S

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AUTHORS
Neal Shusterman and
Jarrod Shusterman
Fiction Stoked by Foreboding Fact
Neal Shusterman Jarrod Shusterman

Father and son authors Neal and Jarrod Shusterman didn’t have to search
far to find inspiration for their YA thriller, Dry (Simon & Schuster, Oct.). The
California residents are all too familiar with the consequences of drought and
wildfires, and their home state’s recent struggles with both fueled the book’s
premise: a teen is forced to make life-and-death decisions for her family when
a drought escalates to catastrophic proportions.
After writing a piece together for UnBound, a story collection set in the world
of Neal’s Unwind Dystology, the Shustermans began talking about collaborat-
ing on a novel. “I think that our story was one of the best in the book, and we
wanted to work on something else together,” says Neal. “Jarrod came up with
the concept of a society in which critical services are about to be shut off, and
the pieces of Dry began coming together. In California, we are constantly
dealing with drought, and recently the possibility of the state running out of
water has become frighteningly close. So that got us thinking about what
could happen if millions of people were struggling to survive without water.”
Eerily, their fictional story line continued to reflect real-life natural disas-
ters. “When we were about halfway through the book, we started hearing
about the critical water shortage in Cape Town,” Jarrod says, “and that the
city was approaching the point when water would be shut off to residents
and redirected to critical services. In Cape
Town, it’s called ‘Day Zero,’ and in Dry we call
it the ‘Tap-Out,’ but the parallels are creepy.”
The pair found additional parallels when
they were visiting family in Savannah last September as Hurricane Irma
struck. “When we couldn’t find any water to buy, we had to get into an evacu-
ation mindset,” says Jarrod. “We were actually living through a similar expe-
rience as our characters, which helped us understand and convey their
actions and emotions.”
The Shustermans have a second book under contract with S&S, but before
tackling that project they’re writing the screenplay for a movie adaptation of
Dry, which was optioned by Paramount Pictures in a multistudio bidding war.
“We both write very visually, so as we work on the script, it’s relatively easy to
imagine what the movie might look like,” says Neal. Jarrod adds, “It’s a joy to
adapt something that’s your own, and to reimagine the story. It’s quite a
seamless process—after all, we have the book memorized.” —Sally Lodge
Today, 3:30–4:30 p.m. Neal and Jarrod Shusterman will sign galleys at
the Simon & Schuster booth (1738).

THURSDAY, MAY 31 Giveaways

In-Booth Signings
11:00 am

10:30–11:00 am
with Andre Dubus III

GONE SO
LONG:
A Novel WOLVES OF EDEN:
A Novel
by Kevin McCarthy
2:00 pm

11:30 am–noon
with Jill Lepore

THESE TRUTHS:
A History of the
United States ORDINARY PEOPLE:
(Sampler) A Novel
by Diana Evans
3:30 pm

3:00-3:30 pm
with David Small

HOME AFTER
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A Novel THE JOY OF DOING
JUST ENOUGH:
The Secret Art of Being
Lazy and Getting
Away With It
by Jennifer McCartney

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 THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018

© luke fontana
CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS latter is staying on with the
narrative book project and is

Andy Mientus illustrating both The Back-

stagers and the Ghost Light
and its sequel.
From Broadway to Middle Grade Describing theater as a
“magical” and “fantastical”
Andy Mientus, who has been a theater world, Mientus says it wasn’t
kid since the fifth grade, took to heart difficult to add some “strange
the advice to “write what you know” when creatures and adventure”
he wrote his debut novel, The Backstagers into the mix to write the novel.
and the Ghost Light (Amulet, Sept.). It’s While he has no plans to leave
about a diverse group of stage theater the stage for publishing, he
misfits who are whisked away to an alien does appreciate the art of
world, where they have paranormal writing, and compares it to
adventures. being “playwright, director,
An actor, singer, and songwriter who and actor” all at once, without
starred in the Broadway musicals Spring having to worry about run times or intermissions.
Awakening, Rent, Les Misérables, and “I have all the time in the world to take tangential breaks [from the plot] and
Wicked, Mientus has also appeared on tell you exactly how [characters] are saying what they are saying. It’s really
television in the NBC musical drama awesome,” says Mientus.
Smash and as the Pied Piper in the CW He hopes to continue writing books, he adds. In the theater, actors spend
series The Flash. so much time waiting: either waiting in the wings to go on stage or for the
When Amulet decided to adapt the Backstagers graphic novel series into a next opportunity to be cast in a play.
narrative novel format, Mientus says, “somehow, my name came up. I have “Writing is great,” says Mientus. “Now I don’t have to wait for the next
a comics background. I’ve always been a writer, and I can draw from my own opportunity to be creative: I can be creative on my own.” —Claire Kirch
real-life experience of the theater.”
The graphic novels were created by James Tynion IV and Rian Sygh. The Today, 4–4:30 p.m. Andy Mientus will sign galleys at Table 3.

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Happy Anniversary, Sleeping Bear Press!
Today at 4 p.m., a cake topped with 20 candles—one for each year of the
company’s life—will light up the booth where Sleeping Bear Press is cele-
brating two decades of children’s publishing. In 1998, the Ann Arbor,
Mich., house released its inaugural picture book, The Legend of Sleeping
Bear by Gjisbert van Frankenhuyzen, and soon established itself as a
well-respected regional press. With the success of its Legends series and
Discover America State-by-State series, which subsequently spawned an
Alphabet Book series that encompasses an array of themes, the company
gained a national presence in the children’s market-
place. Over the years, it has grown its offerings to
include board books, beginning readers, middle
grade fiction, and e-books.
Dedicated from the start to publishing books that
educate as well as entertain, Sleeping Bear has
expanded the size of its list (30–35 new titles are
due out in 2018), as well as its scope. “The land-
scape of children’s literature has evolved, and with
that our content has evolved as well,” says publisher
Heather Hughes. “Today, best practices dictate that
every child should be able to see themselves and
their families on the pages of a picture book. Picture
books can also serve to open a door to alternative
world views.”
Several recent and forthcoming titles, Hughes
adds, exemplify the press’s mission of selecting
books that offer “empowering stories with strong
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characters and emphasis on diversity and caring for each other, and for
our world.” These include 2017’s Willow and the Wedding by Denise
Brennan-Nelson, illus. by Cyd Moore, starring a girl who’s flower girl at
the wedding of her uncle and his husband; My Family Four Floors Up by
Caroline Stutson, illus. by Celia Krampien, a January 2018 release about a
girl and her stay-at-home dad; and two fall titles spotlighting strong
women from history: Aim for the Skies: Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam
Smith’s Race to Complete Amelia Earhart’s Quest by Aimée Bissonette,
with art by Doris Ettlinger; and Lindsey McDivitt’s
Nature’s Friend: The Gwen Frostic Story, illus. by
Eileen Ryan Ewen.
Sleeping Bear has an assortment of giveaways
and art raffles at the booth, as well as several
authors who will be signing in-booth (2864) today
and tomorrow. —Sally Lodge
Today, 10 a.m. Michelle Markel (Hanukkah
Hamster) and Helen L. Wilbur (A Tuba Christmas).
Today, 1 p.m. Mike Ornstein and illustrator Kevin
Barry (Kindergarrrten Bus).
Today, 3 p.m. Clayton Anderson and illustrator
Scott Brundage (A Is for Astronaut: Blasting
Through the Alphabet).
Tomorrow, 10:30 a.m. Leslie Kimmelman will sign
Write On, Irving Berlin! in celebration of the
100th anniversary of the writing of “God Bless
America.”
 THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018

Blink Celebrates Five

© portia wiggins portraiture

peer pressure to think
one way about a prob-

Years of ‘Clean Teen’ lem, but there are a lot of

angles and colors and
approaches to how they
When Blink Young Adult, an imprint of HarperFocus, launched five can face different issues.
years ago, its mission was to fill what it saw as a huge gap in the “Whether it’s decision mak-
YA market: books that reflect a “clean teen” ethos. For ages 13 ing, grief, peer pressure,
and up, it publishes literature that is “PG-13,” with a hopeful we want it to be multifac-
message. eted. We want teens to
Its mission states that the “literature published by Blink is a feel free to wrestle with
positive reflection of what is inspiring and heartening while main- the challenges of life, and
taining a tradition of imaginative and exciting storytelling.... to walk away from a book
Readers will see themselves in all facets of Blink’s literature and feeling like ‘that was a fun
will find new levels of entertainment that enrich and uplift.” read and I am more
It all started with independent bookstores. Before the imprint’s Kwame Alexander empowered to face life,’
launch, Annette Bourland—senior v-p and group publisher, rather than having to look,
Zonderkidz & Blink, and interim acquisitions editor for Blink—traveled act, or sound like everyone else around them,” says Bourland.
across the country, asking indie booksellers what they needed in their stores. Fifty books later, Blink has accomplished a lot. On its list are works by
“They said they needed to be able to hand-sell YA fiction that they could give acclaimed, bestselling writers including Kwame Alexander, Nikki Grimes,
to their customers with a clear conscience,” she says. “Many had question- Denise Grover Swank, Heather Maclean, and CJ Lyons. Many of Blink’s titles
able material given to them that they didn’t feel comfortable selling to fami- have received starred reviews in PW, Kirkus, and Booklist, and are frequently
lies. I thought there was a need for really good literature that didn’t push the chatted up on the social media blog Epic Reads.
boundaries of what you might see in the movies or hear on the radio, just a Bourland couldn’t be more delighted: “We’ve found that there are agents
really good book, without having to worry that your teen was picking up with really good books to publish, but most publishers weren’t interested in
something that you haven’t talked to them about.” PG-13 books. They were looking for more shock value. These great books
She adds that Blink wants to give readers the opportunity to see there are wouldn’t be published if there wasn’t a place like Blink to publish them.”
many answers to the questions they are facing in life. Teens may feel social or  —Beth Levine

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New Macmillan
Children’s Imprint
Debuts
Last October publisher Daniel Nayeri, editorial director
Nathalie Le Du, and creative director Colleen AF Venable
left Workman to create an imprint for Macmillan Chil-
dren’s Publishing Group. The three have so many ideas in the works that
they haven’t gotten around—until now—to naming their imprint. They work
so hard in their space atop the Flatiron Building that they joke about hav-
ing cots hidden in the corridors.
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At BookExpo, Nayeri, Le Du, and Venable
are launching their inaugural list and with it
a name, at last: Odd Dot. The three, who
led the team
responsible for (l. to r.) Odd Dot logo, photo wall at the
Macmillan booth, and book on the
Workman’s
2019 list.
Paint by Sticker,
Summer Brain Quest, and Big Fat Notebooks
franchises, among others, chose Odd Dot to cele-
brate a sense of individuality, while giving a nod
to the idea that a color field comprises many dis-
tinct dots arrayed together. The imprint will pub-
lish a slate of interactive nonfiction children’s
books intended to appeal to both academically
inclined children and those who struggle with tra-
ditional learning.
Although the two types of readers are often
seen as vastly different, Nayeri says they share
one important trait: they get obsessed. “If you
take desire and motivation, and ratchet it up far
enough, you get somebody flailing in every direc-
tion and somebody else hyperfocusing,” he adds.
How Odd Dot intends to reach readers with
those profiles is part of the press’s mission, says
Le Du. “We take very seriously the mission of
inspiring kids to explore the world and under-
stand the world, but then we’re adding on this
other part of giving them the capabilities to change
the world,” says Le Du.
Odd Dot will release its first three titles in
spring 2019. One More Wheel is a counting
board book with moving wheels built into the
book. Code This Game teaches preteen readers
to code a video game, then hack their work to
develop a game of their own. A TinkerActive
Workbook series follows a cast of characters geo-
metrically designed to teach basic math to kinder-
garten through second-grade readers.
Reflecting on the new name, Nayeri calls the
imprint “a shocking commitment to oddity.” Not
just the books but the way the books are created.
Odd Dot’s workspace is as much a laboratory as it
is a traditional publishing house. A 3-D printer
fashions prototypes, while boxes of materials
reflect ongoing experiments with book struc-
tures—Code This Game has a foldout easel to
support the book upright—and even an attempt
to grow a vegetable on the surface of a book.
BookExpo attendees can have what Le Du says
is “their own proudly odd moment” at the publish-
er’s booth (2444), where they can take a photo
with their heads sticking out among a 10x10-foot
field of brightly colored dots. —Alex Green
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Uptown Stage.
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AUTHORS
George Pelecanos
‘A Love Letter to Reading’
The author of 19 bestselling novels set in and around Washington, D.C.,
and a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the HBO series The Wire
and Treme, George Pelecanos knows how to tell a story about the darker
side of life. His latest, The Man Who Came Uptown (Mulholland, Sept.),
about an ex-con who has to choose between the man who got him out of jail
and a librarian who showed him a different way to live, is no exception. Yet
Pelecanos also views it as “a love letter to reading.”
It’s a new kind of story for Pelecanos, who has spent the past 15 years
participating in inmate literacy programs. While volunteering at the D.C. jail,
he met librarian Danielle Zoller, who used to travel the jail with a book cart
before a jail library was created.
“I’m always in awe of people like that,” says Pelecanos. “She had to stage
this cart according to the desires and likes of these guys based on who they
are and where they are [in the prison]. There’s a lot of thought that goes
into it.”
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AUTHORS

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Christina Dalcher
Voice Over
Imagine some not too distant dystopian future where women are completely
subservient to men and barely allowed to speak. This is the premise of Vox
(Berkley, Aug.), a debut novel by Christina Dalcher, a short story and flash
fiction award-winner with a doctorate in theoretical linguistics.
The book actually started as a piece of flash fiction. “I imagined a world
where some kind of bioagent had gone viral and induced a certain type of
aphasia, so it eliminated humans’ ability to speak.”
Then she saw a call for submissions for a dystopian fiction anthology fea-
turing female protagonists, with the plot centering around a specific skill. “I
wanted to keep going down the rabbit hole of the aphasia doomsday story, things become really frightening.”
so I thought, ‘Let’s make this woman a neurolinguist on the brink of curing As to what readers will get out of her book, Dalcher says, “I’d certainly like
aphasia’ and I brought in the irony of her working all of her life to try and them to think hard about whether their voice matters—whether it’s in politics
help people to speak, but she can’t express herself because she lives in a or in any other sphere. Standing by and watching the parade pass is not the
world where women are limited to speaking 100 words a day.” best option. I also hope people will think a bit more about this uniquely human
The author’s background in linguistics informs her work, and while she capacity that we have for language; it’s so ubiquitous, but it’s so unique.”
enjoyed looking into a fictitious cure for the loss of the ability to express one- The author is excited that ARCS of her book will be given out at Book
self, she was more interested in exploring the importance of language when Expo. “If you think about one person telling two friends about the book, and
she decided to expand her story into a novel. “We are the only species that each of them telling two friends, and so on—we’re looking at a possible geo-
has language. Other species can communicate, but communication and lan- metric explosion. I’m definitely in favor of that!”  —Hilary S. Kayle
guage are very different things. A dog barking or spinning on command—
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Julia Sommerfeld on the Launch of
Amazon Original Stories’ First Collection
Amazon Original Stories, a new imprint dedicated to short digital fiction and include free audio versions because we want
nonfiction, released its first collection, The Real Thing, yesterday. It brings people to be able to read or listen to them, or
together six love stories, by Eddie Huang, Wednesday Martin, W. Kamau toggle back and forth, using Whispersync for
Bell, Jade Chang, Melissa DePino and Elizabeth LaBan, and Samantha Voice.
Allen, with new art and animations by Geoff McFetridge. Julia Sommerfeld,
editorial director of Amazon Original Stories, talks about this new venture. Will there be hard copies as well?
Amazon Original Stories is a digital
What is the thinking behind this “bite-sized” approach? exclusive imprint. More readers are
We started with a pretty simple goal: to provide readers with single-sitting reading on their phones, and we
stories we hope they’ll love and get hooked on, and to provide authors a new wanted to provide a customer experi-
outlet that would champion their short work and share it with readers. Ama- ence tailored to shorter, snackable fic-
zon Original Stories Collections meld an episodic format with eye-catching tion and nonfiction by bestselling and
e-book design elements, such as animations. All stories [in this collection] beloved authors, as well as compelling
will be available at once for readers looking to read in smaller doses or binge new writers.
the whole collection.
What can we expect in the future?
How can readers access books? For future collections, we are thrilled to
Readers can download the entire collection of stories to their Kindle or Kin- partner with a growing list of authors
dle app with one click. Prime and Kindle Unlimited customers can get the who are innovating with us, including Jane Smiley, Joyce Carol Oates, Jess
collection for free. Customers will still be able to browse the individual stories Walter, Walter Kirn, Lauren Groff, Blake Crouch, and Michelle Dean.
online as they do any other book, and download them. All of the stories  —Beth Levine

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#RadicalWomen Futter and Raab Get

in History | booth 1847!
Find more at
Ready to Launch Celadon
In what turned out to be an auspicious coincidence, the contracts of power-
House editors Deb Futter and Jamie Raab, with between them 70-plus years
FRIDAY ARC SIGNING of publishing experience, expired in 2016. That year they surprised the
industry when they announced separately that they were each leaving their
1:30-2:30PM, TABLE #9
positions at Grand Central Publishing to push the reset button. The New York
Times reported that both women had grown weary of the bureaucratic head-
“All the crimes which I was aches that come with managing a large publishing operation, and wanted to
not guilty of rushed through focus more on acquiring and editing books. Not long after, they announced
my mind. I failed to they were reuniting to launch a new imprint at Macmillan, Celadon Books.
remember that I was a born Raab, president and publisher, and Futter, senior v-p and copublisher,
criminal—a woman.” quickly added Ryan Doherty as editor and Rachel Chou as associate pub-
—Matilda Joslyn Gage lisher, and the team was off to the races. The imprint appears at the Macmil-
lan booth for the first time this year; the official launch is January 2019.
write
Radical, feminist, writer, The imprint will remain small—deliberately so—publishing only around 24
suffragist—Matilda Joslyn titles a year. The point, says Raab, is to be able
Gage changed the course of to “concentrate on marketing and innovation
United States history. in a way that you really don’t have time for
when there is a big list. We will have that lux-
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#borncriminal really excited about that. We’ve nurtured a lot
#matildaeffect of good talent over the years, and
Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, we hope to do it in a more
Radical Suffragist (Sept. 2018) focused way.”
By Angelica Shirley Carpenter “Also, we want to have fun,”
978-1-941813-18-8 | $19.95, hardcover Futter adds. “When you have fun,
Young Adult Biography you tend to do a good job. We were
pleased to see that in Macmillan’s mission
statement, one of the key points is to have fun. And we are really working as
a team in the most collegial way. After so many years in so many corporate
places, it’s a nice change.”
So far, Raab says, they’ve had an excellent reception from agents. “We
already have built trust with them. They know if they give us a project, we will
see it over the finish line with great care and love.”
Futter and Raab aim to focus on their “sweet spot,” which, they say, is the
intersection between literary and commercial, fiction and nonfiction. “We’re
broad readers, and we want to publish books we want to read. If you look at
our inaugural list, it really speaks to our mission and what we intend to do,”
says Futter.
But don’t just take their word for it; take a peek at what they’ll be buzzing
about at the booth.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (Jan. 2019). In this novel, Theo
Faber is a determined psychotherapist obsessed with finding out why Alicia
“Sneve has written . . . with the intention
Berenson shot her husband five times in the face and then never uttered
of dispelling stereotypes and negative
images of Native Americans. She has another word.
brought the richness of Native American This Chair Rocks by Ashton Applewhite (Mar. 2019) is a provocative mani-
culture and heritage to thousands.” festo against ageism, which offers a new way of looking beyond age bias and
—National Humanities Council a compelling argument to join forces against it.
Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? by Patricia Marx
and Roz Chast (Apr. 2019) is a collection of witty one-line pieces of advice
that New Yorker writer Patricia Marx heard from her mother, accompanied
by full-color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast.
Discounts available to booksellers, educators, and librarians Cape May by Chip Cheek (Apr. 2019). In this sexy and mesmerizing first
novel, a young couple on their honeymoon in 1957 are corrupted by glamor-
ous neighbors.  —Beth Levine
Discover more at the South Dakota Historical Society Press
orders@sdhspress.com | (605) 773-6009 | Pierre, SD | sdhspress.com Today, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. Ryan Doherty will take part in the ABA Editors’
Hours program at the Macmillan booth (2444), where galleys of The
Silent Patient will be given away.

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Sara Franklin: ‘At the Table with Edna Lewis’

Judith Jones and Edna

Lewis, Central Park,
New York City, 1974.

Below: garden behind

Ellerslie Plantation,
Lahore,
Va., 1975.

Before Alice Waters, Mark Bittman, or Food Network star

Ina Garten, there was Edna Lewis (1916–2006). The
granddaughter of former slaves, she gained renown for her
cooking and cookbooks that revived refined Southern
cooking.
Knopf cookbook editor Judith Jones, who edited Julia
Child, signed Lewis’s classic The Taste of Country Cooking
(1976), which offered a view of Southern food that was
refined and nuanced. The headline of a feature about Lewis
in the New York Times Magazine went even further, saying
that she “made the case for black Southern cooking as the
foundation of our national cuisine.”
Born on a farm in Freetown, Va., a community founded
by black families freed from slavery, Lewis cooked and
wrote as a means to explore her memories of childhood
and to commemorate the seasonal richness of Southern
food. Her dedication to authentic flavors and pure ingredi-
ents continues to earn Lewis new fans.
Sara B. Franklin, a writer and food studies scholar at New York Universi- much culinary as it is literary, if not more so. This is especially true for the
ty’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, has collected essays and recipes chefs in the book. It was only right, then, to include recipes, to invite contrib-
in appreciation of Lewis’s work in Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American utors to speak to the ways that Lewis has inspired them in the kitchen. Here’s
Original (Univ. of North Carolina), which came out last month. In it, Franklin author and chef Nathalie Dupree on Lewis: “Edna was the first woman in the
brings together essays from 20 food-world stars, including Nathalie Dupree, twentieth century, way before Julia, to jump the line between being a cook
Vivian Howard, and Caroline Randall Williams. and a chef.”
“I first learned of Edna Lewis while reading an issue of Gourmet magazine Vivian Howard, chef, author, and star of PBS’s A Chef’s Life, credits Lewis
in 2008,” says Franklin. “I’d never been to the South, and I’d never heard of with teaching her how to write about food: “Miss Lewis taught me to lead
[her] before then. Lewis came from a culture in which history and literacy with the story... so with nearly every dish, I provide a story about the concept
were systematically denied, and so there isn’t much by way of historical for the dish itself, about the person who grew the ingredient, or about some-
record that speaks to the specific history of Lewis, her family, and her culi- thing l learned while making it.” 
nary roots beyond her living family members’ memories. I thought it would  —Diane Patrick
be both really difficult and wholly inappropriate for me to try to write a biog-
raphy of Lewis, so I began reaching out to friends and colleagues.” Today, 4–4:30 p.m. Sara Franklin will sign Edna Lewis: At the Table with
Many of the contributors to the book find that her influence on them is as an American Original at Table 9.
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The Battle for Paradise
Puerto Rico Takes on the
Disaster Capitalists
Naomi Klein
AUTHORS
In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans
and ultrarich “Puertopians” are locked in a
pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In
Nicholas Sparks
this vital and startling investigation, bestselling
author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the From Zimbabwe to the Beach
forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism

© brad sparks photography

seek to undermine the nation's radical, resilient
vision for a “just recovery.”

Call Them by Their True Names

American Crises (and Essays)
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our
contemporary crises, countering the despair of our
age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.

Frostlands
John Feffer
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It’s 2051, and Arcadia is under attack. As the
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stand-alone sequel to Splinterlands begins, the
sustainable compound in what was once Vermont

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Black Queer Hoe
Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Foreword by Danez Smith
A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into
ongoing conversations about the line between
sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.
Citizen Illegal
José Olivarez
Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a
first generation immigrant, a celebration of
Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a
vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.
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these three criteria:
original, interesting, and
universal.
Nicholas Sparks is always working,
especially when he’s on vacation. “I
work a lot when I travel,” he says. “I
take a lot of notes and photographs.
I’m generally writing, because that’s
what writers do.”
At today’s morning breakfast,
Sparks will discuss Every Breath
(Oct.), the inspiration for which he
found on a trip to Zimbabwe, where
he took a safari, one of a few he’s
taken during his life. He has always
found his guides “intriguing” on these
trips. “The lives they lead and the
training they have—it was all very fas-
cinating to me,” he says. “At the same
time, my international sales are growing and growing, so I thought it was a
good idea to add a little international flavor.”
Sparks’s 20th novel follows a few momentous days in the life of Hope
Anderson, a 36-year-old woman trapped in a dead-end relationship. She
heads to the family beach cottage in Sunset Beach, N.C., preparing to sell
the house as her father copes with an ALS diagnosis. During this visit, Hope
meets Tru Walls, a safari guide from Zimbabwe who has traveled halfway
around the world following a mysterious letter from a man who claims to be
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his father. Hope and Tru

Sparks’s Sparkling find a powerful love con-

nection at Sunset
Beach, one of the many

Stats North Carolina coastal

towns that play a role in
Sparks’s novels. Just
● 20 novels like Nights in Rodan-
● 105 million copies sold worldwide the—Sparks’s genera-
● Published in 50-plus languages tion-spanning 2002
● 75 million U.S. copies sold love story set in a North
● 11 film adaptations that have grossed Carolina beach town—
$884.9 million worldwide the duo uncover pro-
● Since 2011, the Nicholas Sparks found family secrets
Foundation has distributed more than $15 while standing at a per-
million “to deserving charities, scholarship sonal crossroads.
programs, and projects.” When working on a
new novel, Sparks con-
stantly shuffles story
elements to create the ideal mix. These combined elements must pass his
personal test before he starts writing. “It has to meet these three criteria:
original, interesting, and universal,” he says.
Sparks teases his readers for months before the launch of a new book.
The Every Breath announcement came in March in a missive to his newslet-
ter subscribers. The author also employs a full-time social media manager
to keep his fans engaged every single day. One week after the Every Breath
announcement, nearly 29,000 fans had shared the book cover on their
Facebook newsfeeds. Sparks’s most powerful platform is Facebook, where
he has well over 2.7 million followers, compared to 340,000 followers on
Instagram and 633,000 followers on Twitter.
“What would I want if I was following some writer that I particularly
enjoyed?” Sparks asks himself while planning his Facebook posts. “My social
media strategy is simply to put myself in the reader’s position. To offer the
helpful information and personality that they would want.”  —Jason Boog

Today, 8–9:30 a.m. Nicholas Sparks presents Every Breath at the Adult
Book and Author Breakfast, on the Main Stage.

Casement Welcomes
Boydell & Brewer
Casemate Group and Boydell & Brewer
have reached an agreement for Casemate
to handle all sales, distribution, fulfill-
ment, customer service, and other
back-of-house functions for B&B’s print
books for North and South America.
The new arrangement begins on
September 1, 2018.
Commenting on the pact, David
Farnsworth, CE0 of the Casemate Group
(booth 1713), says, “In a world where
cookie-cutter solutions and mindless
adding of distribution clients is all too
prevalent, by doing what we’re doing, we’re showing that independent
companies truly collaborating is a powerful and extremely valid alternative
to what is becoming an unfortunate industry norm.”
Another aspect of the collaboration with B&B that Farnsworth is look-
ing forward to is adding the University of Rochester Press, one of B&B’s
imprints. —Liz Hartman

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Workman at 50, Keeping It Small

In 1968 Peter Workman founded the com-
pany that bears his name with a single book,
The Yoga 28-Day Exercise Program, which is
still in print. In the intervening five decades,
Workman has grown into one of the largest
independent publishers in the U.S. with five
imprints: Workman Publishing, Artisan
Books, Algonquin Books, Storey Publishing,
and Timber Press.
Despite Workman’s overall size, each of the
imprints remains tiny and functions a lot like
an independent press. This was part of Peter’s
strategy for making sure that each book gets
the attention it deserves. He summarized the
principle in a 2010 speech: “Keep the list small so that attention can be big.”
Over the years, that attention has been particularly big for some titles and
series. Workman’s top-sellers always include foundational backlist titles like
What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff (1984), Barnyard
Dance by Sandra Boynton (1993), and the Brain Quest Workbooks series
(first licensed as a flashcard series in 1992). CEO Daniel J. Reynolds esti-
mates that 70%–80% of the press’s sales come from backlist.
Following Peter’s death in 2013, his wife, Carolan Workman (now president
of the company), and Reynolds, who worked closely with Peter when the
press acquired most of Storey Publishing in 2000, have preserved the ethos
that Peter created.
As the company grew, Peter was interested
not only in preserving the feel of a small
press, but also in perfecting each book’s
package (cover and interior). In his early
days at Workman, Reynolds recalls com-
plaining to a colleague about Peter’s relent-
lessness. The colleague produced a folder
bulging with rejected versions of a past title.
“He did 50 variations!” says Reynolds.
Daniel J. Even though the internet has changed the
Reynolds
way readers find information, Workman can
transform an online phenomenon into print
success. The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adven-
turous Kid (Sept.) by Dylan Thuras and Rosemary Mosco is a follow-up to the
2016 bestseller Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden
Wonders, which sold more than 600,000 copies its first year.
“I think the sales of this book have surprised [the creators of AtlasObscura 
.com],” says Reynolds. The Atlas Obscura team already had a substantial
audience online. “This became a real revenue stream for them,” he adds. “My
goodness—think of a digital company getting a revenue stream from a
printed book.”
Looking forward to the next 50 years, Reynolds plans to follow the same
small-list strategy that Peter established a half century ago. “It all comes
back to focus,” says Reynolds. “Do a few books and do them well.” 
 —Jason Boog

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Ten Years In, a Successful Experiment

Ten years ago Matthew Lore, who had been
v-p and executive editor at Da Capo Press,
teamed up with his business partner, Peter
Burri, to found the Experiment. The press’s
mission is to have a list in which “every book is
a test of new ideas.”
From the start, the press scored A+ with
such bestsellers as Forks Over Knives: The
Plant-Based Way to Health, the Mindfulness
Coloring Books series, and Baby-Led
Weaning.
Jennifer Hergenroeder, executive director of
marketing, publicity, and sales, attributes
much of the Experiment’s success to Lore’s “uncanny knack for trend spotting.”
Well before “plant-based” became as much a part of the diet vernacular as
“Atkins,” Lore noticed something new afoot in the way people were eating or
wanting to eat, and published Forks Over Knives. If he continues his streak,
the next food trend will be finding a balance between Häagen-Dazs and kale
with Clean Enough (Sept.) by Katzie Guy-Hamilton, who advocates a healthy
diet that aims for pleasure, not perfection.
Overcoming Opioid Addiction, which is just out from psychiatrist Adam
Bisaga, happened, Hergenroeder says, because “Matthew was moved by the
fact that there was no guide out there to help.” When Lore noticed increasing
news coverage of the BRCA gene mutations, a leading factor in breast and
other cancers in women, he contacted Pamela Munster, a breast cancer
specialist and researcher in the gene mutation.
Her personal account, Twisting Fate: My Journey
with BRCA—From Breast Cancer Doctor to
Patient, and Back is due out in September.
Lore is equally adept at finding books from
overseas that have yet to be published in the
U.S. In October the Experiment will publish
The Global Economy As You’ve Never Seen It,
an oversized (10¾-in. x 13¾-in.) coffee-table
book. Originally published in Germany, this
economic atlas deconstructs the world
economy.
In September, Lore is leading the press into
children’s publishing with the U.S. launch of the My Big WimmelBook
series. These oversized board books, originally published in Germany, are
hybrid picture books, board books, and activity books. Hergenroeder notes
that these are not “Americanized” versions of the German books, but rather
are being drawn from scratch, with two of Germany’s most successful book
designers and illustrators, Stefan Lohr and Max Walther. A kind of mashup
of the Where’s Waldo? and Choose Your Own Adventure series, Wimmel-
Books will grow with the reader from babies to 5-plus years of age.
The Experiment’s titles are distributed by Workman. —Liz Hartman
Today and tomorrow, Wimmelbook posters will be given away at the
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Church Publishing Turns Hossey, describes how the author suf-

fered from mental illness while in seminary.

100, Embraces the Future In September, CPI will publish Today Is a

Baptism Day by Anna V. Ostenso Moore,
illus. by Peter Krueger, a children’s book
Founded in 1918 in New York City, Church Publishing Inc. is celebrating its depicting diverse characters. And next
first century this year. Although its first book, the Hymnal 1918, is still in print, year, the publisher will continue its In
the press has significantly broadened its publishing program. While it contin- Conversation series, which features dis-
ues to publish liturgical and musical resources for the Episcopal Church, its cussions between Christian leaders on
list includes books on church leadership, pastoral care, and Christian forma- issues believers face. The second book in
tion, as well as more distinctly trade titles. the series will feature Rowan Williams
In 2003, the publisher began expanding to reach an audience beyond the and Greg Garrett, who will discuss the
church, adding religious books with wider appeal such as The Gospel Accord- significance of listening to faith and the
ing to Sam: Animal Stories for the Soul by William Miller and We Are Theolo- writing of good fiction.
gians: Strengthening the People of God by Fredrica Harris Thompsett. And in In addition to serving an evolving audi-
2005, CPI acquired what was then its largest competitor, Morehouse Pub- ence, Church Publishing is the official publisher for the
lishing, a publisher of trade titles for the religion market. General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.—the govern-
Today, CPI publishes between 60 and 70 titles a year for both children and ing body of the church that meets every three years.
adults. Many are geared toward what Mark Dazzo, senior v-p and publisher, Looking ahead, publisher Dazzo predicts even more expansion in CPI’s
calls “the none, done, the searching and the seeking,” referring to religiously publishing program. “I see Church Publishing growing in areas that start
unaffiliated readers, as well as those who are curious about religion. with our core and expand to address the needs and concerns of the broader
As an example, Nancy Bryan, v-p, editorial, at CPI points to a March release, Christian market,” he says, “books and resources that engage progressive
Beyond a Binary God by Tara K. Soughers, a priest and mother of a trans­ and thoughtful Christians on stimulating topics.” He plans to do books on
gender young adult. “We decided to publish Beyond a Binary God because it environmental and LGBTQ concerns, racial reconciliation, evangelism, faith,
reminds us that all of us are made in God’s image: trans people, like all people, and wellness.  —Emma Wenner
reflect something of God both in the ways in which we share human common-
alities and in the ways in which they are different,” says Bryan. Today, 1–2 p.m. Jon Sweeney will sign copies of Phyllis Tickle: A Life at
the CPI booth (3060).
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Gender and Identity in SFF ers to know that they don’t have to figure this stuff out in the spotlight;
there’s room to keep part of yourself to yourself if you need to, whether for
Four Tor authors—Charlie Jane Anders, Seth Dickinson, S.L. Huang, and V.E. your comfort or your safety. But I was a PhD student in social psychology,
Schwab—discuss identity, characters, and worldbuilding in science fiction and you can’t work in that field without realizing that a huge part of your
and fantasy. ‘free will’ is driven by the unconscious uptake of social norms and cues. The
world is more than you’re aware of.
Charlie Jane Anders “In The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Baru was able to defeat every obstacle she

© tristan crane
(The City in the Middle of met by sacrificing someone. In Monster, she has to learn that this can’t go on
the Night, Jan. 2019) forever. Everybody who’s anybody decent needs somebody, even if it’s just a
Charlie Jane Anders is the friend.”
author of the Nebula
Award–winning All the S.L. Huang
Birds in the Sky and was a (Zero Sum Game, Oct.)
founding editor of io9, a Debut novelist S.L.
website about science fic- Huang is a Hollywood
tion, science, and futurism. stuntwoman and fire-
“When I look back on my arms expert. She’s
experiences as a trans and queer person, the most important thing has appeared on Battlestar
been community. This means that when I start creating a fictional world, I Galactica and Raising
think about communities rather than just a handful of individuals against a Hope.
backdrop. “When I told my friends
“The journey of Sophie, the main character of The City in the Middle of I was writing a book
the Night, is about learning to value creatures who are very different about math and guns,
from us. One of the things that I got really into in [writing] this book was they would laugh and say, ‘Only you!’ I studied math at MIT, and then went
the passage of time, and how we shape the past for ourselves. I hope peo- on to be a Hollywood weapons expert. So writing a snarky, violent,
ple come away thinking about the ways in which we bury or reshape history math-powered antiheroine is like playing with my daily life through a fun-
in real life.” house mirror.
“It’s also intentional that I’m writing a pulpy action thriller with an
Seth Dickinson extremely diverse cast, because I want people who look like me and love like
(The Monster Baru me to get to play in escapist thrill-ride fiction. It’s no fun if people of color and
Cormorant, Oct.) LGBTQ-plus people only get to be portrayed in stories about prejudice or
Seth Dickinson is about to coming out. We should get madcap adventure tales, too.”
publish the second book in
his series set in the world V.E. Schwab (Vengeful, Sept.)
of Baru Cormorant. V.E. Schwab is the author of the bestselling Shades of Magic series. Vengeful
“I try to be private about is the sequel to her adult debut, Vicious.
matters of identity, in part “I’ve always felt like an outsider, and so much of my work involves re-cen-
because I want other writ- tering the narrative around characters often relegated to the narrative
periphery.

TCG AUTHOR SIGNING THURSDAY MAY 31

© jenna mauricel

12:00pm–1:00pm
Suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize–winning
author of Topdog/Underdog, signs her latest book
100 Plays for the First Hundred Days

“Vengeful focuses on three very different female

leads who have been erased from their own narra-
tives in one way or another, and looks at what and
how they’re willing to take that space back. It’s not
a story, or a world, that always rewards the good
and punishes the evil. I hope readers have a hard
time deciding who the heroes and villains are.”
 —Diane Patrick
Suzan-Lori Parks/photo by Tammy Shell

Today, 10–10:50 a.m. Charlie Jane Anders, Seth

Dickinson, S.L. Huang, and V.E. Schwab appear
on the panel “LGBTQ+ Authors on Gender and
FIND US AT BOOTH #2823B Identity in SFF,” in Room 1E16.
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Editors’ Hours continued from p.15

SESSION PUBLISHER BOOTH GENRE EDITOR(S) TITLE(S)

3 Chronicle 1702 Visual nonfiction, humor, pop culture Sarah Malarkey Various
3 Hachette/PublicAffairs 1938/1939 Narrative nonfiction, history, politics, business, social science Ben Adams Various
3 Hachette/Nation 1938/1939 Politically left-wing and progressive nonfiction Katy O’Donnell Various
3 Hachette/Jimmy Patterson 1938/1939 High-concept, fast-paced stories for children Jenny Bak, Aubrey Poole, Various
Sasha Henriques
3 Harper/Dey Street MR2175 Nonfiction, pop culture, celebrity, memoir, self-help, music Carrie Thornton, Various
Matthew Daddona
3 Harper/Park Row MR2175 Adult fiction Erika Imranyi Various
3 Harper/Hanover Square MR2175 Adult fiction and narrative nonfiction Peter Joseph Various
3 Image Comics 1803 Graphic novels Jeff Boison Various
3 Lerner/Kar-Ben/ 2657 YA, children’s fiction, picture books Amy Fitzgerald, The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist
Carolrhoda Joni Sussman Ernest Everett Just by Mélina Mangal,
illus. by Luisa Uribe; Girls on the Line by
Jennie Liu et al.
3 Macmillan/FSG 2444/2445 Literary fiction Emily Bell Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
3 Macmillan/St. Martin’s 2444/2445 Adult fiction and nonfiction George Witte A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne
Fowler
3 Macmillan/Flatiron 2444/2445 Adult and YA fiction and nonfiction Sarah Barley Mirage by Somaiya Daud
3 Macmillan/Picador 2444/2445 Hardcover and trade paperback literary fiction and nonfiction Pronoy Sarkar We the People: A Progressive Reading of
the Constitution for the Twenty-First
Century by Erwin Chemerinsky
3 Rand McNally 2712 Atlases, nonfiction, reference Jodie Knight American Journey: A Treasury of Rand
McNally Road Atlas Covers
3 Scholastic Press/Focus 1538 YA nonfiction Lisa Sandell Unpunished Murder by Lawrence
Goldstone; D-Day by Deborah Hopkinson
3 Scholastic/Cartwheel/ 1538 Children’s board books, picture books, readers, Liza Baker Mac Undercover by Mac Barnett, illus. by
Orchard/Branches illustrated chapter books Mike Lowery; My Wish for You by Kathryn
Hahn, illus. by Brigette Barrager
3 S&S/Scribner 1738 Literary fiction and nonfiction Valerie Steiker, Various
Daniel Loedel
3 S&S/Gallery 1738 Contemporary commercial fiction and pop culture Jackie Cantor, Various
Kate Dresser
3 S&S/Simon Pulse 1738 High-concept commercial YA fiction Jennifer Ung Various
3 S&S/Paula Wiseman 1738 Picture books and novels for young readers Paula Wiseman Various
3 S&S/Margaret K. McElderry 1738 Literary fiction and nonfiction for children and teens Ruta Rimas, Various
Margaret K. McElderry
3 South Dakota Historical 1847 Nonfiction and history Nancy Tystad Koupal, Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage,
Society Press Jennifer E. McIntyre Radical Suffragist by Angelica Shirley
Carpenter
3 Workman 2008 Adult nonfiction Megan Nicoly The Flow Series: 50 Ways to Draw Your
Beautiful, Ordinary Life by Irene Smit
and Astrid van der Hulst, illus. from Flow
4 Abrams 2207 Visual nonfiction, art, photography, performing arts, Eric Klopfer Typeset in the Future: Typography and
fashion, design, nature, science Design in Science Fiction Movies by
Dave Addey
4 Abrams ComicArts 2207 Graphic novels and illustrated books about the creators Charlie Kochman Run by Congressman John Lewis,
and history of comics art, animation, and cartoons Andrew Aydin, illus. by Afua Richardson
4 Central Avenue 1521 Poetry and fiction Michelle Halket [Dis]Connected: Poems & Stories of
Connection and Otherwise
4 eBooks2go 2964 Print and digital solutions for all genres John Bean, Nick Furio N’Digo Legacy Black Luxe 110, African
American Icons of Contemporary History by
Hermene Hartman and David Smallwood
4 Hachette/Orbit 1938/1939 Science fiction and fantasy Will Hinton Various
4 Harper/Amistad MR2175 Multicultural fiction and nonfiction Tracy Sherrod Various
4 HarperCollins Christian MR2175 Bibles, inspirational books, academic resources
4 Lerner/Kar-Ben/Carolrhoda 2657 YA, children’s fiction, picture books Jill Braithwaite, A Valentine for Frankenstein by Leslie
Joni Sussman Kimmelman, illus. by Timothy Banks; The
Epic Origin of Super Potato: Book One by
Artur Laperla et al.
4 Lion Forge 1802a Comics publishing for all ages Greg Tumbarello Sheets by Brenna Thummler; Upgrade Soul
by Ezra Clayton Daniels et al.
4 LoLo’s Lighthouse Productions 2679 Memoir Laura Eustache Zamor
4 Macmillan/Wednesday Books 2444/2445 Crossover: YA and beyond Sara Goodman Sadie by Courtney Summers
4 Macmillan/Forge 2444/2445 Mystery/thriller Kristin Sevick Trust Me by Hank Phillippi Ryan
4 Macmillan/FSG Books for 
Young Readers 2444/2445 Children’s, YA Joy Peskin Various
4 Macmillan/Henry Holt Books 2444/2445 Children’s, YA Tiffany Liao Various
for Young Readers
4 Phoenix International 1902/3 Juvenile fiction and nonfiction, early childhood education Susan Rich Brooke, Take Along Nightlight series; Peppa Pig
Kathy Broderick Moonlight Bright Light Flashlight
Adventure Book
4 Raven Crest 1562 Historical fiction, religious Alyssa Smith The Feather by A.J. Dudley
4 Scholastic/Graphix 1538 Graphic novels for young readers David Saylor Dog Man by Dav Pilkey; Amulet by Kazu
Kibuishi
4 Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine 1538 All genres for young readers Arthur A. Levine Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan
4 Workman 2009 Children’s nonfiction Maisie Tivnan and The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the
Danny Cooper World’s Most Adventurous Kid by Dylan
Thuras and Rosemary Mosco, illus. by
Joy Ang
4 Workman/Artisan 2010 Lifestyle, culinary Judy Pray Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee

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What Inspired Their Buzzy Books?

How Real Life Inspires Writers
Show Daily at BookExpo asked all six of the Adult Buzz authors what single mom who had to scramble from scrubbing toilets to picking up a kid
inspired their books. Here are their answers. at preschool, her car breaking down along the way. To quell the silence,
David Gates read the paragraph about the “Sad House” out loud to the
Kim Brooks class. He’d never done that before. When he finished, he shook his head,

© beth rooney
Small Animals chuckled, and said “Solid gold, man. Solid gold.” I mostly forgot about it
Seven years ago, a per- until I saw a call for essay submissions by Vox Media several years later.
son I didn’t know and The morning the essay went live, my website got traffic of 4,000 hits an
would never meet called hour. People wrote to me, some thanking me, since they, too, grew up with
the police on me for or were single moms who worked a disgusting job for barely any pay. In the
what they thought was midst of it all, an agent contacted me, asking if I had a book in the works,
my neglectful parenting. and, well, here we are.
The fallout from this
event spurred me to Stephen Markley
reconsider both my own Ohio

© michael amico
identity as a mother and Ohio’s gestation dates
the culture of fear-based parenting in which I was raising my children. Writ- back to one of those
ing for me is always a form of inquiry or interrogation; I write in order to nights I had back in my
unravel that which most mystifies me. With Small Animals, I wanted to hometown during my
understand how it was our notions of what it means to be a good parent and late 20s, pretty lost in
to keep a child safe have changed so radically in the course of a generation, life, banging around the
how these changes disproportionately impact the lives of women, and what bars, and having strange
these changes and the rise of fearful parenting can tell us about our children, conversations with a
our communities, and ourselves. range of people I’d
known in high school. It
Casey Gerald all ended in a truly [explosive] thunderstorm with an old friend being pulled
There Will Be No Miracles Here out of the car we were in and arrested. He’d later spend three days in jail
I’d lived my way into a over Christmas, and I woke up in a stranger’s house and that morning wrote
© jo canziani

dead end and decided to the first notes that would grow into the idea behind the novel. It was some-
write my way out. I’d thing about all those conversations of loss and longing combined with the
achieved about every- way events can hurtle forward with unpredictable momentum. Inspiration is
thing a kid is supposed fickle and not always pretty.
to achieve in this society,
but I was cracked up, Wayétu Moore
and many of my friends She Would Be King
were cracked up, and I wanted to write about

© yoni levy
the world was cracked love and also about
up, too. So I set out to Liberia, two things
trace the cracks. Before I that, at the time, I
finished, one of my friends took his life. He came to me in a dream and said: hadn’t quite figured
“We did a lot of things that we would not advise anybody we loved to do.” My out. When I started
job became to make plain “those things,” to expose the dark side of the writing my novel, I
American Dream, to counter the ways we’re taught to live—to die, in fact— hadn’t been back to
and, ultimately, to find and share a way to heal. Liberia since I was five,
when we fled from the
Stephanie Land civil war, so it was a
Maid way for me to recon-
Maid began as an essay I nect and rediscover a part of me that had been lost because of that war. I am
© nicol biesek

wrote in college. Disre- also endlessly curious about love. I had a very specific, somewhat purist way
gard whatever image that of looking at love and its consequences as a child, because my parents and
conjures in your mind. I grandparents have epic love stories that crossed continents and religions.
was in my first writing Still, I’ve always known that love is rarely ever spotless. I wanted to navigate
workshop, taught by imperfect love through story.
David Gates, a real writer,
and I had to come up with Sarah Weinman
10 pages to submit to the The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner
rest of the class. My and the Novel That Scandalized the World
classmates, most 10 My beat, if I have one, is the intersection of crime and culture, ideally stories
years younger than me, didn’t know what to say about an essay written by a from the mid-20th century. Several years ago, I stumbled onto Sally Horner’s
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kidnapping while looking

Grizzly

© TY BERGMAN
for my next project.
When I learned the
details, I was stunned: I
didn’t know there was a
Reading
real-life precursor to Lol- Ecco publicity director Sonya Cheuse can’t
ita, Vladimir Nabokov’s seem to interest her listener in the book in
which he stars, Bearskin (June). Perhaps
still-controversial novel.
you’ll have better luck at the HarperCollins
And I was especially booth (2338), where Ecco welcomes you
taken aback to discover to snuggle up to this grizzly. You can also
he’d referenced her by grab some gummy bears while you’re visit-
ing. Bearskin is a gritty debut from James
name in the book. I
McLaughlin about the caretaker of an
wanted to know what happened to Sally, who she was, and how she survived Appalachian nature preserve who gets
her terrifying ordeal. I also wanted to know what Sally Horner’s brief and embroiled in a dangerous bear-poaching
tragic life revealed about Lolita, about America just after WWII, and about scheme.

who has the right to shape other people’s stories for art’s sake.

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.

Anne and Charles: Passion and Politics Too Much Junk in My Trunk! The Soulstealer War: The Splintering
in Late Medieval France Realm

Rozsa Gaston Roe De Pinto W.L. Hoffman

Renaissance Editions Outskirts Press Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 9780984790654 ISBN 9781478790259 ISBN 978-1457562457

A historical dramatization of Enjoying a little bit too much The Nosferu draw nearer to
the 15th-century marriage of a good thing, our Zealy & achieving their dark ends in
between Anne of Brittany Whubba’s next escapade takes the fantastic Realm of Weir,
and Charles VIII of France. them out into the much deeper and open warfare looms.
A political alliance blossoms waters beyond the Big Rock Human Kenneth McNary is the
into a loving union as the Late Island, where they explore and reluctant wizard that is tasked
Medieval Era gives way to the find so many, different sorts with uniting the Elder Race.
Renaissance. Book One of the of fish. MUCH TOO MUCH Can a mere human shift the
Anne of Brittany Series. teaches the lesson here! balance of power among Gods?

linda@schulmanagency.com doctaroe@aol.com & 914-879-1626 BEA/Con - Booth 1343 & New Title Showcase
www.renaissanceeditions.com www.outskirtspress.com/zealyandwhubbatoomuchjunk WLHoffman@SoulstealerWar.com & www.WLHoffman.com

The Feather Traveling Below the Speed Limit Formosa Moon

Raven Crest Book 1

A.J. Dudley Janet Brown Joshua Samuel Brown &

Raven Crest Publishing and ThingsAsian Press Stephanie Huffman
Production House ISBN 978-1-934159-69-9 ThingsAsian Press

What are the evils that hunt Explore Asia, hometown A romantic, geeky cultural
mankind? From whence comes pleasures, and aging with a journey around Taiwan under-
the voice that guides us? As the woman who believes in slow taken by a couple comprised
Renaissance dawns over the travel. Janet Brown shows how of a seasoned writer intimately
Kingdom of Mann, a fellow- daily life and travel intertwine familiar with Asia and a first-
ship gathers. Their sacrifices as she wanders around Bang- time visitor who agreed to
shine a light that pierces the kok, finds unfamiliar delights relocate sight unseen. Join
pervading darkness, but will it in her home city of Seattle, and them as they discover Formosa,
be strong enough? learns to enjoy life after sixty. “The Beautiful Island”.

info@ravencrest.com albert@thingsasian.com albert@thingsasian.com

www.RavenCrest.com www.thingsasianpress.com www.thingsasianpress.com

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Binc Launches Bookseller Scholarship

in Memory of Carla Gray
The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation and the Friends of Carla opportunity to connect with booksellers,
Gray committee are introducing a scholarship to help an early-career book- publishers, and authors to establish long-
seller learn more about the trade and to reinforce the ties between their term relationships. The scholarship
store and the community. includes funds for the recipient to
The scholarship was created to honor the memory of Gray (1965–2017), attend both Winter Institute 2019
who was executive director of marketing at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and and one of the 2019 fall regional trade
began her career in bookshops in the Greater Boston area. shows, as well as to support a community
The Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists outreach project set up by the bookseller.
will provide a bookseller with fewer than five years of experience with an Applications will open on July 9 and run through August 9.
This scholarship would not have been possible without the direction
of Hannah Harlow, Jenna Johnson, and MaryBeth Long, who formed the
The Vital Bookstore Friends of Carla Gray committee. Their fundraising efforts continue tonight
with a celebration of books and friends at the
Cowgirl Hall of Fame (519 Hudson St., New York
An interactive exhibit inaugurated this year, the Vital Bookstore (booth 2403) features four life-size City), 9 p.m.–1 a.m. —Judith Rosen
walk-through models: a café, a store with modern décor and sideline merchandising strategies, a tradi-
tional store with a classic library look and shelving designs, and a children’s store. Visitors can take a
self-guided tour, a small-group (8–10 people) guided tour, or join dialogue sessions with bookstore
owners and thought leaders. Open Road Inte-
Dialogue Table 1 Dialogue Table 2 grated Media and
Ingram Team Up
Thursday
9:10–10 a.m. Pattern Language Discussion: The Planogram as Catalyst for Maintaining a
Self-Facilitating Group Dynamic Retail Environment: Donna Paz
Kaufman & Mark Kaufman Open Road Integrated Media, a content company
10:10–11 a.m. IBID User Group Mixed Merchandising to Maximize Margins: Donna that delivers a variety of digital experiences for
Paz Kaufman & Mark Kaufman readers, recently announced a new strategic alli-
11:10–noon Five Quick Changes You Can Make Now: Buying for Margins: Eileen Dengler, NAIBA ance with Ingram Content Group to expand con-
Self-Facilitating Group
sumer reach and boost how readers discover new
12:10­­–1 p.m. Basil User Group How to Grow a Good Idea from Bad Ideas: Easy, books.
Elegant, and Economical: Wanda Jewell, SIBA
Both OR/M CEO Paul Slavin and Mark Ouimet,
1:10–2 p.m. Disaster Preparedness—What We’ve Learned Shelf Help: Revitalizing a Section, Bringing Fresh
v-p and general manager of Ingram Publisher Ser-
with Our Story: Courtney Flynn, Ideas to Your Store: Margaret Lane (Baker &
Trident Booksellers & Cafe Taylor) vices, Publishers Group West, and Consortium
2:10–3 p.m. Make Books/Sell Books: Josh Floyd, Ingram; Experiential: Shelf-Talkers Contest: Hands-on Book Sales and Distribution, cited benefits for
Bill Petrocelli, Book Passage; Kimberly Daniels, Exploration, Creation, and Conversation both companies and readers. Through OR/M,
the Country Bookshop; Sarah Hutton, About These Important Tools of Connection consumers will see thousands of new titles as part
Village Books
of their personalized content delivered to their
3:10–4 p.m. Five Quick Changes You Can Make Now: Pattern Languages That Matter: Lisa Uhrik inboxes.
Self-Facilitating Group
The partnership allows Ingram to offer its pub-
4:10–5 p.m. Franklin Junto Groups: Library & Bookstores: The Planogram as Catalyst for Maintaining a
lishers the opportunity to leverage OR/M’s exper-
Self-Facilitating Dynamic Retail Environment: Donna Paz Kaufman
& Mark Kaufman tise in reaching readers. The two companies are
sharing booth 2730 at BookExpo.—Liz Hartman
Dialogue Table 1 Dialogue Table 2
Friday
9:10–10 a.m.

Pattern Language Discussion:
Self-Facilitating Group
Beyond the Store Walls: Christine Hart, Franklin
Fixtures Official BookExpo
10:10–11 a.m. Five Quick Changes You Can Make Now: Secrets of Store Fixtures That Work: Christine Exhibitor Addendum
Self-Facilitating Group Hart, Franklin Fixtures
Exhibitor Booth
11:10–noon Five Quick Changes You Can Make Now: Leveraging Online/Audio Books in Store: Robert
Self-Facilitating Group Sindelar, Third Place Books Astrohaus 2259
12:10­­–1 p.m. Experiential: Merchandising Exercise Localism/Shop Local: Oren Teicher, ABA Denik 2979
1:10–2 p.m. WordStock User Group What Makes Bookstores & Libraries Vital: Self- Eni Puzzles 2262
Facilitating
2:10–3 p.m. Booklog Users Group Physical Elements of Hosting Great In-Store
Hoffman Creations 1343
Events: Heather Duncan, MPIBA London Book Fair 2845
3:10–4 p.m. Franklin Junto Groups: Library and & Bookstores: Making Events Work in Your Store: Bradley New York Comic Con 2144
Self Facilitating Graham, Politics and Prose
4:10–5 p.m. The Heartfulness Way—Guided Meditation with Squishable.com 2358
Daaji and His Student Joshua Pollock (author Tech Art Gifts 1459
program)

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