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By Ed Nawotka
The Big Apple welcomes another BookExpo.
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
Oren Teicher (r.) greets Len Riggio at the
retailing has had a pretty dramatic negative impact continued on p. 14 keynote podium.
on the economy in terms of lost
jobs, stores, and uncollected Barnes & Noble is not in “mortal
taxes.” The report estimates that combat” with independent
in 2016, Amazon had $130 bil- Meet the creators of the hit Broadway show bookstores, B&N chairman
lion in total sales, including those
and the must-read novel of the year. Len Riggio said, and society is
of its Marketplace resellers, and better off if both B&N and indies
in all, this represented a loss of thrive in tandem.
44,000 retail stores, taking Len Riggio, chairman of Barnes
650,000 jobs along with them. TODAY & Noble, Inc. opened BookExpo
Uncollected taxes, too, remain THURSDAY, MAY 31ST 2018 with a speech lauding the
an issue, the report found. “A year 11:00–11:45 AM work of booksellers and their role
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says Teicher. “But the Amazon booksellers need to remain nim-
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[third-party] Marketplace is a wild ble in the face of change.
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Exporting Scandinavian
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,
Storytelling
with U.S. readers buying nearly a quarter-million copies across all formats. At the New York Rights Fair, publishing professionals joined Nordic literary
The book had one final important booster: “Reese Witherspoon cried buck- agents in a panel called “The Scandinavian Smell of Success: Why, and How,
ets when she read it,” said Milburn. The actress optioned the novel and Their Crime Fiction Has Become a Global Export.” Throughout the discus-
added it to her influential Reese’s Book Club in June 2017. sion, the panelists reminded the audience that Scandinavian crime fiction is
In contrast to that major publicity push, Oslo Literary Agency rights director a proud tradition and far from a passing trend.
Even Råkil spoke of the strategy for the release of The History of Bees by Maja Moderator Jessica Case, Pegasus Books deputy publisher, has published
Lunde, a 2017 book that sold 100,000 copies its first year in Norway and seven books by Swedish crime writer Camilla Läckberg. “I acquired her first
quickly spread around the world. “Social media buzz was the ground for our book just before Stieg Larsson came out—and it was a different time,” she
success,” he said. “No ads, no commercials. But [the publisher] was constantly said. Before the wave of Scandinavian crime fiction broke, Läckberg’s agent
feeding journalists early and generous material. They gave readers informa- struggled to find an English-language publisher. “Us American publishers,
tion about the book through channels the readers trusted.” Touchstone pub- we are always so short-sighted,” said Case.
lished the novel in hardcover last summer, and the paperback hits in June. Maria Campbell Associates senior scout Agnes Ahlander has been work-
Curtis Brown Australia agent Clare Forster described the success of The ing with Scandinavian agents, publishers, and rights departments for many
Dry by Jane Harper. Published by Flatiron in January 2017, the novel was a years. “Ten years ago I responded to perhaps three to four agencies. Today, it
bestseller in the States. Forster thought Harper’s book tour really helped the is upwards of 20,” she said. She described the boom in Scandinavian crime
book take off in America. “This made a huge difference. People could see fiction that followed in the wake of the blockbuster success of Larsson’s Mil-
what a charming person she was,” she said. The book was also optioned by lennium Trilogy.
Reese Witherspoon, as the actress’s influence surfaced once again during Nordic crime has spread to Hollywood too, changing the way crime
the panel discussion. imports are sold and marketed. Books by Larsson and Norway’s Jo Nesbø
MalaTesta Literary Agency foreign rights agent Monica Calignano concluded have already earned big screen adaptations, and The Killing and The Bridge
with an invitation: “U.S. publishers should come to the foreign book fairs more are popular Scandinavian television shows that became hits in the United
often,” she said. “It’s a great way to get to know the market.” 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
Monica Calignano (l.), from the MalaTesta Literary Agency, and Clare Foster (r.), from Curtis literary, crime, or romance fiction. There is a way we like to tell our stories
Brown Australia, on the “International Blockbusters” panel at the New York Rights Fair.
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,
starting with television, then movies, cable television, the internet, and
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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
and Copyright Policy,” which offered a broad look at the current copyright purpose.” —Andrew Albanese
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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 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.
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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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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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selves reflected in mainstream culture. Such
AUGUST 2018 books will hopefully appeal to all young readers,
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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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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
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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
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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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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 &
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Barbara Kingsolver
The Sky Is Falling: Then and Now
Tackling a new book always begins in
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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
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Today, 10–11 a.m. Al Roker will sign finished books at Table 6. This is a
ticketed event.
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BOOK SIGNINGS
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 Ngozi Ukazu
tell. It was important to Soleil and me that we present the details of cooking during thumbnailing, and work on fine-tuning my dialogue while doing
these dishes accurately, and that we put our characters through a journey of pencils, inks, and colors.
understanding where their food comes from and how something on our plate DS: My work often grows out of a single image or group of images, some-
goes from being a traditional dish to a hot local trend. times a single word or phrase, or all of these. I am definitely a visual thinker
But as the artist, I also put a lot of thought into how to convey taste and more than a verbal one.
flavor in a purely visual medium, especially for readers with no concept of TF: Infinitum began as an attempt to codify the field of Afrofuturism for the
how curried mealworms or honeybee larvae might taste. So I found myself New York Times. After that project was aborted, I continued the work in full
coming up with signifiers to convey the idea of a warm comfort food, or a graphic novel form. A story fluctuates between visuals first or words first
fragrant dessert, or a smoky fishy flavor. And that led to some very fun visuals. from project to project. The story determines how it wants to be told. I am
NU: I wrote Check, Please! like it’s a TV show. We have the overarching nar- completely digital in the story creation. As a result, my working process
ratives of Bitty’s four years at Samwell University, and I broke those years takes on characteristics similar to nonlinear editing. I remake the story as
into semesters, and then finally episodes. I write my scripts before and needed. —Liz Hartman
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Blackstone Authors MEET & GREET
Thursday, May 31
10:00 - 10:30AM 11:00 - 11:30AM 1:00 - 2:00PM
Booth 1911 Booth 1911 Booth 1911
In-booth signing with Shelley Shepard In-booth signing with M. C. Beaton and In-booth signing with P. C. and Kristin
Gray and a galley giveaway a giveaway of Lady Fortescue Steps Out, Cast and a giveaway of exclusive
of Take a Chance, the first book in her new paperback reissue samplers of Lost, the second book in
new romance series The Bridgeport the House of Night Other World series
Social Club
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it feels that way. I was raised in
the suburbs of Cleveland, just a
few blocks from the brick-faced
Bertram Woods branch of the
Shaker Heights Public Library
system. Throughout my child-
JOANNE OPPENHEIM WHITNEY STEWART hood, I went there several times
10:00am 2:00pm a week with my mother, start-
ing when I was very young. On
FRIDAY those visits, my mother and I
walked in together but split up
as soon as we passed through
the door, and each of us headed
to our favorite section. Even
when I was maybe four or five
years old, I was allowed to head
off on my own. Then, after a
while, my mother and I reunited
with our finds at the checkout
counter....
JANET LAWLER KATHERINE Our visits to the library were
10:00am LOCKE* never long enough for me. The
11:00am place was so bountiful. I loved
wandering around the book-
shelves, scanning the spines
until something happened to
catch my eye. Those visits were
dreamy, frictionless interludes
that promised I would leave
richer than I arrived. It wasn’t like
going to the store with my mom,
which guaranteed a tug-of-war
between what I wanted and what
MAURA MILAN* ANNE GREENWOOD my mother was willing to buy me,
2:00pm BROWN because I could have anything I
3:00pm wanted in the library.... It was
such a thrill leaving a place with
And don’t miss a special things you hadn’t paid for; such a
thrill, anticipating the new
cookie delivery from Zogby
books we would read. On the
each day at 1:30pm!
ride home, my mom and I talked
about the order in which we were
*Ticketed event only; tickets distributed at show going to read our books and how
opening on Friday morning at 9am long until they needed to be
returned.... We both thought all of the
librarians at the Bertram Woods Branch Library were beautiful.
ALBERT WHITMAN & COMPANY For a few minutes we discussed their beauty. My mother then always men-
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www.albertwhitman.com tioned that if she could have chosen any profession at all, she would have
chosen to be a librarian, and the car would grow silent for a moment as we
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miss my mother these days, now that she is gone, I like to picture us in the
car together, going for one more magnificent trip to Bertram Woods.
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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
“Risen is something apparent to me that people enjoy our relationship. Every time I would post a
of a Renaissance man . . . photo of us, people would go haywire. It dawned on me that we could write
a Leonardo da Vinci a book together. We picked certain topics, and we just taped while we talked
of whiskey.” with each other. It evoked a lot of thoughts and memories in both of us that
—Los Angeles Review we wouldn’t have ordinarily had.
of Books
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.
. . . at B&T’s booth (#1321) on Thursday, May 31, while supplies last. —Beth Levine
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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
11:00am Exclusive Cartoon Signing 11:00am Book Signing
hood of Los Angeles] and she was two years into Will and Grace. I had not 978-1-4930-3666-0 • September 2018 978-1-4930-3085-9 • March 2018
worked with an actor who wore shoes as fashionable as hers were.
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.
What is it with the jigsaw puzzles? Mike Katz & Crispin Kott Suzi Siegel
2:00pm Book Signing 2:00pm Book Signing
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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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BOOKEXPO SHOW DAILY
AUTHORS
Jill Lepore
Join TURNER PUBLISHING at
Big Truths in the Age of
‘Alternative Facts’
BOOTH #2829
© dari pillsbury
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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Welcomes you to
BookExpo 2018
Visit us in Booth #1938
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The New Yorker Encyclopedia of
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10:30 AM
Transcription Kate Atkinson
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Adrift Brian Murphy and
12:45–1:30 PM 1:00–2:00 PM 1:30–2:00 PM Toula Vlahou (Da Capo)
Mika Brzezinski Don Diamont Natasha Ngan
You Are a Badass Rally Towel
Panel: Interviewers- HBG Booth #1938 AA Signing, Table 2 Jen Sincero (Running Press)
Turned-Interviewees Signing
11:30 AM
Downtown Stage
The New Yorker Encyclopedia of
Cartoons Tote Bag
(Black Dog & Leventhal)
Joyful Ingrid Fetell Lee
(Little, Brown Spark)
Give a Sh*t Tote Bag Ashlee Piper
(Running Press)
Ernestine, Catastrophe Queen
Photo: © 2016 Elena Seibert
Photo: MissionPhoto.org
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.
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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BOOKEXPO SHOW DAILY
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
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A World of
Opportunity
for Independent Presses
an brand
Booth #2729 Booth #2922B & #2928C Booth #3024
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
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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There is always something new happening at
upcoming releases
* FALL BOOKS
BIG A Fully Illustrated Atlas
FROM THE
EXPERIMENT!
AUTHORS
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
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
lernerbooks.com Girl isn’t just a memoir about her: “it’s all of the girls’ stories.” —Claire Kirch
AUTHORS
Roy Scranton
Reflecting on Climate Change
© josef samuel
Enchant readers
with new Disney
books from Lerner
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
© nina subin
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
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:
WHY:
Booksellers live and die based on sales data, but publishers and press often rely solely on traditional tallies outside of the
Amazon behemoth, leaving booksellers with an incomplete picture of what readers want. This presentation will walk you
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 CEO of science fiction and fantasy press Faolan’s Pen
science fiction and fantasy series where faster-than-light Publishing, which publishes and promotes the work of
travel is possible–but only because of magic. Writing managed the author Glynn Stewart. With a background in digital
to liberate Glynn from a bleak future as an accountant. With marketing and design, she is an advocate for authors who
his personality and hope for a high-tech future intact, he want to control their intellectual property and publishing
lives in Kitchener, Ontario with his wife, their cats, and an process.
unstoppable writing habit.
JOURNEY.
Other than the fortune-teller
© gemma day
booths she encountered on
bracing walks along the Brigh-
ton seafront, British author
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.
Today, 9:30–10:30 a.m. Ruth Ware will sign at the Simon & Schuster
booth (1738).
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Connect directly with readers everywhere
Millions of readers instantly borrow eBooks, audiobooks,
comics, and more, 24/7 with their library cards.
Booth #2539
CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Sharing His Life in Words and Pictures
© derek fowles
“ ‘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
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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- anything less. I love how young children often have little interest
thing but wordless. in gender and gender stereotypes, and I wanted to make that a
The story, about a book-loving girl who is housebound big part of this book.”
on a snowy day, but snaps out of her boredom when her Cordell is currently working on another picture book, Expedi-
father suggests she make her own book, is based on an tion. It captures a visit by a boy and his family to a natural his-
experience Cordell shared with his own daughter. tory museum where, Cordell says, “very different families and
“King Alice is directly inspired by my very precocious, individuals come together by learning and connecting intellec-
headstrong, and creative daughter, Romy, who is now tually and socially.”
nine,” he says. “One day, years ago, we were playing, and we ended up making Like Wolf in the Snow, this is also a wordless tale. “It will be a bit more like
a book together—really just a retelling of The Wizard of Oz. We both wrote Wolf was in respect to the way the art is rendered, as well as the more seri-
parts of it and we both drew parts of it. It was a lot of fun, and we really enjoyed ous tone of the story,” he says. “King Alice is certainly a lot sillier. I do enjoy
the journey of making something together, as well as the end product. making both sincere and funny books—so I imagine I’ll always go back and
“The book’s title,” he continues, “says a lot about the character of Alice— forth.” —Sally Lodge
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 Today, 3–4 p.m. Matthew Cordell will sign Wolf in the Snow and art prints
accept that a king is, even by name alone, a male presence. She refuses to be 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
DE
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Tim Johnston (The Current) and from bestselling mystery writer
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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!
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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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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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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
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THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018
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
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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
IRENE HANNON
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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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
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able female character,” says Reardon, who drew on his own life for
Finding Jake.
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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
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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
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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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Matt de la Peña Christian Robinson
In Carmela Full of Wishes (Putnam, Oct.), their first collaboration since win-
ning both the Newbery Award and Caldecott Honors in 2016 for Last Stop
on Market Street, Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson relate the story of
a girl from a Mexican-American migrant community who spots a lone dande-
lion sprouting from the sidewalk—an invitation to make a wish.
What inspired the story line of Carmela Full of Wishes—and its graphic
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.
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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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THINK
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Today, 10–11 a.m. Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson will sign at
Table 4.
Today, 4 p.m. Univ. of Virginia Press will serve bottles of Virginia beer
at its booths (2765, 2767).
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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 books mean to independent bookstores everywhere. I love going to Book-
trajectory to superstardom took flight when Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Expo, because it always feels like going home, and I’m happy to be going
released Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone with a 50,000-copy first home this time with Harry Potter as my date.”
print run. Two decades later, the series’s U.S. sales have soared to more than Also eagerly celebrating the new anniversary editions is editor Levine, who
180 million copies, and worldwide sales (in 200-plus territories and 80 lan- was given a set of galleys for Rowling’s debut novel by Bloomsbury U.K.
guages) have topped 500 million. rights director Ruth Logan at the 1997 Bologna Book Fair, the first he’d
To commemorate the milestone, Scholastic/Levine is publishing 20th anni- attended since launching his imprint the previous fall.
versary paperback editions of J.K. Rowling’s seven-book series, featuring Not yet published in the U.K., the book was unknown to Levine, who read it
new cover art by Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick. Depicting standalone on the plane ride home and knew immediately that it aligned perfectly with
scenes, the covers, when lined up side by side, create a single, detail-rich his editorial wish list: “It had the sense of being a book of enduring quality, a
panorama chronicling the young wizard’s life. Visitors to Scholastic’s booth book for the ages, not just for now. It was the work of a writer with an
(1538) will be treated to an early peek at the cover art for the books, due out extremely rare combination of gifts for humor, pathos, plotting, a deep
in June; a boxed set will follow in September. understanding of friendship and love and the things that make us vulnera-
Did Selznick find the prospect of creating a fresh look for the beloved ble—and of course, an imagination as broad and full and generous as is
series daunting? “It was terrifying,” he acknowledges. “Mary GrandPré’s humanly possible. Maybe more so.”
original American covers are so recognizable, and Kazu Kibuishi’s editions Years later, Levine had a similarly intuitive hunch that Selznick was the
reimagined the world completely and beautifully, while in between those two ideal artist to put a face on Harry Potter’s new incarnation. “I have always
we had all of the brilliantly designed Harry Potter movies.” thought Brian was a genius—that overused word, which in this case is not
Selznick’s affection for Rowling’s series came to his rescue. “Luckily, I was a hyperbole,” he says. “What Brian has, along with his incredible technical tal-
fan of the books and loved the characters deeply,” he says. “Once I realized I ent and deep emotional connection to his subjects, is a truly grand, cine-
just needed to offer my own personal vision, I calmed down a bit. All of us matic, and theatrical vision. Sound like a match for a certain Edin-
who are fans have our individual relationships to the Harry Potter world, and burgh-based author?” —Sally Lodge
[these images] just happen to represent mine.”
Today, 9:30–10:30 a.m. Brian Selznick will sign at a ticketed event at
Selznick is pleased to introduce his cover art to booksellers, with whom he Table 3.
feels a personal connection: “I started my career as a bookseller here in New Today, 11:30 a.m.–noon, Selznick will autograph at Scholastic’s booth
York, at Eeyore’s Books for Children, and I know how much the Harry Potter (1538), where anniversary posters and tote bags are available.
—Liz Hartman
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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 and redirected to critical services. In Cape
far to find inspiration for their YA thriller, Dry (Simon & Schuster, Oct.). The Town, it’s called ‘Day Zero,’ and in Dry we call
California residents are all too familiar with the consequences of drought and it the ‘Tap-Out,’ but the parallels are creepy.”
wildfires, and their home state’s recent struggles with both fueled the book’s The pair found additional parallels when
premise: a teen is forced to make life-and-death decisions for her family when they were visiting family in Savannah last September as Hurricane Irma
a drought escalates to catastrophic proportions. struck. “When we couldn’t find any water to buy, we had to get into an evacu-
After writing a piece together for UnBound, a story collection set in the world ation mindset,” says Jarrod. “We were actually living through a similar expe-
of Neal’s Unwind Dystology, the Shustermans began talking about collaborat- rience as our characters, which helped us understand and convey their
ing on a novel. “I think that our story was one of the best in the book, and we actions and emotions.”
wanted to work on something else together,” says Neal. “Jarrod came up with The Shustermans have a second book under contract with S&S, but before
the concept of a society in which critical services are about to be shut off, and tackling that project they’re writing the screenplay for a movie adaptation of
the pieces of Dry began coming together. In California, we are constantly Dry, which was optioned by Paramount Pictures in a multistudio bidding war.
dealing with drought, and recently the possibility of the state running out of “We both write very visually, so as we work on the script, it’s relatively easy to
water has become frighteningly close. So that got us thinking about what imagine what the movie might look like,” says Neal. Jarrod adds, “It’s a joy to
could happen if millions of people were struggling to survive without water.” adapt something that’s your own, and to reimagine the story. It’s quite a
Eerily, their fictional story line continued to reflect real-life natural disas- seamless process—after all, we have the book memorized.” —Sally Lodge
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 Today, 3:30–4:30 p.m. Neal and Jarrod Shusterman will sign galleys at
city was approaching the point when water would be shut off to residents the Simon & Schuster booth (1738).
10:30–11:00 am
with Andre Dubus III
GONE SO
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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
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HOME AFTER
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A Novel THE JOY OF DOING
JUST ENOUGH:
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Raising White Kids is a book for families, educators, and communities who
want to equip their children to be active and able allies in a society that is
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becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full of
racial tensions.
"Buy this book for yourself, for your children’s teachers, for all parents and
grandparents of white children who you know. Raising White Kids is both an
Left
antidote to the racial ignorance and fear most white families unknowingly pass
along to their young and a powerful way to call white adults into the process of
racial awakening in the name of creating more just and functional
communities for all.”
—Debby Irving, author Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
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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 At BookExpo, Nayeri, Le Du, and Venable
so hard in their space atop the Flatiron Building that they joke about hav- are launching their inaugural list and with it
ing cots hidden in the corridors. 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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it means for authors to tell a story of a place and how they approach this theme.
4:30-6:00 PM Chat Post of Open Letter Books presents a panel on translated literature followed
immediately by a reception honoring the best translated fiction and poetry books of the
year. Reception open to all with a badge.
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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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Real inmates shaped Michael Hudson,
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a librarian. Pelecanos says many inmates
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you haven’t read a book, and you’re predis-
posed to like it, a light bulb goes off,” he
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Reading inevitably leads to writing, and for Pluto by Stef Wade
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In the face of such adversity, he adds, reading is one of the few things that Space Invader
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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—
that’s communication. Language is really quite different, and if you think Today, 2–3 p.m. ARCs of Vox will be given away at the Penguin Random
about the idea of taking that away or preventing children from acquiring it, House booth (2121).
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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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It’s 2051, and Arcadia is under attack. As the
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A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into
ongoing conversations about the line between
Nicholas Sparks is always working,
sexual freedom and sexual exploitation. 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
Citizen Illegal found on a trip to Zimbabwe, where
José Olivarez he took a safari, one of a few he’s
Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a taken during his life. He has always
first generation immigrant, a celebration of found his guides “intriguing” on these
Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a
vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life. 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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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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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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.
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