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 Reed Primes a
“Reimagined” BookExpo
The show organizer has instituted a number of changes to increase the
interaction between book buyers and authors By Jim Milliot

F
or the second time in two years, Reed Exhibitions
is making significant changes to BookExpo. To
give more focus to the 2017 event, Reed short-
ened the number of days the exhibit floor at New
York City’s Javits Center was open from three to
two, while holding panels and other events on the Wednesday
before the floor opened. In 2018 Reed has implemented a new
schedule. Publishers who do not want to participate in
BookCon, which runs June 2–3, immediately following
BookExpo, have the option to open their booths from May 30
to June 1. Publishers who want to take part in both BookExpo
and BookCon will be at the Javits for four days—two days at
BookExpo and two days at BookCon. There is also a third
option for publishers, exhibiting just at BookCon.
Ed Several, senior v-p of BookExpo, says Reed made the
change after talking to publishers and others. “Some of our Reed has more changes planned for BookExpo 2018.
customers wanted three full days for BookExpo, so we made the
change to accommodate them,” he notes. Approximately 150 booksellers as part of what Reed is calling a “reimagined
exhibitors have signed on for the three-day BookExpo show. BookExpo.” “While we will take care to support the entire dis-
Though the exhibition schedule is designed to give publishers tribution chain, we will have a special focus on booksellers,”
more options, Reed has also instituted a number of changes Several says.
aimed at increasing the interaction between publishers and One of the centerpieces of the new-look show is what BookExpo

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8 Boulder Book Store: PW’s Bookstore of the Year
12 John Mesjak: PW’s Rep of the Year
16 Booth Listings for Wednesday Exhibitors
19 Wednesday’s Panels and Events
22 BookCon Adds New Elements
26 Adult Galleys to Grab
35 Children’s Galleys to Grab 22 Publishers Weekly
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41 What’s Happening at the Librarians’ Lounge
44 Around the Booths
82 APAC Is Bigger than Ever
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New BookExpo initiatives promote more bookseller-author interaction. global, corporate citizens.
executives are calling “Editor’s Hours.” Under the program,
BookExpo will facilitate “chats” between booksellers and editors
in publishers’ booths. Reed has created four sessions: Wednesday,
May 30, 11 a.m.–noon; Thursday, May 31, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. and
1–2 p.m.; and Friday, June 1, 1–2 p.m. As of May 1, about 40
publishers and 100 editors had signed on to participate.
“We want this to be very informal, while providing book-
sellers with more opportunities to gain more insights about
books that are coming out,” Several says. Reed will post the
schedule of editors’ times on its website, in its app, and in
handouts on the show floor.
Reed has developed a similar program for booksellers to meet
with publicists. Publicist in-booth meetings will run on Friday,
2–4 p.m.; the organizer views the program as a good way for
booksellers to talk to publicists about setting up in-store events.
Reed is coordinating the meetups online.
The 2018 show floor itself has also been tweaked and will
feature four author stages (up from two last year), where book-
sellers can hear authors discuss their books. “More stages, more
author appearances,” Several notes. BookExpo has also beefed up
its sideline offerings, including adding café products. “We want
BookExpo to be a one-stop shop for booksellers,” Several adds.
Another new initiative is the Vital Bookstore. An interactive
exhibit, the bookstore will feature four life-size walk-through
models: a café, a store with modern décor and sideline merchan-
dising strategies, a traditional store with a classic library look a large YA audience. In a bid to broaden its demographic reach,
and shelving designs, and a children’s store with special features Reed has added more authors in major genres like mystery/
to engage young readers. Visitors can explore the store three
ways: they can take a self-guided tour, take a small-group (8–10
people) guided tour, or join one of numerous 45-minute dia-
logue sessions with bookstore owners and thought leaders on a
variety of topics. The store will be open May 31–June 3 to
booksellers, publishers, and librarians.
To entice more booksellers from outside the Northeast to
attend the show, BookExpo has arranged discounted hotel and
travel packages. So far registration is 4% ahead of 2017, Several
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says. In an initiative to provide attendees with the views
of some of publishing’s leaders, Reed has worked with
AAP to develop two CEO roundtables. The first, set for
Wednesday at 10 a.m., will look at copyright policy
and feature Maria A. Pallante, president and CEO of
the Association of American Publishers; Mary
Rasenberger, executive director of the Authors Guild;
and Keith Kupferschmid, CEO of the Copyright
Alliance.
A second roundtable will feature Markus Dohle,
CEO of Penguin Random House; Carolyn Reidy, presi-
dent and CEO of Simon & Schuster; and John Sargent,
CEO of Macmillan. Set for 9:45 a.m. on Thursday, the
panel will examine industry trends, market highlights,
and the power and responsibilities of publishers as
The last major change for this year’s BookExpo is
Reed’s agreement with the New York Rights Fair, through which
the NYRF, beginning this year, will become the official rights
fair of BookExpo. Reed will move the event’s rights center to the
NYRF, which will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion, located
a short distance away from the Javits Center, on West 18th Street.
All of BookExpo’s rights-oriented exhibitors have the option to
move to premium space at the NYRF or remain at the Javits.
The NYRF is a collaboration between BolognaFiere, which
runs the Bologna Children’s Book Fair; Publishers Weekly; and
the Combined Book Exhibit. As part of the agreement, the
NYRF badge holders will have full access to the BookExpo
exhibition floor, while BookExpo badge holders with a “Rights”
badge designation will have full access to the NYRF. Shuttle
buses will travel between the two events.
Several says Reed is excited to be working with NYRF: “The
NYRF’s focus on rights will be a real complement to BookExpo.
They bring their expertise on rights, and we bring our focus on
retailing.”
In addition to offering a venue for making deals, the NYRF
will feature three days of programming, with panels that
include a look at the success of four international bestsellers,
exploring the booming audio rights market, and what
Hollywood sees in emerging content platforms.
Reed did not limit its changes to BookExpo. BookCon also has
some new elements. Since its inception, BookCon has attracted
thriller, sci-fi, romance, and nonfiction, while also developing
more family activities. “The team has done a great job of building
a program that reflects what is being published today,” Several
says. A big draw for readers of all kinds should be Bill Clinton
and James Patterson, who will both be on hand Sunday pro-
moting their jointly written novel, The President Is Missing.
The goal of all the changes, Several explains, is in keeping
with the theme that BookExpo “is the place where the business
of bookselling gets done in North America.” ■
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 PW ’s Bookstore of the Year:
Boulder Book Store
The retailer reflects and empowers
its well-educated community
By Ed Nawotka

Owner David Bolduc’s Buddhist

I
f a bookstore takes the name of the city in which it
resides, it had better reflect the values and character of
its hometown. This is certainly the case for the Boulder
Book Store, PW’s 2018 Bookstore of the Year, which has
been a downtown anchor of Boulder, Colo., for 45 years.
Walking into the store from the main entrance on Pearl Street,
customers are immediately faced with a cart of bestselling
remainders and, a few more steps in, they are presented with
seven full cases of titles recommended by staff. Just across the
aisle is a case of cannabis-based herbal remedies. “I’m honestly
not sure what these things do,” says Arsen Kashkashian, the lead
buyer and general manager for the store, pointing to the case.
“But I do know that some of these items cost $100 or more.”
Kashkashian’s customers know exactly what the herbs do: one
of the bestselling titles in the store last year was Cannabinoids
and the Brain, a scientific study by Linda A. Parker published
by MIT Press. “We have sold more than 150 copies of it since
it was published,” says Kashkashian, who has placed the book
front and center among recommended titles.
Other details of the 20,000-sq.-ft. store, which is in a
building built during the 1880s, speak to
practice has shaped the store.
Ballroom. “I studied with Rinpoche, who was one of the first
authors we published at Shambhala Press [where Bolduc serves
on the board of directors], and Buddhism has been a huge influ-
ence on my life and on the store.”
Bolduc was born in Michigan and attended UCLA before
dropping out to participate in the anti–Vietnam War move-
ment. In 1969, he and some friends opened Together Books, a
co-op bookstore in Denver. In 1972, he left that store to open
Backcountry Books, which a year later was renamed Boulder
Book Store. “I never graduated from college, but this bookstore
has provided me with a wonderful education,” Bolduc says.
Now 72, Bolduc has largely ceded day-to-day management of
operations to Kashkashian, who has been at the store since 1992.
“David may appear laid back, but the reason this store is still in
business is because David is also a very, very good businessman,”
Kashkashian says. Bolduc was, for example, the founder of what
many believe was the first “buy local” organization in any U.S. city.
Kashkashian also credits Bolduc with being pragmatic: the
store didn’t chase trends or fads but was quick to implement
innovative business practices. “We didn’t, for example, get

all photos by ed nawotka

Boulder’s free spirit. The basement houses—
alongside cookbooks, nonfiction, and travel
titles—the official bookstore of Naropa
University, the Buddhist-inspired and nonsec-
tarian school. The second floor offers for sale a
colorful array of meditation poufs (“nonreturn-
able” once sat on). The third floor “Ballroom,”
which is home to fiction, poetry, and art, and
serves as the store’s event space, is lined with a
dozen statues of the Buddha and photographs
of great Buddhist lamas, such as Chogyam
Trungpa Rinpoche.
“The Ballroom was at one point the per-
forming arts space for Naropa, and Allen
Ginsberg, Ram Dass, and William Burroughs
Bolduc (top l.) poses with
all performed here,” says store owner David staff in front of the store.
Bolduc from his office overlooking the

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Booth #1521 heavily into e-commerce or e-books,” he says, “but when Edelweiss came along, we
were literally the first store in the country to place an order on the system.”
As a buyer, Kashkashian says he was able to make his mark on the store by steering
THURSDAY it into stocking more literature, something that is apparent in the almost endless shelves
of fiction—new, used, and remaindered—on nearly every level of the store. The inven-
JOANNE WHITNEY tory mix is about 65% new books, along with 16% used and remaindered, with the
OPPENHEIM STEWART rest being nonbook sidelines. There are more than 100,000 items for sale in the store.
Kashkashian has also implemented consignment deals with publishers, an idea he
adopted from Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books in Miami, whom he got to know
through the Independent Bookstore Consortium (both stores are members). “We started
our consignment business with Sounds True, a local audiobook publisher, but have since
expanded it to Chelsea Green, Shambhala, Inner Traditions, and others,” Kashkashian says.
Boulder Book Store was also among the first in the country to start charging for
events—a move that landed it on the front page of the New York Times. “In 2011, we
started asking customers to pay $5 to attend an event, and they would then be able to
get $5 off the author’s featured book or a purchase in the store on the day of the event,”
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the audience buy the author’s book at the event.”
Sometimes, this can translate into serious money, such as when Pete Souza came to
FRIDAY Boulder in January for a presentation to support his book Obama: An Intimate Portrait.
“It was the only event he was doing in Colorado,” says Stephanie Schindhelm, mar-
ANNE keting and promotions manager for the store. The appearance was so popular “we had
JANET GREENWOOD to move it to increasingly bigger venues,” she adds. “Eventually, it landed in the
LAWLER BROWN Boulder Theater, which seats 850 people, and was sold out.”
The surrounding community has been very supportive of the store. Over two days
that this reporter spent in the city in April, nearly everyone I spoke to gushed their
appreciation for it. In return, the store has been supportive of the community, helping
to sponsor a range of events, from the U.S. edition of the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival
(which brings together authors with leaders in a range of areas to champion free speech)
to school book fairs, a recent project that has also proven financially fruitful.
Though there’s a Barnes & Noble just a mile and a half down Pearl Street from Boulder
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Book Store (and a Borders store was once equally close), there are enough book buyers to
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Kashkashian.
Some of both booksellers’ success is the result of the town’s highly educated popula-
KATHERINE MAURA tion. “We have more PhDs per capita than any other city in the country,” Bolduc says.
LOCKE MILAN “We have some of the country’s smartest scientists, at places like Ball Aerospace and
the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and there are 40,000 students at the
University of Colorado, which has fostered a big start-up scene.”
The educated and eclectic nature of Boulder actually makes bookselling in the city
especially rewarding. “I think it is very helpful to be in a town with such a distinctive
personality,” Kashkashian says. “It makes it much easier for me as a buyer in some ways.
And the size of the store means that we have been able to do things other stores cannot do.”
Today, the Boulder Book Store rings up between $4 million and $5 million in total
sales annually.
Looking ahead, Bolduc says he may not be a daily presence on site, but he also has
no plans to retire. “My role these days is maintenance man,” he says with characteristic
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store] and am in there at least three times a week.”
Bolduc is also traveling more. His wife is from Brazil and a recent visit to the
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 John Mesjak:
PW ’s Rep of the Year
A modern sales rep takes an old-fashioned approach
C
onsortium Book Sales & Distribution trade sales
manager Ruth Berger describes John Mesjak,
PW’s 2018 Rep of the Year, as a “book-reading
teddy bear who never sleeps: he’s too busy
reading and repping.” Johanna Ingalls of
Akashic Books says that she and her colleagues have come to
“rely on him more and more over the years, whether it be com-
ments he may have on early book cover designs to suggestions
on best stores to send our authors to.” And Stu Abraham, the
founder of the Abraham Associates commission rep group that
Mesjak is poised to head as Abraham slowly eases into retire-
ment, calls him “my Zen master, my can-do partner.” He adds,
“He’s not only my partner—he’s a partner to booksellers, other
reps, and publishers. He’s more than a good rep: he’s a big
picture guy.”
The indie booksellers who nominated Mesjak, 50, for this
honor are just as generous with their praise. “He has consis-
tently set the standard that all reps should aspire to,” says Kris
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By Claire Kirch
photos by claire kirch
Clockwise from l.: John Mesjak browsing inside Moon Palace
Books; GLIBA executive director Larry Law’s rendering of the
Abraham Associates reps; a meeting with (from l.) Stu Abraham,
Mesjak, Emily Johnson, and Angela Schwesnedl.
Kleindienst, co-owner of Left Bank Books in St. Louis. “He
sweats every detail, whether it’s sorting out a shipping confu-
sion, or making sure the right bookstores know about the right
books, or letting a publisher know that the cover they have in
mind is in need of help. He is all in.”
Katharine Solheim of Unabridged Books in Chicago lauds
Mesjak for his “indefatigable efforts to acquaint himself with
each of our booksellers individually.” She adds, “By honoring
the idiosyncrasies of each shop and every bookseller, John epito-
mizes the best aspects of indie bookselling.” Plus, she notes,
“The man is simply delightful to share a beer with.”
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PW met Mesjak on a cold and blustery March day at his
favorite meeting place: the café area inside Moon Palace Books
in South Minneapolis. There, Mesjak is showing off the forth-
coming Macanudo: Olga Rules (#4), from Enchanted Lion, to
bookstore co-owner Angela Schwesnedl. A few minutes later,
Abraham and rep Emily Oran Johnson show up; the three sit
down at a booth, flip open their laptops, and launch into a lively
exchange on everything from BookExpo logistics to shipping
delays due to weather and bookstore visits in their respective
territories—which for Mesjak includes much of Chicagoland,
Iowa, Kentucky, and Wisconsin.
“State lines are a bit muddled,” for the four reps in Abraham’s
group, Mesjak explains, since three of them are based in the
Twin Cities and one in Chicago. “It’s a much more collaborative
blending of our territories, where we back each other up, instead
of having rigid territories. Stu and Emily share Minnesota
accounts; I just live here.”
Abraham Associates represents 30 publisher clients and three
sidelines companies in 13 states across the Midwest and into
the Dakotas. Its eclectic list includes such well-known compa-
nies as Chronicle Books and its distribution clients; Candlewick
Press; Consortium (and all of its indie presses); Diamond;
Oxford University Press; DAP; Quarto; and Lonely Planet, as
well as “tiny dynamos” such as Chelsea Green, Pomegranate,
and Red Wheel Weiser. The sidelines companies, which Mesjak
describes as “incredibly creative and scrappy” include Ideal
Bookshelf, Literary Supply Co., and Sad Shop Cards.
“We’ve never tried to specialize in just one kind of publisher,
or just one category of publishing,” Mesjak says. “The only
commonality is high quality. The diversity of our list gives us
strength.”
Just like so many other industry professionals who launched
their careers away from New York City, Mesjak was initially
drawn to the book world through happenstance. A native of
Downers Grove, Ill., he joined an advertising agency after grad-
uating in 1989 from Milwaukee’s Marquette University. Laid
off during the 1990 recession, Mesjak moved back in with his
parents and applied for a job at the local Anderson’s Bookshop
outlet, because, he recalls, “I was a reading nerd in high school
and college, and I always liked shopping there.”
After getting married (his wife, Laura, is currently a librarian
at Minnesota’s Dakota County public library), Mesjak moved
to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked at Book
Passage for two years as a frontline bookseller and buyer, fol-
lowed by four years as the store manager at A Clean Well-
Lighted Place for Books. Switching to the publishing side, he
spent two years at Chronicle Books, managing its customer
service department.
Forced out of California due to the spiraling cost of living
there during the dot-com boom, the couple returned to the
Chicago area in 1999 with their infant daughter, Alice. After a
brief stint working for Law.com, Mesjak entered the world of
repping due to a tip from a former colleague at Anderson’s
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Rep of the Year
Bookshop, who told Mesjak that PGW was looking for a
Midwest rep. “I had bookselling and publishing experience, and
I kept adding layers of insight and context,” he says. “That’s
how I got to be a rep.”
PGW’s parent company, AMS, filed for bankruptcy at the
end of 2006, and Mesjak jumped ship in February 2007 after
being contacted by Abraham, who was looking to hire a new
rep following changes in his group. “It was an easy decision to
make,” Mesjak says, noting that as a PGW rep, he had to cover
10 states by himself during three seasons each year. “I was never
off the road,” he adds. He estimates that, currently, he spends
about 10 weeks on the road each season, January through March
and June through August.
Mesjak recalls that the prospect of a “more freewheeling exis-
tence” with a small and entrepreneurial rep group that empha-
sized a collaborative approach to selling also greatly appealed to
him—and still does. Six years ago, Abraham and Mesjak entered
into a 10-year “slow motion transfer of responsibility” for the
group; last summer, with his daughter at college and a desire to
live closer to the home office (comprising “Stu, and the accoun-
tant,” he says), Mesjak moved to Minneapolis with Laura. “I love
having access to so many new bookstores as my local bookstore,”
he says, noting that the closest bookstore to his previous home
in a far west Chicago suburb was 20 miles away.
While Mesjak and others attribute much of his effectiveness
as a rep to the personal relationships he’s nurtured over the past
18 years, his commitment to using technology to streamline
operations that more efficiently serve publishers and bookstores
is also key. After Mesjak moved to Minneapolis, he says, he and
Abraham began considering “what our job as a sales rep is
today—what is a modern rep?” It was a conversation, he said,
that intensified when PW’s 2008 Rep of the Year, Roy Schonfeld,
retired in December after 25 years at Abraham Associates.
“It was a daunting project that consumed the second half of
2017 for us, rethinking the job description and conducting a
job search,” Mesjak says. In September, the group hired Sandra
Law, at the time the manager at Anderson’s Bookshop in La
Grange, Ill., to replace Schonfeld in covering Indiana,
Michigan, and Ohio, as well as a few Chicago area stores.
Looking back upon almost two decades as a rep, Mesjak
notes how much has changed due to digitalization, such as
Edelweiss and the prevalence of digital sales kits. For instance,
he says, he can drive his Prius to appointments now, because
“a dozen tote bags” of samples and blads have been replaced by
30 gigabytes of PDFs on his iPad. “I can really curate the
standouts [with physical samples], so they have more impact.”
Despite the evolution of the publishing industry in recent
years, however, the qualities differentiating a great rep from all
other reps really haven’t changed, Mesjak says. The secret to
being a successful rep is best summed up by the example set by
the late Mark Gates, PW’s 2006 Rep of the Year, Mesjak says:
“Be smart, well-read, opinionated, joyous, generous, caring,
loving, chatty, and, if you can manage it, hilarious.”  ■
 Window on Wedn
More than 125 exhibitors will have their booths
It’s a great opportunity to avoid the Friday aftern
have given out, and you didn’t get to all the boot
don’t waste Wednesday!
Compiled by Elizabeth Hartman

66 Books  3324
Abbeville 2721
Abingdon 2721
Above the Treeline 2812
Agate 2721
Akashic 2721
Alibabette Editions 2911
American Booksellers for Free
Expression 2862
American Collective Stand 3156
American Library Association  3160
APG Sales & Distribution  2956
We would love to see APA Publications 2721
you at BookExpo. Appalachian Trail Conservancy 2683
Apples & Honey Press 2607
Visit us at booth 2207 Applewood 2721
Artgame 2851
#wearebooks #wearepeople #wearequarto
Artbook/DAP 2721
Association of American Publishers 3156
quartoknows.com
Auzou 2721
B&H Publishing Group 2957
Baker Publishing Group 2967
Bargain Books Wholesale 3121
Barron’s Educational Series 2639
Behrman House 2607
Ben Bella 2721
Bookazine 2665
BookBub 2807
Book Connect 2685
Book Depot 3202, 3203
Bookish 2215
Booklist Publications/Book Links 3156
Bookprinting.com2903
Book Sales 3302
Books for Less 3303
Books International 2769
Bowker/ProQuest 2649
Brown Trout Publishers 2611
Canongate2721

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 Wednesday Exhibitors STOP BY
BOOTH
2303 TO GET

nesday YOUR ARC!

open and ready for business all day Wednesday.

oon realization that time has run out, your feet
hs on your must-visit list. Get a jump-start and
National Geographic has explored the world
for more than 130 years.
This fall, we’re headed into uncharted territory.
Join us on a unique journey Under the Stars
and into the world of fiction.

Capstone 3057
INTRODUCING
Cardinal Publishers Group 2874
Carolrhoda Books 2657
Central Recovery Press2721
Child’s Play  2856
China International Book
Trading 3078
China Megaview Media (Beijing) 2875
Church Publishing 3060
CIPG/Sinomedia 2975
City Lights Publishers2721
Clavis2721
CloudLibrary by Bibliotheca 3156
Coach House2721
Columbia Global Reports2721
Columbia University Press 2759
Combined Book Exhibit 3156
Combined Book Exhibit Author
Services 3156
Consortium2721
Cornell Lab2721
Cottage Door Press  2806 Inspired by the real-life work of
Crane Press3216 National Geographic explorers and scientists,
Dong-a Publishing2745 Explorer Academy introduces readers to
12-year-old Cruz Coronado, as he and
Dundurn2721
23 other students from around the globe train to
Earth Sky + Water 2916 become the next generation of great explorers.
EBooks2go 2964 But Cruz discovers that danger and mystery
EDC Publishing/Usborne/ await him at the Academy, and in the midst of
Kane Miller 2775 code-breaking, new friends, and amazing
Elsevier2603 augmented reality expeditions,
Emerald Publishing2847 he must tackle the biggest question of all:
F + W Media2721 Who is out to get him, and why?
Fabled Films Press2721
Fox Chapel Publishing2938
Frommer’s Travel Guides2721 “A fun, exciting and action-packed
Gardners Books2815 ride that kids will love.”
—J.J. Abrams, acclaimed director and producer
Geodis 2675
Goodknight Sales 3224 Visit ExplorerAcademy.com
Graphic Arts 2721

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 Wednesday Exhibitors

CHRONICLE Great Jones Books 3221 OverDrive 2738, 2739

BOOKS Green Kids Club

Greystone
2715
2721
Pacom Korea
Peter Lang Publishing
2842
2966
Grove Atlantic 2721 Phaidon Press 2744
GS Sales 3308 Phidal Publishing 2707
Guilford Publications 2645 Plata Publishing 2721
HarperCollins Christian Plough Publishing 2721
Bargain Books 3227 Powell’s Books Wholesale 3111
Haymarket 2721 PR Books 3313
Hunan Benteng Cultural Princeton University Press 2760
Creativity 2813 Publications International 2774
Indiania University Press 2721 Publishers Group West 2721
Ingram Academic 2721 Pubmatch.com 3156
Ingram Content Group 2721 Rainbowsun International 2811
Ingram Publisher Services 2721 Rand McNally 2721
IngramSpark 2721 Rare Bird Books 2721
Johns Hopkins University Red Wheel Weiser 2839
Press 2762 Regent Publishing Services 2748
Jumping Jack Press 2721 Salem Author Services  2903
Kar-Ben Publishing 2657 Seoul Printing Center 2745, 2747
Lectorum 3156 Sharjah Book Authority 2915
What Can a Citizen Do?
Lerner Publishing 2657 Shenzhen Hua Xin Colour-
Friday, June 1st LID Publishing 2860 Printing & Platemaking 2910
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Skyhorse 2721
Press 2669 Sleeping Bear Press 2864
LitFire Publishing 2948 Solution Tree Press 2914
LoLo’s LightHouse Spicebox 2857
Productions  2679 Spin Master/Moonlite 3139
London Review of Books 2768 Springer Nature 2721
Lonely Planet Publications 3056 Sterling Publishing 2706
Longleaf Services 2765 Syracuse University Press 2765
LSC Communications 2962 Teacher Created Materials
Mastermedia 3217 Publishing 3073
MCRL Overseas Printing 2909 Texas Bookman  3103
MetaComet Systems 2613 Theatre Communications
Pick up your free Midpoint Trade 2721 Group  2721
2018 Chronicle Books Miles Kelly Publishing 2843 Trilogy North America 2685
tote bag! Millbrook Press 2657 Turner Publishing 2721
Moody Publishers 2838 Tuttle Publishing 2721
Giveaways at 9:00 AM MVB US 2912 Ulysses Press 2721
Nationwide Book Industries 3314 University of California Press 2764
and 12:00 PM each day,
New World Library 2721 University of Georgia Press 2765
while supplies last!
New York Rights Fair  3156e University of Illinois Press 2766
Nimbus Publishing 2647 University of Nebraska Press 3062
Nolo 2721 University of Toronto Press 2865
Notre Dame University Press 2765 University of Virginia Press 2765
e

Novum Publishing 2782 US Media Partners 3320

NPD Group 2944 Visible Ink Press 2721
NYU School of Professional Whitaker House  3066
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Weighty
Wednesday
A reimagined BookExpo opens
Bad Advice
with substantial programming Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists
Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information
By Liz Hartman PAUL A . OFFIT, M .D.

T
“Take my advice: Bad Advice is just what

his year, Reed Exhibitions’ stated goal is to reimagine BookExpo as a you need to navigate the murky waters
of an unending stream of really bad
place where the business of bookselling gets done in North America. information about your health.” 
For those who remember the conferences of yore, some of this reimag- —Arthur L. Caplan, New York University
ining rings retro, but much of the mission is realized through fresh School of Medicine
programming aimed at getting booksellers and publishers face-to-face,
“[An] indispensable book.” 
as well as addressing the most pressing topics facing publishers today. Here’s a look
—Geoffrey Kabat, cancer epidemiologist
at some of Wednesday, May 30’s can’t-miss events.
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The morning begins with a look at the business of bookselling with BookExpo and author of Getting Risk Right
2018 Grand Opening: Len Riggio, Chairman of Barnes & Noble Inc., on the
Bookselling Industry (9:15–10 a.m., Midtown Stage). Riggio will open the show
with a keynote speech on the importance of bricks-and-mortar stores and how they
serve the modern reader and the community at large. In a show of solidarity on the
bookstore front, Riggio will be introduced by Oren Teicher, CEO of the American
Booksellers Association. The keynote is sponsored by Ingram.
Directly following the grand opening is State of the Industry: Publishing and
Copyright Policy (10–10:45 a.m., Room 1E12). Hillel Italie, publishing reporter for
the Associated Press, will moderate this panel that features influential voices on copy-
right law: Maria A. Pallante, president and CEO of the Association of American
Publishers; Mary Rasenberger, executive director of the Authors Guild; and Keith
Kupferschmid, CEO of the Copyright Alliance. The discussion will focus on the equi-
ties of copyright law as they relate to authors, publishers, and other aspects of the
public interest, including the promise of global digital commerce and the evolving Social Value Investing
legal landscape in the courts and on Capitol Hill. A Management Framework
All new this year is In-Booth Editors’ Hours, a program spanning four sessions, for Effective Partnerships
the first of which is Wednesday, 11 a.m.–noon. While bookseller and editor interaction HOWARD W. BUFFETT
has always been part of BookExpo, this focused program features dedicated periods a n d WILLIAM B. EIMICKE
for editors and booksellers to get up-close and personal. The four open house–style “Grounded in a well-researched and
sessions will give booksellers information needed to provide well-informed recom- tested approach, this book will serve as
mendations to their customers. (The second and third sessions take place on Thursday, a framework for partnership building. As
May 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 1 to 2 p.m.; the fourth and final takes place you learn from the strategies pursued in
these stories, you’ll discover just why I’m
Friday, June 1, from 1 to 2 p.m.)
so hopeful about the future. . . . I’ll bet
At noon is the popular annual ABA’s Celebration of Bookselling and Author you will be inspired, too, by its message
Awards Lunch (noon–1:30 p.m., Main Stage), which applauds all things indie. The of optimism and action.” 
2018 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud awards will be —Warren Buffett
presented, as well as the introduction of the Indie Next List authors and award nomi-
nees. PW‘s Bookstore of the Year and Rep of the Year awards will also be handed out. CUP.COLUMBIA.EDU
Following the lunch, many of the authors, award winners, and nominees will be
signing books exclusively for ABA members. Seating is limited and reservations are
required. Visit the BookExpo website to book a spot.

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 For those less hungry for celebration but more concerned
about the state of book review coverage, also at noon is the
National Book Critics Circle panel, The Crisis in Book
Reviewing, Disappearing Space, Disappearing Pay (noon–
12:50 p.m., Room 1E10). Carlin Romano—critic-at-large for
the Chronicle of Higher Education, v-p of the NBCC, and the
author of America the Philosophical—and Christopher Carduff,
book editor of the Wall Street Journal, will moderate this discus-
sion with NBCC member Julia M. Klein and other book
reviewers. Newspaper book review coverage is in crisis, with
space and budgets eliminated or severely reduced, resulting in
the same review running in multiple outlets. The panelists will
address this problem, as well as exploring whether newer dig-
ital ventures make up for the print decline, in terms of space
or pay.
Arguably some of the most important and influential activi-
ties that affect the success of books by new authors are the
much-buzzed-about adult, YA, and children’s Buzz panels,
where editors are allowed to put favoritism on full display and
share their zeal for upcoming titles. The first of the three, the
Adult Editor Buzz Panel, takes place on Wednesday (1:45–3
p.m., Room 1E12/1E13/1E14). The panel will be moderated
by Chris Morrow, a former PW Bookseller of the Year who runs
the Northshire Bookstores in Manchester, Vt., and Saratoga
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Springs, N.Y.; and Carol Fitzgerald, president of the Book
Report Network. This year’s lineup has Bryn Clark, associate
editor of Flatiron, presenting Small Animals: Parenting in the Age
of Fear by Kim Brooks; Cary Goldstein, vice president, execu-
tive director of publicity and senior editor at Simon & Schuster,
touting Ohio, a debut novel by Stephen Markley; and Fiona
McCrae, director and publisher of Graywolf, will buzz about
She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore, a debut novel set in
Liberia’s early years. Becky Saletan, v-p, editorial director of
Riverhead Books, will be lavishing praise on Casey Gerald’s
memoir, There Will Be No Miracles Here; Krishan Trotman,
senior editor at Hachette, will share her excitement about Maid,
a debut from Stephanie Land; and Zachary Wagman, executive
editor of Ecco, will wax enthusiastic about The Real Lolita: The
Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the
World by Sarah Weinman.
At 3:30 p.m., booksellers can get a jump-start on planning
in-store author events for the fall and beyond with the first of
the ABA’s two Publicists Speed Dating (3:30–5:30 p.m.,
Main Stage). In this perennial, lively program, ABA member
bookstore owners, managers, and event coordinators meet one-
on-one with publicists from several publishers for timed
“dates.” Booksellers have a chance to pitch their stores and learn
what publicists are looking for when considering venues for
 Wednesday Highlights

author tours. (The second session takes place on Friday, June 1,
9:45–11:45 a.m., at the River Pavilion.)
Wednesday winds down with a bang, not a whimper, when
PW’s senior news editor and graphic novels expert Calvin Reid
moderates the panel The Graphic Novels You Can’t Miss
of 2018 (5:15–6 p.m., Room 1E0). Joining him will be
authors Blue Delliquanti (Meal), Tim Fielder (Matty’s Rocket),
David Small (Home After Dark), and Ngozi Ukazu (Check,
Please!).
which will address industry trends, market highlights, and the
power and responsibilities of publishers as global corporate
citizens. In light of PW’s recent reporting about such matters
as morality clauses becoming more common in authors’ con-
tracts, as well as the declining sales of authors under fire from
the #MeToo movement, and other issues that fall outside of the
balance sheet, this discussion is of the utmost timeliness.  ■

Thursday’s Wake-Up Call

A Double Big Bang
The Adult Book & Author Breakfast (8 a.m., Main Stage)
has long been a BookExpo kickoff tradition that doesn’t disap-
point. This year will be no exception with Barbara Kingsolver,
Jill Lepore, Megan Mullally, Trevor Noah, Nick Offerman, and
Nicholas Sparks taking the stage. What’s new is a return to a
panel that hasn’t been on the roster for several years—a gath-
ering of CEOs—so grab another cup of coffee and head to the
Leadership Roundtable: Publishers on Publishing (9:45–
10:45 a.m., Downtown Stage), which brings together three
CEOs: Markus Dohle, Penguin Random House; Carolyn Reidy,
Simon & Schuster; and John Sargent, Macmillan. Pallante, the
president and, yes, CEO of the AAP, will moderate the panel, Carolyn Reidy John Sargent

And now for something

completely different...
John Cleese gives readers his
philosophy on the bright side of life.
“I went to Cornell in the 70s, and if
John had been making these speeches
there back then, I would have had a
much better time.”
—Bill Maher
ARCs available at
BOOTH 3064

$25.00 HARDCOVER
Available in October from Cornell University Press
 BookCon 2018:
From Wimpy Kid to
Bill Clinton

© david burnett
Young readers and teens will find a
feast of programming at this year’s
show, though there’s also plenty
for their parents to check out
By Craig Teicher and Jim Milliot
© david schulze

A
s soon as BookExpo 2018 winds down, the
Javits Center becomes home to BookCon. The
2018 show is the fifth installment of ReedPop’s
annual consumer conference, which hosted
roughly 20,000 people last year. This year’s will
be held June 2 and 3.
Ed Several, Reed’s senior v-p for BookExpo, says that registra-
tion for the show is up 5%, but he also acknowledges that
BookCon is a walk-up show, so it’s difficult to predict atten-
dance. Additionally, he says that, along with publishers and
companies who will have booths at both BookExpo and
BookCon, there are 40 who are taking booths at BookCon
only—an indicator that the show has achieved a strong identity
as a venue where companies can reach book-loving consumers.
For Kids, Teens, and Beyond
Like BookExpo, BookCon has some new elements, adding more
genres—such as mystery/thriller, sci-fi, romance, and nonfic-
Marisha Pessl (l.) will promote her YA debut at BookCon, and
James Patterson (above l.) and President Bill Clinton will
launch their collaborative novel, The President Is Missing.
tion—to augment its focus on young adult material. One result
of that strategy has been to again increase its offerings for
younger book fans and their families. Last week, BookCon
announced a major addition to its family programming: an
interactive experience based on the Diary of a Wimpy Kid
series, featuring an appearance by series author Jeff Kinney on
Sunday, June 3 at 3:15 p.m., in Room 1E10. The interactive
experience will be based on book 12 in the series, The Getaway,
released last November. Fans will be able to walk through a
recreation of the family vacation that the Heffleys take in the
book, and they can participate in contests and giveaways and
preview the next book in the series. In addition to the Wimpy
Kid feature, the show floor will have a “family HQ” area, where
workshops and activities will be held.

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 The Enchanted Chest
Wri�en by Jean-François Chabas
Illustrated by David Sala
978-1-941302-54-5
In stores May 22

The Big Empty Life of

Alphonse Tabouret
Wri�en by Sibylline
Desmazières & Capucine
Illustrated by Jérôme d’Aviau
978-1-941302-76-7
In stores May 29

The Wormworld Saga Vol. 1:

The Journey Begins The lineup of other big names is impressive. There are plenty
Wri�en & Illustrated of celebs who hail from beyond the world of books, including
by Daniel Lieske actor Taye Diggs, who collaborated with his childhood best
978-1-941302-71-2 friend Shane Evans on the picture book I Love You More Than...,
In stores June 5 a love letter to children of parents who travel frequently. The
pair will appear on Saturday, June 2, at 12:30 p.m., in Room
1E10, in a discussion moderated by Long Way Down author
Mae Vol. 1 Jason Reynolds.
Wri�en & Illustrated Also appearing on Saturday, at 3 p.m., is DeRay McKessen,
by Gene Ha host of the popular political podcast Pod Save the People, who will
978-1-5493-0279-4 moderate a panel called “Social Justice Warriors: Redefining
In stores July 3 Youthful Rebellion” with YA writers Reynolds, Angie Thomas
(The Hate U Give), and Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl
Dreaming), in Room 1E10.
Algeria Is Beautiful John Lewis, civil rights figure and congressman, will be at
Like America BookCon, as well as at BookExpo, to promote his graphic novel
Wri�en by Olivia Burton collaborations, including the upcoming Run, along with his
Illustrated by Mahi Grand collaborators Andrew Aydin and Afua Richardson. A panel on
978-1-941302-56-9 civil rights, “Marching Along with Congressman John Lewis,”
In stores now! will be held on Saturday, at noon, on the Downtown Stage, with
a signing at 2 p.m.
Marisha Pessl, whose debut adult novel, Special Topics in
Oothar the Blue Calamity Physics, made her an instant literary sensation upon its
Wri�en & Illustrated publication in 2006, will be at the show promoting her first
by Brandon Reese YA novel, Neverworld Wake; she will participate in a panel called
978-1-941302-77-4 “Horror! Thrills! Murder! Oh My!” along with Kiersten White
In stores now! and Kara Thomas, on Saturday, at 11 a.m., on the Downtown
Stage.
Fans will have a chance to meet Shannon and Dean Hale, the
© 2018 The Lion Forge, LLC. Mae © 2018 Gene Ha. The Wormworld Saga, Vol. 1: The Jouney Begins
© 2018 Daniel Lieske/TOKYOPOP GmbH. Algeria is Beautiful Like America © 2018 The Lion Forge, married authors of the Princess in Black series; the pair will be
LLC. Originally published in France as L’Algérie c’est beau comme l’Amérique © Steinkis 2015. Oothar
the Blue © 2018 Brandon Reese. The Enchanted Chest © 2018 The Lion Forge, LLC. First published in autographing on Saturday, June 2, at 1:30 p.m. in booth 2021.
French under the original title: Le coffre enchanté © Casterman 2011. All rights reserved.
Shannon will also moderate the panel “Wonder Women: Kid
Lit Stars Pack Power in Prose” the same day at 3:45 p.m., in
Room 1E16.

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 BookCon

Visit Lion Forge’s BEX booth #1802a

to meet creators, pick up limited ARCs,
and take a closer look!

Wri�en & Illustrated

by Brenna Thummler
978-1-941302-67-5
In stores August 28
Congressman
John Lewis (l.)
will be at
BookExpo and
BookCon, and
Chuck Palahniuk
will read from
his new novel
Wri�en & Illustrated by
at BookCon.
Ezra Claytan Daniels
978-1-5493-0292-3
In stores September 18
Urgent Themes
Many of this year’s events are organized around some of today’s
most pressing topics, from social justice to diversity and
LGBTQ issues. For instance, sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor
is sponsoring a panel called “LGBTQ+ Authors on Gender and

™
Identity in Science Fiction and Fantasy,” featuring Charlie Jane Summit Vol. 1:
Anders, Seth Dickenson, S.L. Huang, and V.E. Schwab, who The Long Way Home
will discuss how these issues influence their work on Saturday, Wri�en by Amy Chu
June 2, 12:45–1:30 p.m., in Room 1E16. Illustrated by
Poetry has recently become a sort of surprise hit with teen Jan Duursema
readers, who are encountering versifiers on social media. 978-1-941302-68-2 ™

Several poets who contributed to the anthology [Dis]connected, In stores now!

which focuses on poetry in the age of social media, will partici-
pate in the panel “The Poetry Connection: Stories from Today’s
Most Popular Poets,” on Saturday, at 5:15 p.m., on the
Downtown Stage.
Wri�en by
Big Adult Authors and Grown Up Genres Andrew Cangelose
Bill Clinton and James Patterson will be the marquis attrac- Illustrated by
tions for adults at BookCon, but there will be plenty of other Josh Shipley
big names at the show as well. Fight Club author Chuck 978-1-941302-72-9
Palahniuk will read from his new novel Adjustment Day on In stores now!
Saturday, June 2, at 3:45 p.m., in Room 1E10. Four of the most
popular authors in the adult mystery/thriller world—Sandra
Brown, David Baldacci, Brad Meltzer, and Walter Mosley—
will appear together in a conversation moderated by Meghan
facebook.com/lionforge twi�er.com/lionforge
Abbott to discuss their writing process and turning books into
films, also on Saturday, at 11:45 a.m., in Room 1E14. © 2018 The Lion Forge, LLC. Sheets © 2018 Brenna Thummler. Upgrade Soul © 2018
Ezra Claytan Daniels. This is a Taco © 2018 Josh Shipley and Andrew Cangelose.
One major change that attendees should be mindful of is SUMMIT™ © 2018 The Lion Forge, LLC.
that tickets are now required to attend book signings in the
BookCon autographing area, and attendees are limited to two
signings per day. ■

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 Adult Galleys to Grab
Your guide to BookExpo’s giveaways
AGATE
Leonard Pitts Jr. will be in the publish-
er’s booth to sign 150 ARCs of The Last
Thing You Surrender.
AKASHIC
On hand will be 150 galleys of Fame by
Justine Bateman, 100 galleys of the
novel A Student of History by Nina
Revoyr, and 75 galleys of the memoir
Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story.
ALGONQUIN
In attendance will be Tim Mohr for
Burning Down the Haus, B.A. Shapiro
for The Collector’s Apprentice, and
Julie Gaines and Ben Lenovitz for
Minding the Store. There will be 100
galleys of each title.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF
PEDIATRICS
The publisher will be giving away 50
galleys of Parenting Through Puberty
by Suanne Kowal-Connelly.
BASIC
Among the galleys being given away are
A Mad Love by Vivien Schweitzer,
Buzz by Thor Hanson, Napoleon by
Adam Zamoyski, and The Incurable
Romantic by Frank Tallis.
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Compiled by Jonathan Segura
BLACKSTONE
P.C. and Kristin Cast will be signing
exclusive samplers of Lost, Orson Scott
Card will sign galleys of A Town
Divided by Christmas, and Susan
Purvis will sign galleys of Go Find: My
Journey to Find the Lost—and
Myself.
BLOOMSBURY
On offer are One Person, No Vote by
Carol Anderson, The Priory of the
Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon,
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
by Ken Krimstein, and A Shot in the
Dark by Lynne Truss.
BONNIER
One hundred copies of the novel
Widows by Lynda La Plante will be up
for grabs.
C&T
The crafting publisher will be giving
away 100 galleys of the cozy mystery Tie
Died by Carol Dean Jones.
CATAPULT
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole
Chung and The Wildlands by Abby
Geni will be available in-booth, 100
copies of each.
CROWN
Up for the taking: 100 copies each of
The Death of Truth by Michiko
Kakutani, Thirst by Scott Harrison,
Presidents of War by Michael
Beschloss, Imagine it Forward by Beth
Comstock, and Boom Town by Sam
Anderson.
DA CAPO
Adrift by Brian Murphy and Matters of
Vital Interest by Eric Lerner will be
on-offer.
DEY STREET
The publisher will have 100 ARCs of
each of Lands of Lost Borders by Kate
Harris and Chesapeake Requiem by
Earl Swift, and 50 copies of Fail Until
You Don’t by Bobby Bones and
Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee.
DOUBLEDAY
A total of 200 galleys of On Desperate
Ground: The Marines at the
Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest
Battle by Hampton Sides will be
available.
DUTTON
Two hundred galleys of The Greatest
Love Story Ever Told by Nick Offerman
and Megan Mullally are on offer.

ECCO
Jonathan Lethem will sign 150 galleys
of The Feral Detective, and Sarah
Weinman will sign 150 galleys of The
Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally
Horner and the Novel That
Scandalized the World. The publisher
will also have on hand 100 copies of
Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin,
French Exit by Patrick deWitt, and
Beautiful Country Burn Again by Ben
Fountain.
Adult Galleys to Grab
copies of Small Animals.
FORGE
Hank Phillippi Ryan will sign galleys of
Trust Me.
GALLERY
For the taking: Consumed by J.R. Ward
and The Light over London by Julia
Kelly.
GRAND CENTRAL
EUROPA Nicholas Sparks will sign copies of
The publisher will be giving away gal- Every Breath (in-booth and at other
leys of Like a Sword Wound by Ahmet events) and Abbi Jacobson will sign I
Altan. Might Regret This (in booth and at
other events). Other galleys on hand
FARRAR, STRAUS AND include We All Love the Beautiful
GIROUX Girls by Joanne Proulx, and From Here
John Jay Osborn will sign copies of to You by Jamie McGuire.
Listen to the Marriage.
GRAPHIC ARTS
FLATIRON The publisher is bringing 100 galley
Kim Brooks will be available to sign copies of both One Man’s Wilderness:

An Alaskan Odyssey (50th anniversary
edition) by Sam Keith, and the novel
Saving Miss Oliver’s by Stephen
Davenport.
GRAYDON HOUSE
Helen Cullen will sign ARCs of The
Lost Letters of William Woolf, and
Hester Fox will sign The Witch of
Willow Hall.
GRAYWOLF
Alyson Hagy will sign 100 galleys of
Scribe. The publisher will also have on
offer 100 galleys of She Would Be King
by Watéyu Moore, 75 copies of The Last
Englishmen, and 50 copies of Human
Hours: Poems.
GROVE ATLANTIC
Several authors will be signing: Leif
Enger for Virgil Wander (400 copies),
Walter Mosley for John Woman (300
copies), and Eileen Myles for Evolution
(300 copies). Plus the publisher will
have 400 copies of Lisa Brennan Jobs’s
Small Fry.
HACHETTE
Stephanie Land will be signing 200
copies of Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay,
and a Mother’s Will to Survive. Also
signing will be Paige Williams for The
Dinosaur Artist (200 copies), and Mika
Brzezinski for Know Your Value (200
copies).
HACHETTE NASHVILLE
On hand will be Pull It Off by Julianna
Zobrist and Jacob’s Bell by John Snyder.
Adult Galleys to Grab
HANOVER SQUARE
Wil Medearis will sign ARCs of
Restoration Heights.
HARLEQUIN
Sarah Morgan will sign ARCs of The
Christmas Sister.
HARPER
Barbara Kingsolver will sign 100 copies
of Unsheltered (in-booth and at other
events). The publisher will also have 100
copies of each of The Mermaid and
Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes
Gowar, Big Fella by Jane Leavy, and
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom.
HARPERONE
A total of 100 copies each of Pussy Riot
founder Nadya Tolokonnikova’s Read &
Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism
and Chris Gethard’s Lose Well will be
available.
HARPER VOYAGER
The publisher is giving away 100 ARCs
of Sergei Dyachencko’s Vita Nostra.
HOLT
There will be 75 copies each of If You
Love Me: A Mother’s Journey
Through Her Daughter’s Opioid
Addiction by Maureen Cavanagh and
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the
Black Woman Lawyer Who Took
Down America’s Most Powerful
Mobster by Stephen L. Carter up for
grabs.
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INTERVARSITY
Two hundred copies of each of the fol-
lowing will be there for the taking:
Disruptive Wellness by Alan Noble,
Last Call for Liberty by Os Guinness,
and Reconstructing the Gospel by
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. The pub-
lisher will also have 175 copies of
Suzanne Stabile’s The Path Between
Us.
KNOPF
Available at the publisher’s booth will be
50 copies each of The Book of Essie by
Meghan MacLean Weir, Clock Dance
by Anne Tyler, Cherry by Nico Walker,
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan,
and Waiting for Eden by Elliot
Ackerman.
LITTLE, BROWN
Wednesday Martin will sign Untrue,
and Elin Hilderbrand will sign The
Perfect Couple. Galleys of the fol-
lowing will also be on hand:
Transcription by Kate Atkinson, The
Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason, An
Orchestra of Minorities by Chigoze
Obioma, and The Age of Light by
Whitney Scharer.
LIVERIGHT
Galleys on offer include Ordinary
People by Diana Evans and Joy Enough
by Sarah McColl.
MEREDITH
The publisher will have 75 galleys of
Breakfast by the editors of Extra Crispy,
and 50 galleys of The Vegan 8 by Brandi
Doming.
Adult Galleys to Grab
MINOTAUR
Peter Blauner will sign Sunrise
Highway, and M.C. Beaton will sign
finished copies of The Witches’ Tree.
MORROW
One hundred ARCs of each of Pieces of
Her by Karin Slaughter, I Know You
by Gilly MacMillan, When the Men
Were Gone by Marjorie Herrera,
November Road by Lou Berney, and
Family Trust by Kathy Wang.
NORTON
Accessory to War: The Unspoken
Alliance Between Astrophysics and
the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson and
Avis Lang, Wolves of Eden by Kevin
McCarthy, Kitchen Yarns: Notes on
Life, Love, and Food by Ann Hood are
among the galleys available at the pub-
lisher’s booth.
ORBIT
Rena Rossner will sign copies of The
Sisters of the Winter Wood. Copies of
Rosewater by Tad Thompson will also
be given away.
OVERLOOK
Among the galleys on offer in-booth are
100 advance copies of each of The
Friendship Cure: A Manifesto for
Reconnecting in the Modern World
by Kate Leaver, The Missing Ingredient:
The Curious Role of Time in Food and
Flavor by Jenny Linford, and A
Question of Trust by Penny Vincenzi.
PARK ROW
Lisa Unger will be on hand to sign
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Daniel Orr and Kelly Jo Baute, signing

galleys of The Wellness Lifestyle
11 am, Booth 3029

Linda Ruffenach, signing

How to Be a Bourbon Badass
1 pm, Autographing Area

Maggie Green, signing galleys of

The Essential Pantry and The Essential
Plant-Based Pantry
1 and 1:30 pm, Booth 3029

Albert Schmid, signing galleys of

T he How to Drink Like a Mobster

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Jane Simon Ammeson, signing galleys

Streamline Your Ingredients,
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Simplify Your Meals and Get Away With It
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Garin Pirnia, signing

Rebels & Underdogs: The Story of Ohio
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Under My Skin, and Annie Ward will sign Beautiful Bad.
PENGUIN PRESS
The publisher will have 200 copies each of American Prison:
A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of
Punishment by Shane Bauer and McGlue by Ottessa
Moshfegh.
PICADOR
On hand will be 100 copies each of City of Devils by Paul
French and Housegirl by Michael Donkor.
PLOUGH
John Carlin and Oriol Malet’s graphic novel Mandela and the
General and the anthology The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers
will be on offer.
PUTNAM
Debut novel Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens and
House of Gold by Natasha Solomons will be available, 200
copies each.
QUIRK
The publisher will be giving away galleys of We Sold Our
Souls by Grady Hendrix and Girl Squads by Sam Maggs.
RANDOM HOUSE
Among the titles being given away: Lake Success by Gary
Shteyngart (who will also be doing a signing in the general
signing area), 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah
Harai, A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult, and All We Ever
Wanted by Emily Giffin.
RUNNING PRESS
The publisher will be giving away copies of This Land by Dan
Barry.
SCOUT
James Frey will sign galleys of Katerina. The press will also have
on hand advance copies of The Waiter by Matias Faldbakken.
Adult Galleys to Grab

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Among the titles on hand will be
Christmas by Accident by Camron
Wright, Promises and Primroses by
Josi S. Kilpack, and Kiss of the Spindle
by Nancy Campbell Allen.

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Ellie Kemper will sign 300 excerpt
booklets of My Squirrel Days.
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In attendance will be Ed Lin to sign 100
galleys of 99 Ways to Die, and Dale
Peck to sign 100 copies of Night Soil.
Also available at the booth: 150 galleys
of The Fifth Sun by Stephen Mack
Jones and 100 galleys each of We’re
Doomed. Now What? by Roy Scranton
and The Line by Martin Limón.
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SOURCEBOOKS
Marie Benedict will sign 200 copies of
The Only Woman in the Room, and
ADULTS
Susanna Kearsley will sign 200 copies of
Belleweather. Also in the giveaway
stack: 200 copies each of The 7½ Deaths
of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
and The Fallen Architect by Charles
Belfoure, and 100 copies of Antonia
Felix’s Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight.
Her Work. Her Life.

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TOR give away 150 copies of Goat Yoga.

STERLING
Samantha Harris will sign 200 copies of
Your Healthiest Heart. The publisher
will also be giving away 200 galleys of
Go Together by Shola Richards.
THAMES & HUDSON
The publisher will have 100 galleys of
Josef Albers: Life and Work by Charles
Darwent.
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TOUCHSTONE
The publisher will have
300 galleys of The Lost
Queen by Signe Pike
and Tragedy Plus Time by Adam
Cayton-Holland.
TURNER
Andrew Newberg will sign 150 galleys
of The Rabbi’s Brain: Mystics,
Moderns, and the Science of Jewish
Thinking. Nick Yetto will sign book-
plates, and 150 copies of his debut
novel, Sommelier of Deformity, will
9:16 PM
be available. The publisher will also
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Up for grabs are 200 copies of Best of
Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of
the Cold War by Eric Dezenhall and
Gus Russo.
UNIV. OF VIRGINIA
The press will be giving away 75 copies
of Becoming Lincoln by William W.
Freehling and Reading Through the
Night by Jane Tompkins.
WORKMAN
James Mustich will sign 150 galleys of
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die,
and Jordan Matter will sign 125 copies
of Born to Dance. Also available will
be Belong by Radha Argawal, Unicorn
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We take a look at some of the unmissable
kids’ and YA galleys being showcased at BookExpo
ABRAMS
Featured galleys include The Backstagers
and the Ghost Light by Broadway actor
Andy Mientus, illus. by Rian Sygh,
launching a middle grade series based on
the graphic novels; Faithful Spy:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to
Kill Hitler by John Hendrix, which tells
the story of Bonhoeffer’s fight to end the
oppression of the German people during
WWII; The Good Demon by Jimmy
Cajoleas, a YA paranormal debut; Sweep:
The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by
Jonathan Auxier, about the power of
friendship; and Rosie Revere and the
Raucous Riveters by Andrea Beaty, the
chapter book debut of Rosie Revere.
AKASHIC/BLACK SHEEP
The featured f&g is Liza Jane & the
Dragon by Laura Lippman, illus. by
Kate Samworth, a parable about family
values and social justice. The galley on
offer is Changers Book Four: Forever
by T. Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper,
the final installment in the Changers
series of YA novels.
ALGONQUIN
Galleys to look for are Here to Stay by
Lambda Literary Award winner Sara
Farizan, a YA novel about identity and
Compiled by Emma Kantor
prejudice; A Room Away from the
Wolves by Edgar Award finalist Nova
Ren Suma, a ghost story set in a refuge
for troubled girls; and Tell Me No Lies
by two-time National Book Award
finalist Adele Griffin, a story about com-
plicated friendships and teen heartbreak,
set in the 1980s.
BLOOMSBURY
Featured galleys are The Girl King by
Mimi Yu, a YA Editor’s Buzz panel pick,
about two sisters who become rivals in a
war to claim the title of Emperor; The
Darkdeep by Ally Condie and Brendan
Reichs, a middle grade debut pitched as
Stranger Things meets The Goonies; A
Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid
Kemmerer, a contemporary retelling of
“Beauty and the Beast”; and Imprison
the Sky by A.C. Gaughen, second in the
Elementae series.
CAMERON KIDS
The f&g on offer is Ode to an Onion by
Alexandria Giardino, illus. by Felicita
Sala, a picture book about poet Pablo
Neruda and his muse, Matilde Urrutia.
CANDLEWICK
Available are the following galleys:
Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg
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Medina, in which a sixth grader faces
changes with friends and friends; Zora
and Me: The Cursed Ground by T.R.
Simon, a fictionalized account of author
Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood; Hearts
Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith,
the story of a Native teen navigating
high school; Lost Soul, Be at Peace by
Maggie Thrash, a follow-up to her
graphic memoir Honor Girl; and 1968:
Today’s Authors Explore a Year of
Rebellion, Revolution, and Change,
edited by Marc Aronson and Susan
Campbell Bartoletti, a collection of
works by 14 award-winning authors.
CAPSTONE
Featured galleys include Meet Yasmin!
by debut children’s author Saadia Faruqi,
illus. by Hatem Aly, starring a curious
explorer and her Pakistani-American
family; A Place for Pluto by debut chil-
dren’s author Stef Wade, illus. by Melanie
Demmer, about Pluto’s quest to find his
place in the solar system; Coding from
Scratch by debut author Rachel Zitler, a
guide to coding tools; Copyboy by Vince
Vawter, sequel to the Newbery Honor
novel Paperboy; and Definitely Daphne
by Tami Charles, about a girl with a
double life as a rising vlog star and an
awkward seventh grader.
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BOOK SIGNING
CHRONICLE
Galleys on offer are Art Boss by Kayla Cagen, follow-up to
Piper Perish; What Can a Citizen Do? by Dave Eggers, illus.
by Shawn Harris, a new picture book by the creators of Her Right
Foot; and The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee, a
middle grade fantasy pitched as Stranger Things meets The
Haunted Mansion.

COMPENDIUM
Thursday May 31st The publisher will be giving away a limited number of auto-
BookExpo Autographing Area, table 13 graphed copies of What Do You Do with a Chance? by Kobi
3:30–4:30 PM Yamada, illus. by Mae Besom, the final addition to the What
Do You Do With...? picture book series.
Friday June 1st
Fox Chapel Publishing booth #2938 DISNEY-HYPERION
2:00–3:00 PM The featured f&g is Santa Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins, next in
the author-illustrator’s Mother Bruce series. Galleys to look for
BookCon, Saturday June 2nd are The Last Life of Prince Alastor by Alexandra Bracken,
Baker & Taylor booth #1421
book two in the Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding series; Sanity
10:30–11:30 AM
& Tallulah by Molly Brooks, a middle grade debut about best
friends living on a dilapidated space station; and The Storm
Runner by J.C. Cervantes, a contemporary adventure based on
Maya mythology, from Rick Riordan Presents.

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FABLED FILMS
The galley to look for is The Slithery Shakedown by Tracey
Hecht, illus. by Josie Yee, latest in the Nocturnals early reader
series.
HARLEQUIN TEEN
Galleys on offer include When Elephants Fly by Nancy
Richardson Fischer, about a high school senior at risk of devel-
oping schizophrenia; The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest, sequel
to The Black Witch; and Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa,
a YA fantasy starring a young shape-shifter.

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Booth #2938
Available middle grade galleys include This Is War by
Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson, kicking off the Cats vs.
Robots series; Resist by Veronica Chambers, spotlighting indi-
viduals who resisted tyranny; Saving Winslow by Newbery

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Medalist Sharon Creech, about a boy who befriends an ailing

donkey; The Collectors by Jacqueline West, new from the
author of the Books of Elsewhere series. YA galleys on offer are
What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, about
two boys who can’t decide if fate is pushing them together or
pulling them apart; A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh
Mafi, a novel about first love and the impact of prejudice;
Broken Things by Lauren Oliver, a YA thriller blurring the
lines between fiction and reality; and Pride, a modern retelling
of Pride and Prejudice set in Brooklyn, by National Book Award
finalist Ibi Zoboi.

LERNER
The featured giveaways include Can I Touch Your Hair?
Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship by Irene Latham
and Charles Waters, illus. by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko,
about two kids who come together for a poetry project; The
Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
by Mélina Magnal, illus. by Luisa Uribe, a picture book biog-
raphy; The Magic of Melwick Orchard by Rebecca Caprara,
in which a girl discovers a magical tree; Girls on the Line by
Jennie Liu, about a teen pregnancy that puts two friends in a
difficult position in contemporary China; and A Dog Named
Haku: A Holiday Story from Nepal by Margarita Engle,
Amish Karanjit, and Nicole Karanjit, illus. by Ruth
Jeyaveeran, about two brothers celebrating Nepal’s Festival of
Lights.

LITTLE BEE
The following f&gs will be on offer: Jack (Not Jackie) by Erica
Silverman, illus. by Holly Hatam, the story of a big sister who
realizes her little sister, Jackie, identifies more as “Jack”; and Lancaster County, Pa.
Operation Rescue Dog by Maria Gianferrari, illus. by Luisa Toll Free: (844) 307-3677 • Direct: (717) 715-8623
Uribe, about a lonely child and a lonely dog. Middle grade sales@FoxChapelPublishing.com
galleys to look for are The Flourishing of Floralie Laurel by
Fiadhnait Moser, a magical realism debut; The Prophet Calls
by Melanie Sumrow, a suspenseful debut; and The Colors of See us at BEA
Booth #2938
the Rain by R.L. Toalson, a historical novel in verse.

LITTLE, BROWN
Galleys to look for include Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by

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 Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul,
inspired by the Tony Award–winning musical; Light Years by
Kass Morgan, pitched as Ender’s Game meets The 100; Muse of
Nightmares by Laini Taylor, sequel to Strange the Dreamer;
Middle Grade Buzz pick Short & Skinny by Mark Tatulli, a
graphic memoir; and The Wicked King by Holly Black,
sequel to The Cruel Prince.

MACMILLAN
Featured giveaways include The Train to Impossible Places:
A Cursed Delivery by P.G. Bell, first in a middle grade trilogy;
Potato Pants! by author-illustrator Laurie Keller, starring a
spud on a shopping mission; Wonderland by Barbara
O’Connor, about the meaning of friendship; Nowhere Boy by
Katherine Marsh, about a young Syrian refugee and an American
boy living in Brussels; and former Politics and Prose bookseller
Somaiya Daud’s YA debut, Mirage.

MEREDITH
Titles on offer from Sports Illustrated Kids include United
States of Sports and Greatest Football Teams of All
Time. Also available is She Changed the World by Time
for Kids.

NIMBUS
The featured galley is The Goodbye Girls by Lisa Harrington,
a YA novel about breakups.

PENGUIN
Titles to look for are To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly
Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer, the story of two girls who try
to reunite their gay fathers; The Last Voyage of Poe Plythe by
Ally Condie, a dystopian novel about a search for gold; Small
Spaces by Katherine Arden, a middle grade ghost story; Darius
the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram, a YA Editors’ Buzz
selection starring a teen boy who feels out of place in America and
Iran; Wildcard by Marie Lu, sequel to Warcross; and Carmela Full
of Wishes by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson, a new
picture book from the Newbery Medal– and Caldecott Honor–
winning team.

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BOOTH 2427
THURSDAY, MAY 31

Michael Redhill
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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

The featured galleys are Blood Will Out by Jo Treggiari,
pitched as a YA Silence of the Lambs; and Clara Voyant by
Rachelle Delaney, about an aspiring journalist who is relegated
to covering boring news stories for her school paper and worse...
the horoscopes.

QUIRK
On offer are Hocus & Pocus: The Legend of Grimm’s Woods
by Manuro, illus. by Gorbei, introducing a series of interactive
graphic novels; Knights Club: The Bands of Bravery by At Booth 2427
Shuky, first in a series of graphic novels for middle graders; and
Kid Scientists by David Stabler, illus. by Anoosha Sayed, a
look into the childhoods of renowned scientists.
FRIDAY, JUNE 1
RANDOM HOUSE

Kristi Charish
Galleys featured are Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak, a
family saga from the author of The Book Thief; We Rise, We
Resist, We Raise Our Voices, edited by Just Us Books
cofounders Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson, featuring
works by 50 authors and artists; The Dark Descent of 11:00 AM
Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White, a reimagining
of the Mary Shelley classic, told from the point of view of
Elizabeth; and Squirm by Carl Hiaasen, the Newbery Honor–
winning author’s first middle grade novel in five years.

RUNNING PRESS
Giveaways include Lulu the Broadway Mouse by Jenna
Gavigan, a middle grade novel about a little mouse with big
dreams; The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl by
Christina De Witte, a humorous handbook for teens; and The
Reckless Club by Beth Vrabel, a middle grade Breakfast Club
drama set in a retirement home.

SCHOLASTIC
Galleys to look for are Mac Undercover by Mac Barnett, illus.
by Mark Lowery, first in the Mac B., Kid Spy series; Dactyl Signing in the
Hill Squad by Daniel José Older, kicking off a series that
blends history and fantasy; Impostors by Scott Westerfeld, autographing area
which launches a series set in the world of Uglies; Hey, Kiddo at Table 13
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Children’s Galleys to Grab
with a drug-addicted mother; Grenade
by Alan Gratz, follow-up to Refugee;
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab, an
adventure for fans of Stranger Things; and
You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P.
by Lambda Literary Award–winning
author Alex Gino, a tale based on con-
temporary social justice issues.
SHADOW MOUNTAIN
The featured galleys are Wrath of the
Dragon King by Brandon Mull, second
in the Dragonwatch series; and Squint
by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown,
authors of Mustaches for Maddie, about a
boy who is losing his sight.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Galleys to be given away are People Kill
People by Ellen Hopkins, a YA novel
tackling gun violence; Dry by Neal and
Jarrod Shusterman, a teen survival story
in which the California drought reaches
catastrophic proportions; A Heart in a
Body in the World by Deb Caletti, a
YA novel about the impact of gun vio-
lence and rape culture; The Devil’s
Thief by Lisa Maxwell, sequel to The
Last Magician; and Charlie Hernandez
and the League of Shadows by Ryan
Calejo, a middle grade fantasy debut.
SOHO TEEN
Galleys on offer are Zen and Gone by
Emily France, a novel about a teen’s
search for her missing sister; and Hole
in the Middle by Kendra Fortmeyer, a
magical realist YA debut about body
image and self-acceptance.
Find more children’s galleys to grab at publishersweekly.com/kidsgalleys.
SOURCEBOOKS
Featured galleys include Furyborn by
Claire Legrand, first in a fantasy trilogy;
The Similars by Rebecca Hanover,
about a group of clones joining a
boarding school; Illegal by Eoin Colfer
and Andrew Donkin, illus. by Giovanni
Rigano, a graphic novel about undocu-
mented immigrants; and Misfits by Jen
Calonita, first in a series set in the world
of Fairy Tale Reform School.
STERLING
Available are 24 Hours in Nowhere by
Dusti Bowling, about friends in search
of treasure; The Haunted Serpent by
Dora M. Mitchell, a spooky middle
grade novel; Sam Wu Is Not Afraid of
Ghosts by Katie and Kevin Tsang, illus.
by Nathan Reed, a ghost-hunting adven-
ture; If You’re Going to a March by
Martha Freeman, illus. by Violet Kim, a
picture book guide to activism; and
What’s on Your Plate? by Whitney
Stewart, illus. by Christiane Engel, a
tour of international cuisine.
TOR TEEN
Featured galleys are The Echo Room by
Parker Peevyhouse, in which two
strangers escape a mysterious prison; and
Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen, a
novel-in-verse.
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The galley giveaway is Gods and
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Like a Candy Store
For Librarians
BookExpo is the place for librarians to connect with the books
and authors their patrons will be clamoring for
By Andrew Richard Albanese
I
n an age of continuous change,
BookExpo, like the public
library itself, is evolving. But
what’s become increasingly clear
in recent years is that despite
shiny new technology and ever more
competition for a reader’s attention,
books in all formats are holding their
own and remain core to the library mis-
sion. And BookExpo, remains a vital
show for librarians, providing them with
a crucial opportunity to learn about the
titles and authors their patrons will be
clamoring for in the coming months.
“I clearly remember my first BookExpo,
in 2002, and feeling overwhelmed by the
setting—the Javits Center in New York
City, and the seemingly endless exhibit
space,” recalls PW library columnist Sari
Feldman, executive director of the
Cuyahoga County Public Library in Ohio.
“Over the years, my personal BookExpo
highlights have included riding the ele-
vator with Barbara Kingsolver, a quick
conversation with Nick Hornby, and I
also had a great moment with Maurice
Sendak and Tony Kushner, who were
together signing prints from their
Brundibar picture book.”
We are fortunate to work beyond a traditional
business relationship, to jointly build readership
and enthusiasm for books.
In the course of her career, Feldman
has become a pro at doing BookExpo,
and says that her BookExpo experiences
have highlighted the importance of the
library-publisher partnership. “We are
fortunate to work beyond a traditional
business relationship,” she says, “to
jointly build readership and enthu-
siasm for books.”
PW contributing editor Brian
Kenney, director of the White Plains
(N.Y.) Public Library, agrees. Librarians
basically attend BookExpo for three
reasons, he says. Collection develop-
ment librarians are looking at the big
picture, “what will be the bestsellers,
the possible breakouts, and how should
they align their budget over the course
of the year.” Programming librarians
are looking for events they can create
around books and authors, “from a
standard author visit, to keynoting a
library foundation’s gala or luncheon,”
or maybe titles that might work for a
one-city, one-book event.
“Finally there are the rest of us, who
talk to readers and suggest books,”
Kenney says. “In my town, there are over
30 book groups, and many of the mem-
—Sari Feldman
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Libraries
bers are looking to the library for advice,
and, often, copies of the book. So I’m
on the lookout for next year’s A Gentleman
in Moscow, Killers of the Flower Moon,
Little Fires Everywhere, Hunger, The Radium
Girls, and The Woman in the Window.”
Oh, to be a librarian at a book con-
ference. “BookExpo is like a candy store
for readers,” Feldman says. And with a
little advance planning, she says, it can
be one of the most productive—and
fun—events a librarian can attend.
“Be sure to wear your walking shoes,”
Feldman advises. “Be open to new
authors and small events, and don’t put
all your time into showcase breakfasts
and lunches. Be choosy about ARCs.
Keep your eyes open and know what
your favorite writers look like and you
just might score a great selfie. And above
all, be on the lookout for innovative
marketing tips, and connect with publi-
cists, not only writers.”
And one final recommendation: “Plan
a few days of vacation for when you
return,” Feldman says. “You most cer-
tainly will need the rest—and the time
to read.”
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The Librarians’ Lounge
Librarians, we know how you feel: running from booth to booth with
bags of ARCs slung over your shoulders can be a test of endurance.
So whether you need to just get off
your feet for awhile, or want to grab
a drink, some food, and recharge
(yourself or your phone), or maybe
you want to chat with other librar-
Ryan T. Higgins
ians, be sure to check out the Publishers Weekly Librarians’ Lounge in

Publisher
the main exhibit hall, booth 1856.
Thanks to our sponsors—including Baker & Taylor, Disney,
Harlequin, Penguin Random House Library Marketing, Random
House Children’s Books, Rowman &
Littlefield, and Sourcebooks—this year’s
lounge is once again the place to be for PRES
BE’s LIBR
librarians at BookExpo. On both days of the
show, 12:30–1:30 p.m., lunch will be

LOUN
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Littlefield.
On Thursday, May 31, Random
House Children’s Books is spon-
soring the lounge from 11 a.m. to
noon, and is expected to have
some interesting items to share
with librarians. And following
HOSTE
lunch that day, mingle with
Annie Ward
Harlequin authors, who will be on
hand in the booth to sign books, 2–3 p.m. Scheduled to appear are
Helen Cullen (The Lost Letters of William Woolf, Graydon House), Robyn Carr
Robyn Carr (The Summer That Made Us, Mira), and Annie Ward

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Sam Anderson, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and Rebecca Makkai, who will give away signed
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ians and sign copies of her fantastical

book Furyborn, the first installment
in her Empirium trilogy. And later Sam Anderson
on Friday, from 11 a.m. to noon,
meet Disney author Ryan Higgins, who will stop by to mingle
with librarians and sign copies of his book Bruce’s Big Move.
The first 75 librarians can get a free copy, one per
person, while supplies last. Note: this is a selfie-
friendly signing—taking photos is welcome.
© ellen b. wright

Throughout the show, Baker & Taylor reps

will be on hand in the lounge to talk with
librarians about their latest offerings.
So, whether you just need a place to grab
lunch and get off your feet, or you want to hear from popular authors and take home
some signed copies and more, we
hope to see you in the Librarians’
Lounge. ■
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 Around the
Booths
A guide to select exhibitors at
BookExpo

50/50
Booth 2421
This press publishes between 12 and 24 titles each year. The
list is equally divided between two imprints: September Sky
Press, for adult readers, and Melody Press, for children and
young adults.

Abrams
Booth 2207
A publisher of high-quality art and illustrated books, Abrams
is also the publisher of children’s and young adult books
including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Its
imprints include Abrams Books, Abrams Appleseed, Abrams
ComicArts, Abrams Image, Abrams Books for Young Readers,
Amulet Books, STC, and Melanie Falick Books.

Aguacene
Booth 1831
This boutique house is an eco-friendly publisher supporting
water and ocean stewardship through the Aguacene Fund at
Tides Canada Foundation. Current titles, by eco-conscious
authors, include the Nemecene series. The press is distributed
by National Book Network.

Albert Whitman
dreamscapeab.com Booth 1521
877-983-7326 Since 1919 Albert Whitman has been publishing children’s
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The press’s picture books, novels, and non-
fiction titles aim to reach children and
teens of all backgrounds and experiences.
Algonquin Books of
Chapel Hill
Booth 2007
Established more than 30 years ago,
Algonquin’s fiction and nonfiction titles
have been the recipient of numerous
awards. Its imprint Algonquin Young
Readers is dedicated to publishing works
of literary merit and enduring quality for
children and young adults.
American Academy of
Pediatrics
Booth 1521
This publisher in the field of pediatrics
has a wide-ranging program that
includes essential clinical and practice
management and titles for parents.
Featured titles: Parenting Through
Puberty: Mood Swings, Acne and Growing
Pains by Suanne Kowal-Connelly; Caring
for Your Adopted Child: An Essential Guide
for Families by Elaine E. Schulte and
Robin Michaelson; Retro Toddler: More
Than 100 Old-School Activities to Boost
Development by Anne H. Zachry.
American Booksellers for
Free Expression
Booth 2862
ABFE is the bookseller’s voice in the
fight against censorship.
American Library Association
Booth 3160b
The ALA is the global leader in library
events and exhibits. This year its annual
conference will be held in New Orleans,
June 22–25.
American Psychological
Association
Booth 1631
The APA publishes in the areas of behav-
ioral and social sciences and is the origi-
nator of the APA Style. Its imprint for
children, Magination Press, publishes
books to help children deal with a wide
variety of psychological concerns and
challenges.
APG Sales & Distribution
Booth 2956
This is a full-service distributor repre-
senting independent publishers.
Appalachian Trail
Conservancy
Booth 2683
This organization is the publisher for the
official Appalachian Trail guides, maps,
and other books related to the trail.
Apples & Honey
Booth 2609
Launched in 2015, Apples & Honey is a
children’s publishing house.

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Artisan
Booth 2007
Artisan focuses on cooking, design, pop
culture, and employing a visual lens to
expand the boundaries of general
nonfiction.
Association of American
Publishers
Booth 3166
With about 400 members, the AAP is
the largest trade organization repre-
senting the publishing industry’s priori-
ties on the protection of intellectual
property and worldwide copyright
enforcement.
Association of Taipei
Publishers
Booth 1928
Established in July 1975, this associa-
tion is one of the largest in the Taiwan
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1,500 registered publishers. For more
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dedicated to promoting cultural activi-
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Booth 1568
a modern Founded in 2006 and based in London and
New York, this independent publisher is
day version one of very few presses that reviews sub-
missions directly from authors.
of Nick B&H Publishing Group
and Nora Booth 2957
A nonprofit publisher, B&H is dedicated
Charles... to Bible-centered content.
Baker Publishing Group
Booth 2967
Baker publishes Christian resources over
a broad scope of topics, including fic-
tion, self-help, inspiration, professional
books for pastors and counselors,
Christian living, and academic titles.
Baker & Taylor
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Baker & Taylor is a worldwide distrib-
utor of digital and print books, and
poisonedpenpress.com entertainment products. It also provides
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Around the Booths
digital media services and technology
platforms to publishers, libraries,
schools, and retailers worldwide.
Barron’s Educational Series
Booth 2639
In addition to its well-known test prep
and study aids, Barron’s also publishes a
wide array of titles for children and
adults.
Behrman House
Booth 2607, 2609
Behrman publishes books for Jewish
schools, as well as titles for the general
trade on Hebrew and Jewish culture.
Blackstone
Booth 1911
Two years ago, after three decades of
producing audio books, Blackstone
launched a print book publishing arm.
Featured Titles: Lost by P.C. and
Kristin Cast; Take a Chance by Shelley
Shepard Gray; Lady Fortescue Steps Out by
M.C. Beaton.
Bloomsbury
Booth 2439
Bloomsbury is an independent, global
publishing house established in 1986
with offices in London, New York,
Sydney, Oxford, and New Delhi.
Featured titles: One Person, No Vote by
Carol Anderson; A Shot in the Dark by
Lynn Truss; The Priority of the Orange Tree
by Samantha Shannon.
Bloomsbury Children’s
Booth 2439
Featured titles: The Darkdeep by Ally
Condie and Brendan Reichs; The Girl
King by Mimi Yu; A Curse So Dark and
Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer.
Bonnier
Booth 1639
Bonnier is a growing publishing
company comprising the adult
imprints Weldon Owen and Blue
Streak Books, and the children’s
imprints Little Bee Books, Buzz Pop,
and Yellow Jacket.
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Book Connect
Booth 2685
This Canadian software company pro-
vides web-based marketing, sales, and
data products for publishers
Bookish
Booth 2215
Bookish is an online resource that aims
to help readers discover their next
favorite book.
Booklist
Booth 3160a
Booklist is the book review journal for
the American Library Association.
Boom! Studios
Booth 1638
Founded in 2005, this comic book and
graphic novel imprint produces both
original and licensed content across its
four imprints: Archaia, Boom!, Box,
KaBoom!
Bowker
Booth 2649
A ProQuest affiliate, Bowker is the
world’s leading provider of bibliographic
information and is the official ISBN
agency for the U.S. and Australia.
Brewers
Booth 1826
This company specializes in brewing lit-
erature for today’s craft brewers, home-
brewers, and beer enthusiasts.
Bridge
Booth 1843
Bridge publishes the nonfiction works of
L. Ron Hubbard on the subjects of
Dianetics and Scientology.
Brooklyn Book Festival
Booth 2022
This is New York City’s largest annual
free public literary event; it presents 250
local, national, and international authors
at 12 venues, along with a vibrant lit-
erary marketplace.
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Brown Trout
Booth 2611
This company publishes photographic
and fine arts calendars in a variety of
formats.
C&T
Booth 1833
C&T caters to the worldwide quilting
and sewing markets with three imprints:
FunStitch Studio for 8–14 year olds,
Stash Books and Kansas Star Quilts for
adults.
Featured titles: Rulerwork Quilting
Idea Book by Amanda Murphy; Modern
Quilts, edited by the Modern Quilt
Guild; Quilt-As-You Go Made Vintage by
Jera Brandvig.
Calida Lux
Booth 2431
This house publishes YA fiction and
poetry.
Candlewick
Booth 2021
An independent publisher based in
Somerville, Mass., Candlewick publishes
books for children that appeal to
teachers, parents, and librarians as well.
Capstone
Booth 3057
This children’s publisher aims to inspire
children’s imagination and ignite their
curiosity.
Featured titles: Meet Yasmin! by
Saadia Faruqi, illus. by Hatem Aly; Sweet
Revenge: Passive-Aggressive Desserts for Your
Exes & Enemies by Heather Kim; A
Different Pond by Bao Phi, illus. by Thi
Bui.
Carolrhoda
Booth 2657
A division of the Lerner
Publishing Group, this press offers pic-
ture books, and intermediate and young
adult fiction and nonfiction titles.
Casemate
Booth 1713
This publishing company’s brands
include Casemate and Casemate UK,
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Booth 1521
REGIONAL | MILITARY HISTORY
This traditional press is devoted to poetry and fiction across
several genres.

Charlesbridge
Booth 2006
This house publishes fiction and nonfiction picture books and
middle grade texts. In the fall of 2017, a new imprint,
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Chicago Review
Booth 1521
Under five imprints—Chicago Review Press, Lawrence Hill
Books, Ball Publishing, Zephyr Press, and Academy Chicago—
this house publishes approximately 60 new titles per year, dis-
tributed by IPG.

Child’s Play
Booth 2856
This company produces active and interactive books, games,
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toys, and other materials that promote whole person develop-

ment and learning through play.

China International Publishing Group/Sinomedia

Booth 2975
Since 1949, China International Publishing Group has offered
general interest and reference books on traditional and contem-
porary China through various publishers. Sinomedia is its dis-
tributor in the U.S.

Chronicle
Booths 1702, 1703
Publishing in the areas of design, food, lifestyle, pop culture,
and children’s titles, Chronicle is inspired by the enduring
magic and importance of books.
Amelia
Church Publishing
Booth 3060
A religious publisher that dates to 1918, Church is the official
See these titles & others @ BOOTH 2307 publisher of resources for the Episcopal Church, and also caters
to the broader ecumenical marketplace with its imprints
www.schifferbooks.com Morehouse and Seabury Books.

schifferpublishing schifferpublishing Cider Mill

schifferbooks schifferpublishing Booth 1649
This press produces gift books and cookbooks, and publishes
such major brands as Star Trek and Peanuts.

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 Around the Booth

Combined Book Exhibit

Booth 3156c
CBE is an organizer of book, periodical, multimedia, and
e-book exhibits in the U.S. at major library, education, and
trade conferences and is a co-organizer of the USA Pavilion at
several international book fairs. It also partners with BookExpo
on the New Title Showcase.

Cornell Univ.
Booth 3064
This press publishes general interest and scholarly books in the
humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its imprints
include Comstock, ILR Press, and Three Hills.

Cottage Door
Booth 2806
Cottage Door is a publisher of children’s board books for infants
and toddlers.

Countryman
Booth 1724
A division of Norton, Countryman publishes books on cooking,
travel, outdoor recreation, and more.

Creative Teaching
Booth 1611
Family-owned, this company is a supplemental educational
publisher for grades pre-K–8 that has been in business for 50
years.

Crossway
Booth 2963
Crossway publishes gospel-centered, Bible-centered content.

Crown
Booth 2121
A division of Penguin Random House.
Featured titles: Becoming by Michelle Obama; Presidents of
War by Michael Beschloss; Cook Like a Pro by Ina Garten.

Dead Reckoning
Booth 2761
Featured titles: Machete Squad by Brent Dulak, Kevin Knodell,
and David Axe, illus. by Per Darwin Berg; Trench Dogs by Ian
Densford; The ’Stan by Kevin Knodell and David Axe, illus. by
Blue Delliquanti.

Diamond Book Distributors

Booth 1802, 1803
This distributor is dedicated to making a wide selection of
graphic novels and other pop culture merchandise available
worldwide to bookstores, libraries, schools, and other retailers.

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home to comic book titles and properties including Red Sonja,
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Project Superpowers, Army of Darkness, Battlestar Galactica,
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Through its imprints, Usborne and Kane Miller, EDC pub-
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and improve performance. 9780310761914
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Booth 2847
Founded in 1967, this company publishes in the areas of busi- A Touch of Gold
ness and management, health, social care, education, and Annie Sullivan
Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
engineering. 9780310766353
August 14, 2018
The Experiment
Booth 2007
Launched in 2008 and distributed by Workman, the Experiment
publishes a wide range of nonfiction, including food, health and
Meet the Sky
fitness, personal development, parenting, relationships, sexu- McCall Hoyle
ality, science, and nature. Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
9780310765707
September 4, 2018
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Booth 2444
FSG publishes poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction.
The Color of Lies
Firebrand Technologies CJ Lyons
Booth 2215 Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
9780310765356
For more than 30 years, Firebrand has provided technology November 6, 2018
solutions and management for publishing companies.

Flatiron
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A division of Macmillan, named after the historic building in Laurie Boyle Crompton
which it is housed, Flatiron publishes two to three books a Hardcover, jacketed $17.99
9780310762164
month, both fiction and nonfiction. January 15, 2019

Fordham Univ.
Booth 2762
This press’s imprint, Empire State Editions, features books that
explore New York. The press also publishes in a wide range of
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Galaxy
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Battlefield Earth is one of Galaxy Press’s
best-known titles. The press also pub-
lishes Writers of the Future, an annual sci-
ence fiction and fantasy anthology, as
well as Stories from the Golden Age, a line
of mystery adventure, science fiction and
A GUIDE fantasy, and westerns.
TO THE THAT SAVED
MY LIFE ON Globe Pequot
Booths 1827, 1829
This press publishes books about well-
known brands and people, regional
interest, history, military history, life-
style, cooking, recreation, nature, true
crime, crafts, performing art, folklore,
and children’s books
Grand Central
Booths 1938, 1939
A division of Hachette Book Group.
Featured titles: Every Breath by
Nicholas Sparks; In Pieces by Sally Field;
I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson.
Graywolf
Booth 2442
Graywolf is committed to publishing
21st-century American and interna-
MEET tional literature, with an emphasis on
underrepresented and diverse voices.
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This organization publishes picture
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BOOTH #1924 children the importance of environ-
mental stewardship.
Guilford
Booth 2645
Guildford publishes in the areas of psy-
978-1-68364-134-6
OCTOBER 2018 chology, the behavioral sciences, educa-
tion, research methods, and geography
for general readers, professionals, and
academics.
trade publisher and a division of the
third largest trade and educational
book publisher in the world, Hachette
Livre.
Featured titles: Maid by Stephanie
Land; Know Your Value by Mika
Brzezinski; Sell It Like Serhant by Ryan
Serhant.
Harlequin
Booth 2239
Featured titles: Restoration Heights by
Wil Medearis; The Lost Letters of William
Woolf by Helen Cullen; Shadow of the Fox
by Julie Kagawa.
HarperCollins
Booths 2338, 2339
A subsidiary of News Corp,
HarperCollins comprises more than 120
imprints worldwide, operates in 18
countries, publishes approximately
10,000 new books every year in 17 lan-
guages, and has a catalogue of more than
200,000 titles.
Featured titles: Unsheltered by
Barbara Kingsolver (Harper); November
Road by Lou Berney (Morrow); Bearskin
by James A. McLaughlin (Ecco); The
Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
(Harper Paperbacks); Lands of Lost
Borders by Kate Harris (Dey Street
Books); I Know You Know by Gilly
Macmillan (Morrow Paperbacks); Lose
Well by Chris Gethard (HarperOne);
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly
Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall
Smith (Harper 360); and Vita Nostra by
Marina and Sergey Dyachenko.
HarperCollins Children’s
Books
Booth 2338
Featured titles: Presto and Zesto in
Limboland by Arthur Yorinks and
Maurice Sendak; A Very Large Expanse of
Sea by Tahereh Mafi; Greystone Secrets #1:
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The world’s largest Christian publisher, it
is composed of Thomas Nelson,
Zondervan, and Olive Tree Bible Software.
Featured titles: Unshakeable Hope by
Max Lucado; It’s Not Supposed to Be This
Way by Lysa TerKeurst; Racing to the
Finish by Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Harvard Univ.
Booth 2757
With “scholarship plus” as its motto, the
press publishes books from ants to Zeus
that open the academy to the world.
Harvest House
Booth 2867
Founded in 1974, this publisher of
Christian literature now publishes more
than 150 new books each year.
Henry Holt
Booth 2444
Now in it’s 152nd year, Holt publishes
history, literary fiction, biography, poli-
tics, current events, science, mysteries,
and thrillers. Its imprints include Henry
Holt, Holt Paperbacks, and Metropolitan
Books.
Hoopla Digital
Booth 2539
Hoopla is a digital library service offering
more than 600,000 titles on demand.
Housing Works
Booth 2551
BookExpo’s official charity partner, this
nonprofit will be accepting tax-deduct-
ible donations of books and media at the
end of the show.
Igloo
Booth 1639
Featured titles: Disney Storybook
Collection (Advent Calendar); My First
Day of School; The Little Acorn.
Image Comics
Booth 1803
This company publishes comics and
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graphic novels across a wide spectrum of
genres, including science fiction,
romance, horror, crime fiction, and
humor, among others.
Independent Publishers
Group
Booth 1521
IPG is a worldwide distributor for inde-
pendent general, academic, and profes-
sional publishers.
Ingram Content Group
Booth 2521
Ingram is a distributor of physical and
digital content throughout the world.
Inscribe Digital
Booth 1521
With a focus on romance, YA, nonfic-
tion, and other genres, this company
specializes in the distribution of e-book
and print-on-demand titles.
Inner Traditions/Bear & Co./
Findhorn Press
Booth 2031
Featured titles: The Miracle Club by
Mitch Horowitz; Soul Dog by Elena
Mannes; Childless Living by Lisette
Schuitemaker.
InterVarsity
Booth 1711
Featured titles: The Path Between Us by
Suzanne Stabile; Last Call for Liberty by
Os Guinness; Disruptive Witness by Alan
Noble.
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Booth 2762
One of the world’s largest university
presses, Hopkins publishes more than
200 new books and 58 scholarly periodi-
cals each year.
Kar-Ben
Booth 2657
Kar-Ben is the Jewish-themed children’s
book division of the Lerner Publishing
Group.
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Booth 3063 Booth 1639
This publisher specializes in books for Featured titles: Jack (Not Jackie) by
studying Chinese characters, Japanese Erica Silverman, illus. by Holly Hatam;
Kanji, and Korean Hanja. Disney/Pixar Coco: Movie Storybook /Libro
vasado en la pelicula (English-Spanish) by
Kumon Publishing North BuzzPop; The Prophet Calls by Melanie
America Sumrow.
Booth 2861
Borderlands / La Frontera:
The New Mestiza
Kumon creates workbooks to teach chil- Liveright
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Aunt Lute Books
978-1-879-96085-5 skills, based on the Kumon method. The first American publisher of Hart
Crane, William Faulkner, and Ernest
Laurence King Hemingway, Liveright is a division of
Houses of Ravicka Booth 1702 Norton, publishing fiction, nonfiction
Renee Gladman
Dorothy, a publishing project Featured titles: Resist: How to Be an graphic novels, drama, and poetry.
978-0-9973666-6-2 Activist in the Age of Defiance by Huck
magazine; A Cat’s Guide to the Night Sky London Review of Books
The Performance by Stuart Atkinson, illus. by Brendan Booth 2768
of Becoming
Human Kearney; Looking at Art with Alex Katz Devoted to the tradition of the literary
Daniel Borzutzky
Brooklyn Arts Press by Alex Katz. and intellectual essay, each issue of the
978-1-936-76746-5 London Review contains up to 15 long
Lectorum reviews and essays by academics, writers,
Booth 3162 and journalists.
Monster Portraits Lectorum is the oldest and largest
Del Samatar & Sooa Samatar
Rose Metal Press Spanish book distributor in the U.S., as Lonely Planet
978-1-941628-10-2
well as a publisher of children’s books. Booth 3056
Since 1973, Lonely Planet has enabled
Lerner curious travelers to experience the world
IRL
Tommy Pico Booth 2657 via guidebooks and a suite of mobile and
Birds, LLC
978-0-9914298-6-8
With its 14 imprints, including digital travel products.
Carolrhoda, Millbrook, Graphic
Universe, and Darby Creek, Lerner pub- Macmillan
lishes fiction and nonfiction for children Booths 2444, 2445
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl and young adults. A global trade book publishing com-
Andrea Lawlor
Rescue Press
pany, Macmillan has imprints around
978-0-9860869-9-1 LID the world and publishes a broad range of
Booth 2860 books in all categories and formats.
This company publishes one-third of its
Garments Against Women
120 new titles per year in English and McGill-Queens Univ.
Anne Boyer the rest in Spanish and other languages. Booth 2763
Ahsahta Press
978-1-934103-59-3 This press publishes rigorously edited
Lion Forge books that defend, refute, and create
Booth 1802a fresh interpretations of the world.
I’m So Fine
Khadijah Queen This company is a transmedia studio
Yesyes Books
978-1-936919-46-8
with a focus on comics publishing across Meredith
all age groups. Booths 1820, 1821
Featured titles: Martha’s Kitchen Mix by
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
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Michelin Travel Publications
Booth 1832
Michelin is a publisher of travel guides,
maps, and atlases.
Miles Kelly
Booth 2843
With 500 titles available, this publisher
of children’s encyclopedias, storybooks,
classic fiction, and activity books is one of
Discovery Channel’s publishing partners.
Millbrook
Booth 2657
A division of the Lerner Publishing
Group, Millbrook offers picture books,
illustrated nonfiction, and photo-driven
titles.
Minedition
Booth 1521
This Hong Kong–based company pub-
lishes picture books for children.
MIT
Booth 2756
This press publishes books, journals, and
electronic media across a variety of sub-
jects including art, architecture, cognitive
science, computer science, neuroscience,
and linguistics, among others.
Moody
Booth 2838
This ministry of Moody Global
Ministries provides biblical content.
National Book Network
Booth 1827
This is a full-service marketing and dis-
tribution company serving independent
publishers around the world.
National Geographic
Booth 2303
Working with scientists, photographers,
journalists, and filmmakers, National
Geographic publishes books about sci-
ence and exploration.
Naval Institute
Booth 2761
Established in 1898, this press publishes
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approximately 90 titles per year in the
genres of military history, strategy, fic-
tion, espionage and intelligence, current
affairs, political science, and more.
Featured titles: Battleship Bismarck
by William H. Garzke Jr., Robert O.
Dulin Jr., and Bill Jurens, with James
Cameron; Smoke ’Em If You Got ’Em by
Joel R. Buis; Silver State Dreadnaught by PUBLISHERS
Stephen M. Younger.
NetGalley
CONFERENCE
Booth 2215
An online service, NetGalley delivers
29th – 30th
digital galleys to book publishers, Oct 2018
reviewers, media, librarians, and book-
sellers. It is a division of Firebrand
Technologies.
New Harbinger
Booth 2249
Aimed at wellness, inspiration, and posi-
tive change, New Harbinger publishes
books in the areas of mind-body, self-
help, psychology, spirituality, and
health.
Nimbus
Booth 2647
Based in Canada, Nimbus publishes
more than 50 titles per year for both
children and adults on a range of
subjects.
Norton
Booths 1720, 1721, 1726, 1724,
1730
Norton is the oldest and largest pub-
lishing house owned wholly by its
employees. It publishes in the areas of
nonfiction, fiction, poetry, cookbooks,
psychology, and more.
Oni
Booth 1749
Oni is an independent publisher of comics.
Orca
Booth 2242
This Canadian press is a children’s book
publisher with more than 730 titles in
print.
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OverDrive
Booths 2738, 2739
OverDrive’s global catalogue of e-books
and audiobooks reaches more than
40,000 libraries, schools, and retailers.
29 Years of Popular
References Overlook
Booth 1730
Control: MKUltra, Chemtrails, and the
Overlook is an independent, general
Conspiracy to Suppress the Masses
978-1-57859-638-6 interest publisher founded in 1971. It
Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels publishes approximately 100 titles per
978-1-57859-613-3 year evenly divided between hardcovers
The Handy American Government and trade paperbacks.
Answer Book
978-1-57859-639-3 OwlCrate
The Handy Diabetes Answer Book Booth 2406
978-1-57859-597-6 This is monthly subscription service for
The Handy Literature Answer Book newly published YA titles.
An Engaging Guide to Unraveling Symbols,
Signs and Meanings in Great Works
978-1-57859-635-5 Paizo
The Handy Pennsylvania Answer Book Booth 1810
978-1-57859-610-2 Paizo is the publisher of the Pathfinder
Tales fantasy fiction novels and other
Distributed by Publishers Group West
hobby games products.
SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu Peachtree
Booth 2107
Independently owned, Peachtree special-
izes in books for children and young
adults. It also publishes fiction and non-
TOVA REICH fiction for adults in the categories of
health, education, parenting, regional
MOTHER guide books, biography, and memoir.
INDIA
Penguin Random House
Booth 2121
A Novel PRH comprises the adult and children’s
fiction and nonfiction print and digital
trade book publishing businesses of
Penguin and Random House in the U.S.,
U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
“Passionate and hilarious and wildly original.” and India.
—Cynthia Ozick
Featured titles: An Absolutely
Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
“Passionate and hilarious (Dutton); The Infinite Game by Simon
and wildly original— Sinek (Portfolio); There Will Be No More
Miracles Here by Casey Gerald
Tova Reich dazzlingly (Riverhead).
surpasses even herself.”
—Cynthia Ozick Penguin Random House
Canada
Syracuse University Press Booth 2427
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This house comprises the imprints
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Anchor Canada, Appetite by Random
House, Bond Street Books, Doubleday
Canada, Knopf Canada, Penguin Canada,
Tundra Books, and Vintage Canada.
Phaidon
Booth 2744
Phaidon is a global publisher in the areas
of art, photography, design, architecture,
fashion, food, travel, and illustrated
books for children.
Featured titles: The Nordic Baking
Book by Magnus Nilsson; Annie Leibovitz
at Work by Annie Leibovitz; Seeing Stars:
A Complete Guide to the 88 Constellations
by Sara Gillingham.
Phidal
Booth 2707
This press’s books for children are
designed to entertain, educate, and pro-
mote reading and interactive play.
Picador
Booth 2444
Picador is the literary trade paperback
imprint for Macmillan, publishing
paperbacks from Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, Henry Holt, and St. Martin’s
Press.
Printers Row
Booth 1546
This house publishes adult trade, pro-
motional, and juvenile books.
Featured titles: Dark Tales series by
various authors; Sesame Street: Another
Monster at the End of This Book by Tom
Brannon; Eppie the Elephant (Who Was
Allergic to Peanuts) by Livingstone
Crouse.
Princeton Univ.
Booth 2760
Featured titles: On the Future: Prospects
for Humanity by Martin Rees; How to
Walk on Water and Climb Up Walls:
Animal Movement and the Robots of the
Future by David L. Hu; Gods and Robots:
The Ancient Quest for Artificial Life by
Adrienne Mayor.
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Booth 1607 Booths 2038, RC203
This press is an independent publisher of Philadelphia-based Quirk publishes
books on popular science, history, social only 25 books per year. Among its chil-
science, religion, psychology, politics, dren’s, art, and pop culture titles are Miss
and more. Its imprints include Seventh Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by
Street Books, a line of mystery, thriller, Ransom Riggs and William Shakespeare’s
and crime fiction, and Pyr, which pub- Star Wars by Ian Doescher.
lishes science fiction and fantasy.
Rand McNally
Pubmatch.com Booth 2712
Booth 3156d Publishers of the familiar Road Atlas,
Pubmatch specializes in title and rights Rand McNally has a line of atlases, maps,
management, international networking, activity books, and classroom products.
and rights buying and selling.
Random House
Quarto Booth 2121
Booth 1613 Featured titles: Lake Success by Gary
Quarto’s diverse portfolio of imprints Shteyngart; What the Eyes Don’t See by
publishes in the areas of art, how-to, Mona Hanna-Attisha; A Spark of Light
graphic design, home improvement, by Jodi Picoult.
cooking, gardening, motoring, crafts,
and children’s books.
“Out of all the books I’ve read
on the 1968 election, this is the
very best.” —DOUGLAS BRINKLEY,
author of Cronkite
Books
Booth 2121
Featured titles: Bridge of Clay by
Markus Zusak; We Rise, We Resist, We
Raise Our Voices, edited by Wade Hudson
and Cheryl Willis Hudson; Squirm by
Carl Hiaasen.
Raven Crest
Booth 1562
Raven Crest is a Virginia-based Christian
publisher of literature and producer of
film.
Red Wheel/Weiser
Booth 2839
Featured titles: Your Guide to Forest
Bathing by M. Amos Clifford; Protest
Kitchen by Carol J. Adams and Virginia
Messina; Millennial Money Makeover by
Conor Richardson.
Ripley Entertainment
Booth 1644
Owner of the Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
trademark, this company publishes
books about the strange and unusual.
Roman
Booth 2111
Roman began in 1963 as a religious
articles business, but has grown to
become an inspirational books
publisher.

Rowman & Littlefield

Booth 1831
Headquartered outside Washington,
D.C., this publisher’s focus is on aca-
demic publishing in the humanities and
social sciences, the publishing of govern-
$34.95 HARDCOVER • 560 PAGES ment and official data, and educational
publishing.
A tour diary of life on the
road with one of Minnesota’s Ryland Peters & Small
Booth 1751
greatest bands—with nearly
This house publishes books on homes
100 never-before-seen and gardens, food and drink, children’s
photographs activities, weddings, pregnancy and
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Booth 2307
The 5,800 titles published by Schiffer
are on subjects that include antiques
and decorative arts; architecture and
design; art; craft; fashion; food and
entertaining; mind, body, and spirit; and
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Jennifer L. Rohn
Rohn, who coined the term “lab lit,” turns the scientific
laboratory into a mystery-rich, fictional setting

D
ateline: the Isle of Sheppey, 50 mate change, and global pandemics, they
miles east of London. A deadly are now seen as heroes who are, quite lit-
new virus spreads between cats erally, trying to save the planet.”
and their owners. Meanwhile, in Artie is one of these heroes. She has in
the basement labs of a North London her sights an obscure cat virus—also the
research institute, Professor Artemis subject of Rohn’s doctoral dissertation—that
“Artie” Marshall, an underfunded but bril- was once at the forefront of AIDS research.
liant scientist, suddenly finds her esoteric Rohn chose to go back to the virus via fic-
research intersecting with this mounting tion “as part joke, part challenge,” she says.
public health crisis. “Could I write a suspenseful tale about an
Jennifer L. Rohn’s Cat Zero is a blend obscure cat virus that nobody in the world
of whodunit, thriller, romance, and scien- cares about?”
tific procedural. Against the background The answer is resoundingly yes. As Cat
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joys of timeless pursuits
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a smart romantic thriller.” – Simon Mawer, author of Man Booker Prize-shortlisted
The Glass Room
such as holing up with
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Jennifer L. Rohn

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what it's really like to work in a scientific laboratory: the academic rivalries and
jealousies, the gender politics, the frustrations of painstaking experimental work
and the excitement of new ideas and breakthroughs.” – Philip Ball, award-
winning author of Critical Mass
deep scientific myster- virus is a key compo-
ies, elaborate machines, nent in the deadly epi-
but potentially
“A mysterious outbreak of cat plague sends an intrepid virologist on a hunt to
find the source of contagion in this gripping page-turner. Nobody writes about
scientists quite like Jennifer Rohn...” – Jennifer Ouellette, Cocktail Physics
arcane rituals, pressur- demic on Sheppey, her

deadly. ized situations, and the

usual human imperatives
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“Never underesti-
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“Lab lit,” the term Rohn coined to rial, beautiful, fascinating… but potentially
describe the genre of realist fiction about deadly. As the novel highlights, we can
science, is on the rise. “The tide began to never predict where—or when—the next
turn,” she says, “when well-known authors world-threatening pandemic will emerge.”
started to write fiction about scientists.” Though Artie contends with unwanted
The success of Tracy Chevalier, Barbara sexual advances from one male colleague,
Kingsolver, Simon Mawer, Ian McEwan, obstruction and sabotage from another,
Richard Powers, and others has dove- and dismissive, blatant sexism from yet
tailed with an increased public interest in another who also happens to be her collab-
science over the past few decades. orator in predicting the deadly epidemic’s
Rohn thinks the renaissance is due in spread, she still finds time to fall for her
part to shifting cultural attitudes. “In the male postdoc, giving Cat Zero a touch of
20th century, scientists were the bad guys,” romance. The myriad obstacles Artie faces
she says. “In the 21st, as they rally to save are both outrageous and dispiritingly
us from the risks imposed by dwindling familiar, which makes it ever more satisfy-
fossil fuels, decreasing food security, cli- ing to find out how she finally triumphs.

No One Is Illegal
A graphic novel by Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis
Fowl books, and Andrew Donkin puts a human face to
the European migrant crisis
E
oin Colfer and Andrew Donkin
are perhaps best known for their
graphic novel adaptations of
Colfer’s Artemis Fowl fantasy-
adventure series. Their latest project
marks a clear departure for the duo. Illegal
is a middle grade graphic novel about a
Ghanaian orphan named Ebo who follows
his older brother, Kwame, on a brutal jour-
ney in pursuit of asylum in Europe.
The narrative alternates between the
present—in which Ebo has reunited
with his brother but the two are adrift
in the Mediterranean, awaiting uncer-
tain rescue—and the past, to Ebo’s
trek into Niger to find his brother.
The question is:
should we help
children in trouble?
The answer to that
question should
always be yes.
— Eoin Colfer
After collaborating on four graphic
Artemis Fowl adaptations, Colfer, who
lives in Wexford, Ireland, and Donkin,
based in London, felt drawn to
embark on an original work on a
pressing topic. About four years ago,
as the two sought out the right sub-
ject for their project, Donkin found himself
deeply affected by frequent news reports
on the sinking of vessels carrying
migrants fleeing humanitarian crises.
“We’d wait for a follow-up report and a list
of names, but they never came,” he says.
Colfer was similarly impacted by the
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the graphic novel is that it can be poured
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reader will find something they missed,”
he says. The authors turned to Italian illus-
trator Giovanni Rigano, who also created
the art for the Artemis Fowl graphic nov-
els, to illustrate Illegal.
“Giovanni has done a stunning job
with the artwork, which really brings out
the epic nature of their struggles and their
long and dangerous journey,” Donkin says.
“This is the perfect medium for this story
because we can show you what happens
to Ebo and his brother without having to
overly comment on it and pass judgment
ourselves.”
The book’s title is arguably provoca-
tive, however. “Illegal is quite a con-
troversial word in this context,” Colfer
says. “Often migrants are referred to
as illegal, but the children cannot
understand how they can be illegal
for simply existing on planet Earth.”
Colfer adds that he and Donkin took
the title from a quote by author and
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, which
begins, “You who are so-called illegal
aliens must know that no human
being is ‘illegal.’ That is a contradic-
tion in terms.”
Since the book’s U.K. release last
year, the authors have heard from
many readers. “The most powerful
reactions have been from people who
have made the journey and gave us
their seal of approval,” Colfer says. “It
was very emotional for some of those
people to read this book, and it meant
a lot to us that Illegal moved them.”
Donkin says, “The reaction to the
book has been fantastic, especially
from people who have completed
that terrible journey.” After speaking at
an exhibition about the book in Como,
Italy, Donkin was approached by a
young man who could personally
relate to Ebo’s experience. “He was so
happy we’d written it for others to
read,” Donkin says. “That was a really
touching moment.”
The authors are hopeful that American
readers will be similarly moved by Ebo’s
story. “I hope that U.S. readers will focus in
on the children who are stranded at sea
through no fault of their own and forget
the politics surrounding the issue,” Colfer
says. “The question is: should we help
children in trouble? The answer to that
question should always be yes.”
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Susanna Kearsley
Kearsley’s 13th novel, a work of historical fiction inspired by family history,
takes readers back to colonial Long Island and the French and Indian War
I
t’s 1750s Long Island, and the British
and French colonies are in conflict,
the loyalties of many merchants in
question. When Jean-Philippe, a
young French-Canadian lieutenant, is
captured and billeted with the Wilde fam-
ily, he slowly begins to pitch in with the
household tasks and farm chores. He also
finds himself drawn to the daughter of the
house, Lydia.
Fast-forward a few centuries: legend
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Jean-Philippe and Lydia ended tragically.
When the town’s new museum curator
hears the story, she’s
determined to piece
together the clues they
left behind and slowly
unveil the truth.
Susanna Kearsley’s
I won’t make a real- own lineage was the
inspiration for
life person a villain Bellewether. “I’ve known
since my childhood that
or a saint without ancestors of mine lived
good evidence, or on Long Island in those
days,” the Toronto-
change the outcome based author says, “and
that a couple of them
of a real event. took in captured French
officers on their parole
— Susanna Kearsley
of honor during that
war. And then one day I
came across Thomas M.
Truxes’s nonfiction work Defying Empire:
Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New
York. I realized that some of my own New
York ancestors had probably been caught
up in this kind of trade activity. So, I
started taking a deeper dive into the
period. Bellewether grew from there.”
Part history, part romance, Bellewether
is deeply researched and provides a
glimpse into Long Island during 18th-cen-
tury wartime. “I’m drawn to the subject
matter of a book because I’m personally
fascinated,” Kearsley says. “If I happen to
pass on some of what I’ve learned to my
readers, then that’s a bonus.”
To learn more about Long Island during
the French and Indian War, Kearsley
made many weekend research trips to
New York. Her background in museum
curating deeply informed that exploratory
process. In addition to seeking out primary
sources such as original letters, journals,
and wills, the author contacted period
experts. Kearsley was also conscientious
about the words she used in Bellewether.
“Working in museums taught me to be
mindful of the power of small choices,”
Kearsley says. “Curators influence how we
preserve and view the past by choosing
what to keep, what to discard, what to dis-
play, and what to tuck
away in storage, out of
sight. And writers, too,
make choices that can
influence the way their
readers view someone
or imagine what the past
looked like. I won’t make
a real-life person a villain
or a saint without good
evidence or change the
outcome of a real event.”
The results of
Kearsley’s carefully
chosen words are nov-
els that don’t fit neatly
into any one genre.
“There’s a bit of every-
thing in them,” she says.
“There’s a mystery, but
it’s not a body-in-the-library sort of mys-
tery. There’s romance, but it’s not always
front and center. There’s often something
paranormal going on, but it’s not too
strange or creepy. And I think there’s a cer-
tain old-style suspense to the stories.”
Kearsley is a New York Times– and
USA Today–bestselling author and a favor-
ite of booksellers and librarians; her last
book, A Desperate Fortune, was an Indie
Next and a LibraryReads pick. Currently,
she is finishing a novella that is part of a
historical mystery quartet written collab-
oratively with authors C.S. Harris, Anna Lee
Huber, and Christine Trent. Sourcebooks
will publish the book in 2019.

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n Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the
Storm Away, an African-American
child growing up in Tennessee with
her grandfather is inspired, com-
forted, and ultimately empowered by the
music around her. For Ketch Secor, music
was similarly a wellspring of joy and sol-
ace as a child. “My family moved around
so much,” he says, “that music became a
source of rootedness for me.”
Secor, recalling “the smell and feel
of the record, the pictures on the
sleeve, and watching the needle
bounce on the grooves,” sees a strong
connection between the tactile and
visual experience of listening to a
record and the unveiling of the story
within a picture book. “I always wanted
to try my hand at the craft of children’s
literature,” he says, “so that I could
impress something similar upon the
children of today—that music and liter-
ature sing in harmony together.”
Secor found the right story in the
character of Lorraine, who came to life
when the author and his band were
renting a farmhouse in Elk Park, N.C.
They got to know “a community of
elders who,” he says, “imparted on us a
wealth of knowledge about
Appalachian folklife.” Among the inspi-
rations for Lorraine’s character was a
woman of Cherokee descent named
Lorraine Sizemore, whose family owned
the tobacco farm where Secor and his
bandmates worked.
When Secor began crafting his book,
he experienced firsthand the kinship
between writing a children’s book and
writing a song. “The biggest similarities,”
Secor says, “are the meter and the rhyme
scheme of the book, which are absolutely
akin to song craft.” He adds that he has
always been drawn to art forms that blend
mediums, as in the folk stories of John
Henry and Casey Jones, which frequently
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Ketch Secor and
Higgins Bond
Words and pictures harmonize perfectly in this debut
picture book from Secor, founder of the Old Crow
Medicine Show string band, illustrated by Bond
have musical interludes.
While Secor was in familiar territory
when creating his story, the publication
process was a new experience. The most
surprising and gratifying aspect was “see-
ing the collaborative nature of words and
pictures coming together,” he says. His
publisher sent him numerous samples of
illustrators’ work, but he was most drawn
to Higgins Bond’s. “Higgins,” he says, “is an
incredible woman and artist. Like
Lorraine, she is a Southern African-
American who found she had a unique
God-given talent from an early age.”
Bond is a veteran illustrator. Her work
has appeared on national TV, in books, and
even on postage stamps. Her impressive
list of clients includes the United States
Postal Service, the United Nations Postal
Administration, the Smithsonian Institution,
and NBC, and she has received numerous
awards and honors, including induction
into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.
The Lorraine manuscript resonated
with Bond as soon as she read it. “It is
such a sweet story,” she says. “I love the
dynamic between the child and her
grandfather. You can feel the love.”
Bond’s illustrations of Lorraine are
loosely modeled after her granddaughter,
Lexi, “but I did not use her exactly,” she
says. “Lorraine is really a composite of
several little girls. But I think that she
ended up with a lot of Lexi’s personality
and charm.”
Bond was not familiar with Secor’s
musical career, but she says she “soon
understood his desire to see this story
absolutely infused with music.” She
isn’t a musician herself, but she is a
Music and
literature sing in
harmony together.
— Ketch Secor
connoisseur. “You should see my CD
and record collection!” she says.
As Lorraine makes its way onto
bookstore and library shelves, Secor is
eager to share the story with kids. In
addition to his musical career, he is a
parent and a literacy advocate; in fact, he
founded the independent Episcopal School
of Nashville, which opened its doors in
2016. As he visits schools to perform read-
ings of Lorraine, he hopes that readers will
also see the connection that he experi-
ences between storytelling and song.
“I have found as a songwriter,” Secor
says, “that dipping my pen into a deeper
well of American music and storytelling
traditions has provided my audience with
a more comprehensive understanding of
just how interconnected music, language,
and the written word are.”
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SPOTLIGHT ON

Stuart Turton
Journalist Turton’s fiction debut melds time travel and
body swapping into an Agatha Christie–style whodunit

A
man is running through the All have challenges for Bishop to overcome.
forest yelling, “Anna.” He Turton says he used the bodies to help
notices he is wearing someone pace the story. Age, physical health, and
else’s dinner jacket. When he intelligence accelerate or slow down the
looks down, he discovers he has another action at various points. “I needed some-
person’s hands. He has no memory of who body early in the book to run around the
he is, how he made his way to the forest, house getting in scrapes,” he says. “So I
or why he is inside another person’s body. invented a character who was young, fit,
A silver compass drops from his pocket. A and very stupid. He had been preceded
voice whispers one word: “East.” by a banker who was overweight but
This is the extremely clever.”
opening of jour- To keep track of
nalist Stuart this complexity,
Turton’s first Turton says he
novel, The 7 1⁄2 used “the world’s
Deaths of Evelyn largest supply of
Hardcastle. Turton Post-it notes, a
set out to write an vast spreadsheet,
Agatha Christie– and separate
style story, com- notebooks for
plete with the big each character,
country house and detailing their
rich people with motivations, hab-
secrets, but this its, and peculiari-
isn’t your parents’ ties.”
murder mystery. While Turton
“If you think keeps a regular
If you think Downton Abbey
with a body
writing schedule,
he is not a fan of
Downton Abbey count, you’re half-
way there,” Turton
daily writing
goals. “Writing’s
with a body says. The other
half makes up
stressful enough
as it is without
count, you’re what he calls “the putting artificial
most complicated word counts on
halfway there. murder mystery what I’m doing,”
imaginable.” he says. “If it’s good, I keep doing it. If it’s
— Stuart Turton
To be sure, nothing is predictable in bad, I stop and play my guitar until my
the fast-paced pages of The 7 1⁄2 Deaths brain unknots itself. Then I try again. Some
of Evelyn Hardcastle. After realizing that he days I play a lot of guitar.”
is Aiden Bishop, the novel’s protagonist is The 7 1⁄2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is
given eight chances to solve a murder just the beginning of Turton’s novel-writ-
before it even takes place. Bishop must ing career. He’s currently working on a
relive the day of the crime eight times in a new book. “By the time I finish this one,”
Groundhog Day–style time loop. Turton says, “whatever I told you now
As if all that time travel weren’t tough would pretty much be a lie, so I’m going
enough, Bishop experiences each day in the to keep quiet, except to say that it’s going
body of another character. Each physique to be strange and fun and epic. That’s
is different from the one that preceded it. what I’m hoping.”
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Anne Leigh Parrish:

The Redemption of the Road
The Amendment, a powerful road novel, explores the
pain of a spouse’s sudden death and the unexpected
freedom that follows

A
nne Leigh Parrish’s third novel,
and sixth book of fiction,
opens with Lavinia Starkhurst
standing alone in her Upstate
New York home when the phone rings.
The caller informs Lavinia that her golfer
husband has just been killed by a
lightning strike. An empty nester in
her early 50s, Lavinia is devastated
by her sudden widowhood. But she
also feels a surprising freedom,
even as she is freighted with grief
and guilt.
This grief inspires Lavinia to
change her scenery. She embarks on
a road trip toward her sister-in-law’s
Montana home. “She has to get out,”
Travel alters one’s
perception, but a
road trip, where
you’re in control of
where you go and
how quickly you
get there, puts you
in charge.
— Anne Leigh Parrish
Parrish says. “Not just out of the
large house she never really liked
but the town she’s lived in all her
life. She wants to be away from her
children, whose worry over her in
her ‘time of need’ becomes cloying.”
Lavinia’s ensuing transformation is at
the heart of this novel about self-under-
standing and new possibilities. “When she
sets out, she carries with her a nagging
doubt about her fundamental ability to
love and forgive,” Parrish says. “She knows
she’s a hard soul, impatient with the foi-
bles of others. She also knows that she
made both of her husbands unhappy, in
different ways. She discovers that she
married two men who were afraid of her.”
As the landscape changes from
Eastern and Midwestern greenery to
Western prairies and mountains, Lavinia
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changes, too. A spirit of generosity starts grieving is different for everyone. “You can
to take hold. She begins to leave profusely leave home, but it all comes with you,” she
generous tips. She helps a stranger
whose husband has stranded her at a
Laundromat.
Parrish surprised herself while writing who they are and take stock of the kind-
Lavinia’s encounters with the people she
meets on the road. In one of Parrish’s
favorite and most unexpected scenes,
Lavinia is mistaken for a recently deceased
woman’s long-lost companion. She even
attends the woman’s funeral.
Another powerful sequence is
Lavinia’s encounter with a transgender
teen named Chuck, who introduces
Lavinia to his friends. “Because
they’re young and unorganized,”
Parrish says, “Lavinia feels right at
home in bossing them into action
and taking care of the home they
all live in.”
Lavinia is like an old friend to
Parrish. She first appeared in
Parrish’s second book, Our Love
Could Light the World, a linked-
story collection, in which we meet
Lavinia when she was married to
her first husband, Potter. “I wanted
to write about her again,” Parrish
says, “and I thought she should
have her own story.”
For Parrish, road trips make for
appealing narratives because
they’re about escape and bridging
past and future. “There is the thrill
of everything that lies ahead, but
there is also the pull of all that is
being left behind,” she says. “The
journey is an agent of change. You
become a slightly different person
from the one you were at the outset.
Any travel alters one’s perception, but
a road trip, where you’re in control
of where you go and how quickly
you get there, puts you in charge.
That can be very exhilarating.”
Parrish hopes readers who
accompany Lavinia on her trip in
The Amendment discover that
says. “You must be willing to sort out your
feelings no matter how painful or difficult.
If you let yourself see other people for
ness they’ve done you, you’re able to
eventually be kind to yourself.”
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SPOTLIGHT ON
Lisa Romeo
Romeo delves into grief and finds a surprising path to
healing in this memoir that will leave readers pondering
new ideas about how to live with loss
H
ow should one grieve? For
Lisa Romeo, mourning the loss
of her father, Anthony “Tony”
Chipolone, was a long and
complex process that came with an unex-
pected twist. Romeo, an author who has
published essays and worked as an editor,
chronicles these events in her vivid mem-
oir, Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s
Memoir of Love After Loss.
Tony, a fascinating person with whom
Romeo had a unique relationship, started
out as a “junk man,” having collected
scrap metal as a boy with a horse and
wagon in the 1930s. In the 1960s and
1970s, he had a breakthrough, foreseeing
a huge business opportunity in polyester
threads and then fabrics.
Tony’s business success provided
Romeo with a comfortable upbringing
and enabled her to pursue her passion for
horses. As a young woman, Romeo trav-
eled the hunter/jumper horse show cir-
cuit, competing on her own horses.
Eventually, she began writing for eques-
trian magazines. Romeo wouldn’t have
been able to follow her love for horses
and writing without her father’s support.
But Romeo’s relationship with her
father was complicated. “We liked to spar
verbally and found it hard to relax in one
another’s company,” Romeo says. “I so
wanted to stay in the good graces of my
mother—who was intimidated by intellec-
tual conversation and quick to anger—that
I often shrank from engaging with him.”
With his “inflexibility, traditional ideas
about gender roles, and withdrawal from
family situations he couldn’t control,” Tony
frequently frustrated Romeo. “Sadly,” she
says, “as he aged, I lost patience with him,
until the very end, when I finally softened.”
In August 2006, when she was 46,
Romeo received the call that Tony had
had a stroke. She flew from New Jersey to
Las Vegas to be with him. She spent time
with him in the hospital. Seven weeks
later, he died.
Shortly after his death, something star-
tling happened. Romeo started talking to
her father as naturally as if he were still
alive. Their conversations constitute the
most memorable and poignant moments
in Starting with Goodbye.
The first occurs when Romeo sees
Tony in his Las Vegas home at 1:15 a.m.
“We talk. Not about anything important.
Not yet. Chitchat. Small talk,” Romeo writes
in the memoir. Her father asks her what
she’s doing up so late. Romeo tells him
that it’s just how she is. “I ask him why he’s
here—at all,” Romeo writes. “He says he’s
just checking in on me.” Another unforget-
table encounter happens at a coffee shop
where a barista calls out “Tony—short cof-
fee regular.” Romeo’s father ordered coffee
in exactly this manner—“regular.”
“These ‘conversations,’ were elemen-
tal,” Romeo says. “Everything that got in
the way in life seemed stripped away. We
were communicating without artifice,
without baggage. He was hanging around
because there was something about our
relationship, about him, that I needed to
better understand.”
Tony’s visits from the afterlife coin-
cided with a momentous insight for
Romeo: she realized one of the reasons
she and her father were so often at odds
was that they were so similar. “Dad loved
people but in small doses,” Romeo says.
“He was content sitting on his patio read-
ing the Wall Street Journal while the world
ticked by. His reclusiveness upset me. Then
I realized that I’m the same way. We’re
both hyperinterested in the world outside
our own lives and frustrated when others
aren’t. We’re both advance planners who
focus on details. We each always wanted
to be right, to get the last word.”
I dislike the shroud
of silence around
death, postdeath
rituals, and grief,
and I wish we could
all be more open.
— Lisa Romeo
Romeo’s experience of writing Starting
with Goodbye changed her understand-
ing of her relationship with her father. She
hopes that readers will take a new view of
their loved ones and be open to how rela-
tionships can continue even after death.
“ ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ too often
translates into not speaking of the dead at
all,” Romeo says. “I dislike the shroud of
silence around death, postdeath rituals,
and grief, and I wish we could all be more
open. If the book spurs anyone to look at
bonds that last beyond death, that would
be wonderful.”
 Going All Out for APAC
The audio conference will feature more attendees, pany with which APA partners for its
consumer surveys, to be well attended.
new industry data, and nuts-and-bolts advice Webster gave the keynote at last year’s
conference and has been invited back by
By Shannon Maughan popular demand. He will be sharing
information from the newest APA sales

O
n Wednesday, May 30,
the Audio Publishers
Association will hold
its 24th annual day-
long conference in the
River Pavilion at New York’s Javits Center.
It’s bound to be an upbeat affair, as APA’s
executive director Michele Cobb says
that the audiobook industry has seen
double-digit gains in sales dollars and
units for the past five years. “It’s still
exciting,” she says. “There’s lots of pro-
duction and lots of growth.” In addition,
she notes, the group is happy to be back
in the same conference space for a second
year, because it’s one of the few areas of the
convention center that enjoys abundant
natural light.
Due to the positive response to last
year’s program, which was attended by
400 people, capacity has been increased to
550. “We shot higher this time,” says
Cobb, noting the event sold out during
its preregistration phase and there is a
waiting list.
The increased attendance at the APA
Conference has spurred slight changes in
the flow of programming. “We’re using
multiple spaces at once to try to accom-
modate as many people as possible,”
Cobb says. As an example, she points out
that an information session will run con-
currently with the keynote lecture deliv-
ered by Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize–
winning business reporter for the New
York Times and author of bestsellers The
Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better:
The Transformative Power of Real Productivity.
In his talk, Duhigg will explore the sci-
ence of habit formation, illustrating why
we do what we do and how we can change
it, by drawing on a number of current
case studies of corporations and organiza-
tions. According to information provided
by Jackie Heller, director of speaker
relations for the Harry Walker Agency,
Duhigg’s program also includes his
explanation of “why the most powerful
habits have emotional cores, and how
tweaking even one habit can have stag-
gering effects.”
While Duhigg speaks, the “Contractors
and Corporations” session will meet. It
will be geared to narrators and other inde-
pendent contractors, introducing them to
the pros and cons of becoming corpora-
tions. “That’s a lot of the conversation right
now in the industry about what to do with
oneself as a small business,” Cobb says.
New to the program lineup this year is a
business-track session called “Audio Meets
Audience Development.” It features a
conversation between Mikel Ellcessor,
v-p of special projects at the public radio
station WNYC, and Jim Hanas,
HarperCollins’s audience development
director. “We’re trying something dif-
ferent—trying to do a deeper dive in some
sessions,” Cobb says.
Cobb expects an afternoon session
with Tom Webster, v-p of strategy and
marketing for Edison Research, the com-
survey, as well as a new consumer survey.
The consumer survey is usually conducted
every other year, but, according to Cobb,
“We’ve actually had so much growth that
we’ve decided to do another consumer
survey this year.”
The survey, covering audio listeners’
habits in 2017, homes in on “what’s hap-
pening in some of the new device space,
like the smart speakers,” Cobb says.
Smartphones have widely been credited
with helping the audiobook market to rise
in recent years, and, she adds, “We’re
seeing so much activity and chatter about
smart speakers, and audio being used with
those, that we’re excited to hear more.” In
the new APA consumer survey, which col-
lected data for 2017, “19% of respondents
said they had listened to audio on a smart
speaker,” Cobb adds. “That’s why we’re
expecting to see some growth in that, as it
was a big holiday season for that particular
item.” Conference-goers will receive a pre-
view of the latest survey results, and the
reports will be more broadly released to
the public in early June.
Among other session highlights, Cobb
says she believes narrators will be
enthusiastic about the “(Self) Directing
Audiobooks” session. “I know that many
of them have to deal with doing self
direction, so any guidance or background
in that is helpful,” she notes.
Toward the end of the day, the APA
membership meeting will include a look
at the initial data from the 2017 con-
sumer survey data and the presentation
of the organization’s annual Audie
Awards for Excellence in Design,
Excellence in Marketing, and Excellence
in Production. The festivities wrap up on
a celebratory note as well with a closing
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