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Oren Teicher,

Indie Booksellers’ Steady Leader
By Alex Green
For nearly 30 years Oren Teicher has
been a strong advocate for inde-
pendent booksellers, rising through
the ranks of the American Book-
sellers Association and leading the
organization as CEO since 2009.
While Teicher has often preferred
to have booksellers take the lime-
light, he has been an important
force in helping to drive the resur-
gence of independent bookselling
nationwide.
Earlier this year, Teicher
announced his intention to retire
from the ABA at the end of 2019.
While he fully intends to continue
to aggressively guide the associa-
tion until then, Teicher sat down
with PW just before BookExpo to
discuss his three decades of
working with indie booksellers
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and what he sees on the horizon.
Teicher, who started his career
as a legislative assistant on Capitol
Hill, began working with the ABA
in 1990. He was associate executive
director/director of government
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that’s what we did [then].”
From board meetings in the
1990s where booksellers rejected
using fax machines to a world in
which digital preorders through
indie websites are a nationwide
focus for booksellers, Teicher has
seen monumental changes to
the bookselling landscape and
found innovative ways to help Crowds at BookExpo 2018.
booksellers adapt.
Under Teicher, Winter Institute
has grown into a major educa- Sonia Sotomayor
tional forum for booksellers. The
ABA has also spearheaded suc-
Talks Differences
cessful political advocacy initia-
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court
Justice, has published three books in the past five
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years—the memoir My Beloved
World and its adaptation for
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MOR E MY picture book, Turning Pages.
This fall she will publish a fourth,
The adventures continue in bestselling series from Just Ask: Be Different, Be Brave,
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS and TRENTON LEE STEWART Be You (Philomel, Sept.), another
picture book.
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affairs and then chief operating

officer before succeeding Avin
Mark Domnitz as CEO 10 years
ago.
Across his entire career, Teicher
says that only one thing has
remained constant. “The people SEPTEMBER
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in these stores are passionate

about books,” says Teicher. “That
was true then, and that’s true More than any of her other works,
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nothing about what we do today born of something that has been
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❱❯ Meet George Takei
Legendary Star Trek actor George Takei takes the Downtown Stage,
12:10–12:45 p.m., to talk about his graphic memoir, They Called Us
Enemy. He revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration
camps as one of 120,000 Japanese-Americans imprisoned by the U.S.
government during WWII. Read our interview with Takei on p. 18.
❱❯ Get Some ‘American Dirt’
Jeanine Cummins’s newest novel, American Dirt, is
Flatiron’s lead title for 2020, kicking off the year with
its release in January. Stop by the Macmillan booth
the Inspiration Behind
Their Books
Over the past three years, 11 books in the Editors’ Buzz program hit the
New York Times bestsellers lists. This year’s authors of the six adult picks
discuss the inspiration for their books, from wanting to know more about a
character she was named for to honoring a struggling Dunkin’ Donuts
employee. They also discuss the thrill of the buzz.
Rob Hart, author of

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(1544) to pick up one of the 500 copies of the book The Warehouse: A Novel
that Steven King called “an extraordinary piece of work.” (Crown, Aug.)

❱❯ Celebrate Winners
The 2019 Best Translated Book Award winners will be
announced today in the New York Rights Fair area at 5 p.m. and will be
immediately followed by a reception. Chad Post will present the awards.
The reception is open to all NYRF attendees. Read all about NYRF begin-
ning on p. 54.

❱❯ Hear Stephen Chbosky

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Stephen Chbosky is here to spread the good

news about Imaginary Friend (Grand Central,
©

Sept.), his first book since Perks of Being a

Wallflower. At 10–10:50 a.m. today, he will
take part in Will Schwalbe’s “But That’s Another
Story” panel, on the Downtown Stage. Then,
2–3 p.m., he will sign galleys of his upcoming There are a lot of sources I
book at the Hachette booth (1339). Stephen Chbosky could cite for this book, but the person I keep coming back to is Maria Fer-
nandes. I never met her, but I dedicated the book to her. She worked part-
❱❯ Find Tasteful Tchotchkes time at three Dunkin’ Donuts locations in New Jersey. In 2014, while sleep-
Sidelines matter. Dozens of vendors of artful and bookish items will share ing in her car between shifts, she accidentally suffocated on gas fumes. She
the floor with publishers this year, so don’t miss the chance to visit UnBound, was struggling to pay $550 a month on her basement apartment. That
this gift show within a book show. UnBound also offers a range of pro- same year, Dunkin’ Brands’ chief executive reportedly earned $10.2 mil-
gramming to help booksellers successfully integrate new products. All lion. She’s at the heart of the book’s theme: that large corporations treat
about UnBound begins on p. 42. employees like disposable products.
At the initial news [of being chosen for the Adult Buzz]: Flabbergasted.
❱❯ Learn About ‘Everything’ with Jennifer Weiner Verklempt. Then, after having an opportunity to see who else had been cho-
From 3:30 to 4:05 p.m., Jennifer Weiner will be in conversation with Carol sen, I felt really very lucky and honored to be counted among them.
Fitzgerald of “The Book Report,” on the Downtown Stage, to discuss Mrs.
Everything, her first novel in four years. Read our interview with Weiner Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives
on p. 18. (Simon & Schuster, Oct.)
The week after one of the most handsome men I have ever kissed tried to
❱❯ Grab a Beer and Head to the Beach kill me, I started writing what eventually became a chapter of this book.
Publishers Weekly and HMH invite all booksellers to come to their color- This was back in January 2008, my senior year of college. I kept writing it
ful beach-themed happy hour today at the PW booth (1213), 4–5 p.m.
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Managing Editors: Jim Milliot, Sonia Jaffe Robbins, Jonathan Segura
Art Director: Clive Chiu
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Staff Reporters: Andrew Albanese, Amanda Bruns, Matia Burnett, Louisa
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Contributing Writers: Alia Akkam, Brigid Alverson, Jason Boog, Lucinda Dyer,
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over and over: crossing out lines, ripping up
pages, trying different angles and struc-
tures. I worked on it in my free time, and I
worked on it in class when I was pretending
to take notes. Yes, I had made it out of that
room physically alive, but something
deeper in me had been threatened and was
still very much in danger. It was up to me to
save my own life, and the written word was
the means by which survival seemed most
Buzz], and it was especially exciting to find out, surrounded by the team
who will usher my debut out into the world. And when I saw the other Buzz
selections, I was flattered to be listed in their company.
Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age (Putnam, Jan. 2020)
Between 2007 and 2014, I babysat for over 50 families in New York City,
and these experiences definitely inspired me to delve into the delicate rela-
tionship between caretakers and mothers. I’m also fascinated by the human
instinct to do “the right thing,” and I love exploring how we unconsciously
over- and underestimate the

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possible.
Almost a decade later, when I felt deter-
mined to write a memoir that encapsulated
both the story of my fight as well as the
story of my mother fighting alongside me, I
realized that understanding how the written word had saved my life not just
in January 2008 but at so many crucial moments was going to be key.
[On learning my book had been selected for Adult Buzz] I screamed and
immediately turned to tell my best friend, Isaac, the good news. We were on
a train to Washington, D.C., for work. We went to the cafe car, bought hot
dogs, and talked for a bit. And then he left me alone so I could just take it all
in. I immediately started sobbing. I very much wanted to call my mother in
that moment. She died of a heart attack in May 2011. I wanted to share
that moment with her, just as I do my best to share the page with her in my
writing. I knew that wherever she was, she knew. But yes, the joy was
barbed. That’s grief for ya. It even complicates joy. A woman saw me crying people around us.
as I tried to eat my hot dog and asked if I was okay. I rasped, “Good news.” There was a lot of excitement
And she patted her hand on the table and said something like, “Oh, good. and deep breathing [after
We don’t get enough good news around here.” learning the Adult Buzz news].
Writing a novel is such a quiet, private thing, and to learn that it’s been cho-
Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept (Knopf, Sept.) sen to be buzzed about is a dream.
I was named Lara after Boris Pasternak’s heroine, and I’ve always felt a spe-
cial connection to Dr. Zhivago. In 2014, I discovered the incredible true Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa
story behind Doctor Zhivago’s publication—a story involving clandestine (Morrow, Jan. 2020)
propaganda missions, vying governments, books used as weapons, per- I’ve had these characters in my head since I was 16 years old. My Dark
sonal intrigue, and heartache. From that point on, I wanted to find out Vanessa began as journal entries inspired by my own experience with older
everything I could about the story behind the story, and it was while reading men. Over the years the “I” transformed into “Vanessa,” a fictional charac-
the heavily redacted CIA documents about the Zhivago mission that I knew ter. Eventually other influences made their way into the novel: critical
I wanted to fill in the blanks with fiction. trauma theory, late ’90s and early ’00s pop culture, and my own compli-
While most eyes gravitate toward the famous man in the spotlight, I’ve cated feelings toward Lolita.
always been more intrigued by the woman in the shadow. I immediately

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found myself being guided by female voices—both of women working at the
early CIA and the real-life inspiration behind Pasternak’s Lara—his mistress
and muse, Olga Ivinskaya.
I was visiting the Knopf
office for the first time when I
heard the news [about my
book being selected for Adult

I’ve always believed this

novel was a story worth writ-
ing, but to have it selected for
the Buzz Panel is enormously validating. Mostly I can’t wait to see my edi-
tor, Jessica [Williams], present. From our very first phone call, her passion
for My Dark Vanessa blew me away, and to be able to hear her champion
the novel in a setting like the Buzz Panel will be an incredible experience.

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Uncanny Valley (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, Jan.
2020)
As a tech worker, I felt alien-
ated by popular narratives
about the tech industry—the
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the stories tech told about
itself. I wasn’t a futurist, or a
founder, or a man; I was just
a member of the rank and
file. I didn’t see my experi-
ence reflected in triumphalist
narratives, technophobic
op-eds, lean-in feminism, or
inspirational Medium posts.
After five years in the
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about books, so I’m very much looking for-
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Oren Teicher continued from p. 1
tives on tax fairness. And the organization has forged ties with publishers
that could not have been foreseen in the 1990s, when the ABA filed law-
suits against publishers for unfair business practices.
“The environment back in the ’90s was rather litigious because the
abuses were pretty egregious. The facts back then were that indie book-
stores were getting the short end of the stick on lots and lots of things in
the basic ways they were doing business with publishers,” says Teicher.
After the lawsuits, Teicher saw a way to improve relationships with pub-
lishers, who he calls “our publisher partners” today. “ABA made a conscious
decision post-litigation that if we came together we could grow our respective
APPLAUSE PINEAPPLE PRESS businesses together, and I think that’s what’s happened,” says Teicher.
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$24.95 $14.95 stores can increase each individual percentage point of profitability while
cutting expenses. He has championed the universal invoicing system called
BATCH, improved financial reporting tools for booksellers, and enhanced
ABA’s educational offerings.
More than any single issue facing booksellers, Teicher says that the cost
of goods continues to be the most important single challenge.
“The current terms that booksellers generally buy from publishers has to
change,” says Teicher. “We cannot survive indefinitely unless we can continue
www.GlobePequot.com to reduce the cost of goods. We can be smart renegotiating our leases,
managing the hours of our staff, cutting every point with our credit card
providers—we can do all that stuff, and we are—but at the end of the day
continued on p. 8
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Oren Teicher continued from p. 6

the cost of goods is over half of all costs [incurred for books], and if you
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fundamental basic business relationship has to change.”
More than ever, he says that change is possible because he believes
industry partners and retail customers understand more and more the
value of localism. Teicher has been a key driver in building and spreading
the idea of the importance of local businesses to communities and the need
for the public to support all local stores, not only indie bookstores. The
thought of the power of local makes him hopeful as he looks ahead.
“There were some pretty dark days and a lot of concern over our long-
term viability, but I don’t have that concern anymore. I would say unequivo-
cally, whoever is sitting in this room having a conversation with you 10
years from now, there is going to be a viable indie bookstore network.”

Sonia Sotomayer continued from p. 1

in my mind [since] before my memoir.”
Just Ask follows a group of differently abled children as they plant a garden,
and encourages readers to ask with genuine curiosity about one another’s
different ways of seeing the world. It is deeply personal for Sotomayor, who
has had diabetes since childhood and has
written extensively about how having a
disability has shaped her views. “In many
ways, I still think of myself as having a dis-
ability,” says Sotomayor, “because I’m still
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and responding to myself generally.”
Noon After seeing how her personal story helped
Tote bag giveaway inspire a former law clerk’s daughter who
has a disability, Sotomayor began searching
for picture books on the topic. She found
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some, but says, “I haven’t found many books
Author Signing: that talk about or integrate us into the larger
Tres Dean community.” This book is an attempt to
change that. It is also one of the few books
For Your Consideration:
that features people of color with
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Johnson Illustrator Rafael López, who has dyslexia
(on sale: 11/5/19) and whose son has autism, says Just Ask
captured his creative attention because it
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naturally turned to illustration. “I can’t fix
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dyslexia,” says López, “but as an adult I’ve
The Remaking learned to work around my challenges and
(on sale: 10/8/19) embrace my differences.”
Ultimately, Sotomayor says, the book
pushes back against an “American percep-
tion of perfection,” which has had a damag-
ing effect on people’s sense of self. “We
build a world assuming perfection,” she
says. But “we don’t maintain it or operate
[as if] we’re not identical, that we’re
different.”
“My own feeling is that we define perfec-
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Ask will help children see a better reality, where “each of these children [in
the book] is defining themselves.” –Alex Green
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Next week will see the publication of The Plaza:
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(Twelve) by Julie Satow, a regular contributor to
the New York Times and the Daily Beast. In it,
Satow chronicles the history of New York’s sto-
ried hotel from its opening through the Jazz Age
to the go-go 1980s and its stature today as part
of the city’s billionaire row. Satow gives Show
Daily readers a sneak preview of some of the
tasty tidbits in the book. Here’s what she told us.

Four Key Moments at the Plaza Hotel

The Opening of a Landmark: The Plaza
opened on October 1, 1907, to great fanfare,
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Vanderbilt lived full-time at the Plaza, ushering in a new fad among the
wealthy set to eschew their private mansions and embrace apartment living.

The Jazz Age: The 1920s brought Prohibition, speakeasies, and surrepti-
tious sips from hip flasks. At the Plaza, the Oak Bar served lemonade, and
with a dwindling number of patrons was eventually converted into an office
for the brokerage firm E.F. Hutton. Downstairs at the Plaza’s Grill Room,
however, young patrons still gathered for popular tea dances. One frequent
visitor was F. Scott Fitzgerald, the dashing writer famous for his love of Zelda
and his haunting prose. For Fitzgerald, the Plaza was a sort of shorthand,
a symbol he used in several of his works to connote extravagance, wealth,
and frivolity.

From Eloise to the Beatles: In 1955, a mischievous six-year-old made

her literary debut and instantly became the Plaza’s most famous resident.
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The hotel was flooded with diminutive devotees desperate to glimpse the fic-
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in the lobby and clogging
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that she was otherwise
Meet Maia Kobabe engaged “swonking”
Tomorrow from pigeons on the roof. A
12:30pm–1:15pm! decade later, the Plaza’s
young fan base grew even larger when four mop-haired musicians called the
Beatles arrived, bringing in their wake hysterical teenyboppers who
mobbed the hotel and overwhelmed a consternated staff.

Party of the Century: In 1966, Truman Capote, basking in the success of

Stop by the Lion Forge booth early his true crime book In Cold Blood, wanted to celebrate by throwing himself a
to pick up your free ARC tickets fete. He picked the Plaza, which he called “the only really beautiful ballroom
and grab these great chapbooks! left in the United States.” Capote’s 540 invitees ranged from socialites and
movie stars, including Babe Paley and Frank Sinatra, to the doorman at his
apartment building and his boyfriend’s family. The party lasted until the
Find more at LionForge.com/BookExpo-BookCon-2019 early hours, further securing the Plaza’s reputation as the locale for glam-
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our and celebrity.
Ries. Hazel Newlevant photo by EMiSpicer. Maia Kobabe photo by Tristan Crane.

Today, 1:30–2:30 p.m. Julie Satow will sign The Plaza at Table 9.
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DC Introduces a
Trio of Imprints
DC Comics is at BookExpo with something new: books.
Although it has published graphic novels for years, DC has been mostly
absent from earlier book shows. This year, the 80-year-old publisher will
have a booth (1220), a panel on Friday, and autograph sessions with creators
to promote its new graphic novel imprints: DC Zoom, for middle grade read-
ers; DC Ink, for young adults; and DC Black Label, which features classic DC
characters in standalone stories. While the first titles were announced in
early 2018, this is the first show at which DC will have books in hand.
Publisher Dan DiDio says the imprints will serve both the direct market
(comic shops) and the book trade. “Our net-
work of retailers has been very vocal about
access to content that would be introduc-
tions to comics for casual and new readers,”
he says. “Similarly, developing books for
young adult and middle grade readers was
a reaction to the growth of the industry and
identifying where new readers are. So we’re
creating books for those readers in a format
they recognize and are familiar with.”
The two children’s imprints, DC Zoom and
DC Ink, launched their first lists this spring.
DC Zoom’s fall releases include Dear Justice
League by Michael Northrop and Gustavo
Duarte (Aug.) and Black Canary: Ignite by
Meg Cabot and Cara McGee (Oct.). Upcom-
ing DC Ink titles include Teen Titans: Raven
by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo (July),
and Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by
Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh (Sept.).
“These books are an opportunity to intro-
duce younger readers to graphic storytelling
using our robust roster of characters from
DC’s history,” says DiDio. “Combining our
characters with recognized and popular
writers and artists from YA and middle grade
literature reimagines our heroes and villains
with a fresh look, while incorporating the
kinds of stories and topics that resonate
with these audiences.”
DC Black Label’s inaugural title, the col-
lected edition of Sean Murphy’s Batman:
White Knight (Oct. 2018), quickly found an
audience. It went on NPD BookScan’s top
20 graphic novels list, where it stayed for
four months. The imprint includes both
single-issue comics and trades, as well as
new editions of older graphic novels, includ-
ing Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier (Feb.,
2019) and Grant Morrison and Frank
Quitely’s All-Star Superman.
Creators Meg Cabot, Kami Garcia, Michael
Northrop, and Mariko Tamaki will be signing
at the booth. A complete schedule, along with ARCs, promotional posters,
and bookmarks, is available there. —Brigid Alverson

Friday, 11:15–11:50 a.m. Meg Cabot, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Kami Garcia,
and Sean Murphy will participate in the “DC Showcase,” on the Choice
Stage. Dan DiDio will moderate.

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MEET THE AUTHORS TODAY—MAY 29!
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2:30 p.m. Billy Jensen,

Chase Darkness with Me
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journalist who helped write the
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crime story I’ll Be Gone in the Dark!
Credit: Robyn Von Swank

AND…DON’T MISS TODAY’S GIVEAWAYS!*

Healthy as F*ck by Oonagh Duncan at 12:00 p.m.
You Are Awesome by Matthew Syed at 12:00 p.m.
Dear Santa by Susanna Leonard Hill at 12:00 p.m.
Survivors of the Holocaust by Kath Shackleton at 1:00 p.m.
Pretty Guilty Women by Gina LaManna at 1:00 p.m.
Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé at 3:30 p.m.

*Available while supplies last.

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A Very Different Brooklyn

Larry Racioppo was born and raised in South Brooklyn. While pursuing college and master’s degrees in the 1970s, he worked as a
cabdriver, cameraman, waiter, photographer’s assistant, bartender, and carpenter. “But no matter what I did to earn money, I kept
photographing and printing,” he says in his book. The result is a body of work that documents South Brooklyn between 1971 and
1983, a very different place than it is today. “I did not know it at the time, but I was recording a part of Brooklyn that would soon be
remade by gentrification,” he adds. His work from this period has been collected in
Brooklyn Before: Photographs, 1971–1983, with essays by Tom Robbins and ❷
Julia Van Haaften (Cornell Univ./Three Hills). The press shared with Show Daily
some of Racioppo’s photographs that depict “the intimacy and roughness of life in
a working-class community of Irish-American, Italian-American, and Puerto Rican
families with honesty and dignity,” says the publisher.  —Liz Hartman

Friday, 11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Larry Racioppo will sign books at the Cornell
Univ. Press booth (757).

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4. Outside Al’s Grocery, 18th Street, 1975;
5. Two Girls with Ashes, 4th Avenue, 1971;
6. Conga Players, 7th Avenue, 1977;
7. Young Man with a Boom Box, 18th Street,
1980;
8. Clothesline Out of My Window, 15th Street,
1977;
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QA
Leigh Bardugo
Adult Debut for YA
Fantasy Favorite
SIGNINGS AT
BOOTH 1204
As the New York Times bestselling author
of the Grishaverse novels—three million
sold worldwide—Leigh Bardugo has kept
many a young adult up at night with her
gripping fantasy tales. (Netflix is currently
making a TV series out of the books.)
Now she brings her brand of alchemy to
the adult world with the publication of
Ninth House (Flatiron, Oct.), a fantasy
tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite—in
particular, Yale’s storied secret societies. Show Daily talks with Leigh Bardugo
about this turn in genre, among other things.

What inspired you to enter the adult field?

It wasn’t that I wanted to leave YA behind, but this story pushed me into
adult. I think the violence feels more visceral, maybe because it’s more
explicit, maybe because it’s set in our world. And I think my heroine’s goals
are a little different. Alex isn’t working toward a single moment of revelation
or revolution. She’s living with the terror of trying to build a life and a future.

Will Ninth House be a standalone or the beginning of a series?

I definitely conceived it as a series and I’ve left quite a few questions unan-
GAIL SILVER swered. But for readers who are hesitant to get involved in a series, I think

Mindful Bea and the Worry Tree the book could stand on its own.

Signing: 2:00-3:00PM
This is set at Yale. Elite colleges have been at the center of much discus-
sion these days about the privileged and powerful. Was this a deliberate
choice?
I went to Yale, and the idea was born of being in that environment where
there are actual secret societies with actual “tombs,” or clubhouses, scat-
tered around campus. I thought, what if these weren’t just old-boy net-
works? What if they were repositories of arcane knowledge? I wanted to
write a dark, magical romp. But you can’t explore these ideas at an institu-
tion like Yale without discussing privilege, and I couldn’t dig into my own
time as an undergraduate without confronting issues of gender and power.

What attracted you to the science fiction and fantasy field?

Science fiction and fantasy saved me. When I went to junior high, I started a
new school, my mom remarried, we moved.
I was having a really tough time. That’s
when I started reading and writing in these
genres. It became a survival mechanism—
these worlds were expansive in a way that
my world was not. They showed me places
where being clever, brave, and dangerous
mattered more than being cheerful and

LYSA MULLADY cute. It was a lifeline. —Beth Levine

Red Yellow Blue Today, 1:40–2:20 p.m. Leigh Bardugo

discusses Ninth House on the Downtown
Signing: 4:00-5:00PM Stage.
Today, 3–4 p.m. Bardugo will sign 100
galleys at the Macmillan booth (1544).

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AUTHORS AUTHORS
George Takei Jennifer Weiner
Never Forget, Always Forgive Making Way for ‘Mrs. Everything’
“It’s been my life’s mission to
raise the awareness of my
childhood imprisonment,” It’s been four years since bestselling author Jennifer Weiner published her
declares actor, activist, and last novel, Who Do You Love? She hasn’t been quiet during that time—she
Internet celebrity George wrote two children’s books and a memoir, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life,
Takei. That imprisonment and Love, and Writing. But the 2016 election sent her into a thoughtful spell. “Like
its aftermath set Takei’s life a lot of fiction writers, I was examining my work. What was I doing? What was
course. The horrific events I supposed to be doing? What do these times require of me?” Weiner recalls.
began the day that then-five- At first, Weiner tried to write a dystopian Handmaid’s Tale-ish story set in
year-old Takei and his mother, the future where abortion and birth con-

© andrea cipriani
father, younger brother, and trol were illegal. Ultimately, she couldn’t
infant sister were taken from make it work, so she put it aside to work on
their Los Angeles home and what has become Mrs. Everything (Atria,
then placed in a concentration June), a novel influenced equally by Louisa
camp in 1942. Their internment May Alcott’s Little Women and Weiner’s
took place on American soil own mother. It traces how society’s atti-
at the direction of the Ameri- tudes toward women have changed over
can government during WWII. the last half of the 20th century through
In his latest book, the graphic the lives of sisters Jo and Beth (named
memoir They Called Us Enemy for two of Alcott’s “little women”). The
(Top Shelf, July), Takei, two struggle to find their places—and be
co-writ­ers Justin Eisinger and true to themselves—in a rapidly evolving
Steven Scott, and artist Har- world. PW called the book “vivid” and
mony Becker bring those events to life. Takei recounts the terror inflicted “heart-wrenching” in its starred review:
on innocent Japanese-Americans, and emphasizes his continued belief in “Weiner’s expert handling of difficult sub-
American democracy. jects—abortion, rape, and racism among
That lesson, says Takei, was impressed on him by his father, whom he them—will force readers to examine their
credits for shaping him as an activist. “My father said our democracy is a own beliefs and consider unexpected
people’s democracy, and people have the potential to do great things,” he nuances. Weiner tugs every heartstring
continues. “But people are also fallible with this vivid tale.”
human beings and have the potential to A frequent contributor to the New York
make mistakes.” Times Opinion section, Weiner writes a lot
Takei points to the country’s president about women in America: where we’ve been,
at the time, FDR. “Roosevelt was a great and where we still need to go. “In the course
president,” he says. “He was able to cre- of telling these sisters’ story,” she says, “I
ate jobs and programs and pull people got to talk a lot about the issues I tried to
out of that crushing Depression and put get at in the first, abandoned book, such
America back on its feet. But after the as freedom, and when you can’t live the
bombing of Pearl Harbor, the terror and way you want to because of patriarchy.”
the racism that swept through this coun- For research, she talked with her mother at length and visited Detroit,
try stampeded him as well.” where her mother grew up. (Motor City is the setting for the first half of the
Takei sees many of the same forces novel.) There, she looked at old newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, and
roiling the country today, which makes pictures. “I sought out anything that I could get my hands on that would give
this graphic novel particularly timely. the flavor of what it was like to be a woman in that era,” Weiner reports.
“We were the ‘others’ then,” Takei says. “Today, the ‘others’ are Muslims and And she went back to Little Women. Reading it as a youngster, she was
Latinos coming across the southern border.” furious with how Professor Bhaer treated Jo, calling her writing “bad trash.”
Despite the resurgence of those forces, Takei remains optimistic, citing Weiner was, in her word, “pissed.” In sweet revenge, she has given her Jo “a
the Parkland students in Florida. “After the gun horror that happened at much better ending.”
their school,” he says, “I was really impressed by their activism, their elo- Weiner is cautiously optimistic about the future for women. “What writing
quence. They are the hope for our American democracy.” this book taught me is that progress is not a straight line. There is move-
With They Called Us Enemy, Takei and his collaborators have shaped his ment forward and then retrenchment.” Paraphrasing Dr. Martin Luther
story for that next generation. “We wanted to reach today’s middle school King Jr., she adds, “Progress is slow, but the moral arc of the universe bends
to high school age group. And the best way to do that is with a graphic toward justice, I hope.” —Beth Levine
novel,” he says. —Dave Stern
Today, 3:30–4:05 p.m. Jennifer Weiner will be in conversation with Carol
Fitzgerald of the Book Report Network, on the Downtown Stage.
Today, 12:10–12:45 p.m. George Takei will speak on the Downtown Tomorrow, 4:15–6 p.m. Weiner will be at the Booksellers Happy Hour in
Stage. the ABA Lounge.
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Signings & Galleys

Q&A
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Table
Friday 5/31
9:30–10am
Rescuing History with Obits
#3 Jonathan Janz There’s a lot of ways to love omni-
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Table
#4
NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, as
a correspondent on CBS Sunday
Morning, as the host of The Henry
Ford’s Innovation Nation, and as
the star of his cooking show, My
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recall his early days as a correspon-
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Stewart. Oh, yeah, he’s been on
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Friday 5/31 for obituaries. Now he has written a
Table 1:00 –1:30pm companion book to the podcast
#2 Hopstaken & Prusi called Mobituaries: Great Lives
Andrew Post
Table Worth Reliving (S&S, Nov.). Even better, he’s here at BookExpo.
#3
What gave you the idea for Mobituaries to begin with?
I always have liked obits, something I inherited from my father. Reading
obits is like a daily reflection. There is something really special about read-
ing someone’s life distilled in that way because it is about the life of that
person, rather than their death. And I love profiling dead people because
they don’t have publicists. They are so much easier to deal with.

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Who was the first person you thought, “Hmmm, wonder what happened
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The one that shocked me the most: Nora Ephron. Ephron was once on CBS
Sunday Morning to talk about a play she wrote about Lillian Hellman and
Mary McCarthy called Imaginary Friends. She was asked how she wanted
to be remembered. Nora said, “Are you kidding me? I have written a play
about these two women, Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy, who were so
famous and now are barely remembered. I don’t expect to be remembered
more than a few years after I’m gone.” Years later, Nora’s name came up in
reference to a Mobituary we were doing and some of the younger staff mem-
bers had never heard of her. There are just these remarkable people who
are so important to us who are forgotten astonishingly quickly.

Why do you think some people resonate and others just waft away, even
people who may have been very well-known in their time?
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Today, 4:15–5 p.m. Mo Rocca is on the “Audiobook New Titles Show-
case” panel, on the Choice Stage.

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AUTHORS
J. Ryan Stradal CELEBRATING
A Book and a Beer
Although J. Ryan Stradal, who YEARS

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past two decades, knows that
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his debut novel, Kitchens of
the Great Midwest (2015),
LISTENING
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and his sophomore effort, The who has contributed to the unparalleled collection of
Lager Queen of Minnesota
audiobooks Hachette has produced throughout the years.
(Viking/Pam Dorman, July),
feature the down-to-earth but
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With its oddball characters, small-town setting, and inside jokes about
Minnesota’s popular culture, The Lager Queen of Minnesota could not have
been set anywhere but in the heartland. The novel follows the lives of two
sisters: Edith, who bakes award-winning pies, and Helen, who is obsessed
with brewing beer. After their father disinherits Edith so that Helen will
have the funds to build a brewery that becomes one of Minnesota’s most
emblematic, the two sisters lead completely separate lives only miles
apart—but across an even greater socioeconomic divide.
Stradal says that he was inspired to
write the book while touring Minnesota
for his earlier novel. He was impressed
with the selection and quality of regional
craft beers at the breweries operating in
even the smallest towns. Unlike many
parts of the country, the popularity of
regionally brewed craft beers is not a
recent trend in Minnesota but an integral
part of its history and culture. Stradal
ascribes Minnesota’s long-standing and
vibrant beer culture to a “melding of Ger-
man culture and agricultural flexibility and
viability.” He notes that Minnesota’s brew-
eries have always been community cen-
ters, similar to German beer halls, and they employ young people who other-
wise might leave their hometowns for jobs elsewhere.
Stradal is especially looking forward to touring for The Lager Queen of
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AUTHORS A Robert Jordan Book

Tim Mason Debuts, Four Decades Late
The Evolution of a Thriller

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When Robert Jordan died in 2007,
For decades, playwright and YA author Tim Mason (The Last Synapsid) his wife and longtime editor, Harriet
has been intrigued by a minor character in Charles Dickens’s Bleak McDougal, wanted to shepherd his
House—Inspector Bucket, who is based on an actual London policeman multivolume Wheel of Time series to
named Charles Field. “I always thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to write a fiction completion, with Brandon Sanderson
in which he was the leading character instead of a supporting one.’ ” That’s co-writing the final three books. Twelve
how Mason’s debut adult novel, The Darwin Affair (Algonquin, June), years later, McDougal has cast her
began. attention back to the beginning of
Because Mason’s father, a Lutheran minister, also happened to be a Jordan’s career, and is set to publish
Charles Darwin devotee, the scientist was often a topic of conversation. his first book, a standalone novel,
“The more I looked into [Darwin’s life], I was deeply attracted by his lovely Warrior of the Altaii (Tor, Oct.), which
demeanor as a family man and was written more than 40 years ago.

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father.” In 1860, Darwin was up The book follows a character who,
for knighthood, just a few months McDougal says, has “performed all
after publication of On the Origin the things that his culture says a can-
of Species. Samuel Wilberforce, didate for manhood needs to do, liv-
bishop of Oxford, advised Queen ing what he thinks is the proper life of
Victoria against knighting him. a man, and the whole world is chang-
Mason explains, “Wilberforce was ing around him. He’s having to figure out what to do.”
close to the royal family. He said The title was first acquired by Tom Doherty in 1979, but not published at
that Victoria is not only the that time. Then, when Jordan’s second book, The Fallon Blood, was pub-
queen, she’s the head of the lished the following year (under the name of Reagon O’Neal), the two books
Church of England, so to endorse appeared to be so different in style and content that the publisher held it.
Darwin’s theory would not be Jordan’s career took off, and the book was never published.
good.” In his novel, Mason “Life was going too fast,” says McDougal. “After the Fallon books, he was
expands on the fictional notion writing the Conan books. He agreed to do one and wrote seven because he
that nefarious goings-on were really enjoyed it. Then things just happened. His talent was so immense that
what kept the evolutionist from things kept blooming.”
getting his knighthood. In the meantime, rights for Warrior of the Altaii were sold to Berkley, where
Another point of interest for Mason the manuscript continued to languish. Jordan asked his editor to revert the
were the strong reactions then and now to rights, saying, as McDougal recalls, “This manuscript is resting on a high
On the Origin of Species. “The publication shelf in your office and not doing anyone any good. So I wonder if I can have
was not only condemned, it was also the rights back. The editor said, ‘Sure.’ ”
hailed—even by members of the Anglican Fans of the Wheel of Time will find hints of the epic saga in Jordan’s first
clergy, who, because of geological and book, including the name of the mountain range, called the Backbone of
anthropological discoveries, were the World in Warrior of the Altaii and the Spine of the World in the Wheel of
acknowledging that Earth was inconceiv- Time series. McDougal says Warrior also
ably older than they thought it was,” offers a deeper glimpse of formative ideas
Mason says. “Suddenly in that era, here that developed throughout Jordan’s career,
comes this man with his theory about the including his approach to writing about
development of species, which does not gender.
follow the creationist seven-day plan, but “There are a lot of echoes about the
rather the opposite. relations between men and women,” says
“Today, you can hear echoes of that first McDougal. “He was fooling with those
condemnation pretty loudly; the suppression of knowledge, of science is questions and comments long before
still going on. That creates a danger. So, beyond its entertainment value, if general American society was, and he
there’s a reminder of that in The Darwin Affair, I’d be really happy.” continued that in the Wheel of Time.”
Mason says that writing his first book, a YA novel, was an education in McDougal says two earlier, rough,
writing prose fiction. “I’ve made my life and my living as a playwright, unpublished manuscripts of Jordan’s
though, and there couldn’t be a greater difference between the two forms,” writings remain to be explored. She’s
he adds. “The stage has an enormous amount of limitations—you can’t go uncertain whether they will ever be pub-
here and there at will without using very theatrical techniques, whereas in a lished, but knows the first line of one of
novel, you can travel with the reader—great distances with changing land- them—a western—by heart, and calls it quintessential Jordan: “I never meant
scapes—and for a playwright bound by the limitations of the stage, that to leave Texas, but I never meant to be a known man either.” —Alex Green
was a real joy.” —Hilary S. Kayle
Today, 4 p.m. Tom Doherty, president and founder of Tor, and Harriet
McDougal, Jordan’s editor and widow, will host a toast to the upcoming
Today, 3–4 p.m. Tim Mason will sign ARCs in the Workman/Algonquin
publication of Warrior of the Altaii at the Macmillan booth (1544).
booth (1307).
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Visit Church Publishing

at Booth #446 Harper Toasts New
International Imprint
Judith Curr, president and publisher of the HarperOne Group, says that it’s
“wonderful” to launch the new international books imprint, HarperVia, at
BookExpo. The imprint, which will primarily focus on fiction in translation
for English-speaking markets, will publish three books this fall and build to
24 titles a year.
“When I came to Harper [last year], I
wanted to do a fiction list. But I didn’t
want it to be another stop on the tour,”
says Curr. For her, publishing authors in
translation, many making their debut,
makes the imprint special. And she has
some popular writers to work with, includ-
ing Heddi Goodrich, whose debut, Lost in
the Spanish Quarter (Sept.), has already
hit the bestsellers list in Italy, and Karina
Sainz Borgo’s It Would Be Night in Caracas
Candle Walk Judith Curr (Oct.), which has gone into six printings in
A Bedtime Prayer to God Spain and has been snapped up by 22
Karin Holsinger Sherman countries. The German House (Dec.), the
“Prepares kids for sleep by taking them on a walk through third book on the inaugural list, is also by
the woods and inviting them to experience the Compline, a debut novelist, Annette Hess, who has
a centuries-old practice of contemplative evening prayer.” written for TV and streaming services.
—Publishers Weekly Another distinguishing feature of Harp-
9781640651326 | $17.95 erVia is that three offices around the world
can acquire books—HarperCollins in New
York; HarperCollins UK; and HarperCollins
Australia. Curr sees this as a way to add to
the “international flavor” of the imprint,
Heddi Goodrich which has already signed Norwegian,
Canadian, Iranian, and Korean authors for
publication in 2020 and beyond.
For Curr, Heddi Goodrich, the imprint’s
inaugural author, is “the perfect ambassa-
dor for what we’re trying to do. She is the
embodiment of what it means to be an inter-
Threshold of Contemplative national author.” That’s because Goodrich,
Discovery Vision who was born and raised in the U.S., but
A Field Guide to Photography as a
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L. Roger Owens Dirk deVries now lives in New Zealand. Goodrich tells
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Curr wants to turn HarperVia into a brand and platform that, she says,
“gives us the ability to publish fantastic authors who don’t have a platform
of their own.” This will give her the ability to continue to publish authors
who may be relatively unknown in the U.S., but who she’s excited about.
While Curr is concentrating on fiction in translation to begin, she says that
phase two will involve publishing some nonfiction. She also plans to publish
some international literature that is written in English. —Judith Rosen

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Today, 1:15–2 p.m. Heddi Goodrich and Juan Milà of HarperVia will
Follow us on appear on the International Fiction panel on the Choice Stage.
Today, 2:30 p.m. There will be a champagne toast for Goodrich and the
launch of HarperVia at the HarperCollins booth (2046).

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Ingram Hosts Scavenger IPG in the

Hunt—and Promotions ‘Goldilocks Zone’
This year Ingram
(booth 902) is chang-
ing things up with an
I-spy-style scavenger
hunt in a booth exten-
sion that has been set up to resemble the interior of an independent book-
store. The store features hundreds of titles, including many from Ingram’s
36 independent distribution clients. Winners will receive a range of prizes,
from gift baskets full of books and swag to iPage credits.
Branded “Indies on the High Line,” the promotion is one of the ways that
Ingram wants to let indie booksellers know about the range of services it
offers in an entertaining way, says Shawn Everson, Ingram’s chief commer-
cial officer. Those services include a new Stock Check app and a number of
promotions.
“We envision [the app] will be a
tool for booksellers to assist cus-
tomers right on the sales floor,
without having to return to a com-
puter to see if a book is available,”
Everson says. In addition, Ingram
is putting a special emphasis on
promoting LGBTQ titles this year.
Pride Week follows soon after Book-
Expo, says Brian McKinley, Ingram’s
v-p of marketing and brands. “And,”
he continues, “we also want to high-
light many of the great LGBTQ titles
Shawn we have and bring them to the atten-
Everson tion of our booksellers.”
Ingram’s focus on independent
booksellers comes at a time when
the company has reported a surge
in new accounts following Baker &
Taylor’s decision to exit the retail
wholesale business. “When this
announcement was made, we
opened 238 accounts that week,
when 20 or 30 were normal. Of
those, 132 were retailers that sold
books. Thirty-seven new accounts
were for Ingram Publisher Services,
our distribution business, and
Brian
McKinley another 36 were international
retail accounts,” says Everson.
Anticipating an influx of new
orders, Ingram also raised the credit ceiling for nearly 300 of its smallest
store accounts. “This,” notes Everson, “was in line with holiday credit levels,
[and] nearly doubles what they can order. We also put them into a higher
tier of discounts. This will in turn unlock more opportunities for free freight
and, based on their volume of business, unlock more rebates.”
The message that Ingram wants to convey, Everson says, is “we listen.”
The company is eager to demonstrate a good-faith attitude toward indie
booksellers who may be less familiar with its systems and culture. “We have
been in constant dialogue with the American Booksellers Association, our
publishing partners, and all the constituents in the value-chain to help indies
make the best of this period of transition, and thrive, now and into the future,”
says Everson. “Our job is making sure that retailers and publishers succeed
on both ends.” —Ed Nawotka
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Chicago-based Independent Publishers Group
(booth 1823), one of the nation’s largest distrib-
utors, is making a bold statement at this year’s
show following a mini buying spree. Last year
it acquired both Midpoint Trade Books (with
260 publishers) and International Specialized
Book Services, which expanded its presence
in the academic field; IPG had added Inscribe
Digital in 2016. As a result, the company will
Joe feature nearly 30 author signings and will
Matthews
give away 400 books and galleys. A complete
schedule of signings will be posted at the booth.
“I can tell you for sure this is the most aggressive we’ve ever been at Book-
Expo,” says CEO Joe Matthews, who has seen 18% growth at the company
for two years in a row. Rather than limit signings to a few publisher clients,
IPG encouraged presses with a book out in 2019 to participate—even if
that means only sending an author to the show. “We want to give somebody
who’s a first-time independent YA author a chance to sit at the same signing
table as a New York Times columnist,” says marketing coordinator Janet
Potter, referring to tomorrow’s booth signings with Julian Winters, author
of the YA novel How to Be Remy Cameron (Interlude Press, Sept.), and New
York Times sports columnist Harvey Araton, who recently published an
anthology of writings by various sports writers, Elevated: The Global Rise
of the NBA (Triumph Books). Araton’s book arrived during the 30th anniver-
sary year of IPG’s Triumph Books imprint, specializing in sports publishing.
IPG has found marketing value at BookExpo and BookCon. Last year,
Central Avenue Publishing held a panel discussion on its [Dis]Connected
anthology, edited by Michelle Halket, at the two shows to allow booksellers
and social media poetry fans to meet their favorite poets. That collection went
on to become a top-selling poetry title at Target in 2019. Several social
media poets will return on Friday to sign [Dis]Connected, Vol. 2 (Oct.).
BookExpo is one pillar of support IPG offers its publishers, part of a suite
of services for its mostly small and mid-size client publishers. “We want to
be in the ‘Goldilocks Zone,’ ” Matthews says, using a fairy tale metaphor for
his company’s growth strategy, “which is where we are big enough to offer
every service that a publisher wants, but we’re small enough to really care
about each one of our publishing partners and give them a lot of attention,
which they don’t always find with the really big companies.”  —Jason Boog
Tomorrow, 2–2:30 p.m. Julian Winters will sign at the IPG booth (1823).
Tomorrow, 2:30–3 p.m. Harvey Araton will sign at the IPG booth.
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Welcome, Librarians!
Join Us in the Lounge
Librarians, we know how you feel: BookExpo is a test of endurance. At some point, you’re going to
need to drop those heavy book bags, get off your feet, grab a beverage and some food, and
recharge (yourself or your phone), and maybe even chat with a fellow librarian or meet a great
author or two while you’re at it. At the Publishers Weekly Librarians’ Lounge, in the main exhibit
hall at booth 557, we’ve got you covered.
Thanks to cohosts Baker & Taylor, and sponsors Book Vine, Disney, Harlequin, Move Books,
National Geographic, Penguin Random House Adult Library Marketing, Random House Chil-
dren’s Books, Rowman & Littlefield, Sourcebooks, and Vesuvian Books—this year’s lounge will
again be the place to be for librarians at BookExpo.

Kickoff Lunch
Today, 12:30–1:30 p.m.
Start your 2019 BookExpo with a kickoff lunch today in the lounge, courtesy of
Rowman & Littlefield, which will provide lunch each day of the show.

Meet Chris Ferrie

Today, 2–3 p.m.
Meet Chris Ferrie, a bestselling author of science books for kids, presented by
Sourcebooks. Ferrie will be in the lounge to sign galleys of his September picture
book, There Was a Black Hole That Swallowed the Universe. A physicist, mathe-
matician, and father of four budding young scientists, Ferrie believes it is never
too early to introduce small children to big ideas—and he’s done exactly that
with his bestselling For Babies series at Sourcebooks, with subjects ranging
from rocket science to Newtonian physics. “My mission,” Ferrie says, “is to take
the big ideas in science and translate them into things that parents and children
Chris Ferrie will like.”

Meet Vesuvian’s Top Authors

Today, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Meet some of Vesuvian Books’ top authors and grab some signed
copies. Here are the authors scheduled to be on hand.
Christine Brae, the former senior advertising executive turned
top-selling contemporary romance novelist, will be signing copies of her
upcoming book, The Year I Left (July), billed as “the story of a woman’s
loss of self and purpose and the journey she takes to find her way back.”
Stu Jones and Gareth Worthington will sign copies of It Takes Death
to Reach a Star, the first book of a sci-fi dystopian duology. The authors
also bring fascinating résumés to their works: Jones’s blistering action
Christine Brae
scenes draw on his background as a SWAT team leader, while Worthing-
ton is a trained marine biologist, with a doctorate in comparative endocrinology.
Mary Ting will be signing copies of her book ISAN–International Sensory Assassin Network, a YA
dystopian story now in development for a TV series. An international bestselling and award-winning
author, Ting is also the author of the children’s chapter book No Bullies Allowed.
Alexandrea Weis will sign her new historical fantasy book, Realm, and brings to BookExpo one of
the most fascinating backgrounds of any author you’ll meet this week: in addition to writing more than
25 novels in a variety of genres, she’s also a screenwriter, ICU nurse, historian, and certified wildlife
rehabber who rescues orphaned and injured animals.
Mary Ting

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Coming Up Later This Week

Wake Up with Breakfast Refreshments
Tomorrow, 9 a.m.
Start your day in the lounge with a cup of tea or coffee and a light breakfast sponsored by Move Books, the
indie children’s publisher focused on getting more boys excited about reading.

Meet Eoin Colfer

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Tomorrow, 9:30–10:30 a.m.
Meet Disney author Eoin Colfer, whose Artemis Fowl is being adapted into
a motion picture set to release this summer. Colfer will give away signed
teacher’s editions of Artemis Fowl for the first 100 people.

Eat (Sweet Treats) and Meet (Harlequin Authors)

Eoin Colfer
Tomorrow, 11 a.m.–noon
Grab a sweet treat and meet Harlequin authors Megan Angelo (Followers, Graydon House, Jan.
2020); Tarryn Fisher (The Wives, Graydon House, Dec.); Noelle Salazar (The Flight Girls, Mira,
July); and Karine Jean-Pierre (Moving Forward, Hanover Square, Nov.).

Have Lunch
Tomorrow, 12:30–1:30 p.m.
Lunch will be served courtesy of Rowman & Littlefield.

Meet Gary Weitzman and Furry Friends

Tomorrow, 2–3 p.m.
Meet veterinarian and author Gary Weitzman, sponsored by National
Geographic. Pick up a signed copy of Weitzman’s Complete Guide to
Pet Health—and for those missing their own pets, word is that Weitz-
man may be joined in the lounge by some of his furry friends. Dr. Gary
Weitzman

Meet PRH Authors and Enter a Raffle

Tomorrow, 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Penguin Random House Adult Library Marketing will host authors Marcy Dermansky
(Very Nice: A Novel, July); Benjamin Dreyer (Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to
Clarity and Style); Jasmine Guillory (The Wedding Party, July); Liz Moore (Long Bright River,
Jan. 2020); and Regina Porter (The Travelers: A Novel, June). Grab a signed copy, a sum-
mer treat, and enter for a chance to win a “Sweet Summer Reads” tote bag, filled with a selection of Penguin
Random House’s hottest new titles.

Have a Nosh; Meet Random House Children’s Authors

Friday, 9–10:30 a.m.
Start BookExpo’s final day by once again coming to the lounge for a light breakfast, followed at 9:30 a.m. by
a meet-and-greet hosted by Random House Children’s Books author-illustrator Christopher Myers, creative
director of the new imprint Make Me a World. Myers will be joined by two authors from the imprint’s inaugu-
ral list: Sarah Deming (Gravity, Nov.) and Akwaeke Emezi (Pet, Sept.).

Meet Book Vine Authors

Friday, 11 a.m.–noon
Book Vine Press, an author service provider, will be on hand to answer questions and to intro-
duce two of its authors, Leonard W. Heflich (Live as Long as You Dare) and Gabriel Moran (Missed
Opportunities: Rethinking Catholic Tradition).
Throughout the show, Baker & Taylor reps will be in the lounge to talk with librarians and to share information about its popular Pop-Up Libraries program.

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12:00-
1:00 PM
Grab My Footprints, a second
picture book by Bao Phi, author
of the Caldecott-honor-winning
A Different Pond
2:00-
3:00 PM
3-D technology that changed
a life! Get a signed copy of
Karl’s New Beak by Lela Nargi
3:30-
4:30 PM
She won freedom from one of
America’s most famous founding
fathers. Stop by for an ARC
of Ona Judge Outwits the
Washingtons by Gwendolyn Hooks
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Calling All Kids’ Books
Lovers
Top Six Must-Dos
TODAY
See a Caldecott Honor Artist at Work
Today, 2–4 p.m., Elisha Cooper will be in the
Scholastic booth (1639) painting a scene
inspired by his picture book, River (Orchard,
Oct.). Booksellers can pick up River f&gs during
the demonstration, and the author will sign
prints from the book afterward. Heads up for
Cooper fans: he’s donating today’s painting to
this evening’s Children’s Book Art Silent Auction.
Elisha Cooper
Win a Sponsored Book Event
Does hosting a ready-made, kid-pleasing book event strike your fancy?
Head to booth 833B, where Fabled Films is hosting a raffle to promote the
Nocturnals series, whose latest installment, The Kooky Kinkajou by Tracey
Hecht, illus. by Josie Yee, is due in September. One independent bookstore
and one library will win a visit from a professional face painter (who’ll trans-
form kids’ faces into likenesses of series’ characters), plus signed books,
plush, reading kits, and more. The publisher will announce the winners in
mid-June. Party on!
TOMORROW
Calling All Dog Man Devotees
Dav Pilkey will be at Scholastic’s booth (1639) today, 11 a.m.–noon, to thank
booksellers for their role in making his Dog Man series a global hit—with a
whopping 80 million copies in print in 28 languages—and to introduce Dog
Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls (Scholastic Graphix, Aug.). Here’s a sneak
peek at the lithograph Pilkey will sign at the event.
Want a Little Christmas Now?
It’s never too early to get into the holiday spirit. There’ll be plenty in the air
at the Penguin Young Readers booth (1221), 11 a.m.–3 p.m., where a col-
orful crew of crayon characters will sing carols around a Christmas tree to
celebrate The Crayons’ Christmas by Drew Daywalt, illus. by Oliver Jeffers
(Penguin Workshop, Oct.). Candy canes and photo ops with Esteben, “the
breakout crayon,” are featured.
Catch Up with Tami Charles
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Author Tami Charles has a bustling agenda today,
beginning with a signing of her September YA,
Becoming Beatriz, in the Charlesbridge booth (1725),
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. She’ll take part in the
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“Spotlight on African-American Children’s Books:
Let’s Talk About Picture Books” panel, 2–2:45 p.m.,
in Room 1E16, before heading to Candlewick’s
booth (1039) to sign Freedom Soup (Dec.), 3:30–
4:30 p.m., a picture book illustrated by Jacqueline
Tami Charles
Alcántara.
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World Editions
Lerner Commemorates BookExpo 2019
First Six Decades
Lerner Publishing Group (booth 621) is celebrating its 60th anniver-
sary this year, a milestone that the company’s Minneapolis hometown
is marking by officially proclaiming May “Lerner Publishing Group
Month.” At BookExpo, LPG is continuing the festivities with a 60th
anniversary tote bag and a sweepstakes to win “60 Books for 60
Years.” The company is also hosting a quartet of authors whose books
reflect the spectrum of genres published by the house. (See author
signing information below for details of who, when, and where.)

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LPG boasts an impressive growth trajectory since its founding in
1959, when Harry Lerner launched the company with four titles pub-
lished for children to read at doctors’ offices about common childhood
illnesses. Six decades later, LPG has more than 7,000 titles in print
and releases 700-plus new titles annually for both the trade and
school and library markets. The group now encompasses 14 imprints,
among them Carolrhoda Books, Millbrook Press, Twenty-First Century
Books, Graphic Universe, Kar-Ben Publishing, Zest Books, and First
Avenue Editions.
“This is not only a momentous occasion for me and my family, but for
all of the employees, authors, and illustrators who have made our
award-winning company what it is today,” says Lerner, now chairman
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of the board of LPG. “We are proud to remain an independent and
family-owned company and have enjoyed supporting librarians and
teachers in educating children for 60 years.”
His son Adam, publisher and CEO of LPG, regards BookExpo as a
fitting venue to highlight the company’s anniversary. “Booksellers
have played a critical role in our success over the past 60 years,” he
says. “As one of the country’s largest independent publishers, we have Join us in Booth 833A for these exciting events:
a lot of admiration for the dedication and love that independent book
stores share in communities around the country, and we’re excited to
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celebrate our anniversary with them at this show.” —Sally Lodge
2 PM Learn about the Dutch Boekenweek tradition.
Today, 3–3:30 p.m. Joshua S. Levy will sign Seventh Grade vs. the Stroopwafels will be served!
Galaxy (Carolrhoda), a fantasy about friends who catapult their
3 PM Galley giveaway: Welcome to America
“schoolship” across the galaxy—and into the clutches of aliens—at
Table 4. by Linda Boström Knausgård
Tomorrow, 1:30–2 p.m. Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul, authors
of I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
(Millbrook), which profiles the African environmentalist Tantoh THURSDAY 5/30
Nforba, will sign at Table 12.
Friday, 1–1:30 p.m. Melanie Gillman, author of Stage Dreams 11 AM Book giveaway: A Devil Comes to Town
(Graphic Universe), a queer western adventure starring a Latinx by Paolo Maurensig
outlaw and a trans runaway, will sign at Table 10.
2 PM Galley signing with Gary Barker,
author of The Museum of Lost Love
Wish Pigeon a Sweet Sixteen
How time flies! Mo Willems’s Pigeon is ON THE INDIE PUBLISHER STAGE
turning sweet 16, and Disney-Hyperion THURSDAY 5/30 AT 10 AM
makes the occasion all the sweeter today
with a birthday bash for the delightfully
Join us at the Indie Insights First Novels and
obstinate bird, whose next dilemma plays Mysteries session to hear about French mega-
out in The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! bestseller Real Life by Adeline Dieudonné!
(July). And, yes, there will be cake. Drop
by booth 1713, 4:30–5 p.m., for a slice.
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 Sponsored by Disney-Hyperion
Artemis Fowl
Comes of Age
The world of Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl is growing, with a new graphic
novel, a spin-off series, and, next spring, a feature-length film.
Young people love Artemis for the power
he wields over adults. Most kids are just
as smart as their parents, but this
intelligence does not translate into
responsibility, and so they love the
passages where Artemis bamboozles his
teachers and enemies, because they
would love to do that themselves.
— Eoin Colfer
A
Author Eoin Colfer’s inspiration
for Artemis Fowl, the tenacious
titular character from his long-
running middle grade series,
came from a single image. It was, Colfer
says, “a photograph I saw of my little
brother all dressed up in a suit for his First
Communion. He had a rather impish smile
on his face, and I thought he looked like a
little James Bond bad guy, and the notion
of a young criminal mastermind was
lodged in my head.” Though it would be
many years before Colfer found the right
story for that character, between the eight
original books, graphic novels, a new spin-
off series, and an Artemis Fowl movie on
the horizon, his protagonist has more than
fulfilled his destiny.
The phrase criminal mastermind might
more easily conjure images of art heists
and underhanded deals in smoky rooms
than of a boy battling fairies, goblins, and
other fantastical beings, but, Colfer says,
“I wanted to blend a few genres together
and come up with a new hybrid: part noir,
part fantasy, part sci-fi.” At the heart of
Colfer’s genre-bending series is a highly
intelligent boy whose devious actions
stem from a complicated family history.
In book one, published in 2001, Artemis’s
father disappears, which leads Artemis to
inherit his criminal empire—and the obli-
gation to protect and care for his family
in his father’s absence. “Artemis’s mother
retreats into herself and cannot cope with
the loss of her beloved husband,” Colfer
says, “so Artemis feels a tremendous
responsibility to restore the family fortune
and find his father. He makes some ques-
tionable decisions in the process.” Artemis
captures Holly Short, fairy captain of
LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police recon),
and holds her ransom to obtain fairy gold.
With his story’s eclectic cast of

characters, human and otherwise, Colfer
has always seen the potential to tell the
tale visually. “When I was young, graphic
novels were looked down upon as some-
how inferior to novels,” Colfer says, “but I
have always believed that [they] deliver
the one-two punch of literature plus art.”
He teamed with Andrew Donkin, Paolo
Lamanna, and Giovanni Rigano for the
first version, which was published by
Disney-Hyperion in 2007 (Colfer also col-
laborated with Donkin and Rigano for the
2018 graphic novel Illegal, about a refu-
gee child’s
dangerous
journey from
Niger to
Tripoli). More
recently,
Colfer col-
laborated
with Michael
Moreci and
Stephen
Gilpin for a
brand-new
graphic novel
adaptation,
Artemis Fowl:
The Graphic Novel,
coming out in June
from Disney-Hyperion.
On working with a cre-
ative team, Colfer says,
“I spend most of my
time alone in my fancy
writing shed, so it’s
good to let someone
else in, even if it’s often
only through Skype.”
As with any adoles-
cent, Artemis has gone through his fair
share of changes. In later books in the
series, Colfer says, “I wanted Artemis to
see the consequences of criminal actions
and how his bad decisions hurt the ones
he loved. And I wanted the reader to see
that change is possible no matter where
you start. Artemis goes from criminal to
a Robin Hood–type character, and from
there, eventually, to hero.”
Colfer knows his character better than
anyone, but he is often intrigued by what
it is about Artemis that resonates with
readers. “The answer that comes through
the most might be surprising,” Colfer says.
“Young people love Artemis for the power
he wields over adults. Most kids are just as
smart as their parents, but this intelligence
Sponsored by Disney-Hyperion
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so they love the passages where Artemis hands with Disney and Kenneth Branagh.”
bamboozles his teachers and enemies, But how would Artemis feel about the
because they would love to do that them- movie? “I think Artemis would be horri-
selves. Wish fulfillment on the page.” fied by the idea of a movie giving away
Artemis Fowl fandom is a thing to all of his secrets and would go to great
behold. Colfer has been introduced to lengths to have the film delayed,” Colfer
babies named Artemis, cats named Opal says. Incidentally, the film originally was
Koboi, and countless Artemis Fowl– set to premiere this August; it just recently
inspired tattoos, which he admits to having moved to its new May 2020 release date.
mixed feelings about (“I’m from a different Coincidence?
generation”). For Colfer, his favorite fan
moments are
when parents Eoin Colfer at BookExpo
tell him that and BookCon
the Artemis
books were the BookExpo
first that their
child wanted Thursday, May 30
to read. “Those
moments are Signing of 100 Copies of Artemis Fowl
priceless,” he teacher’s edition
says. Publishers Weekly Librarian Lounge,
Readers who (Booth 557)
aren’t ready to 9:30–10:30 a.m.
let go of their
favorite criminal Friday, May 31
mastermind need
not worry. The first book in the Children’s Breakfast Panel
Fowl Twins series, the new spin- 8–9:30 a.m.
off that stars Artemis’s little broth- Main Stage
ers, Myles and Beckett, will be
published in November. “With the Signing of 100 copies of The Fowl Twins
Fowl Twins, I want to concentrate 10–11 a.m.
more on the characters and the American Booksellers Association lounge
dynamics between them,” Colfer
says. “Having brothers who are Galley Signing of The Fowl Twins
very different in personalities and 1–2 p.m. event
interests gives me an opportu- Disney booth 1713
nity to set up a nice odd-couple
dynamic, which should bear a lot
of comedic fruit.” While characters from
BookCon
the original books will make appearances,
Saturday, June 1
the series will feature primarily all-new
fairies and humans.
Book Signing of various Artemis Fowl
Readers who have long anticipated the
titles
Artemis Fowl movie adaptation have a
1–2 p.m.
bit longer to wait. The 2020 Walt Disney
Disney booth 1713
Pictures film stars newcomer Ferdia Shaw
as Artemis and Lara McDonnell (The
“Books to Screen” panel with Alafair
Delinquent Season) as Holly Short, and it
Burke and Nicola Yoon, moderated by
was directed by Kenneth Branagh. Artemis
David Levithan
fans are looking forward to the movie with
2:45–3:30 p.m.
a blend of excitement and high anxiety,
Room 1E12-1E14
Colfer says. “They seem quite nervous
about seeing the Artemis movie. Some
Autographing
of them are at least a nine on the anxiety
4–5:30 p.m.
scale. I feel they have been burned before
BookCon Autographing Area, table #6
by adaptations, but I can assure the Fowl
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CHILDREN’S
AUTHORS
Elizabeth Eulberg
Navigating New YA Waters
Elizabeth Eulberg has writ-
ten four lighthearted middle
grade mysteries starring
crackerjack sleuth Shelby
Holmes, and eight young
adult novels about girls
weathering the everyday
oscillations of their teenage
years. But in Past Perfect
Life (Bloomsbury, July), she
charts a weightier fictional
course as she writes about a
teen whose world is upended
when she applies for college
and discovers that every-
thing she has been told
about her life is untrue.
Eulberg says that her inspi-
ration came from a 2015 TV
news broadcast about a boy
who found out that his life
was based on lies. “The story
resonated with me,” she
says. “And I spent a year,
while working on another book, contem-
plating what it would be like to find out in
high school that everything you’d been told
about your life is a lie. We put such trust in
our parents, and I started thinking a lot
about personal history, identity, and above
all, family.”
Eulberg found this to be the most difficult
book she’s ever written. “I not only delved
into darker territory than ever before, but
for the first time I was writing from the
point of view of a character who is really
confused,” she says. “I didn’t know what she
wanted because she didn’t know what she
wanted. I had to figure out the most logical
steps she had to take to get through it all, especially when she shut down
and became emotionally numb.”
By contrast, Shelby Holmes continues to keep Eulberg chuckling, as the
young detective cracks her fourth case in The Great Shelby Holmes and the
Case of the Haunted Hound (Bloomsbury, Sept.). “I find writing middle
grade joyous—and I always love talking to readers who are that age,” Eul-
berg says. “Creating Shelby Holmes mysteries uses a different brain mus-
cle, and I love writing about a heroine who is smarter than I am.” Before
returning to Shelby’s world, Eulberg plans on writing her first standalone
middle grade novel, about which she’s keeping mum.
Eulberg is attending BookExpo for the first time as a YA author and is a
bit trepidatious. “You never know what to expect when you veer off your
customary path,” she says. “It’s exciting, but also a little scary. Every time I
hear someone say they like my new book, I feel relief. I’m always nervous
when a novel comes out. But this is the most nervous I’ve been in a while.”
 —Sally Lodge

Today, 3–4 p.m. Elizabeth Eulberg will sign Past Perfect Life at Table 3.
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CHILDREN’S in similarly close, religious families.

AUTHORS Though Real Friends and Best Friends

reflect Hale’s experiences, Pham says, “In

LeUyen Pham many ways they parallel mine. Illustrating

these memoirs, I felt as though I had
crawled into Shannon’s head. They were not
Reflecting on a easy stories to work on, since I had to draw

Whirlwind Year honest and sometimes difficult childhood

moments, which I found emotionally
Author and illustrator LeUyen Pham, wrenching. The graphic novel format is a
who lives in L.A., has a busy few days really tough but moving way of telling a
planned while she’s in town, starting with story.”
tonight’s ABC/CBC Children’s Book Art On Friday, Pham will sign last year’s The
Silent Auction, where she will serve as Itchy Book!, an Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! title that she cocreated
honorary host. While she’s here, Pham with Mo Willems. “I have always revered Mo Willems and appreciated his
will promote the sequels to two books work,” says Pham, “but one thing I never realized is that he operates cre-
she illustrated: Grace Goes to Washing- atively in very strict confines. But within that realm, he comes up with out-
ton (Disney-Hyperion, Sept.), Kelly DiPuc- of-the-box ideas, which speaks to his success. After I defined my creativity
chio’s follow-up to Grace for President; within his world, I discovered that he understood my process and was able
and the graphic memoir Best Friends (Macmillan/Roaring Brook, Aug.), to challenge me. Mo brings out the best of me and of others.”
after Real Friends, which she cocreated with Shannon Hale. But those aren’t Pham’s only new books. She illustrated Richard T. Mor-
Working on Grace Goes to Washington and Best Friends were more like ris’s Bear Came Along (Little, Brown, June) in a new way that she’s never
homecomings of sorts for Pham, who welcomed the chance to re-enter done before by portraying the world in black-and-white and later, as the
Grace’s world. “I was able to find an old friend and harken back to a time animals come together, in color. —Sally Lodge
when people in our country felt so hopeful rather than so filled with anxi-
ety,” she says. “It was wonderful to revisit that safe space and tap into that Today, 5–7:30 p.m. LeUyen Pham will serve as honorary chair of the
energy again.” ABC/CBC Children’s Book Art Silent Auction, on the South Concourse.
As for Hale, Pham regards her as “some kind of twin of mine who grew up Friday, 9:30–10:30 a.m. Pham will sign The Itchy Book! in the Disney
in a different part of the world.” The two are the same age and were raised booth (1713).

Meet the Nimbus Authors at Book Expo!

Visit us at booth #964
“I challenge even the most diehard pirate fanatic “A must-read for “This engaging and easy-to-follow title
to come away without learning something new.“ spectators of true crime.” will charm primary grade readers.”
–CMReviews.com –The Canadian Press –School Library Journal

THERE BE PIRATES! SWASHBUCKLERS
& ROGUES OF THE ATLANTIC
By Joann Hamilton-Barry
978-1-77108-579-3 | $15.95
Children’s Non-Fiction | Available Now
FIRST DEGREE: FROM MED SCHOOL
TO MURDER, THE STORY BEHIND THE
SHOCKING WILL SANDESON TRIAL
By Kayla Hounsell | 978-1-77108-666-0
$24.95 | Non-fiction | Available Now
A GIANT MAN FROM A TINY TOWN:
A STORY OF ANGUS MACASKILL
Story by Tom Ryan, art by Christopher Hoyt
978-1-77108-654-7 | $22.95
Children’s picture book | Available Now

Wednesday, May 29 Thursday, May 30 Thursday, May 30

See Joann Hamilton-Barry on the Kayla Hounsell signing at 3pm & Friday, May 31
Indie Author Stage 12:35-1:05pm Tom Ryan signing at 11am
1:30pm – book signing at the Nimbus booth.
(Present an Indie Stage coupon at the booth to
get a free signed copy! First 30 minutes only)

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CHILDREN’S
QA
Stephen Savage
Disclosing the Secret
Lives of Road Signs
Ever wonder what the silhouetted figures on road signs do
when no one’s around? Stephen Savage shares his findings
in a wordless picture book, Sign Off (S&S/Beach Lane, May).
What sparked your curiosity about the after-hours antics
of road sign characters?
Five years ago, a utility crew was digging up the street near
my Park Slope apartment—it seems like Brooklyn is always
being torn up. I noticed their orange “men at work” sign
with the picture of a round-headed guy digging a hole. I’d
seen this sign hundreds of times, maybe even thousands,
throughout my life, but on this day it occurred to me, “This
guy’s working hard. He’s probably ready to jump off his
sign, put down his shovel, and take a break.” Then I began
imagining a series of adventures for this character.
That’s quite a minimalist image to trigger a picture book.
It is. But when you look back at the pictures that have inspired art through
the years—like vintage signage, commercial art, and luggage labels from
the 1930s—they don’t seem like art, but their design is great, and they’ve
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inspired some masterworks. It occurred to me that these sign
characters are about the size of a four- or five-year-old kid,
and they’d probably identify with them in a way.
Why did you opt to tell Sign Off as a wordless story?
Actually, the book wasn’t supposed to be wordless. When the
idea came along, I assumed I would tell the story with words.
I wrote a traditional male hero’s tale about the construction
man I had noticed near my apartment. But the story seemed
clunky and overwrought, so I abandoned the project.
What moved you to return to it?
In 2015, I participated on a panel about wordless books at
Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., moder-
ated by Beach Lane publisher Allyn Johnston. Her opening
remark, “I’m not even sure I like wordless books,” made me
laugh, but afterwards, when she asked me what I was work-
ing on and I told her the struggles I was having with my
construction man story, she suggested I try it as a wordless
book.
And that idea appealed to you?
I do love the genre, but I had already authored two word-
less books—Where’s Walrus? and Where’s Walrus? And
Penguin?—and I figured I’d gone as far as I can go with this
format. But Allyn’s simple suggestion breathed new life
into the project and opened up all kinds of possibilities.  —Sally Lodge
Today, 2–2:30 p.m. Stephen Savage will sign at Table 4.
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Little Grasshopper
Jumps onto the Scene
Visitors to booth 926 will have a chance to welcome first-time exhibitor Lit-
tle Grasshopper Books and to peruse the inaugural titles of this children’s
imprint from West Side Publishing. The line, which pairs print books with
apps, encompasses a spectrum of fiction and nonfiction titles for children
up to the age of six, including boxed sets, board books, and treasuries.
Among the debut releases, due in August, is Read Hear and Play, a
boxed set of six titles, each with six free interactive apps offering games,
narration, and sound effects aimed at reinforcing word recognition, reading
skills, and comprehension. Little
Grasshopper’s launch titles, all
written in-house, also include I
Can Find It! Fun with 3 Classic
Stories; Early Learning Baby Ani-
mals; and 12-Book Boxed Set
Mother Goose.
Little Grasshopper is moving
quickly out of the gate, with a
projected total of more than 150
titles due in 2020. “We’re off to
an aggressive start,” says creative
director Jim Harbison. “The
results of our extensive data
research and focus group testing
has been extremely positive, so we’re confident we are on the right track.”
The timing of the imprint’s announcement is similarly strategic, suggests
West Side Publishing owner Louis Weber, who says, “We are thrilled to
debut our inaugural titles at BookExpo this year. Bringing our first books to
such an important show for the bookselling community is a real honor.”
 —Sally Lodge
Little Hippo Bridges
Screen and Page
Every day a new headline admonishes us to minimize our children’s screen
time and encourage them to play with a real toy or, more importantly, read
a real book. As every parent knows, this is much easier said than done. But
Little Hippo’s Augmented Reality Come-to-Life books are designed to offer
the best of both worlds by combining technology and literacy.
They come with a proprietary app, Hippo Magic, which brings the magic
of augmented reality to the reading experience. The reader can scan pages
of a Come-to-Life book and see the characters featured on those pages
come to life in a three-dimensional form on iOS and Android devices. The
cost of the app is included in the price of the book. The interface is designed
to enable a direct level of engagement between the child and the story.

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“The augmented reality doesn’t take away anything from the fact that this
is still a book. You don’t need the app to enjoy the storytelling of the book,”
sales director Craig Gallo says. “What’s great is that the augmented reality
is going to keep the book in the hands of children for much longer, making
them want to go back again and again, with or without the app.”
CEO Albert Haug notes that augmented reality can change the reading
experience for kids—especially
reluctant readers. “Our Come-to-
Life books are a bridge for par-
ents and educators who are try-
ing to bring kids back to books
and reading,” he says.
Last June, four Come-to-Life
titles received Parents’ Choice locks, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Three Little Pigs, as well as other
Fun Stuff Awards for “value children’s favorites like The Velveteen Rabbit.
priced age-appropriate products In addition to traditional tales in AR, Little Hippo titles feature the alpha-
that won’t break the bank.” They bet, counting, and animals. The learning aspects of these books are further
retell classic fairy tales like Goldi- enhanced by hands-on activities such as tracing letters or touch-activated
exercises.
This year Little Hippo extended its Come-to-Life line with
puzzles. They look like ordinary 28-piece jigsaw puzzles, but
once the physical puzzles are put together, the user can scan
the completed puzzle with the Hippo Magic app to see a three-
dimensional scene appear over the puzzle, opening up an inter-
active experience similar to that of the books.
Little Hippo Books invites booksellers, librarians, and educa-
tors to stop by booth 1708 to view and experience this new
form of “edutainment.” —Liz Hartman

Want to sell more books? Raise more readers!

Visit us at booth #1307 and find out how.
How to Raise a Reader, from New York Times books editors Pamela
Paul and Maria Russo, is the guide every book-loving parent needs,
and every book-loving bookseller needs to stock. But we have lots
of other books to tell you about—like Crossfire Hurricane, the
inside story of Trump’s war on the FBI. The bestselling travel book
of all time—1,000 Places to See Before You Die—completely
reimagined. Make Noise, an essential guide to podcasting.
Even a new Boynton board book—Honk-SHOOOO!
A few highlights from our author schedule…
THURSDAY, MAY 30 4:00 p.m. Meet Eric Nuzum, responsible for launching many of your
10:00 a.m. Meet novelist Tracey Baptiste who will be signing galleys of favorite podcasts and here to sign galleys of Make Noise
The Jumbie God’s Revenge (Algonquin Young Readers). (Workman).
1:30 p.m. Brock Clarke will be in the booth signing his hilarious new novel, FRIDAY, MAY 31
Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? (Algonquin). 9:30 a.m. Don’t miss this chance to meet rising star Jaquira Díaz,
1:30 p.m. Stop by the booth and have your photo taken in front of the Great author of Ordinary Girls: A Memoir (Algonquin)—
Wall of China—and pick up a free limited-edition 1,000 Places to she’ll be on hand for a galley signing.
See Before You Die custom luggage tag (event continues until 4:30). 10:30 a.m. Gabriel Bump will be in the booth signing
2:30 p.m. Say hello to Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, who will be on hand galleys of his powerful debut novel, Everywhere
signing galleys of How to Raise a Reader (Workman). You Don’t Belong (Algonquin).
3:00 p.m. Tireless traveler Patricia Schultz is taking a break from exploring
the world to sign a mega-sampler of the new deluxe edition of
1,000 Places to See Before You Die (Artisan). AND DON’T FORGET THE TOTE!
All book and galley signings and giveaways end when we run out of copies!

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Celebrating the Pannell

Awards
At Friday morning’s Children’s Book & Author Breakfast, two bookstores

Don‘t just
will be honored with a 2019 Women’s National Book Association Pannell
Award for excellence in bookselling. The awards are cosponsored by Penguin
Books for Young Readers. This year’s award winners, 57th Street Books in

know what‘s
Chicago in the General Bookstore category and Hicklebee’s Bookstore in
San Jose in the Children’s Specialty Bookstore category, will receive a check
for $1,000 and a piece of original artwork donated by Jerry Pinkney and

coming. Rosemary Wells.

The five-member juror
panel of publishing pro-
fessionals, who selected

Know how
the winners from among
dozens of nominees in 23
states, said that they were

to react.
especially impressed with
the exceptional passion
and creativity of the 57th
Street Books staff and
called the bookstore “a
gift” to its community.
“We are so proud to
serve young readers on
Experience the the South Side of Chicago The 57th Street Books team includes (clockwise from l.)
Alex Houston, Jeff Deutsch, Colin McDonald, Franny
and are humbled and
publishing industry grateful to receive this
Billingsley, and Clancey D’Isa.

more intensely recognition on behalf of all booksellers working in underserved communi-

ties,” says Jeff Deutsch, director of Seminary Co-op Bookstores, which com-
than ever. prises 57th Street Books and the Seminary Co-op, an academic bookstore.
Seminary Co-op marketing director Alex Houston and 57th Street man-
ager Clancey D’Isa will accept the award. “With the recognition of this
Discover what’s coming award, we look forward to sustaining our world-class children’s department,
deepening our children’s programing, and continuing to serve our communi-
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ties near and far,” says Houston. D’Isa views winning the award as “a testament
from 16 – 20 October 2019. to our community and their faith in our stores.”
The award jurors described Hicklebee’s Bookstore as “the gold standard
for children’s bookselling and an extraordinary place that outdoes itself
every year.” The praise is
especially gratifying to
co-owners and sisters Valerie
Lewis and Monica Holmes
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Friday, 8–9:30 a.m. The Children’s Book & Author Breakfast will be on
the Main Stage.

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UnBound: Sidelines
‘Show Within a Show’
At a time when nonbook items have become a significant part of many
stores’ sales, BookExpo is upping its commitment to sidelines by setting
up a separate exhibit hall for book-related sideline vendors under the
UnBound umbrella. Choosing as its tagline “a collection of bookish goods,”
UnBound will offer an alternative gift show for time-pressed booksellers
who can’t typically attend both a gift show and BookExpo. Admission to
UnBound is included as part of BookExpo.

Led by a stationery industry veteran, Patti Stracher-Lee, who was named

events director of Reed Exhibitions last fall, UnBound will showcase close
to 100 vendors in 25 categories this year (see p. 44) for a list of attending
vendors). Each of the vendors has been vetted carefully. “We want stores to
be delighted,” says Stracher-Lee.
To distinguish UnBound from other sidelines shows for booksellers,
Stracher-Lee says she plans to highlight “new resources that are hard to
find, but have the business structure that can deliver.” Instead of vendors
whose toys and other products have become ubiquitous, UnBound will
feature the creative play brand Eco-Kids. There will be baby milestone
books and other products from Lucy Darling, which specializes in keep-
sakes; and pencils from Blackwing, whose Blackwing 602 pencil was
favored by writers like John Steinbeck and Stephen Sondheim. North Ave
Candles is exhibiting its literary candles; Australia’s Sock It Up its novelty
socks; and GeoCentral, crystals and rocks.
For Stephanie Larason, brand and marketing director of Taza Chocolate in
Somerville, Mass., UnBound offers an opportunity to reach more indepen-
dent booksellers, which have proved to be a good fit for its stone-ground
chocolate. Taza’s products are already available at some bookstores, includ-
ing Harvard Book Store in Cambridge and Trident Booksellers in Boston.
Indie bookstores outside New England have begun stocking the chocolate,
too. “What we’ve been finding,” she says, “is that there’s a lot of word of
mouth in the independent bookselling community. My instinct is that the
consumer who shops [at independent bookstores] is looking for something
different, something unique.” That’s what Taza prides itself on offering.
In conjunction with the exhibits, UnBound is offering presentations about
sidelines on the Choice Stage. Lisa Uhrik, president of Franklin Fixtures,
which creates display shelving and fixtures for bookstores, will talk on visual
merchandising basics and on the design practices of successful stores. A
panel with booksellers will focus on developing sidelines, while another pre-
sentation will highlight product trends.
But even with all the attention that BookExpo is giving to sidelines and
UnBound, Stracher-Lee says she is only getting started. “UnBound is a
launch,” she notes. “It has a future, and we’re investing in it.” —Judith Rosen

[Highlighting] new resources

that are hard to find but have the
business structure that can deliver.”
 —Patti Stracher-Lee, head of UnBound
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 Galley Giveaways Galore at
Booth 720!
Wednesday 5/29

Tiny The Escape of Light

by Kim Hooper by Fred Venturini
200 copies 200 copies
1:00 p.m. Thursday 5/30 3:00 p.m.

THAT’S MENTAL
pa i n f u l ly f u n n y t h i n g s
that drive me crazy
a b o u t b e i n g m e n ta l ly i l l

A MA NDA ROSENBERG

A Hero’s Journey The Jane Austen Diet That’s Mental

by Jeremy Scott by Bryan Kozlowski by Amanda Rosenberg
400 copies 200 copies 200 copies
10:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

Friday 5/31
(both at 11:00 a.m.)

Garden to Glass Empowdered Sugar

by Mike Wolf by Karen Cuneo and Grace Cuneo Lineman
200 copies 200 copies

*First 25 for each giveaway receives a FREE Jane Austen themed tote!
 BOOKEXPO SHOW DAILY

Is Here! Calypso
Cards
Calypso Cards
Booths 2839, 2938
A woman-owned

Take a look at who’s selling what— business, Calypso

publishes and dis-
and where to find them tributes contempo-
rary greeting cards
Compiled by Judith Rosen and related gift
products that are
sold through spe-
cialist retailers in
2020 VISION USA the U.S. and
Booth 2849 Canada.
2020 Vision USA supplies eco-friendly reading glasses and sunglasses to
independent bookstores worldwide. This is a socially conscious brand that Chalk of the Town
aims to promote positive change in the world with a policy of giving back. Booth 2439
Chalk of the Town
Attic Journals sells T-shirt kits that allow youngsters’ imagination to run free as they
Booth 2133 create their own one-of-a-kind designs for shirts that are reusable and
A purveyor of gift and decor items—including journals, garlands, mini machine washable. Chalkboard Tote Bag Kits for both kids and adults
notebooks, jewelry, and more—Attic Journals is committed to sustain- are also available.
ability, offsetting the book-discard pipeline by upcycling as much as
possible of what the company calls “long forgotten books” in its line of Chick Lit Designs
products. Booth 2437
Subscribers receive a monthly book subscription box that focuses on
bringing the “book to life.” Boxes include a newly released novel along
Attic
with individually wrapped gifts with page numbers, meant to be opened
Journals
when the reader reaches the given page.

Clear Solutions Inc.

Booth 2149
Clear Solutions specializes in creative retail display design.

The Colorful Geek

Booths 2438, 2339
This company sells what it describes as “bookish and geek chic” clothing
and accessories.

Dionis Natural Goat Milk Skincare

Booth 2833
Founded in 1982 on a goat farm in Virginia and later moved to Bucks
Avanti County, Pa., Dionis offers products that are dermatologist tested and
Booth 2623 free of parabens, gluten, and sulfates.
For more than 38 years, Avanti Press in Detroit purports to “entertain
the world with its “feel good funny” greeting cards. Avanti means “move
forward,” and the company is dedicated to constant innovation in both Clear
content and product quality. Solutions
Inc.
Blackwing
Booth 2631
Since the 1930s, this company has made pencils, notebooks, and tools
for creative-minded people. The Blackwing 602 pencil was favored by
such writers as John Steinbeck and Stephen Sondheim. A portion of
every Blackwing sale benefits music and arts education through the
Blackwing Foundation.

Book Art Bookmarks

Booth 2434
Since it launched in January 2018, the Wisconsin-based company has
sold more than 4,000 bookmarks.

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NEW FEATURED TITLES from Baker Publishing Group

After being falsely accused and detained
in a Turkish prison, pastor Andrew Brunson
shares his story of preaching the gospel in
a Muslim land, ministering to a marginalized
people, and faithfully enduring imprisonment,
hardship, and suffering.
978-0-8010-9487-3 • $26.99 • October 2019
Popular speaker and cofounder & CEO of
Sseko Designs challenges readers to rethink
everything they’ve been told about finding
their passions and following their dreams
so they can get down to the business of
building a life of purpose and impact.
978-0-8010-9424-8 • $24.99 • October 2019
This is not a book about Saint Augustine.
In a way, it’s a book Augustine has written
about each of us. Popular speaker and
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has spent time on the road with Augustine,
and he invites us to take this journey too,
for this ancient African thinker knows far
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Bestselling author and
daughter of Billy Graham
reveals how she discovered
the issue that kept her
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978-0-8010-9426-2 • $22.99
October 2019
From internationally
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September 2019
With encouraging stories and
practical, biblical wisdom,
author and mother Becky
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support to help you through
the ups and downs of
motherhood. Learn how to
exchange negative internal
dialogue for joyful gratitude,
celebrate your one-of-a-kind
mom strengths, and see
yourself as the confident
mom your child needs.
978-0-7642-3324-1 • $14.99
October 2019
Speaker, pastor and author of
Welcome to Adulting offers
a 42-day companion guide
with practical tools and helps
for readers with the struggles
of adulthood, including
navigating relationships,
achieving career goals, and
overcoming worry through
daily pondering, practice, and
prayer.
978-0-8010-9492-7 • $12.99
September 2019
In a world fraught with
worry and anxiety, veteran
counselor Sissy Goff offers
practical advice on how
you can instill bravery and
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helping her understand why
her brain is often working
against her when she starts
to worry and what she can
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978-0-7642-3340-1 • $15.99
September 2019
This illustrated guide for girls
ages 6 to 11 will help your
daughter see how brave,
strong, and smart God made
her. Through easy-to-read
stories and writing and
drawing prompts, she will
learn practical ways to fight
back when worries come
up and will feel empowered
knowing she is deeply loved
by a God who is bigger than
her fears.
978-0-7642-3341-8 • $12.99
September 2019

www.bakerpublishinggroup.com
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Exaclair life’s biodiversity by combining new peer-reviewed science research with

antique artwork and watercolors.
Inc.
FiGPiN
Booth 2349
FiGPiN makes collectible pins that are officially licensed with popular
brands worldwide.

Franklin Fixtures
Booth 2944
Since 1974, Franklin Fixtures has manufactured display products for
bookstores and libraries.

Dissent Pins Grey

Booth 2337 Moggie
As its name hints, this company sells jewelry and pins inspired by Press
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which aim to make a differ-
ence in issues customers care about.

Exaclair Inc.
Book 2823
Exaclair is a purveyor of French- and American-made notebooks, jour-
nals, notepads, gifts, stationery, ink, planners, sketchbooks, and more.

Fairhope Graphics
Booth 2527
Fairhope creates posters, cards, field guides, and gift wrap whose illus-
trations explore 3.8 billion years of natural history and the evolution of

Author Signings and Giveaways

in Booth 1823! Come Meet
12:30 – 1:15pm
Brian Adams
Offline
Our Authors!
1:00pm Giveaway
Bill Jelen
Mr Excel LX: The Holy
Grail of Excel Tips Jennifer Swanson
1:30 – 2:15pm Friday, May 31
Molly Ringle
All the Better Part of Me 10:00 am – 10:30 am
2:30 – 3:15pm Signing in Booth #1712
Elaine Kiely Kearns
Noah Noasaurus
and
Sue Fliess
The Earth Gives More Lisa Papp
2:00pm Giveaway Friday, May 31
Daniel M. Ford
Body Broker 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
3:00 – 4:30pm Signing in Autographing
Signing and drawing! Area Table #4
Illustrator Howard McWilliam
How I Met My Monster 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Are You My Monster
I Love My Dragon Signing in Booth #1712
3:30 Giveaway
Faraway
Sad Birds Still Sing

Independent Publishers Group

www.peachtree-online.com | 800.241.0113

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 WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2019

Gigamic It sells historical talismans, sacred symbols, natural treasures, and arti-
Booth 2145 facts inspired by myth and folklore.
Founded in 1991 near Calais in northern France by three brothers,
Gigamic develops, publishes, and distributes games designed for people House of Darkly
of all ages. Its signature games offer fast play time. Booth 2246
This company sells artist-made plush products that feature original
Grey Moggie Press designs of food and fantastical creatures.
Booth 2530
The letterpress greeting cards from Grey Moggie, printed in Washington, Iron Curtain Press
D.C., are “inspired by good books, changing seasons, and walks in the city,” Booth 2744
the company says. Iron Curtain Press makes tools for productivity and creativity with
notebooks that strike a balance between being functional and aes-
Hibernacula thetically pleasing.
Booth 2233
Hibernacula describes itself as “a museum boutique, celebrating the J.A. Wilson’s
scientific, the sacred, and the sublime, designed to educate and inspire.” Booth 2240
J.A. Wilson’s imports journals, stationery products, greeting cards,
Iron postcards, and gift items from around the world, as well as collectible
Curtain books from the U.K.
Press
JPT America Inc.
Booth 2831
Established a decade ago, this company is dedicated to delivering fine
Japanese stationery.

Kalan LP
Booth 2249
A family-owned business founded more than 40 years ago, Kalan supplies

W E D N E S D AY, M AY 2 9

In-Booth Signing: W E D N E S D AY
RION AMILCAR SCOTT G I V E A W AY S
at Norton’s Booth #1521
Stop by the Moody Publishers
booth for your free copy!
BOOTH 339

1:00 PM

Rion Amilcar Scott

will be signing
galleys of The World
Doesn’t Require You

GALLEY GIVEAWAYS
Stop by to grab a galley while supplies last!

The Second The Envious Free Lunch

Founding Siblings BY Rex Ogle
BY Eric Foner BY Landis Blair

Liveright

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JPT The Music Gifts Company

America Booth 2827
This Florida company sells a wide range of music-themed items, including
Inc.
books for both children and adults.

My Audio Life
Booth 2236
This company’s tiny animal-shaped Bluetooth speakers that sport pat-
ented designs have been recommended by Oprah Winfrey, USA Today,
Good Morning America, and the Today show, among others.

Ozone
Socks

gift, novelty, and specialty items to retailers across the United States.
Bear Wear is the newest addition to its keychain line.

Lamy Writing Instruments

Booth 2726
Based in Germany, this 50-year-old company designs and manufactures
high-end writing products, including limited editions of this year’s Lamy
AL-Star Special Edition bronze fountain pen.

Little
Poland North Ave Candles
Gallery Booth 2540
North Ave makes candles for literature lovers.

Oooh Yeah! Socks/Sock It Up

Booth 2435
Using combed cotton, Oooh Yeah! creates popular designs that repre-
sent every lifestyle.
The Lavender Whim
Booth 2431 Ox Eye Media
Featuring the work of illustrator Jill-Ann Mark, the Lavender Whim offers Booth 2639
greeting cards, art prints, stationery, and gift items. Ox Eye media sells board games, books, and gaming accessories.

Little Poland Gallery Ozone Socks

Booth 2531 Booth 2241
This company sells handmade wooden toys made in Europe. This company combines bold designs and high quality materials to create
fashion and novelty socks for men and women.
Looney Labs
Booth 2733
Looney Labs makes card games in three main categories: pop culture,
party/family, and education, including Fluxx, Loonacy, and Nanof. Pebble
Melissa & Doug
Booth 2844 My
From classic Audio
wooden toys to Life
creative crafts,
pretend play,
and books,
Melissa &
Doug’s mission
is to create
products that
inspire explora-
tion and enrich
children’s lives.

www.bookexpo.com
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 Arroyo
a novel by Chip Jacobs

Set against two distinct epochs in the history of Pas-

adena, California, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a
young man and his dog in 1913 and 1993. In both lives,
they are drawn to the landmark Colorado Street Bridge,
or “Suicide Bridge,” as the locals call it, which suffered
a lethal collapse during construction but still opened to
fanfare in the early twentieth century automobile age.
When the refurbished structure commemorates its 80th
birthday, one of the planet’s best known small towns
is virtually unrecognizable from its romanticized, and
somewhat invented, past.

OCTOBER 2019

All the Right Circles

a novel by John Russell

Jack Callahan is an outsider in his adopted hometown

of Raleigh. A successful lawyer, he’s spent years trying
to move in all the right circles. But with his mother in
a sanitarium, his marriage on the rocks, and his biggest
client—Raleigh’s largest independent newspaper—facing
an increasingly hostile takeover, he’s beginning to won-
der if it’s really been worth it. Set in the 1990s, All the
Right Circles explores themes of race, class, and money in
a world where virtue often proves elusive in the presence
of money and power.

OCTOBER 2019

RAREBIRDBOOKS.COM
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Simpson
& Vail

Patent Press Greeting Cards

Booth 2822
P L E A S E J O I N U S This greeting card line features original artwork from applications to the
U.S. Patent Office.
for a Prosecco Toast in honor of
HarperVia’s launch, featuring a
Silk
special signing by debut author Road
Heddi Goodrich. Bazaar

Each signed book will come with

a HarperOne tote bag and our
Advance Reader’s Editions.

The HarperCollins Booth #2046

Wednesday, 5/29 2:30PM
Pebble
Booth 2529
Pebble, a U.K. company, is a member of the World Fair Trade Organization;
its children’s toys are sustainably made by artisans in rural Bangladesh.

Storymatic
Studios

HarperVia is a new imprint from the Pretty Alright Goods

HarperOne Group at HarperCollins
dedicated to publishing international
voices, offering readers a chance to
encounter other lives and other points of
view Via the language of the imagination.
FOR PUBLICITY ENQUIRIES,
P L E A S E C O N TA C T:
Paul Olsewski, Senior Director of Publicity
Paul.Olsewski@harpercollins.com
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Booth 2645
According to this purveyor of stationery, greeting cards, and gifts, Pretty
Alright’s products are handmade in the U.S. “by people with an apprecia-
tion for clean design and a keen sense of humor.”
Product 101
Booth 2447
Product 101 is a source for customized products for in-store, online, or
marketing use, including bags, apparel, pens, journals, candles, stickers,
banners, drinkware, hats, magnets, and napkins.
The Retrospect Group
Booth 2445
A publisher and distributor, the Retrospect Group offers fine art and
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images in calendars, cards, boxed note card sets, tote bags, mugs, mag- Sindri Solutions and Foam Brain Games
nets, and custom pieces that all use environmentally friendly materials. Booth 2244
This company produces custom pins, key chains, gift coins, and more.
Silk Road Bazaar
Booth 2341 Storymatic Studios
The felt products of this company are made by women artisans who Booth 2727
work in the remote regions of Kyrgyzstan. Each purchase supports Storymatics are boxed collections of cards that can create endless stories
women. for kids, adults, writers, teachers, parents, and artists

Simpson & Vail Streamline Importing

Booth 2338 Booth 2247
Simpson & Vail offers the Literary Tea Line, a collection of 15 blends that This company supplies whimsical gifts and collections from home decor
were inspired by authors’ works and lives. to stationery.

Visit Abingdon Press in

BOOTH 714 while at BookExpo.
Tea and Absinthe
AbingdonPress.com Booth 2627
Tea and Absinthe offers what it calls “nerd-

What if our homes themed” loose leaf tea blends, as well as tea
ware, barware, absinthe accessories, books,

reflected the joy we feel? and “sundry geeky paraphernalia.”

In Heart & Home for Christmas: Celebrating Joy in Your Living Space, Topato Co.
author VICTORIA DUERSTOCK understands that the stress of the
Booth 2532
holidays makes it easy to forget true joy. In these 100 devotions, she
connects easy decorating tips with spiritual thoughts for reflecting the Topato offers exclusive merchandise made in
true spirit of Christmas in your home and actions. partnership with writers and artists of all
kinds.

Travelflips
Booth 2141
Travelflips are language cards in an authentic
MEET VICTORIA TODAY case or a vintage leather pouch, available in
AT BOOKEXPO! many languages.

Hear her at 2:55 p.m. at the Indie

Insights stage, and meet her at the
Abingdon Press booth (#714) at
3:30 p.m. giving away copies of her first
book, Heart & Home: Design Basics for
Your Soul and Living Space!
SEPT 17, 2019
Hardback w/four-color throughout
9781501885433 | 6.75 x 6.75
208 pages | $19.99
Available NOW
Hardback w/four-color throughout
9781501881039 | 6.75 x 6.75
192 pages | $19.99
Up with Paper/ UWP Luxe
Booth 2822
In business for more than 40 years, Up with
Paper and UWP Luxe’s innovative, three-di-
mensional greeting cards feature intricate
designs, trendy artwork, and unexpected
pop-ups.

Wacky Links
Booth 2754
Wacky Links DIY creative kits are “powered by
a child’s imagination,” the company says. Kits
contain colorful tubes and links shaped like
unicorns and dinosaurs that allow kids to
build anything, from necklaces to backpack
decorations.

Waverley West
Booth 2243
Waverley West is the exclusive U.S. represen-
tative for Waverley Scotland’s designer-
quality notebooks and journals, which are
bound in one of 48 genuine tartan patterns in
cloth woven by mills in the U.K.

Wick and Fable

Booth 2343
This company is a purveyor of soy candles
inspired by books and different fandoms.

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 “Who really wins in the Game of Thrones? Find out what
fiction and film can teach us about modern war and the
fate of our world from two nonresident fellows at the
Modern War Institute: Max Brooks (World War Z) and
ML Cavanaugh, a U.S. Army strategist.”

FRIDAY, MAY 31
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
signing in the Autographing
Area, Table #7

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
on the Indie Publisher Stage
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
in-booth signing Jim Auchmutey, author of
THURSDAY, MAY 30 Be part of an enlightening
2:00 PM – 2:30PM conversation. Inspired by
in-booth signing with today’s headlines, top
historians discuss
Smokelore: memorialization, the proper
A Short History of role of public intellectuals,
Barbecue in America and how history happens.
Pick up a free copy of
Confederate Statues and
Memorialization and join
the conversation.

BOOTH 632 BOOTH 531

GOODNESS AND THE YULETIDE IN DIXIE ARC GIVEAWAY ARC GIVEAWAY

LITERARY IMAGINATION Slavery, Christmas, and Things to ponder from the In the studio with the Beatles
Harvard’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture Southern Memory Father of Modern Horticulture as they recorded Abbey Road
with Essays on Morrison’s Moral Robert E. May
and Religious Vision
Toni Morrison.
Edited by David Carrasco,
Stephanie Paulsell, and
Mara Willard

BOOTH 630 BOOTH 533

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The New York Rights

Fair Returns

The second annual New York Rights Fair, the international adult and
children’s content and licensing marketplace, is colocated and running
concurrently with BookExpo this year, and is presented in partnership
with BolognaFiere, Publishers Weekly, and Combined Book Exhibit. It
was held offsite in 2018.
“It is super exciting to have the New York Rights Fair under the same
roof as BookExpo,” says Jennifer Martin, event manager of BookExpo.
“Admittedly, we have seen the international attendees fade at BookExpo
over the past few years, in part because it wasn’t as compelling to travel
for just a two-day event. Now that it has been right-sized to a three-day
show and with the addition of the New York Rights Fair, we anticipate a
much larger international participation.” This year’s New York Rights Fair,
she adds, features representatives from 14 countries, including a large
number of exhibitors from France and Italy, as well as representatives from
as far away as Uzbekistan.
More than 30 rights tables will be occupied by literary and rights agen-
cies, including Trident Media Group, Sandra Dijkstra, and Maria Campbell
& Associates. The Quarto Group, Quirk Books, Candlewick, Sourcebooks,
and Simon & Schuster are among the publishers exhibiting.

jd urban photography
©

The Italia booth at the inaugural New York Rights Fair in 2018.

As to whether the New York Rights Fair will be competing with exhibitors
on the BookExpo show floor, Martin notes that BookExpo booths are pri-
marily focused on servicing retail and library clients. “All too often in the
past,” she says, “the rights portion of the show got edged off to the side.
Now editors have a compelling reason to leave their offices and come to
BookExpo, because they will have their own dedicated space for doing
business.” She also points to the Rights Fair’s active schedule of panels
and educational sessions, structured around the international landscape,
page to screen, and genres.
Literary agent Marleen Seegers, owner of the 2 Seas Agency in Ojai,
Calif., and a panelist at today’s “International Blockbusters” session, is
www.bookexpo.com
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GET YOUR

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jd urban photography
©
Talking children’s books at the inaugural New York Rights Fair in 2018.

READERS back for a second year. Although Seegers travels to both the Frankfurt
and London Book Fairs each year to sell rights, she says that she welcomes
a rights-focused event in the U.S. “Breaking into the U.S. market is some-
We have our eye on worldwide thing most international publishers aspire to. It is absolutely essential

fashion centers, specializing in that there is an opportunity for them to meet with agents and editors in
New York,” she says, adding, “It also must be said that many of the U.S.
Italian design elements. publishers who publish translated fiction are not based in [New York].
Our finished product is elegant Publishers like Graywolf, Open Letter, and Deep Vellum are all somewhere
else, but many of them will be at the New York Rights Fair and exhibiting
to see as well as be seen in. at BookExpo.”
BookExpo’s Martin points out that the New York Rights Fair is designed
to give people an opportunity to interact face-to-face. “The goal for me is to
turn it into the [Consumer Electronics Show] of books. We want to hear
about great deals that come out of the fair, from new television series to
independent films. We want everyone to know that the New York Rights
Fair and BookExpo are a hotbed of great stories.” —Ed Nawotka

For a complete schedule of today’s events, see p. 58.

Finding an Audience for

Books in Translation
For the past few decades, the main topic of conversation among those in
the literary translation community has been about producing more titles.
The idea of the “3% Problem”—fewer than 3% of all the titles published in
the U.S. in a given year were originally written in a language other than
English—has shaped this discussion in a number of ways. A frequent start-

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ing point is that it’s bad for our culture to be so cut off from the rest of the
world. Some people focus on the need for more funding to publish interna-
tional literature. Others see the creation
& INDIE BOOKSTORES of new presses and imprints dedicated to
bringing voices from around the world to
English readers as essential.
The “3% Problem” also contains inherent
labor costs. As translators have become
more professional, they’ve advocated for
higher fees and royalties. They argue that
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A lot of the hand-wringing about this situation comes from two colliding
assumptions: that translations are culturally valuable versus the belief that
translations are less likely to generate a profit than a book originally written
in English. There needs to be much more revenue from translated books for
the “3% Problem” to become the “4% Problem.”
To get booksellers onboard with promoting books in translation, Europa
Editions in 2016 launched the Booksellers Without Borders program to
provide fellowships to attend international book fairs. “Booksellers are an
increasingly important link in the chain that connects authors and their
readers,” says Michael Reynolds, editor-in-chief at Europa. “Yet, when it
comes to international literature, especially literature in translation, most
have no direct connection with other important links in that chain—foreign
publishers, agents, producers, and other booksellers. We wanted to create
real connections between professional book- Charlotte Koh Lauren Neustadter
sellers here and abroad. And, ultimately, we
aim to create an international bookselling work with a variety of players in the book space, from publishers to
network.” booksellers.
Another path to expanding the world of liter- Jason Boog (moderator), West Coast correspondent, Publishers Weekly;
ary translation is to build on recent successes. Charlotte Koh, head of digital media and unscripted, Hello Sunshine;
Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet (Europa) Lauren Neustadter, head of film and television, Hello Sunshine.
has sold more than 4.1 million copies in the
U.S., and the first volume, My Brilliant Friend, International Blockbusters
was made into an HBO series that was recently Today, 1:15–2 p.m.
renewed for a second season. Fredrik Back- The number of books in translation published in the U.S. is alarmingly low,
man’s A Man Called Ove (Washington Square languishing for years at a mere 3%. There’s a perception that translations
Press) also made the jump from page to screen don’t sell. Why? This panel looks at four books written in languages other
and has sold more than 2.8 million units world- than English that have become global bestsellers: Viola Ardone’s The Chil-
wide. But even outside of titles that have been dren’s Train, Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove, Antonio Scurati’s M:
turned into film, there seems to be a ground- The Son of the XX Century, and Un-su Kim’s The Plotters. What sets them
swell of interest in international literature apart? How did they gain momentum in the market, first with industry pro-
among both smaller presses and the Big Five. fessionals and then with readers? And what can U.S. publishers take away
This fall, HarperCollins is launching the Harper- from the success of these books in order to publish more works in transla-
Via imprint to bring out dozens of translations tion in the States?
a year. Gabriella Page-Fort (moderator), editorial director, Amazon Crossing;
But for translators like Jennifer Croft, the sur- Peter Borland, v-p, editor-in-chief, Atria Books;
est route to success is winning an award. Claire Sabatie-Garat, literary agent, the Italian Literary Agency;
Although she says she “fell in love” with Olga Marleen Seegers, owner and foreign rights agent, 2 Seas Agency;
Tokarczuk’s Flights (Riverhead) when she first Barbara Zitwer, owner, president, Barbara J. Zitwer Agency.
read the original in 2007, she struggled for
nearly a decade to find a publisher for her translation. It wasn’t until May
last year, when she and Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International that
things changed. “My feeling is that the Booker opened every literary door
for us,” Croft says, “and that finally, after working with Olga for 15 years, my
goals for her career are attainable. She is a wonderful, accessible writer
who seems to have intimidated editors for no good reason until now. Read-
ers, meanwhile, have always been ready to dig in.” —Chad Post

New York Rights Fair

Program
An Inside Look: Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine
Today, 12–12:45 p.m.
Driven by a singular mission to change the narrative for women, Reese
Witherspoon’s company initially made a name for itself in literary circles
as a production company dedicated to female authorship and storytelling.
Now, with one of the most vibrant book clubs around and forays into
everything from scripted and unscripted television, premium cable,
streaming shows, and feature films to podcasts and audio storytelling,
Hello Sunshine is much more than a production company. In this session,
two Hello Sunshine executives will address the media brand’s vision, how
it works with various forms of literary content, and how it would like to
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Inside the World of Foreign Rights Sales and Scouting
Today, 2:15–3 p.m.
Foreign rights sales account for a significant portion of the revenue that pub-
lishers and authors make on their books. But how are these rights sold? And
what makes one American title more appealing to a foreign house than
another? This discussion will offer the inside scoop on how foreign rights
are sold from professionals who specialize in this aspect of the business,
scouts and those working for both publishers and literary agencies.
Kelly Farber (moderator), owner and scout, KF Literary Scouting LLC;

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PRH;
Rebecca Gardner, v-p, rights director, the Gernert Company;
Marleen Reimer, senior scout, Maria B. Campbell Associates;
Stefanie Diaz, director, international rights, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.
Market Focus: Brexit and the U.K. Book Biz—What Does It
Mean?
Today, 3:15–4 p.m.
Although U.K. voters cast their ballot to leave the E.U. more than two
years ago, the details of Brexit remain fuzzy. Will the Commonwealth face
what’s known as a “hard Brexit” and leave behind all of the trade agree-
ments membership in the bloc brought? Will politicians be able to work out
another deal? Will another “leave vote” be put to the public? Robert Powell
will speak on what Brexit might look like and how it could affect various
industries in the U.K. His talk will then segue into a discussion with U.K.
publishing professionals about their biggest concerns regarding how
Brexit may affect the U.K. book business.
Liz Thomson (moderator), journalist, founder and executive producer of
the Village Trip festival;
Richard Charkin, founder, Mensch Publishing;
Isobel Dixon, head of books and a director, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency.
International Literature: Promoting and Finding Audiences
Today, 4:15–5 p.m.
Over the past decade, there has been much focus on the very low percent-
age of books published in the U.S. that are translations from a language
other than English, and on the production of more works in translation.
But simply increasing the number of published works of international liter-
ature is not enough. For an interest in international literature to continue
to expand among English readers, the industry needs to focus on develop-
ing larger audiences for these works. To identify ways to get translated lit-
erature into the hands of more readers, this panel will explore a variety of
initiatives, from the new National Book Award for Translation to the impact
of the Man Booker International Prize and the Booksellers Without Bor-
ders program.
Chad Post (moderator), founder, Open Letter Books;
Nick Buzanski, general manager and buyer, Book Culture, in New York City;
Jennifer Croft, writer and translator, New York Public Library;
Lisa Lucas, executive director, National Book Foundation;
Michael Reynolds, editor-in-chief, Europa Editions.
Lisa Lucas Michael Reynolds
2019 Best Translated Book Award Winners Announcement
and Reception
Today, 5–5:30 p.m.
The awards will be presented by Chad Post.
Open to all New York Rights Fair attendees.
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Sharjah Celebrates
’Open Books, Open Minds’

courtesy of sharjah international book fair

Sheik Dr. Sultan Al Qasimi opens the 2017 Sharjah International Book Festival. November
For more than a decade, the United Arab Emirate of Sharjah (booth 507)
has focused energy and resources on fostering literacy and encouraging book
publishing throughout the region. This led to the establishment of the Emir-
ates Publishers Association and the Kalimat Group, an Arabic-language
17-24, 2019
publishing house, as well as Sharjah Publishing City, a 200,000-sq.-ft. facil-
ity that offers administrative and logistical support for those looking to pub-
lish, print, and distribute.
MIAMI, FLORIDA
In addition, each family in Sharjah has been supplied with an in-home
library as part of the Knowledge Without Borders program. Sheika Bodour
Al Qasimi, founder of the Kalimat Group and the daughter of Sharjah’s
ruler, Sheikh Dr. Sultan Muhammad Al Qasimi, is serving as v-p of the Inter-
national Publishers Association, where she has worked to promote publish-
ing in Africa and other underserved international communities. These
efforts culminated last month with Sharjah being named UNESCO World POETRY, FICTION
Book Capital, a title it will hold until April 2020. The theme for this year’s
celebrations is “Open Books, Open Minds.” At the opening ceremony, Shar- & NONFICTION FROM
jah’s ruler said, “I stand before you and I am almost certain that I am visualiz-
ing our great forefathers—scientists and thinkers—filling libraries of the ALL OVER THE WORLD
world with knowledge.... It is a great honor to follow in their footsteps. To
embrace books and knowledge as a tool to build, not destroy... a tool to
nurture love, brotherhood, and tolerance.” STREET FAIR
The sheik continued, “The production of knowledge never stops, and the
development of life continues.... Sharjah is prepared to continue on this
journey, and God willing, our devoted sons and daughters will continue our
march to make Sharjah a true beacon of science and knowledge and a des-
PUBLISHERS &
tination for everyone thirsty for culture, for thought, and the sciences.”
Plans for the year of literary festivities include mobile beach libraries,
BOOKSELLERS
book fairs, storytelling, theater, and programming for children. The goal is
to unify communities by reaching out to the marginalized, while fostering
inclusion and support for refugees, the disabled, and the visually impaired,
CHILDREN’S AUTHORS
among others.
To mark the occasion, the Emirate also erected the 2019 Sharjah World
& ACTIVITIES
Book Capital Monument, a sculpture designed by artist Gerry Judah. And
the Emirate is building the House of Wisdom, a library and cultural center
designed by the famous architectural firm of Foster + Partners.
Last month the London Book Fair named the United Arab Emirate of
MIAMIBOOKFAIR.COM
Sharjah as the Market Focus of the 2020 fair. The Sharjah Book Authority
and the fair will collaborate on a program, with the support of the British
/miamibookfair
Council and the U.K. Publishers Association, which will highlight Emirati #MiamiBookFair2019
authors and books. A concurrent professional program will focus on foster-
ing further business relationships. —Ed Nawotka

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Amazon Publishing

debbie friedrich
Marks Its First 10 Years

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Almost exactly 10 years ago, in May 2009, Amazon expanded from selling
books to publishing them as well with the launch of Amazon Encore, a pub-
lishing program for promising self-published books and out-of-print works
from major houses. Liz Fenton (l.) and
Since then, Amazon Publishing has grown. It now consists of 16 imprints Lisa Steinke (r.) will
sign The Two Lila
and has between 200 and 300 employees. According to Mikyla Bruder,
Bennetts
Amazon Publishing’s publisher, Amazon typically publishes about 1,000 tomorrow.
books a year, though that number can be higher in years when the com-
pany experiments in new areas. The company, which now has a backlist of
over 10,000 titles, has largely grown organically and has bought just three was established at the creation of
properties, the most important of which is Brilliance Publishing, which not Amazon Publishing: to work in synergy
only serves as Amazon Publishing’s audiobook arm but also handles physi- with other Amazon properties to create
cal distribution of its print books. new and different types of opportuni-
Although many bricks-and-mortar booksellers have refused to carry Ama- ties for authors.
zon titles, including books by local authors self-published through Amazon,
Amazon Publishing continues to attract Expanding Horizons
jason trott

authors, among them a number of big- Bruder says that she believes authors
name writers. “We are very transparent appreciate what Amazon can offer both
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with our authors about our model, domestically and overseas. As part of
which may not be for everyone,” Bruder the Day deal, Butterfly in Frost will be
acknowledges. “We want a stable of published by Amazon Publishing’s
happy authors.” translation imprint, Amazon Crossing,
which will publish the book in France,
Going After Big-Name Authors Germany, Italy, and Spain. (Of the pub-
Earlier this month, the company’s lisher’s 10 offices, six are overseas.)
Montlake imprint signed bestselling Amazon Crossing has become one of Amazon Publishing’s biggest suc-
author Sylvia Day to a seven-figure cess stories and now publishes more titles in translation in the U.S. than
advance for Butterfly in Frost, a 203- any other publisher. The company will add to that number with the July
page novella to be published in August. launch of Amazon Crossing Kids, which will publish children’s picture books
Bruder says that the deal reflects her in translation. “It is important that children are exposed to different cultural
ability to spend the money on authors Catherine McKenzie will sign I’ll perspectives,” Bruder says.
she believes will fit into the program’s Never Tell on Friday. Children’s books, which are published in Amazon Publishing’s Skyscape
ecosystem. “I have no problem going and Two Lions imprints, is a relatively small part of its overall business. So,
after big authors,” Bruder adds, noting too, is adult nonfiction, which Bruder estimates represents about 10% of
that late in 2018 Patricia Cornwell the company’s total output. “We’re just getting started here,” she says.
signed a two-book deal with the compa- The company has had some noteworthy nonfiction successes, however;
ny’s Thomas & Mercer imprint for world The Tenth Island by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Diana Marcum, for
English rights to two new thrillers, instance, has reached 380,000 readers since it was released last July by
beginning with Quantum, which is set to Amazon’s literary imprint, Little A. However, adult fiction is by far the
publish at the beginning of October. publisher’s strength, and its three largest imprints are Lake Union (book
Bruder believes Amazon’s ability to club fiction), Thomas & Mercer (mystery, thriller, and true crime), and
reach millions of readers online offsets Montlake Romance.
the loss of physical retail opportunities Amazon Publishing will broaden its program next year when it releases
(though she did point out that there are the first titles from Topple Books, an imprint overseen by Jill Soloway, cre-
now 19 Amazon Books outlets). By tap- ator of the Emmy-winning television series Transparent, which was pro-
ping into Amazon’s various divisions, duced by Amazon Studios. The imprint will focus on publishing voices of
more than 40 authors have reached women of color, along with gender-nonconforming, lesbian, bisexual,
over a million readers, a figure that transgender, and queer writers. Its first title, Raising Them by Kyl Myers,
includes print, audio, and digital sales, as well as borrows through Kindle is set for release in June 2020.
Unlimited. Though Bruder wouldn’t disclose revenue for the publisher, she says
Another step in the evolution of Amazon Publishing came in February, Amazon Publishing is a “strong and profitable business that continues to
when the publishing group, in conjunction with Amazon Studios, signed a invest in new authors.” She adds that one way she measures success is
deal with Michelle Miller for world book, audiobook, and all global media “growing the audience for our authors book by book.”  —Jim Milliot
rights for a series of short stories titled The Fairer Sex. The Miller signing
was the first joint deal between the two Amazon divisions, and while the two Tomorrow, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke will sign
don’t have a formal first-look agreement, Bruder says the publishing group galleys of The Two Lila Bennetts (Lake Union) at Table 10.
Friday, 1–2 p.m. Catherine McKenzie will sign copies of I’ll Never Tell
will work closely with the studio when signing new authors. She regards the
(Lake Union) at Table 5.
Day, Cornwell, and Miller deals as reflecting the operating principle that
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