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Can’t get enough great authors, readings, panels, and books?
There’s lots more today, from steamy romance or how-to’s to carefully
crafted imaginary worlds. Here’s our look at some of what’s in store.

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Today’s Schedule
Check out highlights from today’s lineup of
events.

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Life Coaches
Randall Munroe and Adam Savage offer up
some helpful life hacks.

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Love Is Love
Tehlor Kay Mejia, Daniel José Older, Morgan
20 Parker, and Angelo Surmelis delve into how
we learn to love.

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World Builders
Six writers of fantasy, comics, and sci-fi sound
off about parallels between the real world and
their alternate realities. 10

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Who Is Your Hero?
We asked BookCon authors who they
look up to.

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What Are You Reading?
We also asked BookCon authors for some
summer reading recommendations.

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New Romantics
Six romance writers discuss the state of
their art in 2019.
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Today’s Book Signings
Get in line so these amazing authors can
sign your books.

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Crossword Puzzle
It’s something to contemplate while you wait.

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Here are our picks for the must-see panels at BookCon today.
Today’s BookCon Schedule
“New York, I Love You: Romance
(Novels) ‘Made’ in Manhattan”
10:15–11 a.m. // Room 1E16
Five romance authors discuss their literary
love affairs with New York City.
“I’ll Take Quidditch for $500,
Highlights
Please!: An Audiobook Game Show”
10:30–11:15 a.m. // Room 1E10
BookCon authors compete in this
audiobook-themed game show.
“‘Draw Me a Sunny Day’:
A Celebration of Sesame Street’s
50th Anniversary”
10:45–11:30 a.m.
Contributors to Sesame Street picture
books celebrate the show’s timeless legacy.
“DC & DC Black Label”
11:15 a.m.–noon // Room 1E16
Creators behind some of the hottest new
DC comics meet up.
“Love Is Love: Answering the
Call for Queer Love Stories Across
the Board”
11:15–11:50 a.m. // Choice Stage
Writers discuss the need for nonbinary
romance in today’s books.
“How Our Present Impacts Today’s
Science Fiction”
Noon–12:40 p.m. // Choice Stage
Sci-fi writers imagine the future of
our moment.
“Suffragettes, Sex Positivity,
and Smashing the Patriarchy:
Historical Romance as a
Powerful Political Text”
12:15–1 p.m. // Room 1E16
Historical romance writers debate the
political power of their genre.
“The Magic of World Building:
Marissa Meyer, Marie Lu,
N.K. Jemisin, Joe Hill”
12:45–1:45 p.m. // Room 1E14
Experts explain how to craft a
fictional world.
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“What If?: A Quirky Conversation
About Our Fascinating World with
Adam Savage and Randall Munroe”
12:45–1:20 p.m. // Downtown Stage
Two multimedia stars offer their surprising
life hacks.
“Geek Geek Revolution”
1–2 p.m. // Room 1E07
Authors compete for the title of Top
Book Geek.
“When Millennials Met Romance:
The Rom-Com Phenom”
1:15–2 p.m. // Room 1E16
Millennials put their stamp on romance.
“Jacqueline Woodson and Damon
Young Discuss New Books and
Brown Bodies”
1:30–2:05 p.m. // Downtown Stage
Two commanding writers talk about some
of today’s most pressing issues.
“The Great Book Debate”
2:15–3:15 p.m. // Room 1E14
Authors discuss what makes some books
stick in this perennial BookCon favorite.
“Tor Presents Magic and Mayhem in
Science Fiction and Fantasy”
3:15–4 p.m. // Room 1E16
A look at rule-breaking sci-fi and fantasy.
“Social Justice Warriors: Jason
Reynolds, Daniel José Older,
Morgan Parker, Elizabeth Acevedo,
Damon Young and Akilah Hughes”
3:30–4:15 p.m. // 1E14
In another recurring BookCon fav, authors
fight for what’s right in their books.
For complete
event listings,
visit
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 MuNroe, creator of the
Life Coaches:
sensational web comic
Xkcd, meets Mythbusters Randall Munroe
and Adam Savage
co-host Savage to
offer some helpful (and
sometimes hilariously
impractical) life hacks

B y Dav i d Va r n o
While some of our greatest innovations seemed like terrible ideas
at the time, many bad ideas are actually just bad. Randall Munroe’s
How To: Absurd Advice for Common Real World Problems imagines
what would happen if we tried them.

What’s the worst idea you’ve ever had?

Maybe the worst was, “Can you harness the power from the move-
ment of tectonic plates to generate electricity? Can you get those
MUNROE
to compress a piston and turn a turbine or whatever?” I think the
answer is definitely no. I think it would take about 36 million years
to recoup the building cost.
Randall

How did you end up becoming an author after a career

in science and working at NASA?
Now and then I would tackle some weird science idea on my
website, and people started sending me questions, like, “Hey, if Su-
perman tried to do this, what would happen?” And sometimes they
would explicitly say, “We couldn’t figure out the answer to this but it
also seems kind of too dumb to send to a real scientist.” So I would
do a bunch of research and send back these long emails. I was like,
“I’m putting a lot of work into these.” I always figured there were
other people out there who are as excited about this stuff as me, so
it’s been really cool to hear from people.

How “actionable” is How To?

I’m trying to be more exciting than a microwave instruction man-
ual, but I don’t think I have anything very helpful to say about how
to experience personal renewal or whatever. As a kid, I really liked
how The Way Things Work would take a normal thing and dive into
it in a way that was sort of fun and have a story to it but also answer
a bunch of questions you always had.

Favorite Book as a Kid

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes.

Favorite Word
Phoropter is the word for the thing
you look through at the eye doctor.
I really like words where it’s a word
for a specific thing and I didn’t know
there was a word for that thing.
randall munroe

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 SAVAGE
Savage’s debut book, Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life
Is What You Make It, chronicles his path from co-
ADAM Favorite Book
as a Kid
splay costume building (before that was a thing) The Encyclopedia
to a career in special effects, and then creating and Brown books.
co-hosting MythBusters for the Discovery channel.
Favorite Book as
michael shindler
a Teen
Your book is meant to give permission for All of Vonnegut.
people to pursue their interests and ob- municate my enthusiasm and tell a story about being
sessions, and share their secrets thrills. Is creative and being a member of my culture. Favorite word?
it easier to do this now than it was for you Inculcate. I love the
coming up in the 1980s? Were you inspired by any other how-to idea of a deep inter-
section of knowledge,
Absolutely. It’s a great time to be someone with a niche books?
of a fact and the way
interest because the web allows you to find your people. W. Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis, you understand it.
At the same time, when you’re younger, you still can be which is also the best book on pool. It’s about phys-
attacked for liking the things that you like or for liking ical intuition and getting knowledge in your body
the wrong things, and that process can continue to rather than trying to put it in your head. He said you
inhibit people throughout their lives. have to fall in love with the ball. I love that orthogo-
nal approach to a skill. You have to fall in love with
When did you realize that your ability to what you’re working on, which means it’s complicat-
make things was your superpower? ed and it takes work and takes you facing yourself,
There was a point in the ’90s when I was working for confronting your own biases and your intuitions.
Jamie [Hyneman at M5 Industries, a special effects
company], and I realized I was taking all of the things “What If?: A Quirky Conversation
I’d learned from art and finding my excellence at this about Our Fascinating World with
job. With MythBusters, I found a common plane to Adam Savage and Randall Munroe”
do all of the things I’m interested in, which is to com- 12:45–1:20 p.m. // Downtown Stage
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LOVE IS

W
B Y M AT I A B U R N E T T

We talked to four authors whose books delve

deeply into questions of love, family, community,
and growing up.
TEHLOR KAY MEJIA RENELL MEDRANO

TEHLOR KAY MEJIA

Mejia debuts with We Set the Dark on Fire, a YA
fantasy novel set in a world of sharp polarization be-
tween social classes, and in which the opportunities
for girls and women are limited to marriage and child rearing,
or lives of poverty and peril.

Your book features fantasy elements, while also

mirroring contemporary, real-life issues. How did
you find this balance?
I wanted to address issues that were prevalent in my communi-
ty, but weren’t necessarily getting major news coverage. Build-
ing the fantasy world was an exercise in amplifying
those issues into a worst-case-scenario dark fantasy
Tehlor
world, but the closer we got to publication the more FAVORITE WORD
prescient the themes became. Long story short, I real- Once, Daniel José
ly wrote this story as true fantasy, and the world sort Older said corazón,
of horrifically caught up with my worst projections which means “heart” in PETER KONERKO PHOTOGRAPHY
Spanish, is like a poem
along the way. all on its own.
Did you draw on your own life to write this book?
“LOVE IS LOVE: ANSWERING THE CALL Daniel When I was in high school, I attempted a “memoir”
FOR QUEER LOVE STORIES ACROSS THE FAVORITE WORD about my depression. I see the book as an extension of
BOARD” 11:15–11:50 a.m. // Choice Stage Tiroteo, jambalaya, that seedling of an idea. From the start I was inspired by
crepúsclo.
confessional books like Prozac Nation and The Bell Jar, and
DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER Morgan as the book developed, I pulled inspiration from old notes
In Older’s new YA novel The Book of Lost Saints, a New FAVORITE BOOK and diary entries, mix CDs, favorite teen movies, political
Jersey teen is visited by the spirit of his aunt Marisol, AS A TEEN autobiographies, and even stand-up comedy.
Toni Morrison’s The
who disappeared during the Cuban revolution. Bluest Eye.
“SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS: JASON REYN-
Was the book a project that had been brew- Angelo OLDS, DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER, MORGAN PARKER,
ing for some time? FAVORITE BOOK ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, DAMON YOUNG, AND
The Book of Lost Saints is one of those books that feels AS A KID AKILAH HUGHES” 3:30–4:15 p.m. // Room 1E14
The Curious George
like it’s been inside me waiting to come out for almost books.
my whole life. When I did finally set it free onto the ANGELO SURMELIS
page, it seemed to have a life of its own in a way no In Surmelis’s debut YA novel, The Dangerous Art of Blending
other book I’ve written has. It’s inspired by the stories I grew up hear- In, a high schooler searches for himself while grappling with abuse at
ing and the incredible resilience of those who lived through trauma and home and his growing attraction to his best friend.
came out the other side.
To what extent is this book autobiographical?
“SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS: JASON REYNOLDS, Much of what Evan goes through was pulled from my own experienc-
DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER, MORGAN PARKER, ELIZABETH es, especially his family life. I’d have real moments in writing where
ACEVEDO, DAMON YOUNG, AND AKILAH HUGHES” I’d have to step away because it felt too close to the bone. But then I’d
3:30–4:15 p.m. // Room 1E14 come back and write the love story I wanted when I was a teenager, but
didn’t experience. And that was a beautiful thing.
MORGAN PARKER
In Who Put This Song On? Parker writes about a black teenage girl “LOVE IS LOVE: ANSWERING THE CALL FOR QUEER LOVE
coming to terms with feelings of isolation and depression in her STORIES ACROSS THE BOARD”
suburban community. 11:15–11:50 a.m. // Choice Stage

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WORLDBUILDERS
WE TALKED TO FIVE WRITERS OF
FANTASY, COMICS, AND SCI-FI ABOUT
THE PARALLELS BETWEEN THE REAL
WORLD AND THEIR ALTERNATE REALITIES

B Y D AV I D VA R N O

How do writers create other worlds? And are

those worlds just our world in disguise? Joe Hill,
N.K. Jemisin, Sean Murphy, V.E. Schwab, and
Chuck Wendig share their secrets.

JOE HILL
Joe Hill, whose father is Stephen King, has
published a string of successful novels; in
June, AMC will adapt a series based on his
novel NOS4A2. He talked about his forth-
coming collection of stories, Full Throttle,
due in October.

Can a story collection build a cohe-

sive and enveloping world the way
a novel can?
One of the writers that I’ve read and been
fascinated with and learned a lot from is
Bernard Malamud. He thought his collec-
tions should be cohesive. There should be
a sense of progression. The stories together
are somehow taking a collective picture of
a world. A book of short stories is in some
ways more revealing about an author than a FAVORITE BOOKS
novel because a short story tells you more AS A TEEN
where an author’s enthusiasm is, where The Talisman by
they live most of the time. Stephen King and
Peter Straub and It
What’s the relationship between were two books I read
fiction and real life? where I found them
It can be very dramatically satisfying when completely irresistible.
our hero hurts someone in an act of tre- They consumed all my
mendous selfishness, but we keep reading waking thoughts.
and caring about them. Who hasn’t said
the wrong thing? Who hasn’t been bad in
their life? We also read fiction almost as a
kind of role-playing, to imagine ourselves
in scenarios we don’t have to experience.
-Alex Green

“THE MAGIC OF WORLD BUILDING:

Marissa Meyer, Marie Lu, N.K. Jemisin, Joe
Hill” 12:45–1:45 p.m. // Room 1E14

JOE HILL

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N.K. JEMISON
Jemisin’s Hugo-winning Broken Earth trilogy is a saga of
destruction and renewal in a world in which the power of
the Earth can be weaponized.

How did you create the world of the Broken

Earth trilogy?
I had a dream about a woman walking toward me with
this furious look on her face, and with a mountain floating
behind her. I woke up in a fever of wanting to know: why is
this woman mad at me? Why is she angry enough to throw a
mountain? By the way, how is she making a mountain float?
I was always interested in seismology and volcanoes, but the
books came together once I had that character, and once I
needed to know her story.

How important to you are creating parallels be-

tween your world and the real one?
A lot of people out there really want fantasy to have clearly
established, firm rules that make it easy to turn it into a
D&D campaign, basically, and I don’t have any patience for
that. I wanted to just kind of say, “All right, we’ve got this
futuristic science that obviously doesn’t exist in our world.
It’s based on a sense that we don’t have.”

“THE MAGIC OF WORLD BUILDING:

Marissa Meyer, Marie Lu, N.K. Jemisin, Joe
Hill” 12:45–1:45 p.m. // Room 1E14

“A MASHUP OF TIME, SPACE, AND

FAVORITE BOOK AS A KID
MEDIA: N.K. Jemisin and Rebecca Roanhorse
Ariel by Steven Boyett.
on Creating and Adapting Speculative Fiction”
2:15–2:50 p.m. // Downtown Stage FAVORITE WORD
I like them all at varying times.

LAURA HANAFIN

SEAN MURPHY
Batman: White Night turned Gotham City upside down, with the Joker in City
Hall and Batman an incarcerated criminal. In Curse of the White Knight, the first
installment of Murphy’s upcoming series, Batman begins to face the system rot
that was awakened while the Joker was in power.

How would you describe your vision of FAVORITE BOOK

Gotham? AS A KID
Brick, wrought iron, and fog. I referenced old photos Boxcar Children by
of London, Chicago, and New York because I really Gertrude Chandler
Warner.
wanted it to feel old school, or even ancient.
FAVORITE BOOKS
What gave you the idea for a criminal who AS A TEEN
exposes corruption? Calvin and Hobbes
I thought it would be interesting to see Joker become books.
the king of spin—attacking Batman without actually
breaking the law. DC Comics said that this book
wouldn’t have worked five years ago, and that no one would ever believe
Joker could convince people to elect him into office. But these days—
in the age of outrage with modern politics, news outlets, and social media—
things are different.

“DC & DC BLACK LABEL”

11:15–noon // Room 1E16

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 V.E. SCHWAB
Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy follows
adventures and intrigue among four
parallel Londons. A new graphic novel
series set in the same world begins this fall
with The Steel Prince.

In the world of the Shades of

Magic series, magic must be
harnessed because the characters
are weak without it. Do you mean
for the book to resonate with
people who feel powerless?
Absolutely. So much of the series is about FAVORITE BOOKS
centering people who aren’t usually at the AS A KID
center of narratives. A Conjuring of Light The Harry Potter
starts, and you think, okay, Kell’s going to books.
be like our Frodo, our lone hero, and of
course that’s not the case. This is a series FAVORITE BOOK
AS A TEEN
that only works because of how characters
Neverwhere by
are intertwined and depend on each other. Neil Gaiman.

Why did you set the series FAVORITE WORD

in London? Anachronism.
I wanted to build multiple
iterations of the same world that
had different relationships to magic, and needed to pick a place
that had a familiar geographic setup so the reader can picture it.
Part of it is that I’m half English, and every time I go to London
I experience this strange phenomenon of turning down a street
and imagining a hundred years falling away. It’s a city where it’s
very easy to believe in magic.

JENNA MAURICE

CHUCK WENDIG
Chuck Wendig is the author of the bestselling
Star Wars Aftermath trilogy, the Miriam Black
series, and more. His latest book, Wanderers, is
an apocalypse-survival epic set in a frighteningly
familiar America.

Is the process different for creating

your own world versus contributing to
an existing fictional universe, as you did
with Star Wars?
At the end of the day Star Wars is not even
something you would call science fiction, it’s like
a fantasy kingdom. Wanderers is set here in America, and it’s about our peculiar
place in the world right now. Everything I created is based on real stuff—at the
same time, it’s fantasy in the way that all fiction has at its core a fantasy, whether
it’s nightmarish or wish fulfillment. There’s certainly horror at the core of this.

Wanderers is driven by a predictive AI program.

There are fictional examples like Minority Report, but predictive models are
huge right now, and they’re getting better. In the book, there’s a machine
designed to find the problems, but it’s not necessarily designed to tell you FAVORITE BOOKS AS A KID
what they are or how to respond to them. I wanted ambiguity around what Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain.
this thing is telling us and why. EDWIN TSE

FAVORITE BOOKS AS A TEEN

Swan Song by Robert McCammon.
“HOW OUR PRESENT IMPACTS TODAY’S SCIENCE FICTION”:
Noon–12:40 p.m. // Choice Stage FAVORITE WORD
Sesquipedalian, because it means itself.
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WHO IS YOUR HERO?
We asked BookCon authors who they look up to
By Craig Teicher Adam
Savage

Soman R.J. Palacio

Chainani
Daniel José
Older Raina EVA CHEN
Telgemeier

Sabrina
Jeffries

Marissa
Meyer

H
Meg Medina Alyssa
Cassandra Milano
Clare Rainbow
Rowell

Heroes aren’t just characters in books—they’re also real-life people who blaze trails, do amazing things, and put others’ needs before their own.
Their superpowers include kindness, bravery, self-reliance, love, and plain-old awesomeness. We asked BookCon authors to tell us who they look to
for inspiration. Who is your hero?

Soman Chainani It’s so easy to focus on people doing dastardly R.J. Palacio

chainani: david j. martin, chen: Leo Faria. clare: Kelly Campbell, jeffries: jessica blakely for tamara lackey photography, medina: petite shards,
(The School for Good and Evil #5: and selfish things. But think of the people (White Birds)
A Crystal of Time) helping migrants. Think of people working on Greta Thunberg, a Swedish 16-year-old
Every kid who can resist the pull of Fortnite reconciliation worldwide. Think of teachers activist on the rise.

or Instagram and lose themselves in a book.
Eva Chen
(A Is for Awesome and Juno Valentine and
the Magical Shoes)
All the moms out there who are getting it
done and raising their children. And Oprah,
always Oprah.
Cassandra Clare
(Chain of Gold)
My mother, for all the support she gave
me while I was struggling to become a
professional writer.
Sabrina Jeffries
(Project Duchess)
Jane Austen, among others. She chose a single
life rather than marry a rich man she didn’t
love, and she wrote uncompromisingly of
what she observed in her society without
turning her books into political treatises. Plus,
she was funny! I always admire writers who
can be really funny. It’s hard work.
Meg Medina
(Merci Suárez Changes Gears)
The world is full of heroes, some of them kids.
who insist on teaching at schools with the
highest needs. These are the people who think
beyond their own benefit. They are every-
where, and thank God for them.
Marissa Meyer
(Supernova)
My Uncle Bob, who is this super cool guy that
everyone loves, and he also happens to be a
huge Trekkie and an unapologetic nerd. For
years there was this lingering stigma against
“geeky” things, which was tough when I was
that weird kid in school who played Dun-
geons & Dragons and read manga, but Uncle
Bob showed me that displaying your passions
is part of what makes a person awesome.
Alyssa Milano
(Project Middle School)
Alice Paul, Gloria Allred, Erin Brokovich,
Gloria Steinem, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Angela
Davis, Coretta Scott King, Audrey Hepburn.
Daniel José Older
(The Book of Lost Saints)
All the young people across the globe who
have stood up to end state violence and insti-
tutionalized oppression.
meyer: julia scott, milano: dirk franke, palacio: russell gordon, savage: michael shindler, Telgemeier: joseph fanvu photography
Rainbow Rowell
(Pumpkinheads and Wayward Son)
Climate activists.
Adam Savage
(Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What
You Make It)
Richard Feynman. One of the most
polymathic scientists that ever existed, but
also a person not only deeply committed to
looking at and solving some of the deepest
mysteries the universe has to offer, but also
deeply committed to being able to explain
them to anybody.
Raina Telgemeier
(Guts)
I so admire creators who go through tragic
events, life or death circumstances, and come
out with pen in hand ready to write or draw.
My friend Brian Fies lost his home in the San-
ta Rosa fires a few years ago, and just hours
after his house burned down, he had begun
writing the comic that would turn into A Fire
Story. He processed the experience in real
time in a way that became shareable, and the
resulting book is a true gift.

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2019
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 READING
BOOTH
#1239
RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM BOOKCON
AUTHORS
NEED SOME HELP FILLING YOUR
BEACH BAG WITH BOOKS?

We asked BookCon authors what they’re reading right now. Here’s a

list of reading recommendations from the authors you’re here to see.

Free with purchase while supplies last!

Visit booth #1239 for author signings,
giveaways, and discounted books!

10:00am
Tote bag giveaway

11:00am
Signing with Purchase:
Ashley Poston
The Princess and the
Fangirl and Geekerella

2:00pm TESSA
’S
DARE
FREE ARC
PICK
Signing:
M.L. Webb Tomi Adeyemi
(Children of Virtue and Vengeance)
The GayBCs
All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace. Picture the badass female
cast of Mad Max: Fury Road on a Pirates of the Caribbean adventure.
It’s brilliant and has the most beautiful cover.

Leigh Bardugo
(King of Scars)
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi.

Soman Chainani
quirkbooks.com | /quirkbooks (The School for Good and Evil #5: A Crystal of Time)
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. My goodness:
what writing!

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 at BookCon
Visit us at the HarperCollins booth 2046

Today’s Giveaways*
12:00 p.m.
Read A Romance

1:00 p.m.
BookClubbish Book Bar

3:00 p.m.
Feel Good Fiction

Today’s Author Signings

MARIS
S
MEYE A
R’S
PICK Nancy Richardson
Fischer
Tessa Dare
(The Wallflower Wager) 10:30 a.m.
I’m just starting Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali
Dev. I’m a sucker for any Austen retelling, and Dev writes
emotions (and food) so beautifully.
Amanda Foody
Meg Medina
(Merci Suárez Changes Gears)
10:30 a.m.
The Mueller Report (oy!) and Silver Meadows Summer by
Emma Otheguy.

Marissa Meyer
(Supernova)
I’ve been on a graphic novel kick lately and am super into
Giant Days by John Allison (and company). It’s a super fun
Mara Rutherford
series following three girls through university and all the 1:30 p.m.
drama that ensues. Pure enjoyment on every page.

Alyssa Milano
(Project Middle School)
The Constitution. Elizabeth Keenan
Sean Murphy 1:30 p.m.
(Batman: White Night)
In the past year I’ve read seven different historical books
about pirates because my Curse of the White Knight talks about
Gotham in 1685, so I wanted to get a feel for what the city *While quantities last
might have been like back then—and what kinds of crimi-
nals might live there.

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READING
RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM BOOKCON
AUTHORS L
DANIE R’S
S É O LDE
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Daniel José Older PICK
(The Book of Lost Saints)
From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell and Storm of
Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse.
N
TEGA
Morgan Parker RAIN
(Who Put this Song On?) QUIN’S
I’m reading Jericho Brown’s latest collection of poems, The PICK
Tradition, and Karen Russell’s Orange World, out next month.

Tegan Rain Quin

(High School) MORG
A
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley. PARKE N
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PICK
Rainbow Rowell
(Pumpkinheads and Wayward Son) ANGELO
LIS’S
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and S RME
U
Rosemary Valero-O’Connell. PICK

ADAM
SAVAG
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PICK

LEIG
BARD H
UGO’S
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SOMA I’S
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Adam Savage
(Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It)
I just finished Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu, Chinese
science fiction. It was fantastic.
OW
RAINB L’S
L
V.E Schwab ROWE
(Shades of Magic series) PICK
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

Angelo Surmelis
(The Dangerous Art of Blending In)
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika
Sanchez and The Lady from the Black Lagoon by
Mallory O’Meara. Both are brilliant and incredibly
engrossing.

Mariko Tamaki
(Harley Quinn: Breaking the Glass and Laura Dean
Keeps Breaking Up with Me)
I’m currently reading Guy Branum’s My Life as a
V.E. ’S
Goddess, Tana French’s In the Woods, and Sissy by AB
S W
C H
Jacob Tobia. RAIN
TELGE A
PICK
MEIR’S
Raina Telgemeier PICK
(Guts)
I’m reading Ibi Zoboi’s novel American Street,
which is amazing, and Emily and Amelia Nagoski’s MARIK
TAMA O
Burnout, a nonfiction book about the ways women KI’S
handle stress. PICK

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NEW ROMANTICS BY ADDIE MORFOOT

TESSA DARE
Opposites attract in Dare’s The Wallflower Wager—the latest in her ABBY JIMENEZ
Girl Meets Duke series—which focuses on self-made Gabriel Duke Food Network star Abby Jimenez has a debut novel, The Friend
and animal lover Lady Penelope Campion. Let’s just say that Gabe Zone, a hilarious tearjerker written primarily on Jimenez’s
loves animals, too, but only on a plate in front of him. cellphone. The main character, Kristen Petersen, is based on a
real-life friend.
Did you know that Penny would
be the softhearted champion of FAVORITE BOOK Did the novel take a lot of research because of the
wounded creatures and an incur- AS A KID infertility component?
able romantic? From the Mixed-up Absolutely. The infertility story in the book is based on the ex-
Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Penny was always the sweetheart of the perience of my best friend—only hers was, frankly, even worse
Frankweiler by E.L.
group. That said, she has more to her than Konigsberg.
than what my main character went through. The bulk of the
meets the eye. symptoms and feelings about my
FAVORITE BOOK main character’s condition came
FAVORITE WORD
What is the most challenging AS A TEEN from Lindsay’s experiences. I also
Inconceivable
aspect of writing a series like Girl Pride and Prejudice comes to mind. But interviewed several other women
Meets Duke? by Jane Austen. only in the Princess who struggled with infertility,
The joy and challenge of writing a closely Bride context. and my ob-gyn, and I read a lot of
linked series is the continually growing online discussion threads about it.
cast of characters. I love adding new ones It was really heartbreaking to see
to the mix and letting them bounce off how emotionally taxing it is to go
the established characters. Begrudging through this diagnosis.
bromances among my heroes are one of
my absolute favorite things to write. “WHEN MILLENNIALS MET
ROMANCE: THE ROM COM
“SUFFRAGETTES, SEX PHENOM”
POSITIVITY, AND SMASHING 1:15–2 p.m. // Room 1E16
THE PATRIARCHY: HISTORICAL
ROMANCE AS A POWERFUL
POLITICAL TEXT”:
12:15–1 p.m. // Room1E16

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BookCon is hosting three romance panels today—“New York, I Love You: Romance (Novels) ‘Made’ in
Manhattan”; “Suffragettes, Sex Positivity, and Smashing the Patriarchy: Historical Romance as a Powerful
Political Text”; and “When Millennials Met Romance: The Rom Com Phenom.” We talked to six participat-
ing writers to find out how they are reinventing romance for 2019.

JESSICA BLAKELY FOR TAMARA LACKEY PHOTOGRAPHY

SABRINA JEFFRIES
Project Duchess, the first in Jeffries new Duke Dynasty series, focuses
KATHRYN HUANG PHOTOGRAPHY
on Fletcher “Grey” Pryde and Beatrice Wolfe. When Grey’s mother
JOANNA SHUPE becomes a widow—again—he meets unconventional Beatrice, a
The Rogue of Fifth Avenue is the first of three books in Shupe’s new funeral manager. Initially neither Grey nor Beatrice are interested in
Uptown Girls series, about characters who, while wealthy, don’t play one another, but time and honesty have their way of melting hearts.
by anyone’s rules but their own. In this first novel, set in 1890s Man-
hattan, Marion “Mamie” Greene and handsome attorney Frank Tripp Why do you love writing romance?
are forced to maneuver their way around forbidden love. I like exploring relationships in a fun but realistic way. Just because
a book ends happily doesn’t mean that the happy ending must, of
Why do you write about the Gilded Age? necessity, be forced or unrealistic.
I grew up reading Edith Wharton
and fell in love with her stories of What was the inspiration behind the new Duke
New York high society at the turn FAVORITE BOOKS Dynasty series?
sof the 20th century. The Gilded Age AS A KID First, the pleasure I took in writing a previous series, the Hellions. It
is a fascinating period in American I loved Nancy Drew had a mystery thread going through
and devoured all of
history. Society struggled with huge all five books that was only solved in
those books.
wealth inequality, while technolog- FAVORITE BOOK the last book. Second, my fascination
ical advances reshaped everything FAVORITE BOOK AS A KID with blended families. I don’t have a
about the way people lived. AS A TEEN Lorna Doone by blended family myself, which may be
I remember reading R.D. Blackmore. why I find them interesting. Families
What was the inspiration be- The Age of Inno- in past centuries were more likely to
hind Marion Greene and Frank cence after taking FAVORITE WORD be blended, since the mortality rate
Love.
Tripp? a trip to New York. for mothers was higher (many more
It was common for wealthy New women died in childbirth), but I
Yorkers to go slumming downtown in thought it might be fun to deal with
the Gilded Age, so I thought it would a family where the mother lived and
be fun to have three sisters who all the fathers died. Sort of a matriarchy
end up with men from the other end within a patriarchy.
of town.
“SUFFRAGETTES, SEX
“NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU: POSITIVITY, AND SMASHING
ROMANCE (NOVELS) ‘MADE’ THE PATRIARCHY:
IN MANHATTAN” HISTORICAL ROMANCE AS
10:15–11 a.m. // Room 1E16 A POWERFUL POLITICAL
TEXT”: 12:15–1 p.m.
// Room1E16

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NEW ROMANTICS

COLLEEN KATANA

K.M. JACKSON MARIA VALE

In Jackson’s second book in the Sugar Lake series, Forever Wolf, Vale’s third novel in the Legends of All Wolves paranormal
Too Sweet to Be Good, Alexandrea Gale is ready to romance series, focuses on Werewolf Varya and an injured white wolf
leave the South and return to New York. To earn the named Eyulf. Varya must hide Eyulf, because of his mismatched eyes and
money to head back North, she decides to renovate an the omen they represent.
old theater in town. There’s just one problem: Kellen
Kilborn. What appeals to you about writing
FAVORITE BOOK
FAVORITE BOOK AS A KID paranormal fantasy romance?
What was the inspiration AS A KID I read D’Aulaires I always think of the definition of para-
behind the Sugar Lake Little Women. Book of Greek normal as being “beside normal.” Like
series? Myths so often that normal’s wingman. To me that means the
I wanted to try my hand at FAVORITE BOOKS I was given new ability to look at normal with an outsider’s
writing about a small town, AS A TEEN copies two birth- eye. For example, during Human Behavior
since for the most part my The Color Purple. days in a row. classes, the Pack must learn to distinguish
books have been set in and Also anything from among the Varieties of Human Misrepre-
Danielle Steele and FAVORITE WORD
around New York. So in sentation. The more I thought about it, the
Jackie Collins. For its pure poetry,
order to stick with the old I would say “liquid.”
more I realized how often we manipulate
“write what you know” way of the truth. In my imagining, Leonora, the
thinking, I took my New York Human Behaviors teacher, comes up with a
sisters and had them travel to mnemonic to help them learn: JAFFEWIP.
help their family with their Jokes, Advertising, Flirtation, Falsehood,
Southern bakeshop. White lies, Irony, and Politics. It’s a small
example of how writing about the paranor-
“NEW YORK, I LOVE mal causes me to look with fresh eyes at
YOU: ROMANCE what is normal.
(NOVELS) ‘MADE’ IN
MANHATTAN” “NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU:
10:15–11 a.m. // Room 1E16 ROMANCE (NOVELS) ‘MADE’ IN
MANHATTAN”
10:15–11 a.m. // Room 1E16

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 November 17-24, 2019
MIAMI, FLORIDA
POETRY, FICTION & NONFICTION FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
STREET FAIR / PUBLISHERS & BOOKSELLERS
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 Get Your
BOOKS SIGNED
BookCon authors will be appearing in the autographing area throughout the day. Here are a few
highlights. Autographings are digitally ticketed before the show. All autographing
below will take place in the BookCon autographing area.
For complete autographing information and to purchase tickets, visit bookcon.com/en/
Events/Autographing/#. The listings below are in order of appearance time.

Nic Stone Meg Cabot

11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. 2:15–3:30 p.m.

Kelly Sue DeConnick Morgan Parker

and Sean Murphy 2:15–3:15 p.m.
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Jason Reynolds
Cheryl Calendar 2:15–3:15 p.m.
and Angelo Surmelis
12:30–1:30 p.m. Chuck Wendig,
Bob Proehl,
Abdi Nazemian & Sarah Pinsker
& Tehlor Kay Mejia 2:15–3:30 p.m.
12:30 –1:30 p.m.
N.K. Jemisin
Daniel José Older 3–4 p.m.
12:30–1:45 p.m.
Marissa Meyer
Adam Savage 3:45–5 p.m.
1:30–2:30 p.m.
V.E. Schwab
Joe Hill 4:15–5 p.m.
2–2:30 p.m.

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crossword Puzzle
All the clues pertiain to today’s authors.
By Adrienne Raphel

DOWN
1 Big, in London?
2 City on the Rhône
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author
4 Little kisses
5 The, en español
6  The Friend ____
7 Snogging
8 Show again, as on TV
9 See ya!
10 Fake hair
11 Pitch-perfect poet and novelist Morgan
12 In the manga series Hunter x Hunter,
how a being manipulates aura
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17 Types of fuel
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family in The Dangerous Art of 36 What many of today’s BookCon 31 Dynamite
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16 U.S. intelligence org. 45 Sprechen ___ Deutsch? 38 Sounds of hesitation
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today’s BookCon 48 Aromatic wood 44 When lunar, it’s usually ice
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19 Relieved (of) 52 Sticky stuff 48 Revolution in The Book of Lost Saints
21 Actor Gillan of Game of Thrones 53 Dylan or Ross 49 Scrap of cloth
23 Therefore 54 Plead 51 What Batman might say in a fight
25 What couples at the end of some 55 The Wallflower ___ 54 Wager
romance novels tie 57 Just kidding! 56 You might collect $200 when you pass it

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