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BEA 2013: Neil Gaiman: Fortunately, Making Good Art
Neil Gaiman is scheduled to speak this morning, 10 a.m.–11 a.m., on why he thinks fiction is dangerous, but since he’s an old hand at attending BEA, he knows he’ll have a “captive audience of booksellers” in conference room 1E12–1E13.
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BEA 2013: Diana Gabaldon: Wrinkles In Time
Each of her Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon emphasizes, contains enough backstory that it can be read either as a stand-alone or as part of the series—which she recommends, however, is best read in chronological order.
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A Resonant Crime: Robert K. Tanenbaum
Robert K. Tanenbaum is a former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney who now lives in Beverly Hills (he moved to California in 1979 and went into private practice).
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BEA 2013: A Tutoring Friendship: PW Talks with Bob Shacochis and Kent Wascom
They met as teacher and student in a graduate nonfiction workshop, Bob Shacochis, taught at Florida State University, Shacochis a National Book Award–winning author with a heralded reputation as a novelist, short story writer, and journalist; Kent Wascom, a young aspiring novelist.
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BEA 2013: Tony Kushner: From Stage to Page
Only after the renowned Lincoln movie hit the screens did the idea come up to publish Lincoln: The Screenplay (TCG Books, Jan.).
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BEA 2013: Bill Bryson: Serendipitous Summer
Bestselling writer Bill Bryson stumbled upon the concurrence of Charles Lindbergh’s historic flight across the Atlantic the same summer that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs.
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BEA 2013: Wendy Corsi Staub: Internet Thriller
A few years ago, bestselling writer Wendy Corsi Staub and her agent of nearly 20 years, Laura Blake Peterson, were commiserating about having middle school–aged children with access to the Internet and social networking.
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BEA 2013: Stephen L. Carter: Playing the Conspiracy Theorist
Today, 11 a.m.–noon, meet Yale law professor and bestselling author Stephen L. Carter (The Emperor of Ocean Park) at the HarperCollins booth (2038) as he signs galleys of his new thriller, The Church Builder (Zondervan, Oct.).
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BEA 2013: Tom Barbash: Empire State of Mind
“Even though I’m living in California, my fictional life has stayed on the East Coast,” says Tom Barbash, who grew up on New York City’s Upper West Side, the setting for several stories in his first collection: Stay Up with Me (Ecco Press, Sept.).
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BEA 2013: Jamie Ford: Depression-Era Novel
Thanks to a series in Seattlecalled “Bedtime Stories,” sponsored by the nonprofit Humanities Washington, author Jamie Ford wrote a short story that changed his writing direction.
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BEA 2013: Pierce Brown: Six Is the Charm
Twenty-something Pierce Brown has written six novels, but none has been published until now.
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BEA 2013: Deborah Serani: Depressed No More
Treated for depression as a teenager, Dr. Deborah Serani found her treatment “life changing.”
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BEA 2013: Ann Romney: Food and Family Matters
Ann Romney, former first lady of Mass-achusetts, wife to husband, Mitt, for 44 years, and mother of five with 21 grandchildren, certainly knows her way around the kitchen.
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BEA 2013: Richelle Mead: Tackling the Adult World
Richelle Mead says she has been writing since she was a child, first picture books and then short stories.
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BEA 2013: Betsy Franco: Honoring a Neglected Muse
Inspired by the neglected 19th-century woman sculptor Camille Claudel—known, if at all, as Auguste Rodin’s model and muse—Betsy Franco spins an elaborate fantasy in Naked (Tyrus, Nov.), her debut adult novel.
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BEA 2013: Simone Elkeles: Football Passion Inspires Series
Coming from Chicago, Simone Elkeles says there’s no getting around being a big sports fan.
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BEA 2013: Oliver Jeffers: Sharing a Pair of Projects
The prolific Oliver Jeffers has been as busy as ever.
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BEA 2013: Brandon Mull Creates a New Fantasy World
Brandon Mull, author of the Beyonders and Fablehaven series, charts a new course with Spirit Animals, a seven-book, middle-grade fantasy series from Scholastic.
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BEA 2013: Lian Dolan: Tapping the Bard
It’s no wonder that Lian Dolan, author of Elizabeth the First Wife (Prospect Park Books, May) has infused her romantic comedy novel with Shakespearean themes: she’s been reading and seeing Shakespeare’s plays since the second grade in Fairfield, Conn.; took field trips with her middle school class to watch “Shakespeare in the Park” in New York; and was deeply inspired by the one-year Shakespeare course she took at Pomona College that included student performances of the Bard’s work.
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BEA 2013: Rita Williams-Garcia Continues a Family Saga
“Family stories are how we remember,” says Rita Williams-Garcia.
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