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BEA 2016: John Scalzi: An Audible First
Science fiction pro John Scalzi has a treat for his audience—an audio-only release of his latest novella, "The Dispatcher," an urban fantasy that Audible Studios will be bringing out later this year.
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BEA 2016: Terry McMillan: Rocking a Midlife Crisis
Terry McMillan has done a lot of living since she last visited Book Expo—which, she notes, was called “the ABA” at the time.
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BEA 2016: Janet Nolan: Finding Light in the Darkness
A story of turning a negative into a positive is always heartening, as evidenced by "Seven and a Half Tons of Steel," a picture book written by Janet Nolan and illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez.
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BEA 2016: Jeff Giles: Following a Different Career Path, in a New Setting
Long before Jeff Giles wrote a word of his debut YA novel, The Edge of Everything (Bloomsbury, Jan. 2017), he had felt firsthand the passion YA readers have for their favorite books and authors.
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BEA 2016: Kami Garcia: Marking a Year of Milestones
For Kami Garcia, 2016 is a year of firsts. That may seem like an odd thing for a YA author whose previous books—the Beautiful Creatures and Dangerous Creatures (co-written with Margaret Stohl) and the Legion series—are New York Times bestsellers.
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BEA 2016: Kudos to Pannell Award Winners
At today’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, two bookstores will be presented with the 2016 WNBA Pannell Award.
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BEA 2016: It’s Show Time! Kids’ Events on Author Stages: Act II
Children’s authors will be front and center on the Uptown Stage today, when back-to-back kids’ programming takes place.
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BEA 2016: Middle-Grade Editors Are Buzzing Today
This morning, five editors of books for middle-grade readers have a chance to reveal their passion for a new novel by a first-time author.
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BEA 2016: What’s on Today’s Breakfast Menu?
Those attending this morning’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast (8–9:30 a.m.) will be treated to a generous and diverse sampling of children’s book fare.
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BEA 2016: At ABA Town Hall, Concerns About Minimum Wage, Removing Cover Prices
At the ABA town hall, booksellers raised a range of issues, from paying a living wage to whether cover prices should be removed from books.
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BEA 2016: Books by Whitehead, Patchett Among Show’s Biggest
There are a lot of heavy hitters at this year's BEA, but four titles consistently came up in conversations with book buyers: Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad,' 'The Nix' by Nathan Hill, 'Commonwealth' by Ann Patchett, and 'The Girls' by Emma Cline.
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BEA 2016: Booksellers Talk Up Their Favorite Books for Young Readers
While there are always plenty of big books and authors from major publishers at BEA, in talking to frontline booksellers and librarians we found a lot of interest in books from smaller houses as well. Here we present a sampling of the books that especially caught the eyes of conventiongoers.
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BEA 2016: E-book Sales Fell 13% in 2015, Nielsen Reports
Unit sales of e-books published by traditional publishers fell 13% in 2015 compared to 2014, said Kempton Mooney of Nielsen during a Thursday panel aimed at examining different publishing markets.
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BEA 2016: One in Five Books Sold in China Is by an International Author
“For many, China is a black box,” said Ruediger Wischenbart, director of international affairs for BookExpo America, as part of his introduction to China By the Numbers, a panel discussion which sought to deliver straightforward data to those interested in the Chinese market.
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BEA 2016: 'Strange Disease Books' and Other YA Trends
For the Thursday morning panel called Current Trends in YA, author Daniel Kraus rattled off a few crops of recent strains he’s observed, including books about “body parts, agoraphobia, and strange disease books.”
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BEA 2016: A Rather 'Adult' Adult Breakfast
The Thursday adult author breakfast at BEA mixed humor with difficult subjects like slavery and the continuing divisions within our country.
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BEA 2016: Raise a Glass to the Millionaire Next Door
If Thomas J. Stanley were alive today, he would have be none too pleased with the celebration that is taking place today at the Globe Pequot booth.
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BEA 2016: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Overcoming Bias
While his 20-season National Basketball Association career spanning the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers is certainly remarkable, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s impact on the American cultural landscape transcends sports.
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BEA 2016: Zygmunt Miloszewski: Domestic Abuse, He Wrote
Zygmunt Miloszewski, one of Poland’s bestselling novelists, has made the long trip to Chicago to celebrate "Rage" (AmazonCrossing, Aug.), the third in his thriller series featuring state prosecutor Teodor Szachi.
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BEA 2016: Thomas Mullen: When Black Cops Didn’t Matter
Thomas Mullen has been playing with genres for a long time. He has mixed historical fiction with magical realism, played with the spy novel, and is now mixing a police procedural with a fact-based piece of historical fiction.
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