BEA 2014: Dick Cavett Reveals His Brief Encounters

An Emmy Award winner and talk show host pioneer, Dick Cavett is back with his fourth book, Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks (Random House, Nov.).

BEA 2014: Michael Pitre: In His Own Words

BEA 2014: Philip Gulley: New Series, New Publisher

Philip Gulley writes about what he knows: a smalltown Quaker pastor who serves and loves imperfectly, but who always points others to God.

BEA 2014: Amanda Palmer: No Shame in Asking

It was a circuitous and unexpected road that led Amanda Palmer to become an author. Best known as one-half of the punk duo the Dresden Dolls, Palmer had already expanded her creative world to include songwriter, playwright, and blogger.

BEA 2014: Bruce Degen: Lessons on Friendship

For more than 35 years, Bruce Degen has successfully explored an impressive range of children’s book turf.

BEA 2014: Scott Blackwood: Inspired by a Multiple Murder

Scott Blackwood’s evocative novel See How Small (Little, Brown, Dec.), in which three teenage girls are murdered in a small Texas town, achieves such a multilayered narrative effect that even its author has a tough time pigeonholing the book’s genre.

BEA 2014: The Kids Take Over Uptown Stage

For the second year in a row, children’s authors will grab the spotlight for an entire day at BEA.

BEA 2014: Acclaim to Pannell Winners

At today’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, two booksellers will be on hand to accept this year’s WNBA Pannell Award, given annually since 1983 by the Woman’s National Book Association to two bookstores—one general and one children’s specialty store—that enhance their communities by bringing exceptional creativity to foster a love of reading in their young patrons.

BEA 2014: Tapping the YA Market Digitally

One of the basic tenets of marketing is to go to where your customers are.

BEA 2014: Browsing the Children’s Booths, Chapter 2

For those navigating the booths of children’s publishers today, here’s a preview of new books on display, author signings, and giveaways to pick up.

BEA 2014: A Breakfast of Champions

Humor is very likely on the menu at today’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, which is highlighted by three lively veteran children’s book authors and one debut author whose specialty is comedy.

BEA 2014: Malcolm Brooks: Renaissance Cowboy

How does a Montana horseman and carpenter by trade write a first novel that is getting the kind of advance press garnered by Cold Mountain?

BEA 2014: Greer Macallister: Truth or Illusion?

While most people watching a magician sawing a woman in half during a performance typically wonder how it’s done, Greer Macallister’s curiosity extended far beyond such a prosaic concern: instead, she wondered why she had never seen or even read of a female magician sawing a man in half.

BEA 2014: Morgan Rielly: Teenager on a History Mission

Morgan Rielly was only 14 years old when he interviewed his first WWII veteran.

Andrea Davis Pinkney: Shedding Light on a Dark Subject

The gift of a simple red pencil gives a girl in war-ravaged Sudan the opportunity to express her feelings and overcome her grief.

BEA 2014: Hampton Sides: Icebound in Siberia

His name, his publisher proudly announces, is “nearly synonymous with high-velocity narratives” that “perfectly capture pivotal moments in history,” making what Hampton Sides does sound really easy.

BEA 2014: Signing with Lassie

As the “official” biographer of Lassie, bestselling author Ace Collins understands the inherent potential of canine companions.

BEA 2014: Sharing Family Secrets

Part of family legend for Lin Enger was how his paternal great-grandfather, a Norwegian immigrant who homesteaded 160 acres in the Dakota Territory, shot one of the last wild buffalo east of the James River when the animal drank from the precious stock tank behind his sod barn.

BEA 2014: Diamonds Are a Bakers’ Best Friend

Baker Publishing Group celebrates its 75th anniversary at BEA and for the occasion is offering free copies of The Baker Book House Story, the recently released history of the company, and another gift, while supplies last at booth 1031.

BEA 2014: Sarah Lotz: A Crash, and Three More

The chills in The Three (Little, Brown, May), Sarah Lotz’s debut novel written on her own and under her own name, begin with the scary description of a plane crash in Japan.