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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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BEA 2013: Larry Watson: Back to the Future
Since a fancy pen is more powerful than any sword, Larry Watson will sign copies of Let Him Go (Milkweed, Sept.) today at Table 3 in the Autographing Area, 1–2 p.m., with the same Waterman pen he used the last time he was at this annual booksellers convention.
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BEA 2013: Mika Brzezinski: Weighty Issues
When it comes to eating habits and body image, you might not think that someone who is too thin would have much in common with someone who is grossly overweight, but that’s the conclusion MSNBC Morning Joe cohost Mika Brzezinski came to when she and her good friend and co-writer Diane Smith embarked on a journey together to confront their obsession with food.
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BEA 2013: Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Write
As a young girl, Elizabeth Gilbert was forbidden to touch a family heirloom that belonged to her great grandfather, a 1784 edition of Captain Cook’s voyages around the world.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: Akashic’s Black Sheep
A hip and iconoclastic Brooklyn press that focuses on gritty noir fiction but is most known for publishing a faux children’s picture book aimed at frustrated and tired parents, Go the F**k to Sleep, is really moving into children’s book publishing this fall.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: The Benefits of Common Core
The buzz about Common Core, shorthand for the Common Core State Standards Initiative, has been getting louder in recent months.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: Back to the Past
Gen-Xers, born between 1965 and 1980, may be more eager than any other generation of Americans to hold onto the objects that remind them of their youth.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: Algonquin Young Readers Stages Booth Takeover
Algonquin, for 30 years publishers of literary fiction and nonfiction for adults, is celebrating its entrance into the children’s market with a nonhostile takeover at BEA.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: 2013 Pannell Awards Bestowed
At this morning’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, two bookstores will receive the WNBA Pannell Award, given annually since 1983 by the Women’s National Book Association to two bookstores—one general and one children’s specialty store—that excel in bringing books and young people together.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: Browsing the Booths, Chapter Two
For those navigating the booths of children’s publishers today, here is a preview of new books on display, authors doing signings, and giveaways being offered.
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