BEA 2014: Jodi Picoult: Mothers, Daughters, and Grief Among Elephants

The wildly popular and bestselling author Jodi Picoult has written more than 20 novels including The Storyteller, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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BEA 2014: Revamped UpublishU Debuts

Amid the excitement of BookCon, self-publishing took center stage at the Javits Center in New York City on Saturday, as uPublishU offered up a day packed with programming targeted to indie authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Jennifer Holm: Believe in the Possible

At 10 a.m. today, when Newbery Honors recipient Jennifer L. Holm signs The Fourteenth Goldfish, due out in August, at the Random House booth, it marks over a decade since Holm has been to the show. “The last time I was at BEA was in 2001. Back then, I was a New Yorker and a newlywed with my... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Bestsellers: Bob Minzesheimer Chats Up Three Leading Ladies of the Page

If you’re looking for three of today’s top authors—Ruth Reichl, Jodi Picoult and Kathy Reichs—they can easily be found, on bestsellers lists everywhere. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Myriad Thoughts on Dystopia

At the last BookCon panel of the day (4:15–5:15 p.m., in Room 1E07), Veronica Roth, bestselling author of the Divergent series, will moderate a discussion that asks, “Dystopia Futures: Are They Science Fact or Fiction?” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Stan Lee: From Comic Book Legend To Children’s Author

With X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man 2 taking top box-office this month, one might presume that the co-creator of all these classic superheros is sitting by a pool somewhere sipping mai tais. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Aiming for DIY Sustainability

According to Adams Media, a division of F+W Media, the Avon, Mass., publisher’s mission is to provide “practical and meaningful content” that “inspires, informs, and impacts” lives. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: #WWDB Panelists Agree: We Need Diverse Books

On May 1, responding to criticism of the lack of diversity among featured authors at BookCon, a grassroots coalition of authors and other book people launched a social media campaign, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, that quickly went viral. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Mario Batali: Farmers as Rock Stars

As Justin Timberlake is to pop stars, Mario Batali is to chefs, yet that’s not how he sees it. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Lena Dunham: Where the Girls Are

Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham is best known as the creator and star of the hit HBO series Girls, where she plays 20-something aspiring writer Hannah Horvath. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: R.L. Stine Is in the House!!!

The world’s bestselling children’s author, R.L. Stine, is here today to sign books in the Autographing Area. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Scarry, Seuss Scripts

Recently discovered work by two classic children’s authors will appear on bookstore shelves in the coming months. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: David Mitchell: Six Worlds, One New Novel

This coming August marks 10 years since David Mitchell’s groundbreaking novel, Cloud Atlas, was published to great acclaim. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: American History: Brought to You by Snoopy And the Peanuts Gang

Ever since Regnery launched its children’s publishing program three years ago, the publisher has been looking for a way to celebrate American history and American heroes in a way that would engage, inspire, and entertain young readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Cary Elwes Spills About ‘The Princess Bride’

Writing his behind-the-scenes As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride, actor Cary Elwes says, has been a “wonderful trip down memory lane.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Skylar Dorset: A Dream Becomes a Reality

Skylar Dorset says a dream compelled her to write her debut YA fantasy novel, The Girl Who Never Was (Sourcebooks, June), the first of a pair of Fairie Court books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Paul O. Zelinsky: More Moose Shenanigans

In Moose’s debut outing, Z Is for Moose, written by Kelly Bingham and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, the impatient title character is not pleased when his friend Zebra selects Mouse—rather than the obvious (to him) choice of Moose—to represent the letter “M” in the alphabet. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Lynn Brunelle: Turning Her Geek On

Lynn Brunelle remembers that her “inner geek” first began to show itself in the middle of her fifth and sixth grade “horse phase.” She didn’t just like horses; she wanted to know every single scientific and beautiful thing about them. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Maggie Stiefvater: A Sinner in the City of Angels

The first time Maggie Stiefvater attended BEA, to promote her 2009 Scholastic release, Shiver, a fan rushed up to her as she sat huddled in a booth with her editor, exclaimed, “You’re Maggie Stiefvater,” and fell down. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: John Green: Book to Screen

All that hard work promoting The Fault in Our Stars—which started three years ago with John Green signing pages to be bound into the 150,000 copies of the novel’s first print run from Dutton—has paid off. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BEA 2014: Carl Hiaasen: Never Be Boring

This morning at BookCon, 10–11 a.m., Room 1E07, two literary stars from south of the Mason-Dixon line, Carl Hiaasen and John Grisham, are in conversation with each other for the first time. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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