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Reading
The Arsonist
From the best-selling
author of While I Was
Gone and The Senators
Wife, a superb new
novel about a
community tested
when an arsonist
begins setting re to the
homes of the summer
people in a small New
England town.
Your Fathers, Where Are
They? And the Prophets,
Do They Live Forever?
New from Dave Eggers,
best-selling author
of The Circle, a tightly
controlled, emotionally
searching novel which
tells the story of one man
struggling to make sense
of his time and country.
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My Salinger Year
Poignant and
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pre-digital world
on the cusp of
vanishing, where
a young woman
nds herself
entangled with
J.D. Salinger.
Adultery
When a woman
sets out on a
passionate
relationship
with a man
who had been
a friend in her
youth, she
will face a life-
altering choice.
From the best-
selling author
of The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho.
Colorless Tsukuru
Tazaki and His
Years of Pilgrimage
The latest novel from
the internationally
acclaimed author,
Haruki Murakami,
a remarkable story
of a young man
haunted by a great
loss; of dreams and
nightmares that
have unintended
consequences on the
world around us.
Lean In
The #1 best-
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millions of lives.
Many, many
women, young
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will nd it
prescriptive,
refreshing, and
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The New Yorker
The Book of
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A poignant tale
of young love
between a
Panamanian boy
and a Mexican
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turning novel
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new denition of
what it means to
be an American.
The Son
The #1 international
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10 a.m. Snoopy! Everyones favorite beagle is snooping around until 3 p.m. today and
looking for a photo op (see p. 30).
10 a.m. Southern Sensations: John Grisham is in conversation with
Carl Hiassen in Room 1E07 (see p. 6).
10 a.m. Broaden Your Reading Range: Move beyond the tweets and join the team of The
World Agrees: #We Need Diverse Books for a lively panel in Room 1E02 (see p. 20).
10:30 a.m. Get Hungry! Find out what inspires master chef Mario Batali when he talks to Lucky
Peachs Peter Meehan on the Downtown Stage (see p. 4).
11 a.m. Be Afraid! The guru of Goosebumps, R.L. Stine, signs books at Table 1 in the
Autographing Area (see p. 19).
11 a.m. Talk the Talk with three leading ladies of bestsellerdom, Jodi Picoult, Ruth Reichl, and
Kathy Reichs in Room 1E15 (see p. 28).
11:15 a.m. Welcome the Newbies: Debut novelists discuss their frst novel and Things I Wish
Someone Had Told Me About Writing, Publishing, and Promoting a Book in Room 1E16
(see p. 23).
11:30 a.m. Whats Your Sign? Comic book legend Stan Lee reveals all about Zodiac, his frst
novel ever (see p. 8).
noon Feeling Grumpy? Join the champion of grumpiness, Grumpy Cat for a photo op at
Chronicles booth, #2827 (until 2 p.m.) (see p. 6).
noon Put Your Head in the Clouds: Hear Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell talk about his
new book, The Bone Clocks, in Room 1E15 (see p. 16).
12:30 p.m. Brown Bag It with the Stars: Get some chow and head
over to the Special Events Hall to join comic legends Martin
Short and Amy Poehler (see p. 12).
12:30 p.m. Your Opinion Sucks! Join the fght when Rotten Tomatoes
critics face off with fans about Best and Worst Book-to-Film
Adaptations in Room 1E16 (see p. 15).
12:45 p.m. Go DowntownHumans of New York photographer Brandon
Stanton talks with Tumblr founder David Karp on the Downtown Stage
(see p. 24).
1 p.m. As You Wish: Channel The Princess Bride with Cary Elwes when he discusses
his new book about the making of the cult classic in Room 1E15 (see p 10).
2 p.m. Two on Three: Authors Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness talk about fction,
fantasy, and fnishing their trilogies in Room 1E02 (see p. 18).
2:30 p.m. Be the First to see on stage together for the frst time, four authors that rock the
world of childrens books: James Patterson,Jeff Kinney, Lemony Snicket, Rachel Renee
Russell, and Rick Riordan (see p. 14).
3:30 p.m. Run Dont Walk... to the Special Events Hall to hear author John Green and the Fox
2000 team talk about the flm adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars (see p. 14).
4:15 p.m. The Sky Is Falling. Or is it? Veronica Roth moderates the panel Dystopian Futures:
Are They Science Fact or Fiction in Room 1E07 (see p. 22).
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As Justin Timberlake is to pop stars,

Mario Batali is to chefs, yet thats not
how he sees it. To Batali, farmers are the rock
stars of the food world, and in his newest
cookbook America Farm to Table: Simple Deli-
cious Recipes Celebrating Local Farmers (Grand
Central, Oct.) Batali pays homage to farmers
from coast to coast. Before he became a star on
the Food Network and before he opened the
first of his empire of restaurants around the
world, he grew up in a community that sup-
ported and was supported by small rural farms
in his native Washington State. As he writes
in his introduction, in
the last decade, the con-
cept of farm-to-table
has become an obses-
sion. But when Batali
was growing up, it was
not considered a luxury
to drive an hour or two
to get six cases of tomatoes... in our family, it
was simply what we did. With America Farm
to Table, the master chef and restaurateur cel-
ebrates this heritage.
Today, at 10:30 a.m., Batali appears on
the Downtown Stage with Peter Meehan, the
editor of the quarterly journal of food and
writing, Lucky Peach. Liz Hartman
MARIO BATALI
Farmers as
Rock Stars
Batali
generously
shares a recipe,
at right, from
America: Farm
to Table for fans
and readers of
Show Daily@
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Meet
Charles
Martin
The New York Times
bestselling author of
Unwritten and
Where the River Ends
SIGNING: A Life Intercepted
Saturday, May 31st
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ZUCCHINI FRIES
WITH TOMATO AIOLI Makes 24 fries
FOR THE AIOLI
2 large egg yolks (reserve the
whites for fries)
1 clove garlic, peeled
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 tablespoons warm water
1 cup extra-virgin olive oil Salt
FOR THE ZUCCHINI FRIES
Olive oil cooking spray
1 teaspoon dried thyme,
crumbled
1 teaspoon dried oregano,
crumbled
cup all-purpose our
1 tablespoon salt
1 cups panko bread crumbs
cup freshly grated
Parmigiano Reggiano
3 large egg whites, whipped to
very soft peaks
4 medium zucchini, trimmed
1. To make the Aioli: Place the egg yolks, garlic, lemon zest
and juice, tomato paste, and water in a blender and blend until
smooth. With the motor running, drizzle in the oil until a creamy
sauce is formed. Season with salt and set aside.
2. To make the Zucchini Fries: Preheat the oven to 475F. Spray
a baking sheet with olive oil cooking spray.
3. In a pie pan or shallow bowl, mix together the thyme, oregano,
four, and salt. Place the panko and Parmigiano Reggiano in a
separate pie pan or shallow bowl and place the whipped egg
whites in a third pie pan or shallow bowl.
4. Slice each zucchini in half lengthwise and then each half into
3 pieces lengthwise to create steak fryshaped pieces.
5. Dredge the zucchini fries in the four mixture and then dip
them into the egg whites. Finally, dredge them in the panko.
Place the coated zucchini on the prepared baking sheet and
roast, turning once, until crispy, about 12 minutes. Serve hot,
with the aioli on the side.
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WITHOUT GETTING YOUR FUR RUFFLED
B Y G R U MP Y C AT A N D ME G A . PA R S O N T
CARL HIAASEN
Never Be Boring

THIS MORNING AT BOOKCON,

1011 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. Hiaasen will be
discussing his first young adult novel,
SkinkNo Surrender (Knopf Books for
Young Readers, Sept.), while talking with
Grisham about his latest novel, Sycamore
Row.
I cant remember how many times Ive
gotten lost in the Javits Center, Hiaasen
tells PW. But todays interaction with
Grisham at BookCon marks a first for
Floridas favorite author. Ive never inter-
viewed John before. He stays pretty low
on the media radar, which is cool. When
it comes to his personal favorite Grisham
book, Hiaasen notes, I like Sycamore Row
because Ive seen firsthand what happens
when lawyers smell a big case and swoop
into a courthouse like
vultures. Miami back in
the cocaine heyday had
some fabulously over-
crowded tri al s, so I
really enjoyed the way
John captured that sort
of feeding frenzy.
Wh i l e Hi a a s e n
doesnt follow a particu-
lar writing recipe when
he whips up his novels,
he does have a motto.
When Im writing, I go by the Jimmy
Breslin credo: never be boring. I dont
work from an outline, so its pretty much
of a high-wire act until I figure out exactly
where the story is going. Usually Im just
chasing my characters around, trying to
get a leash on them.
Hiaasens first YA novel introduces
Skink, a character who first appeared 25
years ago in Double Whammy, to a new,
younger audience. In a plot that will reso-
nate with teens, when Malley takes off
with a guy she met online, its up to her
cousin Richard and one-eyed Skink to
track her down and
bring her home.
For more than 30
years, Hiaasen has been
entertaining readers
with his articles and col-
umn in the Miami Her-
ald, and bestselling nov-
els such as Lucky You,
Hoot, and Bad Monkey.
While some may say its
a job he was born to, he
qui ckl y poi nt s out
theres more to it than natural talent: Im
not sure theres any such thing as a born
writer. I think there are seriously driven
people who dont know what else to do
but write, and if youre lucky enough,
normal people want to read your work.
Ive been writing for the newspaper so
long that its pretty easy to flip the switch
and set aside the book manuscript on col-
umn days. In fact, during some tough
weeks, the column is what keeps me
going. If I turn out a good one, the energy
spills over and helps the momentum of
the novel. Paige Crutcher
Following recent star-stud-
ded appearances at the MTV
Music Awards, Disneyland,
and American Idol, Grumpy
Cat returns to the Javits Cen-
ter for the second consecutive
year. Rubbing elbows with
the rich and famous may be
glamorous, but Grumpy Cat
has a soft spot in her heart for
booksellers, librarians, and
other book lovers. She is
thrilled to introduce them to
her forthcoming book, The
Grumpy Guide to Life: Observa-
tions by Grumpy Cat, published
by Chronicle Books. It might
surprise fans to learn that the
feline known for such dark
thoughts as I had fun once. It
was awful enjoys BookCon
and the chance to get reac-
quainted with her adoring
fans. Grumpy Cat has com-
piled a guide to making the
most of your BookCon experi-
ence and shares with us some
of her top tips.
FAVORITE BOOKCON
ATTRACTION: any of the
exit signs.
PLACES IN JAVITS TO
GET AWAY FROM THE
CROWDS: the taxi line. Next
stop... far away.
FAVORITE JAVITS CEN-
TER LUNCH: all of the lunch
options are equally awful.
BEST GIVEAWAY AT
BOOKCON: hopefully, me.
BEST SPOT AT JAVITS
FOR PEOPLE-WATCHING:
I usually just try and sleep
through the people part.
MUST-SEE ATTRAC-
TION IN NEW
YORK CITY WHILE
YOURE HERE FOR
BOOKCON: its all pretty
meh.
Grumpy Cat appears at
the Chronicle Books
booth (2827) today to
promote her new book,
which hits bookstores in
August. She is happy to
pose for photos with her
many fans. She would
like to modestly remind
attendees that her line

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Meet our authors! Today in booth #3066:
Harvey Frommer, author of Red Sox vs. Yankees, will share stories about this auspicious rivalry at 11am.
Mary McAuliffe, author of Dawn of the Belle Epoque and the new companion volume
Twilight of the Belle Epoque will be in-booth at noon.
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who himself has no spe-
c i a l powe r s , but i s
involved in all these tre-
mendous forces and seem-
ing magic, I think, makes
the story more interest-
ing.
Lee was vaguely familiar
with the Chinese zodiac,
but did a lot of research for
the book and realized that
it is legendary and big-
ger than lifecharacter-
istics that all of Lees work
shares. But Zodiac reflects
his other upcoming proj-
ects, which are become
more global in their rep-
resentation. Lee is cur-
rently working on a Chi-
nese-American superhero
called the Annihilator, as
well as an Indian super-
hero named Chakra. Also
in the works is a Hispanic
superhero whose name is
top secret! says Lee. An
international flavor is so
important today, he con-
tinues. With all the
means of communication,
the worl d i s getti ng
smaller and smaller. I like
to do things that repre-
sent other people, other
cultures.
While Zodiac is his first
foray into writing for a
specific age group, Lee says, The best type of writing is some-
thing thats simple enough for a young reader to understand and
yet interesting enough, with perhaps enough philosophy, for an
older reader. His hope is that Zodiac will be really great for all
readers and will survive and be as popular as Harry Potter, which
everyone seems to enjoy.
Stan Lee will talk about Zodiac and his journey from comic
book legend to childrens book author today, 11:30 a.m.12:30
p.m., in Room 1E07. Liz Hartman

With X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Amazing Adven-

tures 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. That is most
definitely not the case for Stan Lee, who is delighted to be at
BookCon to talk about his latest project, Zodiac, which will be
published by Disney Publishing in January 2015.
When Stan Lee brought the idea from his company POW!
Entertainment to Disney, executive editor Nachie Marsham
was totally all for it, Marsham says. He also knew just the
team to collaborate with
Lee: Stuart Moore to co-
write and Andie Tong to
provide illustrations.
Marsham knew that these
two veterans of the com-
ics world could really
bring to life what Stan
was bringing to the table
and make it a really cool
and contemporary story,
he tells Show Daily@
Bookcon.
At first glance, Zodiac,
an i l l us t r at ed novel
aimed at the eight to 12
year olds, seems very dif-
ferent from his previous
work. The protagonist,
Steven, is a Chinese-
American boy who is no
Spidey; he has no super-
powers. But Lee says, I
dont know how different
it is. This is just another
legend that were using.
The only difference is
that while our hero, Ste-
ven, doesnt himself have superpowers, there are the 12 animals
of the [Chinese] zodiac that do, so its just a little reversal on
the usual theme. What a wellspring of magic that is for a writer
to delve into.
With a boyish enthusiasm that belies his status as a nonage-
narian, Lee claims, Its even better that Steven cant rely on his
own powers, because the more obstacles, the more problems you
put in the way, the more it looks as if the hero or protagonist
doesnt have a chance. Having Steven be a normal young man
Andie Tongs illustrations above are a sneak peek at the world and characters
of Zodiac. Please note that the pictures are not nished; they are a work in
progress that Disney Publishing is sharing with Show Daily@BookCon.
Stop by booth #2839
for an exclusive sampler!
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Blisteringly smart . . .
JOHN GREEN
Beautiful and
disturbing.
JUSTINE LARBALESTIER
Better
than the
hype.
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OH MY
GOD.
MAUREEN JOHNSON
Phenomenal.
GAYLE FORMAN
Amazing.
SUSANE COLASANTI
Gripping.
ROBIN WASSERMAN
Brilliant.
SARAH MLYNOWSKI
Spectacular.
LAUREN MYRACLE
So freaking
good.
SARAH DESSEN
Haunting.
SCOTT WESTERFELD
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Cary Elwes Spills About The Princess Bride
We all managed to capture lightning in a bottle,
Elwes says of The Princess Bride and its colorful cast of
characters, including Robin Wright (Buttercup),
Chris Sarandon (Prince Humperdinck), Mandy
Pa tinkin (Inigo Montoya), Wallace Shawn (Vizzini),
Christopher Guest (Count Tyron Rugen), Andr the
Giant (Fezzik), Billy Crystal (Miracle Max), and, of
course, Peter Falk (Grandpa) and Fred Savage (Grand-
son).
While he and his comrades enjoyed making the
movie, which was shot in the U.K. and Ireland, nobody associ-
ated with it during the film adaptation of William Goldmans
1973 novel expected it to become a cultural phenomenon after
being released on VHS in the late 1980s. Elwes says that Reiner
had the talent to take genres and mix them in a very fun way,
but it took a while to catch fire because the studio didnt know
how to market a film that defied categorization. The Princess
Bride, Elwes points out, is more than simply a fairy tale; its also
a love story, a thriller, a fantasy, a pirate tale, an adventure, and
a comedy. The Philadelphia Inquirer probably summed it up best:
a disarmingly funny Gothic romance upstaged by the Borscht-
Belt antics of its colorful supporting characters. As Westley
would say, anyone who says differently is selling something.
Join Elwes today at 1 p.m. in Room 1E15 to learn more about
his upcoming book, be regaled with never before heard tales of the
film, and treated to film clips of the treasured movie classic.
Claire Kirch

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. The entire journey, from
the start of shooting to wrap of the cult classic The
Princess Bride, Elwes says, provided him with more
than enough memories to last a lifetime. Rather than
keep them to himself, he and a collaborator, Joe
Layden, decided to be men of action, just as Elwess
character, Westley, declared in the film, and to record
those memories for posterity. As You Wish will be released in
October from Touchstone. And as fans indeed might wish, it is
full of juicy tidbits from the ultimate Princess Bride insider.
Its obvious, talking with him 27 years after The Princess
Brides release, that even though Elwes has appeared in more
than 50 films and approximately two dozen television shows
since 1987, his multifaceted role as Westley/the Pirate/the Man
in Black is the one by which he compares all other roles in his
30-year career. After all, he says, he was playing a fairy tale
hero, a farm boy who becomes a pirate. Rob Reiner cast him in
the lead, Elwes recalls, because the director was impressed with
his previous role as Lord Guilford Dudley in Lady Jane. In that
1986 historical costume drama, Elwess character ends up hav-
ing his head cut off. Reiner may have thought that an actor
whose character literally had been on the chopping block would
not be fazed playing another man in tights eluding death at
every turn.
Defending Buttercup
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Lets put it this way, the optional title for the books was If Id
Saved, This Wouldnt Have Been Written.
Whats more difcult, doing comedy or writing?
Writing, because its hard to mug with words.
Popular and pretty, short and sassy, two comedy stars make their author debuts
Short & Poehler Pick Up The Pen
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Will you give your book to your friends or make them
buy it?
I have many friends who are now older. So Ill make them buy
it, and then in few days, remind them that I gave it to them.
Please tell us a couple of your favorite authors and
books?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Robert Caros The Years of
Lyndon Johnson, And pop up books because they always hold
a sense of surprise.
How would you describe your book in a tweet?
A brilliantly hilarious moving romp that leaves you with the
sense that its better to have loved a Short than never to have
loved a tall.
Youve done everythingTV, lm, stage, and now a
bookwhat do you want to do more of?
The stage has always been my first love, followed closely by
film, TV, writing this book, and then my family.
Of your characters, do you have a favorite?
Ed Grimley.
Who is your favorite late night host?
Jack Paar.
How does one go from social work to the theater?
On the backs of the less fortunate.
Care to share a few tidbits
from your nine-point weekly
self-evaluation detailed in your
book?
You simply must balance career with
family. Unless, that is, you have an
amazing, unstoppable career, like
Oprahs. In that case, who needs
family? Theyll just get in the way.
Are you actually enjoying life?
Are you having any fun?
The key to a happy lifestyle is to be prepared for whatever
exciting things life has in store, and to act upon them. Were
all different. Some people are born great; others, such as Kim
Kardashian, have greatness thrust into them.
Why should people read your book?
Monosyllabics tend to be less daunting.
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Why did you write a book?
Somebody asked, and I said, Yes, please.
Whats more difcult, doing comedy or writing?
They are equally awful.
Will you give your book to your friends or make them
buy it?
I will give my friends free copies of my book as long as they
agree to play themselves in the eventual made-for-TV-movie.
Do you have to bring your lunch today, too, or will
your publisher spring for it?
I lined my pockets with free buffet shrimp so Im good.
Is there a difference between book fans and TV and
movie fans?
I feel like book fans would have softer sweaters, but this is
based on no real evidence.
Please tell us a couple of your favorite
authors and books.
Stephen King, Pema Chdrn, Kurt Vonnegut,
Anne Lamott, Judge Judy.
How would you describe your book in a
tweet?
Want Hot Sexx? Click here!
How would you describe Marty in a
tweet?
See above.
Most authors, somewhere in the publishing process,
acquire an extreme disdain for one or more members
of their publishing team? Whom do you disdain?
Please name names.
I refuse to speak ill of any in the publishing world. But Jim in
accounting can go suck an egg, and he knows what he did.
Who is your favorite late night host?
Robin Byrd.
Why should people read your book?
There are worse things to do.
How do you feel about it being the last
season of Parks & Recreation?
Sad and grateful. Its a job I never want to
leave, and I am savoring every last moment.
Popular and pretty, short and sassy, two comedy stars make their author debuts
Short & Poehler Pick Up The Pen
AMY POEHLER
Did you grow up in a town like Pawnee?
Yes. Burlington, Mass., was a small blue-collar town. We may
not have had as many raccoons, but we hated the monsters
that ran the library.
Whats next? Time travel. Liz Hartman
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JOHN GREEN
Book to Screen

All that hard work promoting The

Fault in Our Starswhich started
three years ago with John Green signing
pages to be bound into the 150,000 cop-
ies of the novels first print run from
Duttonhas paid off. The movie adap-
tation of Greens bestselling novel is
being released next week with great fan-
fare. The sizzling pre-release buzz that
surrounds the film is more typical of that for the latest install-
ment of Harry Potters fantastical adventures than a contempo-
rary drama filmed in Pittsburgh and Amsterdam about two
teenagers who meet in a cancer support group. Today, at 3:30
p.m. in the Special Events Hall, Green will discuss the making
of The Fault in Our Stars with Fox 2000 Pictures president Eliz-
abeth Gabler; director Josh Boone; producer Wyck Godfrey; and
screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber.
Footage from the film, which Green says is fantastic, will
be shown during the discussion. Green says that hes seen the
movie twice already and that he loved it both times. Its one
of the most faithful adaptations that Ive seen of a book, he
notes, which is high praise from an author. It may be because
everybody on the movie set, including the transpo team,
Green says, had read the book, so that the production became a
huge collaboration between people who wanted to make the
best film they could. Though he
declined to provide specifics, he
says that some scenes were shifted
around, because when youre
telling stories for screen, you have
to do it in a slightly different way
than when youre telling stories
through scratches on a page.
Even though Green enjoyed
very much his participation in
transferring The Fault in Our Stars from page to
screen, his legions of fans dont have to worry that
hes going to go Hollywood. Hell go back to
writing after promoting this movie. His next
novel is currently titled I Literally Dont Even Know What My
Next Book Will Be About but Any Ideas Are Appreciated.
Describing previous experiences with the film industry as
underwhelming at best, and generally preferring books to
movie adaptations (even Harry Potter), Green praised the cast
and crew of The Fault in Our Stars for doing right by his story.
Just as in the novel, Green says, the movie is about two com-
plex characters whove integrated disability into their lives,
rather than two people defined by their disability. After all,
Fault, which has more than seven million copies in print, is a
bestseller because teen angst is universal, regardless of ones
health. Teenagers are coming to terms with the capricious-
ness of the universe for the first time, and grappling with the
big questions about mortality, suffering, and how to find, or
give, meaning to life, Green points out. Theres a lot for
readers to connect to. Claire Kirch
RACHEL RENE
RUSSELL
Tales from a Not-
So-Glam Author

Were working really hard to keep

Nikki the girl next door, Rachel
Rene Russell insists, while describing the
middle schoolers latest dorky adventure
in Dork Diaries 7: Tales from a Not-So-Glam
TV Star. In the newest Dork story, due out
in June, Nikki and her band are followed
by a reality television show crew for a
month as the group records its hit song,
which sports a metallic gold cover. We
didnt want her to become Taylor Swift,
Russell adds. Its not Chicago or L.A.: its
a local television show, and her nemesis,
Mackenzie Hollister, does everything she
can, as usual, to under-
mine Nikki Maxwell.
Whenever Russell says
we while discussing the
brains behind the Dork
Diaries series of illustrated
novels for middle-grade
readers shes been writing
for the past five years, shes
not referring to the royal
we, but rather, to her
partners-in-creativity, her
two daughters. Erin, 28,
writes, and Nikki, 26, illustrates. The
Dork Diaries have become funnier and
wittier and the characters are drawn a lot
better and are dressed a lot better since
her two daughters began officially assist-
ing her, Russell says.
Russell claims that her trials and trib-
ulations in middle school, as well as those
of her two daughters, inspired her to write
the Dork Diaries as an
adult. She also insists that
she is still a dork. Well,
if thats true, she certainly
has everybody fooled; not
only has the Dork Diaries
series sold 15 million cop-
ies and placed on the New
York Times bestseller List
for 236 weeks since Dork
Diaries: Tales from a Not-
So-Fabulous Life was pub-
lished in 2009, but Lion-
sgate Films recently optioned the series
for a movie deal, the original, monochro-
matic lineup: James Patterson, Daniel
Handler/Lemony Snicket, Jeff Kinney,
and Rick Riordan.
Russell will, no doubt, dazzle fans with
her brand of dorkiness on the Block-
buster Reads panel, 2 p.m.3 p.m., in
the Special Events Hall. Claire Kirch
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Best and Worst
Book-to-Film
Adaptations
No one knows how the first book-to-film critics panel at
BookCon will go, least of all Matt Atchity, the editor-in-chief
of the online film review site Rotten Tomatoes, who is going to
be moderating. But expecting the unexpected is part of its fun,
he insists, and the spirit of the event is right there in its title,
Your Opinion Sucks! Special Edi-
tion: Rotten Tomatoes Critics vs.
Fans; Best to Worst Book-to-Film
Adaptations; the panel meets today,
12:301:30 p.m., in Room 1E16.
No two panels are ever the
same, says Atchity. He notes
that Rotten Tomatoeswhich
has been part of the film-going
world since 1999has managed a few
film critic panels at other conventions,
including ComicCon and C2E2 in Chi-
cago. But Atchity expects that the
topic of films adapted from books
will be especially exciting because
people have great attachment to
and expectation ofadapta-
tions of their favorite books.
Drawing from his own expe-
rience, Atchity says he rereads
Tolkiens Lord of the Rings books
every few years, yet he still thinks
Peter Jacksons films are great. James
Ellroys L.A. Confidential, he says,
might be an even better example of taking a complicated book
with a bunch of twists and turns and making it into a great
and not 12 hours longmovie. The adaptation of Mark Hel-
prins A Winters Tale, he predicted, would not fare as well.
Rotten Tomatoes has lined up freelancer John Anders, Steven
Whitty of the Star Ledger, and Joe Neumaier from the Daily
News to be on the panel. Atchity says there is no set agenda, and
the conversation will reflect the mood of the room.
At ComicCon, Atchity recalls, a brave teenage boy got up
and declared that he hated Pixars award-winning film Wall-e.
People booed in a good-atured way, says Atchity, but he also
made some good points.
The only sure thing Atchity will say about the book-to-film
panel is that he expects the hour to go by quickly. Line up
early, he advises those who wish to join the conversation at the
microphones that will be set up in the audience.
Its a great opportunity for fans to debate the critics all in
good fun, he says. Bridget Kinsella

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DAVID MITCHELL
Six Worlds, One New Novel

This coming August marks 10 years since David Mitch-

ells groundbreaking novel, Cloud Atlas, was published to
great acclaim. A global phenomenon, the novel has since sold
more than 750,000 copies, was a Man Booker prize finalist, and
made into a major motion picture released in October 2012
starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.
At end of summer, Random House will publish The Bone
Clocks, Mitchells first novel in four years, and according to his
publisher, his most Cloud Atlas-y. Mitchell tells Show Daily@
BookCon why: Both The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas travel about
a lot in time and space, and both novels contain a number of
worldssix, to be exactwhose fictional residents do interact,
but which are largely self-contained. Both books are also tricky
to put a genre label on, compared to the two novels that I wrote
between them.
The new novel required a great deal of research, with Mitch-
ell having to learn a lot about Swiss ski resorts of the 1980s,
since hes never skied. He also delved into the world of valuable
stamps, the modus operandi of holiday-resort fortune-tellers,
the heresy of the Cathars, life at an upstate New York liberal
arts college, the Noongar Aborigines of western Australia, and
climate change.
This is Mitchells first novel in which some scenes are set in
JENNIFER HOLM
Believe in the
Possible

At 10 a.m. today, when New-

bery Honors recipient Jenni-
fer 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 second book, Boston Jane: An Adventure, she
says. Now I greet the BEA floor 13 years later as a Californian
and an exhausted mother of two.
Holms latest novel was inspired by an interview she heard on
her drive home from a book event, a conversation about life-
extending therapies, which shifted into a discussion on life-
reversing therapies. The radio interview spurred a series of ques-
tions, which began to take root as story. I started to consider
the scientific implications of reversing aging. For instance, if we
had the ability to turn an 80-year-old into a middle schooler,
the U.S. Ive always wanted to write a
nightmarish car chase in heavy, hardly
moving traffic, and Fifth Avenue up by
the Frick Collection fit the bill.
In August 2013, Mitchell co-trans-
lated and published The Reason I Jump:
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old
Boy with Autism, which spent eight
weeks on the New York Times bestseller
list. Of its success, Mitchell, the father
of an autistic son, says, Im more
vicariously proud than I am surprised, and hope infused. We
hoped a few thousand copies might be printed, and reach the
parents and caregivers of kids with autism, and that would be
it. But thanks to a fervent endorsement from Jon Stewart on The
Daily Show, the book is informing the whole narrative of autism.
We cant fix autismits not a disease, so theres no curebut
we can cure the widespread public ignorance about autism,
which makes living with autism so much harder than it needs
to be. I love my job as a novelist, but in the big scheme of things,
my role in The Reason I Jump matters more. The novel is my
home, but autism is my cause.
This will be Mitchells first time attending BEA, and hes
imagining Frankfurt Book Fair on a more human scale, with
something to eat and a dash of American ComicCon-type piz-
zazz.
Today Mitchell is in conversation with his editor, David Eber-
shoff, at noon in Room 1E15. Jennifer Romanello
how would that affect society in general and kids in particular?
On a very basic level: who would be the grownup in a school
setting, the teacher or the 80-year-old middle schooler? Who
would be in charge? Would old-people-turned-young be
allowed to drive, seeing as theyd probably been driving for
years? How would dating work? All these questions just filled
my mind, and I couldnt stop thinking about it.
The questions metamorphosed into the story of Ellie, a girl
who meets a strange young man obsessed with immortality, only
to discover he is actually her scientist grandfather Melvin, whos
finally figured out how to reverse the human aging process. I
think that a good book makes you question your place in the
world. Growing up (adolescence) and growing old (senescence)
are very similar and yet vastly different experiences, and I
wanted to explore them in The Fourteenth Goldfish, says Holm,
who is no stranger to science. My late father was a doctor, and
I grew up around a lot of medicine and science. He actually used
to keep blood agar plates in the refrigerator next to the cottage
cheese so that he could swab our throats when we got sick and
culture the bacteria.
Holm hopes readers of The Fourteenth Goldfish take away one
very important message from the story of Ellie and Melvin and
their adventures in eternal youth: believe in the possible.
Paige Crutcher
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MOVIE?
We will be pitching the book The Sphinx Spy to Hollywood
studios soon and you could be an extra in this movie. Go to
booth 3026 for more information or check out
www.TheSphinxSpy.com
LEV GROSSMAN
AND DEBORAH HARKNESS
Magical Flights of Fantasy

As Lev Grossman celebrates the August release of The

Magicians Land, the final volume in his Magicians trilogy,
and Deborah Harkness celebrates the July release of The Book of
Life, the final volume in her All Souls trilogy, the two credit the
zeitgeist, as well as the skills they honed in their demanding day
jobs for their successes.
Grossman, who calls his novels literary fantasy, says that he
has always maintained a very powerful attachment to the clas-
sic fantasy novels he grew up reading, but as he aged, he says,
he became conscious that the fantasy novels that he most loved
did not address issues relevant to him as an adult. He subse-
quently decided to write a novel and leave in all the things that
YA writers leave out. Thus, protagonist Quentin Coldwater
and his friends and enemies drink, smoke, swear, have sex,
[and] get depressed as they ponder the meaning of life while
navigating between the real world and the alternate universe of
Fillory. Although The Magicians pays homage to both the
Chronicles of Narnia and the Harry Potter series, his two young
children, Grossman says with a laugh, wont be reading my
books for a long time.
Although Harkness, a history professor, was also inspired by
a book to write what became the All Souls trilogy, her experience
was much more serendipitous. While browsing an airport gift
shop in Mexico in 2008, Harkness says, she encountered a wall
of books about paranormal creatures: a Twilight series display.
My 16th-century subjects would have been completely at home
with this wall of books, she muses, and the covers make it look
as if these [characters] are having a great time. In the 16th cen-
tury, such characters wouldnt have had such a great time. I
wondered, how could the modern world support such crea-
tures? What Harkness started writing as one epic novel became
A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life. I
knew from the start how the beginning worked, how the middle
worked, and how the end worked, she says, laughing as she
recalled the enormous size of that first draft.
Harknesss double life as a scholar and a novelist have over-
lapped: an English professor from Hood College recently pre-
sented a conference paper to the Rocky Mountain Medieval and
Renaissance Association deconstructing Harknesss novels.
Join Grossman and Harkness, 23 p.m., today, in Room
1E02, for their panel, This World and Beyond: A Conversation
about Fiction and Fantasy. Claire Kirch
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from 11:30 AM12:30 PM in Room 1E02 where you can:
Write your own 10 Word Love Story
Choose the cover of the latest Swoon Reads book
Compete in our YA romance trivia game
Win fabulous prizes!
One lucky attendee will win a SwoonReads-branded iPad mini!
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*Must be in attendance at event to win.
VISIT SWOONREADS.COM to join our community of YA romance readers and writers!
The worlds bestselling chil-
drens author, R.L. Stine, is
here today to sign books in
the Autographing Area. If
youve been on the planet
since 1992, when the first
book in the Goosebumps
series was published, then
chances are youre familiar
with the blockbuster author
whose other series include
Fear Street, Mostly Ghostly,
The Nightmare Room, and
Rotten School. Here are
some things you might not
know about this interna-
tional superstar of the book
world. Liz Hartman
Some STINE-tingling Facts
There are more than 350 million Goosebumps books in print in the U.S.,
and an additional 50-plus million international copies in print worldwide.
R.L. Stine types so much that he needs to replace his keyboard every six months.
You dont need to read English to read R.L. Stine; Goosebumps books have been translated into
more than 32 languages.
Goosebumps or R.L. Stine was the answer to five different questions on the TV game show
Jeopardy between 1998 and 2006.
R.L. Stine admits hes never seen a ghostbut hes on the lookout all the time.
R.L. Stines anthology TV series, R.L. Stines The Haunting Hour, recently won an Emmy Award for
Best Childrens Show.
The 2003 Guinness Book of World Records named Stine the worlds bestselling childrens book
series author of all time.
USA Today named R.L. Stine the #1 bestselling author in America for three consecutive years
during the 1990s.
Stine was included on People magazines list of the 25 Most Intriguing People of 1995.
@RL_Stine was listed as one of the 140 Best Twitter Feeds by Time.com in March 2011.
R.L. Stine will be at Table 1, 11 a.m.noon. A ticket is required, available at 9 a.m. at the Autographing
Ticket Booth.
R.L. Stine Is in the House!!!
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#WNDB Panelists Agree:
We Need Diverse Books

On May 1, responding to
criticism of the lack of
diversity among featured
authors at BookCon, a grass-
roots coalition of authors and
other book people launched a
social media campaign,
#WeNeedDiverseBooks, that
quickly went viral. The folks at
BookCon then invited mem-
bers of the group to continue
the conversation about the
need for books that reflect the
diversity of those reading
them. The World Agrees:
#WeNeedDiverseBooks panel
discussion will kick off at 10
a.m. in Room 1E02 with five
#WNDB team members dis-
cussing their ongoing cam-
paign, followed by a dialogue
among three guest authors
renowned for embracing
diversity in their own writ-
ing: Jacqueline Woodson,
Grace Lin, and Matt de la
Pea. Ahead of todays
panel, we asked each to rec-
ommendand comment
ona book that is not one of
their own that should be
added to To Be Read lists,
because the world agrees: we
do need diverse books.
Claire Kirch
GRACE LIN,
author of Where
the Mountain
Meets the Moon
ANNA HIBIS-
CUS series by
Atinuke, illus. by
Lauren Tobia
(Walker Books)
I think when
some people
think of diverse
books, they think
of characters
that are exotic
and unrelatable. But these books
for the younger reader, featuring a
young girl who lives in Africa,
show how universal childhood
experiences and emotions are,
no matter where you live. Anna
Hibiscus is sweet, wonderful, and
charmingjust how we wish
childhood to be for everyone.
JACQUELINE
WOODSON,
author of Brown
Girl Dreaming
WHEN I WAS
THE GREATEST
by Jason Reyn-
olds (S&S/
Atheneum)
When I Was
the Greatest is
at once
thought-pro-
voking and
original. Ive
never met
characters like
these before and fell in love with
them immediately. Reynolds is
someone to watch. I loved this
book: I was blown away by it.
MATT DE LA PEA,
author of The Liv-
ing
AMERICAN
BORN CHINESE by
Gene Luen Yang
(First Second
Books)
A brilliant
graphic novel that
explores three sep-
arate narratives
that come together
in a satisfying way.
This book explores
race and culture
both overtly and
subversively, but
its extremely entertaining, too. I
recommend this to both kids and
adults all the time.
LAMAR GILES, author of Fake ID
YAQUI DELGADO WANTS TO
KICK YOUR ASS by Meg Medina
(Candlewick)
This book chroni-
cles the arbitrary
cause and corro-
sive effect of bully-
ing on teen Piddy
Sanchez. Told from
Piddys perspec-
tive, this tale of
her mounting ter-
ror over the title
characters
taunts and even-
tual physical
attacks is real
and raw. One of
the most power-
ful reads of your
year, guaranteed.
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MARIEKE
NIJKAMP,
founder, Diver-
sifYA
OTHER-
BOUND by
Corinne Duy-
vis (Abrams/
Amulet)
Every time
Nolan Santi-
ago blinks, he
is transported
into the mind
of Amara, a
mute servant
girl in another
world. Its an amazing, clever YA
fantasy that seamlessly incorpo-
rates characters of color, disa-
bled characters, and queer char-
actersall of them informed by
their diversity, but none of them
defined by itproving once more
that fantasy is a perfect vehicle
to explore all narratives.
MIKE JUNG,
author of
Geeks, Girls,
and Secret
Identities
8TH GRADE
SUPERZERO
by Olugbemi-
sola Rhuday-
Perkovich
(Scholastic/
Arthur A. Lev-
ine)
8th Grade
Superzero is
deeply ear-
nest and una-
fraid to
overtly address complex social
issues, but its also laugh-out-
loud funny and filled with lova-
ble, relatable characters. Not
everyone can pull off such a
high-wire act, but Rhuday-Perko-
vich does it with aplomb.
I.W. GREGORIO
(moderator),
author of None of
the Above
THE MISEDUCA-
TION OF CAM-
ERON POST by
Emily M. Danforth
(HarperCollins/
Balzer & Bray)
Whip smart, funny,
and heartrendingly
vulnerable, Cameron
Post is an irresistible
protagonist and one
of the most finely
rendered LGBT characters youll
ever read. The Montana setting
is stunning, the 1980s detail
pitch-perfect. What I found most
striking about the book, though,
is its nuanced portrayal of a con-
version therapy school, and how
Danforth captures the breath-
less anxiety of young love.
ELLEN OH, Prophecy series
WHERE THE
MOUNTAIN
MEETS THE
MOON by
Grace Lin (Lit-
tle, Brown)
My three
daughters
unanimously
agreed that I
should recom-
mend Where the
Mountain Meets
the Moon. Each
of my girls could
see themselves
reflected back
in Minlis fierce determination,
love for her family, and loyalty to
her friends, but most of all, in
their shared Asian heritage. It
wasnt just a story to them, it
was a story about a girl who
looked just like them. And it
became their story.
AISHA SAEED, author of Written
in the Stars
PAINTED HANDS by Jennifer
Zobair (St. Martins/Dunne)
Zobair lets us into the lives of
a group of Muslim American pro-
fessional women dealing with
job stresses, romance, and the
pressures of balancing oneself
as a fully real-
ized individual
while knowing
the world often
sees you as a
representative
for your entire
religion and/or
ethnicity. Most
importantly,
this novel has
the #1 criterion
for any good
book: it is a
well-written
and complex
story.
Change has never
come from walking
away from the struggle,
Woodson wrote. I want
to sit on a panel where I
am not the one person of
color speaking about di-
versity but part of a big-
ger group, part of a larg-
er and longer-term idea
about creating effective
and lasting changepart
of a continuum. And
thats what this is, thats
what my work is, thats
what the struggle
isa continuum.

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great giveaways!
9:30 am
Hello Kitty
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11:00 am
Book signing: Science
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Myriad Thoughts
on Dystopia

At the last BookCon panel of the day (4:155:15 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? Before they get
together for the event, panelists Alaya Dawn Johnson (The Sum-
mer Prince, Scholastic), Marie Lu (Legend trilogy, Penguin) and
Danielle Paige (Dorothy Must Die, HarperCollins) took a moment
to share their thoughts on what makes dystopian stories so
compellingand hinted at what questions they might have for
Roth, the queen of dystopia
Dystopia interests me because not only is it a fascinating
exploration of what ifi.e., the futurebut because it also is
an exploration of the past and present, says Lu. I think thats
why many people find themselves drawn to it, too. We see both
the familiar and strange in dystopian lit.
Although Johnson does not regard The Summer Prince as dys-
topian (seeing it more as social science fiction, like Ursula Le
Guins work), she says it does owe a great deal to the genre. As
for the popularity of dystopian novels, she says, her best guess
is that people are enticed by the intrinsic joy of immersing
themselves in a different
world, coupled with the
narrative satisfaction of a
small but powerful good
going against a large and
terrible wrong.
Paige echoed a similar
assessment of the readers
attraction to the genre.
None of us live in a
world where people are chosen for an annual televised fight to
the death (Hunger Games) or a world where love is forbidden
(Delirium), but dystopias call back to the very real senses of
isolation, division, fears, etc., that kids may be feeling in real
life, says Paige. Its high school, only the cheerleaders are actu-
ally trying to kill you.
When it came to creating a fantasy world, Paige went back
to one of the most recognized and popular fictional places ever.
Making Oz a dystopia was actually an easier leap than I
expected, she says. Despite the gorgeous Technicolor of the
movie, there was so much darkness in L. Frank Baums books.
So I imagined Oz ravished by a now evil Dorothy.
As the self-described newbie on the panel, Paige says that,
sitting next to Roth, Johnson, and Lu, she will have to work
hard to control her inner fan-girl. What she would most
like to know from the panelists, she says, is how they do
what they do. Bridget Kinsella
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On Her Way Up
from Down Under

A magic carpet ride is how

Courtney Collins describes
her experience as a debut novelist.
The Untold was published two days
ago in the U.S. (Putnam/Amy Ein-
horn Books) after being published
to great acclaim and award-win-
ning attention in Australia last
year, and Collins says, I do under-
stand that thats not true for the
typical first novel. That sentiment
is likely to be echoed by the two other new novelists, Celeste
Ng and Yelena Akhtiorskaya, whom she joins later this morning
(11:15 a.m., Room 1E16) for the panel My First Novel: Things
I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Writing, Publishing, and
Promoting a Book.
What Collins has found surprising is that even if you call a
book fiction, readers take it to be true. They enter the world [of
the story] and they believe it to be so, which is delightfulits
wonderful. It was during her book tour in Australia that this
proved to be so. She recalls that after a book talk she was cor-
nered in the parking lot by, as she describes, a bunch of
womenolder womenall from the same book club, who said
to me, Why did you kill the baby? It reminded me that you
have to take full responsibility for this fiction that youve cre-
ated. You have to stand by it.
The fiction shes created was inspired by Jesse Hickman, a
legendary Australian woman outlaw who was a trick rider, a
horse rustler, and a wild womanboth hero and villainwho
survived the unforgiving bush of the continents vast landscape.
The influences Collins cites for this epic tale from down under
are largely from America, writers such as Carson McCullers,
Zora Neale Hurston, and Cormac McCarthy, as well as the
mythology of the Wild West. Recalling the tradition of west-
erns, she says, We kind of grew up on them here. The Sunday
movie on the telly was always the western.
While growing up in country, as she describes it, Collins
herself rode horses, but it is the relationship to landscape that
is crucial for her. The commonality between Aussie outlaws,
often Irish immigrants in conflict with English authority, and
American cowboys is that these fringe characters get solace
from the landscape, she points out. Each character has a dif-
ferent relationship with the landscape, which is not always
benevolent and is changeable. It is the sensuality of the land-
scape that sustains them, she explains. Inner lives of characters
are revealed through landscape. Liz Hartman
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I want to be a princess hairdresser.
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When Brandon Stanton got fired from his

job as a bond trader, he decided to single-
handedly create a photographic census of New
York. He started a blog, launched a Tumblr page,
and in 2012 told the Wall Street Journal, Every
portrait is a little party we throw for somebody
every night. We put their photos up and say nice
things about them. Those nice things became the
#1 New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York.
This fall will bring a new book, Little Humans,
which captures the essence of children on the
streets of New York. Stanton has given Show
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humans as well as a few favorite big people picks.
Humans:
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER
A Sinner in the City of
Angels

The first time Maggie Stief-

vater attended BEA, to pro-
mote her 2009 Scholastic release,
Shiver, a fan rushed up to her as she
sat huddled in a booth with her edi-
tor, exclaimed, Youre Maggie Sti-
efvater, and fell down. She actually
fainted, looking right at me, Stief-
vater says, recalling that her shock
was magnified by the realization
that the woman had pronounced her
surname correctly.
Stiefvater is back at Javits, this time at BookCon, to introduce
her readers to a spinoff of her Shiver trilogy, Sinner. A stand-
alone novel (Scholastic, July), Sinner is the intimate story of Cole
and Isabel, first introduced in Book 1 of the trilogy., who have
now moved out of the woods of Mercy Falls to the big city, Los
Angeles, where they learn how to be grown-ups against a
Tinseltown backdrop.
It was such a blast writing this novel, she says. Cole and Isabel
are so terrible and so wonderful with their hard edges and sharp
tongues. Stiefvater admits to having similar qualities herself as a
teenager.
Besides wanting a vehicle to focus on Cole and Isabel because
shes always loved the two since she first imagined them for
Shiver, Stiefvater was inspired to
write Sinner because she wanted to set
a novel in a city that emanates mys-
tery and magic, even under a blazing
sun. Stiefvater recalls the first time
she visited L.A.: I despised it, I
could not comprehend how anyone
could live or work there. But the
next time she visited, she loved
everything about it. I could not
believe the magic trick that this city
had performed on me, she says.
While doing research for Sinner, Stiefvater, her family, and a few
friends spent several weeks in L.A., where she didnt do anything
but scout locations. Setting is important to me. I want readers
to actually feel like theyve been to a place, she explains, insist-
ing that every place mentioned in the book actually exists.
Stiefvater will be doing an autographing at Table 2, 10:30
11:30 a.m., today (tickets required from the Autographing
Ticket Booth). At 1 p.m., in Room 1E07, she will participate
in a panel on the topic of epic storytelling with two other YA
favorites, Holly Black and Cassandra Clare. Claire Kirch
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A Delicious Debut
into Fiction
Ruth Reichl joins the
wildly popular novelists
Jodi Picoult and Kathy
Reichs on a panel about
bestsellers. It is a topic
that the former New York
Times restaurant critic
knows well with a career
that has spanned four
decades with a multitude
of bestselling cookbooks
and memoirs, including
Tender to the Bone and Comfort Me with
Apples. Newer to Reichl is the novel.
When it came time to try her hand at
fiction, Reichl says she was not sure she
was up to the task.
When you are in a bad place in your
life, you do the hardest thing you can
think of; I tried to write fiction, says
Reichl. That bad place included the
closing of Gourmet magazine in 2009,
where Reichl had been editor-in-chief for
a decade, following her distinguished
career at the New York Times and earlier
at the Los Angeles Times.
With journalism, basically you know
the story and its just a matter of how you
tell it, she explains. With fiction you
have to find the story. And if its work-
Bestsellers
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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 Sisters Keeper.
She is not shy about exploring subjects of
deep emotional complexity, and her new
novel, Leaving Time, due from Ballantine
in October, examines grief and the
enduring power of the mother/daughter
relationship.
The inspiration for Leaving Time was
multifaceted, Picoult tells Show Daily@
BookCon, and includes her avid interest in

If youre looking for three of todays top authorsRuth Reichl,

Jodi Picoult and Kathy Reichsthey can easily be found, on best-
sellers lists everywhere. Their writing styles and subjects may be very
different, but they share a common tendency to attract hordes of fans to
each book they write. USA Todays book critic and reporter, Bob Minzes-
heimer delves deep into a discussion with them about their past suc-
cesses and current and upcoming books (11 a.m.noon, Room 1E15).
ing, you fall in love with your charac-
ters.
Delicious! is Reichls debut novel and
while writing it, she admits to falling in
love with her main char-
acter, Billie Breslin: I
got up every morning
excited to find out what
was going to happen to
her.
Breslin is an intrepid
21-year-old who leaves
her California family to
take a job at a new food
magazine (which even-
tually folds) in New
Yor k, wher e s he
f i n d s h e r s e l f
i m m e r s e d i n
Gothams world of
foodies. She takes a
part-time job at an
Italian cheese store,
where she stumbles
upon the WWII cor-
respondence between
a young Ohio woman and James Beard.
Aside from the fact that Billie works for
a food magazine that folds, and criss-
crosses the country, the author says Billie
is nothing like her.
If anything, I am more like Lulu, she
says, the fictional young woman in Ohio
who wrote to James Beard requesting
recipes using food rations.
While Reichl is no stranger to Beard
she has won the prestigious award that
bears his name four timesshe was not
crazy enough to try and write letters for
him. He appears through Lulus letters,
she explains. But Reichl dug deep into
Beards wartime experiences and did lots
of research about victory gardens and
rationing. Its the only time in America
that we all sat down at the same table,
says Reichl. Food was really considered
one of the fronts in the war.
Beyond Lulu, theres a bit of Reichl in
the character who is the cheese shop
owner who cant imagine anyone ever
leaving New York. I did not even realize
I was writing a love letter to New York
until I was done, says Reichl. And now
that shes finished her first novel, readers
can expect more fiction from her. Its
like flying is how Reichl describes writ-
ing fiction. Bridget Kinsella
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KATHY REICHS
A Villain, a
Mother, and
Temperance
Brennan
Temperance Brennan is back in
Kathy Reichss highly antici-
pated 17th novel, Bones Never Lie, coming from Ban-
tam in September.
Much of what Temperance Brennan does as Reichss
popular protagonist is inspired by real-life cases or
actual experiences Reichs has had throughout her
career as one of the countrys leading forensic anthro-
pologiststhings like teaching the FBI how to detect
and recover human remains and untangling body parts in her
Montreal lab. Now, taking the series in a new direction, Tem-
perance and her ex-partner, Andrew Ryan, pair up again to
investigate two child murders that have one thing in common:
the killer. Monday Mourning, the seventh book in the series, is
the only book in which the villain got away, and we are going
to revisit that in Bones Never Lie, says Reichs. That villain,
Anique Pomerleau, has resurfaced in the United States, linked
to victims in Vermont and North Carolina.
In the new novel, Temperance moves around a lot. She starts
out in Charlotte, N.C., and from there goes to Costa Rica,
then Montreal, then back to the Carolinas. For the first
time in the book series, fans finally get to meet Temper-
ances mother. We know quite a bit about {Temperances]
past, her childhood, what happened with her father and her
brother and of course her sister, Harry, but I have never made
mention of her mother, and in this book we get to
know something about her.
Reichss novels are the basis for the hit TV show
Bones, which was recently renewed for a 10th season,
making it one of the longest-running live action series
on Fox. Of the shows success, Reichs says, Nobody
ever dreams that they go to 10 seasons. She is a pro-
ducer of the show and sometimes writes episodes for
it, including one she co-wrote with her daughter in
season nine called The Dude in the Dam. They are
also collaborating on another one for season 10.
Reichs writes the successful Virals YA series with her son,
Brendan Reichs, and tours to middle schools and some high
schools throughout the year. She is looking forward to her book
tour for Bones Never Lie in September, which will take her to
Canada, the U.K., then back to the U.S. Reichs hasnt attended
BEA in years and is excited to be backparticularly at Book-
Con, where she has an opportunity to meet at least a few of her
millions of readers. Jennifer Romanello
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someone again?
The ardent need to see someone again
is central to Leaving Time, which follows
a 13-year-old girls search for her mother,
a scientist who disappeared a decade ear-
lier while researching grief among ele-
phants. Enlisting the help of a failed
psychic and the detective who first inves-
tigated her mothers mysterious disap-
pearance, the young protagonist is on a
quest that could lead to a harsh realiza-
tionshe might never find her mother.
I wanted to write about why humans
find it so hard to be left behind by a loved
one, says Picoult, who first wrote about
the mother/daughter relationship over
20 years ago in her first book, Songs of the
Humpback Whale, when I was closer in
age to the daughter. A mother of three
and recent empty-nester, Picoult felt the
time was right to revisit the relationship.
Unlike some top-tier authors with a
large, devoted following, Picoult has
fully embraced social media and the
the emoti onal
l i v e s o f e l e -
p h a n t s a n d
their preserva-
tion. In an elephant herd, a mother and
daughter will stay together until one dies.
Hands-on re search in Botswana
allowed her to observe grief rituals dis-
played by an elephant herd mourning the
loss of a member. They will gently pick
up the bones and get completely quiet
and reserved, says Picoult. She adds
that, unlike humans, elephants seem
unhindered by the mojo of religion or an
afterlife, as in, are they going to see
accessibility it provides readers. You
need readers thoughts and opinions to
make your work a living thing, she says.
She employs no personal assistant and
answers her own emails: I think it is
important for authors to say thank you
for reading my book.
A former schoolteacher, she is a
staunch advocate for encouraging kids to
read using whatever subject matter
engages them. When you start putting
restrictions on what kids read, you start
damping down their enthusiasm for the
act of reading. You need to find whatever
it is that cracks open that childs mind
and makes them hungry for more.
Picoult is also a fan of the BEA and
BookCon, which she calls a fantastic
experience for a writer. It has a great
vibe. She says her advice for all people
who say the novel is dead is to attend the
BEA and BookCon and feel the buzz
and hum of people who love books.
Karen Jones
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American History:
Brought to You by Snoopy
And the Peanuts Gang
Ever since Regnery launched its chil-
drens 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 enter-
tain young readers. Perhaps its the Snoopy
stuffed animal that kept Regnery president
and publisher Marji Ross from being homesick at camp every
summerand still hasthat made her think that the Peanuts
characters created by Charles M. Schulz would be the perfect
vehicle to reach this goal. This fall, Regnery will publish the
first three of 12 fully illustrated books that feature the familiar
and well-loved gang of Peanuts characters and focus on themes
of American history, government, civics, and heroes. Licensed
by Peanuts Worldwide, the books, aimed at readers ages 48,
will be published under Regnerys Little Patriot Press imprint.
Craig Herman, executive director of Peanuts Worldwide
Publishing, tells Show Daily@BookCon, One of the most excit-
ing aspects of the Peanuts brand is that its appeal never becomes
outdated. A key mission for us is to bring these treasured char-
acters to new generations, and the Little Patriot books allow us
to accomplish this in a delightful and educational way.
Ross agrees and emphasizes that Peanuts has always been and
continues to be a wonderful, trusted and beloved brand to
multiple generations. Ross is particularly excited about the
notion that these books
will appeal to the parents
and grandparents of the
young readers. Its a win-
win, she says, an unusual
opportunity for a reading
experience that is as enjoyable
for the adult as it is for the
child.
She also points out, The Pea-
nuts gang fits in perfectly with
the Regnery brand. Both represent wholesome family values
and the all-American family. Ross is excited about the idea that
the characters will bring something valuable to the table with
the series focus on civics, government, and history. The first
three booksWhats the Big Idea, Charlie Brown? Where are You
Going Charlie Brown? and Who Cares, Charlie Brown?feature
great inventors, great explorers, and great humanitarians
respectively. Each will feature big names and big ideasfor
example, inventors will include Thomas Edison, Alexander
Graham Bell, and the Wright brothers, but will also feature
one person youve never heard of, Ross reveals. The stories will
mix history, people, and big ideas, but well make sure they
keep the playfulness of Peanuts, she adds.
Another focus is on people who did something for America
that was selfless, that made the world a better place, people
like Rosa Parks and Susan B. Anthony, who are among the
American heroes that the books will feature. Reiterating that
the brand is timeless she proudly states, I love Peanuts, I love
Snoopy, and my three daughters feel the same way!
Snoopy is walking the oor today, 93 p.m., and is eager for photo
ops.
Editors Note
I hope you are enjoying the inaugural issue of Publishers Weeklys Show Daily@
BookCon. Ive aimed to provide a useful, lively, and entertaining guide to the very
first BookCon. Today, you can hobnob with stars Amy Poehler, Martin Short, and
Cary Elwes, to name just a few; learn a whole new zodiac with Spider-man co-creator
Stan Lee; get face-to-face with top bestselling authors Jodi Picoult, Kathy Reichs, and
Ruth Reichl; bring something new to your table with Mario Batali; and be treated to
a sneak peek of the upcoming film of John Greens The Fault in Our Stars. And thats
just a snapshot of the myriad authors who are here and the events that are
happening all day.
It has been a pleasure to be part of connecting publishers and authors with the
most important component of the book world: readers! Shoutouts and thanks must
be given to the team that put it together:
Art Director: Kenneth Nadel
Managing Editors: Michael Coffey, Sonia Jaffe Robbins
Contributing Editors: Paige Crutcher, Karen Jones, Bridget Kinsella,
Claire Kirch, Meg A. Parsont, Jennifer Romanello
Enjoy! Liz Hartman, Editor
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