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BEA 2016: Kate Beaton: Introducing a Baby Who Reigns Supreme
Kate Beaton translated her Web comic success with Hark, a Vagrant! into a budding career in children’s books with last year’s The Princess and the Pony.
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BEA 2016: Browsing the Booths, Chapter 2
For those on the lookout for new kids’ books, author autographings, and giveaways, here’s a peek at some of the happenings at the booths of children’s publishers today and tomorrow.
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BEA 2016: Laurie Halse Anderson: Setting History Straight
More than 20 years ago, when Laurie Halse Anderson was researching the epidemic that inspired her first historical middle-grade novel, Fever 1793, she came across a stunning piece of information.
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BEA 2016: Jennifer Weiner Takes a Big Step into Middle Grade
Jennifer Weiner is widely known to adult readers for her bestselling women-centric novels (Good in Bed; Who Do You Love), her columns for the New York Times Op-Ed pages and Sunday Review, and her humorous Twitter feed.
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BEA 2016: Richard Jackson and Jerry Pinkney: Joining Forces: A Pair of Venerable Children’s Book Figures
Two mainstays of children’s publishing have teamed up to create a picture book, "In Plain Sight" (Roaring Brook, Sept.).
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BEA 2016: Raina Telgemeier: Ghosts and Coasts
On September 13, Scholastic Graphix releases cartoonist Raina Telgemeier’s new graphic novel, "Ghosts," a fictional work about two sisters and apparitions in a foggy, small town in Northern California.
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BEA 2016: Emma Flint: ‘Little Deaths,’ Big Buzz
Growing up in the north of England, Emma Flint was 10 years old when she wrote her first fiction, an Agatha Christie pastiche replete with a thickly mustached French detective.
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BEA 2016: Nathan Hill: A Mother-Son Relationship
In Norwegian folklore, a Nix is a spirit of the water, usually depicted as a horrible ogre, but sometimes as a beautiful white horse.
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BEA 2016: Emil Ferris: On Monsters and Music
BEA is one of Emil Ferris’s first stops in the launch of her graphic novel, "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters," (Fantagraphics, Oct.), a fiction that evokes myth, horror, psychedelia, and wonder through the illustrated notebook of Karen Reyes.
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BEA 2016: Brit Bennett: A Coming-of-Age Debut
A young phenom in the making, Brit Bennett, 25, started writing "The Mothers" while still in high school in Oceanside, Calif., finishing it not long ago while a Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan, and polishing it as recently as two months ago.
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BEA 2016: Fredrik Backman: Getting to Know His Characters
Voted Sweden’s most successful author in 2013, Fredrik Backman has traveled to Chicago from Sweden for his first U.S. book tour to promote his latest novel, "Britt-Marie Was Here" (Atria, May).
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BEA 2016: Karen Alpert: A Time Out for Mom
Karen Alpert has never taken motherhood too seriously. This is good for her many fans, who laugh hysterically and occasionally cry at her wry observations, deep understanding, and bad language about the joys and sorrows of being a mom.
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BEA 2016: Emily Fridlund: A Novel First
What began as a short story and an academic endeavor was easily transformed into the opening chapter of Emily Fridlund's first novel, "The History of Wolves," told from the point of view of a 14-year-old named Linda.
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BEA 2016: Nicole Dennis-Benn: The Real Jamaicans
Nicole Dennis-Benn describes her debut novel, "Here Comes the Sun" (Norton, July), as “a love letter to Jamaica—my attempt to preserve her beauty by depicting her flaws.”
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BEA 2016: Susan Elizabeth Phillips: Help Her Reach for the Stars
Susan Elizabeth Phillips didn’t think she’d write so many books in her Chicago Stars series of contemporary romance novels set in the world of a suburban Chicago professional football team.
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BEA 2016: Jennifer Close: A Hopeful in Fact and Fiction
It might be a double-edged sword, Jennifer Close says, that her fourth novel, "The Hopefuls" (Knopf, July), is being published the same week that the Republicans in Cleveland, and the Democrats in Philadelphia the following week, are convening to select their presidential nominees.
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BEA 2016: Happy Anniversary and a Bottle of Champagne to...
Scout Press is one and more.
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BEA 2016: Big Changes at Westchester Publishing Services
The last two years have seen some major shifts at Danbury, Conn.-based Westchester Publishing Services, a composition and editorial services company with a focus on the trade; academic and scholarly; professional and institutional; and STM publishing markets.
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BEA 2016: Bragging Rights for Baen Books
Baen Books has much to celebrate here at BookExpo.
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BEA 2016: Brightness Falls in McCormick
It’s been a long time since Jay McInerney attended a BEA, “at least 10 years,” says the author, whose highly anticipated new novel, Bright, Precious Days (Knopf) will land in bookstores this August.
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