38 Authors to Autograph at Wi4 Reception

The first full day of educational programming at ABA's Fourth Annual Winter Institute (Wi4), sponsored by Ingram Book Company/Ingram Publisher Services, will culminate in a celebratory reception featuring 38 authors, including both well-known indie favorites and exciting new voices.

Thanks to the generosity of ABA's Publisher Partners all Winter Institute participants are invited to the reception where booksellers will mingle and authors will autograph their latest or forthcoming titles. Light refreshments will be served at the event, which will be held from 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. on Friday, January 30.

"We are extremely grateful to our Publisher Partners for once again allowing us to bring booksellers and authors together at the Winter Institute," said ABA Senior Director of Publisher Initiatives Mark Nichols. "The Authors Reception is always an exciting event for all participants -- it provides booksellers with a chance to meet many of the authors whose books they enjoy handselling as well as some new talent and gives authors an opportunity to express their appreciation to indie booksellers."

Scheduled to appear at Friday evening's Author Reception at the Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown are:

• Greg Ames, Buffalo Lockjaw: A Novel (Hyperion)
• Mary Kay Andrews, The Fixer Upper: A Novel (HarperCollins)
• Eric Barnes, Shimmer: A Novel (Unbridled Books)
• Lily Burana, I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles(Weinstein Books)
• Don Calame, Swim the Fly (Candlewick)
• Rachel DeWoskin, Repeat After Me: A Novel (Overlook Press)
• Ben Esch, Sophomore Undercover: A Novel (Disney Book Group)
• Marc Fitten, Valeria's Last Stand: A Novel (Bloomsbury)
• Elizabeth Flock, Sleepwalking in Daylight (MIRA)
• Nafisa Haji, The Writing on My Forehead: A Novel (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
• Shannon Hale, The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel (Bloomsbury)
• Jane Hamilton, Laura Rider's Masterpiece: A Novel (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette)
• Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic)
• Gordon Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
• Mei-Ling Hopgood, Lucky Girl: A Memoir (Algonquin Books)
• Carrie Host, Between Me and the River (MIRA)
• Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane: A Novel (Voice/Hyperion)
• John Izzo, The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die (Berrett-Koehler, distributed by Ingram Publisher Services)
• Laila Lalami, Secret Son: A Novel (Algonquin Books)
• Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet: A Novel (Penguin Press/Penguin USA)
• Loren Long, Otis (Penguin Young Readers Group)
• Michael Malone, Four Corners of the Sky (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal: A Novel (Unbridled Books)
• Paule Marshall, Triangular Road: A Memoir (Basic Civitas/Perseus Books Group)
• Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps: A Novel (W.W. Norton)
• Kenn Nesbitt, My Hippo Has the Hiccups (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
• Joseph O'Neill, Netherland: A Novel (Vintage Books/Random House)
• Joanna Smith Rakoff, A Fortunate Age: A Novel (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Peter Reynolds, The North Star (Candlewick)
• Peter Rock, My Abandonment: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones (Scholastic)
• Jeffrey Siger, Murder in Mykonos (Poisoned Pen Press, distributed by Ingram Publisher Services)
• Mehmet Murat Somer, The Kiss Murder (Penguin Books/Penguin USA)
• Lynn Stegner, Because a Fire Was in My Head (Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press/Literary Ventures Fund)
• Jonathan Stroud, Heroes of the Valley (Disney Book Group)
• Luis Alberto Urrea, Into the Beautiful North: A Novel (Little, Brown & Company/Hachette)
• Mishna Wolff, I'm Down: A Memoir (St. Martin's Press/Macmillan)
• Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel's Game: A Novel (Doubleday/Random House)