60 Authors to Join Booksellers at Winter Institute

The American Booksellers Association’s Sixth Annual Winter Institute, to be held in January in Washington, D.C., will feature a record-breaking number of new and established authors.

The Winter Institute’s signature Author Reception will be held on Thursday, January 20, and, thanks to ABA’s Wi6 Publisher Sponsors, 56 authors and illustrators will be on hand to chat with booksellers and to autograph their new and forthcoming titles. In addition, new for 2011, the Friday, January 21, Closing Reception will feature four authors from Wi6’s small and independent press sponsors.

“Thanks to the support of ABA’s Publisher Partners, the upcoming Winter Institute offers two great opportunities for booksellers to meet some of their favorite authors and to discover outstanding new talent,” said Mark Nichols, ABA industry relations officer. “All Wi6 attendees are invited to come discover titles that are sure to top their lists of handselling favorites.”

Authors scheduled to appear at the Author Reception, to be held in the Crystal Gateway Marriott’s Arlington Ballroom from 5:45 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. on January 20, are:

Author Name

Title

Publisher

David Allen

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Penguin

Tom Angleberger

Horton Halfpott: Or, the Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M’Lady Luggertuck’s Corset

Amulet (Abrams Books for Young Readers)

Dean Bakopoulos

My American Unhappiness: A Novel

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rye Barcott

It Happened on the Way to War

Bloomsbury

Sophie Blackall

The Crows of Pearblossom

Abrams Books for Young Readers

Sarah Blake

The Postmistress: A Novel

Berkley Trade

Judy Blundell

Strings Attached

Scholastic Press

Noah Boyd

Agent X: A Novel

Morrow (HarperCollins)

Victoria Brown

Minding Ben

Voice (Hyperion)

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Once Upon a River: A Novel

W.W. Norton

Marcia Clark

Guilt By Association: A Novel

Mulholland Books (Hachette Book Group)

Jennet Conant

A Covert Affair: The Adventures of Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS

Simon & Schuster

Doreen Cronin

The Trouble With Chickens

Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

Michael Crummey

Galore: A Novel

Other Press

Lauren DeStefano

Wither: Book #1 Last Chemical Garden Trilogy

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Laura Duksta

You Are a Gift to the World

Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Glen Duncan

The Last Werewolf: A Novel

Knopf (Random House)

Carol Edgarian

Three Stages of Amazement: A Novel

Scribner (Simon & Schuster)

Jennifer Nataly Fink

Thirteen Fugues

Dark Coast Press (dist. Ingram Publisher Services)

Alison Fitzgerald

In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down

Wiley

Jennifer Fosberry

My Name Is Not Alexander

Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Francisco Goldman

Say Her Name: A Novel

Grove Press

Katherine Greider

The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on 1000 Square Feet on the Lower East Side

PublicAffairs (Perseus Books Group)

Heather Gudenkauf

These Things Hidden

MIRA

Dan Gutman

The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable

HarperCollins Children’s Books

Deborah Harkness

A Discovery of Witches: A Novel

Viking

Rachel Moore Hawkins

Demonglass: A Hex Hall Novel

Hyperion Books for Children (Disney Publishing Worldwide)

Tayari Jones

Silver Sparrow

Algonquin Books (Workman)

Melissa Kantor

The Darlings Are Forever

Hyperion Books for Children (Disney Publishing Worldwide)

Mark Kurlansky

World Without Fish

Workman

Alice LaPlante

Turn of Mind

Atlantic Monthly Press

Tom Lichtenheld

Cloudette

Henry Holt Books for Young Readers

Clarence Lusane

The Black History of the White House

City Lights Publishers (dist. Consortium)

Kee Malesky

All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential Knowledge

Wiley

Jennifer McMahon

Don’t Breathe a Word: A Novel

Harper Paperbacks

Walter Dean Myers

Carmen

Egmont

Joseph O’Connor

Ghost Light: A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Téa Obreht

The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel

Random House

Bob Phibbs

The Retail Doctor’s Guide to Growing Your Business

Wiley

Hannah Pittard

The Fates Will Find Their Way: A Novel

Ecco (HarperCollins)

Beth Revis

Across the Universe

Razorbill (Penguin Books for Young Readers)

Nina Revoyr

Wingshooters: A Novel

Akashic Books (dist. Consortium)

Veronica Roth

Divergent

Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

Jennifer Sattler

Chick ‘n’ Pug

Bloomsbury Children’s Books

John Sayles

A Moment in the Sun

McSweeney’s (dist. PGW)

Gary D. Schmidt

Okay for Now

Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Daniel Seddiqui

50 Jobs in 50 States: One Man’s Journey of Discovery Across America

Berrett-Koehler Publishers (dist. Ingram Publisher Services)

Caitlin Shetterly

Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Coming Home: A Memoir

Voice (Hyperion)

Rachel Simon

The Story of a Beautiful Girl: A Novel

Grand Central Publishing (Hachette Book Group)

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Ladder to the Moon

Candlewick

Curt Stager

Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life of Earth

Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin’s Press)

John Stephens

The Emerald Atlas

Knopf Books for Young Readers

John Milliken Thompson

The Reservoir: A Novel

Other Press

Jon and Pam Voelkel

The Jaguar Stones, Book Two: The End of the World Club

Egmont

Binyavango Wainaina

One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir

Graywolf Press

Tim Wynne-Jones

Blink & Caution

Candlewick

Authors to appear at the Wi6 Closing Reception, to be held in the Marriott’s Skyview Lounge, from 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. on January 21, are:

Adam Golaski

Color Plates

Rose Metal Press (dist. Small Press Distribution)

Alexander Maksik

You Deserve Nothing

Tonga (Europa Editions)

Ralph Nader

Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!

Seven Stories Press

Sharyn Wolf

Love Shrinks: A Memoir of a Marriage Counselor’s Divorce

Soho Press

Lead sponsorship for Wi6, which will be held from Wednesday, January 19, through Friday, January 21, 2011, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia, is provided by the Ingram Content Group.  Event registration and the host hotel are currently booked to capacity.

Booksellers registered for Wi6 who are no longer planning to attend and those with hotel reservations that are no longer needed are asked to contact ABA’s Member Relationship Managers, Kaitlin Pitcher and Elizabeth Nichols, so waiting booksellers can fill their places.

Winter Institute registrants who still need a hotel reservation and those with hotel reservations who are interested in finding a roommate are encouraged to use BookWeb’s Bookseller-to-Booksellers Forum to reach out to other ABA member booksellers.