Authors Abound at Hotel ABA Receptions

By Rosemary Hawkins on Wednesday, May 11, 2011

BookExpo America’s Hotel ABA, the Holiday Inn at 57th Street, will be the site of evening receptions on Sunday and Monday, May 22 and 23. Both will provide ABA member booksellers with the opportunity to mingle with established and up-and-coming authors.

On Sunday, the Random House Publishing Group welcomes booksellers to New York with a hospitality suite from 9:00 p.m. to midnight in the Holiday’s Inn’s Skylight Lounge in the hotel lobby.

Authors scheduled to attend include:

  • Lisa See
  • Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Karin Slaughter
  • Ellen Feldman
  • Darin Strauss
  • Robert Massie
  • Stefan Merrill Block
  • Josh Ritter
  • Lorna Graham
  • John Burnham Schwartz
  • Haley Tanner

On Monday, indie booksellers are invited to mingle with authors from 12 independent presses at a reception on the Holiday Inn’s rooftop pool event space. The reception, from 9:00 p.m. to midnight, is open to all ABA members with a BEA badge.

Participating publishers and authors scheduled to attend are:

Other Press

  • John Milliken Thompson
  • Christie Watson
  • Bonnie Nadzam
  • Ronald DeFeo
  • Lawrence Douglas
  • Evelyn Toynton

Archipelago Books

Translators:

  • David Hinton
  • Peter Wortsman
  • Tess Lewis
  • Richard Sieburth
  • Karen Emmerich

Beacon Press

  • Kate Whouley

Egmont USA

  • Walter Dean Myers
  • Alexandra Bracken
  • Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  • Christina Mandelski
  • Tricia Rayburn
  • Micol Ostow
  • Ilsa J. Bick
  • Beth Kephart
  • Trinity Faegen

Europa Editions

  • Jesse Browner
  • Alexander Maksik

Graywolf Press

  • Deborah Baker
  • Maile Chapman

Mark Batty Publisher

  • Olga Ast
  • Michael Caines
  • Ed Daly
  • Julian Hibbard
  • David Horvitz
  • Theresa Sauer
  • Galen Smith
  • Ekaterina Smirnova
  • Winston Tseng

New Directions

  • Eliot Weinberger

Quirk Books

  • Michele Bernhardt
  • Cormac O’Brien
  • Duane Swierczynski
  • Marilyn Church
  • Stacy Adimando
  • Thomas J. Craughwell
  • Heather Wagner
  • Joseph Cummins

Seven Stories Press

  • Andy Laties

Steerforth Press

  • David R. Stokes

Unbridled Books

  • Timothy Schaffert
  • Masha Hamilton
  • Emily St. John Mandel
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