BEA Author Events Tickets Still Available

Booksellers and other book industry professionals registered for next week's BookExpo America can still order tickets online for an array of author events -- everything from the Children's Book & Author Breakfast to the Book Industry Foundation Benefit, starring Lewis Black.

Here's recap of BEA special events from Friday, May 30, through Sunday, June 1.

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: CHILDREN'S BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST (Concourse Hall)

Presented in cooperation with the Children's Booksellers and Publishers Committee [A cooperative committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), the Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), and the Children's Book Council (CBC)]

• Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Judy Blume, Going, Going, Gone! With the Pain and the Great One (Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers)
• Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins)
• Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox (Hyperion Books for Children/Disney Book Group) will be the Master of Ceremonies
• Introductory Remarks by Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

General Admission: $15. Breakfast Admission: $35.

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. SATURDAY BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST (Concourse Hall)

• Magic Johnson, Magic Moves: 32 Lessons on How to Be an All-Star in Business (Crown Business)
• Philippa Gregory, The Other Queen (Touchstone/S&S)
• Andre Dubus III, The Garden of Last Days: A Novel (Norton)
• Alec Baldwin, A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Divorce and Fatherhood (St. Martin's) will be the Master of Ceremonies

General Admission: $15. Breakfast Admission: $35.

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: SPEED DATING WITH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS (Room 403AB) Sponsored by the Children's Booksellers and Publishers Committee [A cooperative committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), and the Children's Book Council (CBC)]. For booksellers only

Authors and illustrators moving from table to table, stopping for quick get-to-know-you chats include:

M.T. Anderson (Harcourt), Joan Bauer (Putnam/Penguin), Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins), Cylin Busby (Bloomsbury), Cecil Castellucci (Candlewick), Tim Egan (Houghton Mifflin), Victoria Forester (Feiwel and Friends), Donna Freitas (FSG), Polly Horvath (Random House), James Lescene (HarperCollins), Barry Lyga (Houghton Mifflin), Brandon Mull (Shadow Mountain), Travis Nichols (Roaring Brook), Chris Raschka (Scholastic), Gary D.Schmidt (Clarion), David Shannon (Scholastic), Judy Sierra (Random House), Laurel Snyder (Tricycle), Nancy Werlin (Penguin), and Jane Yolen (Charlesbridge)

Admission: Free; open to Booksellers Only.

Noon - 2:00 p.m. SATURDAY BOOK & AUTHOR LUNCHEON (Concourse Hall)

Focusing on political and social issues will be:

• Richard Engel, War Journal (S&S)
• Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era (Celebra)
• Jon Krakauer, The Hero (Doubleday)
• Michael Moore, author of an as yet untitled work (Grand Central)
• Christopher Buckley, Supreme Courtship: A Novel (Twelve) will be the Master of Ceremonies

Admission: $50.

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. THE HEARD WORD: BEA'S AUDIOBOOK & AUTHOR TEA (Room 403) Hosted by the Audio Publishers Association

Discussing their recent and upcoming audiobooks and the experience of hearing their works translated into audiobook format will be:

• Robert Crais, Untitled Elvis Cole Novel (Brilliance Audio)
• T. Jefferson Parker, L.A. Outlaws (Brilliance Audio)
• Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict (Hachette Audio)

Admission: $20.

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: PEN AMERICAN CENTER RECEPTION (Petree Plaza)

Co-sponsored by the Campaign for Reader Privacy and ABFFE

PEN American Center and the ACLU Champagne Benefit Reception for "Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State." Hosted by Roxana Robinson of the PEN Advisory Council and Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU's National Security Project. Meet and greet Andre Dubus III, Azar Nafisi, and others.

Admission: $10 donation

9:00 p.m. Lewis Black (Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles)

Comedian Lewis Black, a Daily Show regular, will appear at BEA's Saturday night Book Industry Foundation event, benefiting the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading campaign. Black's new book, Me of Little Faith, will be published by Riverhead Books in early June.

Admission: $35

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. SUNDAY BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST (Concourse Hall)

• Ted Turner, Call Me Ted (Grand Central)
• Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: A Memoir of Family (Random House)
• Dennis Lehane, The Given Day (Morrow)
• John Hodgman, More Information Than You Require (Dutton) will be the Master of Ceremonies

General Admission: $15. Breakfast Admission: $35.