BEA Reveals Four More Breakfast Speakers

Over the past several weeks, BookExpo America [1] has been announcing the authors scheduled to appear [2]at this year’s breakfast events. Just added this week are Chelsea Handler, Diana Gabaldon, Wally Lamb, and Octavia Spencer. The current lineup is listed below. These are ticketed events that sell out quickly, so those who are interested in attending are urged to act fast [3].

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Adult Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall

• Chelsea Handler, Title TBA (A Chelsea Handler Book/Borderline Amazing® Publishing imprint of Grand Central Publishing) Master of Ceremonies
• Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Simon & Schuster)
• Wally Lamb, We Are Water (Harper)
• Another author to be announced
  

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2013
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.: Children’s Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

• Octavia Spencer, Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) Master of Ceremonies
• Mary Pope Osborne, Magic Tricks from the Tree House (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus, Book Four: The House of Hades (Disney-Hyperion)
• Veronica Roth, Divergent, Book III, (Katherine Tegan Books)

SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2013
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.: Adult Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

• Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (Simon & Schuster) Master of Ceremonies
• Helen Fielding, Title TBA (Knopf)
• John Lewis, March (Book One) (Top Shelf Productions)
• Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood
  (Delacorte Press Hardcover)

“Bookselling Today: ABA Education” begins on Wednesday morning, May 29, at BEA at the Javits Convention Center. The Remainders and Gift pavilions will also open on Wednesday.  The main exhibit area will be open from Thursday, May 30, through Saturday, June 1.

ABA member booksellers are eligible to receive complimentary badges for entrance to the BEA trade show. Registration is via the BEA trade show site [4].

Reservations for Hotel ABA [5], the Grand Hyatt New York, are open exclusively to ABA member booksellers. The special nightly rate for single and double rooms is $255, plus tax (currently 14.75 percent) and a $3.50 per night occupancy fee. The rate is available on accommodations from Monday, May 27, through Sunday, June 2.

Every store in good standing that books a room (or rooms) at Hotel ABA before the April 1 deadline will be automatically entered into a drawing for one of the following prizes, courtesy of BEA:

• 1 grand prize of four free hotel nights (room and tax) 
• 5 second place prizes of three free hotel nights (room and tax)
• 15 third place prizes of two free hotel nights (room and tax)
• 35 fourth place prizes of one free hotel nights (room and tax)

Only one winner per bookstore member is allowed.

In addition, last week BEA announced an alternative option [6] to expensive New York hotel rates for trade show attendees. On his blog, The BEAN [7], Rosato said that he expected to announce sometime this week that BEA had secured a block of 120 dorm rooms at Barnard College at the rate of $115 per night.