ALA/AAP Author Events, 2015 —
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If you are going to ALA in San Francisco at the end of the month, the AAP has some great book and author events scheduled.
Fellow procrastinators, don’t delay, these events are free but most require registration and they fill up quickly, (links to registration below):
AAP SAN FRANCISCO BOOK BUZZ 2015
Thursday, June 25th, 2015 from 8:00am-5:00pm
San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, Lower Level
100 Larkin Street , San Francisco, CA 94102
Join the AAP Children’s and Adult Library Marketing Committees for an all-day AAP San Francisco Book Buzz. Children’s and Teen titles will be buzzed from 8:30am-12:30pm, and Adult titles will be buzzed from 1:30-5:00pm with a lunch in between, provided by the publishers.
ON THE CHILDREN’S SIDE, HEAR FROM: HarperCollins Children’s Books, Albert Whitman, Macmillan Children’s, Sterling Children’s Books, Starscape & Tor Teen, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Little Bee Books, Algonquin Young Readers, Perseus Books Group, Penguin Young Readers Group, National Geographic Kids, New York Review Children’s, Harlequin TEEN, Random House Children’s Books, Sourcebooks, Quirk Books, Scholastic, Soho Teen, W.W. Norton & Co., and Simon & Schuster!
ON THE ADULT SIDE, HEAR FROM: Simon & Schuster, Perseus Books Group, New York Review Books, Hachette Book Group, Sterling, W.W. Norton & Co., Quirk Books, Random House, Workman, Sourcebooks, Macmillan, Soho Press, National Geographic, Melville House, HarperCollins, Harlequin, and Penguin!
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AAP/LIBRARYREADS BOOK-A-LICIOUS BREAKFAST
Saturday, June 27th, 2015 from 8:30am-10:00am
Marriott Marquis San Francisco (Golden Gate B)
780 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Hear from authors:
- Charles Belfoure, author of House of Thieves (Sourcebooks Landmark)
- Anthony Marra, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno (Hogarth)
- Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You (Penguin Books)
- Nnedi Okorafor, author of Lagoon (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press)
- Stacy Schiff, author of The Witches (Little, Brown & Co.)
- Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed (Picador/Macmillan)
AUTHOR SIGNING TO FOLLOW EVENT.
Space is limited. Please SIGN UP HERE TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN ATTENDING by Friday, June 19th. We will send you a confirmation if we can accommodate your request.
Formal invitation (with book covers) here: ALA 2015 Book-a-Licious Breakfast invite
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AAP CHILDREN’S & TEEN AUTHOR SPEED DATING EVENT
Saturday, June 27th from 3:00-4:00pm
Marriott Marquis San Francisco (Golden Gate B)
780 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Elana Arnold, The Question of Miracles (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
- Kathleen Baldwin, A School for Unusual Girls (Tor/Forge Books/Tor Teen)
- Lizi Boyd, Big Bear little chair (Chronicle Books)
- Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death (Arthur A. Levine Books)
- Monica Brown, Lola Levine is Not Mean! (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil #3: The Last Ever After (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
- Bruce Covill, Diary of a Mad Brownie (Random House Children’s Books)
- Joshua Davis, Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Macmillan)
- Tania del Rio, Warren the 13th (Quirk Books)
- Matt Faulkner, Gaijin: American Prisoner of War (Disney-Hyperion)
- Kim Griswell, Rufus Goes to Sea (Sterling Children’s Books)
- Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word (Disney-Hyperion)
- Stephen T. Johnson, Alphabet School (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books)
- Estelle Laure, This Raging Light (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Amy Lukavics, Daughter Unto Devils (Harlequin TEEN)
- Paige McKenzie, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl: Book One (Weinstein Books/The Perseus Books Group)
- Sebastian Meschenmoser, Mr. Squirrel and the Moon (NorthSouth Books)
- Yvonne Prinz, If You’re Lucky (Algonquin Young Readers)
- Debbie Ridpath Ohi, Where Are My Books? (Simon & Schuster/ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
- Lev Rosen, Woundabout (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Barney Saltzberg, Redbird: Friends Come in Different Sizes (Workman)
- Allan Stratton, The Dogs (Sourcebooks Fire)
- Craig Thompson, Space Dumplins (Scholastic)
- Steve “The Dirtmeister” Tomecek, Dirtmeister’s Nitty Gritty Planet Earth: All About Rocks, Minerals, Fossils, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, & Even Dirt! (National Geographic Kids Books)
SPACE IS LIMITED. YOU MUST RSVP HERE TO PARTICIPATE.
You will receive an email with your table number closer to the event.
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BOOKLIST’S READ ‘N RAVE
Monday, June 29th, 2015 from 9:00-10:00am
Moscone Convention Center, Room 122 (N)
Everyone gets excited by the new ARCs available at conference. Come hear six collection development specialists rave about their favorite titles gathered from the exhibit floor. This lively panel, co-organized by Booklist and the AAP, will feature librarians Stephanie Chase (Hillsboro Public); Naphtali Faris (KCPL); Alene Moroni (King County); Kaite Mediatore Stover (KCPL); Stephen Sposato (Chicago Public); and David Wright (Seattle Public). Moderated by Rebecca Vnuk, Booklist’s editor for Reference and Collection Management.
NO ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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AAP/LIBRARYREADS MYSTERY AUTHORS PANEL
Monday, June 29th, 2015 from 10:30-11:30am
Moscone Convention Center, Room 122 (N)
Hear from authors:
- Cara Black, author of Murder on the Champ de Mars (Soho Crime)
- Allison Brennan, author of Compulsion (Minotaur Books/Macmillan)
- John Katzenbach, author of The Dead Student (Mysterious Press)
- Keith McCafferty, author of Crazy Mountain Kiss (Viking)
- Kate White, author of The Wrong Man (Harper Paperbacks)
AUTHOR SIGNING TO FOLLOW EVENT.
Space is limited. Please SIGN UP HERE TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN ATTENDING by Friday, June 19th. We will send you a confirmation if we can accommodate your request.
Formal invitation, with book jackets, here,:ALA 2015 Mystery Authors Panel invite