BookExpo Adult Book & Author Breakfast Speakers Announced

On Tuesday, February 7, ReedPOP announced the speakers for BookExpo 2017’s Adult Book & Author Breakfast, including a special appearance by Stephen King and his son Owen King. The co-authors of the upcoming novel Sleeping Beauties (Scribner) will offer a “prologue” to the breakfast.

The Adult Book and Author Breakfast will take place on Thursday, June 1, from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. on the Main Stage at New York City’s Jacob Javits Convention Center. BookExpo and American Booksellers Association programming will take place from Wednesday, May 31, through Friday, June 2.

The Adult Book & Author Breakfast will be hosted by comedian and actress Whitney Cummings (I’m Fine… and Other Lies, coming from Putnam/Penguin Random House) and will feature:

• Scott Kelly, Endurance: My Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery (Knopf/Penguin Random House)
• Kenya Barris, This Is Basic Sh*t (Grand Central/Hachette)
• Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner)
• Claire Messud, The Burning Girl: A Novel (W.W. Norton)

American Booksellers Association member booksellers can register for free badges to BookExpo by providing an ABA member ID number during the registration process. Booksellers who don’t know their ID number should send a request with their name, title, and store name to [email protected] or call (800) 637-0037, ext. 7536.

Thanks to financial support from Reed Exhibitions, ABA member booksellers can reserve rooms at The Row NYC Hotel at a rate of $200 per night, including all taxes and fees. The ABA member hotel rate is available for the nights of Tuesday, May 30, through Saturday, June 3, 2017; however, the room block is filling and reservations are being accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. The Row NYC Hotel is located at 700 Eighth Avenue. To access Hotel ABA reservation information, booksellers will need a BookWeb username and password.

Information on ABA programming at BookExpo can be found on BookWeb.org; watch for updates in future issues of Bookselling This Week.