Award Winners, Honorees to Sign in ABA Lounge at BEA [1]

[3]Following the presentation of the Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. Read-Aloud Awards [4] at the Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Lunch [5] at BookExpo America 2016 [6], the award-winning authors and honor recipients in attendance will sign exclusively for indie booksellers at a reception in the ABA Member Lounge (Meeting Room T-100) on the McCormick Place trade show floor.

The Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Lunch will held from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, in McCormick’s Skyline Ballroom. Authors who will head over to the ABA Member Lounge immediately following the Celebration for an hour of signings from 1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. are:

  • Kate Beaton, The Princess and the Pony (Arthur A. Levine Books) — E.B. White Read-Aloud Picture Book Honoree
  • Alex Gino, George (Scholastic Press) — E.B. White Read-Aloud Middle Reader Honoree
  • Ryan T. Higgins, Mother Bruce (Disney-Hyperion) — E.B. White Read-Aloud Picture Book Award Winner
  • Loren Long, Little Tree (PYRG/Philomel) — Indie Champion Honoree
  • Richard Russo, Everybody’s Fool (Knopf) — Indie Champion Award Winner
  • Gavriel Savit, Anna and the Swallow Man (Knopf Books for Young Readers) — Indies Choice Young Adult Award Winner
  • Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not (Soho Teen) — Indies Choice Young Adult Book Honoree
  • Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King (Scholastic Press) — Indie Champion Honoree
  • J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest (Pamela Dorman/Viking) — Indies Choice Adult Debut Award Winner

Space at the Celebration lunch is now very limited; booksellers who want to attend should make a reservation [7] as soon as possible. Once the lunch reaches capacity, booksellers’ names will be added to a waitlist.

Table assignments will be sent the week of May 2. Questions about the Celebration and ABA Member Lounge autographing should be addressed to Development Officer Mark Nichols [8].

The Indies Choice and E.B. White logos are available to ABA members in the Bookseller DIY [9] for use in promoting the winners and finalists in newsletters and other marketing materials.