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7 What Else Is Disney Not Telling Me? Marissa Meyer and Lauren Bardugo on Futuristic Fairy Tales for Gen Z

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Book Club Insider: THREE BESTSELLING AUTHORS ON THE POWER OF READING TOGETHER

Show Daily @ BookCon asked these three remarkable authors to share some thoughts on their books past and soon-to-be-released, and to talk a bit about their personal experience with book clubs.

Your previous book became a huge favorite among book clubs across the country. What is it about this book that you think resonates so intensely with your readers?Annie Barrows: I think that Guernsey was a book club favorite because it pres-ents in its pages all the great glories of book clubs: passionate readers with fer-vent opinions arguing madly with other passionate readers with opposite fervent opinionsplus refreshments. Paula McLain: The Paris Wife hits a sweet spot, I think, by filling us in on a time, place, and person we know little

about. Then theres the appeal of getting the inside scoop on how and when some of the great works of American fiction came together. One reader called the book pornography for English majors. Love that.Vanessa Diffenbaugh: I had the opportunity to Skype with many book clubs all over the country [about The Language of Flowers], and most of the feedback I received was that they loved learning about the world of foster care and also of the Victorian language of flowers.

What is the one element of your new book that will set it apart and touch your readers hearts?AB: If I were remotely capable of mak-ing a mathematical metaphor, Id say that The Truth According to Us is my ver-sion of proving a theorem on the endless fascination of the lives of other people.

PM: Though Circling the Sun includes characters that will be familiar to readers of Out of Africa, it reveals a much more complex version of them, and a story thats been hidden from history. VD: Being a principals wife was one of the main inspirations for writing We Never Asked for Wings. There was one student who, after being brought to this country as a child from Mexico, worked hard to get straight As and was accepted at a prestigious collegeonly to find out that he couldnt go because he didnt qualify for federal financial aid. He was undocumented. It was this story, among others, that inspired me to write this book.

In the feedback youve gotten from book clubs, what are some of the best/worst/most memorable opin-ions youve received from book club members?

Today, 11 a.m.noon, in the Penguin Random House Meeting Room, BookCon attendees will get a pre-view of eagerly anticipated novels from book club favorites Annie Barrows, Paula McLain, and Vanessa Diffenbaugh. In a Book Club panel moderated by Carol Fitzgerald, president of the Book Report Net-work, an online site for connecting readers, books

and authors, the bestselling authors of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Paris Wife, and The Language of Flowers, respectively, will chat about the pleasures of sharing books with friends, what makes a good book club pick, and reveal tidbits from their forthcoming novels.

A celebration of the written word in all its forms, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society won over readers with its colorful cast of characters who are members of a quirky book club on the English channel island of Guernsey after WWII. In her new novel, The Truth According to Us (June), Barrows takes us to Macedonia, West Virginia., where the arrival of a debutante working for the Federal Writers Project

changes the course of history for a prominent family that has been sitting on a secret for decades.

In The Paris Wife, Paula McLain brought to life Jazz Age Paris in her recounting of the love affair between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley. Transporting readers to Kenya in the 1920s, her new novel, Circling the Sun (July), introduces us to Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator whose love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa, awakens Beryl to her truest self and her fate: to fly.

With her debut novel, The Language of Flow-ers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh created a vivid portrait of a woman who uses her gift for flowers to change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past. Her new novel, We Never Asked for Wings (Aug.), is a pow-erful story about fighting adversity and learning how to be a parent to your own kids.

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AB: Ive had a lot of wonder-ful interactions with book clubs. The only negative book club feedback Ive received has come from peo-ple who actually made a bona fide potato peel pie for their club meeting and lived to regret it.PM: I love to go into peoples

living rooms and hear them talk about books, and wish I had time to do more of it, too. Even when theres a member, or three, who will cross her arms, set her brow, and tell me in no uncertain terms that shes not taking any nonsense from that Ernest Hemingway. Its why we love book clubs, isnt it? To really engage and evenyes!disagree? VD: I recently visited a book club at a book-store in my new hometown of Monterey, Calif. The first thing they did was to go around in a circle and say what they liked and didnt like about my book. Most were extremely positive, but then we got to one member, and she said she had to skip parts of the book because they were too intense. This spurred a passionate debate about whether the book was too sad or whether it was, in fact, hopeful.

PW: Are you a member of a book club?AB: I am a member of two book clubs, both with a membership of two. The first one is my mom and me. The other book club consists of me and the guy who works out on the machine behind mine at the gym. We both read a lot of history and yell recommendations to each other while we sweat. PM: Fifteen years ago, when I was waiting tables at a high-end margarita bar and work-ing on my first book, I was in a book club with five of the other servers, who were some

of the smartest, most thought-ful, and engaged readers Ive ever met.VD: I just recently joined a book club in Monterey. It is a wonderful group of profes-sional women and avid read-ers, and I am very excited to be a part of this great group. Meg A. Parsont

Meyer and Bardugo on futuristic fairy tales for Gen Z

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Marissa Meyersand Leigh Bardugos bestselling Young Adult novels are thrown into the catch-all category of fantasy, but their stories, which have captivated multitudes of fans, are so much more. Publishing insiders often call Meyers Lunar Chronicles and Bardugos Grisha Trilogy fractured fairy tales

for the Generation Z readers who grew up reading Harry Potter, appreci-ate smart and strong females like Hermione Granger, and expect their fantasies served with a dose of darkness. Meyer and Bardugo will square off in a game of Truth or Dare and candid discussion about their passion for sci/fi and fantasy today, at 5 p.m., in Room 1A21. The paneland gamewill be moderated by Jen Doll, author of Save the Date.

Meyer has been obsessed with fairy tales, since she was a young child and saw Disneys film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersons The Little Mermaid. After her grandmother gave her a book of fairy tales to read, Meyer says, she was stunned to realize that the story Anderson had written was nothing like the movie she had loved so much. There was a little bit of devastation, too, she confesses. What else is Disney not telling me? she asked herself.

Meyers Lunar Chronicles quartet retells classic fairy tales with futur-istic and feminist twists: Cinder (Cinderella); Scarlet (Little Red Riding Hood); Cress (Rapunzel); and Winter (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), which concludes the series and will be published this fall.

The women in Bardugos trio of novelsShadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Risingare equally intrepid, independent, and strong. The series began with Alina Starkov, an orphan, a refugee, a nobody, wielding a power she did not know she had after the regiment she is with is attacked while traveling through a land upon which a nearly impenetrable darkness has descended. In a lot of fantasy, darkness is a metaphor, Bardugo explains. Here, the darkness is something literal; its a place.

While Bardugo also read and loved fairy tales as a child, and claims that she loves broadswords and mead as much as the next person, she decided to set her novels in a world more evocative of 18th-century czar-ist Russia than of medieval Europe. Even people who know nothing about [Russias] history have strong associations with it, Bardugo notes. They know the names Anastasia and Rasputin. Theyve probably seen a Faberg egg or images of St. Basils. A fairy tale retelling is often about taking the familiar to new places, but retaining the resonances of those original stories. In some ways, building a fantasy world can be a similar endeavor..

Heartless, Meyers debut in her retelling of Lewis Carrolls Alice in Won-derland, will be released in early 2016. While Bardugo has concluded the Grisha Trilogy, she will return to that world with the release of Six of Crows in September, the first in a planned duet. Its a about a group of outcast kids in the world of Grisha who break into impenetrable fortresses, she explains. Its Oceans 11 meets Game of Thrones. Thats the easiest way to convey a heist in the fantasy world. By Claire Kirch

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A NEW LOOK FOR AN OLD FAVORITENorton Juster to sign The Phantom Tollbooth

More than half a century after he created The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster is here at BookCon to celebrate a new hardcover edition of the enduring classic. Often compared to Alice in Wonderland, Justers novel has been hailed by critics, assigned by teachers, read by parents, and, most importantly, adored by

young readers. Upon the publication of a previous anniversary edition, Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker called it an enduring gem, and wrote, The birthday of a good childrens book marks

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Today, at 1 p.m., Juster will be in the autographing area to invite yet another generation of readers to journey with Milo to the Lands Beyond. He will be signing early copies of the new edition, which will be available for sale in August. It features a foreword by the author and essays by award-winning writers and artists including Philip Pull-man, who says of the novel, It will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. Mo Willems, Suzanne Collins, and Michael Chabon are among those contributing essays. Also featured is an introduction by the late Maurice Sendak and then-and-now photographs of the author and illustrator. Liz Hartman

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Barnett and John:THE TERRIBLE TWO PUT

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We are going to put the con back into BookCon, Mac Barnett, says of the pranking workshop that he is leading with his fellow expert, or, partner-in-crime, Jory John, today, noon12:45 p.m., on the Downtown Stage. The two have serious street

cred: they wrote the book on pranking: The Terrible Two ( illus-trated by Kevin Cornell), a tale of pranksters who engage in an epic war of trickery before joining forces to pull off the biggest prank the town has ever seen. Although the publisher claims that The Terrible Two is middle-grade fiction, savvy readers know better: its actually based on Barnetts and Johns real-life experiencesonly, like the tagline for Dragnet, the popu-lar 1950s-era television show, declares, the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Or, in this case, the guilty.

Barnett and John promise to make it well worth while for BookCon attendees to attend their pranking workshop. Not only do they promise to divulge the exact location of a speak-easy at Javits this weekend, but they are going to hide $10,000 somewhere in the building and provide meaningful clues dur-ing the workshop as to where the stash can be found. Were

hoping that even though this workshop is being held in New York and will of course attract locals, that people will fly in from all over the world just to come to this event, John says, Were especially looking to recruit people into our secret society of pranksters, Barnett adds, explaining that becoming an official member of the Barnett/John prankster secret society involves taking the prankster oath, which will be administered to all who successfully complete the workshop.

The pranking workshop will include an overview of the phi-losophy behind pranking, readings about literary pranks from books that Barnett and John will claim to have written them-selves, and hands-on exercises. A lot of people will be leaving with a lot less money than they came with, John notes. Asked if they intend to pick the pockets of attendees, Barnett and John vehemently deny entertaining such thoughts, pointing out that the competition for that is too stiff in New York City.

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MINDY KALING AND B.J. NOVAK Together Again

Mindy Kaling will take the stage in the Special Events Hall to kick off the second annual BookCon today at 11 a.m. B.J. Novak will interview her.

Mindy Kaling, author of the bestselling Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, is back to talk about her latest book, Why Not Me?, a col-lection of hilarious and deeply personal essays.

Its an appropriate title in light of the recent untimely demise of her popular TV show, The Mindy Project. (As of this writing, rumor has it that, goddess willing, it might be resuscitated on Hulu.) But nobody puts this comedian/actress/writer/producer/director in the corner. The writer formerly known as Vera Mindy Chokalingam will be interviewed by her former costar and on-screen love from The Office, B.J. Novak. And, yes, she spills the beans in her book about their relationship, which has

many inand outof the know collectively scratching their heads. (I will freely admit: my relationship with B.J. Novak is weird as hell.) If that doesnt grab you, you can just skip to the parts about Bradley Cooper.

B.J. Novak is another slacker (cough, cough): actor, writer, director, and executive producer on The Office, he is also a New York Times bestselling author of two books: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories and The Book With No Pictures. He has appeared in such films as Inglourious Basterds and Saving Mr. Banks and was a consulting producer for season one of The Mindy Project. (How many of you know that his father is William Novak, ghostwriter for Lee Iacocca and Nancy Reagan, or that he went to high school with his Office confrere, John Krasinski?) His on-again/off-again relationship with Kaling has often mirrored the strange relationship of the characters they played on The Office. Perhaps they will finally work it all out, right before BookCons attendees eyes.

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A Classy Canineto the Rescue

Men and fashion? The well-dressed man? Just look around, and youll see that its a concept reserved for glossy magazines and red car-pets, but rarely found in reality. This is true even here in the Big Apple, where people are generally pretty spiffy. Since time immemo-rial, women having been trying to dress

men. Thats been as successful as women imploring a guy to ask for directions or to put down the toilet seat.

So what does it take to get a man to listen to fashion advice? Mans best friend, of course: a dog. But not just any old canine. Men need Menswear Dog, who has become a megastar across all new mediaTwitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and countless blogsand has appeared on numer-ous TV shows, including Anderson Cooper Live, E! News, and The Rachael Ray Show. Now Bodhi, the Shiba Inu behind the sartorial sensation, goes old school and barks out his advice in a book, Mens-wear Dog Presents the New Classics: Fresh Looks for the Modern Man.

Bodhi shares style secrets and teaches men how to dress, shop, and guarantee a perfect fit for their clothing. He also serves as the handsome model. Without opposing thumbs, however, his key-board skills are severely lacking, so his master and mistress, David Fung and Yena Kim, put his woofs into words. While there is a lot of goofing around during shoots with Bodhi, theres nothing silly about his fashion advice.

Bodhi lays out his 10 commandments for fashion in his Menswear Dogma.

1. INVEST NOW; SAVE LATER.2. CLASSICS ARE TIMELESS FOR A REASON.3. FIND YOURSELF A GOOD TAILOR.4. FIT TRUMPS PRICE EVERY TIME.5. TAKE CARE OF YOUR CLOTHES.6. CLOTHES SHOULD BE FITTED, NEVER TIGHT.7. ITS OKAY TO COPY YOUR FASHION IDOLS.8. LEARN HOW TO PROPERLY TIE A TIE. 9. WHEN IN DOUBT, KEEP IT SIMPLE. 10. IF IT DOESNT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, DONT WEAR IT.

Menswear Dog will be at the Workman booth (1039), today at noon posing for selfies, pawtographing his book, and generally making you feel inferior about your fashion sense. Liz Hartman

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Apparently movies would suck without John Green, who is downright effusive about how the movie adaptation of his 2008 novel, Paper Towns, turned out. The film which is being released on July 24, a year after last summers blockbuster hit The Fault in Our Stars opened and transformed Green from bestselling YA author into pop cul-

ture phenomenon. I feel astonished that I like the movie so much, he says of

Paper Towns. Never mind that Green might also be loving that hes got another shot at 15 seconds of movie stardom: he dis-closed that he has a cameo in Paper Townsjust as he did in last summers The Fault in Our Stars, although that scene, sadly, landed on the cutting-room floor.

In many ways, the movie is better than the book, Green insists, noting that he feels the same way about the movie adaptation of Fault in Our Stars. I love the way the friendships come to life, he says, the tension and the joy in the interac-tions between the teens, particularly those of the three male

characters, Quentin, Radar, and Ben. Those friendships are just so vibrant and so alive, he says. I tried to bring that to the book. And, he admits, Radars girlfriend, Angela, is more interesting than the original character he created.

Although hes now got two movies under his belt and is the star attraction at BookCon for the second year in a row, par-ticipating in a panel discussion of Paper Towns in the Special Events Hall, 67 p.m., Green maintains that his life hasnt changed that much since Paper Towns was published in 2008except maybe for having legions of enthusiastic fans attending his appearances and eagerly lining up for hours to have him sign their books. The first four years I was a pub-lished author, I never had a signing with more than eight people at it, he recalls with a laugh. I didnt think any of my books would ever become movies, actually, he says, empha-sizing how grateful he is, but admitting its been more diffi-cult to write in the shadow of all of this hullabaloo. None-theless, this bonafide literary rock star maintains that he is still a nerd, living a quiet life in Indianapolis with his family and his friends when he isnt on tour for his books or on loca-tion with movie crews. He finds the extraordinary response to his novels encouraging, but also super strangein a good way, he is quick to add. I feel really lucky. Claire Kirch

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Nick Offerman HES GOT GUMPTION

Join Nick Offerman in the Special Events Hall today, 2:30 p.m.3:30 p.m., in an hour of conversation, music, and muckraking as he presents his new book, Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with Americas Gutsiest Troublemakers. He will be interviewed by author/actor/humorist John Hodgman.

An actor, woodworker, and King of the Mustache, Nick Offerman is following up his bestselling book Paddle Your Own Canoe with Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with Americas Gutsiest Troublemakers, an idiosyncratic collec-tion of 21 people who have made Offermans personal pan-theon of Great Americans.

Offerman admits his editor, Jill Schwartzman, is the one who came up with the idea of a list of great Americans. I was intrigued, so I started compiling a list. When I had it, I noticed a set of values and characteristics that qualified each initiate. Thats what led me to come up with the all-encom-passing theme of gumption. They all have a certain grit, a certain moral and ethical standard I admire.

Offerman explains that he didnt try to write biographies, but to point out moments in each ones life that seemed to him to be the source of the gumption that inspires him. This exclusive group ranges from George Washington, Frederick Douglass, and Benjamin Franklin to Yoko Ono, Willie Nel-son, and Conan OBrien. Its all done, as one would expect from TVs Parks and Recreation fan fave character, Ron Swan-son, in a way that is at once serious and very entertaining, with lots of humor.

I felt like when I finished the book, I had a created a really complex mixtape for my friends, he says. You know, when you meet a group and say, I need to turn you on to these 21 bands, they are going to blow your mind? Thats what I am going for.

Offerman will not be performing in quite the way he had hoped during his personal appearance at BookCon. I was instructed that fireworks were not permitted inside the Jacob Javits Center, so the display will not be as explosive as I desired. Well have to fabricate delight and wonderment with our language and facial expressions. There will be an overall patriotic bent to the proceedings and adequate ukulele musi-cianship, he says.

And John Hodgman? How did he get pulled in to moder-ate? He is someone I greatly admire as one of the most erudite and humorous minds in the world of satire today. It was sort of an arranged marriage through a secret society that we both belong to. We were paired together and are being assessed for

promotion to a higher degree in said society, he says. Since he speaks in that unmistakable stentorian voice, its hard to tell if hes kidding. When prodded further about this secret society, he stonewalls: I am not at liberty to reveal details, but I can assure you that the society has mankinds and wom-ankinds best interests at heart,

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television rolesand Evans, an award-winning artist and illustrator for childrens books, the television show Kevin Hill, and much more. The two have been friends since their college days and both are chil-dren of multiracial families. Their previ-ous book, Chocolate Me, introduced Max, an African-American boy learning to love himself and his skin color with the help of his mother. Dont worry about what color I am, dont worry about those things that dont mean anything about who I truly am. Put it in a simple way: I am Love, Evans says. And thats what this child is about. In Mixed Me, Max exuberantly leaps from one exciting moment to the next. For Diggs, Max is a vital character for children to see today. I was an avid reader as a child, he says, but I most dis-tinctly recall the books that had characters that looked like me.

Maxs race may not define him, but Diggs and Evans dont gloss over it, either. He encounters confusion along the way about why his parents dont match, but his enthusiasm and his parents love for him supersede all else. Id like for anyone who has ever been excluded in any arena of life to feel reminded by Mixed Me that they are indeed individually important, special, and delightfully unique,

Maxs race may not define him, but Diggs and

Diggs says.Mixed Me depicts Max during a typical

school day in which he encounters great joy but also confusion about who he is because of his race. As Evans sees it, this speaks to the ordinariness of mixed chil-dren facing these kinds of questions. Its just one day, he says, but in one day you can get hit with questions like Why is that your mother? Why is that your father? And you dont have any clue how to answer that.

For Diggs and Evans the answer is love. Mixed Me treats Maxs familys love as

intrinsic to his character, something already known to be true rather than to be discovered. Evans sees in that a representation of what he calls truth in its most charismatic way. He adds, I want people to appreciate their own family relationships, , stress-ing how important it is to engrain that idea from a young age.

Through their collaboration, Diggs and Evans hope to pass on their lessons proudly and inspire another generation to carry what they learn with them. Storytelling has many vary-ing and positive effects on young people, Diggs says. The most paramount thing for me: exercising the minds imagina-tion. Stories make children think. Josh Cohen

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DAVID DUCHOVNYon Spiritual Cows, Circumcised Pigs, but Not Cancer Man

David Duchovny, best-known for his portrayals on TV of Fox Mulder on The X-Files, and Hank Moody on Californication, is finally where he originally thought he would end up: as a writer. Holy Cow, his charming fable about dignity and tolerance, com-plete with anthropomorphized animals, and replete with puns, double-entendres and sophisticated

humor, (Kirkus Reviews, starred) came out in February from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Oh, and theres a cow named Elsie Bovary.

Duchovny, who will talk about and sign his book in the Macmillan Meeting Room (3139) today at 2 p.m., took a few minutes to speak with Beth Levine for Show Daily@BookCon.

Everyone mentions your Princeton and Yale back-ground in English. Were you a writer before you become an actor?That was my original ambition, the story I told myself when I was thinking about my life after school. The original concept of going to graduate school was so I could teach and write. I came to acting through writing, but it was very lonely sitting in a room by myself. At the age of 22, I couldnt quite face that. I thought playwrights and screenwriters had more fun

because they get to collaborate. When I tried my hand at that, I decided I should learn something about speaking words. I came to acting as someone who was going to write for actors.

I cant help thinking of the X-Files plot where it turned out that the worldwide evil mastermind Cancer Man was just a frustrated novelist who couldnt get pub-lished. Do you feel his pain now?Maybe. If I hadnt been published, I might be now in a shadow government in high levels with a Canadian accent. Thanks to my publisher, FSG, youve all been saved.

What inspired you to write Holy Cow?I had this idea that if I were a cow, wouldnt I try to get to India if I was trying to save myself from being eaten? It felt like an animated feature. I pitched it to Disney and Pixar. They passed. Seeing the book now, I realize that was probably a smart move.

You seem to get a kick out of wordplay in Holy Cow. Do you think, in that sense, writing and acting fulfill the same need? The joy of language and expression?Joy of expression, yes. But as I grow as an actor, as I feel I get better, words are less and less important to me. Whats more important is what is going on beneath the words.

I hear youve signed for a second novel. Can you give us any sneak peeks at that?Its called Bucky F@&*ing Dent. Its set in 1978, when the Yankees overtook the Red Sox and the curse of the Babe con-tinued.

Okay, and I have to ask or my husband will leave me: X Files reunion. Is that really happening?We start shooting six episodes in June in Vancouver. I dont know when it will air or anything about Cancer Man.

Will Scully and Mulder finally get together?They got together in the last movie.

Oh. Right. Will they stay together?Well, thats the question, isnt it?

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the life I live, he says. Despite this, he insists, he doesnt allow his personal biases to sway him when it comes to publishing and promoting SFF. Its not about agendas, its not about beliefs,

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its about business, Monti explains. Putting a person of color on a book cover isnt detrimental to sales. Having a bad cover is detrimental to sales.

Monti certainly walks his talk: the four new releases on Sagas spring debut list are all by multicultural authors, and of the total 20 new releases in 2015, only three are by white men. Of the four authors on todays panel, three are Saga authors: Ken Liu, whose debut novel, Grace of Kings, was published in April; Nnedi Okoafor, whose novel Lagoonis being released in July; and Kameron Hur ley, whose novel The Stars Are Legion will be published in 2016.

The lone panelist not asso-ciated with Saga, Daniel Jos Older (Bone Street Rumba

series, published by Penguin Ran-dom House/Roc), writes urban fantasy that goes beyond using the city as a cool backdrop in a subgenre that is dominated by white power narratives, he says. Noting that last years inaugural BookCon drew a very black and brown crowd that was not reflected equitably in the event programming, Older adds, It takes more than a diversity panel to change how the industry works. Diversity isnt something that should need to be demanded. Its a natural state of the world.

Liu, who describes his writing as silk punktales inspired by Chinese myths and technological prototypessays that the call for more diversity in SFF is not about mak-ing books more inclusive, its about making books more reflective of the experiences of reading audiences. Publishers have to catch up to their readers, he says, and drop the idea that SFF readers wont read books by people of color or women. After all, he points out, all of the Nebula award winners last year (selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) were women. Readers are not the problem, Liu says, Were all about giving readers what they want.

Nnedi Okorafor, who describes herself as having stories that just pour out of me, recalls that, growing up, she never read books that had characters who looked like me, which inspired her in part to write novels with themes that draw upon her Nigerian heritage. She says the calls for diversity in SFF are very positive, but admits that its frustrating to hear the emphasis upon multicultural when it comes to her books. Every writer wants to be read, she insists. I hope youre reading me because its a good story.

Kameron Hurley points out that writing people of color and women into SFF is nothing new. African-

Americans and women have always written SFF, she says, but their voices have been suppressed. She notes that when she wrote The Mirror Empire, no one wanted it, because it didnt look like other epic fantasies. Her breakthrough came when Angry Robot, a small press in the U.K. that specializes in sci-ence fiction and fantasy fiction, sold 13,000 copies in four or

five months, which attracted the attention of the major houses, including S&S/Saga.

Small presses have always driven the changes n the industry, Hurley notes. They take the risks. Im looking forward to this panel: were going to have a pretty interest-ing discussion.

The panel, We Need Diverse Books Pres-ents In Our World and Beyond, moderated by YA author Marieke Nijkamp (This Is Where It Ends), will be held in Room 1A21 at 11 a.m.

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Looking for love these days isnt for the faint of heart. From TMI selfies to parsing out the inner meaning of drunk texts, you could be forgiven if youd like to skip the whole thing and just devote your life to good works. You are not alone.

Comedian Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation) has teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg to provide a unique look at Modern Romance (June). The two interviewed hundreds of people; conducted focus groups from

Tokyo and Buenos Aires to Wichita, Kans.; analyzed behavioral data and surveys; and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They also spoke to some of the worlds leading social scientists, such as Andrew Cher-lin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. Result? A book that is hilarious but also deeply serious about what it takes to find love these daysand keep it.

Aziz helps you find love today in the Special Events Hall, 4:155:15 p.m., where he will be interviewed by Daniel Jones, editor of the New York Timess Modern Love column. Beth Levine

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GET YOUR CARDS READ: Take a break from books and visit the St. Martins booth (3056), 10 a.m.noon, today for a Tarot card reading to celebrate the publication of The Book of Speculation (June), Erika Swylers debut novel, which Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants) calls dazzling. Gruen raves, I was immediately swept up in this quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga.

MEET MEG CABOTEVERYWHERE!Meg Cabot, author of the blockbuster series The Princess Diaries and other bestsellers, is omnipresent at BookCon, so theres no excuse for missing a chance to meet her. At 12:30 p.m. today, she joins fellow superstar authors Cathy Maxwell, Kristan Higgins, and Robyn Carr for the panel, Spotlight on Romance: Reader Love, moderated by NPRs Petra Mayer, in Room1A06. At 3:30 p.m., shell be auto-graphing her newest book, From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, at Table 2. Tomorrow, 12:301:30 p.m., Cabot talks about this new book in a dis-cussion, A New Chapter in Genovia, with Sam Maggs, editor of TheMarySue.com, in Room 1A21. Following that, Cabot winds up her BookCon activi-ties with another autographing, 23 p.m., at Table 6.

FINISH UP WITH DAVID BALDACCIApparently 27 international bestselling books for adults arent enough for David Baldacci. Last year he smashed into the world of fantasy with The Fin-isher, his debut book for younger read-ers, which introduced Vega Jane. Shes back in his new novel, The Keeper, due out in September. But fans dont have to wait that long. Baldacci will be signing books twice today: 12-1 at the Scholastic booth, (2919) and 45 at Table 9. He also takes the Downtown Stage with other heavyweights of the fantasy worldMaggie Stiefvater, Jackson Pearce, and Kevin Sandsto discuss magic, mystery, and much more in the panel, Wands Not Required! An Exploration of Epic Fantasy Worlds, moder-ated by David Levithan. Liz Hartman

LIVE LONG AND PROSPERPop culture guru, frequent performer at Nerdnite and Nerdtacular, and author of Fun with Kirk and Spock, Robb Pearlman, is at Book-Con to celebrate his new guide to long life and pros-perity: The Wit and Wisdom of Star Trek. Trekkies should trek over to Cider Mill Presss booth (2642) at 11 a.m., where Pearlman will be sign-ing the new book, which fea-tures classic quotes, photos, behind-the-scenes trivia, and personal recollections from the cast and crew of the orig-inal Star Trek series.

BE BFFS FOREVER Sarah Dessen, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Han take the stage in Room 1A23, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., to discuss friendship, power, and the ties that bind, on and off the page. Dessen and Han have new books out, Saint Any-thing and P.S. I Still Love You, respec-tively, while Formans most recent, I Was Here, was published just this past winter. The creator of ForeverYoung.com, Sarah Pitre, will moderate this trio of teen favorites.

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