CHAPTER ONE STAGE
MCP - Exhibit Hall, Next to Booth 5240
The NEW Chapter One Stage features genres new to our stages including international, audio books, and a poetry blast. The
stage will also host our launch of live podcast recordings.
FRIDAY, JUNE 23
5:45 pm – 6:35 pmThe Yarn Podcast LIVE at ALA with
Two-Time Winner of the Newbery Medal,
Katherine Paterson, On Her New Book, My
Brigadista Year!
3:00 pm – 3:50 pmForeword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Winners Presentation
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Poetry Blast 2017
SUNDAY, JUNE 25
SATURDAY, JUNE 24
9:15 am – 10:00 amThe Alchemy of Audiobooks: The Making-Of
an Odyssey Award Winner
9:15 am – 10:00 amThe Yarn Podcast LIVE at ALA: Picture
Books Unraveled—Top Creators Talk About
Their Craft
10:00 am – 10:50 amAll The Wonders—Popular KidLit Podcast
LIVE @ ALA with The Wonderling’s Mira
Bartok!
10:00 am – 10:50 amInternational Thrillers in a Divided World:
A Reading and Conversation with AwardWinning Author Dave Edlund
11:00 am – 11:50 am It’s a Mystery: Three Different Takes
11:00 am – 11:50 amWORLDS and WORDS beyond: Gateways
into Sci-Fi and Fantasy
12:00 pm – 12:50 pmThree Novelists, Three Perspectives:
Historical Fiction from Louisa May Alcott’s
Forgotten Sister, to the Glitz of 20th Century
London, to WWII-era Netherlands
1:00 pm – 1:50 pmAges and Stages—What Topics For What
Age Groups?
2:00 pm – 2:50 pmTough Topics in Teen Fiction—From Death to
Disability to Everything in Between—2017
Debut Authors Discuss the Importance of
Honesty and Inclusion in YA Literature
FRIDAY, JUNE 23
12:00 pm – 12:50 pmMusic in Fiction/Fiction in Music: Debut
Novelists Talk Inspiration
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Getting Kids Excited About STEM
2:00 pm – 2:50 pmUnravelings: Unreliable narrators.
Unputdownable stories.
3:00 pm – 3:50 pmFrench Comics on Screen: Film Adaptations
of Franco-Belgian Graphic Narratives
4:00 pm – 4:50 pmBecoming Ms. Burton: From Prison
to Recovery to Leading the Fight for
Incarcerated Women
SATURDAY, JUNE 24
The Yarn Podcast LIVE at ALA with Two-Time
The Yarn Podcast LIVE at ALA: Picture Books
Winner of the Newbery Medal, Katherine
Unraveled—Top Creators Talk About Their Craft
Paterson, On Her New Book, My Brigadista Year! 9:15 am – 10:00 am
5:45 pm – 6:35 pm
Travis Jonker of the popular podcast The Yarn will
be interviewing Katherine
Paterson on stage about
her new book coming out
this fall, My Brigadista Year.
It is an engrossing historical (but also timely) novel inspired by true
accounts of a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel
Castro’s national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished
countryside to teach others how to read. Katherine first learned about
the Cuban literacy campaign when planning her second trip to Cuba.
Her friend, Mary Leahy (sister of Senator Patrick Leahy), director of
Central Vermont Adult Basic Education, shared that in one year the
campaign turned Cuba into an illiteracy-free country. This is truly a tale
of “transformation” as a whole in that it is inspired by a true event that
completely changed the state of literacy of an entire country.
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Travis Jonker, co-host of the children’s literature podcast The Yarn,
records the show in front of a live audience. How do picture books
work? What goes into making one? Some of the most talented and
respected names in the field talk about their craft.
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International Thrillers in a Divided World: A
Reading and Conversation with Award-Winning
Author Dave Edlund
10:00 am – 10:50 am
The world and our nation are facing a time
of deep divisions and unprecedented ethical concerns while simultaneously reaping
the benefits of extreme technological
innovations. How do we protect our nation
while maintaining our humanity in a world
that seems less and less humane? How do we mine the benefits of
technology without destroying the world in which we live? These are
the questions that Dave Edlund boldly addresses in his ’Peter Savage’
novels, tackling hot-button issues such as energy independence,
genetic manipulation, bioweapons, and redrawing borders in the name
of national security. Dave Edlund will talk about how his expertise as
a scientist influences his writing and how he seeks to address global
issues through his critically-acclaimed ’Peter Savage’ thriller series.
Dave will read from his novels and take questions from the audience
as he shows the power of fiction to tackle critical issues that might
otherwise seem insurmountable.
WORLDS and WORDS beyond: Gateways into
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
11:00 am – 11:50 am
Sara Ella and Mary Weber are dynamic,
breakout YA fantasy and sci-fi writers who
can share insight and deeper understanding
into why your patrons will love these genres.
Elinor Glyn, who rise above their station and scandalize society from
London to Hollywood.
Devin Murphy’s debut novel THE BOAT RUNNER is set in a small Dutch
town at the start of World War II and follows the youngest son of a
wealthy industry family, who amidst the brutalities of war tries to find
meaning and personal redemption.
Ages and Stages—What Topics for What Age
Groups?
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Books containing heavy subject matter
have long been used as tools to help children empathize with marginalized voices
that otherwise may not be able to share
their stories. From Ant to Eagle, a middle
grade novel told from the perspective of an
11-year-old boy whose younger brother is diagnosed and ultimately
succumbs to cancer, raises the question: What topics for what ages?
Alex Lyttle, pediatrician and author of From Ant To Eagle, discusses
difficult subject matter in children’s fiction and how this relates to the
various developmental stages of childhood.
Tough Topics in Teen Fiction—From Death to
Disability to Everything in Between—2017
Debut Authors Discuss the Importance of
Honesty and Inclusion in YA Literature
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Sara and Mary will discuss why libraries are
the perfect place to introduce fantasy and
sci-fi to readers who have never tried the
genres. They’ll also talk about how libraries act as a discovery place for those who
already love the genres and need library
professionals to help them find new, exciting
stories and authors.
The duo will read chapters from their NEW BOOKS! Sara’s UNRAVELING
releases in July and Mary’s THE EVAPORATION OF SOFI SNOW releases
in June. They’ll also invite the audience engage in discussing thematic
elements of YA fantasy and sci-fi and the crossover appeal to adults
who love YA.
Sara and Mary will also sign and give away copies of their books to
attendees!
Four
2017
YA
authors
discuss
the importance of
moving beyond stereotypical mean girls
and insta-love to the
deeper issues driving teens and what
they read. They will
discuss why certain
books stand the test
of time and others
fade away and why YA has such crossover appeal to adult readers.
Attendees will get a sneak peek at how some tough topics are dealt
with honestly and sensitively in several upcoming releases.
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Three Novelists, Three Perspectives: Historical Winners Presentation
Fiction from Louisa May Alcott’s Forgotten
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm
Sister, to the Glitz of 20th Century London, to Hear from the Associate Publisher and top
editors from Foreword Reviews—the only book
WWII-era Netherlands
review journal dedicated entirely to books
from small, indie, university, and non-"Big 5"
presses—as they announce the winners of
this years Foreword INDIES Book of the Year
Awards! Discover great books not covered anywhere else, and fill
the holes in your collection with great under-the-radar books in 60+
categories.
12:00 pm – 12:50 pm
In THE OTHER ALCOTT, Elise Hooper makes her historical fiction debut
with the rich, untold story of May Alcott, overshadowed and underappreciated by her sister and Little Women author, Louisa May Alcott.
Bestselling author Karen Harper talks about her book, THE IT GIRLS:
The competitive lives of two real sisters, Lady Cosmo Duff-Gordon and
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Poetry Blast 2017
It’s a Mystery: Three Different Takes
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
11:00 am – 11:50 am
Poetry should be heard aloud. Poetry Blast 2017, our 13th Blast, celebrates this great oral tradition by featuring award-winning children’s
poets reading their work. This year, the participants are: Leslie Bulion,
Lesa Cline-Ransome, Billy Merrell, Patricia Hruby Powell, Bob Raczka,
and Marilyn Singer. [Program subject to change.]
There’s a reason the mystery
genre is so explosively popular. A
mystery can mean a gory thriller,
a cozy whodunit, a psychological
suspense story, you name it.
These three authors know no
boundaries, and each brings
something unique but equally
thrilling to the page. Elly Griffiths
has some of the most beloved
characters in the genre in her
two mystery series, Benjamin
Percy can jump from novels to the screen to comics faster than a computer virus can spread, and J.D. Barker writes about a seriously creepy
serial killer. Join them as they discuss the different ways writers can
approach the genre and share why they think mystery readers are so
loyal and passionate.
SUNDAY, JUNE 25
Music in Fiction/Fiction in Music: Debut
The Alchemy of Audiobooks: The Making-Of an Novelists Talk Inspiration
12:00 pm – 12:50 pm
Odyssey Award Winner
9:15 am – 10:00 am
Attendees will hear from the audiobook team
behind the 2017 Odyssey Award Winner,
Anna and the Swallow Man. Grammy
Award-winning producer Dan Zitt will lead
an interactive discussion with producer
Orli Moscowitz, narrator Allan Corduner
(Homeland, Florence Foster Jenkins), and
author Gavriel Savit (Broadway’s Amazing
Grace) about the process of creating this
award-winning audiobook. “Narrator Allan
Corduner masterfully voices the complex
characters, erasing the boundary between
listener and story in a virtuoso performance,” said Odyssey Award Committee Chair, Lynn
Piper Carpenter. Celebrate the memorable magic
of oral storytelling with these brilliant producers
and engaging panelists of TV, stage, and screen.
Immediately following the panel, visit Books on
Tape Booth #3811 to get an audiobook or book
signed by the author, and audiobook narrator and producer.
All The Wonders—Popular KidLit Podcast LIVE
@ ALA with The Wonderling’s Mira Bartók!
10:00 am – 10:50 am
This is a live recording of
an episode of the incredibly
popular All the Wonders
podcast Books Between
with Mira Bartók, an
award-winning author whose
utterly incredible and unforgettable THE WONDERLING, releases in
September this year with Candlewick Press. In this extraordinary debut
children's novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues,
Mira Bartók tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like foundling with only
one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
Corrina Allen, the talented and knowledgeable creator of the podcast,
will lead Mira through a long form interview and audience Q&A to discuss the unusual way this story came to be published, as well as to
explore the unique experience of developing a two part book series
simultaneously with a feature film.
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At the crossroads of music and
fiction, first-time novelists meet
to talk about literary and musical
influences. Gibson House Press
is publishing debut fiction by two
women featured in this panel.
They will discuss their work and
the ways their fiction, songwriting and musicianship influence
each other, moderated by a
third writer and musician whose
mystery trilogy was published by
Gibson House.
Minneapolis-based Courtney Yasmineh is a rock musician and singer-songwriter with a classic rock chick’s frankness, irony, and guts who
has several albums and thousands of road miles to her credit. Nancy
Burke is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Chicago and Evanston,
Illinois, and poet. Her recording of original songs, American Goodbye,
features her vocals, guitar, piano and bells.
Getting Kids Excited About STEM
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
Bestselling authors Andrea Beaty and
Gregory Mone talk about how to get
kids excited about STEM through reading. Andrea Beaty encourages STEM for
young readers with her series of picture
books Rosie Revere, Engineer; Iggy
Peck, Architect, and Ada Twist, Scientist.
Gregory Mone’s new series, Jack and the
Geniuses, is a middle-grade scientific
adventure co-authored by Bill Nye the
Science Guy.
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Unravelings: Unreliable narrators.
Unputdownable stories.
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery
to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Three whip-smart authors from
Harlequin’s new imprints—
Graydon House, Park Row
Books, and MIRA Books—
explode onto the Fall 2017
scene with a trio of terrifically
chilling books.
“This is a story about one woman’s journey to freedom, but it will help
free us all.”
The authors—Kaira Rouda (Best
Day Ever), a seasoned writer,
magazine journalist, and society
columnist; AF Brady (The Blind),
a debut author who doubles as
a psychotherapist in Manhattan; and JT Ellison (Lie to Me), a former
presidential appointee and cohost of Emmy Award-winning literary
television series, A Word on Words—will discuss the stories that crack
the facades of carefully curated lives, and why these stories continue
to enthrall readers . . . and themselves.
Susan Burton’s world changed in an instant
when her five-year-old son was struck and
killed by a van. Consumed by grief and
without access to professional help, Susan
became addicted to crack. She cycled in
and out of prison for over fifteen years;
never was she offered treatment. On her own, she eventually found a
private rehabilitation facility.
—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
“Susan Burton’s powerful and compelling memoir is an unforgettable
journey. . . . This is a must-read.”
—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy
French Comics on Screen: Film Adaptations of
Franco-Belgian Graphic Narratives
Today Susan dedicates her life to women facing similar struggles, operating safe homes for formerly incarcerated women and their children.
Becoming Ms. Burton humanizes the impact of mass incarceration
and shows how to provide a life of meaning and dignity for formerly
incarcerated people.
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm
Comics have always inspired movies.
Though Superhero characters such
as Captain America, Batman, and The
Fantastic Four have traditionally dominated the silver screen, a more literary
trend is now evolving. Producers and
directors have discovered new ways of telling stories. In this panel,
leading international comic artists Marguerite Abouet (Aya of Yop City),
David Etien (The Baker Street Four), and publishers Olivier Jalabart
(Glénat) from France and Robert Ballantyne (Arsenal Pulp Press) from
America discuss how graphic novels can offer new inspiration to the
cinema—from very intimate stories (like Blue is the Warmest Color) to
major sci-fi movies (Valerian) and animated features (Aya of Yop City).
Moderated by Matt Madden (Drawn Onward). Free signed prints and
books for purchase at stage following panel! Signing will continue after
end of session at Booth #1229.
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