Authors Aplenty at Winter Institute in Portland

For the approximately 500 booksellers attending the American Booksellers Association's Second Annual Winter Institute, business will mix with pleasure at an Author Reception on Thursday, February 1. At the conclusion of the first of two days of educational programming, booksellers can look forward to enjoying wine, beer, and hors d'oeuvres as they meet and greet more than 20 authors who will be on hand to autograph their books.

"We're very grateful to our Publisher Sponsors for providing such a rich roster of authors for this event," said Mark Nichols, director of Book Sense Marketing. "Booksellers will have the opportunity to speak with many of their past favorites who have new titles publishing soon, as well as a chance to meet some brand-new authors whose work offers exciting handselling opportunities."

Scheduled to appear at the event to be held at Oregon's Doubletree Portland-Lloyd Center are:

• Chelsea Cain, Heartsick (St. Martin's Minotaur/Holtzbrinck)
• Tara Larsen Chang, The Fairy Chronicles: Marigold and the Feather of Hope, the Journey Begins (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
• M. Allen Cunningham, Lost Son (Unbridled Books)
• Frank Deford, Entitled: A Novel (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Barry Eisler Requiem for an Assassin (Putnam/Penguin Group)
• Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases: A Novel (Knopf/Random House)
• Andrew Ferguson, Land of Lincoln: Adventure's in Abe's America (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Michael Gruber, The Book of Air and Shadows (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
• Matt Haig, The Dead Father's Club: A Novel (Viking/Penguin Group)
• Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts (Canongate U.S.)
• Michael Hoeye, Time to Smell the Roses: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure (Putnam Juvenile/Penguin Group)
• Susan Hubbard, The Society of S: A Novel (Simon & Schuster)
• Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl: A Novel (MIRA/Harlequin)
• Marshall Karp, Bloodthirsty (MacAdam/Cage)
• Cassandra King, Queen of Broken Hearts (Hyperion)
• Robert Kurson, Crashing Through: A Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See (Random House)
• Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals: A Novel (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Dennis McFarland, Letter from Point Clear: A Novel (Holt/Holtzbrinck)
• Peter Charles Melman, Landsman: A Novel (Counterpoint/Perseus)
• Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life (Hyperion)
• Robert Olmstead, Coal Black Horse: A Novel (Algonquin Books/Workman)
• Andrea Portes, Hick: A Novel (Unbridled Books)
• Robert Anthony Siegel, All Will Be Revealed (MacAdam/Cage)
• Mark Slouka, The Visible World: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin)
• Willy Vlautin, Motel Life (Harper Perennial)
• Susan Wiggs, The Winter Lodge: The Lakeshore Chronicles (MIRA/Harlequin)