BEA Announces Thursday Breakfast Speakers

On Monday, BookExpo America announced the speakers for the Adult Book & Author Breakfast to be held on Thursday, May 28, at the 2015 trade show. The event will feature:

• Lee Child, Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel (Penguin Random House/Delacorte Press, September 2015)

• Diana Nyad, Find a Way: The Story of One Wild and Precious Life (Penguin Random House/Alfred A. Knopf, October 2015)

• Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York: The Stories (St. Martin’s Press, October 2015)

Kunal Nayyar, whose yet-unnamed essay collection will be published by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster in September 2015, will serve as the breakfast’s master of ceremonies.

The Thursday breakfast will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. in the Special Events Hall at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. For ticket information and to register for the show, which runs from Wednesday, May 27, through Friday, May 29, visit BookExpoAmerica.com. 

This year’s festivities begin on Tuesday evening, May 26, with the American Booksellers for Free Expression’s Annual Children’s Book Art Auction and Reception at Hotel ABA, the Grand Hyatt New York, located at 42nd Street and Grand Central Terminal.

As in previous years, all ABA member stores are eligible to receive free admission to the trade show and BEA conference sessions.

ABA member booksellers who have not attended the trade show since 2012 are invited by BEA to fill out an application to win one of 60 BEA Scholarships of $435 to help defray hotel and travel costs to the show. To qualify for the scholarships, booksellers must also stay at least one night at Hotel ABA.

Register for BEA here; then reserve a room at the Grand Hyatt New York.