The Open Book was packed with enthusiatic booksellers during the Winter Institute Welcome Reception, co-sponsored by Shelf Awareness. |
Kate Moore, author of Radium Girls (Sourcebooks), at a WI12 dinner, surrounded by booksellers: (l.-r.) Sourcebooks' Valerie Pierce, Rita Maggio (BookTowne, Manasquan, N.J.), Moore, Ann Woodbeck (Excelsior Bay Books, Excelsior, Minn.) and Kate Rattenborg (Dragonfly Books, Decorah, Iowa). |
At Sunday's Author Reception: Andrew McCarthy, author of Just Fly Away; Jonah Zimiles, [words] Bookstore, Maplewood, N.J.; and Algonquin editor Elise Howard (her book The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill won the Newbery last week). |
Lori Feathers, co-owner of the soon-to-open Interabang Books in Dallas, Tex., with Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth and owner of Parnassus Books, Nashville, Tenn. |