Category: Book Riot Live

Can it really be a month since Book Riot Live? If you’re feeling nostalgic, this year’s zine is assembled and ready for your perusal! Thank you to everyone who contributed — your skills with markers and washi tape are top-notch, and your notes brought joy to our hearts.

Can’t wait for your next con? Our friends at BroadwayCon have you covered (especially those of you who enjoyed our Bookish Broadway panel):

From January 27–29, 2017, join some of Broadway’s biggest fans, performers, and creators from classic and current shows as we gather at the incomparable Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to perform, discuss, debate, and celebrate theatre. BroadwayCon brings you through the stage door to be part of the excitement that happens onstage and behind-the-scenes.

Join Javier Muñoz, Lachanze, Josh Groban, Anthony Rapp, Cynthia Nixon, and many more as well as thousands of Broadway fans to celebrate the shows you love with the people who bring them to life. Register today!

Thank you so much for helping make Book Riot Live 2016 such a safe, welcoming, and joyful experience! We hope you had as much fun as we did, and we’d love to hear your feedback. The Attendee Survey will be open until November 30, 2016; tell us how it went!

We are beyond delighted to welcome Negin Farsad to the If We’re Not Laughing… panel, and a slew of Broadway performers to our Bookish Broadway Sing-Along. Where else can you sing alongside In the Heights’ Isabel Santiago, listen to Mara Wilson and Walter Mosley talk shop, play Pictionary with comics artists Valentine De Landro and Sarah Andersen, and so much more? Not to mention the attendee-organized programming at The Commons. (We’re pretty sure the answer is: nowhere.)

This is it, folks, your last few days to pre-register and use that BOOKNERD discount code! Tickets will be also available at the door, so if your plans change last-minute you can still join us. Until then, we leave you with some very excited puppies from earlier this week.

We’re delighted to welcome back Bookwitty as one of 2016’s presenting sponsors! You can find a new bookish community to participate in, recs for your next read, and amazing access to international literature thanks to their book partners around the world. Check out Bookwitty.com, where they’re bringing books, ideas, and people together — and don’t forget to visit their booth at Book Riot Live!

With only 8 days go to before Book Riot Live kicks off, it’s time for a recap! Next weekend, we’ll be:
– Partying at the Strand on Friday and Saturday nights.
– Alternating between games, discussions, and thought-provoking panels.
– Listening to and getting our books signed by some of our favorite (and new favorite) authors.
– Hanging out in the Reading Lounge for a quiet moment, or meeting up in The Commons to talk about our own favorite topics.
– Checking out our amazing vendors and exhibitors.

Got your tickets? Start planning your weekend! Haven’t gotten them yet? Go forth and take $20 off your weekend pass with code BOOKNERD.

The interview hijinks continue! What are our authors’ least favorite questions to be asked, and what was their worst day job? There are eye-openers and laugh-out-loud answers both.

Wish that there was a discussion of your favorite fandom/theme/author at Book Riot Live? Now you can add one! Welcome to The Commons, a meet-up area by and for attendees. Don’t have your tickets yet? Get them right here, and take $20 off your weekend pass with code BOOKNERD!

Unbound Worlds is one of our presenting sponsors, and they want to give you books! If you love science fiction, fantasy, and genre-bending literature, do not miss this sweepstakes for a library of 23 science fiction and fantasy titles.

Like moderator Rachel Fershleiser, we are head-over-heels excited that Book Riot Live is less than a month away! If you’re already registered, you should have received an email invite from Sched to set up your personalized con schedule and RSVP for limited-seating panels. (If it hasn’t turned up yet, hit reply and let us know.) If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, there is still time! Get them for $20 off with code BOOKNERD.

Speaking of panels you’ll want to go to, here are a few more highlights from this year’s schedule:

Slash, Live
Sponsored by Swoon Reads
Slash returns! Love fanfiction, pop culture, and shipping? Join us for a live, no-holds barred game in which players compete to create the best romantic fan fiction pairing. Featuring Book Riot Comics contributor Jessica Plummer, writers Alyssa Cole and Zoraida Córdova, and Harlequin editor Michael Strother.

Rewriting History
Sponsored by Candlewick Press
How do you find a previously unknown story and bring it to light? How do you tell a known story in a new way? What can you make up and what has to be “true”? YA author Meg Medina, alt-history novelist Nisi Shawl, and historian-and-poet Patrick Phillips discuss these questions and more.

Farm to Table: How A Book Gets Made
Sponsored by Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse, and Your Guys Talk from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
How does a book get from submitted manuscript to your bookshelf? Not always the way you think! Find out more from publishing experts who work behind the scenes:

• Self-publishing and small presses: author Ayize Jama-Everett
• Book packaging: Sona Charaipotra, Cake Literary
• Editor: Michael Reynolds, Europa Editions
• Marketing: Kathryn Ratcliffe-Lee, Harper Perennial

We asked our speakers what they wished they had known at the beginnings of their publishing careers, and their answers are gold. Check them out, and get excited for Book Riot Live — which is now literally a month away! If you’ve been waiting on tickets, you can still get them for $20 off using code BOOKNERD.

Want to meet some of your fellow attendees ahead of time? Head over to the Book Riot Live Facebook group, where they’re talking donuts, Broadway shows, and craft swaps (among many other things).

Book Riot Live 2016 is only a month away! The schedule is aliiiiiiiiive (please read that in your best Frankenstein voice), we’re getting ready to launch the Sched site, and we’d still love for you to join us.

Since you came last year, use code CLASSOF15 at registration to take $30 off your Weekend Pass or $15 off a day pass, good through October 31. See you on November 12!

We’re close to a month out from Book Riot Live, which means it’s time for some panel spotlights. A few of our favorites are below — check out the full schedule for maximum excitement! You can still get your tickets for $20 off with code BOOKNERD, so go forth and register.

Storytelling: Page, Screen, and Beyond
Sponsored by Bookwitty
Walter Mosley and Mara Wilson have worked on storytelling on stages, screens, and on the page. Join them for a discussion of their experiences, the pros and cons of different mediums, and more! Moderated by our own Rebecca Joines Schinsky.

Nerd Jeopardy
Sponsored by Unbound Worlds
Join trivia-master Ryan Chapman for the return of Nerd Jeopardy! Three of our speakers face off to determine who will be crowned the champion. Mark Oshiro returns to defend his title against Mara Wilson and Sara Farizan.

Truth and Lies and Adaptations
Sponsored by Blinkist
We’ve all read a translation, or listened to an audiobook, or picked up an illustrated edition of a favorite work. How does a story go from point A to point B, and what gets added — and lost — in the process? Find out from ghost-writer/author Joni Rodgers, translator/author Ken Liu, and audiobook narrator/author Tara Clancy.

The line-ups are finalized for Nerd Jeopardy and Friday evening’s Books & Booze pairing — let the muppet-arms commence! And there are a bunch of new panels added to the schedule, which you should go check out immediately. Don’t have your tickets yet? Go get them and get $20 off with code BOOKNERD.

Time for a Did You Know: You can pre-order speakers’ books from WORD, our conference bookstore! They’ve got a running list here, and you can search their website for more. Then all you have to do is tell them they’re for Book Riot Live and pick them up at the event. Easy peasy, and less things to pack on your way to NYC!