What a BEA this has been. I’m more enlightened. I have new authors to follow and all without acquiring a double hernia.
Laurie, you may have something here with the virtual version of BEA.
I wanted to make sure all of the authors highlighted in Friday’s panel were listed. So here ya’ go. Go forth and refresh your summer TBR list.
NOTE: If there is no title next to the author, it’s because I simply copied and pasted from the comments. I only listed what was originally posted.
Neesha Meminger, Shine, Coconut Moon
Tonya Hegamin, Pemba’s Song
Kekla Magoon, THE ROCK AND THE RIVER
Mitali Perkins, Secret Keeper
Cynthia Leitch Smith, Tantalize
An Na
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Tanuja Desai Hidier
Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore
Cindy Pon
Traci L. Smith
Lori A. Williams
Uma Krishnaswami
Anjali Banerji (hope I spelled that right!)
Marina Budhos
Justina Chen Headley
Cynthea Liu
Olugbemisola Perkovich (hers comes out in ‘10)
Malinda Lo
Sheba Karim
Francisco X. Stork, MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD
Simone Elkeles
NiNi Simone
L Divine
Gary Soto
Alisa Valdez Rodrigez
Rene Saldana Jr
Laura Resau
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Many Ly
Amjed Qamar
Rudolfo Anaya – Bless me, Ultima
Pemba’s Song is the current book selection over at Common’s online Corner Book Club. There will be a live author chat on June 9 at 7:30 I get the email’s sent to me, they pick really good books. They did Sherman Alexie’s book not too long ago. I have yet to check out a chat, maybe this will be my first. Thanks for this list there are some new authors for me to check out.