West Hollywood Book Fair

There are 8 PANEL & SPECIAL GUEST STAGES at the West Hollywood Book Fair! Programming on the stages begins as early as 10:30am and contintues until nearly 6pm. Most panels are followed by book signings. To find out where authors are signing, look below each panel listing. (please note that the schedule is still subject to change)

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PANEL & SPECIAL GUEST STAGES:

COMICS, SCI FI & BEYOND PAVILION

11:00-11:55

“Political Climates, Economic Uncertainty, Religious Controversy and the Sci Fi Writer”

Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert, Larry Niven, Harry Turtledove

Moderator: Tim Beadle
Book Sales @ Dark Delicacies Signing @ Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society booth

Noon-12:55

“Watching Len Wein: In Conversation with the Book Editor and Video Game Writer of Watchmen”
Moderator: Jonah Weiland of Comic Book Resources.

Signing at Golden Apple Comics booth

1:00-1:45

“Ray Bradbury Presents”

Signing at Golden Apple Comics booth

1:50-2:45

“The Book of Lists: Horror”

Scott Bradley, Del Howison, Amy Wallace

Signing at Dark Delicacies booth

2:50-3:45
“Comics to Console: Developing Video Games & Comic Books”

Flint Dille, Justin Marks, Jordan Mechner

Moderator: Chris Carle of IGN

Signing at Golden Apple Comics booth

3:50-4:55
“Star Trek the Manga Uchu”

David Gerrold, Don Hudson, Luis Reyes, E. J. Su

Moderator: Christine Boylan

Signing at Tokyopop booth

5:00-5:45
“Comics on Comics with Gregg Hurwitz & Mark Evanier!”

Comic Book Writers:

Mark Evanier

Gregg Hurwitz

Comedians:

Asterios Kokkinos

Kathryn Lyn

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE PAVILION

10:30-11:30
“Fooling Readers While Playing Fair: Tricks of the Mystery Writing Craft”

Tyler Dylts, Naomi Hirahara, Ken Kuhlken, Patricia Smiley
Moderator: Amnon Kabatchnik

Signing at Mystery Ink booth

11:45-12:45
“Crossing Over: Vampires, Werewolves, and More in the Detective Novel”

Adrienne Barbeau, Heather Graham, Marlene Perez, Alexandra Sokolov,Harry Squires

Moderator: Les Klinger

Signing at Dark Delicacies booth

1:00-2:15
“High Octane Thrillers: How Authors and Screenwriters Fuel the Genre”

Bret Battles, Brent Ghelfi, Heywood Gould, Stephen Hunter, Susan Arnout Smith
Moderator: Evan Kilgore

Signing at Mystery Ink booth

2:30-3:30
“Getting Serious About Crime: Crime Writers with a Mission”

Christopher Goffard, Denise Hamilton, Jeri Westerman, Pam Ward

Moderator: Steven M. Thomas

Signing at Mystery Ink booth

3:45-4:45
“Chicks and Chumps: How Female Crime Writers Handle Their Men”

Kyra Davis, Hannah Dennison, Harley Jane Kozak, Melinda Wells (aka Linda Palmer)

Moderator: Paul Levine

Signing at Mystery Ink booth

FICTION PAVILION

11:00-11:55
“Bliss, Boredom & Bye-Bye: Facets of Love and Loss in Fiction”

Claire LaZebnik, Billy Mernit, Victoria Christopher Murray, Mark Sarvas

Moderator: Holly Bailey-Hoffman

Signing at Book Soup booth

Noon-12:55
“The 2nd Novel Nightmare”

Janet Fitch, Nina Revoyr, Eduardo Santiago

Moderator: Reyna Grande

Signing at IMIX Books booth

1:00-1:55
“Tough Issues, Light Touches: Writing for Teens Without Turning Them Off”

Janet Tashjian, CG Watson, Lisa Yee, Joyce Lee Wong

Moderator: Leigh Purtill

Signing at Barnes & Noble booth

2:00-2:55

“Global Connections: Exploring the World in Fiction”

Emma Donoghue, David Francis, Cristina Garcia, C. W. Gortner

Moderator: Lisa Teasley

Signing at Book Soup booth

3:00-3:55
“Beginnings: Writing the First Novel”

Peter Balsakas, Natasha Bauman, Selden Edwards, David Fuller

Moderator: Amy Wallen

Signing at Book Soup booth

4:00-4:45
“The Magical World of Francesca Lia Block: In Conversation with Mark London Williams”

Signing at Barnes & Noble booth

PEOPLE, PLACES& POLITICS PAVILION

11:00-11:55
“Latinos in Lotusland”

Lisa Alvarez, Reyna Grande, S. Ramos O’Briant

Moderator: Daniel Olives

Signing at IMIX Books booth

Noon-12:55
“The Noir of Politics - Lust. Greed. Arrogance. Power.”

Regina Freer, Kevin Roderick, Robert Scheer

Moderator: Gary Phillips

Signing at Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth

1:00-1:55
“A Stranger Among Us:Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection”

Luis Alfaro, Wanda Coleman, Diane Lefer, Shubha Venugopal, Mary Yukari Waters

Moderators: Stacy Beirlein & Aimee Liu

Signing at Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth

2:00-2:55
“Laughter is the Best Medicine Short of Legislation: Political Satirists Speak Out”

Gustavo Arrellano, Gan Golan, Chris Regan

Moderator: Anabelle Gurwitch

Signing at Skylight Books booth

3:00-3:55
“Disciples of the Street: Faith That Matters”

Sarah Sentilles, Varun Soni, Rabbi David Wolpe

Moderator: Eric Gutierrez

Signing at Barnes & Noble booth

4:00-4:55
“The Dirty History of LA: On Pollution, Sewers & Our Aging Infrastructure”

Lane Barden, Chip Jacobs, William J. Kelly, Anna Sklar

Moderator: Mia Lehrer

Signing at Skylight Books & Angel City Press booths (Sklar only at Angel City Press)

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT PAVILION

Noon-12:55
“When the Cameras Stop Rolling: Lives of the Celebrated in Public & Private”

Evan Handler, Leslie Jordan, Robert Schimmel
Moderator: Dinah Lenney

Signing at Book Soup booth

1:00-1:45
“This Year’s Model: Carol Alt in conversation with Laurie Pike”

Signing at Book Soup booth

1:45-2:45
“Author/Actress: Famous Females Tackle Fiction”

Adrienne Barbeau, Michele Matheson, Heather Thomas

Moderator: Kara Lynn Hoppe

Signing at Book Soup booth

3:00-3:45
“Robert Wagner in conversation with Christopher Lisotta”

Signing at Book Soup booth

3:45-4:45
“Coming to a Theater Near You: The Road from Book/Screenplay to Film”

David Cohen, Peter Lefcourt, Steve Lopez, Roy Freirich

Moderator: John Morgan Wilson

Signing at Book Soup booth

THE WRITER’S PAVILION

11:00-11:55
“Birthing A Book: The Shero’s Journey”

Bernadene High Coleman, Laura Corona, Ina Hillebrandt, Pamela Phillips Oland, Mira Tweti

Moderator: Kelly Sullivan Walden

Signing at WNBA booth

Noon-12:55
“Feed Your Muse: Food, Creativity and Writing”

Marilyn Friedman, Jonathan Gold, Laraine Newman, Rickmond Wong

Moderator: Evan Kleinman

Signing at The Writing Pad booth

1:00-1:55
“Divine Inspiration: The Spiritual Roots of Memoir Writing”

Terri Cheney, Herbert Gold, Heather King, Victor Villaseñor

Moderator: Samantha Dunn

Signing at Barnes & Noble booth

2:00-2:55
“Not So Secret Agent: Literary Agents Speak”

Jenoyne Adams, Elise Capron, BJ Robbins

Moderator: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Signing at Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth

3:00-3:55
“The Changing Face of Book Culture in Los Angeles”

Carolyn Kellogg, Erika Schikel, Louise Steinman, Andrew Tonkovich

Moderator: David Ulin

4:00-4:45
“Burning Moms in Conversation”

Sandra Tsing Loh, Christie Mellor, Brett Paesel, Erika Schikel

Hosted by the West Hollywood Women’s Advisory Board
Signing at Skylight Books booth

THE QUEER AND QUIRKY PAVILION

11:00-11:55
We Are Everywhere: New & Unique Voices in LGBT Fiction

Alistair McCartney, Vanessa Place, Frederick Smith, Jess Wells

Moderator: Christopher Rice

Signing at A Different Light booth

Noon-12:55
“Queer Renegades”

Trebor Healey, Ian MacKinnon, Tim Miller, Steven Reigns, Derek Ringold, Tony Valenzuela

Moderator: Michael Kearns

1:00-1:55
“Love, West Hollywood”

Teresa DeCrescenzo, Daryl Keith Roach, Patricia Nell Warren, John Morgan Wilson

Moderator: Chris Freeman & James Berg

Signing at A Different Light booth

2:00-2:45
“The Rise of LGBT Graphic Novels”

Jeff Krell, Brad Rader, Tommy Roddy, Ariel Schrag

Moderator: Ted Abenheim
Signing at Prism Comics booth

3:00-3:45
“It’s Not Just for the Pictures! - Talking Coffee Table Books with Hillary Carlip, Charles Phoenix & Allee Willis”

Signing at Angel City Books (Phoenix) and Skylight Books (Carlip) booths

4:00-4:45
“My Life is Poetry: Readings from LGBT Senior Writers”

Art Aquirre, Jane Benz, Gordon Prescott Blitz, Albert Peter Busendorfer, Newton Butler, Cassandra Christenson, Norman Coe, Bob Dallmeyer, Karen Dickinson, Ralph Lucas, Ronna Magy, Robert Manners, Allen Page, Harry Strider, Raymond Urgo, Buzz Young

Moderator: Steven Reigns

Signing at Queer as LA Folk Pavilion

THE OPEN BOOK PAVILION

11:00-11:55
“Focus, Feedback and Friendship: A Writer’s Group Tells All”

Diane Areiff, Heather Dundas, Denise Hamilton, Kerry Madden, Donna Rifkind, Lienna Silver

Moderator: Diana Wagman

Signing at Skylight Books booth

Noon-12:55
“Sustainable L.A.”

Ed Begley Jr., Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen, Thomas Kostigen

Moderator: Abbe Land

Signing at Skylight Books booth (Begley, Jr. & Kostigen) and Feral House*Process (Coyne & Knutzen)

1:00-1:45
“Vincent Bugliosi on The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder”

Signing at Skylight Books booth

1:45-2:30
“James Van Praagh in Conversation”

Signing at Bodhi Tree booth

2:30-3:25
“How I Got Over: Stories of Addiction, Recovery & Everything in Between”

Aimee Liu, Wendy Merrill, Patrick Moore, Adam Nimoy

Moderator: Rachel Resnick

Signing at Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth

3:30-4:25
“Arf, Neigh, Howl: Animals in American Culture & Myth”

Michael Blake, Samantha Dunn, Jay Kopelman

Moderator: Deanne Stillman

Signing at Book Events & Authors Unlimited booth