BookExpo America has named its selections for the Editors Buzz Forums. This year, BEA will present three separate panels, including Editors Buzz (adult) on Monday, May 23, at 4:30 p.m.; YA Editors Buzz on Tuesday, May 24, at 2 p.m.; and Middle Grade Editors Buzz on Wednesday, May 25, at 2 p.m. The programs and selections for the Buzz Forums are:
BEA Editors Buzz
- Michael Pietsch, v-p & publisher, Little, Brown, with The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbachand
- Alison Callahan, executive editor, Doubleday, with The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Denise Roy, senior editor, Dutton, with The Underside of Joy by Sere Prince Halverson
- Kathy Pories, senior editor, Algonquin, with Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
- Alane Salierno Mason, v-p & senior editor, Norton, with Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber
- Jenna Johnson, senior editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with We the Animals by Justin Torres
BEA YA Editors Buzz
- Courtney Bongiolatti, editor, S&S Children's Publishing, with The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
- Margret Raymo, senior executive editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with Au Revoir Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber
- Alvina Ling, executive editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, with Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Turner
- Susan Chang, senior editor, Tor & Forge Books/ Macmillan, with Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham
- Erica Sussman, senior editor, HarperCollins Children’s Books, with The Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon
BEA Middle Grade Editors Buzz
- Lisa Abrams, editor, S&S Children's Publishing, with The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
- Donna Bray, v-p & co-publisher Balzer & Bray, with Wildwood by Colin Meloy
- Lisa A. Sandell, executive editor, Scholastic Press, with Icefall by Matthew Kirby
- Jennifer Besser, v-p & publisher, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, with Apothecary by Maile Meloy
- Jim Thomas, editorial director, Random House Children’s Books, The Ashtown Burials #1: The Dragons Tooth by N.D. Wilson