A highlight of the second full day of the Winter Institute was the Author Reception, featuring a range of authors who signed books and galleys and met some of the more than 900 booksellers in attendance.
At the Wednesday evening author reception, (seated) Alisha Fernandez Miranda, author of My What If Year, and Megan Tady, author of Super Bloom (both from Zibby Books), with (standing, left) Jasmine Cintron from Boogie Down Books, Bronx, N.Y., and Jeanne Emanual from Zibby.
Helen Macdonald (H Is for Hawk) and debut novelist Sin Blaché signed their forthcoming novel Prophet (Grove Atlantic, Aug.) for Julie Slavinsky (standing) from Warwick's in La Jolla, Calif.
Meghan Heyden from River Bend Bookshop in Glastonbury, Conn., picked up a copy of Jon Klassen's The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale, coming from Candlewick in July.
Colson Whitehead signed copies of his new novel, Crook Manifesto (Doubleday, July), for Jazzi McGilbert (l.) and Tameka Blackshir from Reparations Club in Los Angeles, Calif.
Gaël LeLamer and Mitchell Kaplan of Books & Books, South Florida, with Héctor Tobar (center), whose new book, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino", is coming from MCD in May.