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BEA 2015 is just around the corner!! We’re seriously excited about our schedule this year, and we can’t wait to bask in the book love with all of you! Read on for all of our author events and signings.

THURSDAY, MAY 28TH

AT THE PENGUIN BOOTH #3119

2-3 pm                       C. Alexander London - The Wild Ones

FRIDAY, MAY 29th

AT THE PENGUIN BOOTH #3119

9:30 – 10:30 am          Marie Lu - The Rose Society

10:30 – 11:30 am        Oliver Jeffers - The Day the Crayons Came Home

1 – 2 pm                    Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski - Nightfall

1 – 2 pm                    Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopolous - I am Jackie Robinson

3 – 4 pm                    Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri - Robosauce

3:30 – 4:30 pm           Lisa Lewis Tyre - Last in a Long Line of Rebels

4 – 5 pm                    Moira Fowley-Doyle - The Accident Season

IN THE AUTOGRAPHING AREA

10:00 – 11:00 am       **Jan Brett - The Turnip (Table 2)

10:00 – 11:00 am       Carrie Ryan - Daughter of Deep Silence (Table 13)

11:00 – 12 pm            **Judy Shachner - DeweyBob Crockett (Table 2)

2 – 3 pm                     Richelle Mead - Soundless (Table 15)

SATURDAY, MAY 30th

IN THE AUTOGRAPHING AREA

5:30 – 6:30                Richelle Mead - Soundless (Table 9)

AT THE PENGUIN BOOTH #3119

2:30 – 3:30 pm          Carrie Ryan - Daughter of Deep Silence

SUNDAY, MAY 31st

AT THE PENGUIN BOOTH #3119

12 – 1 pm                  Maureen Johnson - The Shadow Cabinet

IN THE AUTOGRAPHING AREA

12:30 - 1:30 pm         Jacqueline Woodson - Brown Girl Dreaming (Table 6)

4 - 5 pm                    David Levithan - Hold Me Closer (Table 3)

Tiny Cooper is finally taking center stage … and the world will never be the same again. Filled with honesty, humor, and “big, lively, belty” musical numbers, Hold Me Closer is the no-holds-barred (and many-bars-held) entirety of the beloved musical first introduced in Will Grayson, Will Grayson, the award-winning bestseller by John Green and David Levithan. “Tiny will have readers falling out of their chairs laughing… . It’s big. It’s gay. It’s outrageous and hilarious,” said the Kirkus review. Penguin Teen Author Spotlight is proud to introduce Tiny Cooper. Get to know more about him below!

Name: Tiny Cooper 

Novel: HOLD ME CLOSER: The Tiny Cooper Story 

Available: 3/17/15 

Who’s your favorite author, living or dead? Sondheim. 

What’s your favorite thing about your book? The dancing. 

If you could spend one year on a deserted island with one character from literature, who would you choose? Superman, because he could leave all the time and pick up magazines and food. 

Where do you write? In my head, mostly. 

Who is your favorite hero or heroine of history? Sondheim. 

Do you tweet? What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever tweeted? A GIF of kittens singing “Giants in the Sky” 

What is your favorite season? Tony season. 

If you could teleport anywhere in the known universe right now, where would you go? HEDWIG rehearsals, in the space right in front of Lena Hall as Darren Criss leans in to kiss her, so that he would end up kissing me and fall in love and decide that I was not only his best friend but someone he wanted to kiss on a highly frequent basis for at least a year and a half. Is that too specific? 

Do you have any writing rituals? A song isn’t done until I’ve sung it in the shower. 

What is your idea of earthly happiness? Sondheim. 

What is the best concert you’ve ever been to? Patty Lupone’s one woman show, You Didn’t Think I’d Last But Suck It I’m Still Here. 

What are you currently working on? The road to getting a Tony.

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Thank you, Tiny Cooper! We wish you luck on getting a Tony!

You can find David Levithan on his website and his Facebook!

Add HOLD ME CLOSER: The Tiny Cooper Story to your “to-read” shelf on Goodreads!

Things have been a bit crazy here, because A. Henry and Alice (our children) have been sick, and B. Sarah and I have both been traveling for work, and C. it was cold in Indianapolis for 12 years straight like a full-on Game of Thrones-style winter, which just drains the soul.

So here are some updates:

1. The Paper Towns movie will come out in the U.S. on July 24th. (Hopefully there will be a showing on July 23rd with a special livestream into movie theaters, but I dunno yet.) I don’t know when it will premiere in other countries; SORRY. 

2. I have seen the movie, and I love it. I thought the whole cast did an amazing job and it’s a beautifully shot film and very funny and sweet, and while I did not make it or really have much to do with making it, I am so grateful to those who’ve worked so hard on it.

3. A series of encouraging developments makes a Looking for Alaska movie suddenly seem more likely. It’s still totally possible that it won’t happen, but Scott Neustadter and Mike Weber (who wrote both TFIOS and Paper Towns) have signed on to write the script, and the producers of TFIOS and Paper Towns have joined as well. That is very encouraging news.

4. I am trying to write a new book. It is slow going. 

5. There are many new Crash Course series, and more coming: In addition to literature, world history, chemistry, biology, and psychology, this year we’re doing anatomy and physiology, U.S. government, astronomy, and starting soon both economics and copyright law (so we residents of the Internet can figure out exactly what copyright is and isn’t). There’s also the just-launched Crash Course Kids.

6. The Art Assignment continues to be the most fun I get to have all week. This week Brandon Odums gets us to think about discarded material and buildings differently.

7. If you live in or near New York, there are 200ish tickets available to this Paper Towns event that I’m not allowed to tell you what it is but trust me it will be fun, so try to get a ticket if you’re interested.

8. My ask box is open!