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BookCon Plans Daylong Read-a-Thon for April 11
Publishers Weekly’s John Maher reports, “BookCon will host a virtual Read-a-Thon on Saturday, April 11, from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET, as part of its new BookCon Virtual Author Tour Series, which launched last week. The series will run through the spring.” The April 11 event will feature authors doing 15-minute readings and Q&As on BookCon’s Facebook page.The planned schedule is as follows: - 12pm-12:15pm: Introduction and welcome by BookCon and Binc teams
- 12:15pm-12:30pm: Lamar Giles
- 12:30pm-12:45pm: Andrew Eliopulous
- 12:45pm-1pm: Kacen Callendar
- 1pm-1:15pm: Justina Ireland
- 1:15pm-1:30pm: Justin Reynolds
- 1:30pm-1:45pm: Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed
- 1:45pm-2pm: Tobly McSmith
- 2pm-2:15pm: Tahereh Mafi
- 2:15pm-2:30pm: Layton Green
- 2:30pm-2:45pm: Marie Lu (The Kingdom of Back)
- 2:45pm-3pm: Zan Romanoff (Look)
- 3pm-3:15pm: Melissa de la Cruz (The Queen’s Assassin)
- 3:15pm-3:30pm: Cameron Lund (The Best Laid Plans)
- 3:30pm-3:45pm: Laurie Halse Anderson (Shout)
- 3:45pm-4pm: Ransom Riggs (The Conference of the Birds)
- 4pm-4:15pm: Soman Chainani
- 4:15pm-4:30pm: Shaun David Hutchinson
- 4:30pm-4:45pm: Victoria Aveyard
- 4:45pm-5pm: Kelly Yang
- 5pm-5:15pm: Julian Winter (The Summer of Everything)
- 5:15pm-5:30pm: Lilah Suzanne (Tack and Jibe)
- 5:30pm-5:45pm: Makenzie Campbell (Nineteen)
- 5:45pm-6pm: Emily Juniper (A Strangely Wrapped Gift)
- 6pm-6:15pm: Hannah Templer (Cosmoknights, GLOW)
- 6:15pm-6:30pm: Nick Tapalansky and Kate Glasheen (A Radical Shift of Gravity)
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