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Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Good in Bed (2001); In Her Shoes (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004); Goodnight Nobody (2005); the short story collection The Guy Not Take (2006); Certain Girls (2008); Best Friends Forever (2009); Fly Away Home (2010); and most recently, Then Came You (2011).

Jennifer Weiner's books have spent a combined four years on the New York Times bestseller list with over 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. She has appeared on numerous national television programs, including The Today Show, The CBS Early Show, and The Rachael Ray Show, and has been published in such magazines as Seventeen, Redbook, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping. She was the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC Family sitcom State of Georgia, which ran during the summer of 2011. She occasionally writes for the Huffington Post and on her own blog at www.jenniferweiner.com, which she started over ten years ago in 2002 and where she now has over 1.5 million visitors a month.

She was recently voted #14 on Time magazine's list of "140 Best Twitter Feeds" -- placing hers among the feeds that are shaping the conversation, the magazine hailed her "must-read" live Bachelor tweets, noting that "rarely has there been such an ideal pairing of material and writer." She can also be found on Facebook, and, in real life, Philadelphia, where she lives with her family.

Jennifer's newest novel, The Next Best Thing, will be published in July 2012.

Ricardo Cortes
Ricardo Cortes has illustrated books about grass, electricity, the Jamaican bobsled team, and Chinese food. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on the O'Reilly Factor and CNN. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he is working on a book about a shark. To see more of his work, visit: Rmcortes.com.

Matt Gallagher
Matt Gallagher joined the U.S. Army in 2005 and received a commission in the armored cavalry. Following a fifteen-month deployment in Iraq, Gallagher left the army in 2009. Originally from Reno, Nevada, he now lives in New York City.

Lizzie Stark
Lizzie Stark is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the Daily Beast and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is founder and editor of the literary journal Fringe and holds an MS in new media journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Edison, New Jersey.

AUTHOR BLOG: http://elizabethrstark.com/

Larry Correia
Larry Correia is the New York Times bestselling author of the Monster Hunter International series, the Grimnoir Chronicles [Hard Magic and Spellbound] and military thriller Dead Six. A graduate in accounting from Utah State University Larry spent several years as a financial analyst for a Fortune 500, when his vocation took a turn. Today Larry is considered an expert in the field of firearms where his roles vary as machinegun dealer, firearms instructor, and freelance writer for several gun magazines. Most recently he has worked in military contracting.

Larry lives in the mountains of Utah with his very patient wife and children. His new hardcover Monster Hunter Legion will be published in September 2012 by Baen Books.

Jenny Han
Jenny Han is the author of Shug, The Summer I Turned Pretty, It's Not Summer Without You, and the forthcoming We'll Always Have Summer. She is also the author of the chapter book Clara Lee and The Apple Pie Dream. A former children's bookseller, she earned her MFA in creative writing at the New School. She currently works as a YA librarian at a private school on the Upper West Side. She can be found online at www.dearjennyhan.com.

Siobhan Vivian
Siobhan Vivian is the author of the forthcoming young adult novel The List, as well as Not That Kind of Girl, Same Difference, and A Little Friendly Advice. She is a former editor for Alloy Entertainment and screenwriter for Playhouse Disney. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She can be found online at www.siobhanvivian.com.

William Joyce
William Joyce has put his personal stamp on all types of children's media. His books include the New York Times bestseller The Man in the Moon, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King, E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core!, and Santa Calls. He's won three Emmy awards for his Rolie Polie Olie animated series, developed character concepts for Toy Story and A Bug's Life, and made films including Robots and Meet the Robinsons. He's currently executive producer of the DreamWorks Animation release of Rise of the Guardians (Fall 2012) inspired by his new series. He is also producing The Leaf Men, based on his book The Leaf Men. And his star continues to rise-he won an Academy Award for his innovative short film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. He lives in Shreveport, LA, and is the founder of Moonbot Studios.

Matthew Van Fleet
Matthew Van Fleet is the creator of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tails and Dog, the million-copy-selling Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings. He lives with his family in New York state.

Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford was born on Travis Air Force Base in 1970. He joined the marines at age 18 and fought in the 1990-91 Gulf War with a scout/sniper platoon in the 2nd battalion of the 7th Marines. He left the marines in 1992 and held jobs in restaurants, banks, and shopping malls as well working a long stint as a union warehouseman. In 1999 he graduated from UC Davis with his BA in English and proceeded to graduate writing studies at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Teaching Writing Fellow and later a Michener-Copernicus Fellow. His first book Jarhead, a memoir of his time in the marines, came out in the winter of 2003. A film adaptation directed by Sam Mendes was released in 2005. Exit A, his novel of military life in Japan during peace time, was published in 2007. His memoir HOTELS, HOSPITALS, AND JAILS will be published in June 2012. He has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Lewis and Clark College. He is married to the photographer and writer Christa Parravani-Swofford.

Tricia Rayburn
T. R. Burns is a pseudonym for MIX author Tricia Rayburn, who lives in Long Island, New York.

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Announcement of the First Annual IndieReader Discovery Awards

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Hall E, Javits Center

Join the uPublishU at BEA team for an exciting lunch, featuring New York Times bestselling indie author, Darcie Chan. Chan and Amy Edelman, Founder of IndieReader, the essential consumer guide to self-published books and the people who write them—will be announcing the winners of the first annual IndieReader Discovery Awards (IRDAs), where undiscovered talent meets people with the power to make a difference.

IndieReader created the IRDAs to get great indie books in front of some of the most important people in publishing today. With the rush by traditional publishers to sign them and their noteworthy bestselling status, there's no longer much doubt that indie authors can be both commercially and creatively successful. All that was left to do was create a credible vehicle by which to find them. After a painstakingly long nine month search, the winners—whose books represent genres from chick-lit and memoir to history and health—will be announced. You don't want to miss it!