LIVE FROM BOOK EXPO 2017: One Reason We Love Book Expo: The Authors

For the last two years, I have been privileged to serve as an onsite correspondent for Armchair BookExpo. I've gone to Chicago and New York. I've met oodles and oodles of authors and I've seen oodles and oodles of wonderful new books.

For a variety of reasons*, Armchair BookExpo is no more.

So let’s take a look back at last year’s BookExpo:

LIVE FROM BOOK EXPO: One Reason We Love Book Expo: The Authors

It's Deb Nance again from Readerbuzz. 

Oh man, did I see the authors!

Who did I see? you ask.

Here are some I managed to snap during Book Expo.

Adult fiction author Adriana Trigiani

Mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark

Adult fiction author Lisa Wingate

Happiness Project author Gretchen Rubin

Adult fiction author Janet Fitch

Wonder author R. J. Palacio

Everything I Never Told You author Celeste Ng

Action and suspense author Nelson Demille

Children's picture book author Philip Stead

The Dollhouse author Fiona Davis

Adult and children's author James Patterson

Children's author Jan Brett

Author Daniel Handler (or is it that wily Lemony Snicket?)

Illustrator Eric Velasquez and author Carole Boston Weatherford

YA author Jason Reynolds (with a random baby)

YA author Marie Lu

Day the Crayons Quit author Drew Daywalt and his "manager"

Romance novelist Heather Graham

Adult and children's author Jennifer Weiner

YA author M. T. Anderson

Orphan Train author Christina Baker Kline

Mystery writer John Grisham

New author Neil Patrick Harris

And, finally, Lemony Snicket (who looks strangely like author Daniel Handler).