Our First-Ever
Penguin Random House Book & Author Festival
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Join Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal for a free, day-long virtual book and author festival as we celebrate National Library Week and librarians everywhere!

Enjoy a day packed with author panels and interviews, book buzzes, virtual shelf browsing, and adding to your TBR pile. You’ll hear from many of your favorite authors, whose work runs the gamut from Picture Books to Young Adult titles to the best new Fiction and Nonfiction for adults. There is something of interest for every reader. Attendees will also have the opportunity to check out the virtual exhibit hall, chat directly with authors, access eGalleys, and enter to win prizes and giveaways.

Featured Speaker

We are thrilled to announce that bestselling novelist Andy Weir will join us to discuss his upcoming novel, Project Hail Mary (Ballantine Books), an incredible new science-based thriller about a lone astronaut who must save the Earth from disaster.
 
Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of such subjects as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight.
 
We look forward to sharing much more exciting author news for our event in the coming days!

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