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BOOK FAIR

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Awesome Con’s Book Fair is for book lovers! This show feature is our love letter to you—the readers and writers, the storytellers and content creators, the escapists and superfans. For those who want to meet their favorite authors, celebrate their favorite reads, and satiate their hunger by finding their next one, Book Fair is home.

AUTHOR GUESTS

Signings at Booth #1907 | Panels in Room 206

We’re honored to welcome an incredible slate of authors spanning a huge variety of genres and fandoms. These favorites in speculative fiction and beyond will be participating in our curated Book Fair programming track as well as participating in signings at the Awesome Con Bookstore powered by Loyalty Bookstores, Booth #1907.

PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS

OFFICIAL BOOKSTORE

Awesome Con is excited to welcome our official bookseller of the Book Fair, Loyalty Bookstores. Loyalty Bookstores is a Black, Queer, and Asian owned indie bookstore in Petworth, DC and Silver Spring, MD, specializing in diverse books. At the Bookstore powered by Loyalty Bookstores, fans will be able to meet guest authors, get books signed, and of course buy all the books they can carry to expand upon their TBR piles.

Need a recommendation for your next read? Loyalty’s dedicated team of book lovers and genre experts can help you discover a real page turner!

AUTHOR’S LANE

Curious what up-and-coming, independently published authors might be at Awesome Con? Take a stroll down Author’s Lane and connect with fresh faces from the world of science fiction, fantasy, YA, horror, and more. Venture into Artist Alley to find these authors, all labeled with table signage showing that they are a part of Author’s Lane.

PAST BOOK FAIR HIGHLIGHTS

PAST CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS

  • June 5,2022 Hosted the panel “SFF Authors and Real World Ideas” a conversation between Sam J. Miller, Patrick O’Leary, Kimberly Unger, and David Ebenbach
  • June 3, 2022 Hosted the panel “Creative Worldbuilding in Fiction” a conversation between Sam J. Miller, Patrick O’Leary, Kami Garcia, & E.J. Wenstrom
  • August 22, 2021 Hosted the panel “Creating Terror through the Written Word” a conversation between David Liss, and Ellen Datlow
  • August 20, 2021 Hosted the panel “The Appeal of Magic” a conversation between J. Kelley Skovron, Constance Sayers, Jordan Ifueko, Cerece Rennie Murphy, Peter V. Brett

PAST GUEST HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2022 Timothy Zahn (Thrawn, Heir to the Empire)
  • 2022 Kimberly Unger (The Extractionist, Nucleation)
  • 2022 Sam J. Miller (Boys, Beasts & Men, Kid Wolf & Kraken)
  • 2021 Jordan Ifueko (The Raybearer Series)
  • 2021 David Liss (The Peculiarities, A Conspiracy of Paper, Whiskey Rebels)
  • 2021 Ellen Datlow  (Body Shocks, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Naked City)
  • 2021 Peter V. Brett (The Demon Cycle series)