Special Author Event

Audio Publishers Association Dinner

Thursday, March 15
6:00–8:30 PM

A PLA Conference favorite, be sure to register for this special evening of engaging authors, audio voices, and delicious food. A separate registration fee of $65 is required.

Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen has been writing about Florida since his father gave him a typewriter at age six. Now Hiaasen writes a column for the Miami Herald, and his work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Time, Life, Esquire, and, most improbably, Gourmet. He is the author of many nationally bestselling novels, including Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, Nature Girl, and Star Island. Hoot, Hiaasen’s first novel for young readers, was the recipient of the prestigious Newbery Honor. His next children’s novel, Chomp, goes on sale in March 2012, and his next adult novel follows in the summer of 2012.

Wanda McCaddon

Wanda McCaddon has recorded over 600 audiobooks. She is one of AudioFile’s eight original Golden Voice Narrators and has been recognized with 25 Earphones Awards. McCaddon has narrated a wide range of titles including epic poetry, mysteries, art history, biographies, bodice rippers, children’s books, and classic novels. “Thanks to my mysterious multiple personalities, I have attained a certain shady renown with librarians as well as listeners across the country.” Listen for Wanda on Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson, released March 2011.

Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling and Edgar® Award-winning author of sixteen novels, including Mistaken Identity, Courting Trouble, and the recent, Save Me. She is no stranger to audiobooks having won two AudioFile Earphones Awards for narrations of her essay collections, Why My Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn’t Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space. Her third collection of essays, Best Friends, Occasional Enemies, inspired by her Philadelphia Inquirer “Chick Wit” column, comes out November 2011. She lives in Philadelphia with an array of disobedient pets.

Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels, including Broken, Undone, Beyond Reach (a Publishers Weekly best book of the year), and A Faint Cold Fear, which was named an International Book of the Month selection. A long-time supporter of libraries, Karin launched the fundraising initiative SavetheLibraries.com in early 2011, to help spread the word about the need for community support for public libraries. Her efforts earned her the 2011 Silver Bullet Award by the International Thriller Writers. Karin is a native of Georgia, where she currently lives and is working on her next novel, Criminal, to be published in 2012.

PLA thanks AudioGO, Books on Tape/Random House, Macmillan Audio, and Tantor Audio for their support of this event.