Author Showcase with HarperCollins
Free and available exclusively to PLA members
Hearing from your favorite authors is one of the best things about attending the PLA Conference. And now, you don’t have to wait! In this free, members-only on-demand webinar, we celebrate the PLA 2026 Conference early with a conversation between four amazing authors. Listen in as the HarperCollins Library Marketing team (a.k.a. Library Love Fest) interviews Jonathan Lethem, Sarah McCoy, Sonora Jha, and Sophie Hannah about their upcoming publications, which can be previewed on Edelweiss.
Recorded live on May 28, 2025.
Authors
Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Brooklyn Crime Novel, The Feral Detective, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His five story collections include Men and Cartoons and Lucky Alan, and his short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and the Paris Review, among other publications, garnering a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion in The Best American Short Stories. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine.
Sarah McCoy is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of the novels Whatever Happened To Lori Lovely?, Mustique Island, Marilla of Green Gables, The Mapmaker’s Children, The Baker’s Daughter, a 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Best Historical Fiction nominee, the novella “The Branch of Hazel” in Grand Central, and The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico. Her work has been featured in Newsweek, Lit Hub, Write or Die Tribe, Real Simple, The Millions, Your Health Monthly, Huffington Post, Read It Forward, Writer Unboxed, and other publications. She hosted the NPR WSNC Radio monthly program “Bookmarked with Sarah McCoy” and founded The McCoy Grant. Sarah previously taught English writing at Old Dominion University and the University of Texas at El Paso. She lives with her husband Doc B, dog Gilly, and cat Tutu in Winston-Salem, NC. Connect with Sarah on Instagram at @SarahMMcCoy, on her Facebook Fan Page, Goodreads, or via her website, www.sarahmccoy.com.
Sonora Jha is the author of the novel The Laughter and Foreign and the memoir How to Raise a Feminist Son. After a career as a journalist covering crime, politics, and culture in India and Singapore, she moved to the United States to earn a PhD in media and public affairs. Sonora and her work have been featured in the New York Times and literary anthologies, on the BBC, and elsewhere. She is a professor of journalism at Seattle University and lives in Seattle.
Sophie Hannah is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous psychological thrillers, which have been published in fifty-one countries and adapted for television, as well as The Monogram Murders, the first Hercule Poirot novel authorized by the estate of Agatha Christie, and its sequels Closed Casket, The Mystery of Three Quarters, The Killings at Kingfisher Hill, and Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night. Sophie is also the author of a self-help book, How to Hold a Grudge, and hosts the podcast of the same name. She lives in Cambridge, UK.
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Accommodations
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