This live panel event is available for members with full, extended, or time traveler admission levels.

Events can only be accessed on the date and time they become available. 

This event will remain accessible until March 1st for members with General and Full Admission, and March 22nd for members with Extended and Time Traveler Admission.

Eric Smith is a literary agent who has worked on New York Times bestselling and award-winning books. Also a bestseller author, he sometimes finds time to sleep.

Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area with her wonderful family and impossibly cute dog. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, she spends her time writing novels and picture books, practicing medicine, and baking too many sweet treats. Her middle grade debut, Midsummer’s Mayhem (Yellow Jacket/Little Bee Books), an Indian-American mashup of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and competitive baking, was called a “delectable treat” in its starred Kirkus review and was selected for the Kirkus Best Middle Grade Books of 2019 list, A Mighty Girl’s Best Books of 2019, and a Nerdy Book Award. Her debut picture book, Seven Golden Rings: A Tale of Music and Math (Lee & Low, 2020) is set in ancient India and introduces the basics of binary numbers. She is also the author of the forthcoming novel Much Ado About Baseball (Yellow Jacket/Little Bee Books 2021) and picture books Bracelets For Brothers (Charlesbridge, 2021), I’ll Go and Come Back (Candlewick, 2022), and Where Three Oceans Meet (Abrams, 2022). Learn more about her at www.RajaniLaRocca.com and on Twitter and Instagram @rajanilarocca.