-This post comes from BookPeople Teen Press Corps member Parker. Parker: How do you like Austin, and what’s been your favorite thing here so far? Emond: It’s a cool city. I got lost in an Uber yesterday. They took me to the wrong hotel, so I went downtown. I got to experience downtown through an Uber, and I got a…
Category: TTBF 2015
Xander Talks to Grasshopper Jungle Author Andrew Smith
What is your favorite book you’ve written, which one was the most fun to write? Probably the most fun to write is the book that I’m writing right now, and I’m almost at the very end of it which is why it’s fun. But beyond that, my favorite, funnest trip was Grasshopper Jungle. What is your favorite of your book…
A Chit-Chat With Author Rick Yancey!
-This post comes from BookPeople Teen Press Corps members Sofia & Haley Teen Press Corps: So, first off, how do you begin to write a book? Does it start with a scene, a character, or a line of dialogue? Rick Yancey: For me, it’s always a mental image. I have a mental image of a character in a situation…
Drawing Between The Lines Panel
-This post comes from Parker of BookPeople’s Teen Press Corps. Everyone had a great time at the Drawing Between the Lines panel, which included the authors Stephen Emond, Gareth Hinds, Andrew Smith, and Nicola and David Yoon. Here are some of the things they talked about. Stephen Emond—Bright Lights, Dark Nights –At first he was thinking of doing…
That Time When #YA Authors Wielded Light Sabers
-This post comes from Aurora of BookPeople’s Teen Press Corps. We met the three teen fiction writing contest winners before the game show: Nikhil (18), Jack (17), and Madeline (12). Nikhil said he’d been writing for a while and decided to enter because he loves it so much. He’s from Austin and wrote “Hell to Pay.” Jack found out about…