Category: TTBF 2017

Fresh Ink Winners

Announcing the Winners of the Fresh Ink Fiction Contest!

We are so excited to announce the winners of our 2019 Fresh Ink Fiction Writing Contest! The Kids are Alright, by Sarah Appel The Girl the Sea Forgot,  by Layla P.  Voyager 48, by Kara Sledge Our judges were blown away by the quality of the writing in this year’s submissions, and the decision was a brutal task! A shout-out to all the writers at Austin Bat…

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Nerd Out at #TTBF Trivia with Mary E. Pearson!

You’ve read the books. You’ve lived the fandoms. Now test how far that knowledge will get you at our first-ever TTBF team trivia event at 2:30 p.m. in the RCC! This interactive panel hosted by the one and only Mary E. Pearson (Dance of Thieves, The Remnant Chronicles) gives attendees the opportunity to prove how much they know about past…

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Leila Sales – #TTBF Author Interview

You wrote a different quote on your locker every week in high school. If you had to pick the quote that stayed with you the longest, which would it be? My favorite quote about writing is from Brenda Ueland: “I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads…

Watch Teen Press Corps Interview Marie Lu!

Teen Press Corps Member Haley Interviews Author Marie Lu by Haley Jústiz, video by Sophia Martinez, BookPeople Teen Press Corps TTBF Keynote speaker Marie Lu is the author of two YA series—Legend and The Young Elites—as well as a new book revolving around a virtual reality game called Warcross. Warcross is a technological rags to riches story about a girl who hacks herself…