Interview by Haley & Olivia, Teen Press Corps~ Haley, TPC: What your favorite thing about Austin so far? Lauren Oliver: Oh well, you know, this trip I haven’t been able to see Austin very much because I got in last night, but I love Austin. I’ve been here several times. I don’t know – I just love the whole city.…
Category: TTBF 2014
#TTBF14: Interview with Kevin Emerson
Interviewed by Adrienne, Teen Press Corps~ Adrienne, TPC – What is your favorite book ever, and why? Kevin Emerson: My favorite book, up until high school, was The Stand, by Stephen King. I was really into horror novels. But I think that my favorite novel since then is a book I didn’t like in high school which was Slaughterhouse Five by…
TTBF14 Panel: Growing Up And Other Natural Disasters
“Growing Up and Other Natural Disasters” featured authors Jennifer Mathieu (The Truth About Alice), Andrew Smith (100 Sideways Miles), Julie Murphy (Side Affects May Vary), and Jandy Nelson (I’ll Give You The Sun). The panel covered the origins of their novels, suggestions about their writing, the hardest and best thing about being a teen, writing role models, and more. …
#TTBF14: A.S. King and Andrew Smith
Reported by Adrienne, Teen Press Corps~ First of all, A.S. King and Andrew Smith are like twins. They think alike, they write alike and they act alike. They go golfing together (via phone) twice a week, and they text random numbers back together just for fun. When it comes to first impressions, these are theirs in three words. A.S.…
TTBF14 Interview: Scott Westerfeld
~Post by Emily & Kendall TPC: From your debut to now, how has the YA world changed and what are your thoughts? Scott: Well the YA world has definitely got a lot bigger. It has been 10 years so when my first book, Midnighters, and Uglies came out in 2005. Nobody expected a YA book to be the bestselling…