Reported by Willa, Teen Press Corps~ Come on Feel the Noise was a panel with Len Vlahos, Frank Portman, Gayle Forman, and Kevin Emerson, who proved to be a lively panel to watch. They covered the effects of music in their writing, their favorite songs at the moment, and their real-life bands (excluding Forman). For Gayle Forman, author if If…
Category: TTBF 2014
#TTBF14: Danger Is My Middle Name
Reported by Adrienne, Teen Press Corps~ Is this room crazy full or what? Let’s get started! First announcement – Marie Lu’s new book, The Young Elites is out! And Sarah J. Maas has a new book out coming out next year! We received a little background on each author, including the fact that Sarah listens to Kayne West, Marie interned…
#TTBF14 Interview: Alaya Dawn Johnson
~Post by Willa Alayna Dawn Johnson is the author of over 20 works, her most recent being Love is the Drug, a story of Bird, a teenager girl living in Washington, DC who wakes up in a hospital with no recollection of what has happened to her. Johnson grew up in Washington, DC, and that experience deeply inspired her most…
TTBF14: Texas Throwdown Game Show
Reported by: Adrienne, Em, & Haley, Teen Press Corps ~ Six authors. Two teams. Bring. It. On. Frank Portman, Joelle Charbonneau, Jason Reynolds, Paolo Bacigalupi, Marie Lu, and Simmone Howell first divided up into teams and chose their team names: the Beautiful Bastards (Joelle, Jason, Marie) vs the Grim Bastards (Frank, Paolo, Simmone). Round one pitted the musicians against…
The Teen Press Corps at Texas Teen Book Festival 2014!
The BookPeople Teen Press Corps is covering all the action again for the TTBF#! They are covering the day as it happens, attending and reporting on the panels, scoring one-on-one interviews with the authors. They will be all over the festival in their bright green shirts, so be sure to stop and talk to them! They also want to talk…