Well, #TTBF 2016 is done, and YA fans all over Texas are looking for time to get lost in some great books from our fantastic guest authors. We want to thank everyone who came out to share their day with us. It’s the best thing in the world to see readers meeting their favorite authors and watching the resulting grins…
Category: TTBF 2016
Interview With Celebrated Author Mary E. Pearson!!
~Interviewed by Sofia, TPC What is your favorite part about writing a book? “I think it’s the discovery as I’m writing. Even though most of the time I have a direction as I’m writing, you don’t always know every single detail that you’re going to be putting into a book and sometimes further down the line that detail…
Q&A With Author Carrie Jones!
~Post by Addison, TPC When you’re not writing, what do you like to do? Carrie Jones: I have a lot of dogs. I love my dogs, so I walk them a lot and I hug them a lot. But that sounds like the most lame answer ever, but I also kayak and I hike a lot near Acadia National Park.…
#TTBF16 Pieces Of Me Panel: There Were Tears. . .
~Post by Haley, TPC Contemporary authors Isabel Quintero, Jeffery Self, Paula Garner, and Joe Jimenez participated in a Q&A style panel! The panel was moderated by a fourteen-year-old writer from a small town in north Texas. Where are y’all from? Isabel is from southern California, Jeffery currently lives in L.A. (this is his first time visiting Texas!), Paula…
Costume Extravaganza!!!
For the first time in TTBF history we are hosting an amazing cosplay competition! We had over 15 festival goers come out and show us their amazing get-ups based off of literary characters that we all know and love! The winners of the contest will win some great prizes and be crowned the King or Queen of cosplay of TTBF16,…