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…
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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…
#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…
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…
Spotlight on #TTBF14 Closing Keynote: Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliver will be our closing keynote speaker to wrap up all of the festivities of the Texas Teen Book Festival this year! ~Post by Haley of the BookPeople Teen Press Corps Lauren Oliver is a young-Adult and middle-grade power house and a New York Times-bestselling author. Her books Delirium, Requiem, and Pandemonium take place in a world where love…