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…
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#TTBF14 Panel Talk: Is This Real Life
We have some amazing panels this year and Is This Real Life is one of them! This panel will be focusing on books that involve fantasy and magical realism in their stories. The authors headlining this panel are: Leslye Walton; A. S. King; Scott Westerfeld; Guadalupe Garcia McCall; and Cory Doctrow!! Here is a little bit more about the authors…
#TTBF14 Panel Talk: Growing Up and Other Natural Disasters
~Post by Kendall of the BookPeople Teen Press Corps ______________________ Andrew Smith Andrew Smith is the award-winning author of several Young Adult novels, including the critically acclaimed Winger and The Marbury Lens. He is a native-born Californian who spent most of his formative years traveling the world. He has published numerous short stories and articles. He lives in Southern California.…
Panel Talk: BookPeople Teen Press Corps Clues You In
~Post by the BookPeople Teen Press Corps If you don’t yet have a clue, let us tell you we are SUPER Excited to that Simmone Howell, Will Ritter, James Klise, and Ransom Riggs will be attending the Texas Teen Book Festival this year! This panel is guaranteed to keep you guessing with a mix of characters who encounter ghosts, other-worldly…
One Dreamy Interview with Siobhan Vivian and Jenny Han
~post by Willa of Teen Press Corp TPC: You two obviously have written together before, so what made you want to write together? SV: It was very self-serving. Jenny and I are actually real life best friends. And we lived around the corner from each other in Brooklyn, and we would write and hang out together all the time, and then…