Tag: yabooks

TTBF14: Is This Real Life

“Is This Real Life Panel” in conversation w/ Leslye Walton, A.S King, Scott Westerfeld, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, & Cory Doctorow Q: Describe your latest book using only adjectives. A: Guadalupe: “Corky, Scary, Funny, & Magically” Cory: “Justice-y, Game-y, Swear-y, Fighting-y, China-y, & Graphic-y” Leslye: “Delicious, Sorrowful, Tragic, & Rainy” Scott: “Scary, Paranormal, Romantic, Exciting, Publisher-y, & Gender-y” A.S: “Feminist-y, Future-y…

#TTBF Interview: Jason Reynolds

~Post by Willa Jason Reynolds’s first YA novel is entitled When I Was the Greatest came out in January and is the story of teenagers Ali, Noodles, and Needles and how their world changes. Reynolds started writing poetry at age ten, and promised himself no matter what he would never be a novelist, but in his early twenties in New…

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.  …