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January 14, 2015
yallwest:
THE YALLWEST 2015 AUTHOR LINEUP IS HERE!
From Epic...
THE YALLWEST 2015 AUTHOR LINEUP IS HERE!
From Epic Reads, the HarperCollins YA Community, and presenting sponsor of YALLWest:
“We’ve been big supporters of YALLFest and are thrilled to be presenting the very first YALLWest, bringing the largest YA book festival to the West Coast! Come book shimmy with us this April in Santa Monica!”
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THE YALLWEST 2015 AUTHOR LINEUP
Brought to you by Epic Reads
APPEARING ON SATURDAY APRIL 11th, 2015
(at Santa Monica Public High School Venue)
keynote
*RANSOM RIGGS (Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children) NYT
with
*LEIGH BARDUGO (Shadow and Bone) NYT
COE BOOTH (Kinda Like Brothers) LAT
*PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH (Secret Series) NYT
ANN BRASHARES (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) NYT
LIBBA BRAY (Diviners) NYT, PRINTZ, LAT, TIGER BEAT
*RACHEL COHN (Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist) NYT
ANDREA CREMER (The Inventor’s Secret) NYT
*MELISSA DE LA CRUZ (Blue Bloods) NYT and
ALLY CONDIE (Matched) NYT
KIMBERLY DERTING (The Taking)
SUSAN EE (Angelfall) USA
DAN EHRENHAFT (The Last Dog on Earth) TIGER BEAT
*KAMI GARCIA (Beautiful Creatures) NYT, MORRIS
SHANNON HALE (Ever After High) NYT, NEWBERRY
E. LOCKHART (We Were Liars) NYT, PRINTZ
RICHELLE MEAD (Vampire Academy) NYT
*LISI HARRISON (Pretenders) NYT
ELLEN HOPKINS (Crank) NYT
*ROBIN LAFEVERS (Grave Mercy) NYT
ALEXANDER LONDON (Proxy)
*MARIE LU (Legend) NYT
*TAHEREH MAFI (Shatter Me) NYT
BARNABAS MILLER (7 Souls) TIGER BEAT
JANDY NELSON (I’ll Give You the Sun) NYT
G. NERI (Yummy, Knockout Games) CORETTA SCOTT KING, EISNER
*KASS MORGAN (The 100) NYT
LAUREN OLIVER (Delirium) NYT
DANIELLE PAIGE (Dorothy Must Die) NYT
BRENDAN REICHS (Virals) NYT
VERONICA ROTH (Divergent) NYT
STEPHANIE PERKINS (Isla & The Happily Ever After) NYT
MORGAN RHODES (Falling Kingdoms) NYT
VERONICA ROSSI (Under the Never Sky) NYT
CARRIE RYAN (Forest of Hands & Teeth) NYT
*HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN (Counting By 7’s) NYT
NATALIE STANDIFORD (Switched at Birthday) TIGER BEAT
*MARGARET STOHL (Beautiful Creatures) NYT, MORRIS
MAYA VAN WAGENEN (Popular) NYT
GENE LUEN YANG (Boxers & Saints) NYT, PRINTZ, NBA, EISNER, LAT
and illustrators
*GARY ROSEN (Appleblossom the Possum)
& *JOHN ROCCO (Percy Jackson)
APPEARING ON SUNDAY APRIL 12th, 2014
(Local Author Day at Santa Monica Main Library Venue)
SMPL’s mayor for the day
*JOHN COREY WHALEY
(Noggin) MORRIS, PRINTZ, NBA
with local authors
*COLET ABEDI (FAE)
**KATIE ALENDER (Famous Last Words)
*JULIE BERRY (Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place)
*VICTORIA AVEYARD (Red Queen)
*ROBIN BENWAY (Emmy & Oliver)
*GREG BOOSE (The Red Bishop)
*JESSICA BRODY (Unremembered)
*ANNA CAREY (Blackbird)
*AVA DELLAIRA (Love Letters to the Dead)
*MICHELLE GAGNON (Don’t Turn Around)
*AARON HARTZLER (Rapture Practice) stonewall
*LEILA HOWLAND (Nantucket Blue)
*JESSI KIRBY (Golden)
*MORGAN MATSON (Since You’ve Been Gone)
*ABBY McDONALD (Sophomore Switch)
*MAILE MELOY (The Apothecary) NYT
*JENNIFER NIVEN (All The Bright Places)
*NEAL SHUSTERMAN (Unwind) NYT
*ALYSON NOEL (Immortals) NYT
*MADELEINE ROUX (Asylum) NYT
*GRETCHEN MCNEIL (Possess)
*CINDY PON (Silver Phoenix)
*SONYA SONES (To Be Perfectly Honest)
*ELISSA SUSSMAN (Stray)
*ROBYN SCHNEIDER (The Beginning of Everything)
*LISA YEE (Millicent Min, Girl Genius)
*ALLEN ZADOFF (I Am the Weapon)
& honorary locals
KATIE COTUGNO (99 Days)
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY (Magonia)
SARA RAASCH (Snow Like Ashes)
*past or present SoCal author
nyt or usa = new york times or usa today bestseller
morris, nba, prints, lat = nominated or received this book award
tiger beat = festival band
note: schedule is subject to change.
August 18, 2014
I just finished both Nantucket Blue and Nantucket Red (in record time) and they were incredible! I am ready to go back and read them again already! I have to ask though where did you get the name Cricket (I love it by the way)!!
Thank you so much for reading. I can’t remember where I first heard the name Cricket, but naming her definitely helped bring her into focus!
June 24, 2014
NOVL Days is...
Iced drinks
(source)
Cupcakes
(source)
Summer jams
(source)
These rockstars
All your friends
(source)
BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS
(source)
Mark us in in your calendar for next Tuesday!
Not in LA? No worries, we’ll be announcing another location soon.
HEY LA! I’m doing this event on Tuesday the 24th! It’s gonna be fun - & there will be CUPCAKES FOR GOD’S SAKES.
Who do you picture Zach looking like? And Ben from Nantucket Red? I adore both books! Amazing reads❤️
Thank you so much! I like to let readers imagine their own Zack and Ben :) Who do YOU picture them looking like? Thanks for writing xo
Who do you picture Zach looking like? And Ben from Nantucket Red? I adore both books! Amazing reads❤️
Thank you so much! I like to let readers imagine their own Zack and Ben :) Who do YOU picture them looking like? Thanks for writing xo
Who do you picture Zach looking like? And Ben from Nantucket Red? I adore both books! Amazing reads❤️
Thank you so much! I like to let readers imagine their own Zack and Ben :) Who do YOU picture them looking like? Thanks for writing xo
Who do you picture Zach looking like? And Ben from Nantucket Red? I adore both books! Amazing reads❤️
Thank you so much! I like to let readers imagine their own Zack and Ben :) Who do YOU picture them looking like? Thanks for writing xo
