yallwest:THE YALLWEST 2015 AUTHOR LINEUP IS HERE!From Epic...

yallwest:

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.