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2014 Keynote Speaker Andrew Smith | Website | Tweet @marburyjack
Andrew Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of Winger, The Marbury Lens, Passenger, Ghost Medicine, Stick, and In the Path of Falling Objects. He lives in Southern California.
Grasshopper Jungle (Dutton Juvenile, 2014)
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In the small town of...
Jesse Andrews | Website | Tweet @_jesse_andrews_
Jesse Andrews is a writer, musician, and screenwriter. His debut novel, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, is a World Book Night 2014 selection; a film adaptation is currently in development.
Me and Earl and The Dying Girl (Harry N. Abrams, 2012)Add this book on Goodreads
Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage,...
Carrie Arcos | Website | Tweet @carriearcos
Carrie Arcos is a National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature for Out of Reach. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
There Will Come a Time (Simon Pulse, 2014)Add this book on Goodreads
Mark knows grief. Ever since the accident that killed his twin sister, Grace, the only time he feels at peace is when he visits...
Katherine Ewell | Website | Tweet @kateewell
Katherine Ewell is the 18-year-old author of YA thriller Dear Killer. She is a Stanford student, horse lover, avid reader, science and sci-fi lover, girly-girl, and geek.
Dear Killer (Katherine Tegen, 2014)Add this book on Goodreads
Rule One—Nothing is right, nothing is wrong.
Rule Two—Be careful.
Rule...
Holly Goldberg Sloan | Website | Tweet @hgoldbergsloan
Holly Goldberg Sloan is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Her debut YA novel, I'll Be There, earned a starred review from School Library Journal. Her latest award-winning book, Counting by 7s, is also a New York Times Bestseller.
Counting by 7s (Dial,...
Aaron Hartzler | Website | Tweet @aaron007
Aaron Hartzler is a writer and actor whose autobiographical performances have been seen in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York--where he received a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Performance. His debut YA novel, What We Saw, will be published in 2015 by Harper Teen.
Rapture...
Tracy Holczer | Website | Tweet @tracyholczer
Tracy Holczer is a Middle Grade fiction writer who lives in Southern California. The Secret Hum of a Daisy is her first novel.
The Secret Hum of a Daisy (Putnam Juvenile, 2014)Add this book on Goodreads
Twelve-year-old Grace and her mother have always been their own family, traveling from place to...
Kristen Kittscher | Website | Tweet @kkittscher
Kristen Kittscher grew up in over 13 cities, including San Francisco, Dallas, and London but she feels most at home in Southern California, where she lives with her husband, Kai. A graduate of Brown University and former English teacher, she now writes funny mysteries for the precocious middle-schoolers she once...
Catherine Linka | Website | Tweet @cblinka
Catherine Linka has been immersed in books her whole life, most recently as a writer and a bookseller. Her debut novel is A Girl Called Fearless, a young adult romantic spec fiction/political thriller. She lives in Southern California.
A Girl Called Fearless (St. Martin's Griffin, 2014)Add this book on Goodreads
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Gretchen McNeil | Website | Tweet @gretchenmcneil
Gretchen McNeil is a former coloratura soprano and the voice of Mary on G4's Code Monkeys; she sings with the LA-based circus troupe Cirque Berzerk. Her new YA contemporary series Don't Get Mad (Revenge meets The Breakfast Club), about four very different girls who form a secret society where they get revenge...
Lissa Price | Website | Tweet @lissaprice
Lissa Price is the award-winning international bestselling author of Starters, published in over thirty countries. She has lived in India and Japan but now resides in Los Angeles. Beware reading the description for the sequel, Enders, if you haven't read the first book yet!
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Elizabeth Ross | Website | Tweet @RossElizabeth
Elizabeth Ross grew up in Scotland where she studied French and Film Studies at the University of Glasgow. After graduation she worked in the film industry in Montreal for several years, becoming a film editor. That career path eventually led to Los Angeles where she now lives with her husband and son.
Belle Epoque (Delacorte...
Frances Sackett | Website
Frances Sackett is a writing teacher and an editor. She is also mother to two children who inspire her to want to tell the best stories she can. She lives in Los Angeles.
The Misadventures of the Magician's Dog (Holiday House, 2013)
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Peter Lubinsky doesn't even like dogs and can't understand why he asked...
Rachel Searles | Website | Tweet @rachelsearles
Rachel Searles grew up on the frigid shores of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where she spent her childhood studying languages and plotting to travel around the world. After college, she lived abroad in Munich and Istanbul, working as a cook, a secretary, a teacher, and a reporter for the Turkish...
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