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Here at FYA HQ, we are huge fans of the Texas Book Festival. We've lunched with Meg Cabot, moderated a panel with Sarah Dessen and Libba Bray, and met a ton of incredible authors and YA fans. It's a wonderful opportunity to let your book nerd flag fly, and even better, it's located in Austin, TX, home of queso, margaritas and Posh & Jenny!
This year's festival begins tomorrow, and we couldn't be MORE EXCITED, Y'ALL. Like, we kind of need to calm down, because it hasn't even started yet, and we need to conserve our energy/livers for Saturday, but it's Friday and PRE-PARTY IS IN EFFECT.
If you're anywhere near Austin this weekend, you absolutely must head downtown and check out the amazing line-up of writers, speakers and musicians. There's some great authors in adult literature who will be present (Justin Cronin, what what!) but since this is FYA, we're gonna focus on the young adult representatives.
So here's a handy dandy list of YA panels, and if you attend one that Posh or Jenny is moderating, please do say hi! (We may or may not have champ cans in our purses.)
SATURDAY
Noon
A Conversation with Maureen Johnson and Maggie Stiefvator, moderated by Posh!
The Sanctuary at First United Methodist
12:45PM
Fantasy Gets Real, with Kristin Cashore, Cinda Williams Chima, and Jasper Fforde
Capitol Extension Room E2.036
1:45PM
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Capitol Extension Room E2.016
3PM
Save Your Self!, with Kristen-Paige Madonia, Ray Villareal, and Diana López
Capitol Extension Room E2.016
3:30PM
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility with Marie Lu, Katherine Applegate, Andrea Cremer, Bree Despain, and Michael Grant, moderated by Jenny!
Capitol Extension Room E2.036
8PM
Dear Teen Me with Maggie Stiefvater, Marie Lu, Maureen Johnson, Jenny Han, Becca Fitzpatrick, Kristin Cashore, Paolo Bacigalupi, E. Kristin Anderson, Siobhan Vivian
Lit Crawl Austin: Pine Street Station
SUNDAY
12:15PM
Paolo Bacigalupi
Capitol Auditorium Room E1.004
12:30PM
A Shift in Perspective, with Hilary Weisman Graham, Michelle Hodkin, and David Levithan
Capitol Extension Room E2.036
4PM
Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian, moderated by Posh!
Capitol Extension Room E2.016
Now you can understand why we've already started to pre-party because JUST LOOK AT THAT WEALTH OF AUTHOR RICHES. These superstars deseve to be toasted many, many times.
So hopefully we'll see some of you this weekend, and you best believe that next week we'll post a recap of all of the magic!!!!