PSA — North Texas Teen Book Festival '21

[eachase.livejournal.com]

Looks like the videos from this weekend's #NTTBF21 are still up on YouTube. I don't know how long they'll be up, but if weren't able to watch Friday and Saturday, there's still a chance. Here's a link to the line up:

Panel Schedule — The North Texas Teen Book Festival

www.northtexasteenbookfestival.com

Both of Megan's events were *awesome* and the middle grade ones my 11yo watched were great, too. 

Comments

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the head's up! I love being able to listen in.

Laini Taylor made a great observation about MWT's books: The delight of reading them for the first time is being surprised, and the delight of reading them again (and again) is putting together the pieces. That's a decade of Sounis discussions in a nutshell, isn't it?

MWT saying it only takes her seven effortless years to write a book. :D

Also relatable: MWT saying 80% of the books in her house are from library book sales. Mine too! Very familiar with the reality of never finding Book 1 of a series, so you might start with Book 3 instead. :) I'd never thought of it as a reason for writing each book to be self-contained, though. Perhaps that explains why so many QT readers came to the series through Queen or King of Attolia first, without too much difficulty over chronology.

[eachase.livejournal.com]

Megan is so funny. But you never know when the humor is going to pop out. Listening to her is like:

wisdomwisdomwisdomgracewisdomfunnywisdomgracewisdom

[rouan1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed watching both events and now have some new books to try as well.

[eachase.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad you were able to watch. Megan would tell you to watch some of the other panels, too. She's gracous like that. Me, I have a one-track mind. My kids both loved the Middle Grade Madness event (which was really creative and well done, I must say).

It made me wish for a panel of YA/MG authors who've been writing for a long time (MWT, Gordon Korman, etc.) and have kept an audience. Unfortuantely, I don't think that's the sort of panel they're going for with an audience primarily of teens and tweens. Maybe on the Educator's Day, though?

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I finally watched these--thanks again for posting the link AND the reminder to watch. They really were good. I was heartened by Megan's comments about the virtual booklaunch and how she saw it as a good thing rather than a sad pandemic second choice. It offered the chance for fans world-wide to celebrate the publication of the book.

[eachase.livejournal.com]

I agree. As much as I'd love to attend an in-person book launch (or any other event) featuring Megan, I certainly wouldn't have been able to attend as many in-person events as I have virtual this year.

The first virtual book launch I attended last spring was for Sunshield by Emily B. Martin. And I attended the virtual launch of her conclusion to the duology, Floodpath, just a few weeks ago. Almost like bookends. (Highly recommend, btw. I stayed up way too late last night finishing it.)