YA: It's Complicated
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Ellie Moreton is a YA novelist and blogger. She went to college for media arts and animation, where she got her bachelors degree before she found a job in accounting (yeah, weird) and also started to seriously read and write. She still doodles and draws on random scraps of papers...
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Presenters
Melissa de la Cruz is a bestselling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages, including the #1 bestseller The Isle of the Lost, inspired by beloved Disney movies. Cruz is the author of the Blue Bloods series (with three million copies in...
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Jennifer Niven is a New York Times and Internationally bestselling author of eight books, including All the Bright Places, which was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, won the Goodreads 2015 Choice Award for best young fiction, and was named best book of the year by publications including...
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Rebecca Podos is a graduate of Emerson College’s MFA Writing, Literature, and Publishing program and represents young adult and middle grade fiction at Boston-based Rees Literary Agency. Her fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, Paper Darts, Bellow American Review, and Smokelong...
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Jordan Sonnenblick is the author of critically acclaimed novels for teens and young readers, including Notes from the Midnight Driver, Zen and the Art of Faking It, and the Doger and Me series. His first novel, Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie, was published in 2005 as part of the “Go...
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