Podcasts about yallfest

In this episode, host Deitra and her special guest Author Chantae Oliver conclude their adventures meeting authors, cosplayers, and celebrities at Fan Expo Philadelphia.https://fanexpohq.com/fanexpophiladelphia/WARNING- This episode was recorded live  on the scene of the Philadelphia Fan Expo; the audio reflects that. I promise I'm working on my skills and my next live event will sound much better.GUESS WHO?  We were able to score an amazing interview with: Kami Garcia  - Kami Garcia is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-nominated young adult author of 12 novels and graphic novels, she has been published in 51 countries and 38 languages, and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Kami's best-known works include the Beautiful Creatures series, Teen Titans: Raven, The X-Files: Agent of Chaos, The Lovely Reckless, Broken Beautiful Hearts, and the DC Black Label comic Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity. She is also a co-founder of the Kid Lit book festival YALLFest and co-organizer of #Creators4Comics. Learn more about Kami at kamigarcia.com and follow her on Instagram and Twitter @kamigarcia. (Bio from: https://kamigarcia.com/bio/)NEXT WEEK:We'll be back with some new fiction for your listening pleasure. Please Like, Follow, Subscribe, and all that good stuff :Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/FictionaryPODTikTok-  @fictionarypodcastInstagram- @Fictionary_PodcastEmail Fictionary at: keepreading.fictionary@gmail.com

On this episode of Lower Your Volume the gals discuss YALLFest, their sexual awakenings, Madisons stint as a Shakespearean masseuse and much more. They talk about the second book in the A League of Extraordinarie Women series, A Rogue of Ones Own by Evie Dunmore!Books Covered On This Episode:A Rogue of Ones Own by Evie DunmoreFollow us on Twitter at @LowerPod and on Instagram at @loweryourvolumepod, and now on TikTok at @loweryourvolumepodYou can also follow our personal accounts listed below:Madison: @madison_frye on Twitter and Instagram, and @exlibrisdemadison BookstagramNicole: @nicole_bossio on Twitter, @n_boz53 on Instagram, and @onmyownadventure Bookstagram. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/loweryourvolume)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/loweryourvolume)

While there weren't any interviews during the event, Anna sat down and chatted with several writers after YALLFest. There are plenty of great pieces of information throughout including advice from Lyssa Smith about not comparing yourself to others, finding joy in reader experience from Lauren Blackwood, information about a writing workshop from Jamye Smith, and do's and don'ts from fellow podcaster Jenna Devillier. Writing with the Soul workshop by Adrienne Young Jamye Smith on Instragram From Spark to Shelf with Jenna Devillier REVELLE on Goodreads by Lyssa Smith Lauren Blackwood Linktree Emily Thiede Linktree

Christine and Danielle are vaccinated and back in action—and not just with the “Currently Obsessed” podcast. For this episode, they talk all about making plans post-pandemic, managing schedules in this new normal, and looking forward to book festivals, vacations, and more. Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and more. Links To Give You Life: “Inside,” a Bo Burnham Netflix special that captures the essence of 2020 in just 90 minutes Throw Throw Burrito, a family-friendly game brought to you by the creators of Exploding Kittens that is perfect to play at your next game night or archnemesis throwdown Keep your schedule straight with a fresh Clever Fox Planner and start calendar blocking on a Master Calendar Knock items off your post-pandemic bucket list, whether it's booking tickets for a local performance of “Hamilton,” attending Yallfest 2021, or something in between Put Obsessed to the (Taste) Test: Stay cool no matter what the weather with Lindy's Homemade Italian Ice. For this episode, C+D give the Raspberry Lemon flavor a try, and you'll have to listen to the full episode to hear what they thought. Want to send in your own current obsessions, taste test suggestions, and more, send an email to currentlyobsessedclub@gmail.com. Stay obsessed!  

First Draft Episode #204: Siobhan Vivian, Kami Garcia, Stephanie Kate Strohm, and Jessica Brody on the “Pitter Patter: Writing Fresh Love Stories” from YALLFest 2018 Young Adult romcoms were the subject of the “Pitter Patter: Writing Fresh Love Stories” panel at YALLFest on Nov. 8, 2018. Hear contemporary romance writers compare makeout daydreams, talk about writing love in a time of #MeToo, and the lack of appreciation for stories with happy endings. Featuirng: Kami Garcia, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Creatures and The Lovely Reckless and Broken, Beautiful Hearts, and more; Stephanie Kate Srtohm, author of Prince in Disguise, It’s Not Me It’s You and Love a la Mode and more; Siobhan Vivian, author of Stay Sweet and The List, The Last Boy and Girl in the World, and more; and Jessica Brody, Sky Without Stars, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing That You’ll Ever Need and more. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode Jenny Han, author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Summer I Turned Pretty (listen to her First Draft episode here), who co-wrote the Burn for Burn series with Siobhan The Great British Baking Show featuring co-host Mary Berry #MeToo and #TimesUp Zach Woods’ GQ profile feature We imagine a world where George Clooney in Oceans 11 says, “This isn’t a good idea!” and goes home Margaret Stohl was Kami’s co-author of Beautiful Creatures (listen to Margie’s First Draft interviews here and here) I want to hear from you! Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998. You can also email the podcast at firstdraftwithsarahenni@gmail.com.  Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? Please take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Please share this episode on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or via carrier pigeon (maybe try a text or e-mail, come to think of it). Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post! Thanks again!

First Draft Episode #188: Ally Condie Ally Condie, New York Times bestselling author of the Matched series, as well as Summerlost and The Darkdeep, co-written with Brendan Reichs. In this conversation, Ally talks about what inspired her to get an MFA after establishing herself as a bestselling author, always working on two things at once, and how the 2016 election gave Ally enough rage to write her newest young adult novel, murderous revenge story The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode The Planet of the Apes movies, which were filmed near where Ally grew up in rural Utah Ally was inspired by a blog post by Shannon Hale, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Academy and Austenland, where she wrote about writing 1,000 words a day. Ally was inspired by Shannon to commit to daily word goals. She started with 500. Lisa Mangum, editor at Shadow Mountain press, which released Ally’s first few books Brandon Mull, New York TImes bestselling author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series, who got his start at Shadow Mountain PressChris Shoebinger, publishing director at Shadow Mountain Press, who released Ally from her publishing contract so she could pursue a bigger contract for Matched Jodi Reamer, literary agent at Writer’s House, who also represents Tahereh Mafi, New York TImes bestselling author of the Shatter Me series (listen to her First Draft episode here), Ransom Riggs, New York Times bestselling author of the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series (listen to his First Draft episode here), John Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska, and Stephenie Meyer, author of the global phenomenon Twilight series Julie Strauss-Gabel, publisher at Dutton Books, who has edited John Green, Adam Gidwitz, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale Dark & Grimm and The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, and Gayle Forman, New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay and I Have Lost My Way The Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in writing for children, the program Ally attended Emily Wing Smith, author of The Way He Lived and All Better Now, and Carol Lynch Williams, author of The Chosen One and Glimpse, two Utah authors Ally was friends with who also attended the Vermont College of Fine Arts for the MFA program Kekla Magoon, author of National Book Award Longlisted X: A Novel (written with Ilyasah Shabazz), Coretta Scott King-honored The Season of Styx Malone and How it Went Down, and was Ally’s mentor at the Vermont program and helped her with an early draft of Poe Blythe An Na, author of Printz winner and National Book Award long-listed A Step From Heaven, as well as Wait For Me and The Place Between Breaths, was also an advisor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts Martine Leavitt, author of Keturah and Lord Death, and Calvin,  who Ally calls “a stone cold genius.” Martine helped Ally work on a project during her Vermont residency. Quentin Tarantino’s advice to screenwriters was to delete the last two lines of dialogue from every scene, which Alfred Gough and Miles Millar--creators of Smallville and Into the Badlands shared with me on their recent First Draft episode. That’s similar to Ally’s feeling that sometimes she writes past the natural ending of a chapter. Brendan Reichs, New York Times bestselling author of Genesis, and co-writer of Virals with his mother, New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, and The Darkdeep with Ally. Brendan and Ally fortuitously decided to pursue an MFA at Vermont at the same time. YALLWEST and YALLFest, two national young adult and middle grade book festivals held in Charleston, S.C. and Los Angeles. Ally is on the board of the festivals, alongside Brendan Reichs and Margaret Stohl, New York Times bestselling author of the Beautiful Creatures series, Red Widow and Royce Rolls (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Stranger Things meets The Goonies, the pitch for Ally and Brendan’s co-written middle grade series, The Darkdeep   Ally’s pitch for Poe Blythe is: “Mad Max: Fury Road meets Firefly meets something really lovey.” I got a distinctly Heart of Darkness (by Joseph Conrad) vibe from Poe when I read it!   Write Out, the non-profit organization Ally founded as a way to bring authors to kids in rural Utah Brendan Reichs, Shannon Hale, Soman Chainani (author of The School for Good and Evil series--listen to his First Draft interview here), and Yamile Saied Mendez (author of Blizzard Besties: A Wish Novel, and the forthcoming On These Magic Shores) are among the authors who volunteer at Write Out Ally and I urge listeners to Marie Kondo your fear -- go write that angry revenge novel!!!! Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? Please take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Please share this episode on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or via carrier pigeon (maybe try a text or e-mail, come to think of it). 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Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly internationally bestselling author of many acclaimed novels. Her latest book ALEX & ELIZA is about the romance between Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler. With the current HAMILTON craze, this is expected to be one of the biggest books of the summer, and Melissa has the loyal audience, the chops and the history to tell the story. BUSTLE puts Melissa's newest book, Alex & Eliza at the top of the pack:https://www.bustle.com/p/ 9-books-out-in-2017-for-hamilt on-fans-who-just-cant-get-enou gh-41067. Melissa did this great Q&A, talking about her inspiration for writing the book: http://ew.com/article/2016/11/ 02/melissa-de-la-cruz-alex-eli za-hamilton/. In that piece, Mel also touched upon her personal experience watching Hamilton as a Filipino immigrant who recently became a US citizen after coming to the States, and how seeing a multi-cultural cast breathe life into this moment in history made her feel like she could be part of the American story in a whole new way. Last but not least she was also recently interviewed as part of this NPR piece on immigrant stories :http://www.npr.org/2017/02/01 /512634651/whats-life-like-for -immigrant-kids-2-teen-novels- paint-a-sober-picture ABOUT MELISSA Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, #1 Publisher’s Weekly and #1 IndieBound bestselling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages. Her more than thirty books have also topped the USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists and have been published in over twenty countries. The Isle of the Lost, the prequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie The Descendants, has spent more than fifty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, fifteen at #1, and has over a million copies in print. The Descendants starring Kristen Chenoweth and Dove Cameron is the #1 cable TV movie of 2015, and #5 of all time, and its soundtrack is the #1 bestselling album on iTunes. The Isle of the Lost’s sequel, Return to the Isle of the Lost, is also a #1 New York Times bestseller and spent sixteen weeks on the New York Times List. The third Isle of the Lost book will be published in May 2017. De la Cruz is the author of the Blue Bloods series (with three million copies in print), among many others. Her first series for adults launched with Witches of East End, which People magazine called a “bubbling cauldron of mystery and romance.” The bestseller was followed by Serpent’s Kiss and Winds of Salem. Lifetime Television aired a two-season drama series based on Witches of East End, starring Julia Ormond, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Rachel Boston and Mädchen Amick. De la Cruz’s young adult spin-off of the series, Summer on East End has also been optioned for television. Her recent books include Something in Between, a YA contemporary novel inspired by de la Cruz’s own immigrant experience coming from the Philippines which launched the Seventeen imprint at Harlequin Teen, as well as Alex and Eliza, a historical novel about the romance between Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, forthcoming from Penguin Teen in April 2017. Angel Falls, a television movie she wrote for the Hallmark Channel, will premiere this December as part of the network’s Countdown to Christmas and will star Rachel Boston from Witches of East End. Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe, her latest novel for adults will be published by St. Martin’s and Melissa has also written the script for the television movie. A former fashion and beauty editor, Melissa has written for The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Allure, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney’s, Teen Vogue, CosmoGirl! and Seventeen. She has also appeared as an expert on fashion, trends and fame for CNN, E! and FoxNews. In addition to her literary work, Melissa is the co-founder of YALLWEST, and the co-director of YALLFEST, two of the largest teen book festivals in the country. She is also on the Advisory Board of Facing History, which reaches five million school children nationwide with a curriculum devoted to teaching empathy and social justice. She grew up in Manila and moved to San Francisco with her family, where she graduated high school salutatorian from The Convent of the Sacred Heart. At Columbia University, she majored in art history and English. Melissa de la Cruz lives in West Hollywood, California with her husband and daughter.

This week the ladies talk about PaRappa The Rapper 2, Harvest Moon Skytree Village, Titanfall 2, Neko Atsume the live action movie, YALLFest and more.

In this episode of Bibliophiles Anonymous, Denise and Jess are coming to you live from YALLFest 2014! We got to record this one together for once instead of several states apart, which was fun. And yes, a weekend full of fangirling. From left to right: Becca Fitzpatrick, Morgan Rhodes, Scott Westerfeld, Libba Bray, Kami Garcia, Alexandra Bracken, Brenden Reichs, Ally Condie and Michael Johnston We got to sit in on panels talking about everything from gender stereotypes and genre classifications to how some well-known authors feel about seeing their books adapted for the screen. We also got to meet some of our favorite authors, including ones that we've talked about on this show, and get some books signed. Top Left: Laini Taylor, Top Right: Libba Bray, Bottom: Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl We encourage you all to try to attend YALLFest next year. It is so much fun. YA authors are the best! Be a part of the show! Email us at bibliophiles.podcast@gmail.com, find us on Facebook or Twitter, or leave comments here. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks for listening! Please rate, review and subscribe!

In this episode of Bibliophiles Anonymous, Denise and Jess review the latest book in Liesel Schwarz's Chronicles of Light and Shadow series - Sky Pirates. This is book three in the series, although not the final book as we once suspected. More adventures with Elle Chance to come. This time, Elle is trying to find a way to save her husband, Hugh Marsh, from being a wraith in Shadow forever. On the way, she is captured and reluctantly joins a crew of pirates, captained by Logan Dashwood, an old friend/enemy. With her feelings for Dashwood growing and old enemies seeking her, Elle must try and find the ancient city of Angor Wat in order to ask the mystical aspara for help in saving her husband. We both enjoyed this book quite a bit. Lots of twists and turns and plenty of adventure. Elle is a spunky heroine who is maturing and coming into her own. And if this Twitter exchange is any indication, we will be seeing a lot more of her in the future. Yay! We always love hearing from authors! Be a part of the show! Email the show at bibliophiles.podcast@gmail.com, find us on Facebook or Twitter! Next week, our report from YALLFest! Thanks for listening! Please rate, review and subscribe!

In this episode of Bibliophiles Anonymous, Denise and Jess discuss what has become a very heated topic in the book blogging community lately - the article posted by The Guardian by Kathleen Hale, detailing her attempts to respond and track down a reviewer who posted a horrible review and then mobilized others to do the same. Since many things (blog posts, tweets, etc.) have been deleted, it is hard to say for sure exactly what happened, since we only have Kathleen Hale's version of the story and there hasn't been a response (that we know of) from Blythe Harris (the reviewer in question), we will just say that it looks like both parties were behaving badly and made some not-so-good choices. As always, we will let you the listener weigh in with your opinions. Is this the story of a cyberbully who has used a fake, stolen identity to try and get attention? Is this the story of an author who overstepped her bounds and stalked a reviewer, both online and in person? Is it both? Bottom line: no one in this situation behaved well. Behave yourselves out there, people! Here are a LOT of links: The original Guardian article The GoodReads page for Kathleen Hale's book, No One Else Can Have You A link to Blythe Harris's review of the book in question (language warning) A link to another blog post that has several screenshots and links regarding this situation (note that the opinions of this blogger are not necessarily the opinions of us here at Bib Anon - I'm just including it because of the screen grabs, many of which no longer exist. - D) Chuck Wendig's helpful guide to how to respond to a reviewer (just because it's funny and Chuck is awesome) We will be at YALLFest next week! If you are planning to be in Charleston, let us know! Email the show at bibliophiles.podcast@gmail.com, find us on Facebook or Twitter! Next week, we will have a review up for the latest book from friend to the show Liesel Schwarz, Sky Pirates. Thanks for listening! Please rate, review and subscribe!

In this episode of Bibliophiles Anonymous, Denise and Jess celebrate Halloween! Since certain people *cough*Jess*cough* don't particularly like super scary stories, we decided to share with you some of our favorite creature characters that would be appropriate for Halloween. Those would be your witches, vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, demons, and other supernatural folk. And oh boy, do we have a bunch of them. Denise also includes a few recommendations for people who are more inclined to read the spooky stuff. Here are a few: Dracula by Bram Stoker Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Dollhouse by Anya Allen Let us know if you have any characters or scary stories to add to this list! You can email the show at bibliophiles.podcast@gmail.com, find us on Facebook or Twitter, or leave comments here. We will be at YALLFest this year! Hope to see you there! Thanks for listening! Please rate, review and subscribe!