A group of award-winning and best-selling Virginia authors of books released in 2014 will host an evening of celebration for teen readers and all fans of teen fiction. Enjoy food, fun, book sales, signings, and giveaways.

I’ll be there with an exclusive chance for readers to pick up Compulsion before it’s on sale anywhere else.

Help Us Write a Story with Examples from Your Favorite Books

Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
Wendy Higgins (USA & New York Times Bestselling Sweet Evil series — Harper Teen)
Jessica Spotswood (The Cahill Witch Chronicles series — Putnam)

Love reading? Ever wonder, “How did the author come up with THAT!?”
Come talk about your favorite best-selling YA novels and build a story with the authors of four hot young adult trilogies in an interactive audience-participation event. Work as a group to create a story in the same way that the authors of blockbuster novels create theirs. Using examples from familiar audience favorites like Divergent, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter, the authors will guide readers and aspiring writers through a fun, often hilarious, and educational event.
Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
Wendy Higgins (USA & New York Times bestselling Sweet Evil series — Harper Teen)
Jessica Spotswood (The Cahill Witch Chronicles series — Putnam)

Come meet some of your favorite authors and celebrate the launch of Compulsion with us in a fun, lively, and often unexpectedly hilarious event. There will be cupcakes, sweet tea, Prosecco, and possibly some Spanish moss.

Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
Wendy Higgins (USA & New York Times Bestselling Sweet Evil series — Harper Teen)
Leah Cypess (Mistwood, Nightspell & Deathsworn – Greenwillow)
Melissa Marr (Internationally bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series and  Made for You – Harpercollins)

Here’s your chance! Want to talk about the books? About what’s next for your favorite characters? About writing? About breaking into publishing? Well, come on down! The four authors on this panel have a wide spectrum of different writing experiences and paths that have all led to big buzz books. We’ll dish, have some fun, and definitely spill some secrets!
Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
Wendy Higgins (USA & New York Times bestselling Sweet Evil series — Harper Teen)
Jessica Spotswood (The Cahill Witch Chronicles series — Putnam)

Join us for a dating-style quirky, entertaining, and unexpected introduction to the authors and the books! Our intrepid booklorette will try to find her perfect bookmatch as she puts the authors through their paces with questions patterned after the popular and campy 1960′s Dating Game.
Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
Kristen-Paige Madonia (Fingerprints of You – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Joy N. Hensley (Rites of Passage – Harper Teen)
Jodi Meadows (The Incarnate trilogy & The Orphan Queen – Katharine Tegan Books)
Diana Peterfreund (Nine novels for adults and teens, including For Darkness Shows the Stars and Across a Star Swept Sea – Balzer & Bray)

Love reading? Considered becoming a writer?
Come talk about your favorite best-selling YA novels and build a story with the authors of five hot young adult novels in an interactive audience-participation event. Work as a group to create a story in the same way that the authors of blockbuster novels create theirs. Using examples from familiar audience favorites like Divergent, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter, the authors will guide readers and aspiring writers through a fun, often hilarious, and educational event.
Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
Kristen-Paige Madonia (Fingerprints of You – Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Gigi Amateau (Seven books for MG & YA, including Come August, Come Freedom – Candlewick Press)
Diana Peterfreund (Nine novels for adults and teens, including For Darkness Shows the Stars and Across a Star Swept Sea – Balzer & Bray)

Have you closed the pages on a favorite novel or watched a blockbuster movie like ‘Divergent’ or ‘The Hunger Games’ and wondered, “How did the author come up with THAT!?” Well, we’ve got the secrets, and we’ll offer up a show and tell as we help guide the audience through an interactive session that builds a story a sentence at a time to develop character, setting, mood, theme, and a plot with unexpected — and often shocking or hysterical — twists.
Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
S.E. Greene (Killer Instinct – Simon Pulse)
Claudia Gray (New York Times bestselling author of the Evernight, Steadfast and Firebird series)
Meagan Spooner (The Skylark Trilogy, Carolrhoda, and the Starbound trilogy — Disney/Hyperion)
Beth Revis (New York Times bestselling Across the Universe trilogy — Razorbill)
Megan Shepherd (The Madman’s Daughter series — Balzer & Bray)

Love reading? Considered becoming a writer?
Come talk about your favorite best-selling YA novels and build a story with seven authors of  big buzz young adult trilogies in an interactive audience-participation event.  Work as a group to create a story in the same way that the authors of blockbuster novels create theirs. Using examples from familiar audience favorites like Divergent, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter, the authors will guide readers and aspiring writers through a fun, often hilarious, and educational event.
Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
S.E. Greene (Killer Instinct – Simon Pulse)
Claudia Gray (New York Times bestselling author of the Evernight, Steadfast and Firebird series — HarperTeen)
Meagan Spooner (The Skylark trilogy — Carolrhoda; and the Starbound trilogy — Disney/Hyperion)
Beth Revis (New York Times bestselling Across the Universe trilogy — Razorbill)
Megan Shepherd (The Madman’s Daughter series — Balzer & Bray)

Have you closed the pages on a favorite novel or watched a blockbuster movie like ‘Divergent’ or ‘The Hunger Games’ and wondered, “How did the author come up with THAT!?” Well, these seven authors of hot young adult trilogies have the secrets, and they’ll offer up a show and tell as they help guide the audience through an interactive session that builds a story a sentence at a time to develop character, setting, mood, theme, and a plot with unexpected — and often shocking or hysterical — twists.
Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
S.E. Greene (Killer Instinct – Simon Pulse)
Claudia Gray (New York Times bestselling author of the Evernight, Steadfast and Firebird series — HarperTeen)
Beth Revis (New York Times bestselling Across the Universe trilogy — Razorbill)
Meagan Spooner (The Skylark trilogy — Carolrhoda; and the Starbound trilogy — Disney/Hyperion)
Megan Shepherd (The Madman’s Daughter Series — Balzer & Bray)

Love reading? Considered becoming a writer?
Ever wonder, “How did the author come up with THAT!?” Come talk about your favorite best-selling YA novels and build a story with the authors of four hot young adult trilogies in an interactive audience-participation event. Work as a group to create a story in the same way that the authors of blockbuster novels create theirs. Using examples from familiar audience favorites like Divergent, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter, the authors will guide readers and aspiring writers through a fun, often hilarious, and educational event.
Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
S.E. Greene (Killer Instinct – Simon Pulse)
Claudia Gray (New York Times bestselling author of the Evernight, Steadfast and Firebird series — HarperTeen)
Beth Revis (New York Times bestselling Across the Universe trilogy — Razorbill)
Meagan Spooner (The Skylark trilogy — Carolrhoda; and the Starbound trilogy — Disney/Hyperion)

Join us for a quirky, entertaining, and unexpected introduction to seven authors and their big buzz books — dating style! Our intrepid booklorette will try to find her perfect bookmatch as she puts the authors through their paces with questions patterned after the popular and campy 1960′s Dating Game.
Martina Boone (Compulsion – Simon Pulse)
Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden – Harpercollins)
S.E. Greene (Killer Instinct – Simon Pulse)
Claudia Gray (New York Times bestselling author of the Evernight, Steadfast and Firebird series)
Tracy Clark (Scintillate – Entangled Teen)
Delilah S. Dawson (Servants of the Storm – Simon Pulse)
Nina Berry (The Otherkin series — Kensington)

One More Page Books is partnering with Arlington Public Libraries and Fairfax County Public Libraries, with co-sponsors Arlington County Schools and GMU’s Fall for the Book to bring a FREE festival packed with books, authors, and special events to Arlington, VA.

10:15 – 11:00 AM “Head Over Heels” featuring Martina Boone (COMPULSION) & Rachel Hawkins (REBEL BELLE)

11:15 – 12:00PM “Keep Your Hands to Yourself” featuring Martina Boone (COMPULSION), Melissa Marr (MADE FOR YOU), & Kristen Simmons (THE GLASS ARROW)

1-1:45 PM Main Author Panel: “Love the Way You Lie” Espionage, hidden identities, and family secrets unravel as these characters take on everything from royal politics to ghosts. Martina Boone (COMPULSION) Maggie Hall (THE CONSPIRACY OF US) Rachel Hawkins (REBEL BELLE) Melissa Marr (MADE FOR YOU) Marie Rutkoski (THE WINNER’S CRIME)

Thursday, March 19:

The NYC Big Read, 10am-noon

YA Author Readings in libraries across the city. I’ll post the library as soon as I get it! : ) 

It’s amazing what you can find out about a character – and about human nature – when you put her or him in an extreme situation.  Each of these authors will introduce their new books and what their protagonists are up against – and then we’ll discuss challenges of keeping the thrills coming without taking your eye off the characters.

Martina Boone, Laurie Crompton, JJ Howard, Lee Kelly, Nicole Maggi, Mary McCoy, Diana Renn, VC Stanley, CL Garber

moderator:   David Levithan

Book signing

http://www.hooray4books.com/events.htm

Come out to the library and meet me and other authors from the Northern Virginia area. : )

The Literacy Council’s event features adult learners, most of whom are beginning-level English language learners who have been attending the Literacy Council’s educational programs, and the dedicated volunteers who serve with LCNV.  This is their end-of-year recognition event to applaud their achievements. Book sales to be provided by One More Page Books.

With Leah Cypess and Jaclyn Dolamore

With Courtney DeLollis, Jillian Stein, Rebecca Rivard

Win prizes and swag from authors while playing a fast-paced game of Book Cover Bingo with commentary from readers, reviewers, and authors.

With  Jennifer L. Armentrout, Kami Garcia, Cheryl Klam, Melissa Marr, Lea Nolan, MD Waters

Young adult books aren’t just for teens–adults love these magical, mystical, and farout tales, too.

Fabulous author lineup and fun event. More info is here: http://yafest.org/authors/

With Lori Goldstein

Full author list is still pending, but here’s the information from last year:

http://www.vachildrensbookfestival.com/2015-festival/2014-festival/speakers-and-participants/

More information on this year’s festival is here:

http://www.vachildrensbookfestival.com

There is also an amazing lineup of panels  and workshops:

• Reluctant Readers: The Appeal of YA Series Books
• Reluctant Readers: Comic Books and Graphic Novels
• Choosing the Right Comics for Your Kids
• Empowering Girls through Books
• Empowering Boys through Books
• Civil Rights in Children’s Literature: An Ongoing Story
• Creating a Reading Home: Why Fairy Tales Matter
• Reluctant Readers: Using Minecraft to Encourage Reading