One thing about the ISLMA conference you will see and hear from many authors. You will hear authors not only at the author breakfasts but in sessions. I attended the Author Awards Breakfast and heard Ellen Hopkins author of Crank the winner of the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book award and Kevin O’Malley the 2009 Monarch Award winning author for Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude. They were interesting and spoke from very different perspectives. This is to be expected as one wrote an edgy teen novel and the other a picture book. However, both had words of wisdom for librarians.
Another session I attended was titled “First Books, An Inside Look: Debut Teen Lit Authors Discuss Why They Write About Severed Arms, Missing Parents, Drugs, Sex, and Talking Cockroaches.” With a title like that how could you resist? The authors were Cynthea Liu, Daniel Kraus, Susan Fine, and James Kennedy. Each spoke of how they started their writing career and what inspires them to write the stories they do. It is reassuring to know that there are young authors out there writing books, different types of books for the teens of today.
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