Penguin Teen on Tour, DFW Stop
Penguin Teen on Tour, DFW Stop//
On Tuesday, The Teen and I were able to catch the Penguin Teen on Tour stop at the Dallas Half-Price Books store. Authors on this stop included Alison Goodman (THE DARK DAYS CLUB), Sabaa Tahir (AN EMBER IN THE ASHES), Rachel Hawkins (The Rebel Belle series), April Genevieve Tucholke ( WINK, POPPY, MIDNIGHT) and Alwyn Hamilton (REBEL OF THE SANDS). I tried to tweet as many of the profound things these ladies were saying, and those tweets are shared below. I certainly didn’t catch everything, and there are some typos, but it was a really fun and fascinating discussion of everything from strong women in YA to the most troubling things these authors have researched. Let’s just say there was lots of talk about death and dying.
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The Teen, just waiting around for the @PenguinTeen event. pic.twitter.com/qJzUNE8pSt
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@RobinReads @PenguinTeen The Teen gave her a hug for you! She’s super nice. pic.twitter.com/mYDZPAlDQf
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REBEL OF THE SANDS began with the character #PenguinTeenOnTour pic.twitter.com/YxeLXB1hd5
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Rachel Hawkins: Rebel Belle began with a little crazy and lazy, my two favorite azies #PenguinTeenOnTour
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Rachel Hawkins: Set out to make Rebel Belle different from Hex Hall by making the characters polar opposite #PenguinTeenOnTour
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AN EMBER IN THE ASHES is about character & how world they live in forms who they are says Tahir #PenguinTeenOnTour pic.twitter.com/ER0dt4Blw5
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THE DARK DAYS CLUB was inspired by the idea of Jane Austen meets Buffy says Alison Goodman #PenguinTeenOnTour pic.twitter.com/YrKEGUfyhS
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Goodman researched regency for 8 months and even had a full outfit made & learned to dance #PenguinTeenOnTour
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Tahir: Woman are just strong, it's part of being a woman. #PenguinTeenOnTour
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Hawkins: Harper gets super strength but still remains more traditionally feminine. That's important to me. #PenguinTeenOnTour
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Goodman: I wanted to examine society's courtesies and see which ones are designed to hold you down #PenguinTeenOnTour
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Rachel Hawkins: I would be so happy in the shire eating breakfast and hanging out in the house - I want to be a hobbit #PenguinTeenOnTour
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Sanaa Tahir: I really want to turn into a talking dragon, it's my deepest, darkest fantasy #PenguinTeenOnTour
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Sanaa Tahir: I make my husband act out fight scenes with me #PenguinTeenOnTour
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Tahir: I wrote to make sense of my world and to put myself in it #PenguinTeenOnTour
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April: I realized I like playing god (on why she is a writer) #PenguinTeenOnTour
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Goodman: never have a passive character, your character must act. Don't just have things happening to them. #PenguinTeenOnTour
Filed under: YA Fiction, YA Lit
About Karen Jensen, MLS
Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 32 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).
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