Hello TBF readers!
Guess what? We have all 30 authors confirmed to attend TBF 2014! Yay! Let's review the list:
Laurie Halse Anderson: author of Speak, Prom, Catalyst, Twisted, Fever 1793, Wintergirls, Seeds of America series and The Impossible Knife of Memory *The Impossible Knife of Memory released January 7, 2014*
Jay Asher: author of Thirteen Reasons Why and co-wrote The Future of Us with Carolyn Mackler
Jonathan Auxier: author of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes and The Night Gardener *The Night Gardener will be released May 20, 2014*
Leigh Bardugo: author of the Grisha trilogy (Shadow & Bone, Siege & Storm and Ruin & Rising) *Ruin & Rising will hit the shelves June 3, 2014*
Charles Benoit: author of You, Fall from Grace and Cold Calls *Cold Calls will be out April 1, 2014*
Cecil Castellucci: author of Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool, Beige, Rose Sees Red, First Day on Earth, The Year of Beasts and Tin Star *Tin Star will be released February 25, 2014*
Joelle Charbonneau: author of the Testing trilogy (The Testing, Independent Study and Graduation Day) *Independent Study & Graduation Day will be released 2014*
Bridie Clark: author of Snap Decisions series (Maybe Tonight? & You Only Live Once) *You Only Live Once will be out April 15, 2014*
Alexandra Coutts: author of Tumble & Fall
Gina Damico: author of the Croak trilogy (Croak, Scorch & Rouge) and Hellhole *Hellhole will be out Fall 2014*
Simone Elkeles: author of How to Ruin trilogy, Perfect Chemistry trilogy, Leaving Paradise duology and her newest series, Wild Cards
Kami Garcia: co-wrote The Caster Chronicles (Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos & Beautiful Redemption) and the anticipated spin-off series Dangerous Creatures with TBF author Margaret Stohl. She is also the author of the Legion series (Unbreakable and Unbound)
*Dangerous Creatures will hit the shelves May 6, 2014 and Unbound will be out in 2014*
Lisa Greenwald: author of My Life in Pink and Green, My Summer of Pink and Green, Sweet Treats and Secret Crushes, Reel Life Starring Us and The Seagate Summers series *Welcome to Dog Beach, the first book in Lisa's new series will be released April 15, 2014*
Ellen Hopkins: author of the Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks, Fallout, Perfect, Tilt, Smoke and Rumble *Rumble will hit the shelves in 2014*
A.S. King: author of The Dust of 100 Dogs, Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Everybody Sees the Ants, Ask the Passengers, Monica Never Shuts Up, Reality Boy and Glory O'Brien's History of the Future *Glory O'Brien's History of the Future will be released in 2014*
Alethea Kontis: author of the Woodcutter Sisters series (Enchanted, Hero and Beloved) *Beloved will hit the shelves in 2014*
E. Lockhart: author of the Ruby Oliver series (I admit the book titles in this series are very clever), Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything, Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and We Were Liars *We Were Liars will be out May 13, 2014*
Alex London: author of the Proxy series (Proxy and Guardian) *Guardian will be out May 29, 2014*
Michelle Madow: author of the Transcend Time trilogy (Remembrance, Vengeance, Timeless) & The Secret Diamond Sisters series. *The first book in the Secret Diamond Sisters series will be released February 25, 2014*
Lauren Myracle: author of Kissing Kate, the Winnie Years series, the Internet Girls series, Rhymes With Witches, The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life, Bliss, Peace, Love and Baby Ducks, Shine, the Flower Power series & The Infinite Moment of Us
G. Neri: author of Chess Rumble, Surf Mules, Ghetto Cowboy & Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
Nancy Ohlin: author of Beauty and Thorn Abbey
Marie Rutkoski: author of The Kronos Chronicles, The Shadow Society, Jacks and Queens at the Green Mill and The Winner's Curse *The Winner's Curse will be released March 4, 2014*
Tess Sharpe: author of Far From You *Far From You will hit the shelves April 8, 2014*
Neal Shusterman: author of Unwind series, Skinjacker series, Antsy Bonano series, Dark Fusion series, Shadow Club series, the Star Shards Chronicles & Darkness Creeping In series. Whew! Lots of series. For more information about Neal check out his Goodreads page!
Andrew Smith: author of Ghost Medicine, In the Path of Fallen Objects, The Marbury Lens series, Stick, Winger, Grasshopper Jungle and Once There Were Birds *Grasshopper Jungle will be released February 11, 2014 & Once There Were Birds will be in 2014*
Meagan Spooner: author of the Skylark trilogy & the Starbound trilogy *The first book in the Starbound trilogy, These Broken Stars, will be available December 10*
Margaret Stohl: co-wrote The Caster Chronicles (Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos & Beautiful Redemption) and the anticipated spin-off series Dangerous Creatures with TBF author Kami Garcia. She is also the author of the Icons series (Icons and Idols) *Dangerous Creatures will hit the shelves May 6, 2014 and Idols will be released in July 2014*
Cristin Terrill: author of All Our Yesterdays
Terry Trueman (aka the TBF Mascot): author of Stuck In Neutral, Life Happens Next, Inside Out, Cruise Control, No Right Turn, 7 Days at the Hot Corner and Hurricane
This is your TBF Class of 2014! And to the TBF Class of 2014 reading this: We can't express enough how excited we are to have you in Rochester! We'll see all of you in May!
Be sure to check back for book review, author interviews and more!
Miranda
