Young Adult Authors Discuss the Writing Process
Channel: Department of English, Arizona State University
Date: 2016-10-24

Award winning young adult authors discuss their writing process and how they became published authors. The English Education program in the Arizona State University Department of English presents the 2014 Young Adult Authors Panel for ENG 471: Literature for Young Adults, featuring these YA authors:

Tom Leveen
Faith Hochhalter
Amy Fellner Dominy
Amy K. Nichols
Janette Rallison
Shannon Messenger
Shonna Slayton
Suzanne Young

Tom Leveen - Edgy YA author, panelist, speaker, & teacher. I rock school visits. @tomleveen

Faith Hochhalter - Children's Book Specialist, Phx Comicon staff and lover of roller derby. @IamtheBookBabe

Amy Fellner Dominy - Author of contemporary YA novels. A MATTER OF HEART coming 2015 from Random House. Love reading, writing, shoes, red wine & non-drooling dogs. @amydominy

Amy K. Nichols - Whovian. Sherlockian. Author of YA scifi novels NOW THAT YOU'RE HERE (Knopf 2014) and WHILE YOU WERE GONE (Knopf 2015). @amyknichols

Janette Rallison - I write young adult fiction. Sometimes I think about cleaning, but I usually talk myself out of it. @janetterallison

Shannon Messenger - Cupcake addict & shenanigan causing author of the KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES series & the SKY FALL series, published by Simon & Schuster. @SW_Messenger

Shonna Slayton - Author of YA novel Cinderella's Dress (Entangled Teen.) Feet in the desert. Heart in the mountains. Hands on the keyboard. @ShonnaSlayton

Suzanne Young - New York Times bestselling author of The Program, The Treatment, The Remedy, and Hotel Ruby. I'm in a committed relationship with pizza. @suzanne_young