ATTENTION!
Shine
those combat boots and sharpen your pencils, Recruits. Teen Author Boot Camp,
one of the nation’s largest writing conference for teenagers, is going virtual
on March 16, 2013.
The
Utah-based conference (created by WritersCubed) will host seventeen amazing presenters—including Newbury-award
winner Shannon Hale (Princess Academy.) While the conference is in its third
year, this is the first time it will be broadcast live on the internet. This
will allow for teens nationwide to have the opportunity to join in the fun as
well as teachers, librarians, and writers of any age.
The
keynote address by Shannon Hale will be free for anyone to watch. A
subscription to the entire Live Broadcast costs $4.99 and includes the
following: (Remember these are all Mountain Standard Times, so adjust to where
you live.)
9 a.m. to
9:15 a.m.—Writers Cubed: Welcome
9:15 a.m.
to 9:55 a.m.—Keynote by Newbery Award winner Shannon Hale (Princess Academy)
10 a.m to
10:45 a.m.—Tyler Whitesides (Janitors) Class:
Imagine and Create.
10:55 a.m.
to 11:40 a.m.—Janette Rallison (My Fair Godmother) Class: Bad dialogue can
kill a story.
12:50 a.m.
to 1:35 p.m.—NYT bestseller Kiersten White (Paranormalcy) Class: Plot Like a Villain.
1:45 p.m.
to 2:30 p.m.—J. Scott Savage (Farworld)
Class: Finding Your Voice.
2:50 p.m.
to 3:25 p.m.—Journey to Publication Panel: Agent Amy Jameson & authors Chad
Morris, Tess Hilmo, J. Scott Savage, Cindy Bennett
3:35 p.m.
to 4:20 p.m.—NYT bestseller Aprilynne Pike (Wings) Class: World-building
is the invisible foundation to your book.
4:30 p.m.
to 4:45 p.m.—Writers Cubed: Closing remarks.
If you
just can’t get enough of TABC, there is also an All Pass Subscription to the
rest of the conference (including more than fifteen awesome presentations,
including mine--haha). That only costs $9.99 and, as if it wasn’t a sweet
enough deal already, you can watch the whole conference whenever you want for
an entire year.
To
register to watch Shannon Hale’s Keynote for free, visit www.teenauthorbootcamp.com and
click on Livestream. It only takes a minute. While you’re there, check out the
other presenters who will be teaching at the conference under the tab “Drill
Sergeants.”
Stay tuned
for details on how to win a subscription to the TABC Live Broadcast for FREE on
this blog.
Lois
D. Brown
is a co-founder of Writers Cubed, a group of Utah writing activists who created
the Teen Author Boot Camp in 2010. She is also the author of CYCLES, a top five
finalist of The Kindle Book Review 2012. Please visit her website at
www.writerscubed.com.
