2011 Narrate Reading Lists

[praetorianguard]

Oh, people, it is that time again. You know, the time each year when I drag out the giant reading lists of ginormous doom and I post them and we all flail for a bit and then we read a million books. That time

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[praetorianguard]

Oh, yes. You see, I promised Tammy Pierce. :))

A couple years ago, when we were finishing up Potter, we were developing both Sirens and the YA con. Sirens got to go first because it was already fully realized in my head, and we meant to roll YA out last year...but there was a recession. So YA is patiently sitting on the back burner waiting for fiscal health.

It'll be a bit different from Sirens, most notably in that it will welcome teens and probably be significantly larger. But generally the same confluence of writers, professionals, scholars, educators, librarians and readers talking about books we all love. :) And most definitely not as a single track in a larger con; YA is bigger and better than that!

[praetorianguard]

It used to be only SF/F, but so much of what's going on right now in YA generally is so vibrant and so many authros cross over that it seemed like a largely artificial definition.

:)) The classics are on there largely because my teeny, rural public school didn't make me read them.

[astres]

oOo! I want to hear more about this YA Con.

[shveta_thakrar]

Me, too!