Mary McCoy, author of Dead to Me, keynote speech. Photo by Katie Ferguson
Mary McCoy, author of Dead to Me, keynote speech. Photo by Katie Ferguson

Uniting fans and authors…

On Saturday, May 23, twenty Young Adult authors and nearly 450 guests gathered at the second annual teen book festival, Pasadena Loves YA at Pasadena Central Library.

The keynote speaker was Mary McCoy, author of Dead to Me (and a teen librarian at Los Angeles Public Library).  All authors participated on a panel and signed books after their panel.

The first 150 attendees received free tote bags (screened with the event logo) and first pick of the giveaways.  We gave away over 600 ARCs (Advance Review Copy)!  This year’s attendance was three times that of last year and every panel reached standing room only.

 

Pasadena Loves YA!

Panel schedule:

panelphotos

 

THANK YOU

to all our participating authors, publicists, publishers, agents, Bridge to Books (Alethea Allarey and Alyson Beecher), YA Book Council, Vromans, and especially our volunteers who organized book signings, cleaned up, managed lines, took photos, and marketed the event!

 

Attendees looking through ARCs before the start of the keynote speech. Photo by Alfonso Huerta
Attendees looking through ARCs before the start of the keynote speech. Photo by Alfonso Huerta

Photos by Alfonso Huerta:

Photos by Katie Ferguson:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/katie-ferguson/sets/72157653365109986

Instagram photos:  http://www.pasadenateenbookfestival.com/p/instagram.html

 


 

This event was hosted by librarian Jane Gov and co-sponsored by Bridge to Books.  For more info about the event and upcoming book festivals, please see www.pasadenateenbookfestival.com

 

Keywords:  Mary McCoy, Dead to Me, Katie Alender, Famous Last Words, Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen, Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories, Julie Berry, Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, Livia Blackburne, Midnight Thief, Virginia Boecker, Witch Hunter, Jessica Brody, Unchanged, Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Brandy Colbert, Pointe, Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead, Kody Keplinger, DUFF, Liz Maccie, Lessons I Never Learned at Meadowbrook Academy, Morgan Matson, Since You’ve Been Gone, Lauren Miller, Parallel, Alexandra Monir, Suspicion, Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places, Romina Russell, Zodiac, Sarah Tomp, My Best Everything, Kiersten White, Illusions of Fate, Sci-fi and Fantasy, Dial M for Murder, Second Chances, Tough Topics, First Time Draft to Finish Line