Today we have Margie Jordanfrom Writer's Cubed to tell us about the Teen Author Boot Camp:
There is a
famous line from a movie that says, “I was always a band geek. I just never
joined the band.” I could relate. When I was in high school I was a president
of the dance team, a singer in the choir, a
hang-out-with-my-boyfriend-until-mom-and-dad-forced-me-home kind of person. But
in my heart, I was a writer. This is why I tell people all the time, “I was
always a writer. I just always hated English.”
Because I
was a closet writer, I didn’t have anyone to bounce ideas off of, no one to
tell me when I stank, no one to teach me how to craft a really great story. My
teachers were the millions of books I read (not in a closet—but hidden away
when my friends were around). And I
WISHED I could have had someone to talk to about my hidden obsession.
If this
sounds like you…. Then I’m happy to say there is a solution.
The Teen
Author Boot Camp, founded by the Utah-based group Writers Cubed and sponsored
by Utah Valley University is one of only a few writing conferences nationwide
geared solely for teenagers who have a love for the written word. For the first time ever, Writers Cubed is
offering the conference to anyone who wants to attend through Live Stream.
Interested?
Here are the deets!
When:
Saturday, March 16, 2013
From: 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. (MST)
Where:
Worldwide via the internet
Who: Teens,
teachers, librarians, book lovers
Cost: $4.99
for the Live Broadcast; $9.99 for the All Pass
The keynote address by Newbery Winning Author Shannon Hale
will be free for anyone to watch. It will be on March, 16th, 2013 at 9 a.m.
MST. A subscription to the Live Broadcast costs $4.99 and includes the
following:
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: Winner of the First
Chapter Contest and 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
Margie Jordan is a co-founder of
Writers Cubed, a group of Utah writing activists who created
the Teen Author
Boot Camp in 2010. In her spare time, like when she isn’t writing, she is a
Literacy specialist for her local school district. Please visit her website at www.writerscubed.com.
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