Kody Keplinger: Keynote Speaker, Panel Moderator, & Panelist
Find Kody online: Website / Twitter / Tumblr / YouTube / Instagram / Facebook
Check out Kody’s books: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend / Shut Out / A Midsummer’s Nightmare / Secrets and Lies / The Swift Boys & Me / Lying Out Loud / Run
Booki Vivat: Workshop Leader & Panelist
Find Booki online: Instagram / Twitter
Check out Booki’s books: Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom / Frazzled #2: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes (out September 26!)
Brent Taylor: Panelist
Brent Taylor is a literary agent at Triada US, Inc. in Sewickley, PA. He represents upmarket fiction (novels that are well-written, robust with emotion, and appeal to a wide, commercial audience) across a broad range of categories: picture books, middle grade, young adult, graphic novels, women’s fiction, crime fiction, and literary fiction. Some of his recent and forthcoming client books include YOU’RE WELCOME, UNIVERSE by Whitney Gardner (Knopf), PERFECT TEN by L. Philips (Viking), ALAN COLE IS NOT A COWARD by Eric Bell (Katherine Tegen Books), and KIRANMALA AND THE KINGDOM OF SERPENTS (Scholastic). You can find him on Twitter @btaylorbooks.
Annie Sullivan: Workshop Leader & Panelist
Annie Sullivan is a Young Adult author from Indianapolis, Indiana represented by Christa Heschke at McIntosh & Otis. Annie’s work has been featured in Curly Red Stories and Punchnels, and her novel, Goldilocks, won the Luminis Book Award at the 2013 Midwest Writers Workshop. She loves fairytales, everything Jane Austen, and traveling and exploring new cultures. When she’s not off on her own adventures, she’s teaching classes at the Indiana Writers Center and working as the Copy Specialist at John Wiley and Sons, Inc. publishing company, having also worked there in Editorial and Publicity roles. You can follow her adventures on Twitter (@annsulliva) or on her blog: www.anniesulivanauthor.wordpress.com
Besides participating in our special “ask anything” panel, Annie will be leading a workshop at Ch1Con 2017 on how to hook an agent.
Patrice Caldwell: Panelist
Patrice is a twenty-four-year-old introvert gone wild. By day, she’s an associate editor at Disney-Hyperion, and by night (and early morning, depending on her mood) she’s a writer. She’s also a Marketing Consultant for Ch1Con. She hails from the great state of Texas, and graduated from Wellesley College in 2015 with majors in Political Science and English. She previously worked as an editorial assistant at Scholastic and in 2014, she won the SCBWI Student Writer Scholarship thanks to one of her manuscripts, Alex de Vega and Pandora’s Box. Besides being a Ch1Con team member, Patrice will be participating in a panel of young publishing professionals, talking all about the publishing process!
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