Bookpeople Podcast

Marissa Meyer's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx. ABOUT LUNAR CHRONICLES Celebrate the beloved, bestselling series with gorgeous, brand new covers in paperback! In Cinder, a teenage cyborg (half human, half machine) must deal with a wicked stepmother, start a rebellion against the evil Queen Levana, and decide how she feels about a handsome prince. Cinder forges alliances with Scarlet, a spaceship pilot; a magnetic street fighter named Wolf; Cress, a computer hacker who is imprisoned by Queen Levana; and Winter, a princess who's in love with a commoner, and who discovers that Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress may hold the key to saving her kingdom—and the world.

The BookPeople Teen Press Corps reads and reviews new and forthcoming YA books, interviews authors, covers YA events in Austin and keeps up on all the latest YA book and movie buzz. Their reporting appears on the BookPeople Teen Press Corps blog and in their monthly enewsletter.

Jenn Shapland's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx Jenn Shapland's work won a 2017 Pushcart Prize and fellowships/residencies at Ucross, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Yaddo, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, and Vermont Studio Center. Her essays have been published in Tin House, THE Magazine, Pastelegram, The Lifted Brow, Electric Literature, NANOfiction, and The Millions. She teaches in the Creative Writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts and has a PhD in English from UT Austin. She designs and makes clothing for Agnes. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Ransom Riggs's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx Ransom Riggs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children novels. Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida. He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, bestselling author Tahereh Mafi, and their family.