The YALLFest, a young adult book festival, will be taking place on Saturday, Nov. 10th. Johnathan Sanchez, the Director of the event, said they drew over 1000 attendees last year and have been selling a lot of tickets for this year's edition.Jess Rothenberg (originally from Charleston) -- The Catastrophic History of You and Me
Carrie Ryan (Charlotte) -- The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Kathy Reichs (Charlotte/Charleston) -- Virals and Bones
Michelle Hodkin (Charleston) -- The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Margaret Stohl (LA/Charleston) -- Beautiful Creatures
Kathryn Williams (Nashville, TN) -- The Lost Summer
Kami Kinard (Beaufort, SC) -- The Boy Project
Marjory Wentworth (Charleston) - Shackles
David Macinnis Gill (Wilmington, NC) -- Soul Enchilada
Kwame Alexander (Washington, DC / Charleston) -- Acoustic Rooster and Crush
Grady Hendrix (originally from Charleston) -- The Magnolia League series (co-author)
Featured Authors:
Kwame Alexander -- Acoustic Rooster and Crush
Jennifer Lynn Barnes -- Raised By Wolves and Every Other Day
Holly Black -- Spiderwick Chronicles
Pseudonymous Bosch -- The Name of This Book Is Secret
Sarah Rees Brennan -- Demon’s Lexicon
Heather Brewer -- The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, The Slayer Chronicles
Kiera Cass -- The Selection
Cinda Chima -- Seven Realms
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments series)
Andrea Cremer -- Nightshade
Gitty Daneshvari -- School of Fear
Melissa de la Cruz -- Blue Bloods
Matt de la Pena -- Ball Don’t Lie and I Will Save You
Kimberly Derting -- The Body Finder
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
Elizabeth Eulberg -- The Lonely Hearts Club
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
Kami Garcia -- Beautiful Creatures
Adam Gidwitz -- A Tale Dark and Grimm
David Macinnis Gill -- Soul Enchilada
Adele Griffin -- Vampire Island and Picture the Dead
Jenny Han -- The Summer I Turned Pretty
Deborah Harkness -- A Discovery of Witches--All Souls Trilogy
Grady Hendrix -- The Magnolia League series (co-author)
Michelle Hodkin -- The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank trilogy
Tonya Hurley -- Ghostgirl
Michele Jaffe -- Rosebush
Kami Kinard -- The Boy Project
Caitlin Kittredge -- The Iron Thorn
David Levithan -- Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Wendy Mass -- A Mango-Shaped Space
Alyson Noel -- Immortals series
Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
Diana Peterfreund -- Rampant (Killer Unicorn series)
Kathy Reichs -- Virals and Bones
Brendan Reichs -- Virals
Beth Revis -- Across the Universe
Jess Rothenberg -- The Catastrophic History of You and Me
Carrie Ryan -- The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Eliot Schrefer -- Glamorous Disasters
Natalie Standiford -- How to Say Goodbye in Robot
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
Cate Tiernan -- Sweep and Immortal Beloved
Siobhan Vivian -- Not That Kind of Girl
Robin Wasserman -- Seven Deadly Sins series
Marjory Wentworth -- Shackles
John Corey Whaley -- Where Things Come Back Again
Kathryn Williams -- The Lost Summer
