Four Young Adult authors discuss their transitions from writing for adults to writing for the young adult genre.
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The panel gives tips for pitching including only telling highlights, pitching the right genre, and being professional. The agents discuss reasons they reject queries and recommend authors hire beta readers and line editors before sending manuscripts to an agent.
Several writers and authors hold a general panel to answer questions from the audience and give advice for writing short stories.
The panel of authors start by reading the first pages of their books. There is a Q&A with the authors, and they read more excerpts. The authors also talk about how they include social issues in their novels and their writing processes.