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Wednesday 13 July, 2011

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
How Books Saved My Sanity
50 minutes, 9:00 AM EDT - 9:50 AM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12

Maureen Johnson, Says Who (Moderator)

Cheryl Klein (Participant)

John Green (Participant)

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

Lena Roy (Participant)

Obsessed with books? With fictional characters? Yeah, so were these authors. We get it. This panel supports your addiction and discusses how an int...
Agents
50 minutes, 9:00 AM EDT - 9:50 AM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2

Robin Wasserman (Moderator)

Kate Schafer-Testerman (Participant)

Jennifer Laughran (Participant)

Rebecca Sherman (Participant)

Barry Goldblatt (Participant)

In part one of the day’s four part publishing track, a panel of agents discuss the world of young adult literature—what work they represent, what t...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Let's Talk about Vampires
50 minutes, 10:00 AM EDT - 10:50 AM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12

Maureen Johnson, Says Who (Moderator)

John Green (Participant)

Robin Wasserman (Participant)

Barry Goldblatt (Participant)

Jennifer Laughran (Participant)

Scott Westerfeld (Participant)

Let’s just do it. Let’s just talk about vampires. Why do people love these toothy freaks? Is there any new territory? Will they ever go away? Do we...
Editors
50 minutes, 10:00 AM EDT - 10:50 AM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2

Ally Carter (Moderator)

Cheryl Klein (Participant)

David Levithan (Participant)

Julie Strauss-Gabel (Participant)

Editors discuss how they go about acquiring and editing YA—how they have to balance their love of a book with the business of publishing. Q&A i...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
The Scott Westerfeld Experience
50 minutes, 11:00 AM EDT - 11:50 AM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12

Scott Westerfeld (Moderator)

Scott Westerfeld discusses working with an artist to create his illustrated steampunk series, Leviathan. He reveals hitherto unseen artwork from th...
Mining Your Life for Your Fiction
50 minutes, 11:00 AM EDT - 11:50 AM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Timor Sea 1-2

Lena Roy (Moderator)

All fiction comes from somewhere in the writer’s psyche. Madeleine L’Engle first sketched the Mrs Ws of A Wrinkle in Time during a journey through ...
The Relationship Panel
50 minutes, 11:00 AM EDT - 11:50 AM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2

Rebecca Sherman (Moderator)

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

Kate Schafer-Testerman (Participant)

Julie Strauss-Gabel (Participant)

Barry Goldblatt (Participant)

David Levithan (Participant)

Libba Bray (Participant)

An author, an agent, and an editor walk into a convention center. This is not a joke - it's actually a panel. Meet two author-agent-editor teams an...
11:50 AM
11:50 AM
Break
40 minutes, 11:50 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Love and Romance
50 minutes, 12:30 PM EDT - 1:20 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12

Robin Wasserman (Moderator)

Ally Carter (Participant)

John Green (Participant)

Kate Schafer-Testerman (Participant)

Scott Westerfeld (Participant)

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

David Levithan (Participant)

What’s the deal here? Common wisdom says girls demand these things in their books and boys dislike them... but is that true? How do authors decide ...
Madeleine L’Engle
50 minutes, 12:30 PM EDT - 1:20 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Timor Sea 1-2

Lena Roy (Moderator)

Charlotte Jones Voiklis (Moderator)

Great American young-adult novelist Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time was just one of her many contributions to the flourishing genre. Her grand...
Books, the basics
50 minutes, 12:30 PM EDT - 1:20 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2

Cheryl Klein (Moderator)

Jennifer Laughran (Participant)

Julie Strauss-Gabel (Participant)

Barry Goldblatt (Participant)

How do books get made, anyway? What do agents do? Do editors change your stuff? Who makes covers? Will publishing a book make you instantly rich an...
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
I Was a Teenage Author
1 hour, 1:30 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12

Maureen Johnson, Says Who (Moderator)

Scott Westerfeld (Participant)

David Levithan (Participant)

Libba Bray (Participant)

John Green (Participant)

Robin Wasserman (Participant)

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

Think all published authors start out writing works of pure, undiluted genius? Think your work is terrible and you’ll never get anywhere, ever? Be ...
Our new electronic overlords
1 hour, 1:30 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2

Ally Carter (Moderator)

Barry Goldblatt (Participant)

Julie Strauss-Gabel (Participant)

Rebecca Sherman (Participant)

Jennifer Laughran (Participant)

Cheryl Klein (Participant)

Kate Schafer-Testerman (Participant)

Charlotte Jones Voiklis (Participant)

E-books will destroy us! E-books will save us! Are we doomed, or is this the best thing to happen since the printing press? Should electronic books...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Author Signings
1 hour, 2:30 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Timor Sea 1-2

Scott Westerfeld (Moderator)

Arthur A. Levine (Moderator)

Robin Wasserman (Moderator)

Ally Carter (Moderator)

David Levithan (Moderator)

Libba Bray (Moderator)

Scott Westerfeld, Robin Wasserman, Ally Carter, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Arthur A. LevineSignings with Maureen Johnson, John Green, Ch...
Author Signings
1 hour, 2:30 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2

Scott Westerfeld (Moderator)

Arthur A. Levine (Moderator)

Robin Wasserman (Moderator)

Ally Carter (Moderator)

David Levithan (Moderator)

Libba Bray (Moderator)

Scott Westerfeld, Robin Wasserman, Ally Carter, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Arthur A. LevineSignings with Maureen Johnson, John Green, Ch...
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Keynote Address: Arthur A. Levine
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:30 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 8-12

Arthur A. Levine (Moderator)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Room of Requirement
2 hours 30 minutes, 4:00 PM EDT - 6:30 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Java Sea

Event Hours

If you find yourself pacing and in need of a place to relax, or perhaps a refuge from the craziness of the week, search no longer. The Room of Requ...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
LitDay VIP Reception
1 hour, 5:00 PM EDT - 6:00 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Timor Sea 1-4

6:00 PM
6:00 PM
LeakyCon 2011 Video Yearbook Presentation
2 hours 30 minutes, 6:00 PM EDT - 8:30 PM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 6-7

8:30 PM
8:30 PM
Movie Night at the Royal Pacific
3 hours 30 minutes, 8:30 PM EDT - 12:00 AM EDT

Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 6-7

Didn't get your permission form signed for Hogsmeade? No worries: stay in our ballroom and watch the latest film about our great alumnus: Harry ...
Open at the Close
5 hours, 8:30 PM EDT - 1:30 AM EDT

Universal Orlando Resort - The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

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