9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- How Books Saved My Sanity Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12
- 9:00 AM EDT - 9:50 AM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2
- 9:00 AM EDT - 9:50 AM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12
- 10:00 AM EDT - 10:50 AM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2
- 10:00 AM EDT - 10:50 AM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12
- 11:00 AM EDT - 11:50 AM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Timor Sea 1-2
- 11:00 AM EDT - 11:50 AM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2
- 11:00 AM EDT - 11:50 AM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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
- 11:50 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 40 minutes
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Love and Romance Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12
- 12:30 PM EDT - 1:20 PM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Timor Sea 1-2
- 12:30 PM EDT - 1:20 PM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2
- 12:30 PM EDT - 1:20 PM EDT | 50 minutes
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 11-12
- 1:30 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2
- 1:30 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Timor Sea 1-2
- 2:30 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Scott Westerfeld, Robin Wasserman, Ally Carter, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Arthur A. LevineSignings with Maureen Johnson, John Green, Ch...
- Author Signings Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Banda Sea 1-2
- 2:30 PM EDT - 3:30 PM EDT | 1 hour
- 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 Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 8-12
- 3:30 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Room of Requirement Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Java Sea
- 4:00 PM EDT - 6:30 PM EDT | 2 hours 30 minutes
- 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...
- Event Hours
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- LitDay VIP Reception Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Timor Sea 1-4
- 5:00 PM EDT - 6:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- LeakyCon 2011 Video Yearbook Presentation Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 6-7
- 6:00 PM EDT - 8:30 PM EDT | 2 hours 30 minutes
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Movie Night at the Royal Pacific Loews Royal Pacific Resort - Pacifica Ballroom 6-7
- 8:30 PM EDT - 12:00 AM EDT | 3 hours 30 minutes
- 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 Universal Orlando Resort - The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- 8:30 PM EDT - 1:30 AM EDT | 5 hours