Lauren Myracle

Participates in 8 items

Lauren Myracle is the author of squillions of books for tweens and teens, including The Infinite Moment of Us, the best-sellingInternet Girls series, horror novels Bliss and Rhymes with Witches, and Shine, winner of the 2012 Walden Award for YA fiction. Lauren feels amazingly lucky to be able to do what she loves and actually get paid for it, and she is hugely honored by the response of her fans, who call her books "awesome" and "soooooo good." Her favorite compliment ever? "I can't believe it was written by a--cough, cough--grown-up!"

Sessions in which Lauren Myracle participates

Friday 1 August, 2014

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

12:00 PM

I Made You. You're Perfect.

50 minutes, 12:00 PM EDT - 12:50 PM EDT

Orange County Convention Center - W110 A

LeakyCon Lit

Gayle Forman (Participant)

Lev Grossman (Participant)

Lauren Myracle (Participant)

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

Rainbow Rowell (Participant)

Authors make characters. Good ones. Bad ones. Anddreaaaammmy ones. But there’s a fine art to making a love interest. How do you make an ap...

1:00 PM

Writing the Tough Stuff

50 minutes, 1:00 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT

Orange County Convention Center - W110 A

LeakyCon Lit

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

Lauren Myracle (Participant)

Varian Johnson (Participant)

Laurie Halse Anderson (Participant)

YA literature doesn’t shy away from hard topics. Sexual assault, death, substance abuse, eating disorders, violence, unplanned pregnancy…these are ...

2:00 PM

LeakyCon Lit Signing I

50 minutes, 2:00 PM EDT - 2:50 PM EDT

Orange County Convention Center - Signing Booths (Marketplace)

Signing

Laurie Halse Anderson (Participant)

Holly Black (Participant)

Gayle Forman (Participant)

Lev Grossman (Participant)

Maureen Johnson, Says Who (Participant)

Varian Johnson (Participant)

Alaya Dawn Johnson (Participant)

Kazu Kibuishi (Participant)

Malinda Lo (Participant)

Lauren Myracle (Participant)

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

Rainbow Rowell (Participant)

Robin Wasserman (Participant)

Scott Westerfeld (Participant)

3:00 PM

I Love Trash

50 minutes, 3:00 PM EDT - 3:50 PM EDT

Orange County Convention Center - W110 B

LeakyCon Lit

Amber Benson (Participant)

Lev Grossman (Participant)

Alaya Dawn Johnson (Participant)

Lauren Myracle (Participant)

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

Rainbow Rowell (Participant)

Is there such thing as a bad book? Or a book you should feel guilt for reading? Why is one person’s trash another person’s treasure? Should we ever...

Saturday 2 August, 2014

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00 AM

The Return of "I Was a Teenage Writer"

1 hour 20 minutes, 11:00 AM EDT - 12:20 PM EDT

Orange County Convention Center - W110

LeakyCon Lit

Maureen Johnson, Says Who (Moderator)

Scott Westerfeld (Participant)

Robin Wasserman (Participant)

Rainbow Rowell (Participant)

Lauren Myracle (Participant)

Malinda Lo (Participant)

Kazu Kibuishi (Participant)

Varian Johnson (Participant)

Alaya Dawn Johnson (Participant)

John Green (Participant)

Holly Black (Participant)

We do it every year because it’s awesome. See and hear some of today’s top YA writers reading from some of their early—very early—works. Works t...

2:00 PM

I Made You. Now I'm Going to Kill You.

40 minutes, 2:00 PM EDT - 2:40 PM EDT

Orange County Convention Center - W110 B

LeakyCon Lit

Maureen Johnson, Says Who (Participant)

Alaya Dawn Johnson (Participant)

James Moran (Participant)

Lauren Myracle (Participant)

Scott Westerfeld (Participant)

Sometimes, in the course of events, an author has to knock off a character. Sometimes this makes readers upset. “WHY????” the reader writes, in a ...

3:00 PM

LeakyCon Lit Signing II

50 minutes, 3:00 PM EDT - 3:50 PM EDT

Orange County Convention Center - Signing Booths (Marketplace)

Signing

Laurie Halse Anderson (Participant)

Holly Black (Participant)

Gayle Forman (Participant)

Lev Grossman (Participant)

Maureen Johnson, Says Who (Participant)

Varian Johnson (Participant)

Alaya Dawn Johnson (Participant)

Kazu Kibuishi (Participant)

Malinda Lo (Participant)

Lauren Myracle (Participant)

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

Rainbow Rowell (Participant)

Robin Wasserman (Participant)

Scott Westerfeld (Participant)

4:00 PM

The Lying Games

1 hour 50 minutes, 4:00 PM EDT - 5:50 PM EDT

Orange County Convention Center - W110

LeakyCon Lit

Laurie Halse Anderson (Participant)

Amber Benson (Participant)

Gayle Forman (Participant)

Lev Grossman (Participant)

Maureen Johnson, Says Who (Participant)

Varian Johnson (Participant)

Alaya Dawn Johnson (Participant)

Malinda Lo (Participant)

Lauren Myracle (Participant)

Stephanie Perkins (Participant)

Rainbow Rowell (Participant)

Robin Wasserman (Participant)

Scott Westerfeld (Participant)

Join your favorite authors in a fantastic final lit event—two great games brought into one. We’ll have rounds of authors telling lies (or truths?) ...