Panels, signings, music, photobooths, food trucks, bookselling, cupcake parties, Quidditch gaming, Scrabble tourneys, giveaways and constant fun.
SATURDAY: DAY ONE / SANTA MONICA HIGH SCHOOL (9 am – 7 pm)
● AM Keynote by Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Carry On) in conversation with Holy Black
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● PM Keynote by 2016 Newbery Award winner Matt de la Peña & 2016 Coretta Scott King Honoree Jason Reynolds
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● Middle Grade Keynote by Melissa de la Cruz (Disney’s Descendants: Isle of the Lost) and Soman Chainani (School for Good & Evil)
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● Story/Maker Keynote featuring Sana Amanat, Marvel’s Director of Content & Character Development
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● 40+ incredible author/creator moderated panels including a Middle Grade track for younger students, a YA track for teens & adults, and new Story/Makers track for everything from comics & graphic novels to games, animation, film, television & web content
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● 100+ signings & 100+ authors, with more than 50 bestsellers
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● Giveways, Book Sales & Food Trucks including In-N-Out Burger. A percentage of all profits
from food sales and Mysterious Galaxy’s on-site book sales will go to the Santa Monica school libraries.
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● Middle Grade Storyball (kids & authors collaborate on a book together)
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● YA Smackdown (Ransom Riggs & Brendan Reichs’ variety show featuring more than 50 authors doing incredibly stupid things)
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● YA cover band Tiger Beat, fronted by bestselling author Libba Bray
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● Most panels are free & open to the public (with some ticketed exceptions)