I'll bee at YALLFest and the Charleston Public Library this weekend!

I'm heading out tomorrow morning before dawn to Charleston for the big and fabulous YALLFfest Book Festival. Go here for the dozens of bestselling and your favorite YA authors and when they're speaking. 

The Young Adult Series Insiders that I helped found two years ago will have a booth at the Giant Book Signing Tent on King Street in Charleston, hosted by the fabulous Blue Bicycle Books. We've got giveaways and swag and chatting about books and YA authors so come visit us on Saturday anytime from 9-5 p.m.

And, I'm doing some super fun panels and parties on Friday and Sunday surrounding Yallfest. Come see us!

Friday, November 13th 1:00pm

Main Library Auditorium

So You Want to Be a YA Author: Pathways to Publication

Have you written a manuscript you think is worthy of publication and not sure what to do next? Do you want to write a YA novel and are not sure how to start? A panel of award-winning and critically-acclaimed Young Adult authors will share the secrets of their success and tips for getting published. After the panel, authors will be available to meet with participants to discuss their individual manuscripts and goals. Panelists include: Hannah Barnaby (Wonder Show); Martina Boone (Compulsion); Lori Goldstein (Becoming Jinn); Kim Liggett (Blood and Salt); Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden), Sandra Waugh (Lark Rising).

Sunday, November 15th 2:30 pm

Main Library Teen Lounge

Girl Power:  Strong Women in YA Literature

Cure your post-YALLFest blues with this panel of YA authors discussing their latest projects featuring young women who develop and wield their personal and supernatural powers. Panelists include:  Hannah Barnaby (Wonder Show); Martina Boone (Compulsion); Lori Goldstein (Becoming Jinn); Kim Liggett (Blood and Salt); Kimberley Griffiths Little (Forbidden), and Sandra Waugh (Lark Rising)

Sunday, November 15th 3:30 pm

Main Library Teen Lounge

YA Series Insiders Book Party

What better way to wrap up a thrilling weekend of YA literature than with book dating, games, snacks, books and prizes, and a chance to meet and mingle with authors from YA books across a spectrum of genres. We’ll be serving up laughs and asking you to join in the conversations with and between the authors!
 
It's a thrill to be a part of the Young Adult writing world and to meet readers from all over the country.

A thousand thanks for reading and reviewing Forbidden as well as pre-ordering Book 2, Banished, which releases February 2nd!!!

xo,
Kimberley

www.kimberleygriffithslittle.com

 

 

School Visit Fun!

Last Thursday I visited a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It's been on "the school visit calendar" for 6 months, but between you and me, I wasn't sure I'd make it because . . . 

I've been wanting to translate my old slide show into a Power Point for ages, but WOW, it's been a TON of work. First I got my slides produced digitally and they turned out terrible. Grainy and fuzzy so I photo-shopped about 30 of them and then had to re-shoot about 25 pictures for a total of 55 slides. Plus add Text Slides with graphics and fun fonts and colors and borders and all that good stuff.

SO MUCH WORK it's not even funny. Weeks of work - and I had help from my family, too! The ones who've taken PP classes. Without them I would have totally sunk into despair.

I was up until 11:00 the night before finishing. Went to bed. Woke up at 2:30 and didn't sleep the rest of the night worrying that everything was in order. Left for school the next morning by 7:30 a.m.

I made it through and it all turned out great! The kids were wonderful.

The entire 7th grade had read THE LAST SNAKE RUNNER and had a field trip to Acoma Pueblo the previous week so they were PSYCHED to meet me and see all my old-time ancient pictures of snake runners and hear the stories of how that book came to be written. Which is fairly interesting if I do say so myself because I had help from an Acoma man from 1906 named Selfon. Except he's dead and we've never actually met.

The second workshop I do is a hands-on writing workshop called "The Creative Diary". WHICH WORKS BEAUTIFULLY. We talk about Imagination in all aspects of life and I then I take them on an Imagination Journey. At the end of one hour they have TWO stories written and ready to be critiqued and polished. It's awesome!

Here are some pics!


Talking about Imagination and showing off a motorized mouse my hubby made
when he was a kid out of wire and pliers.


Reading their stories out loud to the group. Boy, everyone wanted a turn!


Writing, writing, writing!!! Everybody went crazy scribbling!

Me and Melanie Templet, Librarian Extraordinaire!!!
She and I talk a mile a minute when we get together!
(My hair was doing weird things here . . .  )


Me in the beautiful library. Need to get some shoes that are not
so "old lady". They're comfy though.



Melanie's office. This sign suits her personality perfectly.