TWISTED TALES

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
| Location of Session: Coates Chapel
Young Adult (YA) Sessions

Start of Signing: 1:30 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

What if…? Farrah Rochon tells the untold origin story of the Muses from Disney’s Hercules in Bemused. Mari Mancusi reimagines a perennial classic and questions fate in Sally’s Lament: A Nightmare Before Christmas Twisted Tale. Two New York Times bestselling young adult authors uniquely blend twists on classics in this session!

About the Author

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Mari Mancusi

Mari Mancusi is a New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty sci-fi/fantasy books for kids, teens and adults and an Emmy Award-winning former television news producer. Her middle grade novel New Dragon City was included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. She also writes film tie-in books for Disney, including several Frozen novels and her latest, Nightmare Before Christmas Twisted Tale: Sally’s Lament. Mari is also a dance mom, world traveler, and video game enthusiast. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and their teenage daughter.

Photo Credit: Tamara Roybiskie

Farrah Rochon

Farrah Rochon is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over forty adult romance and young adult novels, novellas, and short stories, including the popular Boyfriend Project series and Almost There of Disney’s Twisted Tales series. When she is not writing in her favorite coffee shop, Farrah spends most of her time reading, traveling the world, visiting Walt Disney World, and catching her favorite Broadway shows. Her latest book is Bemused.

Moderator

Sheryl Stoeck

Sheryl Stoeck is the librarian at O’Connor High School in Northside ISD. She is the planning chair for LibraryPalooza, an annual Young Adult author festival in San Antonio.