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With Curse of the Silver Pharaoh now out in print, Tee and Pip head to a renaissance festival for hilarity and sheananigans. They invited for their little merry jaunt a pair of Laurens who know a lot about writing Young Adult fiction. So even thought it is Tee’s birthday, we are giving YOU a present with this podcast for your Friday!!!

00:00 —  Introduction

• Little wins can sometimes include kicking off a podcast
• Epic Sized Introduction Drop-In’s for Epic Sized Ladies
• On Tee’s To-Do List: Harvesting Kate McKinnon Outtakes
• This visit all started at LaurenCon
  • Featuring really good vodka from Murlarkey Distilleries
  • Scribe and Scribby spent their visit hanging with the Boom…and the Boom LOVED it!
• Did I mention Boom is twelve?
• Librarians know how to party!

06:53 — Episode #66: Young Adult Fiction 101 (with Scribe and Scribby) 

• We have EXPERTS in the studio on this!
• See, we got The Curse of the Silver Pharaoh out now…and holy crap—it’s out!
• Tee’s pitch for Silver Pharaoh
• The conversation stems from a recent blogpost of Tee’s…
• A brief moment of political discourse…
• First Lesson: Don’t treat your audience like kids.
  • The danger of talking down to your audience
  • Comparing Harry Potter to The Hobbit
  • Pacing tends to affect the word count as well.
  • How tweens and teens deal with and explore morality, both in groups as well as in individuals
  • The matter of POV’s in Y.A. Fiction
    • An Ember in the Ashes
    • Raven Boys
    • And Lauren’s own works…
    • What teens look for
• Second Lesson: Your heroes are not prodigies.
• A collection of Chosen Ones
  • The Maze Runner
  • Divergent
  • The Fifth Wave
• What Harry Potter gets right about handling the Chosen One trope
• Defending the Chosen One Trope
• Tee and Jo? Yeah, we’re tight.
• Now, if you want to talk Chosen Ones, TAKE A LOOK AT NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM….
  Damn, bro…
• How Harry become the Chosen One
• The Fifth Wave, exploring the power of the abs…
• What set Katniss apart from other “Chosen One” heroes.
• WE HAVE A LOT MORE TO SAY ON Y.A. but we will just have to pick up where we left off in two weeks.

30:49 — Writers Off the Clock

• Where were we this weekend? This little party called The Maryland Renaissance Festival
• Pimp that Kiwi — COMING IN 2017 ON THE CW!
  • First Stop: Barnes & Noble Power Plant…which was a disaster.
  • Next Stop: Barnes & Noble at JMU
  • Final Stop: Page After Page at MDRF
• Comparing the North Carolina Renaissance Festival to Revel Grove
• Doc Coleman — Your Map to the Grove
• Tee’s Approach to Revel Grove, and how Page After Page is the center of this Tudor Nexus
• Let Tee tell you about Puke & Snot…
• The show Tee never wrote for Shakespeare’s Skum
• Another great thing about the Grove: SHOPPING!
• What clothiers want to hear: “I wanna look like Claire.”
• Skribby Fangirling is precious.
• Boom’s Adventures in Revel Grove
• Stuffed Dragons AT — THE — DOOR!
• Boom was working the crowd like a champ.
• Good first impression on Boom from Loot Crate!
• Hey, LootCrate — how about a Stranger Things crate? Something to think about!

45:15 — Wrapping up

• It’s all gold…so should we break this up, you think? (Spoiler Alert: We did.)
• Our next podcast: Three Nasty Women and One Bad Hombre Podcast
• What should be the content of a podcast? Let us know at 703.791.1701
• Quick promo and shout-out for Revel Grove
• Where will Scribe and Skribby be at the end of the year…
  • They just moved! (And they are so tired.)
  • Leaving really cool digs on the farm for a bachelorette pad of nasty women
  • Catching a breath and unpacking boxing
• Bringing Katie and Skribby together — We must make that happen!
• Where are we going to be between now and the end of the year: 18-20 November, PhilCon in Cherry Hill, NJ
• We need to also get in writing with Countless Hues of Crimson
  • Mad love for Verena Vorsatz
  • Broadening the reach of the Tribe
  • Final Fantasy cosplay shenanigans abound
• Where to find Scribe and Skribby
  • Check out the website!
  • The new podcast: Fandom PhD
• A full Hogwarts house in this recording!
  • Lauren dreams up a cosplay…
  • You want an amazing Ravenclaw cosplay?
• We are getting your voicemails and email, but we’ve been recording jam-packed shows of late. We will be getting to them soon! Until then…
  • Call us at 703.791.1701 (now accessible through the Instagram app!)
  • Send me email — tee@teemorris.com
  • Send Pip email — pip@pjballantine.com
  • …or find us on social media everywhere.

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