YA Author Julie Kagawa inspiring young writers
Category: Keeping Up With Gen Y
June 1, 2011 | BY Tamara Bell
Julie Kagawa is the New York Times Bestselling author of The Iron Fey young adult series, including The Iron King, The Iron Daughter, and The Iron Queen.
Julie joins Keeping Up with Gen Y to talk about how she uses social media to connect to readers to develop friendships that go beyond self-promotion. And for young aspiring authors, she offers tips from how to overcome writer’s block to how to find the perfect agent.
MORE ABOUT JULIE KAGAWA
Julie Kagawa, author of The Iron Fey YA series
Julie Kagawa is the New York Times Bestselling author of The Iron Fey YA series.
Julie was born in Sacramento, Calif., but at the age of nine, she and her family moved to Hawaii, which she soon discovered was inhabited by large carnivorous insects, colonies of house geckos, and frequent hurricanes.
When not swimming for her life, Julie immersed herself in books, often to the chagrin of her schoolteachers, who would find she hid novels behind her Math textbooks during class. Her love of reading led her to pen some very dark and gruesome stories, complete with colored illustrations, to shock her hapless teachers. The gory tales faded with time, but the passion for writing remained, long after she graduated and was supposed to get a real job.
To pay the rent, Julie worked in bookstores and as a professional dog trainer, until her first book sold and she stopped training to write full-time.
Julie now lives in Louisville, Ky., with her husband, two obnoxious cats, one Australian Shepherd, and a hyperactive Papillion puppy.
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About the Author
Tamara Bell: Tamara Bell is the editor of Y Gen Out Loud. She began her journalism career as a reporter in Dallas, Texas. A few years later, she moved into politics and government, working for both Democratic and Republican members of the Texas Legislature. When not working on Y Gen, Tamara is a lecturer in the Advertising Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Tamara has a B.A. in Journalism from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin.
