Rhondiann.com and DAW Books Announce Emily Drake as a Panelist at COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: San Diego 2010
Appearing Sunday, July 25 2010 on the “Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Teen Angst in Young Adult Fiction” Panel with bestselling and world renown authors.
San Diego, July 2, 2010: Rhondiann.com proudly presents Emily Drake, author of The MagickersYoung Adult fantasy series, as a featured panelist at COMIC CON 2010 in San Diego, California. Other featured panelists will include Kathy Reichs of Bones fame, Nancy Holder, Cindy Pon, Neal Shusterman, Christopher Pike, James Own, D.J. MacHale and Michael Spradlin. Drake and these renowned authors will be on the “Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Teen Angst in Young Adult Fiction” panel and will be discussing the appeal for youthful protagonists in young adult fiction and beyond.
The panel will be in Room 24 ABC on Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 12pm-1pm and several hundred are expected to fill one of the larger conference rooms. Immediately following the panel, Emily Drake will be autographing her novels in the main autographing room at the table hosted by Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego. COMIC-CON International: San Diego 2010 runs from Thursday-Sunday, July 22-25, 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center.
First published in June 2002, The Magickers features contemporary young adults who discover strange and unique talents within themselves. The Chronicles brings these classics back into print and also adds brand new material written exclusively for the Chronicles.Emily Drake has developed a world that is both familiar and strange to young adults, intertwining themes of friendship, family, transitions from youth to adult, and magic in a fun and entertaining way. In each Magickers novel, Jason and his collection of friends from Camp Ravenwyng face challenges that everyone can relate to: family issues such as divorce, step parents, and new siblings; finding and keeping good friends; the trials and tribulations of growing up; and finding a balance between the light and dark sides of their own human nature. While targeted to young adults, The Magickers has found an audience with people of all ages.
High demand for the Magickers novels has sent them into reprint as The Magickers Chronicles, Vol I (July 2010) and Vol II (October 2010) and are compilations of the entire Magickers series, including The Magickers: The Magickers #1, The Curse of Arkady: The Magickers #2, The Dragon Guard: The Magickers #3, and The Gate of Bones: Magickers #4. Emily Drake is excited to announce the online publication of The Prince of Nowhere, the much-demanded and anticipated follow-up to The Magickers.
Guests and readers will learn about Drake’s character inspirations, thoughts on the state of young adult fiction, and future endeavors. Drake will also promote her latest additions to rhondiann.com, including new chapters for online publication of the latest installation of The Magickers series, The Prince of Nowhere.
Emily Drake is one of several pen names for Rhondi Vilott Salsitz featured on rhondiann.com. She has written critically acclaimed suspense thrillers as Elizabeth Forrest and Anne Knight, epic fantasy as Jenna Rhodes, science fiction as Charles Ingrid and has more novels in progress under several of the same pen names.Her books have been published all over the world in more than six different languages, and her audience includes readers from eight to eighty.
See www.rhondiann.com for more information about Emily Drake, upcoming Magickers news, chapters of The Prince of Nowhere, and much, much more!
Emily Drake’s Featured Novels:
·The Magickers: The Magickers #1, Hardcover, DAW, June 2001
·The Curse of Arkady: The Magickers #2, Hardcover, DAW, June 2002
·The Dragon Guard: The Magickers #3, Hardcover, Penguin Group, July 2003
·The Gate of Bones: Magickers #4, Hardcover, Penguin Group, September 2004
·The Magickers Chronicles, Vol I: (Includes The Magickers #1 & 2), Paperback, Penguin Group, July 2010
·The Magickers Chronicles, Vol II: (Includes The Magickers #3 & 4), Paperback, Penguin Group, October 2010
Rhondi Vilott’s Featured Novels:
·Storm Rider: Dragon Pathways #1, Print on Demand, iUniverse.com, July 2010
·Aphrodite’s Mirror: Dragon Pathways #2, Print on Demand, iUniverse.com, July 2010
·Hall of the Gargoyle King: Dragon Pathways #3, Print on Demand, iUniverse.com, July 2010
·Maiden of Greenwold: Dragon Pathways #4, Print on Demand, iUniverse.com, July 2010
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Rhondiann.com brings people of all ages together to explore the wonderful worlds of her varied writing career and her novels. Guests can download chapters from the latest Magickers adventure, The Prince of Nowhere, and purchase copies of Magickers novels, titles from Jenna Rhodes, and the latest Print on Demand “Choose Your Adventure” novels from Rhondi Vilott, the Dragon Pathways.
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