{"id":1361,"date":"2021-08-05T23:33:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2021-08-05T23:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:34:56","slug":"slj-teenlive-virtual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"SLJ teenLive! Virtual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went to this wonderful free conference, of publishers and artists who were an amazing group of people. It was such a surprise as I found out about it last minute. The School Library Journal conference, SLJteenLive! focused on diverse books and the authors that create them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vshow.on24.com\/vshow\/SLJTeen\/registration\/19660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1363\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/?attachment_id=1363\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJconf.png\" data-orig-size=\"538,212\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SLJconf\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJconf.png\" src=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJconf.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1363\" width=\"322\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJconf.png 538w, https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJconf-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJconf-250x99.png 250w, https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJconf-150x59.png 150w, https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJconf-510x201.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly interested in graphic novels. Publishers such as Oni Press, Random House Children&#8217;s Books, Macmillian Children&#8217;s Publishing, Simon &amp; Schuster, Penguin Young Readers (YA), Clarion Books, and Bloomsbury Children&#8217;s Books participated. Plenty of established authors as well as new writers. To say the least, I am excited to see all the new and diverse choices out there for YA and middle grade including comics, horror, and thrillers. Videos of the conference talks are available for 3 months according to the organizers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stormkingcomics.com\/storm-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1364\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/?attachment_id=1364\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJConf-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"490,740\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SLJConf-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJConf-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJConf-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1364\" width=\"355\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJConf-2.jpg 490w, https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJConf-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJConf-2-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/lakondor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SLJConf-2-133x201.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School Library Journal conference, SLJteenLive! focused on diverse books and the authors that create them.  <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/?p=1361\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5,20,6,4],"tags":[38,10,39,34],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-press","category-teaching","category-whats-happening","category-writing","tag-writing-2","tag-event","tag-fiction","tag-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s6Ls-lX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakondor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}