From panels to the autograph area, Comic-Con 2014 is filled with successful writers who started out as fans
You will find plenty of YA authors at Comic-Con this year, either sitting on panels like What's Hot in Young Adult Fiction or Fantastic Women or greeting their many, many fans in the autograph area. The big names present included Shannon Hale, author of Ever After High, and Margaret Stohl, who wrote Beautiful Creatures.
Young Adult's presence at Comic-Con is self-sustaining a significant number of this year's authors, like Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, who together wrote Sublime under the name Christina Lauren, met at the convention as aspiring writers and went on to author popular books. The festival is also a place for established authors to pay it forward, as no audience Q&A is complete without the question, usually asked by someone with a notebook and a over-eager smile: "How did you get started in writing?"
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