My BookCon Experience (Part Two)

Hello lovely people!  Oh my gosh....it's finally done. Yep. Transcribed 40 minutes of video. Took me almost 6 freaking hours!!! (this just goes on to show how much I love you guys) Anyways, please enjoy the vids and the fruits of my sweat, blood and tears. ***Please note that transcriptions may not be definitely are not 100% accurate as it is a common fact that I have the tendency to mishear things!***

Panel Title: Dystopian Futures: Are the Science-Fact-Or-Fiction?
Moderator: Veronica Roth
Authors: Danielle Paige, Marie Lu and Alaya Johnson

Veronica: So let's just sit back and absorb their intelligence...To the authors Alright guys, I wanted to ask you first of all to tell us a little bit about your books, so that we know what we are talking about. To audience We are going to be talking about YA sci-fi and fantasy today, in case you haven't read the panel description. Alright, so, Danielle, want to start us off?
Danielle: Yeah. Uh, hi. My story is called Dorothy Must Die. The short version is that it is a book where another girl lands in Oz via a tornado and has to fight an evil Dorothy. Insert audience laughter. The long version is that this girl named Amy Gumm who comes from Misison, Kansas and her friends--well, she doesn't have any friends--she's bullied and has an awful mom and no dad and all she wants to be is not there. So when her trailer gets picked up and she lands in Oz she is really happy to be somewhere else, only Oz is different now. It's dystopian--the yellow brick road is crumbly and there's a dog munchkin in the middle of it. Audience laughter She (Amy) finds out that Dorothy is evil and that she has to take her down in order to save Oz. [To do so, Amy] joins a group of revolutionary witches--formerly bad [witches], now sort of good. And they want her to first take the scarecrow's brain, the lion's courage, and the tinman's heart. And then Dorothy must die. Passes mic to Marie Lu