Get to know Leslye… Leslye Walton was born in the Pacific Northwest. Perhaps because of this, She has developed a strange kinship with the daffodil. She too can only achieve beauty after a long, cold sulk in the rain. Her novel, THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA LAVENDER, was …
Get to know Amy… Amy Timberlake’s newest book, One Came Home, has been called “a True Grit for the middle school set” (Bookpage), “a valentine to sisterhood and a bird that no longer exists” (The Washington Post), and “a rare gem of a novel” (The Christian Science Monitor). It was recently …
Get to know Naomi… Naomi Canale is a lifelong Nevadan obsessed with anything vintage and Tim Burton. In between creating art and loving on her three children, she writes young adult and new adult fiction with creepy noir themes. She is thrilled to share her debut His Dark Ways with …
Get to know Ann… Ann Angel considers it her good fortune that she discovered the music of Janis Joplin as a bookish teen who would rather paint or write bad poetry. She became a writer and teacher and has penned a ton of fiction and many biographies including her most …
Get to know Todd… Todd Strasser is the author of more than 100 books for teens and middle graders including the best-selling Help! I’m Trapped In … series. He has written numerous award-winning YA novels including The Accident, The Wave, Give A Boy A Gun, Boot Camp, If I Grow …
Get to know Caroline… Caroline Starr Rose spent her childhood in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and New Mexico, camping at the Red Sea in one and eating red chile in the other. As a girl she danced ballet, raced through books, composed poetry on an ancient typewriter, and put …
Get to know Kirby… Kirby Larson went from history-phobe to history fanatic while writing the 2007 Newbery Honor Book, Hattie Big Sky. Her passion for historical fiction is reflected in titles such as The Fences Between Us, and The Friendship Doll, as well as her latest, Duke, and Hattie Ever After. A collaboration with good friend Mary …
Get to know Rhonda… Rhonda is a children’s book writer, a mother, and wife. She is a children’s book reviewer and goes to college full-time as a graphics designer. Ted and Raymond came from a story that she created from another story of her own. Rhonda encountered a little frog …
