Get to know Marissa… Marissa Meyer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles, which began with CINDER, the tale of a teenage cyborg destined to save the world. She’s a fan of most things geeky (Sailor Moon, Firefly, any occasion that encourages costumes), and has been …
Get to know Vince… Paperboy, a novel by Vince Vawter, has been named a 2014 Newbery Honor Book. The book was published in May 2013 by Delacorte Press, a division of Random House. Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association, also named the book to its Top Ten list …
Get to know Lauren… Lauren Oliver is the author of the YA novel Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages and are New York Times and international bestselling novels. She is also the author of two novels …
Get to know K.M…. K. M. Walton is the author of Cracked (Simon Pulse 2012), Empty (Simon Pulse 2013) and the co-author of Teaching Numeracy: 9 Critical Habits to Ignite Mathematical Thinking (Corwin Press 2011) for mathematics teachers K – 8. She is a graduate of West Chester University, with …
Get to know Geoff… Geoff Rodkey is the writer of the Chronicles of Egg adventure-comedy series, which bestselling author Rick Riordan described as “Lemony Snicket meets Pirates of the Caribbean, with a sprinkling of Tom Sawyer.” Geoff is also the Emmy-nominated writer of such hit films as Daddy Day Care, RV, and the Disney Channel’s Good Luck Charlie, …
Introducing Janet… Janet Fox is a full-time resident of College Station, Texas, and a part-time resident of Montana (just outside of Yellowstone National Park). For more information, visit her website and blog. Let the conversation begin! What initially drew you to writing? That’s a great question. I feel like I was born …
Get to know Talia… When Talia isn’t hiding in the bathroom from her six children munching on a chocolate bar, she enjoys hiking the red rocks in Utah or sitting on the beach with a Kindle in her hands and her toes in the ocean. Talia has written a number …
Get to know Mindi… Mindi Rochelle Scott lives near Seattle, Washington with her drummer husband in a house with a non-soundproof basement. Freefall, her first novel, was published in 2010. Her second novel, Live through This, released in 2012 by Simon Pulse. For more info, visit her website. Let the conversation begin! …
Get to know Rysa… Rysa Walker grew up on a cattle ranch in the South. Her options for entertainment were talking to cows and reading books. (Occasionally, she would mix things up a bit and read books to cows.) On the rare occasion that she gained control of the television, …
Get to know Audrey… Audrey Vernick writes funny picture books, nonfiction picture books and middle-grade novels. Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team was a New York Times Notable Book in 2012. Her 2014 releases are the middle-grade novel Screaming at the Ump and picture book Edgar’s Second Word, as …