~Interviewed by Colleen Were all the folktales and legends used in your book ones that you grew up hearing? If not, how did you come about them? “Roshani Chokshi: Ooh, I like this question a lot. So yeah, I grew up with those stories because I have a mixed family at home: my mom is Filipino and my…
Category: Teen Press Corps
Myths, Magic, And Mayhem. . . Oh My!
Above is a picture from the magical panel titled, Just Like Old Times. Topics ranged from random facts about the authors, to what myths, legends, or pieces of history their books are based off of, to their favorite weird or messed-up fairy tales, to how to correctly show the motivations of women in fairy tales that were written by men.…
Exclusive Interview: Joe Jimenez
~Interviewed by Haley Describe Bloodline in only three words. Joe: “Hamlet, brown, San Anto…. Well, I guess that’s technically four!” How do you begin to write a poem? Do you have a scene, character, or line of dialogue in mind? “For me it starts with an image, and I work from the image. I guess I like to think…
That Time When #YA Authors Wielded Light Sabers
-This post comes from Aurora of BookPeople’s Teen Press Corps. We met the three teen fiction writing contest winners before the game show: Nikhil (18), Jack (17), and Madeline (12). Nikhil said he’d been writing for a while and decided to enter because he loves it so much. He’s from Austin and wrote “Hell to Pay.” Jack found out about…
Eden’s Interview with Stephanie Tromly
-This post comes from Eden of BookPeople’s Teen Press Corps Where did you get the idea for Trouble is a Friend of Mine? From looking out the window; no lie. I lived across from a cult. Digby is someone I’ve been thinking about for a while. As for Zoe, I took all of the energy that went into trying to…