-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…
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A Conversation with Libba Bray
-This post comes from Emily of BookPeople’s Teen Press Corps Emily: How do you begin a book? Do you choose a scene, character, or a line of dialog to run with? Libba Bray: That’s a great question. I never have a starting point. I always say it’s like a river. It’s like the game Katamari. You’re a big ball of…
Andrienne Sits Down with Sonia Manzano
Sonia Manzano is someone who likes to solve problems. Working hard, putting effort into it, and getting a result is what she does. But the thing in which Sonia really prides herself is “connecting through people on Sesame Street,” where she can share her life with others. When Sesame Street was first getting started, Sonia went in for an audition.…
Aaron Hartzler and Willa Discuss WHAT WE SAW
Aaron Hartzler’s book What We Saw is inspired by the events of the Steubenville rape case in 2011-2, when two student-athletes were accused and convicted of raping a girl who was passed out at a party. “I never thought I would write an ‘issue book’ but this particular news story really stuck in my mind because my younger sister was…
#TTBF Interview: Jason Reynolds
~Post by Willa Jason Reynolds’s first YA novel is entitled When I Was the Greatest came out in January and is the story of teenagers Ali, Noodles, and Needles and how their world changes. Reynolds started writing poetry at age ten, and promised himself no matter what he would never be a novelist, but in his early twenties in New…