You provide so many resources for other writers and mentor many up-and-coming talents (so much so that there’s an award named in your honor). What’s the biggest piece of advice you’d offer to teen writers just starting out? Be your own best cheerleader. Listen to music that validates you. Stick encouraging notes on your mirrors, on your laptop and/or tablet…
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Mary E. Pearson – #TTBF Author Interview 2018
You say you used to wake up as a different character every day. What is the most memorable character you remember claiming to be as a child? Little Red Riding Hood. I was so stubborn in claiming this character as my identity, that once, when I was lost in a store, I refused to give the salesladies who found me,…
Heidi Heilig – #TTBF Author Interview 2018
If you had to write a musical about your traveling adventures, what would the title character’s big song be called? To me, the best song titles are lyrical hooks with double meanings or word play. Something like “I Always Want To Go, (But I Never Want To Leave).” How much did you draw on your own theater background for inspiration as…
Alex London – #TTBF Author Interview 2018
Your books have been picked as a reluctant reader selections. What do you find is the best way to make “reluctant readers” reach for books? Give them choice over their own reading! When you provide readers with a diverse array of books to choose from–diverse in content and in form–they will find a way to a book that feels like…
Julie C. Dao – #TTBF Author Interview 2018
At one point you were studying to be a doctor, if you could cast yourself as a doctor in any medical TV show, which show would you be on? I would be one of Dr. House’s residents on House M.D. He’d be a mean boss, but I would learn so much from him and get to handle super bizarre cases!…