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David Levithan – #TTBF Author Interview

This will be your third trip to our festival! What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of visiting Austin? I mean, the corner that houses Book People, Waterloo Records, and Amy’s Ice Cream is probably my favorite corner in the world. Why do you think the EVERY DAY series resonates with so many different teen readers?…

Rios de la Luz – #TTBF Author Interview

Your book, Itzá, features water witches. Is that the power you would want if you could have one? If not, what would it be? Yes. I think being able to connect to all bodies of water sounds like an amazing gift. I have always been awkward in water and I am a terrible swimmer, but something about being surrounded by…

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Nova Ren Suma – #TTBF Author Interview

You’ve worked in comics, were part of a writers group partially funded by NASA, have just created an online anthology —@foreshadowYA— and so much more. What’s the most memorable writing experience you’ve ever had? I spent two weeks at the @MacDowellColony, desperate, after losing a chunk of a novel in a hard-drive crash. I turned possessed and produced 43,258 words of THE…

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Leila Sales – #TTBF Author Interview

You wrote a different quote on your locker every week in high school. If you had to pick the quote that stayed with you the longest, which would it be? My favorite quote about writing is from Brenda Ueland: “I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads…

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Nic Stone – #TTBF Author Interview

What’s your favorite shade of lipstick right this moment?  Seriously? This is like asking a mother of fifty which child she likes most. #ImpossibleToAnswer When you were a teen, what kind of stories were you looking for? What did you gravitate toward, and what do you wish you’d had more of?  What’s interesting about this is that I honestly didn’t…