Author Interviews

"We’ve been tricked into thinking that as adults, we should have the answers to those questions. We should have it all figured out by now. And we don’t. Or at least very, very few of us do. Almost none of us, to be honest."

"That got me thinking about the fallibility of memory and how reliant we are on other people to tell us the stuff we can’t remember ourselves."

Christen Randall on how her tabletop gaming experience and her own anxiety help shape The No Girlfriend Rule.

Compass and Blade is the first book in the latest YA trilogy featuring wreckers -- those who lure people's boats and wreck them, a crossover between sirens and pirates.

"In many ways, writing Brynn’s story felt healing."

"There’s something about fictional small communities where the town itself and all its little quirks becomes a character in itself."

Tobi Lakmaker on the literary references in The History of My Sexuality and how Dutch and English audiences might react differently.

Axie Oh chats writing second chance romance and having that many side characters in ASAP, the sequel to XOXO.

"Ultimately, I realized I needed to just let them be angry and afraid and anxious, and give them a whirlwind love story anyway."

Marissa Meyer is known for sci-fi fantasy series The Lunar Chronicles but she is here to show us she can write light romance stories too!

"None of my protagonists are exactly like me, but I think there’s definitely a small part of me in every protagonist I write."

"I wanted to explore power: who has it, who wants it, who tries to take it away from others."

"Most of the themes of the book are tied to things that I’ve been thinking about lately, including what it means to make art and engage with an audience while you’re still evolving as a creative person."

When Shade Lapite first wrote Goddess Crown, she was inspired by Elizabeth I. Read to find out why and how she is now inspired by West Africa.

"Sometimes it’s easy to forget that so much of writing happens in that leap of faith, when you’re still mid-air and not sure if you’ll clear the chasm underneath you."