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"I hope this is a place readers can return to again and again whenever they need comfort."
Laura Jane Williams on her new teen series, Taylor Blake is a Legend
"I also wanted to write about somebody really grabbing life with both hands, and sometimes I think teens are better than this than adults!"
Jennifer Hennessy on her adult rom-com debut, Degrees of Engagement
"For a YA audience intimacy is much more about feelings versus physical sensation, so I had to make that distinction deliberately as I wrote."
Alexandra Rowland on their hilarious new fantasy novel, Running Close to the Wind
"Comedy is so, so important, and we just don’t talk about that often enough"
Sophie Kim on her enthralling new fantasy novel, The God and the Gumiho
"There’s just something about a crotchety fallen god, who hates everything but coffee, that speaks to my soul."
Desmond Hall on his evocative new YA thriller, Better Must Come
"The country of my youth is a time well lost."
Rachel Lynn Solomon on her new YA rom-com, Past Present Future
"I view romance novels as a safe space to explore darker and more difficult topics with the comfort of a guaranteed HEA."
Morgan Matson on her new YA rom-com, The Ballad of Darcy & Russell
"I didn’t meet the love of my life – but I always held onto it as an idea!"
Jessica Parra on her new YA novel, The Quince Project
"I wanted to remind myself of the power we all have to rewrite our happy endings."
Chloe Liese on The Bergman Brother series finale, Only and Forever
"These stories are hopeful, joyful, steamy, emotionally tender, and compassionate, care taken to ensure they are nuanced, authentic, and positive in their representation"
Alexandra Bracken on her Arthurian YA fantasy novel, Silver in the Bone
"I mean, a mysterious, mist-shrouded isle of magic ruled by powerful women? How could you not want to write about that?"
Lauren Ho on her laugh out loud YA debut, Bite Me, Royce Taslim
"I'd always wanted to write about teenagers who look and sound like me"
Mazey Eddings on her gorgeous new sapphic rom-com, Late Bloomer
"Every brain and every body is deserving of love exactly as it is."
Jonny Garza Villa on their new YA novel, Canto Contigo
"It’s been an honor to share my community and my culture with readers, and I think Canto Contigo is so specifically a celebration of that."
June CL Tan on her new YA urban fantasy novel, Darker By Four
"With the lack of control and feeling of helplessness and also the need for some fun escapism, something just clicked in my head, so I picked up these two story-idea threads and weaved them together."