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Interview with DeAndra Davis, Author of The Lovers, the Liars, and Me

DeAndra Davis is an award-winning neurodivergent, Jamaican-American author who lives somewhere in the mountains. Her critically acclaimed books include ALL THE NOISE AT ONCE and THE LOVERS, THE LIARS, AND ME. When she isn’t 100%’ing video games and reading worlds more interesting than the one she lives in, she’s being distracted by her too many […]

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Interview with Leslie Wedder, Author of The Siren’s Kiss

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Leslie Vedder (she/her) is a queer ace author who loves girls kicking ass in fantasy! She grew up on fantasy books, anime, fanfiction and the Lord of the Rings movies, and met her true love in high school choir. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in creative writing and currently lives

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F.T. Lukens is a New York Times bestselling author of YA speculative fiction includingthe novels Spell Bound, So This Is Ever After, Otherworldly, Love At Second Sight, and In Deeper Waters (2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist; Junior Library Guild Selection), as well as other science fiction and fantasy works. Their contemporary fantasy novel The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic was a 2017 Cybils

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Interview with H.D. Carver, Author of We Became Wild

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H.D. Carver grew up in North Texas. A reluctant reader, she didn’t fall in love with books until she was eighteen, when her senior year English teacher reached out with the right one. She now lives outside Los Angeles in the wildland-urban interface with her family of artists. When she isn’t writing, she can be

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Interview with Gwenyth Reitz, Author of You’re Dead to Me, Reed Walker

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Gwenyth Reitz was born in Sri Lanka, and has since lived and worked in California, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Japan, and Mongolia. When not intrepidly exploring she writes genre-blending YA stories with swoony romance, mystery, humor, and heart. Gwenyth now lives in NYC with her husband and two kids, where she can often be found scribbling

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Interview with Jennifer Pearson, Author of Drop Dead Famous

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Jennifer Pearson is a former teacher and author who lives in the northeast of England with two energetic boys and her somewhat energetic husband. She’s the author of several middle grade novels, writing as Jenny Pearson, and has been short-listed for the Costa Children’s Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and was the

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Interview with Stephen Daly, Author of The Last Death Poet

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Stephen Daly is a queer author and photographer from Belfast, who has always been passionate about how people make sense of who they are and where they are from. He grew up around stories and worked as an actor before many other jobs in theatre. Eventually he realised he was circling what he actually wanted

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Interview with DeAndra Davis, Author of The Lovers, the Liars, and Me

Interview with Leslie Wedder, Author of The Siren’s Kiss

Top Reads: You’re Dead to Me, Reed Walker by Gwenyth Reitz

Top Reads: We Became Wild by H.D. Carver

Interview with Ellen Osborne, Author of The Seeker and The Shade

Interview with F.T. Lukens, Author of The Last Best Quest Ever

Interview with H.D. Carver, Author of We Became Wild

Interview with Gwenyth Reitz, Author of You’re Dead to Me, Reed Walker

Interview with Jennifer Pearson, Author of Drop Dead Famous

Interview with Stephen Daly, Author of The Last Death Poet