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Q&A with Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Catherine Gilbert Murdoch, the author of Dairy Queen and its sequel, The Off Season, took a break from writing book three about D.J. and her family with a fantasy novel about a teen-aged princess who must save her kingdom, Princess Ben (Houghton Mifflin).
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Searching for Universal Love: PW Talks with Stephenie Meyer: A Web-Exclusive Q&A
The Hostby Stephenie Meyer, author of the bestselling Twilight YA series (Twilight, the film, is now in production, slated for a Dec. release), features a love triangle in two bodies. Melanie, a rebel human, is the reluctant host “soul” for Wanderer, an extraterrestrial whose race has successfully invaded a near-future earth. Both struggle with their feelings for Jared, Melanie’s human boyfriend.
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Q&A with Philip Pullman
Children's Bookshelf spoke with Philip Pullman about his new novel, Once Upon a Time in the North (Knopf).
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Q&A with R.L. Stine
R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series debuted in 1992 and went on to sell more than 350 million copies in 32 languages. Stine returns to this chilling landscape in Goosebumps HorrorLand, a 12-book series launching with Revenge of the Living Dummy and Creep from the Deep, due from Scholastic with a 100,000-copy first printing each.
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Q&A with Mary E. Pearson
Mary E. Pearson spokeabout her forthcoming novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Henry Holt), a thriller that explores the limits of medical technology and the depths of a parent's love for a child.
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Q&A with John Flanagan
The Ranger’s Apprentice series from Australian writer John Flanagan has sold more than 400,000 copies in the U.S., and has been published in 18 countries. The author is planning a U.S. tour in support of The Battle for Skandia (Philomel), fourth in the series.
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Welcome to Sarahland
“I feel like I always have one foot back in high school,” says Sarah Dessen, who at 37 could almost pass for a recent graduate. Chapel Hill, her home since her parents took jobs at the University of North Carolina in 1973, is her town, and she relishes in disguising its landmarks in the fictional Lakeview, where her stories are set.
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Every Teen's Struggle: Why I Wrote a Young Adult Novel
Lost in Cincinnati during the book tour for my young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, I argued with the GPS in my rental car. After publishing 19 books for adults, and enjoying what some might call a distinguished career, I was now driving in circles and cursing at a machine.
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About Our Cover Artist
Tad Hills never set out to be a children's book illustrator. “I really wanted to pursue acting,” he tells PW as he drops off the art work that is now our cover. After graduating from Skidmore College in 1986, where he studied art, Hills took on various freelance jobs—working on a screenplay, making marionettes and jewelry, and generally “doing art.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Lois Lowry
A Q&A with Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry, for her new novel The Willoughbys.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Meg Cabot
The YA author talks about Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls, her first book for middle-grade readers.
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Fall 2007 Flying Starts: Katherine Marsh
Soon Katherine Marsh will have more to celebrate than her debut novel, The Night Tourist (Hyperion), with her first child due February 1. “It's exciting because this is who I'm writing for,” she says. “I'm creating my audience.”
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Fall 2007 Flying Starts: Jonathan Bean
In 2002, when Bean was a senior at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, he had an idea that he wanted to be an illustrator. A professor there, Stephen Fieser, who taught illustration, put him in touch with Wes Adams, an editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. “I sent him some illustrations,” recalls Bean, now 28, “ which he politely rejected. But he wrote me a really long email critiquing them.”
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Fall 2007 Flying Starts: Jake Wizner
At Manhattan's Salk School, a prestigious public middle school for the scientifically minded, the best-read book this fall has nothing to do with physics. It's Spanking Shakespeare (Random House) a bawdy, faux memoir about a high school senior in search of a sex life, written by Jake Wizner.
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Fall 2007 Flying Starts: Jenny Downham
When you ask writers how they came up with the idea for their first novel, some might say that it came to them in a flash. Or that they based the main character on someone they knew. Not Jenny Downham, the 43-year-old British author of Before I Die, a luminous story about a feisty 16-year-old girl who is dying of leukemia. She, in fact, heard voices.
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PW Talks with Kadir Nelson
Award-winning illustrator Kadir Nelson makes his authorial debut with We Are the Ship (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun), which tells the story of Negro League baseball.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz plans to tour the U.S. to promote Snakehead, the seventh book in a series about teen spy Alex Rider.
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Q & A with Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer’s latest novel, Airman (Hyperion), takes place a century ago on a pair of tiny islands just off the Irish coast. Bookshelf caught up with him to discuss his foray into historical fantasy.
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PW Talks with Libba Bray
After completing The Sweet Far Thing (Delacorte, Dec.), the third book in her trilogy about Gemma Doyle and the girls of Spence Academy, author Libba Bray has started a new project—a film about how she works.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Shaun Tan
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Scholastic/Levine) is a story told solely through pictures, about a man who travels to a strange land to start a new life for his family. Bookshelf spoke with the Australian illustrator during a brief visit to the U.S. last week to promote the book.
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