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Q & A with William Wegman
William Wegman is and his silvery Weimaraners are back with Flo & Wendell, a goofy, winsome sister-and-brother, the first of a number of books he's signed on to do with Dial.
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Q & A with Todd Strasser
Todd Strasser drew from his own childhood to write Fallout, about a father who builds the only bomb shelter in the neighborhood as the Cold War heats up in 1962.
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Q & A with Holly Black
In her new novel, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black takes on a topic that might seem to have been done to death – vampires – but somehow she's produced another winner.
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Q & A with Peter Brown
In Peter Brown's Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, the eponymous feline shuns drab Victorian convention, trading his top hat and coat for a naked romp through the jungle.
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Q & A with Gris Grimly
PW talked to illustrator Gris Grimly about his version Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the perils of tackling a story after so many others have had a go at it.
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Q & A with Nancy Farmer
Eleven years after her National Book Award-winning The House of the Scoprion, Nancy Farmer has published a sequel, The Lord of Opium.
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Q & A with Lois Duncan
Duncan's Debutante Hill is the first YA classic be to reissued by Ig Publishing's new imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books.
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Cassandra Clare Talks ‘Mortal Instruments,’ Movie Releases, and More
The author is gearing up for the highly anticipated August 21 big-screen release of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, based on her 2007 debut.
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Q & A with Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston
Although Melissa de la Cruz's husband, Michael Johnston, has been collaborating on all of her YA novels since the first book in the Blue Bloods series, his name has never appeared on the jackets along with his wife's – until now.
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Q & A with Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Author/illustrator Laura Vacarro Seeger's latest work, Bully, introduces a bull who begins bullying other animals after being picked on by a larger bull, and eventually repents.
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Obituary: Marc Simont
Children's book illustrator Marc Simont, whose signature fluid-lined works graced close to 100 books, died on July 13 at his home in Cornwall, Conn. He was 97.
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Trilogies: Veronica Rossi
I've killed off my share of characters, but I've never had to cut them from the books entirely. I think the latter might actually be harder.
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Trilogies: Rae Carson
Ah, that ultimate prize, that apex of achievement known as the multi-book contract!
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Trilogies: Marie Lu
I remember my original synopsis for the third book was horribly vague. “It’s a dark and stormy night. Bad things happen. The plot thickens. Love. Sacrifice. Will they make it out alive? Stay tuned!”
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Trilogies: Kerstin Gier
I have a big chalkboard where I draft my plots. I have piles of paper with notes in colored pencils, index cards in any shade imaginable. When I started with this project, my office looked like a kindergarten.
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Trilogies: Julie Cross
In Tempest, so much was cut. I was on a huge learning curve at that point and the more I cut, the better it got.
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Trilogies: Ilsa J. Bick
I had this really fabulous dog-sled scene I was going to integrate into the last book. Even learned how to mush.
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Trilogies: Gabrielle Zevin
The three titles of the series form a sentence that is also a synopsis: All these things I've done/because it is my blood/in the age of love and chocolate.
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Trilogies: Gennifer Choldenko
I have a "bible" that helps me remember each character's birthday and eye color, a master calendar of scenes, and posters full of old Alcatraz photos, but the most incredible method I have for keeping track is a rock in the middle of the San Francisco Bay.
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Ending a Trilogy
Writing—or editing—a trilogy is not for the faint of heart.
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