#TuesdayTalk with Helaine Becker. Her new book for middle readers, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie is on shelves now. Tell us a bit about your book. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie is the sequel to Dirk Daring, Secret Agent, which came out in 2014. It was extremely well-received, and I was delighted …
#TuesdayTalk with Sarah N. Harvey. Her new YA novel Spirit Level is on shelves now. Tell us a bit about your book. Spirit Level is about a donor-conceived girl named Harriet (Harry) who decides to seek out her half-siblings. In the process, she meets and falls for a trans boy …
#TuesdayTalk with Trudee Romanek. Trudee’s first book with Orca, Raising the Stakes, is part of the Orca Limelights series and launched on October 13, 2015. What are the challenges or perks of writing for a middle school audience? In books for young adults, we’re really trying to tackle some soul-searching questions—what’s …
My Secret by Kelley Armstrong Kelley’s novel, The Unquiet Past, is part of the forthcoming Secrets series. “I’m afraid of chickens.” Okay, I’m not specifically afraid of chickens. I have a fear of all birds—and bats. I blame the fact that I watched The Birds when I was far too …
#TuesdayTalk with Darren Groth. Darren Groth’s YA novel, Are You Seeing Me? launches this month. Darren, what inspired you to write Perry and Justine’s story? Anyone who’s spent any time with me knows I am Dad to a set of twins: one girl, one boy. My daughter is ‘neurotypical’, which …
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, 1921) Everywhere you turn these days, fictional characters in both adult and young adult novels are dealing with brain trouble. Maybe they’ve had their brains altered …
