#TuesdayTalk with Diane Dakers, author of Bad Business, part of the Orca Currents series. How do you get into the mind of your target audience? I am considerably older than my 15-year-old character, and I don’t have children. So I have to search inside myself to find my inner 15-year-old …
Kari Jones is the author of Shimmy, a new addition to the Orca Limelights series for kids who are passionate about the performing arts. Kari, are there any perks or challenges of writing for your target audience? There’s a particular joy in writing for young readers because young readers may …
#TuesdayTalk with Retribution series authors Natasha Deen, Judith Graves and Sigmund Brouwer. Burned, Exposed and Unleashed are part of a new YA high-interest trilogy that can be read in any order. What are the challenges of writing for the high school or hi-lo audience? Natasha: I find writing for any …
From the desk of Publisher Andrew Wooldridge, our fearless leader and overall ideas man. When the first novels in the Orca Soundings series arrived from the printer in 2002, we had no idea that we were in this for the long haul. Like many initiatives in the publishing world, they …
