Interview Tuesdays
Have you ever wondered what inspired a favorite author to write their books? Join @MaryLanniReads each week as she sits down with the creative minds behind books for kids, tweens, and teens. Filled with fun moments and sage advice, these conversations are good listening, and you may discover a next favorite read. *Music by Alex Gux from Pixabay.
Episodes
Traci Sorell is a best-selling author of inclusive, award-winning historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats for young people.
She is a two-time Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus honoree and award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. Eight of her books have received awards from the American Indian Library Association. Other accolades include Charlotte Huck Honor Award, Septima Clark Women in Literatu...
Rebecca E. F. Barone is an engineer who has worked on a diverse array of projects: injury analysis for the National Football League, knee mechanics during car crashes, development of gait biometrics, and engine calibration of hybrid cars. Realizing her love for books in addition to numbers, she now describes the world with words rather than equations. Her first book, Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica, is now ava...
Lance Rubin is the NY Times best-selling author of young adult and middle grade novels, including Denton Little’s Deathdate, Crying Laughing, and The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek (co-written with Rhett and Link of Good Mythical Morning). He was an ABA Indies Introduce pick for Denton Little’s Deathdate, which was the ILA YA book of the year in 2016. His books have also been Junior Library Guild selections, Amazon Books of the Month,...
Jed Alexander is the author and illustrator of The Fairy-Tale Color Collection, a series of wordless retellings of classic fairytales for children—including Red and Gold, which have garnered starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly and praise from the New York Times. He has also written and illustrated for SpongeBob Comics and Cricket magazine. Jed lives in California with his wife, best friend, and favorite person...
Two-time Nebula Award-winner Fran Wilde has (so far) published nine novels, a poetry collection, and over 70 short stories for adults, teens, and kids. Her stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, four Hugo Awards, four Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula-winning, Best of NPR 2019, debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. H...
Jeff Gottesfeld is an acclaimed writer for page, stage, and screen. His work has won awards from the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the National Council for the Social Studies. He is based in Los Angeles, California.
Visit him at jeffgottesfeldwrites.com.
Nate Moeller lives in Freeland, Michigan, with his amazing wife, Jennifer, and their two beautiful children, Sadie and Sam. The inspiration for his book Twinkling Wings and Toothy Things came from his daughter Sadie losing one of her teeth. When he isn’t working, Nate enjoys spending time with his family and enjoying the outdoors.
Chris Baron is the award winning author of novels for young (and young at heart) readers including:
All Of Me, an NCTE Notable Book
The Magical Imperfect, a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable Book/SLJ Best Book of 2021
The Gray (23) a ProjectLIT 23-24 Selection
Spark (25) from Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan
The Secret of the Dragon Gems, a Middle Grade novel co-authored with Rajani LaRocca from Little Bee Books (23)
He is als...
Tomeko Brown is the author of AN INSTRUMENT FOR FLORENDA.
Tomeko is a North Carolina native with a lifelong passion for writing, music, and education. She began her creative journey by playing the clarinet as a child, which sparked her love for the arts.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Education from East Carolina University. She also earned a Master of Education in Instructional Design and Technology from West Texas A&...
Nathalie Laine lives a safe distance away from the ocean, in Paris, France.
She enjoys: poking her finger into the mini whirlpools that form above bath drains, randomly understanding words in a language she doesn’t know, wrongly guessing the double-agent in cold war spy stories, sharing a Turkish meal of “Lion’s milk”, fish and turnip juice with friends, and getting spurned by grumpy cats.
She may have snuck some of the above into A...
Tiffany Moore was born and raised in a small town in Wyoming and is the proud owner of Emmylou and Oliver. During the summer months, she and her spouse RV around the country with these wonderful felines. They have such grand adventures exploring that Tiffany wanted you to join in the fun through The Magical Tales of Emmylou and Oliver series!
Find out more: https://www.emmylouandoliver.net/
Diane Namm has been a storyteller her whole life. She's authored over 65 children's books, YA teen romance novels, adult non-fiction books, and feature-length screenplays. Diane has written & directed stage plays and short films. But, at this moment, being "Nana" is the thing she enjoys most! #authorinterviews #picturebooks #whathappensafterdeath #griefsupport
Teachers always told Jamie Scheumann to keep writing because she was good at it, but it was only a hobby for most of her life. However, as the mother of two daughters, she now feels called to pursue her passion for writing in a way that will create a legacy for her girls and empower other young readers as well.
Reflecting on the scars from going through the loss of a parent, she decided that if it was her time to go, she wanted to ...
Fantasy author, ER doctor, and proud dog mom, H.B. Reneau is best known for her character-driven, genre-bending fiction that draws on her experiences in both medicine and the military.
When not writing or at the hospital, she can be found hiking, drinking coffee to excess, and getting lost in new cities with her spaniel Rory.
Look for H.B. at https://hbreneau.com/
Content Warning: The topic of this interview is a difficult one. We will discuss the Holocaust, including events that are violent and disturbing. If you need to take a break at any time, please feel free to do so.Author Frank W. Baker is the lead writer on the acclaimed graphic novel We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story. Frank has worked in television news, public education, and public television. In 1998, ...
Caroline Adderson grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta, which at the time was surrounded by farms and acreages. The housing development she lived in was right on a golf course, buffered by woods where she and her friends ran wild and only came home to eat.
When she finished high school, Caroline left home to spend a year traveling around Canada with the youth program Katimavik, doing all kinds of jobs like sheep farming and carpentry a...
Jennifer Jones is an award winning author who lives in a small town in North Carolina, and Alex Flies is her first children’s book. She stays busy writing, writing, writing, and has several books currently in the publication process. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, the outdoors, spending time with her family, friends, and two dogs, and playing board games and VR.
Learn more here: https://jenspen7.godaddysites.com/
Sarah Allen is the award-winning author of WHAT STARS ARE MADE OF, BREATHING UNDERWATER, THE NIGHTMARE HOUSE, and MONSTER TREE.
Sarah's books are filled with quirky, neurodiverse characters, STEAM elements, and a sense of finding Joy in the weirdest and most unlikely of places. Her books have been Jr. Library Guild selections, Whitney Award winners, A Mighty Girl Best Of pick, and state award winners. Sarah received her MFA in crea...
Christine Liu-Perkins was born in Boston and grew up near Kansas City. Reading has always been one of Christine's favorite things to do, and after her daughters were born, she started writing fiction and nonfiction for children as well as magazine articles for grown-ups.
A big influence for Christine is having visited many parts of the world, including more than 36 states and 39 countries on 6 contents. She now lives in Colorado an...
Jeremy Mueller is an artisan, baker, entrepreneur, and father of four. His builds have been featured in international publications.
Karl Buechner is a ground braking musician and earth/animal rights activist, known for his bands Earth Crisis and Freya. He has been writing touring his music for over 30 years.
Keith Ward is a teacher, comic, writer, and board game designer/author.
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