Learn more about author Arthur Slade. When and where do you write? Why does that time and space work for you? I write in my office, which is in the basement of my home in Saskatoon,...

Learn about Richard Uhlig. What first inspired you to write for YA readers? I wasn't inspired to write for YA readers because I didn't know the genre existed. About five years ago, at a dinner...

Learn about Deborah Noyes and her new releases, Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical and African Acrostics: A World in Edgeways with poems by Avis Harley (both Candlewick, 2009). What do you love most...

5 Questions with Lisa Ann Sandell: "On Our Minds asks senior editor at Scholastic, Lisa Ann Sandell 5 simple questions about YA and what it's like to be an editor." Cynsational Notes Lisa is on the faculty of the 2010 Houston-SCBWI Conference,...

Joy Preble is the first-time author of Dreaming Anastasia (Sourcebooks, 2009). From the promotional copy: Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the...

The Texas Book Festival took place Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 in Austin. According to the official website, "The first festival took place at the Capitol in November 1996; the festival has quickly evolved into one of the premier literary events in the...

Learn more about Marjetta Geerling. Could you tell us about your writing community--your critique group or critique partner or other sources of creative support? I am truly blessed to have landed in South Florida where there is an extremely active...