Interview Tuesdays

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 A...

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 Ea...

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 Librar...

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 P ublishers Weekly  and praise from the  New York Times.  He has also written and illustrated for  SpongeBob Comics  and  Cricket  magazine. Jed lives in California w...

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, d...

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 LaRocc...

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 Des...

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 m...

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...

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 educati...

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 jo...

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: http...

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...

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 c...

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.  

Donna Galanti wanted to be a writer ever since she attended an English school, housed in a magical castle, where her wild imagination was held back only by her itchy uniform (bowler hat and tie included!). She is the author of middle-grade books with the Unicorn Island series, Joshua and the Lightning Road series, and Loon Cove Summer . She’s also the author of the paranormal suspense Element Tril...

Brendan Corbett  grew up in a military family, always on the move, living in North Carolina, Virginia, Rhode Island, and Okinawa, Japan all before he was ten. Books were both the foundation of stability and the ultimate escape, companions to other worlds that could journey with him even when friends could not. Brendan has always been drawn to fiction and more particularly fantasy, offering the abi...

Diana Schaffter  is a teacher, educator, international speaker, mother, and grandmother. Diana is no stranger to adventure. She is fluent in Thai, has traveled to over fifty countries, raised her two boys overseas, and lived in seven countries in Asia and Eastern Europe for forty-two years, including two years in Pyongyang, North Korea, where her husband worked for UNICEF. Wherever she has lived,...

Fleur Bradley is the author of numerous short crime fiction as well as novel-length mysteries for kids, including award-winning Daybreak on Raven Island and Midnight at the Barclay Hotel (Viking/PRH), and the Double Vision trilogy (HarperCollins). She is also a literacy advocate and speaks at educator conventions on reaching reluctant readers. Fleur lives in a cottage in the foothills of the Color...

Alda P. Dobbs is the author of the historical novels Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna and its followup, The Other Side of the River . Her debut novel received a Pura Belpre Honor and is a Texas Bluebonnet Master List selection. Alda was born in a small town in northern Mexico but moved to San Antonio, Texas as a child. She studied physics and worked as an engineer before pursuing her love of storytel...