Category: Podcast

Middle Grade Ninja: Middle Grade Ninja TV 27: Author Marie Miranda Cruz

To watch new episodes of Middle Grade Ninja TV as they air, go to YouTube and subscribe. The audio from each episode is available as the Middle Grade Ninja Podcast on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, itunes, Podbean, Podblaster, RadioPublic, blubrry, Listen Notes, Google Play, and many other fine locations. Marie Miranda Cruz  and I talk about her journey to write and publish her first novel, EVERLASTING NORA, including […]

Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions for Kurt Vonneguys: Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim

Esteemed Reader, you know I love podcasts and audio books and I firmly believe that if you’re doing dishes or working out or any number of other activities that prevent you from actually sitting down and reading a thing, you can still be taking in useful information to improve you as both a writer and […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Small Press Publishing

To watch new episodes as they air, go to YouTube and subscribe. Middle Grade Ninja is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, itunes, Podbean, Podblaster, RadioPublic, blubrry, Listen Notes, Google Play, and many other fine locations. Six months after our first conversation in episode 78, editor Sara-Jayne Slack and author Dorothy A. Winsor discuss Inspired Quill’s 10th anniversary and their latest release in the Tales of Rinland […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Middle Grade Ninja Episode 102: Author Caroline Gertler

To watch new episodes as they air, go to YouTube and subscribe. Middle Grade Ninja is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, itunes, Podbean, Podblaster, RadioPublic, blubrry, Listen Notes, Google Play, and many other fine locations.Author and former children’s book editor Caroline Gertler and I discuss her debut novel, MANY POINTS OF ME. We also chat about her studies of art history, her time working for the […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Middle Grade Ninja Episode 118: Editor Leila Sales

  To watch new episodes as they air, go to YouTube and subscribe. Middle Grade Ninja is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, itunes, Podbean, Podblaster, RadioPublic, blubrry, Listen Notes, Google Play, and many other fine locations. Leila Sales and I talk about her career in publishing as well as her newest middle grade novel, THE CAMPAIGN. We discuss in depth how she read submissions as an […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Middle Grade Ninja Episode 135: Author Rajani LaRocca

 To watch new episodes as they air, go to YouTube and subscribe. Middle Grade Ninja is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, itunes, Podbean, Podblaster, RadioPublic, blubrry, Listen Notes, Google Play, and many other fine locations. Rajani LaRocca and I discuss the importance of finding a community of writers and how that led her to publication, as well as her newest novel, MUCH ADO ABOUT BASEBALL. We […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Middle Grade Ninja Episode 152: Author Leslie Connor

To watch new episodes as they air, go to YouTube and subscribe. Middle Grade Ninja is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, itunes, Podbean, Podblaster, RadioPublic, blubrry, Listen Notes, Google Play, and many other fine locations. Leslie Connor and I talk about writing your way through imposter syndrome and her process in creating her newest novel, ANYBODY HERE SEEN FRENCHIE? We discuss how she started out as […]

Middle Grade Ninja: Middle Grade Ninja Episode 169: Author Hilde Kate Lysiak

To watch new episodes as they air, go to my YouTube channel and subscribe. For shorter clips, subscribe to the Middle Grade Ninja YouTube channel. Middle Grade Ninja is available on Anchor, Spotify,  Stitcher, Amazon, itunes, Podbean, RadioPublic,  Listen Notes, and many other fine locations. Hilde Lysiak and I chat about her new memoir, HILDE ON THE RECORD. As she’s just now 15 years old, […]