Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Scott Appleton
Here is the official bio from Mr. Appleton’s website: “Scott Appleton grew up in the northeast corner of Connecticut. Homeschooled right through high school, he developed a love for reading and writing from his mother and a love for science from his father. In high school he became involved with an astronomy group out of […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Rick R. Reed
Rick R. Reed is the author of ten published novels and two collections. His short fiction has appeared in more than twenty anthologies. He has won the EPPIE Award for best GLBT Novel of 2008 (Orientation) and www.queerhorror.com named his novel A Face Without a Heart as the best novel of 2000. Recent notable work includes […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Richard Adams
Richard Adams was born in Berkshire in 1920 and studied history at Bradfield and Worcester College, Oxford. He served in the Second World War and in 1948 joined the Civil Service. In the mid-sixties he completed his first novel, Watership Down, the story of which he originally told to his children to while away a […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Public Relations Expert Rebecca Grose
Rebecca Grose has been a freelance publicist since she started her own literary p.r. firm, SoCal Public Relations in San Diego in 2003. Prior to that, Rebecca worked in New York at several major publishing houses—Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing, HarperCollins Children’s Books, DK Publishing—and with many distinguished authors including Alice Walker, Patricia and Fredrick […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Public Relations Expert Joshua Redlich
Josh Redlich is a Publicist for Random House Children’s Books, where he works with authors like Mary Pope Osborne, Louis Sachar, Jay Kristoff, Gennifer Choldenko and Marisha Pessl to promote their works. He formerly worked at Sterling Publishing on titles ranging from children’s picture books to adult nonfiction. Josh is also the Chair of the […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Public Relations Expert Wiley Saichek
Wiley Saichek began working in the book industry while he was still a student, providing online publicity support for novelists Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Suzy McKee Charnas, assisting at a local used bookstore, volunteering for The Book Report Network’s chat rooms and message boards on AOL, and interning in Tor/Forge’s publicity and editorial departments. From […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Public Relations Expert Fauzia Burke
Fauzia Burke is the founder and president of FSB Associates, an online publicity and marketing firm specializing in creating awareness for books and authors. She’s the author of Online Marketing for Busy Authors (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). Fauzia has promoted the books of authors such as Alan Alda, Arianna Huffington, Deepak Chopra, Melissa Francis, S. C. Gwynne, […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author M.P. Kozlowsky
M.P. Kozlowsky was a high school English teacher before becoming a writer. Juniper Berry is his first book. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter. Click here to read my review of Juniper Berry. M.P. Kozlowsky is represented by Elana Roth. And now M.P. Kozlowsky faces the 7 Questions: Question Seven: What […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Monika Schröder
Monika Schröder is the author of The Dog in the Wood, Saraswati’s Way, and My Brother’s Shadow. She grew up in Germany and has taught grade four in international schools in Egypt, Chile and the Sultanate of Oman before becoming the elementary school librarian at the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India. Monika always ate […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Mike Mullin
Mike Mullin’s first job was scraping the gum off the undersides of desks at his high school. From there, things went steadily downhill. He almost got fired by the owner of a bookstore due to his poor taste in earrings. He worked at a place that showed slides of poopy diapers during lunch (it did […]