Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Dan Poblocki
Dan Poblocki is the author of The Stone Child and The Nightmarys. Click here to read my review of The Nightmarys. Here’s his official bio from www.danpoblocki.com: For some reason, I recently allowed myself to purchase the very addictive XBOX 360, and I now spend too much time playing all sorts of games. On any given day, you might […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Courtney Summers
Courtney Summers is the author of Cracked Up To Be, which she wrote at age 21. She’s totally my hero. Her second book, Some Girls Are, will be available from St. Martin’s Press in winter 2010. Cracked Up To Be is one of the best books I have ever read about high school and you […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Christine Blevins
Christine Blevins is the author of Midwife of the Blue Ridge and The Tory Widow, both historical novels. From the bio section of her website: “Christine Blevins grew up on the south side of Chicago. She is the youngest of four children born to Ukrainian immigrants. Like most immigrant kids, she was expected to study […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Chris Grabenstein
Chris Grabenstein is the author of The Haunted Places Series, which so far includes The Crossroads (Haunted Places (Quality)), The Hanging Hill (Haunted Places (Quality)), and The Smoky Corridor (Haunted Places). Click here to read my review for The Smoky Corridor. His books for adults include The Holiday Thriller Series: Slay Ride, Hell for the Holidays: A […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Bree Ogden
Bree Ogden’s life in the arts and training as an artist have combined to bring her to the new position she has just achieved as a literary agent for graphic novels and children’s book with Martin Literary Management. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and spent much of her youth and teenage years intensely studying […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Bonnie Doerr
Bonnie J. Doerr is the author of Island Sting. She has taught students from kindergarten to college in eight states. Degrees in reading education, combined with a brief post as a science teacher, led her to write ecological mysteries. Her novels celebrate caring, involved, “green” teens who take action with attitude and a touch of romance. […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Barbara Dee
Barbara Dee is the author of the tween novels Just Another Day in my Insanely Real Life, Solving Zoe (2010 Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year), This Is Me From Now On, Trauma Queen, and The (Almost) Perfect Guide To Imperfect Boys. Click here to read my review of Trauma Queen. She lives with her […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Authors Lauren Oliver and “H.C. Chester”
Lauren Oliver is the author of the YA bestselling novels Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages and are New York Times and international bestselling novels. She is also the author of three novels for middle grade readers: The Spindlers; […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author(s) Alex Flynn
Alex Flynn is the pseudonym for the writing team of Stuart Sherman and Elisabeth Donnelly. They met at a clandestine book club in Boston, where they broke into a fortified tower in order to discuss literature. They like garrulous Irish writers, Pushing Daisies, and anything involving The Tick, from the comic book to the short-lived […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Will McIntosh
Will McIntosh is a Hugo award winner and finalist for the Nebula and eleven other awards. His most recent novels are Watchdog and Burning Midnight (Penguin Random House). His previous book Defenders (Orbit Books) was optioned by Warner Brothers for a feature film, while Love Minus Eighty was named the best science fiction book of […]