Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Danica Davidson
Danica Davidson is the author of the Overworld Adventures book series for Minecrafters, with the books Escape from the Overworld, Attack on the Overworld, The Rise of Herobrine, Down into the Nether, a The Armies of Herobrine and the newly released Battle with the Wither. She is also the author of Manga Art for Beginners and Barbie: Puppy Party. Please check out her website, her Amazon […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Dan Gutman
Dan Gutman was raised in a mud hut by a pack of wild monkeys in the rain forest of Rangoon.Okay, okay, he really grew up in New Jersey. In fact, he still lives there. But being raised by wild monkeys in Rangoon would have been a lot cooler. Dan compensated for his bland and uneventful childhood by […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Chris Rylander
Chris Rylander is the author of The Fourth Stall, The Fourth Stall Part II, and The Fourth Stall Part III. He was born and raised in North Dakota and currently lives near the center of North America with his wife Amanda. They have one dog and one cat. He swears he’s never participated in any organized […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Charles Gilman
Charles Gilman is an alias of Jason Rekulak, an editor who lives in Philadelphia with his wife and children. When he’s not dreaming up new tales of Lovecraft Middle School, he’s biking along the fetid banks of Schuylkill river, in search of two-headed rats and other horrific beasts. His novels in the Tales from Lovecraft […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Bruce Coville
Bruce Coville was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1950. His family lived in farm territory, about twenty miles north of Syracuse. Bruce grew up around the corner from his grandparents’ dairy farm, where he spent a great deal of time as a child, dodging cows and chores to the best of his ability. As […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Barbara Shoup
Barbara Shoup is the author eight novels, including Night Watch, Wish You Were Here, Stranded in Harmony, Faithful Women, Vermeer’s Daughter, Everything You Want, An American Tune, and Looking for Jack Kerouac, as well as the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Her young adult novels, Wish You […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Anna Olswanger
Anna Olswanger is a literary agent with Liza Dawson Associates in New York where she represents fiction and nonfiction, for young readers and adults. She is the author of Shlemiel Crooks, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book, Koret International Jewish Book Award Finalist, and PJ Library Book, and the just-published Greenhorn. Anna is the co-author of […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Andy Weir
ANDY WEIR was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since. He is also a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects like relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. The Martian is his first novel. […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Ally Malinenko
Ally Malinenko, a self-proclaimed Bardolator, took her first pilgrimage to Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2009 and hasn’t been the same since. Lizzy Speare and the Cursed Tomb is her first children’s book. Her poetry book, The Wanting Bone, was published by Six Gallery Press. She blogs at allymalinenko.com. Ally lives in Brooklyn with her husband. Click here […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Audiobook Narrator David Radtke
David Radtke is a man who loathes having nothing to do. It makes him really fidgety (and he hates it when he gets really fidgety). Luckily though, ever since David entered the world of audiobook narration, it has given him the important outlet he needs to release all of his pent-up energies — and some […]