Interviews and Conversations

Kristin Cashore’s first novel in five years is a fantasy—and a science fiction story, and a thriller, and a mystery, and a horror story. Jane, Unlimited tells the story of...

An Na has been writing for young readers for almost 20 years; her first novel, A Step from Heaven, won the 2002 Michael L. Printz Award for the best book...

This February author Erin Entrada Kelly received the Newbery Award for her novel Hello, Universe, a story of an unlikely friendship formed by a trio of sixth graders in a...

The first book in bestselling author Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds dystopian trilogy was released in 2012, though it has a message of young activism in the face of injustice...

Critically acclaimed author of The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Holt, 2008) and A Room on Lorelei Street (Holt, 2005), Mary Pearson has written across many genres—contemporary YA, sci-fi, romance, and...

Once an eighth-grade teacher, Alan Gratz now writes books for middle schoolers that entertain while encouraging readers to ask questions of the world around them. In his newest historical thriller,...

Author-illustrator Matt Phelan is perhaps best known for his graphic novels, including A Storm in the Barn, Bluffton, and Snow White, and has also illustrated projects by Linda Sue Park,...

In his book, “A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey,” Jonathan Meiburg vividly brings to life not only a nearly...

“Wow — I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was when Michelle Rowen invited me along to do a guest spot on the Midnight Hour,” wrote Amanda Ashby,...

Natalie Portman, an Academy Award-winning actor (for Black Swan), director, and producer, adds picture book author to her list of credits this month, when Feiwel and Friends publishes Natalie Portman’s...