Beth Revis: Authors Expanding Horizons

Beth Revis: Authors Expanding Horizons

Most authors are introverts. Our whole job is to sit alone with our laptops and invent make-believe characters to have conversations with rather than to have conversations with real life people! But despite being far more at home on my couch and with my dog than other...
Phil Bildner: Half a Life, Half My Life

Phil Bildner: Half a Life, Half My Life

Phil Bildner: Half a Life, Half My Life The First State of Being A few months ago, I read Erin Entrada Kelly’s brilliant middle grade novel, The First State of Being. There’s a scene in the middle of the book where Mr. Mosley is sharing words of wisdom with Michael,...
Meg Medina: I’m Going WHERE?

Meg Medina: I’m Going WHERE?

One of the surprising gifts of author travel is that you get to experience cities that you might never have chosen as a destination in your personal life. It’s almost always a wonderful surprise. I’ve been lucky enough to visit splashy places like New York City, Los...
Vera Brosgol: Looking in Alaska

Vera Brosgol: Looking in Alaska

For the next three weeks, author Vera Brosgol (Be Prepared, Anya’s Ghost, Memory Jars, and the Caldecott Honor-winning Leave Me Alone) will be in Alaska. She’ll be doing an art residency aboard a research vessel in the Aleutian Islands and documenting all that she...
Make This Year the Year of the Author Visit

Make This Year the Year of the Author Visit

Every student deserves to experience an author visit. It doesn’t matter if they attend a rural Title I school in York County, Nebraska or an elite prep school on the Upper West Side of New York City, every student should have the opportunity to experience an author...