Author Interviews

"With the lack of control and feeling of helplessness and also the need for some fun escapism, something just clicked in my head, so I picked up these two story-idea threads and weaved them together."

"when I think back to the music of my childhood, a lot of it is country"

"It’s been so exciting to see more and more books come out with trans protagonists, and I am so proud to add to that much-needed wave."

"I do, however, continue to write fanfiction in some different fandoms these days, and I will never admit to anyone which fandoms or who I am!"

"Part of fear is the unknown, and so that’s a balance I consider a lot."

"I can’t begin to tell you how wonderful it was to write about characters who are the grownups."

"We’ve been tricked into thinking that as adults, we should have the answers to those questions. We should have it all figured out by now. And we don’t. Or at least very, very few of us do. Almost none of us, to be honest."

"That got me thinking about the fallibility of memory and how reliant we are on other people to tell us the stuff we can’t remember ourselves."

Christen Randall on how her tabletop gaming experience and her own anxiety help shape The No Girlfriend Rule.

Compass and Blade is the first book in the latest YA trilogy featuring wreckers -- those who lure people's boats and wreck them, a crossover between sirens and pirates.

"In many ways, writing Brynn’s story felt healing."

"There’s something about fictional small communities where the town itself and all its little quirks becomes a character in itself."

Tobi Lakmaker on the literary references in The History of My Sexuality and how Dutch and English audiences might react differently.

Axie Oh chats writing second chance romance and having that many side characters in ASAP, the sequel to XOXO.

"Ultimately, I realized I needed to just let them be angry and afraid and anxious, and give them a whirlwind love story anyway."