Janice Lynn Mather on grief, minor miracles and her YA novel, Where Was Goodbye?
"The assignment is not always about joy. We are no more obligated to write pure happiness than we are permitted to live it."
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2024 YA Books
Read an exclusive extract of The Vanishing Station by Ana Ellickson
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Marisa Kanter on writing her New York YA book, Finally Fitz
"Whenever I return, it feels like homecoming, and I always knew it was only a matter of time before I wrote my New York Book."
Jonny Garza Villa on their new YA novel, Canto Contigo
"It’s been an honor to share my community and my culture with readers, and I think Canto Contigo is so specifically a celebration of that."
June CL Tan on her new YA urban fantasy novel, Darker By Four
"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."
Win a copy of We’re Never Getting Home by Tracy Badua
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Jenna Voris on her new country music inspired YA novel, Every Time You Hear That Song
"when I think back to the music of my childhood, a lot of it is country"
Gabe Cole Novoa on his new YA fantasy novel, The Diablo’s Curse
"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."
F.T. Lukens on their new YA fantasy, Otherworldly and the Deal With The Devil’ Trope
"There are tales from all over the world, from a variety of different cultures that share many of the same elements of the typical Faust narrative."
Read an exclusive extract of Sami Ellis’s debut YA horror, Dead Girls Walking
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Sophie Gonzales on her new YA rom-com, The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist
"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!"
Liselle Sambury on her chilling new YA horror thriller novel, Tender Beasts
"Part of fear is the unknown, and so that’s a balance I consider a lot."
Tanya Byrne on her emotional new YA novel, In the Shallows
"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."
Win 1 of 3 copies of Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood
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A. B. Poranek on the inspiration behind her debut novel Where the Dark Stands Still
"These were the things I had originally shied away from writing about, and now I embraced wholeheartedly."