Author Guest Post

This post was written by Chaz Hayden, author of The First Thing About You. Throughout the process of writing my debut novel, The First Thing About You, I’d often listen to songs or musicians that set the mood for the chapter I was about to…

This post was written by Tanvi Berwah, author of Monsters Born and Made. Fantasy creatures have been around for as long as humanity could tell tales. Around the fire, chalk figures in caves, ancient Greek dramas, ancient Japanese…

My debut YA novel Seton Girls comes out August 30 and I am incredibly excited for people to get the chance to read it. It’s a twisty, dual-timeline narrative that tells the story of a 12-year undefeated football team at an elite prep…

This post was written by Grace K. Shim, author of The Noh Family. I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that RICH…No, these are not the lyrics to a remix of Lizzo’s Truth Hurts. But I couldn’t help parody the song when I noticed the…

This post was written by Jesmeen Kaur Deo, author of TJ Powar Has Something to Prove. Have you ever heard that traditional wisdom that goes: ‘Raising girls is hard’? Even if I had a week I couldn’t unpack all the problematic implications…

This post was written by Lynn Slaughter, author of Deadly Setup. I’m super excited about the July 5 release of my YA novel, Deadly Setup. When readers ask me what it’s about, I usually explain it’s about Samantha (Sam), a teenager who goes…

This post was written by Kristina Forest, author of Zyla & Kai. In my new YA novel, Zyla & Kai, Zyla, a love cynic, and Kai, a hopeless romantic, meet one summer, fall in love, and then break up and run away together while on a…

This post was written by Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber, authors of Twin Crowns. Twin Crowns is a YA fantasy that blends magical adventure, swoony romance and light-hearted comedy, but at its heart, it is an ode to the power of…

Late 1980s fashions are back with a twist — big hair, high-waisted trousers, jean vests, Doc Martens. And though it was an era rife with homophobia, sexism and other small-mindedness that I’m glad and hopeful we’re moving past, it was also…

This post was written by Tracy Darnton, author of Ready or Not. My latest thriller, Ready or Not, is out in May. Set at a beautiful holiday home in Cornwall, teenager Kat goes missing during a late-night game of hide-and-seek. A set of…

This post was written by Christine Pillainayagam, author of Ellie Pillai is Brown and is sponsored by Faber. When I first started learning piano it was because my older sister was taking lessons, and I, the annoying younger sibling…

This post was written by Vincent Tirado, author of Burn Down, Rise Up Lately, I’ve become a huge fan of Our Flag Means Death. It’s an amazing historical comedy about the adventures of one Stede Bonnet, an aristocrat who abandons his life…

This post was written by Mark Ballabon, author of Home. I come from a varied background in the arts - from music and composition, dance and choreography, to non-fiction writing and poetry. So it seemed very natural to include some of these…

This post was written by Amelia Kahaney, author of All the Best Liars. The Salton Sea is a 350-square-mile body of water in the middle of the California desert, created in 1905 after an irrigation system accident. In the mid-20th century,…

This post was written by Rory Power, author of In a Garden Burning Gold. I have two standard answers when asked what my favorite books were as a kid: the Redwall series, by Brian Jacques, and the Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan (and…