Luisana Duarte Armendáriz is a children’s book author that hails from Ciudad Juárez, México, the most fabulous and beautiful border city in the world (Juan Gabriel’s words, not hers). Luisana has had a love affair with literature since she was a little girl. She loved going to the libraries in El Paso, TX, even though […]
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Author Q&A With Renée Rosen
Renée Rosen is the bestselling author of Park Avenue Summer, Windy City Blues, White Collar Girl, What the Lady Wants and Dollface. She’s also the author of Every Crooked Pot, a YA novel published in 2007. Most people discover their love of reading first and then decide to try writing. For Renée Rosen, it was […]
Author Q&A with Joanne Hale
Author Joanne Hale describes herself as the kid in school with a book in one hand and in the other a notebook and pen. And even as an adult this hasn’t changed much. In her writing, as in life, she invites you in and takes you on the journey. Meet Joanne. You’re an author, but […]
Author Q&A with Y. Deonna
What a delight it was to meet author Y. Deonna who is truly charming, caring, creative and a prolific writer. A native of South Carolina, at an early age she discovered her love of reading and writing. As a youngster, she was fascinated by how authors created exciting and uplifting stories and knew she would […]
Author Q&A With Linda Ashman
Linda Ashman is the author of many acclaimed picture books—more than forty to date—and The Nuts & Bolts Guide to Writing Picture Books. Her books have been included on the ‘best of the year’ lists of The New York Times, Parenting and Child magazines, the New York Public Library and others, and have been translated […]
Author Q&A With Monique Fisher
Author Monique Fisher’s mission is to work according to the Toni Morrison quote, if there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it. She’s an LA native and has been writing since the age of ten but says she didn’t truly […]
Author Q&A with Agatha Zaza
Agatha Zaza has inadvertently become a nomad. In the last decade, she’s called three countries home and all three have had one important thing in common—excellent public library systems. Wherever she goes, she takes her imagination and a lifetime of memories, including of great books. Agatha has always recognized that being highly literate and having […]
Author Q&A with Bracha Sharp
Bracha K. Sharp is an award-winning author who has an expansive portfolio of articles, poetry, plays and children’s picture books. She’s a member of the SCBWI and the SSCBWI group (Shomer Shabbat Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators group) and has written numerous human-interest articles for the Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut newspaper. Her […]
Author Q&A with Traci L. Jones
Traci L. Jones worked in marketing for two years in the Chicago area, before returning to Denver to work as an Account Executive at area advertising agencies. She met her husband, Tony Jones shortly after returning to Colorado and they married in 1995. They have four children and live in the Denver metropolitan area. Traci is a […]
How to Pick the Best Books
Sorry. There’s no secret formula for book selection. Truth is, we all have our “things” that we look for when we’re picking the best books. Sometimes it’s a suggestion from a friend, other times it’s a review that we find online. But for many, it can be a compelling little story by the author that […]