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YALL Fest Interview-Lisi Harrison

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Don’t forget to check out the official YALL Fest Website and Twitter pages. This event takes place Saturday, pharmacy November 9th, page and includes so many awesome young adult authors, its mind blowing. If you have a chance to go to this FREE event, definitely do so!

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Today’s YALL Fest Interview is with YA author, Lisi Harrison!

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Lisi Harrison is a young adult author who is most famous for her three series: The Clique, Alphas and Monster High. The Clique series has spawned 21 novels, and has also been adapted as a series of graphic novels as well. Lisi started writing this series after being approached  by MTV, where she was working, to write a YA series. She wrote it to show that the popular people don’t always have it going on. Monster High is also an extremely popular series, and has branched out into the web and toy stores everywhere.

Lisi will be one of the many authors in attendance at this fantastic event. Enjoy this short interview!

Q: What one thing do you need to have when writing?

A: A scented candle. Each book has it’s own scent.

Q: Describe your book in five words.

A: Popular freshman’s secret journals revealed.

Q: What is the hardest line to write-the first or the last?

A: The first. 100%

Q: Best writing tip you ever received?

A: Stop writing in the middle of a chapter instead of the end. It will be easier to start up again the next day.

Q: What is one adult novel you wished you had as a teen?

A: Stargirl

Q: Tell us five random facts about yourself.

A: I can’t run.

I have a tattoo with a type-o. Its supposed to say “creativity” but it says “dry”.

In college I thought it would be cool to get a tattoo in Chinese characters.

I was supposed to be on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. I changed my reservation at the last minute. Now every time I look at a clock, it says 9:11.

I can’t stand being asked about my “favorites”. I don’t have favorites. If I did, I’d forget what they are the minute you asked and would remember them the minute you leave. Its maddening.

I prefer to give six random facts

Q: Where’s your favorite place to write?

A: My office.

Q: What are you working on now?

A: Pretenders #2: License to Spill

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I hope you all enjoyed this interview with Lisi Harrison. Don’t forget to check out YALL Fest, and I hope that those of you in the area can make it out to this incredible event!

YALL Fest Interview: Kami Garcia

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Don’t forget to check out the official YALL Fest Website and Twitter pages. This event takes place Saturday, drugs November 9th, cure and includes so many awesome young adult authors, viagra approved its mind blowing. If you have a chance to go to this FREE event, definitely do so!

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Today’s YALL Fest Interview is with Kami Garcia. 

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Kami Garcia is well known as the co-author of the best selling series Beautiful Creatures, which has been adapted for a Hollywood film, written with author, Margaret Stohl. Beautiful Creatures follows the characters of Ethan, a normal Southern boy, and Lena, a Caster, afraid of her own destiny. Kami’s new book, Unbreakable, has been described as close to the show, Supernatural.

Check out this short interview:

Q: What one thing do you need to have when you write?

A: I need three things: my laptop, my headphones and a Diet Coke.

Q: Describe Your Book in Five Words.

A: Paranormal. Ghost-hunting. Intense. Romance. Secret Societies.

Q: Tell us 5 Random Facts About Yourself

A: 1. I don’t know how to ride a bike. 2. I used to be an artist (a painter). 3. I won’t fly without my huge charm necklace that I believe will keep the plane from crashing. 4. I believe in ghosts. 5. Every time I write a book, I worry that everyone will hate it.

Q: What are you working on now?

A: I am working on the second book in the Legion Series, the sequel to Unbreakable. Like Unbreakable, the sequel is very intense and has plenty of paranormal elements. But I think it’s even more romantic and surprising than the first book.

Q: What is your favorite genre to write in? To Read?

A: My favorite genre to write is definitely urban fantasy/paranormal romance. I love to read paranormal but I am also a huge fan of horror, crime fiction, high fantasy and science fiction.

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I hope you enjoyed today’s YALL Fest Interview with author, Kami Garcia!

Kami Garcia is heading out on tour for the release of Unbreakable starting tomorrow, so check out the dates to see if she’s coming near you!

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YALL Fest Interview: Veronica Rossi

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Don’t forget to check out YALL Fest on their website and Twitter! This one of a kind awesome event with a ton of young adult authors is hitting South Carolina in November and if you’re in the area, information pills you’d be a fool to miss it!

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Today’s interview is with author, about it Veronica Rossi!

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Veronica Rossi is a young adult author, best known for her Under the Never Sky trilogy, which so far includes Under the Never Sky, Through the Ever Night and the prequel novella, Roar and Liv. The final chapter of this trilogy, Into the Still Blue, will be hitting bookstores in January of 2014. The books follow the story of Aria, who has always lived in the dome, until her mother goes missing, and she’s outside of the dome. She meets an outsider, a savage by the name of Perry, and together they will help each other out, to survive and to each find the person they are looking for.

Check out the interview below!

Q: What is the hardest line to write-the first or the last?

A: yeah, those. And all the ones in between!

Q: Best writing tip you ever received?

A: $5. Just kidding. Um…tip…I think it’s probably to allow yourself to suck when writing early drafts. It takes away a lot of fear of generating good material. It’s not easy to be creative when you’re judging your work.

Q: Tell us five random facts about yourself

A: 1. In the past year, I discovered a deep love of Brussel sprouts
2. I talk to myself. Heck. Sometimes I argue with myself.
3. I’m arguing with myself about including that last point at this very moment.
4. My favorite animals are elephants
5. Dresses with pockets make me happy

Q: Where’s your favorite place to write?

A: I usually work in my home office, but I love working in hotel rooms. No distractions!

Q: What are you working on now?

A: Something I’m very excited about! Can’t divulge yet, but its an idea I’ve been mulling over for years!

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I hope you enjoyed today’s interview with Veronica Rossi! Come back soon for more interviews, and don’t miss out on this awesome event!

YALL Fest Interview: Ransom Riggs

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Screen Shot 2013-09-09 at 1.56.13 PMDon’t forget to follow YALL Fest on their website and their Twitter!

Today’s YALL Fest interview is with author, ed Ransom Riggs!

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Ransom Riggs is a young adult author is most known for his book, price Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, cialis 40mg which has been optioned for film by Tim Burton. Hollow City, the sequel for the novel, will be releasing in January of 2014. The book was inspired by photographs, which eventually became a narrative, and has become a very popular book. You can read the synopsis for the book here:

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. 

As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here – one of whom was his own grandfather – were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason.

And somehow – impossible though it seems – they may still be alive. 

Enjoy this short interview with Ransom Riggs!

Q: What one thing do you need to have when you write?

A: Silence. My noise canceling headphones have become essential.

Q: What is the hardest line to write-the first or the last?

A: The first. I rewrite and rewrite it a million times. The last comes easy.

Q: Tell us five random facts about yourself

A: I’m six foot four. I lived on a working farm until I was five. I used to know how to cook Indian food but now I’ve forgotten. I love documentaries. One day I will conquer the moon.

Q: What are you working on now?

A: A novel for Little, Brown the plot of which is SECRET! (Sort of, for now. But I’m really excited about it).

Q: What is your favorite genre to write in? To Read?

A: Oh, definitely YA to write in. I read everything, lots of YA, lots of adult, nonfiction of all sorts. I even read poetry when I’m feeling ambitious. I think its crucial to have lots of different influences. If you only read in the genre you write in, your writing will sound like everything else that’s already out there.

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I hope you all enjoyed this YALL Fest interview, don’t forget to check them out!

And stay tuned Friday for another interview!

YALL Fest Interview: Rainbow Rowell

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Disclaimer: This was supposed to be posted yesterday and I apologize that it wasn’t. Sometimes school gets in the way of, what is ed like, shop remembering stuff haha. 

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Don’t forget to check out YALL Fest on their website and their twitter!

Today’s YALL Fest Interview is with none other than Rainbow Rowell.

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Rainbow has written adult novels such as Attachments, story and her upcoming novel, Landlines. She has been garnering a lot of attention lately due to her two YA titles, Eleanor and Park and Fangirl, both of which I’ve reviewed on this blog and can be read by clicking on the title.

She is also doing some events in the next few months, besides YALL Fest, so you can check that out here.

Enjoy this short interview :)

Q: What one thing do you need to have when you write?

A: Lip Balm

Q: Describe your book in five words.

A: Fangirl: Earnest, snowy, swoony, minty, bookish

Q: What is the hardest line to write-the first or the last?

A: The first! The whole first page is a nightmare. I want people to just skip it. And I always end up rewriting it.

Q: Best writing tip you ever received?

A: “Just finish your book.”

Q: What one young adult novel do you wish you had when you were a teen? Why?

A: Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt. I think it would have made me feel less alone.

Q: Where is your favorite place to write?

A: At coffee shops. In giant overstuffed chairs.

Q: What are you working on now?

A: I’m revising my adult novel, Landline, which comes out in Spring 2014, and playing with a romance/political/tragicomic fantasy

Q: What is your favorite genre to write in? To Read?

A: I write mostly contemporary. I read mostly fantasy.

Q: At what point in the development of an idea do you know it will become a full length novel?

A: All my ideas are full length novels. I have a hard time narrowing my scope.

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I hope you enjoyed this interview with the wonderful Rainbow Rowell. Tune in Wednesday for another YALL Fest Interview!

YALL Fest Interview: CJ Lyons

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Today’s YALL Fest Interview is with author CJ Lyons!

Don’t forget to keep updated with YALL Fest on their website and Twitter!

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C.J. Lyons is a former pediatric ER doctor who has written seventeen novels, doctor mostly in the medical suspense genre. She has just made her YA debut, ambulance with the novel, Broken. Here is a snippet from GoodReads:

The only thing fifteen-year-old Scarlet Killian has ever wanted is a chance at a normal life. Diagnosed with a rare and untreatable heart condition, she has never taken the school bus. Or giggled with friends during lunch. Or spied on a crush out of the corner of her eye. So when her parents offer her three days to prove she can survive high school, Scarlet knows her time is now… or never. Scarlet can feel her heart beating out of control with every slammed locker and every sideways glance in the hallway. But this high school is far from normal. And finding out the truth might just kill Scarlet before her heart does.

Sounds amazing! Check out her interview!

Describe your book in 5 words:

CJ: Girl dying of broken heart (literally)

What is the hardest line to write- the first or the last?

CJ: The first. I’ll often return to it over and over again until I’ve sliced and diced and fine-honed it to that perfect combination of intrigue, visceral reaction, and emotional connection with the reader.

What one young adult novel do you wish you had when you were a teen? Why?

CJ: Code Name Verity because it is so emotionally honest and inspiring, empowering, not to mention gut-wrenching. Really brings the era to life as well as the sacrifices made in the name of freedom.

Tell us 5 random facts about yourself.

CJ: When I was a kid I worked summer stock theatre and was actually a theatre major undergrad before switching to pre-med. I’ve had two hard landings in helicopters while working as a flight doc. I survived rampaging Cape Horn Buffalo and a pack of wild baboons, not to mention a leopard (he’s already eaten) while hiking in Hells Gate Park in Kenya. I’m a Capricorn. I diagnosed my niece with the heart condition that’s at the center of my YA thriller, BROKEN.

What are you working on now?

CJ: DAMAGED, my next YA thriller, due out in 2014. It deals with the really tough topic of abuse and coercion and is the most difficult book I’ve ever tackled—there have been times while writing when I was literally in tears as I typed.

What is your favorite genre to write in? To Read?

CJ: I created my own genre of Thrillers with Heart—I love writing fast paced stories with raising stakes but centered on the emotional heart of an evolving relationship. As for reading, I read almost every genre but especially love YA, magical realism, and thrillers. As long as a story grabs me by the throat and won’t let me go because I’m too worried about what the characters are going through, I’ll read it and love it.

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I hope you all enjoyed this interview with CJ Lyons, and that you’re able to check out her book, Broken!

Stay tuned for more YALL Fest Interviews to come!