I love me some wordplay and Laura Bontje’s debut picture book Was It a Cat I Saw? (Amicus, March 2024) does not disappoint. The clever
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Interview with Debut Picture Book Author Debbie Murphy
Marcia Strykowski: Hi Debbie, your debut picture book, Jackie and the Mona Lisa is delightful! Let’s get right to some questions as I’m sure everyone
Interview With Debut Author, Melanie Ellsworth
For Melanie Ellsworth, the plan was to celebrate her debut picture book, Clarinet and Trumpet, in August of 2020 but COVID reared its ugly head and said, “hip, hip, no way!” A bummer to be bumped but now she gets to celebrate TWO book birthdays in two months and I’m so excited to chat with her about them both in today’s interview.
Interview of Cheryl Schuermann, Author of A Boy Called Preacher
A Boy Called Preacher by Cheryl Schuermann is a middle-grade historical fiction novel that celebrates resilience, the childhood call to uncover mysteries, and the power
LESLEA NEWMAN, Prolific #Kidlit Author
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: Leslea Newman is a well-known, award-winning #kidlit author. We are honored to have her here on Writers’ Rumpus. Leslea, you have quite
Interview of Talented Author, Katrina Moore
Katrina Moore is in my 20/20 Vision picture book marketing group. Her debut picture book, ONE HUG is a rhyming story filled with heart. I’m
Interview with #kidlit author, Tina Cho
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: I “met” Tina Cho through social media. Someone connected us on Instagram when I posted a page from my YOU KNOW WHAT?
Interview With the Fabulous Debut Picture Book Author, Jamie L. B. Deenihan
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: I met Jamie at the NESCBWI ’18 conference. We were both attendees at one of Jane Yolen’s boot camps and so we
Interview with Anne Broyles, #kidlit author
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: When I first started my own writing career, it seemed every #kidlit event I went to I’d bump into Anne Broyles. And
Jerry Mahoney’s Middle Grade Humor
“I think humor has to work in service of the plot, not the other way around.” – Jerry Mahoney transparency fun fact: Sky Pony Press
Interview: Trisha Wooldridge
By Dianna Sanchez T.J. Wooldridge, better known as Trisha to her friends, is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in Massachusetts. She caught my
Interview of talented author and teacher, Susanna Leonard Hill
I discovered Susanna Leonard Hill’s blog when I first began writing children’s books. I loved her Perfect Picture Book posts and I was even
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