I have so much admiration for Nikki Grimes , poet and author, for our final Story Secrets guest. (In fact, one of the characters in Tell Me ...

I've known of Barbara Caridad Ferrer (well-published author of teen and adult lit, known as Barb to her friends) in teenlit circles for...

Today I'm excited to have debut author Wendy Delsol on the blog to chat about her contemporary myth-come-to-life, STORK - plus she has ...

Thanks to the cafés cropping up on every street corner these days, everyone I know seems to be two steps ahead of a caffeine headache - but ...

How have I not already featured this book, you ask? I was wondering that myself. Stephanie Kuehnert's BALLADS OF SUBURBIA was one of m...

We are very excited to host Laurie Faria Stolarz , author of the TOUCH series: Deadly Little Secret , Deadly Little Lies , and now the thir...

Happy Holidays, everyone! In honor of the ice and snow (or maybe rain or sunshine, depending on what part of the country you are in!), I...

Have you ever noticed a book popping up over and over in the book blogs you read? Not necessarily the splashy one, but the one everybody kee...

I'm very pleased to welcome author friend Deborah Reber to the blog today to chat about her first YA novel, LANGUAGE OF LOVE ! But Debb...

In honor of World AIDS Day (December 1), I am very pleased to welcome friend Courtney Sheinmel today to tell us her story secrets about he...

Happy Thanksgiving , everyone ! I'm very happy to be hosting Sarah Beth Durst to hail the arrival of her fourth amazing YA fantasy nove...

Ok, so this is without a doubt one of the hottest reads this fall - welcome to fellow 2010 debut author Daisy Whitney , who is here to chat ...

Today I'm welcoming Anna Levine , author of FREEFALL , to Story Secrets to share some of the secrets of her second YA novel. Her first, ...

What a great pleasure it is to chat with rgz co-founder Lorie Ann Grover today about her verse novel, HOLD ME TIGHT . Readers, this is a *w...

It seems like I've been talking about this book all summer, but ADIOS, NIRVANA by my friend and fellow Seattleite Conrad Wesselhoeft i...

I'm very excited to get to chat with rgz co-founder and award-winning fantasy author Dia Calhoun today about her YA fantasy novel, AVIEL...

Hooray, the dragons are on the shelf! I'm very very very excited (can you tell how excited I am?) to invite my dear friend Janet Lee Car...