When did you know that you first wanted to be a writer/illustrator?

It’s complicated because I grew up besotted with books–and watching my mom write letters home from our remote village in Ethiopia to her mom and my dad’s parents in the U.S. So I thought of myself as a writer waaay back. But I didn’t catch a dream of publishing a book until my kids were lap-sitters and I was going to the library and checking out armloads of books that I read out loud to them.  That’s when I truly got to know children’s books.

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What book or writer/artist do you feel influenced you the most?

I had different book mentors at different stages, but one of the most powerful was Sarah Plain and Tall. I wanted to figure out how she managed to make me feel so much with so few words.

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What book or books are you currently reading or have recently read that you’d recommend to others?

I teach in the Vermont College MFA program for children and YA literature, and I once had Jandy Nelson in a workshop at one of the residencies. Her work dazzled me then and her first YA novel, The Sky Is Everywhere is dazzling me now. Wow.

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If you could offer one piece of advice to aspiring writers, what would it be?

Read, read, read, and when you feel something–while you’re reading–try to figure out how the author did it.

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Can you share with us your next project or any information about the next book you’re working on?

Hey! My two books for the American Girl Doll of the Year, nature girl Lanie, just came out mere weeks ago. Right now, I’m blogging about how I wrote them, not thinking about the next book.

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Your authorness here. Yes I know it’s been a while since you’ve heard from me, but well, a LOT has been happening. First, my publishers are trying to kill me. Yes, you heard me correctly. By releasing two books in the same week! I have to say, I know I’m lucky, but I’m also exhausted. I’ve spent almost the entire month of November on the road traveling to events, doing interviews, and attending conferences.

But last week, I got the news every writer dreams of. It seems my little book of upside down Christmas Carols (and let me remind you again, this book is rated T for Teen!) IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE ZOMBIES: A Book of Zombie Christmas Carols, has MADE THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST! Yes, its number 35, the last spot, but it’s on! There’s an old saying in baseball: when you hit one of those little dribblers, or dying quails or a ball that just squeaks past the fielder’s glove ‘It will look like a line drive in the box score!” So forever more, your authorness can now refer to himself as a New York Times Bestselling Author! Let me tell you, it’s a long way to from tiny Homer, Michigan to the New York Times List and this is one happy Midwesterner!

But the good news doesn’t stop there. A lot has been happening with The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail. First off, it’s been selected for the Truman Reader’s Award list in Missouri! One of only twelve books chosen! Students in Missouri will read and vote for the winner. It’s become cliché to say it’s an honor just to be nominated, but it really is.

Next comes a fantastic review of Trail of Fate from School Library Journal. As soon as it’s posted on their website, I’ll link to it but here is what it said.

“The action and intrigue start right from the first page…puts a brilliant spin on…traditional tales.” –School Library Journal

They also used the word, ‘riveting’ in their review! If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll pick up your copy and find out what happened to Tristan in his quest to keep the Holy Grail safe.

Midwest Book Review also had great things to say:

“Run out and grab a copy of both Keeper of the Grail and Trail of Fate for all of the young readers on your holiday list. This series is sure to launch even reluctant readers into adventures that they’ll be fantasizing about for a long time! But be prepare to buy the third book when it comes out next year.”

As you can see, it’s shaping up to be a fantastic holiday here at Team Spradlin Headquarters. Thanks again for all of your support!

Happy Holidays!
Your New York Times Best Selling Authorness

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Great reviews continue to tumble in for The Youngest Templar: Trail of Fate. The reviewer at Reader Views Kids had this to say: I highly recommend “The Youngest Templar: Trail of Fate” to people who like action, adventure and historical fiction.  Totally full of action and adventure, this was a real page turner that I am not going to forget.  It sweeps you in from the very first page and you won’t want to put it down until you finish it.

This week Templar Tuesday takes a look at some of the mysteries surrounding Rosslyn Cathedral, the so called “Grail” Cathedral in Scotland. If you saw the movie The Da Vinci Code, you know the role played by the Cathedral in Grail Legend. Our friends at www.templarhistory.com have an interesting article surrounding some of the myths and legends of this famous building:

Recent popular books have put forth theories that the treasures this 15th century structure may contain include: the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, the lost teaching of Jesus; even one author went so far as to suggest the mummified head of Christ Himself. Very soon these speculations may finally be put to rest and a five-century-old puzzle solved.

A group of Scottish Knights Templar, led by John Ritchie, whom many Masons will be familiar with from his many television documentary appearances, is about to make a “non-invasive” survey of the land around the chapel. Using the latest ultrasound and thermal imaging technology, the group shall soon conduct tests in the hope of finding evidence of the existence of the legendary vaults so often rumored to exist under and around the chapel.

“The plan is to investigate the land around the chapel to a depth of at least 20ft,” said Mr. Ritchie, Grand Herald and spokesman for the Knights Templar in a recent interview with the Scottish press.

Ritchie informed the press that the machine they will use is the most sophisticated in the world and can take readings up to a mile beneath the surface.

Rosslyn Chapel is also known by the name of the Collegiate Chapel of St. Matthew and was built in 1446 by Sir William St. Clair, the third and last Prince of Orkney. Among the many intricate carvings found in the chapel is the depiction of cacti and sweet corn, carved decades before Columbus’ famed voyage of 1492. Indeed legend has it; and fairly well documented legend at that, that Henry St. Clair voyaged to America in 1398, a full century ahead of Columbus’ voyage, which never made it to North American soil.

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When did you know that you first wanted to be a writer?

On some level I think I always knew. I don’t know that I ever had that bolt of lightning moment. When I was a kid I dreamed of being all the things all kids dream about. Major league third basemen, fireman, cowboy. You name it. But what I did learn at very young age was a love of reading. To learn that books were not just a source of information or knowledge but of entertainment was a very important lesson. Gradually, I think I migrated from loving to read to believing that writing books would just have to be about the coolest job in the world. Turns out I was right.

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What book or writer do you feel influenced you the most?

In terms of writers the list is probably far too long to mention. But in my mind the biggest influences on me as a writer were my Mother and Grandmother. My mother loves to read and always made sure I was surrounded by books. She encouraged and fostered my love for reading and writers. Even when money was tight, she somehow always found a way to buy me books or comics.

My grandmother Maxine Patrick was, without a doubt, the world’s greatest storyteller. As a small boy I spent many hours at her side on the farm and she would spin the most elaborate tales of her childhood. For many years I actually believed my grandmother traveled the American West by train with Sitting Bull and Custer and Wyatt Earp. I finally figured out there wasn’t an ounce of truth in any of her stories. She spinned her elaborate yarns to distract us from all the work we doing. This only made me love them more.

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What book or books are you currently reading or have recently read that you’d recommend to others?

Right now I’m reading Iron River by T. Jefferson Parker. Parker is, in my mind, the best thriller writer working in America today. This book is about the flow of firearms across the US Mexico border. Like all of his best books it’s peopled with incredibly rich, diverse, flawed yet heroic characters. I just don’t know how he does it. It’s a phenomenal work and he’s an incredible talent. I fell in love with Parker’s work when I first read Laguna Heat and I count the hours until he has a new book available.

I’ve also just finished reading Bite Me by Christopher Moore. Again, one of America’s finest novelists in my mind. I first discovered Moore when I read Coyote Blue many years ago. He has a rare ability to make me laugh, cry, and think all within the space of a single sentence. And I don’t take lightly the skills of a novelist who can make me laugh out loud on every single page.

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If you could offer one piece of advice to aspiring writers (or illustrators), what would it be?

I would say treat writing the way you would treat any craft. Practice and nurture it and your writing will improve. The key to success in almost any endeavor is practice. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

My second piece of advice would be to embrace revision. Rewrite and rewrite until every word on the page had justified its existence.

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Can you share with us your next project or any information about the next book you’re working on?

I sure can, it’s a novel called The Raven’s Shadow. It takes place in Washington, DC in 1825. It features a teenage Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin who must defend the world from a horrible and ancient evil the world will come to know as Count Dracula. It will be published in spring 2011 by G.P. Putnam’s Son.

I’m also putting the finishing touches the third Youngest Templar novel. It’s called The Youngest Templar: Orphan of Destiny and it will be published in fall 2010.

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Reviewers continue to rave about The Youngest Templar: Trail of Fate.

Roundtable Reviews for Kids says: Trail of Fate is another intriguing novel that should appeal to advancing readers who like a lot of adventure. The ties to historical facts will help educate some readers to that era making it useful for school too.

There is plenty to talk about with this novel and it could make for exciting classroom discussions. I definitely recommend it!

And Fantasy Book Critic says: One of the hardest parts when writing a historical fiction book for younger readers is making sure that if you are using historical facts that they be presented but not preachy and make the children feel as though they are reading a factual book. Michael Spradlin did a great job of having fictional characters but also tossing in a lot of facts that might not be otherwise known to readers. As I don’t remember a lot about the Crusades I found it enlightening and little informative.

This week, we answer a question asked via email by reader Mitch, from Dayton, Ohio.

Dear Mr. Spradlin—I read and enjoyed your book The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail and am anxiously awaiting The Youngest Templar: Trail of Fate. I am working on a school project and would like to know more about the history of the Knights Templar and how they were founded…

Mitch, your best source for Templar history and info is www.templarhistory.com. Here is a brief excerpt of a larger article on the founding of the Knights Templar:

Within two decades of the victory of the First Crusade (1095-1099) a group of knights led by Hugues (Hugh) de Payens offered themselves to the Patriarch of Jerusalem to serve as a military force. This group – often said to be nine in number – had the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims who were en route to the Holy Land to visit the shrines sacred to their faith.

Somewhere between the years of AD 1118 – 1120, King Baldwin II granted the group quarters in a wing of the Royal Palace on the Temple Mount (the Al Aqsa Mosque). It has been generally accepted that, for the first nine years of their existence, the Templars – as they came to be known – consisted of nine members.

Although it has been widely speculated that the Templars wished to keep it this way to cover their secret mission of digging for buried treasure on the Temple Mount, the simple fact remains that the lifestyle adopted by the Order was not to everyone’s taste. As such, the Templars had difficulty in recruiting members to their cause in the early years.

In the year 1127 the Cistercian abbot, Bernard of Clairvaux, wrote a rule of order for the Templars that was based on his own Cistercian Order’s rule of conduct. Additionally, Bernard did a great deal to promote the Templars.

Perhaps Bernard’s greatest contribution to the Order was a letter that he wrote to Hugues de Payens, entitled De laude novae militae (In praise of the new knighthood.)

This letter swept throughout Christendom drawing many men, of noble birth, who joined the ranks of the Templar Order. Those who were unable to join often gifted the Templars with land and other valuables.

While it is true that the Templars were not permitted, by their rule, to own much of anything personally, there was no such restriction on the Order as a whole. As such, the gifts of land were accepted and put to immediate use by the Templars, who farmed the land generating additional wealth.

Over the years the Templars rose from their humble beginnings to become the wealthiest of the Crusading Orders – eventually garnering the favour of the Church and the collective European monarchs.

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Joan Holub is the author of Shampoodle, Groundhog Weather School, Twinkle, Star of the Week, and Athena the Brain (Goddess Girls series). Joan is the author and/or illustrator of over 125 books for children and writes board/novelty books, early readers, picture books, and chapter books.

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When did you know that you first wanted to be a writer/illustrator?

Probably in college. I made some attempts back then, but I wasn’t going into bookstores and sitting down with children’s books to see what they were all about.  I was writing in a vacuum. My work took off when I began critically studying children’s books to figure out what I liked and what I had to say. In my twenties, I moved to New York City to work at Scholastic, where I learned how books are put together and got to work with some great people. Grace Maccarone, Claire Counihan, and Jean Feiwel were in the department and were all lovely, amazing, and inspiring!

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What book or writer/artist do you feel influenced you the most?

Eloise by Kay Thompson, illustrated by Hilary Knight was one of my early inspirations. I loved that quirky, precocious girl Eloise. When I was a girl, a friend and I memorized the lines in the book and used them all the time. I tried to copy some of the drawings to hang on my wall. Since then, I’ve found many other authors and artists to admire—Lucy Cousins, Brian Karas, Laurie Keller–the list goes on and on. It’s both daunting and fabulous that there are so many greats working out there today!

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What book or books are you currently reading or have recently read that you’d recommend to others?

Leslie Patricelli’s Higher, Higher; Jane O’Connor’s Fancy Nancy; Sally Lloyd-Jones’ How To Get Married; and Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama Red Pajama. I love quirky books with humor and universal appeal.

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If you could offer one piece of advice to aspiring writers (or illustrators), what would it be?

Don’t give up, keep writing, and don’t rewrite the same book over and over—keep writing new stories.  That’s three pieces for the price of one!

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Can you share with us your next project or any information about the next book you’re working on?

I have three books pubbing soon: Shampoodle (Random House, pre-K to grade 1 early reader) just released in October with adorable art by Tim Bowers. The gray poodle with the bubbles on his head on the cover is just so great. (Thank you, Tim!) Groundhog Weather School (Putnam picture book) releases in December. Twinkle, Star of the Week (Albert Whitman & Co picture book) pubs this spring with glitter on the cover! I’ve never had a picture book with glitter on the cover before, and the art in this book is sooo cute!

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Author Michael P. Spradlin takes his readers into a century long ago but makes it seem alive and relevant to today.  Tristan is a likeable hero with incredible courage, a clever mind, and a sense of humor one doesn’t expect in a character from the middle ages.  It is going to be difficult to wait for Book #3 to find out where Tristan’s adventures will take him next. Read the whole review here.

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And reviewer Harriet Klausner on the website www.alternative-worlds.com says:

The second Youngest Templar is a terrific medieval thriller held together by Tristan, who proves brave and loyal although his decisions endanger the Grail he protects.

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So if you haven’t already, please pre-order a copy from your favorite bookseller. And if you’re a Facebook user, sign up to be a fan. On Facebook I’ll occasionally be posting original content and links to other Templar sites and you’ll find news about upcoming appearances as well as here on my events page.

This week I received a note from a young reader wanting to know more about the founding of The Knights Templar and their origin story. So as for all things Templar I suggested a visit to www.templarhistory.com. Also, if you pick up a copy of the The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail in paperback (for the very generous price of $7.99, on sale wherever books are sold, I’m just sayin’…) you’ll find a brief history of the Knights in the bonus material in the back of the book. What a deal.

But in brief here is just a portion of what you’ll find at www.templarhistory.com. It also explains the early relationship between the Templars and the Cistercian monks. This is one of the reasons why Tristan, the hero of The Youngest Templar, was raised in a Cistercian monastery. Enjoy!

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Within two decades of the victory of the First Crusade (1095-1099) a group of knights led by Hugues (Hugh) de Payens offered themselves to the Patriarch of Jerusalem to serve as a military force.

This group – often said to be nine in number – had the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims who were en route to the Holy Land to visit the shrines sacred to their faith.

Somewhere between the years of AD 1118 – 1120, King Baldwin II granted the group quarters in a wing of the Royal Palace on the Temple Mount (the Al Aqsa Mosque).

It has been generally accepted that, for the first nine years of their existence, the Templars – as they came to be known – consisted of nine members.

Although it has been widely speculated that the Templars wished to keep it this way to cover their secret mission of digging for buried treasure on the Temple Mount, the simple fact remains that the lifestyle adopted by the Order was not to everyone’s taste. As such, the Templars had difficulty in recruiting members to their cause in the early years.

In the year 1127 the Cistercian abbot, Bernard of Clairvaux, wrote a rule of order for the Templars that was based on his own Cistercian Order’s rule of conduct. Additionally, Bernard did a great deal to promote the Templars.

Perhaps Bernard’s greatest contribution to the Order was a letter that he wrote to Hugues de Payens, entitled De laude novae militae (In praise of the new knighthood.)

This letter swept throughout Christendom drawing many men, of noble birth, who joined the ranks of the Templar Order. Those who were unable to join often gifted the Templars with land and other valuables.

While it is true that the Templars were not permitted, by their rule, to own much of anything personally, there was no such restriction on the Order as a whole. As such, the gifts of land were accepted and put to immediate use by the Templars, who farmed the land generating additional wealth.

Over the years the Templars rose from their humble beginnings to become the wealthiest of the Crusading Orders – eventually garnering the favor of the Church and the collective European monarchs.

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The Youngest Templar!

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When did you know that you first wanted to be a writer/illustrator?

Like many illustrators, I’ve been drawing as long as I can remember. And, to me, the next logical step was to make up stories about what I was drawing. I didn’t write in High School. I was a terrible student, and felt that a writer should have good grades. I barely graduated. I went to The School of Visual Arts, and studied film. There, I started to write again. Mainly I was doing goofy little comics, and getting really positive reactions to them. I took a cartooning class with Harvey Kurtzman, (creator of Mad Magazine) and he said I was a good “story man.” From that day on, I felt like a writer.

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What book or writer/artist do you feel influenced you the most?

H.A. Rey had a huge influence on my picture book work. His art, in my opinion, is “children’s books.” His economy of line is just masterful. I also looked at lots of Richard Scarey and Syd Hoff as a kid. I find Hoff’s simple stories very appealing, and honest. As an adult, I’ve spent a lot of time staring at William Steig’s work.

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What book or books are you currently reading or have recently read that you’d recommend to others?

I’ve been really enjoying Sendak’s illustrations in Sesyle Joslin’s What Do You Do, Dear and What Do You Say, Dear? They’re really funny and we’ve been reading them with our boys. I’ve also really fond of Simms Taback’s I Miss You Every Day. Again, it’s funny and very sweet. As a kid I had a best friend move to California, so I really relate to it.

As far as adult writing, I’ve been reading Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon. It’s a very intense, and very adult modern cyberpunk novel. His work is funny, fast and inventive. This summer, I also read Buddha, an 8 volume, 3000 page manga by Osamu Tezuka about the life of Siddhartha. Spiritual, funny, exciting and emotional, all wrapped up in a comic. If you’ve never read Japanese Manga, this is an excellent place to start.

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If you could offer one piece of advice to aspiring writers (or illustrators), what would it be?

Don’t just write what you know. Write who you are. Be honest about to about yourself.  For years, I tried very hard to make picture books that I thought others would like, and while the books reflected my kinder, kid friendly side, I think that I watered them down a bit. When I was working on “Goodnight Goon,” I started to really enjoy the more gruesome elements and the snarky humor. I think it was a bit more “me.”

Goon took off, and became a big hit, and that really encouraged me to not hold back in my current work. I’ve done close to 20 books, but I feel like I’m just figuring out who I am as a creator.

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Can you share with us your next project or any information about the next book you’re working on?

The Runaway Mummy is just hitting stores now, and I’m completing the third, and final, parody title; Furious George Goes Bananas, due in 2010. As I said earlier, I love H.A. Rey, but the way that everyone treats George in those books is awful. That man yanks him from the jungle, ties a rope around his neck, makes him work for no money and then puts him in a “documentary” they shoot on a stage! They even send him up in a test rocket and he blacks out. Not only that, but they keep calling him a monkey, and he’s an ape! He has no tail! And what about George’s parents?  Don’t they miss him? It’s just getting me furious thinking about it…

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The content for Templar Tuesday is provided in partnership with www.templarhistory.com, in my opinion the best website on history of The Knights Templar in existence. I invite you to visit templarhistory.com for fascinating articles, reviews and even great Templar gifts. Make sure to save templarhistory.com in your favorites!

News about The Youngest Templar: Trail of Fate.

The Youngest Templar Trilogy continues to be something of an international sensation. Rights to the trilogy have just been sold in Australia/New Zealand and we just made a deal with a publisher in the United Kingdom for a British edition. Check the Templar Page to see all of the various covers from the foreign editions.

And check back soon for a new excerpt from Trail of Fate.

Templar Trivia

One of the most common questions I get from readers is the origin of the so-called Templar ‘Battle Cry’ Beauseant! Like most words and terms its true meaning has changed over time. Now it is generally accepted that the term means “Be Glorious!” and was shouted out by Templar Knights as they rode into battle. But originally the term referred to the black and white banner Templar Knights carried as a standard as they prepared to meet their enemies on the battlefield.

Here is an excerpt from an article that explains some of the history and background of the term:

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Symbolically, the black section is said to have depicted the sins of the secular world that the Templar knights had chosen to leave, while the second section was white – depicting the purity that the order offered them – a sort of transformation from darkness to light.

Despite many depictions of the banner in later day paintings, the battle standard was not such that it drooped down on its pole. Rather, the banner was held in place top and bottom by two poles so that it did not require a breeze to be seen by the Templars and their enemies.

So important was the view of the flying Beauseant that, before a battle, the Marshal would select ten Templars to protect him and the banner. If the Marshal was killed during fighting, the Commander of Knights would take the banner so that it may fly above the battle for all to see.

This created somewhat of a catch twenty -two situation, for as long as the Beauseant flew the Templars must fight on and as long as the Templars fought on, the Beauseant must fly.

The purpose of the banner was to serve as a rallying point for the Templars. One of the Order’s tactics during battle was the heavy horse charge. This often caused the Templars to be separated from one another. As such, the flying Beauseant would allow them to easily regroup in order to continue the attack.

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Also, if you are interested in learning about the history of The Knights Templar in a fun and unique way, check out Outremer: The Saga of the Knights Templar the Knights Templar Comic Book!

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When did you know that you first wanted to be a writer/illustrator?

I first knew that I wanted to be a writer when I was about five, and my mother, in a vain attempt to get some work done with the luxury of silence, told me that my nose was an imaginary button on an imaginary radio, and that my “station” was done with its broadcast for now. She said I needed to write down all of the things I wanted to tell her for next time she turned on the radio. For some bizarre reason, that was very appealing. I put tape over my mouth and wrote all kinds of fantastical stories and after about an hour, Mom turned the “radio” back on… and I was READY. Both of us had so much fun with that (…not sure, but I think my mother had the MOST fun), that we did it every day.

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What book or writer/artist do you feel influenced you the most?

It seems odd; to have been influenced by a book out of the 19^th century, but Anne of Green Gables was a big deal for me. For one thing, L.M. Montgomery did not stint on the language – I was introduced to such words – “epoch,” and “dryad” and a host more which were completely out of my experience. And Montgomery loved her character, and took such pains with her emotions. I wanted to write people that lived and breathed and kept me in as good of company as Anne did.

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What book or books are you currently reading or have recently read that you’d recommend to others?

I read so voraciously that this is a tricky/dangerous question! At the moment, I’ve just finished Growing Yams in London, by British-Ghanaian author Sophie Acheampong, and Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder – both excellent. On the nightstand are Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and Lips Touch, by Laini Taylor. Am in the middle of The Outstretched Shadow by James Mallory. From YA fiction to SFF and beyond — you can see, my tastes are eclectic!

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If you could offer one piece of advice to aspiring writers (or illustrators), what would it be?

Writers write. It’s kind of a trite little phrase, maybe, but you can’t be a writer if you don’t write. We can argue about whether or not it has to be every day, or one kind of writing or another, but I will say that the best thing you can do for yourself, when you’re feeling like the story you’re working on is The Ultimate Crap and you’re afraid you’ll never finish anything or justify your parents paying for your college education – is to just write. And keep writing. Beginning, middle, and end. It’s a lot less simple than it sounds, but persistence is so very, very important.

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Can you share with us your next project or any information about the next book you’re working on?

I’m hesitant to talk too specifically about ongoing projects, but I will say that I’m writing about a brother and sister struggling to come to terms with major changes in their family. Their father has been separated from the family for seven months, and the siblings go down to spend the week of Spring Break to begin the reconciliation. It’s a short amount of time – and a large amount of tension.

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