The Pros and Cons of Princesshood

Musician Jonah Knight and I met at this year’s Mysticon in Roanoke. I immediately fell in love with Jonah after finding out that he wrote a musical score for James Maxey’s novel Nobody Gets the Girl. Jonah reciprocated this awkward affection by offering me a feature spot on his “Pros & Cons” podcast with Mikey Mason. “Pros & Cons”…

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Happy Christmas Workshop Episode 43

In the midst of the traveling and the three Christmasses I didn’t have the chance to post about this yesterday — part two of the fabulous Roundtable Podcast that started with the 20-minute interview. Now, we get into the much longer, nitty-gritty of live-workshopping a fellow author’s work in progress… ************ Alethea Kontis – author of the award-winning “Enchanted“,…

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Princess Alethea Answers 11 Questions

Catherine Gracey contacted me via Ye Olde Facebook and asked if I wouldn’t mind answering 11 Questions for her “Catherine Asks” blog. Well, sure! Why not? So I did. And now I’m telling you about them They’re not the questions you might expect, so they’re not the answers you might expect either. Curious? Well, you’ll just have to pop…

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AK Video Interview with Buzzy Media

The great (and sometimes horrible) thing about the internet is that it’s forever. I did this interview with Jean Marie Ward for Buzzy Media back at the Adam Ezra Concert that kicked off my giant three-week-long book tour back in May. It’s neat to think about how much has happened since then…and to look at myself and think, “Wow,…

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MoA&A Interview #15: Traci Wilkes

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features mixed media artist Traci Wilkes–sister of esteemed Waterworld Mermaid author Avery Flynn. (I know a little bit about having an artistic sister… ) Talent definitely runs in the family! If you like what you see here, be sure to…

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MoA&A Interview #12: Caren Gussoff

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features fellow SF writer cutie Caren Gussoff. Welcome, Caren! **************** Author or Artist? Author Who are your professional role models? Octavia E. Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Lucille Ball What’s your favorite writing/sketching weather? Rain, of course (I live in Seattle). Set…

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MoA&A Interview #1: Tara

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! To kick things off in a contrary fashion (because all ways here belong to me), today’s interview is neither an author nor an artist (but she could be both one day, if she wanted to). As promised, here is the interview with…

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Bundles of Books Interview

Good morning, everyone! Today I’m popping by the Bundles of Books blog to have tea and chat with Sam about life, the universe and everything YA. Be sure to click over and read my lovely interview! (My interviews are always lovely. Besides, I might be talking about you.) xox Tweet

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