SJK: Meeting Katherine Paterson! I loved Bridge to Terabithia when I was a kid, and then at my first author event (ALA Midwest), there she was! And she was so nice and sweet! It was fantastic.īyrt: The TV show/movie you feel guiltiest admitting you love? I’ve done a whole blog post on the awesomeness of this book, but essentially, I love it because it changed the course of my life-you know, intellectual awakening, new love of history, became a history major, studied abroad in the U.K… And all that started with a single novel.īyrt: Biggest Fangirl/boy moment you’ve ever had? SJK: Legacy by Susan Kay, a novel about Elizabeth I. It was just such a bizarre but awesome coincidence.īyrt: Book you own with the most tattered, scotch-taped cover, the most battered spine? (And why you love it) The first person I talked to? Well, she happened to be the girl who wrote that review. So, all around, I wasn’t even supposed to be there, much less doing this speed dating thing. A few days after that, I stumbled into this last-minute invite to a conference, and while there, I was recruited to replace an author missing from one of the events. There was this great one my editor sent me. SJK: My book’s not out until July, so naturally, a few weeks ago, it really only had a few reviews. It’s closer in tone.īyrt: The silliest/craziest author moment you’ve had so far? SJK: The one that always comes up is Ender’s Game, but I’m going to be a rebel here and say Starship Troopers, the movie.

That was the beginning.īyrt: If you like _, you’ll like my book It put this image in my mind of two people on opposite sides of a conflict who never meet in person, yet decide the fate of the solar system between them with this remote war they wage against each other. SJK: I was reading about future military technology for a previous manuscript, and encountered speculation that unmanned drone use would increase. SJK: In a world where teenagers are the front line of a war waged in outer space…īyrt: So what’s the story behind your story? Welcome The Debuts, a series of posts introducing you to brand, spanking new authors you really should get to know.īyrt: If one of the top Hollywood voice-over guys was narrating your book trailer (in a hammy Hollywood way), what would he say?

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