Q: What can turn two debut authors into stuttering teenagers?A: Meeting Melissa Marr. For me, it was like meeting Mick Jagger. (Except Melissa is MUCH younger, cuter & cooler – yeah, I said it- cooler.) She is one of my absolute favorite authors, right up there with Flannery O' Connor & Ray Bradbury. So what's […]
Read MoreI love The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, but it's becoming a metaphor for my life. I'm convinced waiting for your first round of editorial notes is a little like wandering through the Forest of Hands and Teeth, Unconsecrated notes that may eat your book alive waiting at every hole in the […]
Read MoreToday I’ve had three donuts, three pieces of pizza, three Diet Cokes and a sundae from Baskin Robbins (only one of those, but it had three toppings). This is what happens when I know: – People are reading Beautiful Creatures (I know because I have an intravenous feed to Good Reads). – Our editors are […]
Read More– Walt Whitman, handwriting Sabrina Ward Harrison If you don't know about SWH, you should read this post. This got me thinking. What makes a great poem? Is it the prose, or the feeling you have while reading it. For me, it's the latter. I've filled journals upon journals with poetry since I was a […]
Read MoreThis is it. The blank wall in my dining room I was referring to. (M said, "What blank wall???) Technically, I guess it isn't blank; but it's enough blank space to distract me while J & J have the draft. It's maddening to know they're reading it, without having any idea what their initial impressions […]
Read More<Pan's Labyrinth, Picturehouse/Warner Brothers > We turned in the draft of Book 2 today to our editors, Jen & Julie, at Little, Brown. And this is how it feels. It's like staring into a place so frightening, yet enticing that you literally can't take a step. Don't get me wrong, Jen & Julie are incredibly […]
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a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-nominated young adult author of 12 novels and graphic novels, she has been published in 51 countries and 38 languages and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Kami’s best known works include the Beautiful Creatures series, Teen Titans: Raven, The X-Files: Agent of Chaos, The Lovely Reckless, Broken Beautiful Hearts, and the DC Black Label comic Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity. She is also a cofounder of the Kid Lit book festival YALLFest.
