We just posted our first new Author Fan Face-off of the school year – a showdown with the author/illustrator Dan Santat and his great graphic novel A First Time For Everything!

Today’s Shelf Awareness has a great review of Fallout, along with an interview – check it out here!

Got the chance to appear on WAMC this morning, in a conversation with Joe Donahue one of the best author interviewers out there. Check out the recordng here!

The launch of my new nonfiction book, FALLOUT, is coming up. It’ll be a virtual event – a conversation with the amazing author Christina Soontornvat. Please come and join us!

We’re just a month away now… Here’s a cool new conversation about Fallout with Betsy Bird!

We’re about to post our 30th episode of Author Fan Face-off, and starting to get some really nice attention. Here’s a new podcast from WAMC. And this very cool article with idea for how teachers can use the show – which was our whole motivation in the first place!

Just did this fun video interview with Children’s Book Insider – great chance to get into some details of craft and process.

The show goes on – and we’re adding new episodes all the time! One of these days I’ll get back to doing my actual job, but this is too much fun for now. Here’s an episode featuring Kekla Magoon and The Season of Styx Malone. And one with Dan Gutman and the first book in […]

Check out a new video series I’m trying out – Author Fan Face-off! In each episode, one famous author and one student/fan go head to head on 10 trivia questions from one of the author’s best loved books. My co-host is super-librarian Stacey Rattner. Our first guest author is Chris Grabenstein and the featured book […]

Here’s a first: a Walking and Talking comic with social distancing. Usually I interview fellow writers in person wherever we happen to meet, and I use that location for the comic. This time, Candace Fleming is in Chicago, and I’m home in upstate New York. A sign of the strange and scary times, I guess, […]